The Top Gun (1986) Movie House Was Saved From Demolition & Has Opened / Inside The Filming Location
The Top Gun House In Oceanside
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welcome everyone adame the woo here as
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the recording of this wearing
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an appropriate
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t-shirt
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it is friday
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may 20th 2022
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i parked over at the parking lot there
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next to the main place mall in santa ana
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california plenty of construction i did
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not park here
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because it says
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tire damage will happen if i go in this
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way could not figure out how to get into
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this parking lot where there is the
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endeavor
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shuttle recreation
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possibly
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space shuttle piece right over there and
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this rocket it is a historic occasion
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for those who are into 1980s
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films like myself
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the top gun house has reopened in
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oceanside south of here you know 30
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40 miles south
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it has reopened it was empty closed off
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desolate for years in fact
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if i was a betting man i would have said
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that they would have torn it down
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leveled and bulldozed it but i was
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incorrect
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a pie shop
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has rejuvenated the property yes where
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tom cruise walked in the whole love
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scene
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my breath is now taken away doing
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that it's back i'm going to pick up a
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friend head southbound
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might get us some pie
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check out a piece of 80s history and
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just who knows what else will happen
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wherever the wind blows
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where i'm going join me
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shall you ah ha
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that's where the entrance is i could
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have gone under the overpass of the
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freeway there
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nonetheless found a spot
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only gonna be here for a pre brief
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moment
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it says private property
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oh i wonder if someone
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kind of busted out this section
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crawled inside there
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there's the porthole around the back
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the endeavor
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a mock-up of the endeavor
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just sitting here in a parking lot next
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to the mall
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that beacon that rocket there
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with the boosters
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all right get into my car heading south
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also as i show off this very beautiful
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tree here
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notice there are clouds in the sky this
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is something you do not see every day in
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southern california
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might get some rain
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it's not top gun but this was a naked
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gun
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okay have made the commute about 45
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minutes south
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down to the oceanside municipal
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municipal fishing pier
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constructed in 1987.
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also sean clark is here with me from
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horrors hallowed grounds yeah i was here
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getting me some top gun pies have you
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already been in there hell no you
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haven't been in there i'm waiting for
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you man actually you rode along with me
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i already said i was sorry i said i was
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picking up a friend is that right so the
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bit has just gone off the rails i used
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to come to oceanside a lot in the
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late 80s early 90s because my buddy was
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in uh it was in the marines so i had to
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go to camp pendleton to pick him up a
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lot yeah but i've never been down to
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this pier that i can remember
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pretty cool little town they actually
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put rescue on the surfboard that way if
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you're being rescued you know
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they're legit they're not just some
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random guy trying to pose as a lifeguard
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to save you it's like you got to make
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sure they have the actual rescue on the
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bottom of the board and it also kind of
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works out because i believe maverick
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premieres next week
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in a week i think it was filmed about
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you know four years ago and then the
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world shut down but it's finally
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going in theaters there's a little bit
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of height behind the house being moved
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and some height behind maverick are you
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excited for mapper i'm not really too
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excited about it but i do want to see
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tom cruise really fly a plane yeah
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that's kind of he does his own stunts
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which is kind of this is a really steep
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it is a little steep this is pretty cool
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here along the
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walkway boardwalk as well
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this whole camper they sell
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no food and snacks and whatnot too this
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is down the lower level now i'm going
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off of memory of being here a couple
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times over the last decade
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but i'm pretty sure it was
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used to sit on the corner of pacific
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and sea gas at the top of this incline
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you drive up and down this hill
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with the view of the pier and all right
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there and the house used to stand you're
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recreating maverick
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i'm in the danger zone baby you are
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so he wrote his motorcycle right down
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here these palm trees are kind of sort
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of still here i mean there's a lot of
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heavy winds and stuff but there were
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some palm trees
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turned here kind of did a u-turn
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went off walked up here knocked on the
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door
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which was right here i'll show the real
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door down there because this is where
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the cottage
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used to be it was boarded up
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for a long time
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under the come and see it when it was
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here i saw it probably three or four
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times i was went by here i did a full
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filming location video and then i
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stopped by numerous times anytime it's
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like one of those things i'd be passing
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by ocean size like let's see what
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happened with the top gun house
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so i'd stop by and you could walk up to
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it for a while then they like completely
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fenced it off and it was just an utter
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decay
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but thankfully someone bought it
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moved it from here
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down to there
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and now it's open for business this is
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the first time i'll be able to walk
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inside
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the screen use house this is pretty dang
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cool right here in the middle of this
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courtyard kind of an interesting place
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where they would put something like this
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the traffic's going by trying to get the
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wide angle here of the house got the
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porch over on this side which is pretty
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awesome got the front this is where tom
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cruise went up to the front knocked on
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the door to see if she was home
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sean's already in line getting us a spot
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i'm really hoping that they do have
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coffee and pretty neat inside definitely
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themed around you know the movie
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experience from the mid-80s hard to
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believe how long it's been since the mid
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80s but yeah definitely a cool vibe
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walking inside here for the first time
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ever in you know 10 years of stopping by
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this place randomly every few years i am
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now inside the screen used house
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which is pretty dang cool think about it
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screen use this this was this was the
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one in the movie saved from demolition
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the coffee i thought was gonna be a
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little larger coffee it's about an eight
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ounce coffee
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though that's true it's a dollar
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the least expensive thing in all what do
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we end up getting
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these are five bucks yeah
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those were five each yeah and then this
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was a dollar you could get five of these
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for the price of one of these yeah what
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was the menu item we got this is what is
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it called well it's basically a apple
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pie with a vanilla ice cream center
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i i can't imagine there's too much ice
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cream in this dude this thing is tiny
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bro
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it's okay it's history though right here
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yeah no let's see they're ready yeah
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dink it thing all right
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dink it it's good you gotta dink it
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okay
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it's pretty good that's ice cream in
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there
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i was barely any ice cream in there it's
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really good
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how many f-bobs are you gonna drop i'm
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sorry i'm a foul-mouthed person i know
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you run a cleaner channel here i'm not
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my
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and they had coffee i wish they would
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have larger sizes
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what'd you think of the inside i got
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some b-roll in there i'll throw over our
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little discussion about the inside that
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was that's cute
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i mean yeah that must have been a tiny
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house it was very tiny they left the
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wooden floors you tell us all the
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original you know flooring
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and all that i just hope that i mean
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it's a very specific business i just
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hope that they can last
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you know
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um but at five dollars of if the people
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are buying these
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that that's a that's a nice profit
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margin right there they have t-shirts
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and you were commenting on the price of
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t-shirts they were forty dollars a
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t-shirt that's overpriced for sure that
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that should have been 25 bucks tops in
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my opinion on the shirt maybe they have
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to give the stupid was it paramount
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paramount did top gun yeah but i mean
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for that kind of price you better be
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able to put a tom cruise image on that
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shirt i mean it's just there's not much
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to those shirts
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so i don't know
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i i would have possibly picked up a
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novelty shirt but not a 40 buck 40 bucks
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is like a concert price man that's what
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metallica was charging for shirts at
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their concert you know and metallica
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does they don't have their shirts
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bunched up at the bottom you can
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actually see the whole
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yeah and they're double-sided
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uh
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and more than two colors i don't know
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maybe i'm being picky but yeah no for
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sure but the shirt designs did not grab
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metallica does not have a maverick
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motorcycle no they were saying that tom
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cruise might show up like they're
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they're hoping i'm here they were hoping
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he might come by like they don't know
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there's no about the iceman
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uh i doubt he'll be coming because i got
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a goodbye i don't think so
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who would goose definitely won't be
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making it by
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goose definitely will not be here
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he was the one he was the friend that
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crashed in the ocean anthony edwards
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yeah right
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i don't know is that the actor's name
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yeah from revenge of the nerds
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really yeah
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it was uh through the tie-up
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not lewis but the other one oh
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i forgot what his character's name
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wasn't redness but he was
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he was the one who only did part one he
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didn't come back
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he only did top gun one
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no
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well true yes
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he's not in maverick
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goose it will not be a maverick he died
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spoiler alert finally spoiled already
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died
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this is awesome though this was two
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blocks that way they moved it this way
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it was going to be demoed it's not
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demoed so i'm thankful
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and now kind of getting a look around
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the side and the back end here at this
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back little room this is the counter
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where you pick up the food you order it
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kind of in the middle and then you pick
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it up around the back that's also where
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the fireplace was this is all part of
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the original house repurposed repainted
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touched up cleaned up looking pretty
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dang good and the fireplace up top there
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you can see the chimney well it's
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interesting it's the fireplace is back
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here around this corner but the chimney
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is right here in the center must be uh
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the way the architecture works maybe it
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goes up and over and across the smoke
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stack there
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interesting very interesting this is
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this is the side of it
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again it was two blocks over
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piece of movie history all right now i'm
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gonna go ahead and jump over there get
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on the motorcycle and pretend i am
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maverick tom cruise speeding along doing
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my best
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i don't know i'm not a motorcycle rider
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so i feel i'm doing it appropriately for
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like an action film this you know it was
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kind of an action film it was kind of a
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drama it was a love story probably why
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it was so successful because it had all
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three elements of that and very well
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done and i am giving my best invitation
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on the cycle in front of the house it's
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pretty cool to have this photo out there
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are a lot of pigeons down here this is
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like those squirrels you saw the other
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day with pigeons oh you saw all those
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squirrels in the video yeah the squirrel
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video wasn't like something out of a
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horror film it was i kept waiting and
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hoping you guys would be attacked hello
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pelican
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he's trying to score some fish he wants
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to fish in the fishermen come
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let's help the on out
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this used to be a rubies but it has
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since closed
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and it looks as if another
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place is going to open up here at the
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end of the period used to be a rubies at
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the end of this pier and peeking in the
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window doesn't look like it's going to
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be ready to open soon
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so i wouldn't keep my eye on the end of
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the pier just
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no don't keep your eye on the end of the
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pier i think i would wait a little while
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and not just stand there waiting for
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right don't wait don't look away at the
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end of the pier there any second now no
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this looks like it's going to be like a
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year or so
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okay this is interesting it says please
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observe these fishing rules on the pier
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all the rules have nothing to do with
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fishing no alcohol climbing on rails
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animals diving or jumping skating glass
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bicycle riding or skateboards not one of
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these rules has anything to do with
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fishing so i guess when it comes to
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fishing
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there are no rules which is probably why
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this pelican has taken it to the next
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level
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and pulled out pelican you pulled out
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your own fishing pole here you're
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looking over here you pulled out your
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own fishing pole because that's easier
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than kind of swooping in
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with your wings and getting the fish why
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not there are no rules
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fishing up here there's rules for other
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stuff
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right pelican so you're just doing this
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you're very confused right now okay this
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is pretty cool there are a lot of
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historical photos from the pier
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through the years so this is oceanside
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near the downtown area or at least like
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one of the stores this is also oceanside
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and here's the pier right there this is
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also a view of the pier an old
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photograph
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more of the same area here's one of the
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old band shells that used to be on the
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pier yeah i love all these old photos
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it's kind of tough to see with the glare
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on there but this look at this says new
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pier oceanside
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california and there's the fishing
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bridge
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and there's a touristy sticker right
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pretty cool
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and right there is the pie shop house
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it does look pretty interesting having
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that
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kind of old-timey queen anne style
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cottage architecture in between that
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very new
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hotel condos apartment building
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it definitely is noticeable kind of a
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clash between
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old and new
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just kind of plucked right down in the
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courtyard there all right we have
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commuted up north of where we just were
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to san clemente
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i'm gonna get a bike to eat wrong over
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there my bad
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i got the buildings fixed this is san
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clemente right no no you're right i was
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just trying to remember which which
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building i used to work in it's over
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there you used to work here nice board
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right like that where those
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y'all show you over there it's over
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where those curtains are on the windows
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so this is your old stomping ground yeah
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i lived here for like five six years
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and i managed the sub shop that was
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right there it was called bourbon street
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sandwich reed
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bourbon streets is this bourbon street
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it was just a new orleans theme new
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orleans thing it's a sub shop right next
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to the hair shop the barbershop the
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barber shop used to be a van shoe store
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and next door to it that was the bourbon
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street cemetery and that barber shop
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used to be actually there they moved
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buildings okay i don't know why but they
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did
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so you recommended this sunnies pizza
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pizza and pasta place this place is
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great yeah established forever
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established 1980 look at this place is
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awesome look at the architecture this
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brick building here definitely a good
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spot to get a pie and i also not only
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got well
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besides the pizza ended up getting a
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side salad as well before the pizza
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arrived and a very unique name for the
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pizza that we ordered sharing one full
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pie very unique name for the pizza stuff
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we held the anchovies on this particular
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menu item it was pretty good it was like
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thin sliced pizza
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and pretty tasty from sonny's
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established in 1980
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sonny's pizza and pot didn't have any
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pasta i just had salad
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and
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a pie we shared a pie and we finished
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all of it okay now that the reveal is
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here
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this almost is this this might be is
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this made of it's basically way made of
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wood tomato wood this is the corner of
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alameda
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and del mar
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wow that's a pretty good pretty good
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view of the pier here
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san clemente pier so we're doing two
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piers today
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yeah and we are two peers because we're
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friends oh yeah yeah so it kind of works
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out this is where i used to go surfing
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almost every day oh it's like the gordon
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fisherman up there
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he's like preparing to catch something
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that's going to eventually be turned
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into fish sticks
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kind of like the fisherman and the old
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universal the universal jaws are the one
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that would that would always tip over oh
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yeah yeah
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in the la park
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all right ice cream does make me happy
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all right i went with in a cup i did not
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go with a cone with a little oreo
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topping on top of here the soft-serve
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vanilla
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pretty good amount would you end up
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getting shot got the cone with the
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softer vanilla chocolate dipped with
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almonds and marshmallows that looks good
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yeah i definitely went off the rails on
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the diet today if i get fat again it's
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his fault 100 is fun all right the vlog
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is over i'm glad i'm not the only one
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that that ice cream
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makes thirsty i thought i was the only
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one and you went in and asked for
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bottles of water what'd they give us
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boxed water well it does say that box
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water is better does it taste better or
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it's better for you let's find out
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notice the difference
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it's purified none what's well you can't
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taste the cardboard no