My Awesome Experience At Lakeland Antique Mall & Getting Inside The Spot I Saw Nirvana 30 Years Ago
Lakeland Florida August 2023
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welcome everyone Adam the woo here as
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the recording of This is Saturday August
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12th
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2023 I am heading
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leaving here in Celebration Florida here
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on Market Street and heading over to
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Lakeland Florida about an hour commute
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traffic hopefully should not be too bad
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on Interstate four
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just putting that out there into the
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universe hopefully I-4 giveth I for
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taketh away today won't be too bad
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because it is a weekend maybe it won't
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be quite as bad the central Florida
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collector Fest for collector con a
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collector conglomeration is happening at
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the former Lakeland Civic Center now
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called something else
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I'm heading over there and I'm inviting
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you to join me it's hot
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shall you just a little afternoon I
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believe the event transpires until 5 p.m
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so I got time I get over there still
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have a couple hours excessive heat
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warning which has been happening for the
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last series of days it is 94 degrees
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going to get up to 97. with the humidity
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it feels like it's 187.
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not exactly but yeah it almost kind of
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makes you want to take a little dip in
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that Fountain which is probably frowned
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upon but it is Toasty
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to say the least
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thankfully my car has AC I'm gonna get
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going there is no one sitting out here
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there are some people over there in the
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fountain utilizing the little splash pad
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for the fountain but there's not one
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person even underneath the umbrellas for
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shade and this is so interesting anybody
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that comes to visit or anybody that I
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see down here I always explain that here
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at the Forefront of Lake Reinhardt
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there's the sign
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that sometimes is here and sometimes is
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not
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the whole time I've even lived here or
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even before that you'll come out here
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and sometimes this is like stanchioned
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into the pond
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and then other times it's not here it's
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here today
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but sometimes it's not very very bizarre
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probably shouldn't be this close to the
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things cool might be around
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let's see if the gator anywhere though
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there was one time
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who was just right there setting himself
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from the concrete
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self pumping gas nozzle in full effect
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here at the Art Deco 7-Eleven where
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price of gas
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Central Florida price of gas at least
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here in celebration is three dollars
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90 go 7-Eleven that was gives me
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Hollywood vibes
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I might as well I lived in Hollywood
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actually all the celebration kind of
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does now it is noticeably cleaner
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however
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and a little bit less of a urine smell
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I-4 was looking pretty good the GPS only
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shows 35 minutes
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the Lakeland Civic Center former
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Lakeland Civic Center there it is
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the RP funding Center
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of course I know is the Lakeland Civic
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Center
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where I saw Nirvana on the in utero Tour
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opening active breeders
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way back in the day early 90s
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in fact I believe the entrance was right
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over there
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I've never really been able to figure
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out where the stage was
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but it was in that building
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they were cones
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parking this way check this out this is
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the flyer from that night 7 P.M on
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November 28 1993 which means in November
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it'll be 30 years
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30-year anniversary if you will
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of Nirvana playing right here
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in Lakeland Florida I was there
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pretty wild it's been three decades time
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just goes so quick
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oh I see a little Ghostbusters
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car down here
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I don't really know what to expect about
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this little short convention I think
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it's just a one day convention maybe a
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two-day convention it's the only day I'm
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going to it
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kind of interesting twist and story
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about that concert that I went to my car
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broke down
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and an officer like this was the one
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picked me up on the side of the road
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gave me a ride
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to the show he dropped me off out front
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got some interesting looks from the
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concert goers
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when they were like oh this is
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interesting is this guy arrested nope
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he's just getting dropped off at the
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show this is like a little mini version
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the actor
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right there
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Florida toy shows and Expos or Expos is
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the one putting this on
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ah
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okay this sound this makes a little more
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sense Jenkins Arena that is where the
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show was
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I'm here it's like I'm going to be in
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the exhibition also I think the room I'm
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going to be in might be this
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it was the Jenkins I must see if I can
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find the Jenkins Arena once I'm in there
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so it's kind of on the other side of the
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building this is where you would walk up
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going to the Jenkins Arena and there's
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the George Jenkins Arena right over in
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there totally not where the convention
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is though the convention's on the other
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side
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just kind of a bigger area of course
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George Jenkins republics he was the one
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of the founded Publix I believe
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who's in there now as I first started to
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walk in I first when I first got in here
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you know paid the 15 admission and as I
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was going in I thought it was going to
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be like a macho man statue over here
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snapping into a slim jim but it was not
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a complete statue it was a real person
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so it gave the little five dollar tip to
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get a photo said no free photos well it
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just said that on the side and then I
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got a photo and got a little video
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interaction and it's just like a few
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there's definitely gonna be a lot of Pop
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Culture stuff here kind of going through
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this just basically a one big room
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convention a little it was definitely a
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lot of nostalgia and it's going to be a
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lot of you know pop culture stuff so
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that's basically what it's going to be
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about even got the the Empire metal
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lunch box and they got the rust the good
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rust on it which is awesome it shows its
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shows its age Imperial shuttle down here
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falcon
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I wonder if I should get that well these
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are cool I remember these check out
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Rowdy Roddy right here Mean Gene he's a
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great 10 bucks ah that mean Gene for 10
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bucks is so good Iron Sheik just passed
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away
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I might get this mean Jean
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these are so awesome
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here's the Hulk Nikolai volkov
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Andre how do I get how much is the Andre
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the giant 84. let's see how much this is
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10 bucks 20 bucks for Andre I might get
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Andre and me and Jane some old classic
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clan shell Disney ones down here it says
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VHS a dollar which is a little bit lower
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than the prices that are on there of
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course with Disney plus and stuff you
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know what one would be kind of good to
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get would be the Little Mermaid his
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little mermaid too with the first Little
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Mermaid that had that kind of like adult
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oriented like uh front it's kind of hard
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to find and I was worth like a lot of
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money I have a lot of wrestling stuff
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here check out the real Ghostbusters
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fearsome flush
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right over there some Batman stuff
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there's a few celebrities as well Jason
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London's here Coogan from Adventures in
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Babysitting Jake the Snake Roberts and
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Brutus The Barber beefcakes over there
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this table over here has a lot of punk
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rock rubber duckies look at all this
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little Mohawks and everything going
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through here all the different sizes
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check out Bambi over here with the
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glowing eyes this little baby pig right
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here this looks like the monkey from
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Wizard of Oz one of the flying monkeys
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140 bucks
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is it 140 or just 40 with a little Mark
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a little Sharpie Mark in front of it
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there I don't know that's that's gotta
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be 140. 140. yeah so there's a couple
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there's a couple of the job of playsets
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this one's 130 there's another one over
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there a little better Shake was
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salacious for 140. is that kind of the
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going price I don't know the last time I
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saw a Java the Hutt he was only like 20
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bucks but he didn't have the well the
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whole day is yeah and everything that's
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the thing I think having this
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also Greg's game room
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he's here a lot of Star Wars so far I've
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already got a couple things
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I got Andre and I got mean Jane I'll
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spend a little money so stuff I don't oh
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there's one Ranger there
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other assorted figurines and figures the
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idea what half of these are
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they're so oh look at that Burt Reynolds
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right there that's got to be bird Rebels
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right it looks like it yeah it's got to
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be all right they're announcing that
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Jake The Snake will only be here five
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more minutes
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I wonder if he has the python with them
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if he takes a photo with a python I
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would pay for that with the python he
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had right it was I know it was a snake
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it was a pipe yeah it was a python yeah
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the photo op included a big python
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around my neck and Jake the Snake
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Roberts next to him be a little more
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tempted to pay for a photo that'd be
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pretty dang cool if you did that holy
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cow though this Ewok set is 900 dollars
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for those eight Ewoks all right I now
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have a vintage Speeder Bike Mint
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Condition I put it together to make sure
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it was yes he was 67 not 57 but yeah
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I've been wanting to get this bag I had
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this when I was young and now I now I
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own it again all right now walking back
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over this way so you've got some Cypress
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Garden stuff here
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this is Kyle hey what's up Kyle knows a
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lot about this Arena as well not just
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you said you read the Nirvana show also
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that's correct thanks 93. so tell me
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tell me a couple other notable things
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that happened right inside the store uh
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December 12 1976 I want to say ace
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really was on stage with kiss and um got
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electrocuted and wrote the song shock me
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right inside here
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Amy Prince that's right little red
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Little Red Corvette the video was filmed
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here as well was it like was he on stage
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yes
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it's locked
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it's locked dang it
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wow I want to go in there
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ah how do we get in there
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okay I'm zoomed in you can see the floor
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where everybody felt crowd usually
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stands and the seats
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I was standing right near the front of
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the stage I was like
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two people behind the first row
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absolutely back in the day where you
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could go on you know get as close as you
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want back in the day when I was a little
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more uh a little frivolous
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you know it was in the it was in the pit
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wow
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Slam Dancing a little bit if I did that
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now I would be out of commission for
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about six years
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what side was the stage on
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was the stage here at the other end
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where did they when they set it up do
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they usually put the stage
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the stages of the middle coming this way
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so against that down over that way like
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with a basketball floor is at the end
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okay coming this way
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that was November of
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93 right 93 yeah
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oh my gosh
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let's blows my mind
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A Little Red Corvette I didn't realize
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that's what Kyle told me that
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yeah this place was packed when Nirvana
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was here so I think the stage was on
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either side some events will be in the
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middle
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I'm from New York
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yeah thanks uh one of the maintenance
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guys was nice enough to look in here
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one thing I remember about that show
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there's so many people I was wedged to
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the front I couldn't even really like
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hardly
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you know get enough oxygen to breathe so
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I tried to like climb up and crowd Surf
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and get on top of the crowd and the
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crowd pushed so heavily that I was
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wedged from my waist up I was like
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wedged in there for like two songs and I
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was like two rows behind the security
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wall and I was looking at Kurt Cobain
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and he was looking at me while he's
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playing the guitar that I was stuck
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there thinking to myself I can't move
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and then finally
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opened up a little bit like crowd surfed
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my way out went over the wall went back
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around caught my breath went back up
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also when they played when they ended up
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going into smells like team spirit this
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entire floor
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it was a test
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it was like being at a Pantera Show or
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something
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oh yeah
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all the um
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freedom right below
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you guys have a good day yeah thanks
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again thanks so much
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it was awesome couldn't work out any
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better yeah
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man
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this is what kind of blows my mind so 30
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years later no but look at this oh it is
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a sign this
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look at this they're going to be this is
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happening here wow and this would this
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will end up being like two and a half
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weeks after the concert 30 years ago
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did you see Pearl Jam here too no my
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wife she's got a funny story on that
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back in the day you'd have to show up
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I'd take a mess you know at your local
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Ticketmaster retailer and if you
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remember it was cash only yeah so she
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waited in line forever with her dad and
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then finally gets up there and gets you
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know two tickets and they're like oh
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it's cash only and so they had to go go
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to the ATM by the time she came back it
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was sold out but Pearl Jam played in
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there too yeah
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and that was in the night early 90s so
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that was like the uh the Even Flow dice
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yeah I didn't realize he just told me a
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queen played in there too
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so this really is Florida's sweetest
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spot if you're one over Florida's
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sweetest spot is it's right here here's
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the marker
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I didn't think we were gonna get in
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there and then he we he walked by and
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we're like can we just get in and look
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we got some memories in there
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he was like all right
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I got this car here Jurassic Park
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vehicle yeah I showed the wrestling
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figures that I bought and
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The Return of the Jedi Speeder bike
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and my buddy Robbie retro
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he had a booth there
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and he gave me the Adventures in
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Babysitting Booth he said this is a
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birthday present a birthday was a couple
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days ago and the Back to the Future
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truck check out that 4x4
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so I want to say say thanks uh
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good friend Robert Robbie retro
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Now Greg and I he's driving his car and
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I'm driving my car we're gonna go over
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to the Lakeland antique mall so it's
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just right down the road as I'm pulling
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out of here I just wanted to kind of
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flash back to 30 years ago
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when the officer dropped me off after my
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car
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was not doing too well
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drove me like 15 miles over to here
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dropped me off there's a bunch of people
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waiting to go in here see Nirvana
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dropped pulled up right here and I got
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out right at this spot walked up these
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stairs we meet again Lakeland Antique
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Mall
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look at this place a bunch of times
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always a good stop off wind in this area
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the soothing sounds of sirens off in the
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distance and here is a looks like this
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is a
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this is for Magic Kingdom Tomorrowland
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star Jet right here
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35 000 if you would like that Gregson
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35k
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steel every time I see this the
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that ride at Magic Kingdom I think the
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Star Jets but they're not called the
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Star Jets anymore they're just called
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the it's called the Rockets the Rockets
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but there it is starches that's the Star
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Jets and then inside take a look this is
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the Disneyland Space Mountain ride
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vehicle right here looks like we have
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some of the seven dwarfs and then the
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big cheese himself in the very very
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front he's right in first row you got
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Dopey around the back here even some
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Disney's Hollywood Studios you got Vader
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and the trooper up here for Star Wars
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Weekends I haven't had that in years
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start start tours three to promoting
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Star Tours 3D oh my gosh this is Disney
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MGM Studio sci-fi dine in with the
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Frisbee here 45 for that I've never seen
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a keychain from celebration before also
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a few stickers here it's classic
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Disneyland one look at this old mg I've
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never seen this one before this is like
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an original MGM Studio sticker in this
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Epcot Center around the world oh my gosh
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look at this 75 do I need this I do I do
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need this it's the MGM license plate oh
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oh that's a nice one too yeah it's a
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cool Chris 75 wow oh here's the opening
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license plate right here
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should I get them both
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pretty awesome what is that piece that's
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from bikini parade in the 90s oh really
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yeah great float
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okay an arc of oh an arc like Noah's Ark
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okay so there's Nancy Kerrigan's size
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happy holidays Mickey Mouse and Nancy
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Kerrigan we see so has the MGM logo on
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there 18 for that one in Main Street oh
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there's the birthday cake oh
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I have a photo of me in front of that
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somewhere that I have to find for my
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parents I'll find it eventually you know
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there so that's Disneyland
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was it does it was it Captain e or
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Disneyland first well yes but this I
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believe this is for the Disney World one
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this is the eyes and ears this is the uh
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cast member newsletter all right I'm
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being allowed to sit in the old
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Disneyland ride vehicle she's gonna move
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a couple of stuff stuff figures here and
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they're gonna let us sit inside
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pretty cool
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Greg you've never been to Disneyland so
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you've never been to Disneyland so this
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will be my first Disneyland you gotta
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sit in the front well okay the cinema
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sickness here as well go with Retro
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Retro restaurants
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retro rest stop all right you're gonna
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get you're gonna do the the picture with
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us in here too oh yeah all right sounds
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good let's do it
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I think we're leaving Dopey in the back
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yeah let's do it
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make sure they're not Wazowski all right
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we're not gonna go sit in the Rob Zombie
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Dragon yeah that's cool right that's
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awesome last year
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uh
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sorry 2019. the 2019 was their 30th
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Anniversary I think that is that's
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different
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so this is from 2019 but when is the 30.
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or no it didn't happen did it happen
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this is going to hold us right oh yeah
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you're good you're good I'm gonna set
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you up
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trust me the famous last words right
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um
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okay well we were in our car first then
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we came to Earth we paid you a lot of
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time
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just as soon as I heard no we paid Jerry
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and then finally she says how about 855
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Adam you're gonna let
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you're gonna get it from him or you want
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your camera oh I died
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photographer yeah none of us actually
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yeah I've never we never Instagram these
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pictures
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they were in the Space Mountain Park
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I figured they got logged in and that's
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why I was calling you yeah I've now made
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the commute about five miles from where
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I just was kind of backtracked from uh
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antique Museum or the Antique Mall
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Lakeland Antique Mall back over towards
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the RP's funding Center
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to Fred's Market restaurant
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Greg and I are gonna get a bite to eat
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in here it's one of my favorite places
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to eat in Lakeland I discovered this
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place when I went to the Punk Rock Flea
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Market
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for four five six months ago a buddy
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world of Micah introduced me to this
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place and I've been here a number of
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times since it's really really good
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Fred's Market I like sat down at the
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table there's different options though I
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think I'm gonna go with the salad table
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and only eat salad but they have like
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different they have soups they have like
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vegetables they have meat things like
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that all right I asked them a salad
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plate because of the limited salad and a
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limited soup so I get soup for the 13
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that's the alcohol yeah that's part of
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the salad there too all right gonna
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start off with the salads first got some
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pasta salad or the bow tie salad and
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uh maybe a boomerang bow tie if you will
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they got a little tuna salad over here
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cottage cheese or with the uh Greg
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loaded up as well so you went with the
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one trip stuff right yeah but I had to
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get as much on a plate as I could so
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like a salad and the cottage cheese and
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the Apple stuff so you get one veggie
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and meat plate and you get one salad
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like unlike mine I just got unlimited
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trips to the salad this is black bean
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and pork soup so get some black bean and
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pork you see the big chunk of pork right
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there all right as always pretty tasty
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state flag up here
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U.S flag and I have Mao now made it back
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home
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wanted to show everything I got so I got
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the Speeder Bike Mean Gene Andre I've
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interested in babysitting book Back to
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the Future 4x4 I got the these I got the
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the collectible show and these I got at
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the Lakeland Antique Mall
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this original Disneyland sticker and
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when MGM first opened
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right there and you got Epcot I also
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went ahead and
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got these two which are very very rare
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this is interesting so back when they
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used to put this on sale these were only
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three dollars
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obviously now for collectors are worth a
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heck of a lot more and something else
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they really had that was awesome is all
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these pamphlets which some of the stuff
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I was reading through some of them I had
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never seen before
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like some of the photos that are in here
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maybe one day I'll show all these off in
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a little more detail but these are
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booklets this is like a six or eight
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page book so you're only see in the top
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portions
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but there's just so much behind the
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scenes stuff for my former favorite
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theme park in the early 90s it opened at
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89 in the early 90s
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you know 91 92 93 I was really really
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into Disney MGM Studios I mean it was
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just like my favorite place ever
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and it's just kind of neat to see some
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things
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that I've never seen before you know
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photos that I've forgotten about or
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hadn't thought about in years there's
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Chevy Chase right there back when he
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would do the monster sound show
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as well and then
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you got some of the behind the scenes
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stuff Burt Reynolds doing win loser draw
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so I'm interested of course Eisner right
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there there's a layout of the land sneak
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preview
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what it would be like you know part open
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in 89 this is back in May of 88. this
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one really kind of blew my mind she got
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the gangster there from Great Movie Ride
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Carol Burnett Burt Reynolds and take a
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look at this
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this is the first time I've ever seen
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this photo of Jim Varney there on the
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ride in John Cherry the director and
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creator of earnest
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and this looks almost like it was the
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same time frame as Ernest Saves
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Christmas in fact Jim Varney looks to
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have his arm there on the truck he used
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in the filming of the scene where he
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takes the Christmas tree out
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takes it into that facade house that was
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on the universal not Universal the MGM
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Studios Backlot which doesn't even exist
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anymore it's where Galaxy's Edge is now
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here in Batu East
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pretty good uh pretty good haul I got
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today I spent a little bit of money but
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I got some good stuff
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had some good lunch I had some good
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dinner I should say it's getting late in
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the eve
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and that's gonna do it for today
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I'll see you in the next video the Vlog
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is