Ernest Saves Christmas (1988) Filming Locations & Hidden Secrets In Orlando / Jim Varney Memories
Ernest Saves Christmas Filming Locations
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today's adventure begins by walking
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close to this Goose here at Lake Eola as
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a recording of the Saturday November
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26th
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2022 chowing down
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on possibly some acorns or something out
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of this tree right here
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along Lake Eola
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which has a Christmas tree over there in
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the distance because it is the Christmas
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season
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and that's a tie-in
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to today's video Welcome everyone Adam
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dewoo here with world of Micah once
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again
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we are going to this neck of the woods
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we have been here many times to document
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what has happened to the Ernest Saves
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Christmas house but we have never done
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together you and I felt the complete
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filming locations well that's probably
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three quarters complete We're not gonna
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go to each and every spot we're going to
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go to the majority of the spots from the
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1988 Christmas classic yep now it can be
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watched on Disney plus right yeah yeah
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because before a lot of stuff a lot of
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people might not have seen it but now
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this Touchstone pictures it's online
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anybody can watch it yeah I did the
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filming location 10 years ago in Spring
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of 2012 you did them shortly shortly
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after that like 2015 I believe yeah so
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it's been a while since and we have
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never been to all the spots together
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there are some spots Micah discovered
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that I have never seen probably a couple
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spots you might not have known about
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from seeing my video yep so we're just
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going to kind of tag team it to that
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that's it we're gonna do this once again
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34 years after the film was released
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it's gonna be a lot of fun it is 24
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years ago was when I did no 20 the 24
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year anniversary yes kind of sort of is
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when I did my video 10 years ago so
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every 10 years ago we should do this
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that's right it should be something we
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could do
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all right I'm inviting you to join me
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and world of mica for the earnest States
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Christmas filming locations
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shall you it's a long intro a little bit
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yeah I should also mention this is going
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to be film basically out of order
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so I just want to show that you can go
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to most of these spots in one day a lot
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of them are kind of in the same general
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area a couple are going to be have to
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drive a bit too but a lot of them are
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near downtown but they're not going to
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be in sequence of the film starting off
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here with this scene which is when Jim
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Varney
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dressed as the older elderly lady was
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walking up these very stairs into this
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building located at 215 North Eola drive
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right here and I'm not going to show I'm
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not going to insert too many string
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screen grabs and stuff but I'll show a
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few just to kind of give a little
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little estimation but I think the line
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I'm just kind of going off of memory was
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like these stairs might as be might as
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well be
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Mount Everest is that alive
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as well
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you were saying on the driveway as we
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were driving over here we met up and
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we're both driving together how this
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area of Orlando has kind of stayed the
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same where everything else has kind of
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changed
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and fun fact from here is where the
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house used to be so it's just walking
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distance so if you find a parking spot
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in this area like we did you can kind of
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go that way in that direction to where
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the house used to be let's see if I can
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find a photo from from this angle
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and Micah has pulled up a photo here
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now Jim Varney used this character many
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many times and other
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other specials that he did
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but he brought it obviously I think as
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far as most popular and probably the
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most seen Earnest anything
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was Ernest Saves Christmas and probably
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the the best movie best made money-wise
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and production value-wise of all of them
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I kind of have to wonder you think they
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did the Interiors in here that was on a
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sound stage
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they might as well have done them in
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here man I think might I mean it's kind
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of hard to tell there is a reception
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desk there but it looks nothing like it
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did yeah that's true I've never looked
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in here it's tough to see because I mean
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they probably filmed a lot of that on it
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on a Sound Stage when he goes up and
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actually goes inside but he did walk
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right up these very stops okay this is
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kind of interesting we were just
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watching the scene this is the same
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railing as well not only the same
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railing but you can see him walk past I
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know we're nerds talking about the
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railings but this is screen used right
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there as well as you know it's a lawyer
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now
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but they changed the wording on that
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they just put a different sign over the
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top of those and those are the same same
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little lanterns
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fun fact
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yeah just a couple blocks away on the
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corner of higher and Washington Street
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is where Ernest house used to be now I
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must say it looks nothing
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like it did when the movie was out and
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I've documented this through the
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progression
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of how things have changed over the
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years kind of sat in kind of a bad
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condition really run down
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for a long time and there were rumors
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they were going to tear it down
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and the rumors came true the house is
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gone now the house next to it is from
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the same era so it kind of looks similar
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to that time frame of when Ernest house
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was here the driveway
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still the same driveway with all the
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cracks down that hasn't been replaced
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yet
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Mike and I did an update on this how
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many six months ago maybe yeah they
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really haven't done much since then to
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this I thought it'd be finished by now
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but right here was the house and then of
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course behind
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so this building could be seen when the
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truck pulls out behind over here and I
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think this building too so the truck
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pulls out and then drives right down
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this way the thing that gives it away is
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in that opening scene where the reveal
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of the earnest mailbox right here ironsp
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World mailbox was right here on the
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corner and the yard was kind of
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decorated not quite as much as Pee-Wee's
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house from peewee's Big Adventure but it
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kind of had that Vibe yeah in a way he
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definitely embraced the holidays but
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when the truck pulled out you know it
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still has the Cobblestone Brick Road
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here and these two houses over here
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still look exactly the same
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there is kind of a look at what the
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house looked like then there's ernest's
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mailbox right there looks a lot
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different now
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I don't want to spend too much time here
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because we've kind of dwelled on this
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over the past
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five or ten years we had to throw this
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up okay I noticed another scene before
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you see the houses I just kind of
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pinpointed out when the truck backs up
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there's another house for a brief moment
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that's shown over here that's been
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repainted
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but take a look at the staircase that
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wooden staircase that wooden staircase
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and the back garage area over there
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still looks the same too even though
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it's been repainted definitely been
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repainted but still has the angle
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here kind of the V shape or the A-frame
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I should say and then the staircase
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right beside it
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okay two more nerdy little things I've
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noticed here so down here is the
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sidewalk that connects with another
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sidewalk that leads up to the house but
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then over behind me notice there's a
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tree in the yard a palm tree in the yard
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that's been torn out and there's a sign
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on that but there's another tree that's
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in front of that other house on that
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corner so keep those in mind and here
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was where
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the sidewalk was that led up to Earnest
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so the camera would have been over there
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on the porch area looking this way so
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you go this way and that other tree I
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was talking about has been uprooted it
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was right here there was another tree
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right there
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I wonder if you can see the roots
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who knows when that tree was ripped out
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though no it's yeah it's like hidden
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it's under all this foliage
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all right moving on still going along
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parallel to Lake Eola
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this building over here
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well not this angle which looks like
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there's a space available here
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but this building here
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is used as
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some of the spots where they were
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running out from the jail
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around the back and it was this parking
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lot obviously it's been repaved that
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they ran out Harmony Santa and Earnest
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right over here next to the truck in
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fact you can see from this angle you can
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see the trees have grown up quite a bit
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but you can see right there the other
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buildings over there and they run out of
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this this parking garage still looks the
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same all these years later across this
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road and actually it's kind of way over
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here on this far end of the parking lot
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you can see downtown Skyline over there
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but there was a vehicle here that was
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parked they run around the vehicle you
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see that it's a super zoom lens so the
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camera was kind of farther back than
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where we're standing and then the angles
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like this with the Ernest truck there
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now over at the corner of Orange Avenue
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and pine now in the movie there used to
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be a big building right here that has
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been burned down or torn down for many
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many years it was kind of difficult to
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match up the only exception of things
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you can match up are the very unique
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stylings of the sidewalk over there
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which I'll show in a minute and there
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was a restaurant over here which used to
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be a sports memorabilia store and that
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was well the restaurant in the movie but
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in real in the next to the restaurant
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was a sports member abelia store for the
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Orlando Magic and that is where Harmony
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star tried to run out on her check right
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over there so we're gonna kind of walk
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over to this section as well and also
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this was the corner where
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Ernest who's driving a taxi abruptly
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stops in the middle of the road I
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believe it was like right about here
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it's kind of like right in this section
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they were kind of driving along this
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area and then he hit the brakes right
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here am I right remembering that yep
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all right yeah so there's the awning
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over there tanquerays is what it's
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called now and they it was even called
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it then because it's been open oh it's
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been open since 89. that's interesting
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so tangaray is open one year after
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Ernest opened in the theaters this says
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for lease oh that's interesting and then
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this is the this is the fire hydrant
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right here
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so it probably really was for lease yeah
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but you'll notice that side of the road
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you can see very very clear in the film
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itself you know these little
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kind of octagon
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sidewalk sections
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which those are original over there
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this side
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has been redone you can say this is like
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newer
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newer style as well
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if you're gonna run out on a lunch tap
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make sure you do it when Ernest is
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driving by in a taxi perfect timing so
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there's the building there that's been
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torn down
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it looks like there's been a number of
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different restaurants but she ran right
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out of here
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and wear that Orlando Magic sign what
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was it called Orlando fanatic
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The Fanatic the sign was like up here
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attic like it's an attic so this would
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have been the this would have been the
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store here I know this was the store
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this is the store this is an apartment
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and then this was where she comes out
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and runs off and meets up with Ernest in
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the taxi and even dating back way before
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the film this used to be Elijah hand
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furniture
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so the information placard here they
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made caskets
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also on Orange Avenue they did a lot of
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driving scenes where they're in the taxi
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and the harmony star you know Santa
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or Ernest tells Harmony that the other
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passenger is Santa was all kind of along
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there
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surprised
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surprise
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surprise surprise and in front of the
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Orlando Magic store is the Deli Downtown
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side evidently set dressing or possibly
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there really was a place that was a deli
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down here
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the camera would have been exactly where
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where I'm at at this moment and she was
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conversating with the waiter right here
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and then ran off this building is only
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used for a very brief moment maybe like
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a three second clip
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five second clip where they're having
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the meeting with with Joe at the top up
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here
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the Bank building now
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a very unique structure just outside
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down I mean technically it is in
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downtown but it's kind of separated from
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the other skyscrapers
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kind of the angle that they use is so
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it's kind of like that
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I remember correctly the beard grew back
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we got to go by the museum also which is
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where the the air brake scene was as
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well this is where he's looking out the
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window and he sees the snow
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and he has a change of heart he looks
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out the window here and he's just like
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he was right snowing in Orlando snowing
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in Orlando the fun thing about Ernest
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Saves Christmas but this is not a
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fictional Town Orlando's not setting in
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for like somewhere else in the U.S right
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they actually do state it being in
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Orlando and Joe's manager is looking at
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him and he's like Joe what is with you
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so dramatic that's pretty good
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that was a good that was a good
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impression
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I thought we drove East to Town East of
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Orlando about probably 20 miles to Lake
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Mary
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we are now at the Fox 35
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news station
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and I have to hand it to Micah on
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discovering this a couple years ago
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he figured out that this
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was where Ernest pulled up in the apapa
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Apopka Snake Farm truck
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over here
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and where they were filming Christmas
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sleigh yeah was inside there most likely
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filmed the Interiors in there as well
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so the front of the building looks a
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little bit different but a few things
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match up including the palm trees over
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and I'm gonna kind of walk around the
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perimeter of the property and kind of
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show some of the
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the why don't we use the word stanchion
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the stanchion that matches up over there
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and the window and the door from that
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side poison
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poison
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that's where the horror film be I don't
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know if I could pick a favorite scene in
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the movie but that this here is probably
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one of that character
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hilarious here's a little perspective of
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it there's the door bay door over there
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they set up a little guard shack it was
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stage five in the movie that of course
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they've spray painted over that or
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painted over it
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but it was stage five there
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like where Santa Claus is in the back of
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the truck pretending to be rattlesnakes
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in fact that pole there
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is where Santa
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ran into a another Santa
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impersonating himself in fact the middle
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pole there
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that's right that's where the truck was
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and where the
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showdown of the Sanders took place right
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there there's the pole
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I kind of get to try to get the correct
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angle also I'll also show this so when
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Jim Varney gets out notice the two
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double doors on that one side and then
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this vent
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those are still there where he pulls out
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before walking down to the the open bay
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door
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as well looks like they've removed the
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vent and placed it with just a regular
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window now
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so the vent is gone there on the far
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left there but those doors are still the
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same
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and the pillar that Santa
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is having the
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meeting up with the other Santa is right
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that's it it's got a lizard on it now
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you'll notice there is this kind of a
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reddish orange building that has been
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replaced
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where Jim Barney Earnest's truck was
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parked kind of in front of I believe now
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there's an awning here so this awning
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that's right there
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that is kind of in the general area
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where it was but the palm trees are
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still over there and there's the the bay
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you gotta do you got to do your gotta do
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the moment you want a snake you want one
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for your boy
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I gave one of my boy once Harry
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you want to explain how you figured out
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that this was the spot
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yep so Orlando Sentinel had a newspaper
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article about Earnest in them filming in
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Orlando and they said that
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wofl Fox 35 used to show bumpers of
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earnest in commercials I don't know if
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he was promoting wofl Fox 35 or what
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probably and so I got on street view I
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found this street zoomed in on that
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building and I saw that big garage door
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and that was it there's
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because how many buildings that look
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like that
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so for those who do not know Ernest jump
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Varney would he be created the character
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of earnest him and John Cherry John
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Cherry who was the director and the
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writer and
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filmed all the commercials and movies
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basically they started doing smaller
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markets so they do a lot of stuff in the
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Midwest
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and evidently they were doing some stuff
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here in Florida as well I remember
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WDBJ7 your hometown station was one he'd
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always promote so probably he did a fox
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was a Fox 35 or just back there too or I
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think it's just that wofl wofl yeah so
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that's kind of how and that's probably
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how they got access because they were
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promoting this during the commercials so
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they were probably able to use this
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as well and Mike and I both realized
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there's a spot we can't really get to
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but it's on Walt Disney World property
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it is where the the earnest worked at
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the taxi Place yeah but you can't really
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get to it it's kind of sort of Backstage
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it's where the cast members park for
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their job at Magic Kingdom that's where
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the taxi headquarters was oh but also by
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the way Vern's house was on the former
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Backlot of MGM Studios the they call it
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cologne it was a Colonials residential
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residential street
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Vern's house you should be able to see
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from the tram and that is where he he
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pulls up and goes into Vern's house and
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all that fun fact doing a little
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research on satellite view going back to
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older images if you walk into oga's
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Cantina right when you walk into oga's
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Cantina you're walking into Vern's house
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the filming location of Vern's house
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from Ernest Saves Christmas when you
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found that out he sent me a text message
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told me I was like I just want to go
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there so I can walk into Vern's house no
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relation to Star Wars
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yeah so when you're walking in Olga's
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at Batu East you are walking in the same
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exact spot as the front door of Vern's
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house from Ernest Saves Christmas
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also on Disney plus we'll tie it now we
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made it over near the Orlando Science
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Center
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to the Shakespeare Center
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and this almost looks like the type of
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crane they could have used probably to
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get some some good angles there
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when Earnest is being filmed here and
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this is where the climactic ending of
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the scene the air brake scene and all
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that took place
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and some of the Interiors took place in
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here as well and where Joe came back and
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decided he was going to be Santa Claus
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yeah he shook the hands with Santa right
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over here they did the handshake and uh
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all of a sudden everything grew back you
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have the Santa suit on and the beard
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magically grew back and therefore
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posterity is the handshake from the old
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Santa to the new Santa
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right here in the little walkway in
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there's the handshake spot right there
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just about kind of at that angle
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the thing is interesting the air brakes
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part so you got the handshake here and
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then Earnest comes down from the heavens
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very quickly and then
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air brakes
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but the thing that's neat is behind Jim
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Varney's head you can see the sphere at
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the Shakespeare dome which is lit up
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with Christmas lights
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in the film itself
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and just kind of a wide angle with the
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camera
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kind of over that direction kind of
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getting a
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a better view of the the entire property
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itself or the air brake scene as shown
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here so there's the sphere
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there's the entrance there's Santa
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sleigh going to complete perpend the
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perpendicular angle there
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reindeered on nose almost touching the
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ground
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air brakes and there's the angle of what
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it looks like modern day
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as of this very moment then the camera
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angle shifts to look down at all four of
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them kind of I was saying about the
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having the crane they're kind of
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standing over at the entrance there so
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if that crane was a little closer over
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to here
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you'd be able to see
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the four of them standing right there
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they were like kind of in the same spot
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now I'm noticing this the Orlando sign
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is gone but notice about Jim Varney's
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head here the Christmas lights on those
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two little
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there's like two roof lines so you got
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the two rows of Lights
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that rude little two roof lines is still
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so see right up here
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there's two sections it's the lights
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we're going across one section there and
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one section
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directly above it
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yep a little makeshift
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desk right there
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this is cool cool Santa walks into the
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door right here and there's a Christmas
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tree in here that's the door I haven't
22:17
been in here like 10 years try to figure
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out where Joe's classroom was where he
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was teaching and doing the puppet show
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do you remember where Joe's classroom
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was
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slow down
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I know they walked down that hallway and
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I believe through those double doors
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they were nice enough to let us in but
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they said they're doing a rehearsal for
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a play because it is a an area so the
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doors down there which we think is where
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Joe's author Joe's room was that he was
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doing the
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the puppet show and all that in was down
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there through those doors now all this
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has been remodeled and it is the season
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they have the there's a tree in the
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village right there too
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oh it's in that same spot yeah look for
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some reason I was thinking the tree was
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oh it's over in that corner
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oh my gosh that is on the same exact
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spot so you got the door over there it
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was just a single door right
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yeah we asked the people working at the
23:33
front desk how people come by they said
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not too many
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so when people find out that the movie
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was filmed here they're kind of
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and you see a lot of times there's like
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stuff happens right along this little
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sidewalk here as well
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a number of different scenes take place
23:51
right here where he's pulling up hey
23:53
babe park it in the shade throws the
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keys over at the over at the mailman
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yeah and Micah was pointing out that
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these benches most of them have been
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removed
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but a lot of them you can see when
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they're doing the handshaking scene
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there's like
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six or seven of these out front and this
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is similar to that same era take a look
24:10
down here it even has Orlando carved on
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this looks like a lot more permanent
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than the ones
24:17
that's definitely the same era though
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yeah
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I had the two and then they added
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another one
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at the bottom
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part of that little
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seat
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it's the same old
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they used to be white
24:34
yeah they're doing a little performance
24:35
here or practicing for the Shakespeare
24:37
Center but where
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Joe's puppet show took place
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there was like a bookcase kind of
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against here and you see these windows
24:46
here but it could be on the other side I
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think it's that one could be that one
24:50
right there right there because it's on
24:51
the if he's standing in the back room
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it's on his left that's true because
24:55
when he when they walk down the hallway
24:57
this way they turn in that way past the
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fire hydrant into the door and you don't
25:03
see those windows you see a mural which
25:06
we asked the people working at the desk
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in there the mural's been painted over
25:09
but they walk in you see the mural and
25:12
then later they look this way at those
25:14
windows where that bouquet says now
25:16
looking at this you really do coordinate
25:18
and definitely guarantees our opinion
25:20
pretty much is correct because the mural
25:24
is to the side of where this big window
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is and then there's this here
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which is the longer window so you have
25:32
hallway there where they turn in they go
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that way painting against this wall
25:37
there's that long
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almost like a door-shaped window and
25:41
then there's the top portion there which
25:43
matches up completely so against this
25:45
wall here facing that way is the mural
25:49
and you can peek in that window and just
25:52
to confirm in that that is the hallway
25:54
they walked in was it the air brake
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scene used in the trailer
25:58
I think that was like a big either maybe
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it just etched in my head it touched in
26:02
my head too that's like a big scene yeah
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air brakes laughs
26:07
we've now made it over to the Amtrak
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station
26:11
and it still looks exactly the same
26:14
we're the general vicinity where Harmony
26:17
star was over here and walked across
26:20
with Santa's sack
26:23
walking across this way
26:25
and she had to change her heart inside
26:27
the actual station itself
26:30
so we're gonna walk inside see if the
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station still looks the same
26:34
after all this time but the angle from
26:36
the movie was kind of that way looking
26:38
that way
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places like stepping back in time these
26:53
seats here there's also a scene here
26:55
when the brother and sister are kind of
26:57
arguing about Santa over here at Harmony
26:59
star comes walking out
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of this angle you see this pillar right
27:04
here and those kind of double doors and
27:06
the windows and whatnot as shown here
27:10
still looks the same
27:12
my differences behind the pillar there's
27:13
like a little Garden area now that's
27:15
been bricked over
27:16
no plants there or foliage there anymore
27:19
just down here is the brick
27:23
and it isn't active Amtrak station
27:37
still have the Retro telephones
27:37
in here
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oh over here is where
27:43
this is where the lug this is where she
27:44
ended up getting the ticket here
27:48
okay that's pretty neat and then there's
27:50
an angle of her looking from here so she
27:52
goes up gets the ticket and then she's
27:54
looking this direction right about like
27:58
that
27:59
as shown here
28:06
a little bit of damage there but this so
28:06
yeah this is where she was sitting the
28:09
rhythmic the roof is leaking in here
28:12
of course the classic scene I always
28:13
kind of think about is when she's really
28:15
having regrets and second thoughts about
28:18
you know what she is what she's been
28:20
doing
28:21
there's an angle here where the family
28:23
the brother and sister and Mom that
28:26
Harmony sitting there on the end
28:29
just like that and the benches the wood
28:31
benches and everything oh my gosh the
28:33
Christmas tree is still in the same
28:35
exact spot also
28:38
there's this here of her looking very
28:40
very sad but notice the Christmas tree
28:41
directly behind her
28:44
and modern day Christmas tree as well
28:48
do you notice the Christmas trees over
28:50
there too
28:57
this is another image I always think of
28:57
her sitting here she has the leg up and
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she's like really regretting
29:02
she's really regretting her decision and
29:06
the kids right there yeah the family's
29:14
this is the same ticket booth over here
29:14
it's pretty dang cool to be in here
29:15
especially after seeing the movie so
29:17
many times the
29:19
in particular knowing the same knowing
29:22
that Harmony was there having a change
29:24
of thought
29:26
start to feel the Christmas joy and
29:28
realizing she making the wrong decision
29:30
revamping her her choices and then
29:34
going back and taking Santa Claus's bag
29:37
where it belongs
29:58
couple other things I'm noticing if you
30:00
watch the film there's a staircase out
30:02
here this was the entrance the entrance
30:04
doors had changed but as she turns this
30:07
way this is exactly the same kind of the
30:10
same marble counter
30:12
that is over there with the little
30:14
window next to it and current day they
30:17
do not even really use this window
30:18
anymore they use the other little side
30:21
window
30:22
Chase into it
30:24
yeah this is the counter here
30:37
filming locations love
30:58
the same door she would have walked out
30:58
of
31:05
where do you get off get that Santa sack
31:05
and why do you have
31:11
there's no such thing as Santa
31:12
turd that's just exactly the same it
31:14
does it's amazing
31:16
it's like stepping back in time this
31:18
place
31:22
well they're still there and everything
31:25
I'm not going to do the outro right here
31:26
yeah that's gonna do it for today
31:29
from Orlando Florida now there were a
31:31
couple key spots that we didn't go to no
31:34
we did not go we sound disappointed no
31:38
it's not it's not that it's they're like
31:40
two second spots right so MCO Orlando
31:43
International really looks nothing the
31:45
same the only spot is when he kind of
31:47
jumps up over the luggage the the taxi
31:50
you know it hits the ground in no time
31:53
that scene and I'm trying to think what
31:55
what other world Drive World drive on
31:57
the way to Epcot yep was the very
32:00
beginning of the movie but I think we
32:01
hit most of them oh yeah more or less we
32:03
hit most of them and ending here with
32:05
the the one that looks identical to how
32:08
it was back in the day it looks like
32:10
1926.
32:12
up on the side of there but we did it
32:14
we've been saying we want we've wanted
32:15
to do the earnest Saves Christmas spots
32:18
together
32:19
even though we've gone to the house
32:21
an exorbitant amount of times we've
32:24
finally gone to all the rest of them
32:25
make you check out world of Micah who
32:27
has covered at least
32:29
some of these spots on multiple
32:31
occasions yeah the house at least a half
32:34
a dozen times me half a dust
32:38
there's not a whole heck of a lot film
32:41
Touchstone was a very brief time
32:44
Hollywood East as they wanted to call it
32:46
didn't last very long There Was Daryl
32:48
Parenthood
32:50
Problem Child two child two Earnest am I
32:54
missing any
32:56
probably about it we don't have a lot of
32:58
filming locations here in town so we
33:00
have to milk them for all their work
33:03
but check out world of Micah he will
33:04
have this video as well big Earnest guy
33:06
big Jim Varney guy like I am part of the
33:09
many reasons we are friends so check out
33:11
his channel YouTube's own world of Micah
33:13
I'll see you in the next video the Vlog
33:16
is over
33:18
you know what I mean
33:20
I should also add
33:23
what there's still one spot that Micah
33:25
and I are in hopes of finding
33:28
and if we find that one day we'll do
33:30
another video there's one spot that's
33:32
the bucket list
33:34
the uh what do you what's the word the
33:36
ultimate spot the ultimate spot that no
33:39
one has ever found to be the martini
33:42
shot that's the final shot
33:47
it's like halfway it's like three
33:47
quarters to the movie but no one's ever
33:49
found it so if we ever find it
33:52
we'll do a full video on that and milk
33:55
this puppy for all its work
33:59
s