A Sunday In Las Vegas At Top Of Strat - Punk Rock Museum / High Roller Ferris Wheel & Cheap Hot Dogs
Las Vegas Nov 2024
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today's adventure begins I stand here in
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the ride share pickup area the drop off
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section check-in area if you will the
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little circular driveway in front of the
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Flamingo Hotel Las Vegas Sunday as the
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recording of this Sunday November 17th
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2024 and I'm going to do a variety of
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things today here in Sin City in
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Vegas welcome everyone Adam the woo here
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the neon flamingo
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sign not as bright as it was last night
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walking around because it is during the
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day I'm going to take a uber up to the
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Strat formerly called the stratosphere
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check that out and then from there end
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up at the punk rock museum we going to
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be doing a tour with smelly the drummer
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from No
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Effects I love No Effects love punk rock
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I'm going to get a tour and do a variety
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of other things join me shall you I also
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have tax is available they're just kind
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of waiting here so if the Uber was a
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good ways away I'd probably just grab a
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taxi see they're all here in a single
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file line waiting the first one gets the
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first person that chooses the
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taxi my ride will be here in 3
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minutes last night I went up there the
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top of the Eiffel Tower over there at
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the Paris Casino Resort it pretty
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awesome view from up there maybe I'll go
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up to the top of the STP just to compare
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one side of the SHP to the other so I
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got a couple moments I'm to show a
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couple of historical photos inside the
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flamingo is one of the oldest hotel
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resorts on the
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STP and I think may be the second or
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third oldest anywhere in Vegas original
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hotel from 1948 postcard low style
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vertical neon sign right
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there he's got a few photos here on the
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wall of what it looked like back in the
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day some of the performers they used to
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perform here
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as well real Viva Las Vegas flamingo's
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pool as it appeared in the MGM film Viva
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Las Vegas starring Elvis Presley and an
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Margaret there's a strip at the top up
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there pretty dang
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cool and here's the rear entrance to the
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hotel and the Bugsy Suites from 1984
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currently the pool is under a massive
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renovation a lot of changes all
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happening here in Vegas some hotels are
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torn down others are built some are
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taken over by other
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companies this one's been around but the
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pool is being changed you can see just a
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little construction update here I think
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at some point while I'm here I might go
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up in the ferris wheel at some point
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right here I got dropped off at the
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Gateway observation deck you could go up
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one little level if you want you pretty
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much see pretty well from here as well
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you got this little Archway here that
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says Las Vegas at the very top is the
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Strat formerly the stratosphere but now
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they just refer to it as the strp which
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is kind of strange because obviously it
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was built to say like oh you can go all
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the way up to the top of the
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stratosphere then they shortened it to
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the Strat just like they short shortened
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Treasure Island to
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TI that's kind of interesting how they
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how they do that not just nicknames but
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like completely
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change names of
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places now it's the but I'm going to go
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up to the stratosphere cost of a ticket
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to go to the
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top this thing stands over 1,000 ft
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tall but the view that you get when you
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get up there is between 8 and 900 ft so
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you don't go all the way to chy top you
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go almost to 900 ft just shy of 900 ft
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$31 to get to the top and get a little
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bit of a view and the view it's pretty
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Spectacular from way way up here almost
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900 ft in the air from the Strat looking
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over all the Vegas area well just mostly
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the strip looking down the strip and I
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am few miles down is the hotel I'm
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staying at at the
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Flamingo yeah it's way up here it's such
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a it's so nice here this time of the
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year too this is definitely a good time
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I don't I don't ever recall being in
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Vegas at this time of the year and it's
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very enjoyable just light hoodie weather
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check it $31 plus a convenience fee of
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$5 I don't know who exactly that's
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convenient for but a total of
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$36 to get up to the top top of the
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strap this worth doing you got kind of
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do a lot of a lot of good wind and row
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moments when you're here in
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Vegas almost flew away current
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temperature right now at 11:08
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56° not going to be a cloud in the sky
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the rest of the day and according next
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future is going to be weather's going to
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be really nice around around this
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temperature just waiting on my
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here out of the
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world video
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Bob got ride for got time for a ride got
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what's the line how about a ride Mister
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a ride there you go I screwed it up I
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screwed it up I fail as being a Back to
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Future fan are you know what I
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want you got to order for me I don't
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know what do you put in it good morning
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just two creams Two
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Sugars I need your largest and your most
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dangerously hot piping hot
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coffee with Two Sugars and two creams
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that's it sugars and two creams anything
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else take a look at that there's this
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there's the Speedy clock right there
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well this is a golden arches I mean look
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at the shape this is a this is old
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school golden arches McDonald's this is
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pre
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Ronald well that's true yeah Speedy
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they're Speedy up there look at
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Speedy I have a falling down moment I
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was going to say remember falling down
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it's like look at this pathetic this
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thing was probably like three or
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$4 and it's you know I used to love the
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kids cheeseburger I mean this okay
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literally the piece of cheese is the
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same thickness as the meat yeah and uh
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this pathetic squashed they they did C
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it well yeah but that coffee's fine you
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know how's the
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taste very McDonald zy yeah you do food
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reviews now
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well Bob Bob eats Vegas is that what it
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is Bob eats Vegas Bob eats just terrible
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food I rarely ever eat something like
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this but in the essence of time and
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because we were
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there your coffee might be piping hot
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but this is
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not it's as cold as the Heart of the
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City there's a stretch limo here now
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that has a little like Mohawk little
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like Mohawk action on it punk rock
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museum stretch limo I've been here once
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before and when I did it I did not do a
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guided tour it was about a year and a
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half ago just did a regular tour today
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going to do the guided tour you ever
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been here not yet first time tour first
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time tour tour I'm surprised that
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there's somewhere in Vegas you you
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haven't been it's exciting yeah I like
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that you're coming to my town and taking
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me on a tour yeah you're more of a metal
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guy I am a metal guy you're more of a
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metal guy but I think you're going to
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recognize a lot of the stuff that's in
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here I'm a punk fan as well yeah you
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like to Misfit Sex Pistols things like
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that all that stuff yeah but you know
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I'm like I was telling you earlier I was
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I'm kind of into like like like the
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Misfits were great but Danzig yeah yeah
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so Danzig doing Danzig sings Elvis I saw
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that at the Tropic Cana now that was a
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fun night all right tour was really
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really good only filmed a couple little
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Snippets here and
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there was a really very informative and
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as I kind of started to film he kind of
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mentioned that maybe the museum wouldn't
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be cool with filming the entire tour
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just simply because they want people to
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come here to do it so I just got a
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couple little Snippets and then I took
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some photos on my phone that I'll talk
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about and show some of that as well but
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that was a lot better than I expected he
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was definitely a wealth of knowledge
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about stuff that he knew uh the reality
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obviously is they don't go through every
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piece of the museum cuz they each each
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separate guy they always have different
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guides from different bands and people
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in the punk rock Community will do
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certain specific
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tours and he talked about what he knew
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and it was it was really well done I I
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really enjoyed it and I I kind of wanted
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to do another tour with someone else
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from a band that I like to hear their
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perspective and what they know about
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here interesting stories it was it was
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it was awesome every this Museum in
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detail before when I went in without
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doing a guided tour I'll just show a few
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things they have like some items from
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fear and
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dvo Black Flag they smelly course the
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drummer from No Effects talking about
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some of his memories and what he knows
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about this was the the drum the Circle
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Jerks ended up recording their first
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album on it's been repainted but he I
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didn't realize that until he mentioned
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it he said he's not really a gear Head
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so he didn't know a lot about the gear
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stuff but he had more you know more
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stories talking about fly
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on polls and how he had to you know
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originally when started in No Effects it
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has to go flyering instead of you know
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the internet's a lot different now with
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social media and promoting shows he was
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talking
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about the Misfits and the bass player
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from the Misfits using two of the same
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strings the A and the E string twice
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instead of using four different strings
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and he was talking about San Francisco
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stuff which he didn't really talk too
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much about the San Francisco bands
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except for rkl which he said was a huge
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influence and he played one of the songs
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from rkl and it sounded very familiar to
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No Effects and I asked him if it had a
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lot to do with his style with the the
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stops a lot of the stops in his drumming
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he said oh yeah I definitely got that
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from rkl that was a big portion talked
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about Minor Threat a lot he talked about
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scream talked about Dave Gro being in
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Scream having his friends with Dave
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Gro yeah pretty good here's a some other
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random stuff too he didn't talk much
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about Green Day but here is Billy Joe's
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jacket this I believe is Kurt Cobain's
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leather jacket or
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was and talk about op iy there's
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actually Billy right there from Green
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Day and this is the door this is
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interesting so Gil to Gilman Street a
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few times the door the back door with
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the bands with load in that's not the
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original Back Door in San Francisco or
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in Berkeley I should say the original
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door is right here I'll sticker it up
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pretty cool of course had a lot to talk
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about fat records and
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effects and the Pennywise room here that
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had the Pennywise practice space and
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Warp Tour and there's a me with a photo
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of
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smelly and one more photo it was a
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really great tour I really liked
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it right we're now over in this area
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we're thinking about riding the high
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roller wheel right there but first you
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might grab a bike to eat this is Gordon
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Ramsey's fish and chips if I've ever
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eaten any of Gordon Ramsey's places
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before video Bob recommends this place
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so we're going to go with a little fish
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and chip action kind of like a build
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your own box you can get all different
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types of they have shrimp Lobster
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sausage I haded getting me three Builder
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box three shrimp three fish Builder box
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is what I ended up getting end up
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getting that I got a water other sorted
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things how is it very very good
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fish and chips Gordon Ramsey Gordon
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ramse I didn't realize his name is
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spelled ramse he Scottish sounds a you
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went with a little shake what was the
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shake you got sticky toffee pudding
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Shake sticky toffee pudding
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Shake it's pretty good the shake cost 10
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bucks but you know what it's really good
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it's worth the 10 bucks it
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is with the uh I did the Red Lobster
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moment where you squirt the the
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commercial all right that was pretty
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dang good I uh I do like fish and chips
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which is fish and Fri fried fish and
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fries that was uh that was decent going
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to head back out walk around a little
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bit and see what we can find possibly go
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up in the wheel all right we're going to
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be going on the High Roller my first
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impression is how cool the pods look the
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little gondolas little pods go I'm used
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to kind of the the bigger Ferris wheels
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kind of like the icon Orlando or icon
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park or the Orlando Eye which is similar
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to the sizewise but the pods are
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definitely a lot different right over
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here so you got the uh these like almost
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looks like something futuristic in a lot
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of ways so I've been on the Orlando Eye
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you've been on the London Eye yes yeah
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London so I think the Orlando Eye is
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based on the the London Eye Is the is
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the London Eye have these kind of like
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little pod looking ones I think they're
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smaller I if I remember and I think they
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made this just slightly larer so they
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could say it's bigger take a look at the
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sphere over there which is almost doing
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like a stained glass looking type of uh
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design on it right now the big humongous
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Spar some serious suspension on this
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right here this is definitely different
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than some of the other bigger bigger
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feris Wheels I've been on strip right
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down there there is the Mirage that's
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changing over to a different hotel right
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right right over in that section there's
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Caesar's Palace right there plane taking
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off over there there's the airport
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of we're looking down at the link which
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used to be the Imperial Palace cuz he
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had a huge collection of World War II
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German things but that's just the rumor
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but they they when they looked at the
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plot line they realized that the
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building was going to be a giant scha so
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they changed it yeah so the view
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wouldn't be but yeah interesting we're
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now almost at the top well actually no
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we are we are we are de press us oh
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congratulations we made it to the top
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what did we get getting a little uh
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getting kind of the Sun is going to be
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setting very very soon getting a little
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view of the strip here you got the
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Eiffel Tower over there that I went up
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in last night some other Resorts casinos
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when they did the um Statue of Liberty
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stamp they accidentally used our
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statue they didn't know the difference
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so we have our own Apple Tower our own
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Lon I our own got everything I go
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anywhere else I why L there you go
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that's a good one right there has the
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Las Vegas fabulous Las Vegas right there
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on the ti of the
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sphere that's pretty
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cool look at all the grand stands they
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have set up for the race coming up next
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weekend I want to see this is the
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underbelly the underbelly over
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here we're going to walk over to a
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liquor store they're being told has a
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hot dog in a beer for $3 I'm not going
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to get a beer I might get a hot dog
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after the fish yeah chips for $3 even if
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I eat a bite I can toss the rest there
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goes the
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monor there is a la la Las Vegas an LV
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Metropolitan Police item right
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here we were up in
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that right
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there you're up in that thing all the
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way up how many feet did they say that
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was a lot I don't know it's pretty high
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a lot of
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feet yeah we'll have to Google smoogle
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that I have not it was pretty you could
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see everything I could almost see my
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house so tell me tell me exactly that
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this is the liquor store that has the
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$150 hot dogs it's a no it's a it's a
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hot dog in a beer for three bucks do you
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have to get the com bugs I don't drink
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beer you don't drink beer either I don't
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drink beer I don't drink I love I love
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all the like old I call it neon but the
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bulbs yeah like that when I think of
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Vegas those are legit old Edis BS those
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are got to
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be this around here is what I was kind
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of noticing look at this this is so
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awesome look at this thing man I may I
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get a better angle of
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it dang that's cool got the High Roller
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in the distance get buzzing there we go
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we got the taxi in
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there taxi there got the advertisement
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behind
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right there I was thinking maybe get the
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Montreal going by I think I missed that
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opportunity think of all the
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advertisements that's been on that
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little board right there there
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Monteray are you still live streaming
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yeah nobody cares all right next door to
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the convenience store
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is the stage door I'm going to get a hot
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dog so without the beer it's $2 I think
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I'm going to get a hot dog right here
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grilling at the bar I'm going to get one
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I got to get a stage door hot dog right
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over there why not right right here at
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the bar you can also also gamble all
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right this is a $2 hot
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dog so video Baba just saying that if
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you can eat anything in Vegas for two
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bucks in fact you ended up getting a
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Diet Coke
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so I got a Diet Coke got you a Diet Coke
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I got me a hot dog and a water the total
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was $4 that's a bargain let's try this
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uh $2
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dog we get in here so I can maybe may or
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may not get a
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thumbnail that hot dog was well worth
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the $2 I must say pretty tasty the
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interesting thing is so you have the
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liquor store here which is basically a
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convenience store they sell like snacks
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and sodas and water and you know beef JY
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and things like that gum you cannot get
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a hot dog in there you got to go into
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the bar to get the hot dog they could
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easily just have those in here but they
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don't they have them at the bar they
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used to they put a barricade there so
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you can't walk in oh tour buses up here
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you think this is Limp Biscuit it could
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be all right we're now going to take the
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vehicle over
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to another area traffic is pretty backed
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up we had a shortcut and we
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didn't now we got to get back into the
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madness now I got to figure out do I
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want to try to go through Harris or do I
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want to try to make it to Flamingo
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little classic truck alert right
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here thought there was red fox there for
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a minute all right we're now pulling
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over to what is now the
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Westgate passing the Westgate so this
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what was the name of this but when Elvis
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was here International the international
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so inside this very
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what year do you think this
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opened well I believe it was in the 60s
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or early 7s actually I think Elvis had a
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little bit to do with some of the design
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because they designed his suite with an
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elevator and a tunnel that went right to
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the showroom so I think he was part of
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that and I'm not sure exactly when that
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started he had an 8-year run and he died
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in what 76 77 767 I forget I should know
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this cuz I'm an El fan so backing that
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up I'd say it was sometime in their 60
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but since then they have a a room that's
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now used as like a time share like a
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Westgate time share building which still
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has a lot of
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the I'll say props but just the set
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Decor from the Star Trek Experience that
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ran here for many many years and it
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still looks very star treky and
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sci-fi-ish as well but then there's like
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also a ton of Elvis stuff as well kind
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of mix it so you got the Sci-Fi you got
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the time share you got the Elvis and the
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theater that Elvis performed in
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still it's been renovated but it's still
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open Barry mandala usually performs as
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the lady said it's a historical monument
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it's on the national register historic
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places well because he had 836 soldout
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shows I think is still the record most
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sold out consecutive shows of any
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performer great if a mon came by right
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now mon around Ken Avenue this is
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where the women who want to speak to the
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manager stay
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The Who women who would like to speak to
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the manager they have a formal complaint
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the
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Kens oh they stay here on this road yeah
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that in that building right there they
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file their formal complaints all right
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there's Circus Circus now I did stay at
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Circus Circus like 10 11 years got the
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first time I came to Vegas I stayed at
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Circus Circus which is technically on
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the Strip so I have stayed on the Strip
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but this is a lot farther up the
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strip than where I'm at we got the Slots
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of Fun another great place to cheap hot
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dog it's lots of fun has a cheap hot
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dogs oh sure all right back over at my
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hotel that's going to do it for today
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I'll see you in the next video the Vlog
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my room's right up there the
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Vlog is over