I Finally Visited THE HOUSE ON THE ROCK - Unbelievable Roadside Attraction In Spring Green Wisconsin
The House On The Rock - April 2024
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today's adventure brings me to
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Wisconsin to the
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house on a rock or House on the Rock
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it's house on Rock A Roadside Attraction
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that I've heard good things about as a
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recording of this Thursday April 18th
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2024 it is raining welcome everyone Adam
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the woo here again I have heard really
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good things about House
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on the Rock I wasn't sure if it was a
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rock or just
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rock quirky Roadside Attraction of
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magnificent
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proportion I think a lot of it's going
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to be inside which is good because the
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weather is rainy join me shall you all
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right we have gained admission a dream
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turned to an Ever evolving reality all
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right there is a concrete dragon
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spitting out water over there all right
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the first building we're going to go in
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is named after the guy who built the
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house all right this is Alec Alex Jordan
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who created and built House on the Rock
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he passed away in 1989 here's some of
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the early guest books these date back to
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1960 you can see right here the date
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1960 back when he first started charging
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in Mission I believe the little pre-show
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said he charged 50 cents when people
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started getting very curious about his
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creation there's a lot of different
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rooms explaining all the different areas
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we're going to be seeing one thing I'm
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I'm really excited about going out onto
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is the Infinity Room there's another
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three-headed dragon right
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there parts of the carousel look at this
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machines yeah pretty good size walkway
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now you got to go up to where the side
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of this big boulder is which is the main
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section that inspired him
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to to build the Infinity Room
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on attached to
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this all right heading
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in now at first I thought this was a
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mirror here because there is like a
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panel of glass here I thought maybe it
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was a mirror to create the effect of the
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infinity room but no it goes all the way
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up and there's even like a something
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there they kind of look down into it it
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looks weird look at that yeah you see
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how far it goes that way but looking at
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it from this angle I thought it was like
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a like a mirror here bouncing back but
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in fact it's not it does go all the way
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to the end you got a lot of Decor
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through here it's definitely the uh the
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vibe through here is just kind of
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unexplainable as you're walking through
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this section it really is like no other
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no other
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place it's also very interesting when
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you first walk in and you pay admission
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if you didn't already kind of know what
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you were getting into you would be
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really confused walking in here there
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really no indication of what this is
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going to be when you make your way
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through Infinity Room that
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way it's really something and it's very
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very comfortable in here I mean it's
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kind of cold outside too but it
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definitely it's not hot in here if that
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makes sense I don't think the AC is on
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because you're
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inside inside of the rock itself look at
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this though it's like a library right
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here there's different levels got stairs
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there very peaceful through here look at
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this I mean this is amazing this me made
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all of this stuff and brought all this
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stuff
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in just the era of all the carpeting and
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stuff and the
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decor that just shows there's a big
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chunk of rock right there
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in what a living room
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huh humble
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abod it's like a church stained glass
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window for the coffee table
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little balcony looking down at the
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library over
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there only ones in
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here there just rooms everywhere some of
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them you can't go into like this
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one put the door there but if you didn't
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walk up this little stairs you wouldn't
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even know that's
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there all right we're now heading over
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to section two that was section
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one going over to section two we have
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the water wheel over there can see it
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moment okay got the M house I look at
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this down here
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thing never SE they don't use those thr
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Cowboys in Indi there like eight barrels
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yeah wow got some suits of armor in here
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as well got
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the look like a little stove or an oven
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down in there of sorts and it's almost
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looks like there was some seats here to
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like watch something happen happen
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almost like you would sit here like at a
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miniature Amphitheater kind of and look
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over
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there oh this is cool has all the this
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is like the coin eating clowns met out
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of all the metal pieces you
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got Uncle Sam right there you got this
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pineapple you could put a quart 50 cent
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piece in there a quarter piece in there
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eat the the quarter
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Bulldog
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bank love these things Paragon toy
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company wholesale and Retail supplier of
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all kinds of wooden Clockwork
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Delights oh
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streets of yesterday Straight Ahead
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okay the dying drer the cor
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around
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oh
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yes there oh
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look oh man that's awesome oh you all
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right buddy oh nope he's not all
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right it's like a full-on town in here
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you got the
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tree you got the downtown you got all
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these machines
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look at this keeps
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changing it's like a
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fullon
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Street
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houses little General
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Store there's the toy shop right there
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look at this window up here it's like
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theming on point there's the fire
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station
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almost feels like you're Outdoors
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doesn't even feel like you're
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inside the way the theming of it almost
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if you're Outdoors at night even though
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it's daylight outside and it's raining
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outside daylight and raining outside
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it's dry not raining and nighttime
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indoors doesn't even seem real I know
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never seen
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in look at J
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here the sheriff's hands over there
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under oh wow and there's a
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hand the sheriff head he has his head
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cut off jet
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sale the head will be exhibited 1853
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Apothecary fat is the enemy that
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shortens your life have it
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banished by using
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tapeworms the tapeworm
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secret oh what's that one doing D oh
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watch
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out it's a popcorn machine right here
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fresh hot buttered
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popcorn oh this must be the hotel oh
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yeah right there hotel right up
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top Horseless Carriage machine over here
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oh you doing another one yeah Sal and
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The Necromancer
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here's the movie theater or the theater
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down in
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here I can't go in there have this
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little rope
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up but wow that is so cool look at all
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the KN the
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bulbs they on the
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Marquee this Carriage here and you got
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the hotel over there another carriage in
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here put a quarter in the Old
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Blacksmith hor strong
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Carriage Esmeralda's prophecies while
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I'm not satisfied with my present
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condition I must put up with it for a
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time change will surely
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come thank you welcome
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rain sounds of the rain
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wow whale going get the G whale's mouth
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are we're going to go into a whale's
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mouth well I saw him in the whale's
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mouth the guy might not translate to
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camera very
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well it's behind me isn't
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it huge look at it just shifting to the
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side can we climb up in that thing
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I don't think we can climb in it but
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it'll be a better view from the there
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hello
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hello so that's
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Mom and that is the size of this aquatic
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Beast look at the guy on the canoe right
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there on the side of the side of a wave
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oh this angle something look at
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that my Lord
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how do this
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exist looks like the Titanic is over
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here very sharp
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teeth very very sharp teeth and Titanic
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stuff I can just like clamp down on my
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Noggin just crush me Crush my
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skull looks like we can go up there and
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even get looked down into the into the
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mouth up there yeah and then we come
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back down
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going into the whales taale the bare
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flag in and the bare flag bar
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got this like fake tree here little
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Tavern of sorts for the
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quarter this one work there it
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goes oh it's a little out of now we're
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getting over into the cash register
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Corridor through here so we got all the
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cash registers you turn this corner
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another almost like you're walking
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through a village town through here as
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well you
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got okay yeah it's almost like you're
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walking through an Alleyway look at this
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it's like a fullon alley down this
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direction just the theming it's
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incredible look at this got the Kennedy
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Dairy over here in fact there's a horse
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over here in the
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stall for got the drops kicking the
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drops kicking now since playing a fullon
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drum beat right now here next to the
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drum
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yes this is really something it's like a
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sight to behold this is like something I
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have never ever witnessed in this
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magnitude before and you cannot ride on
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the ferris wheel the carousel not Ferris
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wheel the carousel the merry-go round of
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sorts you're not allowed to ride on it
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but you can witness it in all its
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grandeur from a distance while the drums
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the music play the Ambiance in this room
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everything on the ceiling everything
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scattered around little remnants of the
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past that used to be on the carousel
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that's now on the walls that is also in
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the same room itself while this Carousel
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just continually goes around and a lot
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of unique creatures and animals and
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faces and carvings on the carousel again
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I kind of stayed pretty much
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spoiler-free on what I was going to be
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seeing today I knew there was going to
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be a carousel but did not know it was
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going to be anything on this level and
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this magnitude that I am witnessing at
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the moment what the heck this
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place is definitely in the top five
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Roadside Attraction things I've probably
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ever been to and I've been to a lot of
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them now we got to go through this way
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must enter through the mouth of this
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creature to move on to second
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bre all right leaving the fever dream
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now and walking in into the next section
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all right this is known as the organ
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room I feel like we have this Earth and
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we are not in reality anymore more time
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you spend in here you don't even realize
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the outside world even exists anymore
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it's like it's like some kind of a weird
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Twisted Willy Wonka world oh and up top
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take a look up here you got these little
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sculptures of people up top you got like
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a like a it's like something that's
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coming out of Harry Potter right there
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in the middle like one of the teachers
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from Potter and now this dumps US out
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into Inspiration Point this little area
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through here is what this area is known
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as
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there we
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go and when you use the restroom in here
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you
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got a bear staring down upon
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you all right from here you got the dead
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end here at this rock but then you look
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up here and there is that little uh the
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the Infinity Room we walked out to right
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there and then it kind of angles up that
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look at it's just kind of like dangling
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over the cliff side how does it even
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stay mounted up on the side of the rock
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there and then there's the there's the
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house there and there is is the infinity
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room and then you walk to this and this
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this ends off and it's fenced off there
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at that Boulder that's kind of
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interesting they have one of the famous
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walk quotes it's kind of fun to do the
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impossible that you see these all over
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the construction walls around I have
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that in here also
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interesting I don't know if Walt ever
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came here though he might have all
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passing underneath the underc carriage
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of that really large chandelier this is
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the this is how I feel right now that's
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the look on my face when I actually this
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is more CU I got the currently have the
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mustache going walking through this
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attraction right now look at this thing
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all right this says continue now we're
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going up to an upper area is this the
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same Carousel a doll remember you said
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oh this is the doll Carousel different
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Carousel this is the doll version of the
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carousel into the dollhouses now there's
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even a little trolley up there trolley
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dollhouse through here this machine here
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is playing some sort of some sort of
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music or something but I can't make out
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exactly what it is right there's a doll
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face
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there she in comparison to the size of
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the dollhouses she's a
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giant looks like L Lumpy Space Princess
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in ways I kind of feel like I'm in like
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a horror film like I feel like maybe one
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of these is going to come alive like
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Annabelle or possibly Robert the Doll
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one of these dolls could could maybe
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possibly be cursed I hope not I will
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follow your soul
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home
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yeah okay I want a picture of this one
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this is so
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pretty doll faces all right we're just
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following the continue signs and oh look
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at these handprints over here what are
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all these handprints right oh look
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people have that's not like a part of
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the theming people have smooshed their
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hand up against there like
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that look at that I want I thought about
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put my face up against it but that would
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probably not be the smartest thing we're
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now heading into the circus
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area smells like CC
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frog girl yeah I
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say
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again not in reality anymore the fact
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that all this stuff exists in one place
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really is
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mind-blowing really is got the sideshow
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here got the elephants down there got
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the giraffes under the big
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top makes me want to watch Big Top
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peeeee it's been a while I don't know
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why I thought of that
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but what was
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that I think they trying to be P all
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right this definitely T this has to be
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my absolute this might be my new number
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one Roadside Attraction this place is
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like on a whole other freaking
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level what just
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happened this things started playing
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music they were playing music they were
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stay not only looking at me moving their
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heads but they struck up the
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band now they're not
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I oh I just saw your head move
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I just saw oh I am pretty sure you
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gentlemen moved your
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heads oh there you go there you go
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you're
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moving your head up your head's moving
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yep your head was
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moving no it wasn't I saw no I saw a
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move
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at any moment they can start they can
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start playing
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again at any
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moment Eerie pushing the
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buttons all these things to move here
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there's Jonah riding the
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haircut man
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I also feel like this place needs more
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than one visit this will be a place if
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I'm ever in this neck of the woods again
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he wants to go to the surface she wants
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to stay under the water he's pointing up
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she's pointing down this thing is a real
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beehive of activity right here this one
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moving around you got the bee moving
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then you got some bees down here
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these are all jewelry store ads oh is
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that what it was yeah they're all
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jewelry never cry with one oh suan I'll
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never Cy with one of our beautiful
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Batman all of
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them that's
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good the cave met up here he's noded his
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head yep
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dwarf's wedding
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chapel right to another area now you got
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this night here looks like there's a
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little battle black KN ensuing over here
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as well just a
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flesh over here another little diarama
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here the horse and some Knights some
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soldiers this guy's got like a bow a bow
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uh what do you call
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bow and arrow but it's like a different
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style and then you got Buckingham Palace
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and a bunch of
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crowns and then going through more
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crowns and then onto another level of
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the doll carousel so we walked in that
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way circled around went through a bunch
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of stuff and now we're passing by this
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section and over here is like a
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chandelier doll Carousel and then up
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here are some little I don't know what
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these are you classif these is like
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gnomes or something like that there's a
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I don't know what that is like a
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dogac person and on the way out you got
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the The Four Horsemen the apocalypse
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people up here on the dangling from the
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roof all right back outside now
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into reality that was
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something now we got some little pop
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items here we got Garfield down in there
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Tom and Jerry we got a Mickey Mouse
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phone we got a Bugs Bunny phone oh
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they're all phones that's what it
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is they're all different oh there's an
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alphone I don't know if I've ever seen
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an alphone but there is an alphone right
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there goofy
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phone a lot of phones there's the
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there's the tuna mascot phone phone
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there's the Alvin and the Chipmunks
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phone Bozo
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phone lots of
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phones all right that is going to do it
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for today I was impressed I highly
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recommend if you're anywhere within you
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know driving distance of this place come
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check it out if you're into roadside
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attractions if you've been to a Roadside
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Attraction and enjoy it this is this is
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in my top five probably ever this place
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is no joke just the workmanship creation
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that the guy put his heart and soul into
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his life into building a house around
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the Rock and then everything that came
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out of that the collection that he had
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and probably since he has passed on has
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probably continued to grow
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amazing I'll see you in the next video
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the Vlog thanks for watching it's over