Exploring The Massive Abandoned Orlando Sun Resort & Convention Center Next To Disney World
Orlando Sun Resort & Convention Center
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today's adventure brings me to CMI
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Florida as the recording of this it is
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Wednesday October 11th
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2023 going to be checking out a place
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that I've wanted to look around for
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quite some
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time a resort area a hotel if you will
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located here on Highway 192 ero Bronson
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6375 Orlando Sun Resort which as far
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back as I can recall has been sitting
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here empty fallen on
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disrepair at the Forefront right onto as
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you're across from celebration as you're
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going into Walt Disney World property a
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very popular Resort from back in the day
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that fell on hard times and has been
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shuttered and closed for gosh probably
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over a decade maybe more you got some
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pallets down
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here as you can see right there Orlando
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Sun Resort they're possibly most likely
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our
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gators inside here as well now for many
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years there would be people on property
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that would tell everyone stay away do
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not enter said property but it appears
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as if another company or the company
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that did own it no longer owns it and
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now it is just out
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there so I'm going to check it out I'm
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inviting you
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to join
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me shall you the Orlando
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Sun Resort and Convention Center this
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should be interesting I'm just going to
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stroll along of this fence
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here and see if it's accessible and if
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it is I'm just going to walk in wherever
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it is open if it's not then I
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won't but I want to check it out for a
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while and it's just I pass it all the
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time time kind of an interesting story
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on it the fact that something that is so
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valuable real
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estate is just sitting here not being
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used it's fascinating to me this is
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worth this property probably worth
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millions millions of dollars yeah the
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fence just
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ends right here that's
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it in fact anyone that's staying over at
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that Resort has to look at this Resort
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this almost looks like a bank like a
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pull-in bank teller but it's not this is
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part of the convention
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center kind of looks like what you'd see
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at a drive-thru for a bank you can see a
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lot of people have bit in here tagged it
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up spray painted put their graffiti and
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their marks all over
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it I am without a doubt not the first
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and you shall not be the
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last to have explored this
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and I don't know what's going to happen
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I mean might not make it too far
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in I'm going to see what I can see just
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for posterity if you will
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because at some point this will all be
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leveled and another Resort will go here
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or businesses or restaurants grocery
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stores things like
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that just a lot of spray paint people
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are kind kind of having their way with
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this property
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now actually less than a year ago you
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were able to just drive right up in here
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and then when you would get here there
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would be a worker someone watching over
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the premises that would say you're not
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supposed to be here you should leave but
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again I believe that is not the case
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anymore it's a possibility it looks like
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a vehicle is driving up through
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here it says don't be in here that kind
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of startled
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me and obviously when I'm moseying
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around in here if someone does come up
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and say Hey you shouldn't be here I'll
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leave but for now I'm just walking
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around with the old tennis courts over
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there this is fascinating basketball
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courts especially in the hustle and
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bustle of Tourism here that a place like
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this would just be sitting in this sort
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of
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shape it's a little trash
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can oh look at this water fountain over
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here right over here next to the tennis
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courts is a relic of the pass this old
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rusted out water fountain possibly a
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shuffle board court
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here there's an antique there's a
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relic yeah you see those rooms have seen
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better days about a year or two ago
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documentary came out from Bright Sun
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films highly recommend that channel and
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the
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in-depth documentation that he did of
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the property itself going back through
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all the different companies that owned
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it when it closed and
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detailed of you know everything that
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kind of went down a while why this place
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closed and and all that and after seeing
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that I always wanted to check this out
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today it took me till now to finally do
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so so this is going to be an update if
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you will call this a timestamped update
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of modern day based on others that have
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have been in here and this is kind of
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the current the current
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state of this former
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massive Resort see what it looks like
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got the convention center signage over
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there so one thing that's interesting to
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me so as far as documenting things so
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notice on the side of the
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trees tree there tree there tree there
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are
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little I don't know what you would call
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them banners around the trees like
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markers almost like surveying markers
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which to me when I see that that means
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that something is going to be leveled I
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mean it may take 6 months a year 2 years
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5 years but it seems as if Wheels would
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be in motion to tear something out to
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bring
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in you know Wreckers
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and heavy equipment to bulldoze things
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so when I see this I'm thinking oh man
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this might be the last I mean it may
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take a long time but that always get my
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me thinking thinking oh I got to I'm
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going to check it out it needs to happen
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sooner than
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later just a massive massive property
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looks like someone's been out here
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peeling out with driving through here
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driving at fast speed skidding their
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cars peeling out their
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tires we'll start by going over here to
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the main entrance of the convention
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that sums up the the vibe of this
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place there's been some fires out here
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as well you can see the charred burn
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marks there on the side of that
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so it looks like all the different
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wings were named after different flowers
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perhaps that says Jasmine up on the
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side look how Nature has taken over the
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side of that building with foliage and
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all the windows busted out look like all
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the furniture still in there though and
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there are some squatters in some of the
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rooms I can tell there's clothes and
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looks to be shoes that are in there that
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aren't really scattered almost as if
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they're placed there
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neatly so if I can tell us that there
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are I'm not going to enter some of the
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rooms just don't want to take a chance
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obviously but I'll just go where I can
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go it's like a little Atrium area
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here
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probably should have someone with me
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while I'm doing this but you know what
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I'm already into
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out all the carpet completely weather
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worn and soaked with former rainstorms
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because there is nothing here to block
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out the rain it's all been smashed
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in okay look at this so here's where the
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partition was you have the sliding
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partition that went
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around all the way to that other
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china this place is just
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really bad
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shape okay there is an elevator
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system this place looks like it would
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have been really nice back in the
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been
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this is something out of a horror
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film look at the chairs on the wall
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there look at this what in the
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heck what is going on with this chairs
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on the wall look there's one in the roof
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up
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there's a jack Torrance here's Johnny
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moment if there ever was one right there
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through that
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wall got the cobwebs up
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top the bar over here yeah that's
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something you don't see every day this
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is almost like a setup photo op like you
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do for like social media but it's not
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it's in a closed
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building very artistic though people
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have launched the chairs through the
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side of the wall and stuck them in the
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side of the wall do not see that every
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day it's kind of kind of
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hello
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is a ping pong
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wow the big Convention Center area this
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is the main
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room
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the partitions over there
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also is that a
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chandelier got to tread lightly though
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I'm trying to like look up and see that
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but then also not stumble over anything
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that's down
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here look at that look at that
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Chandelier
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wow look at the roof too with another
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chandelier or another lighting
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unit there a bunch of
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them
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beautiful picking up a theme with these
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chairs either there's been a heck of a
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lot of people in here doing that
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where there's
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such a weird vibe being in these places
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I feel like I'm meant like The Walking
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Dead Or Last of Us and to be honest it's
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been a while since I've done something
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like
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this the last Hotel like this on 192 I
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did that was closed down in this in this
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fashion was probably about a year
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ago which is over next to where the old
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Water Mania used to be also right across
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from celebration only about a mile from
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here okay this is the other
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okay yeah it's tough to tell if people
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were sleeping in here or still
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this is a massive room massive massive
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room holy cow this is
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huge this must be the main Convention
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Center area this thing is
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massive I had no idea room this big
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existed at this Resort to be
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honest so it's in horrible shape it's
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going to be torn down at some point but
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I feel like it's still usable in some
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aspects the structure of
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it I me it would probably take more to
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fix it up than it would be to
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tear it down and build a new one but
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yeah got all the sheets in
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here every time I go into another room I
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expect someone to be
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that
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wow it's like a fun
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house it's like something you would pay
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admission to to walk through a mirror
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maze at a haunt or a state fair kind of
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gives me the visce with
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the the partitions aren't on the walls
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aren't on here then meeting
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I've stay at a lot of hotels I've been
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to a lot of Disney Resorts and other
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Resorts spent some time with family and
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friends at the
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pool memories throughout my life never
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stayed
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here but I can
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just imagine what it would be like if
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you stayed here and you're seeing this
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for the first time since you stayed here
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thinking oh had a little barbecue over
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there with friends
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or I was with my family over here we
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were doing
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cannonballs and then just see it
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now
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a good size hot tub that is a resort
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style hot tub if ever there was
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for
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beautiful flowers
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here here on those
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bushes
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I'm a little creeped out I got to be
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honest something about the the drapes
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there closed not knowing what's behind
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drapes is really giving me the
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feels
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it's a freaking dog barking there's
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someone in there there's a dog barking
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there's someone in
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there there's something about thinking
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that you're completely alone and then
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realizing you're
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not and then knowing that someone is in
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there heard the dog High tailed it from
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that little
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area see how there's been quite a few
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fires out
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yeah yeah I'm good I'm good on that so
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just to give the bearings here so
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Highway 192 is right there celebration
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is over the
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road that's where I walked in over
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here tennis
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Sports more burned out
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rooms laundry rolling laundry cart right
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there
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newer
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Resorts just off site right over there
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really if you were staying in that
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Resort and you had a window
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view you would be looking down at this
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that would be your
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view say your significant other oh honey
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we're going to go to CMI Orlando we got
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a window view on the top
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floor can probably see Disney World and
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you get
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here and this could be your
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view granted you could still from that
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roof view up there you can still
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probably see the fireworks of Magic
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Kingdom and ncot pretty
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close it's fascinating a lot of these
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Resorts and hotels on 192 that are not
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on Disney property by Disney building
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countless dozens of onside hotels kind
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of squash the competition when it comes
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to offside
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what don't trip over that
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Adam what the
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heck the roof is caving in the roof's
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caved in over
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there check-in desk right here look at
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this
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wow this is
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unbelievable I mean I believe it cuz I'm
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seeing it in front of my eyes but this
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is
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just
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wow it's an old Fountain was
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is oh they're mixing it Pepsi and
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Coke got the Mountain Dew got the Pepsi
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got the yooo got Diet Coke
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and here's a throwback Arabian Knights
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which is about a block from
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here Arabian Knights has closed and been
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bulldozed
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many years
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ago I did a video in there too a long
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time
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ago it's kind of in the same shape as
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is glad I got in there before they tore
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down yeah I wouldn't recommend going
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over that
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way just because of the roof
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situation that is not structurally
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sound that's the restaurant right
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there how beautiful was this with the
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tree coming through here through the
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lobby the tile
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yeah back in the day when you had to go
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to an internet cafe or Internet
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services
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the computers are gone but there's like
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a little graveyard here of microwaves
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and mini
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fridges and it looks as
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if oh wow insert Business Center Cash
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Card here you had to pay to use the
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internet you want free Wi-Fi no no no no
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not back
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copier beautiful Fountain here well what
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was a beautiful
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these places are fascinating but in all
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honesty they make me very
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not just think of families and friends
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and memories
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here workers team
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members some good times had in here
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probably some bad times sometimes even
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bad memories can be nostalgic as
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well you don't even see phone boo phone
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books
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The Paradise Cafe here's the dining room
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probably a waterfall right
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here trickling
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down Paradise
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Cafe got a
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mural
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Pennywise has taken it
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over you'll float
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dining yeah buffet style just noticing
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caved in over there sad ceiling
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fan roof seen better
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days little scarf race reference right
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there let's go check out a little
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souvenir the
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Orlando
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souvenirs
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Marketplace
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it's eerily eerily quiet in here every
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little noise freaks me
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out stairs like the termites are so the
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water has damaged the stairs you got to
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step over the top
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is this a fake decoy Rock oh it is it's
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a themed Rock
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what
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yes it's a themed
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Rock okay I bumped into someone outside
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the door as what he was doing he goes
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looking around he said what are you
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doing and I go
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same and I just decided it's probably
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time to
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leave so I don't know if that's the case
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or
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not I think I saw most of it though I
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think I saw most of
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go
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yeah that startled me I walked out that
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door and there was someone there
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I think there's quite a few people here
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on
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property which is
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fine they just catch you by surprise a
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couple
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times all right I'm heading
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out what an amazing
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complex and I'm glad I had the ability
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to walk through here
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finally for about a decade or more I've
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always wanted to check out what was back
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in here I finally did it with my own
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eyes and the camera's
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eyes and that kind of freaked me out
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there at the end well that's going to do
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it for today I'll see you in the next
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video the Vlog it's
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it's a neat looking
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light