Goodbye Hulk Hogan - Stopping By His Wresting Shop & Dezerland / Installing Haunted Mansion Artifact
International Drive July 2025
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Welcome everyone. Adam the Woo here. As
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the recording of is Thursday, July 24,
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2025. As you can see, standing in my
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homestead here in Celebration, Florida,
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but I'm going to be heading up to
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International Drive
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because it is true what they say
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confirmed today that they do go in
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threes. Just this week, lost Malcolm
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Jamal Warner from the Cosby Show. I've
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seen every episode of The Cosby Show.
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Theo was my favorite character on that
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show. a very sad loss.
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Then a couple days later, possibly even
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the next day, Azie Osborne, one of the
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greatest rock singers of all time, Black
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Sabbath, solo stuff, also was on a very
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innovative early on reality show called
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The Osbornes. He passed on and now
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today, my favorite wrestler, Hulk Hogan,
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which really propelled the WWF into the
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stratosphere. Now, I know later in life,
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you know, anytime you talk about
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someone, people are going to have their
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opinions. And I've always been really
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good at separating the art from the
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artist when it comes to things. So, I'm
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just going to talk about, you know, my
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memories growing up with him and just
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kind of see where the day leads and see
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what the vibe is like over there at his
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beach shop today. Join me, shall you?
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I'm also very curious to see how many
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people show up to the shop, if anyone,
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and how much of the merchandise is
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selling in there. I never I never got
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myself an autograph, but I know he has
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signed everything. He's kind of one of
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those guy or was one of those guys that
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would just sign so much stuff and have
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it for sale in the shop. And I'm sure
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now it's probably going pretty quick.
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Ah, yes. I4 eastbound. Not disappointing
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at all. on par, on brand
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with the traffic congestion.
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Should clear up a little bit though. But
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yeah, this they're always this is always
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a bottleneck through this section. Look
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at the clouds though. Florida clouds are
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here. And first priority, piping hot
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caffeinated beverage. Mobile ordered
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right across the street, corner of Sand
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Lake and International Drive. And I
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parked over in the parking lot behind
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this. All right, coffee achieved.
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Walking across Sand Lake on the I Drive.
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This old Perkins been closed down for a
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while. This is the spot they were going
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to build the world's largest roller
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coaster many years ago and the plans
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fell through.
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Like a few people are starting to show
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up over here. This old 7-Eleven. Well, I
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always thought it was an old 7-Eleven
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that they converted into Hogan's
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wrestling shop. They changed the name a
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couple years ago. It used to be called
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Hogan's Beach Shop. Then I guess either
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there was a legal issue or they just
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realized there's no beach on
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International Drive. So his beach shop
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is over in Clearwater.
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I've lost count of how many times I've
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been to this place. You know, bought
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magnet stickers. I bought a Rocky 3
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shirt. Thunder Lips in the flesh. Rocky
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3 is my all-time favorite of the Rocky
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movies. I know part one is a perfect
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film, but for me, nostalgia wise, I
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always love Rocky 3. with Hogan, Mr. T,
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Thunderlips, Eye of the Tiger,
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Jim's here also.
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>> Is it even open?
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>> Oh, they closed it. They're not open.
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>> Yeah, that would be the biggest day.
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That's why they
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>> The shop's not open.
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>> They closed.
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>> Yeah.
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What the heck?
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>> Okay. Well,
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>> maybe out of
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>> maybe out of bourning, they're not going
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to open. I would think that this would
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be a big day. Also, I'm wondering what's
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going to happen to this shop. Like, who
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inherits the shop?
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>> I was going to go in and maybe buy
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something.
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Yeah, I was not expecting this thing to
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not be open. Evidently, according to
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that guy, they came in, opened it up,
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got some stuff out of there, and then
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left, locked the door back up. So, now
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everyone's just standing there.
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>> They might not open this thing. He's got
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his got Hogan and Andre down here.
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Someone brought these.
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>> Put it right in front of there, man.
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Andre the Giant.
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>> Ultimate Warrior.
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>> Yeah. Losing them all.
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>> But it's a shock because he was doing
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all this stuff.
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I was with
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that was another time where he did that
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that concert, but he kind of gave you a
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little insight into it. He let you know
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that he was into that this was it.
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>> I don't think they're going to open this
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thing today.
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>> He was dying. He said
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>> got the Kamania shorts on right here.
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>> So, how come they're not open?
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>> I apparently they came and took some
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memorabilia out and then left.
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>> Okay.
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>> I guess his uh his vehicle I don't think
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they're going to open today. Yeah,
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they're not. They they took some of it
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looked like more of the special items.
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Okay.
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>> Um they look pretty solemn when they
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walked away. They locked up and they're
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as well care about passing away. You're
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you're not going to stay and want to
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>> these places were like help for people.
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Like anytime I came in, it was crazy the
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amount of wrestling talk and just the
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the historic talk that goes on in both
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of his locations. Plus, he has the uh
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the bar over
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>> and that's that's four down.
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>> Yeah, it's four doors down from his
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shop.
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>> Clear water, right?
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>> And uh same thing at the restaurant.
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>> They do karaoke there like
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a guy gentleman had a good point that
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the people that worked here were
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affiliated in some way with the family
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or knew the family. So, it would make
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sense that they would be not open today.
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>> There are a lot of people showing up.
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>> I feel like as the day goes on, more and
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more people are going to pull in here.
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>> Enjoy.
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>> I'll go around the back and I'll go
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around the back and show you where Hulk
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Hogan called me brother.
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>> He goes, "Thanks, brother.
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>> Thanks, brother."
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>> Do you ever try to tear your shirt off
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like like Hogan did? No, you never tried
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that.
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>> He could do it pretty good.
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>> Yeah. I don't remember if it was the
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grand opening. I think it was just he
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was doing like a meet and greet and I
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showed up out here and I was standing
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right there and he went in this back
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door. I thought he's probably got to go
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in the back door, not the front door.
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And I was right. So, I stood right here
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said, "I'm a hulk maniac. Thanks,
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brother."
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Made eye contact. The hulkster
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moment,
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>> man.
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Yeah. Yeah. No m I guess no matter what
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you think about the WWE now and how it's
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kind of progressed and all that, it
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would not be where it is without without
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that guy being the being the showman
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that he was putting it to the point it's
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at now.
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in the entertainment.
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>> So are you a big WWE fan? Actually, I
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got into WWE through my best friend and
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through him I but uh can't deny the the
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entertainment and the impact that he
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brought to the world of not just
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wrestling but the entertainment industry
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as a whole.
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>> All right, I've made it over to the
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former Artagon Mall,
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now Dieserland. I think it was another
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mall before Arteagon, but I can't recall
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what the name of it was, but I remember
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it as the Arteagon. Now, Dieser Land,
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which is owned by like a billionaire
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that has tons of cars in here.
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Classic car alerts. Home of the Orlando
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Auto Museum.
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>> Yeah, check it out. There's Tomater.
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Since the last time I was in here, they
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have expanded the cars out this way a
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lot, I guess, so people realize what
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this is and that way they purchase a
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ticket to go deeper into the auto
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museum. Check it out. There's Pepe right
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there. There's Peppy Lew right down
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there. You got Mr. Be Bunny, Bugs Bunny
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right over there as well. Oh, the
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mystery machine. Look at all those like
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rat rods right over there. Yeah, they've
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uh they've expanded into more of the the
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mall area right over here. This is a
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Barnaman Bailey circus car with some
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clowns in it. Oh, look at this little
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patty wagon right here. Chicago. I
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haven't been in here in a long time.
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Check out the James Dean Giant Mobile.
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And you got Marilyn Monroe over here.
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And there's the king of rock and roll,
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Elvis, right here. Inside the Elvis car
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pro express vehicle right there.
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All right, let's see what we got inside
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this section here at Dieseland Park, the
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Orlando Auto Museum. This is the guy
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that the place is named after and owns
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this property and all these car Mr.
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cars. Mr. Michael Dieser right here.
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There is also a pinball museum in here
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as well outside of the car museum
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section. But kind of pan through here,
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you got a lot of stuff from the UK. You
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got John Linen there. You got the
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London. You got the red telephone box
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over here. Into some movie cars over
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here. We got a little Mad Max. Got Fast
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and the Furious up here. The Great Race
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over in this area.
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Cars of the Stars. I think they used to
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have the Dick Tracy car in here. Oh,
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there's a Delorean right over there.
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There's a Delorean right there. There's
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Marilyn. Cars of the Stars.
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Yeah, right there. The one Madonna drove
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and Dick Tracy right there. Out of
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screen used Delorean. However, this
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police motorcycle was from Back to
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Future part two screen used. Just an
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impressive just the amount of space
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that's in here is just wild. Like how
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many cars? Couple thousand cars in this
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entire old mall. Look at these seats
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right here. These are the seatbacks.
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They're like little like skull skull
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torsos right through there. Or skeleton
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torsos. That's the word. We're skeleton
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torsos. Documenting this moment where
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dune buggy Jim is admiring another dune
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buggy.
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>> You don't see too many
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>> right over
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>> what year? You know what year this one
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is?
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>> No.
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>> Hard to tell.
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>> Maybe I should get this as well. I could
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have many Marge, my glorified golf cart,
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but then I could have this as my regular
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vehicle to drive around, you know,
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central Florida when I'm not taking the
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golf cart around. I think this I think
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this would work. This thing would
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definitely be a conversation starter to
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those driving by or those that you're
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passing on I4 stuck in traffic. This
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thing would uh definitely get get people
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talking right here.
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>> Look like the storm's going to be
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rolling in now soon. I think we're going
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to go over hit Chewies up since Hogan's
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Beach Shop or Hogan's Wrestling Shop I
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should say is kind of on that same
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proximity where Chewies is. I'll never
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turn down some Chewies. Uh Jim was
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asking, "Hey, is there anywhere good to
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eat around here?" I go, "Oh, chewies."
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He goes, "Yep, Chewies." What do you
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think about Chewies?
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>> I love Chewies.
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>> Right.
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>> Chips and salsa.
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>> Chips, salsa. What do they call big as
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your face burrito is what it says on the
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menu?
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>> Trace leches dessert.
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>> Yeah. Now, I've eaten at a couple
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different Chewies. There's two of them
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in the greater Orlando area that I eat
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at pretty often. One of them over here
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on International Drive and Sand Lake,
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and they're all Elvis themed. They all
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have a little Elvis theme to them.
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Whether it be the sculptures out front
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or the menu or the artwork on the walls,
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they've all got a little bit of Elvis in
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each and every one. It's a nationwide
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chain, TexMax chain. The one I've eaten
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at the most is the one on International
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Drive, mostly because Spooky Empire used
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to happen over at the the hotel right
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next door to it. And even though the
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menu is full of a lot of different
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items, the thing I always get the most
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is the big aio face burrito.
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In fact, Jim and I both got the same
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exact thing. And we got the chips with
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the jalapeno dipping sauce and the
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salsa. We got that as well. Now, we're
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going to head over. Well, I'm going to
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take my car. He's going to take his car.
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And we're going to head back to the
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Celebration Hardware. Get a couple
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items. that I'm going to mount, well,
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Jim is going to help me mount a Haunted
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Mansion light
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in my living room. It is a light that
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was in the original Q-ine for Haunted
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Mansion. I've had it for years. When
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they remodeled the ride, I ended up
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getting the light as a gift, and I'm
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gonna I'm finally gonna put it up in my
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house. I've had it for probably five or
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six, seven, eight years, maybe even 10
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years. And it was the original the
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original light that was in the queue of
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Haunted Mansion. And they replaced the
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they replaced the lighting and the metal
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around it. And I have one of them. So
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I'm going to have an original Walt
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Disney World Haunted Mansion Qite in my
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house.
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And June Buggy Gem is going to help me
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help me install it. And just like
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clockwork, now heading I4 westbound.
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Bottleneck bumper to bumper. Granted, it
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is 5:20 p.m., so this is rush hour, but
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with a little bit of the road
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construction and the way the lanes are
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kind of merging up here, definitely
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bottlenecks. Got to love I4. Was kind of
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hoping that Hogan's wrestling shop would
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have been open today. I would have liked
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to buy a couple things,
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but it's not. And again, I wonder, will
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it stay open?
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Will that place close?
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Time will tell. Why did the goose? Also,
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Celebration Hardware.
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Why did the geese cross the road?
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I know why the chicken cross the road.
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I'm not really sure why the geese
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cross the road.
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There it is in all its beauty. This was
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in a lot worse condition before Jim got
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a hold of it. What all did you do to it?
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>> Uh, cleaned all the old paint off of it.
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repainted it, uh, refurbished the
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socket, and then, um, got the new
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stained glass pieces put in there.
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>> But when it was at the mansion, it would
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hang upside down like that.
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>> All right, let's plug it in. See what it
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looks like.
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>> Yeah. Give it Give it a go.
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>> Yeah, there it is.
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I mean, this is like night and day
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difference of how it looked beforehand.
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>> Yeah. I mean, it didn't have any glass
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left in it.
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I always think about how many how many
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guests walk walked underneath us for
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decades at Magic Kingdom.
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>> Millions.
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>> Yeah, probably millions, right?
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All right. All right. 10 years of having
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this thing in a box when I took it out
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of the box when I ended up buying this
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house a year and a half ago.
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And now I have it above my vinyl records
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and my Randi skull that Disneyland used
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to sell. The the skulls, the Randi
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Skulls used to sell these in New Orleans
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Square and next to the Haunted Mansion
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that my sister gave me for Christmas a
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couple years ago. So I have them here.
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And another buddy of mine gave me these
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or this one and said, "Would you like
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the actual light that was above the
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Q-ine, a haunted mansion from 71
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probably till about 15 years ago? And
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I've had this in my possession for about
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a decade. And now it's mounted right up
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there. That is cool."
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And I'm just kind of looking at this.
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I'm thinking how if if this little metal
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contraption could talk, how many stories
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this is heard with guests, hundreds of
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thousands of guests standing underneath
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us at WDW here and hearing some stories.
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Yeah,
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that's kind of a good spot for it right
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there.
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How freaking cool is that?
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Yeah, big thanks to Jim for mounting
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that up there for me and cleaning that
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up because it's awesome.
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Randi. So, looking at some photos here,
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this is what it looked like in the box I
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had for probably since 2016. I think I
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had it when I moved out of Orange and I
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just kept it in the box. I didn't keep a
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lot. Just some sentimental stuff and
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random things when I was like selling
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things off, but I knew I needed to hang
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on to this and a few other things. But
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this is what it looked like. All grimy.
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So you what did you you repainted it,
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right?
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>> Yeah. Removed all the paint, repainted
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it,
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and then got the new stained glass.
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>> The new stained glass on all four of the
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sides.
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>> It was in bad shape.
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>> It was rough. A lot of broken bolts.
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>> And we think it is.
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>> So here is the Q-ine.
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There's Leota's
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little headstone right there. a blurry
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picture from an old old old video, but
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we think that that is the light right
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And obviously there's another one
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farther down the queue, but
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but that's where it was removed I think
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in 2015 or 16. So 1971 to 2015.
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That's amazing.
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>> Going back to watch my video, the
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opening of Hogan's Beach Shop eight
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years ago. It's called It was
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Wrestlemania weekend 2017.
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I pulled up the video. So Tim was with
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me. We got to meet We got to meet Hogan.
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Or you can peruse the front.
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>> Let me see if I can see if he
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>> see if I can get him calling me brother.
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>> Only Hulk knows.
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>> Only Hulk knows. That may be his driver
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and like two other
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>> This could be the moment of the reveal.
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Oh, he's driving himself.
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>> Oh my gosh, he has arrived. He's on the
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other side of the car there.
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>> I think he's going to walk my way.
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>> 2017.
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>> I'm going to stay right here.
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>> Yes.
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Where's I want to drop the leg on you.
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>> I'm a hulk maniac.
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>> Hey, bro.
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>> He actually
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rewatch this again.
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>> I want to drop the leg on you.
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>> I'm a hulkomaniac.
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>> He actually showed me 3.8 seconds of eye
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contact. Thunderlift in the flesh, baby.
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Called you brothers.
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>> I know.
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>> All right. Out on my golf cart now.
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Taking Mini Marge out for a cruise.
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Looking for deer. Usually in this area,
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the deer are out at dusk. The sun is
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setting in just a few minutes.
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So, it's prime dusk deer watching
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time.
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I'm not seeing any deer. Kind of gone to
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most the spots where I usually see them.
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We found one, Chad. We found one.
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>> He isn't moving at all. Oh, there he
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goes.
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Bet there's a couple in there. Look at
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Going off into the woods,
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>> buddy. looking back.
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>> So, usually if there's one, there's
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usually more.
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>> See you later. Oh, we saw one.
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Go back and double back.
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>> Wow. That was a nice looking
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>> a dough. A deer. A female deer.
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>> I think my golf cart sounding like a TIE
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fighter doesn't help a little bit.
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Got to be quiet.
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Just saying hi.
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Hi, sweetie.
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looking over here because I don't want
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an alligator to pop out of the water.
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Okay, I'll see you next time. Okay,
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see you next time. Nice talking to you.
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Okay, bye.
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And that's going to do it for today
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in my echoey garage.
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Thanks for watching. I'll see you in the
24:09
next video. The vlog is over.
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It's hot in here. It's humid out there.
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Even at night, it's humid. I'm
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definitely back in Florida. Humidity
24:19
level is up there.