Inside The Crystal Cathedral In Garden Grove - Spirit Halloween Shopping & Randy’s Donuts Coffee
Crystal Cathedral Summer 2024
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welcome everyone Adam the woo here as
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the recording of this it is Monday
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August 19th
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2024 starting off today here at Crystal
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Cathedral now it has changed its name
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since the days when it was crystal now
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it is Christ Cathedral but it still
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looks the same in fact I believe since
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the last time I was in town well not
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since the last time I was in town but
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since the last time I was on this
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property couple years ago they have
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undergone a renovation so I'm going to
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check out and see if I can get a peek at
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that and then also go over to the
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memorial gardens over here and show some
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historical find final resting places
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join me and then I'll see where the rest
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of the day leads it's going to be a a
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Cavalcade of different things that I go
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to not just here but I'm going to peruse
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around Orange County a little bit join
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me good to have you here shall you let
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the one who is without sin cast the
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first stone
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wonder if that applies to the internet
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these
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days I think most people assume if they
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just are online they can chime
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in at their own will and
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not no one knows if no one knows what
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they've done but they want to criticize
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everyone else but I guess you could kind
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of apply it modern day as
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well I believe over here in the
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corner I'm looking for Thor's Ravens
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Croft ah right
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here there he is thorough Ravens coft
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Tony the Tiger
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himself also Sayang on You're a Mean One
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Mr Grinch so if you've ever heard that
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that song that was thorough and if
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you're a Disney
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fan he's using a lot of Disney
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attractions vocalist in the Haunted
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Mansion in fact there's a bust in the
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graveyard scene of the Haunted Mansion A
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lot of people assume that that bust is
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Walt Disney because he's got the Walt
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stash and he is the one that the head is
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off of the platform so there's the group
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of the singing bus he's the one that's
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kind of tilted on the broken
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platform if you will the the broken neck
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and that that's his voice doing that
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particular section it's not Walt it's Mr
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ravensoft
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interesting right and he's right here
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about a mile and a half 2 miles from the
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Disney parks that his voice is used in
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so many attractions it's right here next
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to his wife I did a quick little search
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cuz off the top of my head I couldn't
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remember every voice that he did but
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evidently he did the opening day
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railroad speech for Disneyland back in
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1955 and of course other than mansion He
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also did Fritz and
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tangaroa in the Tiki Room some country
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Bearer voices buff which is the one of
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the former animals on the side of the
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wall they've revoiced it now and then
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some of the singing Pirates and Pirates
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of the Caribbean
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there also another notable name here so
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I worked in the grocery business for
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many many years at the start of my adult
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life working at Publix wind Dixie Super
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Walmart in the grocery
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area Cash and
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Carry was a grocery train for a while
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and I always remember stocking the Marie
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calendar pot pies I did not realize
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until years later that Marie calender
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also had a restaurant
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chain very well-known and accomplished
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businesswoman in the restaurant industry
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now I remember this name from my parents
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talking about this
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gentleman my dad was a
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minister for many many
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years I recall them talking about The
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Hour of Power I don't know if they
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watched it but they knew of
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it and Robert Schuler
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was the reason this place the Crystal
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Cathedral was
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built and it had a very popular tea
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evangelist program inside the building
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called The Hour of
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all right I just
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discovered that Roger Williams is also
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laid to arest
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here some of the doors are open this one
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is not open very famous pianist
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and I'm doing a little reading about
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this Roger formed at the Crystal
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Cathedral many
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times and I went on to read that he was
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the first pianist to get
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a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
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definitely an impressive building lot of
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Windows really just an amazing piece of
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oh my goodness I think this might be
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some claron Bells I didn't realize this
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was a bell tower I mean I guess it does
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make sense
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and at the base of it is the Mary Hood
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Chapel that's what the room at the base
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of it
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is I was thinking maybe that there'd be
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like a bell station in there an organ or
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something but I was incorrect it's the
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chapel
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just look at how much glass is on the
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side of
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this also noticing I don't remember this
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building being here a few years ago when
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I was here supp they have a gift shop
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there check that out
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momentarily the miracle of the Loaves
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and the fishes oh look at this it's
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still says Crystal Cathedral they have
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not updated the name
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the feeding of the 5,000 I believe it
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was the
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5,000 just from a few fish and a few
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loaves of
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bread oh is this supposed to be the
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miracle of Jesus walking on water I
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think it is never notice us over here
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before now I asked if I could go in the
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sanctuary they said in the church said
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yeah I like to go in the church they
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said okay they do a dosent Le Tour or
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dosent I never know how to pronounce
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that word a tour 1 hour a day later in
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the day but evidently you can do a
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self-guided if you want and I purchased
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this a little magnet for my steel
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cabinets in my
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garage I do not have a Crystal Cathedral
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one so couldn't find anything that said
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Crystal Cathedral either just has the
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new name Christ Christ
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Cathedral got the Ten Commandments there
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very angry Moses
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speaking of Ten Commandments What I what
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did I step on step on a
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stick guess it's like a piece of that
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that was on the
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ground speaking of Ten Commandments
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charlon hon who played Moses and the 10
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commandments made a lot of appearances
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here inside the
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cathedral back in the day all right I've
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never been inside so I'm going to go in
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there's my reflection of as well
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there's Moses over there in that
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corner yeah I used to live really close
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to really really close to here ride my
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bike through here but never have been
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inside going
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wow look at this
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place even with the amount of mirrors
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outside or the windows
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outside just the way they have the
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little blockers up
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here to stop the Sun from going in that
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is genius
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here look at there's the organ right
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there
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it's more of the pipe organs up there
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really impressed and I find it
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incredible on how they keep the Sun out
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of there it was not indirect sunlight
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like I thought it would be through those
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windows really
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that was nice all right I'm going to
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head off to some other spots
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now glad I went inside I don't know why
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after all this time and never been
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inside there but yeah glad I went in
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that was was really neat all right
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abrupt transition I drove about 15
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minutes about 5 miles about 15 minutes
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with traffic Southward to the closest
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spirit Halloween that I could
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find now I originally was going to be
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going home I was going to be home this
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week for five six days and then turn
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around and come back out here for the
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start of Halloween season in SoCal and I
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had an outfit all picked out for an
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event that's coming up
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but it's at my house in Celebration
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Florida so I need to purchase something
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else really one of the main reason of
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going home was to do a few things take
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care of a couple things get get a few
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items that I needed and return back out
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here but didn't really couldn't really
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justify doing doing that just to go get
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one or two things so I'm going to Reby
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whatever I can find I might not find the
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same outfit that I ordered I had a
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pretty good outfit that I ordered for
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the Halloween events that are about to
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to transpire in the upcoming 3 4 weeks
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month or more but I'll see what I can
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find in here I haven't been in the
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spirit so far this season 2 so much
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scary fun oh goodness there's a there's
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a be balancing right there on that also
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have corpse Bri here you got this guy
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let's
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see Bobby
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strings all right so they did not have
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the one that I ordered to my home in
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celebration so will not be going as who
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I planned to be going as
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so pick something else out however when
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I get back to Florida whenever the heck
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that is
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possibly Halloween season will still be
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going maybe in October go to some
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Halloween events out there could
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possibly use that costume that I got as
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well but I have a now I have another bag
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full of stuff hopefully it fits I think
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it'll I think it'll be pretty it'll be
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pretty good last year I was Elvis and uh
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went over pretty well this year should
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be on par with that hopefully let's see
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what happens I know the one I had the
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the outfit I had planned out that's
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still at home that I'm not going to be
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able to
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use would have been epic this is going
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to be pretty good too maybe we'll see
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wait and see take a look at this they
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opened a
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newish well new to me
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newer than the ry's donuts that's by LAX
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I think it's ry's Donuts is by LAX but
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they have one here in Costa Mesa right
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on Harbor Boulevard a long ways from
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Disneyland down Harbor but it's still
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Harbor Boulevard I guess it's the same
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Harbor 2930 Harbor Boulevard coasta
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Mesa pretty cool I just got to go
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through the drive-thru I'm not going to
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get a donut
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I got a
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coffee oh yeah
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Randy they opened one of these on
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Hollywood Boulevard once but it didn't
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last very
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long hi good morning than Ching R oh
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good afternoon I'm so sorry I keep
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saying morning uh good afternoon thank
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about cheing Ries what can I get for you
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today can I get a large hot coffee with
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two creams Two Sugars lar hot coffee
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with cream yes please you got it one
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large hot hot coffee with cream me
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anything else yeah a little sugar in
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that as well okay pulling up I'll have
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that ready for you okay thank you all
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right I also purchased a magnet this is
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a random one
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here doesn't necessarily mean it's the
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Costa Mesa one or the LAX
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one big donut he also asked as I was
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pulling off he goes hey you want an
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extra packet of sugar on the side I said
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did you put sugar in the coffee he goes
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no did you want sugar said yes please
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and also this Harbor Boulevard I just
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checked goes all the way to
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Disneyland so I'm going to take it from
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here coasta Mesa all the way up Harbor
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back towards my hotel on Harbor
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Boulevard in anahe love the mascot
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holding a piping hot caffeinated
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beverage in that big
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dut I'm all alone and there's a snake
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wearing a vest and he's rolling a big
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donut this is showing 34 miles if I
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continued
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on Harbor straight northward all right
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I'm going to Veer off Harbor now and go
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over to a
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park that crosses over this road I like
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to refer to this
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road by its original
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name I would just call it Star
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Wars I'm going to put this in the
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category of not very good coffee I don't
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know if it was fresh or what the issue
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was but not my favorite coffee that I've
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had in the last uh recent
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days fact I don't know if I've ever had
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ry's Donuts coffee without Donuts so
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maybe I've never noticed the flavor of
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their coffee simply because usually I
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have a lot of sugar in the the
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donuts which is I don't know
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doesn't I don't know if I get another
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cup of coffee from
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ry's if there was another coffee place
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close you never know what coffee though
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you get one cup of coffee and it's good
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and then the next batch isn't good it's
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a slippery slope when getting
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coffee it's a slippery
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SL
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geese gooses and
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Ducks I'm going to zoom in I'm not going
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to get any closer than this because I've
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had some run-ins with Geese before this
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is Fountain Valley this one's getting
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up uh they're getting up I'm going to
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walk away
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Fountain
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Valley kind of mellow out here at the
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moment who's this this is Migel
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1811 he was a he launched the colod
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independent struggle against Spain in
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1810 he served as a parish
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priest it's Miguel hadalo right there
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there he is
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Ronnie
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well
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well never really could do a very good
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Reagan I can't do many
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impressions
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well I mean I think anyone that does a
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Reagan impression always starts off off
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with that always starts off with the
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well but I say start off with because
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you have to go into something else like
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when I do Arnold I go that's right I
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always start off with that's right come
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on that's right come on do it come on
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come on stick a knife in me I always
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have to start off with the that's right
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or come on with Ronnie you have to go
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will
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but I don't have anything to follow up
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with that the only impression I could do
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of Reagan is that well also fun fact
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Ronnie here well not the sculpture of
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him the man
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himself was in the opening ceremony the
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opening TV special of Disneyland old
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Reagan done a lot of Reagan stuff in
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SoCal over the years been to the
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Presidential Library it's pretty amazing
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aming got Air Force One that's
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there well Ronald Reagan the 40th
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President of the United States
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well yeah I'm going to give up on doing
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that one definitely getting some sun out
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here Ronnie you have no shade around you
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well I need an
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umbrella man I
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I yeah not not not a good impression oh
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dang are the Astros around
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but those trash cans are hot higher in
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the sun okay I'm just going to go by
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really slow goose
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is just keep pecking at the ground keep
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pecking at the ground pay no attention
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to
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me pay no attention
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Goose pay no
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attention that was a close one
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ah how great is that old vintage sign
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there Cozy Corner drivein this area of
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town is known as Garden
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Grove just kind of runs adjacent to
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Anaheim when I think of Garden Grove I
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think of sublime they had a song about
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Garden Grove old school Sublime Bradley
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era of sublime I actually had to throw
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the song on threw it on the on my phone
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listening to
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it but I just noticed Mickey D is the
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old Mickey D golden arches sign but then
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Mickey D has been renovated but look up
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here look up peeking over the roof line
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here at the Garden Grove
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McDonald's is the
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Hamburglar he wants to
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burgle
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burglar what am I
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saying he wants to theve some burgers
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he's the Hamburglar that's hard to say
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he wants to Burger
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Burg he wants to burglar some
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burgers why is he up there in Garden
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Grove all right I need to get some
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supplies again because I didn't go home
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and I'm stay sticking around here for a
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little while got to pop into this target
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I used to always shop at this Target
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when I used to live here in Anaheim I
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lived a I don't know a few blocks away
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corner of Haster and orangew wood
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probably half a mile away I'd always
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shop here at this target all the time I
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like this Mickey shirt right here the
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skeleton Mickey but I don't see any on
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the shelves I only see them on the
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mannequins I would definitely buy that
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for the upcoming Halloween season all
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right got a few things nothing super
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vital but just things to make life a
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little easier while I'm around speaking
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of making things easier it's a little
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difficult in there some of the things
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that just the basic things you need to
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purchase are behind glass now so you got
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to you got to wave your hand under a
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little alert thing to get a worker to
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come over
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to let you in and that applies for
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everything so takes a little longer than
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normal I'm sure it probably has
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something to do with a theft issue or
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something but just basic little products
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all behind glass in there more than I
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remember it in the past I don't ever
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recall
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that or maybe it was I just didn't
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notice and right next door is the Viva
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Bargain Center see what I can find in
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here get some Bargains 9 holy cow I
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didn't even know Shasta was still a
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thing they have Shasta Tiki punch in
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here for
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$149 I didn't even know Shasta was still
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made that was something I remember from
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when I was I was younger caffeine free
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Tikki punch look at a little Tiki right
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there man you got to love this look at
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this you the cowboy and Indian play set
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right here all right didn't he find
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anything in there I was looking for just
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a couple basic t-shirts white t-shirts
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with no print on them check the value I
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used to always buy stuff in here used to
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get my dickies in here my Dicky shorts
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when I went through that Dicky short
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phase which I don't really wear Dicky
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shorts anymore I wear the little bit
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shorter than the dicki version but they
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got a lot of good Dickies in
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here they also have great gifts for
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Disney lovers this is pretty close to
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the parks right here on Harbor all right
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success got some
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T-shirts they have a good selection of
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baseball hats in there too really good
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selection of a lot of teams they didn't
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have any raise caps in there though they
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had a lot of cheese but no raise caps
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sat tro he and while I'm over in the
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neighborhood might as well take a stroll
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down memory lane pull in here where I
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used to live corner of orangew wood and
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hater or someone backing up towards me I
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don't think they noticed me so I went
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around this is the way I'd pull in a lot
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of times I'd walk to the park so walk to
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Disneyland but if I didn't walk or if I
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had to you know drive to the store or
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something or drive to LA and then
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back this is where I'd turn
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in off of the orange wood got this
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little mirror up here
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you can just be safe when you're turning
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the
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corner I had two parking spots the
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second leg of me living here I parked
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down there on that little lift
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area first time my parking spot was
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right
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here ooh they've added security gates
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those were not there before you cannot
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get into the complex now unless you live
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here interesting was not like that when
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I was living here for the 3 years I
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lived here two or three years I lived
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here that was my garage right there a sh
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had a shared garage with someone else
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who lived in the complex this was for
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the first 2 years of the 3 years I lived
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here then the situation
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changed look like they've added cameras
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since I lived here too there's cameras
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right there well that's nice there
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gotten a little a little bit better yeah
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I parked right in here I had the garage
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door open or I parked right
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there now I'm curious to see I throw my
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trash away in here curious to see did
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they
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add holy cow they sure did look at that
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they added security GES that's that's
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good that's pretty
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nice I think I'm going to walk down and
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get a slice of pizza
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pretty good pizza place down here the
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corner of catella and
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harbor this is kind of a just a really
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random day
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honestly there was no real game plan had
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to run a few errands get a couple things
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want to check out the Crystal Cathedral
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and now I'm just in
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Anaheim walking down to get a slice of
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pie they didn't have that Mickey shirt
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in my size the one with
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the the skull and cross the skull Mickey
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or the uh skeleton
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Mickey they were out of it I liked it
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though one think I've noticed about
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these hotels on Harbor for example the
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castle linen Suites the Anaheim Hotel
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Tropicana Etc the ones that are right
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across from the harbor entrance of
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Disney they go really far back when you
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look at them from the road you think oh
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it's probably just like you know 20 30
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yards in a few rooms they go way
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back someone's
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honking castle
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gate Castle okay this used to be a gift
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shop was a gift shop market and
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souvenirs they're open daily don't
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believe the hype because they're not I
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don't think they've reopened since
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2020 the castle in and sweets is open
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but the castle
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gate it's not open
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used to be a hotel right here too got
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Bulldog there's a lot of property around
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here that's sitting kind of empty just
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kind of tucked between uh in the into
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the shadows in the nooks and
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crannies this is one of them there's
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another one directly across from the
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Disneyland entrance that I believe
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Disneyland owns and they're going to
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build a parking structure on don't quote
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me on that but I think I heard something
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like that yeah look how deep this goes
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in like look at that back
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there goes way in so any of the ones you
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see along Harbor like this go all the
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way back to where Garden Walk start
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start starts I'm having trouble talking
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this used to be the village in
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international still see the signage this
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is the Anaheim Resort
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Center restaurants liquor and shops
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sunglasses and there's a photo shop oo
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think a Photoshop still in here I don't
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think the Photoshop exists anymore but
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here's the pizza place I like California
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kitchen right over here they got buy the
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slice pizza slices get yourself a slice
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California Pizza Place what's the name
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of it cuz it's a pizza place in
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California kind a nice theming in there
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too as well
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I got myself a
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little this like a fruit punch or
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something I don't know what exactly it
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was like a high
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sea and then I got my two
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slices right
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here with like a meat and cheese and I
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went with like a veggie cheese I guess
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what I got the gates
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open I head back to the hotel call it a
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day pass on the old former Village in
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international
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if you look at old photos old photos of
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Harbor Boulevard they look like
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Vegas you ever want to go down that
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rabbit hole this was very vasy and I
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would imagine this Castle in in sweets
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is probably left over from the
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vases era of Hollywood Boulevard it's
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not too vasy anymore and I think that's
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going to do it for today there's a
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really random day around
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Anaheim Garden Grove
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Westminster coast of
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Mesa got to try on my Halloween outfit
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so isn't it amazing that Halloween event
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start in SoCal at the end of
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August
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right I used to start off my Halloween
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season it was always with hhn Hollywood
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which is always early September but now
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it pretty much starts with Midsummer
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scream which is the end of July which I
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came out here for and I've been out here
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since since then haven't gone home
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Halloween's pretty much ready to rock
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out here soon soon enough so I got to
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try on the one I got from Spirit
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Halloween thanks for watching I'll see
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you in the next video I'm going to eat
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this pizza too the Vlog is over bonus
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footage look at this tree this is an
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unusual tree right you see be able have
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etched their name in it it almost looks
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like a fake tree but it's not fake it is
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a real tree but look at the coloration
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and the Hue of this tree it almost looks
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like a built tree but it's not it's a
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real tree roots and all at least I think
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it is