The City Museum In St Louis is Odd & Amazing - Going To Top Of Gateway Arch / Weird Elevator Ride
St Louis August 2024
Transcript
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welcome everyone Adam the woo here as
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the recording of this Wednesday August
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7th 2024 we did it Greg we made it to
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the arch yes oh yeah we made it to the
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arch this is the St Louis Arch right
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finally did it this it I've always heard
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you can go up in the arch but that would
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be very kind of be kind of tough to kind
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of straddle that and go up the side of
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it actually we'd have to shrink
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ourselves down like in in space you know
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but oh know we're good man thank you
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passi oh yeah I'm filming this way
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you're good thanks you're good
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so I am wearing an appropriate red shirt
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today even though I'm wearing my rhythm
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Collision punk rock shirt but I'm going
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to fool everybody cuz we're going to
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game two tonight of the Cardinals versus
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the Rays and I got my Rays cap on I'm
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not going to film much of the game
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tonight because we have other things in
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mind today what are we going to do I
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think we're going to hit the the arch
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we're going to again shrink ourselves
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down the real arches go oh wait the real
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yeah that one over there and then and
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then I think we're going to go to the
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city mumum Museum yes that heard that
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place was pretty
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crazy I've been there before but it was
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with Jacob in like 7 years ago he filmed
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it I've never filmed it so I'm going to
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finally I don't remember anything about
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it honestly so I've heard good things I
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just heard it was wacky so I want to
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go all right inviting you to join me and
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Greg and the gentleman that was waiting
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yes shall you shall you I didn't even
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realize but Greg made it inter space
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reference Joe Dante
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film quick like what's your favorite Joe
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Dante movie uh Gremlins okay fair enough
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about the BBS oh I love the BBS I know
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all right quiz time what Disney
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Attraction did Joe Dante do the pre-show
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for greag um um body wars did he yeah
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Hollywood
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Tower in Florida Hollywood to wa no
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you're right it's uh Leonard nemoy
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actually directed by body Wars we were
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just discussing some of the most
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magnificent man-made structures in the
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US Statue of
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Liberty the
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arch Greg was say at Mount Rushmore even
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though it is made out of a side of a
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mountain and they carved it in there I
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would say that's probably the most deep
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that that is insane with all the
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dynamite and all that a little cloudy
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and overcast but still a thing of
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beauty you know Greg there's an elevator
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as an elevator goes all the way to the
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top hey Adam can we go up in it no you
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have to purchase tickets to go upward
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nice little view there and you got the
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ticket center and the little information
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stand over here all right price per
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ticket $17 per person ours is at noon
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which is like another 45 minutes away
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got to go through some checkpoints
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before entering this spot and then we're
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going to go through the museum and kind
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of Mill around in here tell us time I
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feel like I just went through
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TSA again I feel like I'm back at a
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airport going down an
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escalator I will be back on back going
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through TSA and other airport escalators
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tomorrow cuz I'm leaving town going back
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to California tomorrow there wagon as
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well oh wow the third busiest port in
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America look at this got the river boats
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here on on the mighty Mississippi the
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old man
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Deep
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River some people arrived in the busy
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Levy determined to push further west
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While others decided to make St Louis
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their home it's a nice little mustache
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there this gentleman's walking with some
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serious confidence the recreation of the
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Missouri Fur Company Building inside
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almost seems as if I'm outside at night
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but really I'm
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inside during
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day this is nice over here in the corner
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is a
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tepee right here and I've always heard
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the
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term if you're disobedient or you're not
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obeying I'm going to Tan Your Hide and
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here is a tanned Buffalo hide you think
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the Buffalo was
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disobedient wasn't
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minding his elders
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I'm going to Tan Your Hide I've always
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heard that in fact I've had my hide
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tanned a few
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times the portrait bus of President
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Jefferson right
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here this is showing the vision oh look
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at that it just lit up showing the
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vision of the architect right here there
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he is at age 36 here he is a little bit
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older
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the design here's the arch model here
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chair front of that chair very
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retro looking
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chair this era of
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incredible I go up in that talking about
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this so here's some other Monumental
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pieces of architect man-made
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architecture Washington Monument USS
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Constitution Mount
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Rushmore Independence
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Hall oh
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faithful would Old Faithful be manmade
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though I don't know if that would be
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classified
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check out the shape and design of this
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very futuristic but also very retro
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looking got myself a little souvenir
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over at the art store a little magnet to
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put on my metal cases in my garage there
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love some
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magnets all right it's our time actually
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it's a few minutes before our time they
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said we can go ahead and get in line to
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top the blue tour tram car number eight
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this ensures us a seat and a tram ride
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the top of the golden arch or the the
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Gateway Arch golden arch you got
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McDonald's old DE BR now listen to your
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tour guy look on the reverse side of the
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pass large number I already saw that
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return the boarding pass can't keep this
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as a souvenir ask questions share and
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enjoy the
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630t view all right we're heading down
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going be sharing a pod there's only two
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of us with another group we are going
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down the stairs to number eight
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literally the smallest compartments
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ever super
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small oh yeah I think we realiz did you
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know it was going to be like this yeah
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was picturing
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where I always think of it as kind of
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like a like a Men In Black kind of pod
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you know have you ever
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seen that guy the pool yesterday looked
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so distraught I don't think they liked
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it the up there
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here we go oh I was going to say at
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least it's
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GL oh gosh we're going up up straight to
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the top she did she did know the exit
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route she said at any point if it gets
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stuck you can go out the stairs so a lot
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of stairs it is a lot so I guess there
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is no option of actually taking the
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stairs I would have like to take the
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stairs could
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do the noise is scary next year for
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taking show of the birthday my
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I've never done it I wanted
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God it's not so bad we got lots of room
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in
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here I don't like
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this oh gosh
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can we to take your guys picture it
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looks like the stairs like up and down
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find
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stairs if get what if we get stuck just
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like climb oh yes you
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definitely almost there it's almost
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there
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wow it's a crazy
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look
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here there's two different elevators on
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two different sides you go up one side
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we went up that side you go up the other
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side cross over to the other side going
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to stay on your side with this cool
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caution tape here please enjoy the views
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and stay on this side of the observation
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deck because the other side is divided
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up with the
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other
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elev very very top of the arch 630t
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60 short ey you feel a little bit look
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at this it's actually not 630 ft it's
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629 8.5 in you have shattered my entire
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perception of the I thought it was 6:30
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we were lied to we at the very top of
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this look at
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climb used to be on top of
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oh yeah what character will be on top of
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the arch Fred from he would never fall
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he would just fly fly away
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all right we're being summoned back to
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our
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summoned so they give you about 10
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minutes at the
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top 5 minute ride up 10 minutes at the
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top 5 minute ride
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downum off a little bit a little bit I
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mean I think it sway is just very
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slightly you can kind of feel it hold on
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anything it's kind of like being in an
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Airport tram going in between the
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terminals and you know it's swinging
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around except obviously this is not
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moving as much as that
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ship half elevator half escalator about
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third elevator third escalator third FIS
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you did you 6 600 ft yeah yeah 63 I
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think yeah
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trippy I mean because now we're going
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underground we did the
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wader burp Charlie
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burp you didn't even have to drink fizzy
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lifting
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drink might have to
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Now isn't it interesting how Charlie
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Bucket got all the chocolate got the
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chocolate Factor but he broke the rules
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just like all the other kids
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did actually if you think about it
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though the rule was the Gob
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stoer because all the other kids kept
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the Gob stopper that's true yeah good
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point good point this is interesting so
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this shows how that elevator Ferris
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wheel SL escalator worked and how it
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goes up the
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side it's a lot of work yeah feel sorry
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for the guys who's actually having to do
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this I know the big one imagine like how
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many people it takes to turn all of us
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going up to the top right there you're
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almost to the top you're almost to the
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top you're almost to the top that's as
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far as we go that's it that's the inside
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of it all right we're now going to take
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a little stroll through a sculpture
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garden and over to the city museum all
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right take a look at this I never been
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over in this area before you got the
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little waterfall here and then you got
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little sculpture
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garden no
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hoverboards I was
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there's Pinocchio right here that's
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interesting that's Pinocchio right here
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Greg I want to be a real boy he's free
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he's doing the Shaw Shank pose
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United States court and custom
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house some sculptures in front of there
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now we got to stay 50 ft back from this
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van um back up back up can we walk past
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let's walk past it let's just go let's
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go let's
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go speaking of
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arches got McDonald's here's uh I don't
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know it's a little nod to the arch right
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there all right making our way now over
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to the city museum there is a serpent
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coming out of the wall here oh wow look
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up
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there there's like a slide in a plane
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you can climb around up there yeah
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really a fascinating place all right
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officially
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inside City Museum now we're going to
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start off at the top there's an art
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aquarium right
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here yeah this is uh this place is
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interesting all right out on the
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outskirts of the building connected to
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the side of the building is like a
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climbing area over here an obstacle
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course of sorts there's the plane over
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there kind of want to like walk around
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kind of want to walk around on this
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thing on this rot
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iron rot iron little areas a castle look
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at that yeah take a look at this so
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there's like a little walking area you
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can walk across through there that
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person's like trying to contemplate if
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they even want to try to do it and then
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there's a slide this is a this is a
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freaking slide look at that's a slide
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right there that is a dragon
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head leading into this that's right
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there is a school bus up there look at
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that it's like leaning over the edge
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like in Superman dang this is really
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cool in fact I think when I was here
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whatever how many years ago it was the
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outside section was not open yet I don't
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think for some reason it was not allowed
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him and I were not allowed to come out
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here most bizarre place been to in a
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while that is for sure this little
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walking platform here with the plane a
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lot of rod iron stuff a lot of rust a
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lot of metal a lot of art Decor that you
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can just kind of ruise around and walk
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around pretty dang cool pretty dang cool
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yeah this is like some tight squeeze
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through here to say the least definitely
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a tight squeeze like up here he's
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climbing up there that is definitely a
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tight squeeze I mean yeah just take a
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look you could you could crawl through
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this this uh art art piece of art metal
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airplane right over there which is like
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lashed on the top oh my goodness look at
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this he's going up to the top he's
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climbing up the tube like that is really
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should I do that I don't know if I I
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don't know it might be too heavy I might
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not oh you can go on the roof too
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there's people way up there that's the
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tail of the airplane there here is okay
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you oh you go through here and then you
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go up the look at this this goes
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completely up top there over to that
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other plane what the heck yeah there's
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just like secret tunnel not secret not
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so secret metal tunnels that you can
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walk across you can go up you can go
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down you can slither through them just
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there's a fire truck right down there
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kind of reminds me of the old honey ey
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Shrunk the Kids playet area at Hollywood
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Studios back when it was MGM Studios
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except this one has a little more
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tetus this is a this is so dang cool
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though I love this look at this guy the
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top to the top of the castle over here
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this place is awesome yeah Greg was just
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pointing out this is interesting this is
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an old crane like a construction crane
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and this is the crane lift right here
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now they've converted it into a climbing
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area that you can go around and kind of
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around and then also it's directly above
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the parking lot all right stepping
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inside here now this is I had no idea
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this was in here look at this it's like
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look like there's a big pipe organ over
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here yeah there is there's a big organ
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down here and then you got the windows
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looking looking out onto the this is the
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fourth floor and there's just a massive
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amount of slides these are all slides
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that go all the way up to the top of the
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roof what in the heck is this place I
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don't know if anyone's everever skated
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on these or if they're just slidable
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ones but it kind of looks like you could
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bring a skateboard in here and just have
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a pretty good time on these bowls here
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yeah see definitely very equipped for
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skateboards in here like this right here
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totally totally a skate ramp but I don't
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see anyone with any skateboards but take
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a look at this what is going on with
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this bird this place is more or less a
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real life fever dream all right into the
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insectorum and while we're in there
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we're also going to go to the rooftop
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elevator and go up to the top of the
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roof oh there's some wasp nests up there
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it's a real beehive of activity in here
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hornets nests over there you definitely
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don't Thomas J needs to stay out of this
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room Thomas J would not be happy in this
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room we get some bad memories for them
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in here oh I don't like I don't like
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this room I don't like this room this
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kind of shows some scale models of some
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of the slides and things that are
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through here just all about the slides
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and the way it's set up like how do you
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even create something like this I it's
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just amazing all the you know the
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architectural you know making it
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structurally sound I wouldn't know how
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to do any of this stuff all right this
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place actually exists look up here you
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have a crane Mantis at the very top yeah
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this is unreal I I got to be honest this
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is uh this is
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really really a bizarre
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place and really it's called the city
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museum but when you first hear the name
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of that you wouldn't think this place
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would be as odd quirky and amazing as it
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is just judging by the name so keep that
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in mind City
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Museum this place is freaking awesome
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also has a really long line maybe I
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won't be doing the par the pray mantis
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overlooking St Louis from up here and
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its magnificent slide holding on the
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babbles slide you can slide back down
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that direction now here's the
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interesting thing this the pr mantis
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slide has a regular slide he's going
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down the regular slide there's two
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levels of the slide the top portion of
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the slide is no longer in oh no you
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climb up the slide never mind he's
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walking up the top of the slide there's
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another really gargantuan Ferris whe way
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over there look they've climbed to the
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top look at them they've climbed to the
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top of that right there now I also went
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to something that was similar to the
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kind of the rot iron display I can't I
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think it was maybe near Denver don't
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quote me on that but I went to somewhere
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where the guy spent his whole life
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building a major castle that was made up
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of rod iron stuff it really feels like
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this place again doesn't even it feels
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like a dream doesn't feel does feel like
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a real place yeah I'm kind of half
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tempted to go down this slide right here
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kind of half tempted you think it would
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hold my body weight nice little view of
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the skyline downtown and also the ferris
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wheel behind me nice overcast day no sun
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out probably really warm up here on a
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day where the sun is out thankfully it's
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overcast yeah this Ferris whe reminds me
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of the one that used to be at knsb Farm
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in Camp Snoopy that me and Justin went
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on Justin scard went on a few years ago
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it was H quite the experience when
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you're on this thing it kind of makes
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you think it's going to tip over they
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got rid of the one at knots but the one
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here St Louis still around still around
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just an overflowing amount of slide
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there's slides there there's slides
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there people sliding down there a school
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bus dangling over the side a water tower
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right there this couple's about to slide
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down they're going sliding down the
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going down that oh he's going sideways
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look at that they're going down the side
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there he's going Twisted all around he s
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sbled around
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too it up and over look at
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that oh wow oh my God
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oh I am I am actually officially over
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the edge right
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now you got it got it okay you got it oh
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look at that there's the there's the
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plane down there right way down
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there okay I'm not going to get off I'm
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not going to get off at the stop so keep
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driving keep driving keep keep keep on
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going keep on
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driving all right I'm going to try to
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open the door there we go you might want
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to close it might want to close it yeah
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you might want to close close you don't
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want to jump I don't want to fall out
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yeah wow that is uh that is a slightly
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terrifying right there slightly
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terrifying thank
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you all right we took the elevator from
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the third floor to the 11th floor up but
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it's always easier walking down so we're
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going to walk down the stairs eight
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flights down to the third floor into the
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Art
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Aquarium got
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fish and AR
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caution wet floor through here down to
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level two now we're on level two there's
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a crab coming out of the top in that
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shell this is a slide made out of a sad
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Shark look at this it's a hammerhead
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shark it looks very
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sad we got some desertous terrain oh
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lizards there's a lizard on that rock
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got the heat lamp above him there to
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keep him toasty and warm like his
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natural
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environment there's a fused fish one of
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those things you can crawl up inside of
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and poke your head up inside the fish
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aquarium there goodness gracious this is
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awesome another slide slide dumps out
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here to the mouth of this whale
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mirror down here on the first level
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though look at all this through here
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this a big whale you can climb
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underneath people are climbing
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underneath there underneath the whale
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there's the fin of the whale Under the
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Sea as well the bowels of the belly of
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the whale oh look at that thing look at
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that fish right there look at
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that all the tile work on these F fish
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here goes here it goes what's going on
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with
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this oh wow about to get
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holy cow that's a fish's
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head look it's a fish's head oh no it's
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a pig it's the puking Pig I saw that in
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the gift shop they had merchandise that
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had the puking Pig on it is that what
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that is it's a puking Pig now I didn't
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buy any puking Pig mer merch but I did
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get this in the gift shop a City Museum
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magnet we do have press pennies over
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here City Museum Museum press pennies
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out of order out of order this whole
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press Penny machine's out of order I
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don't know if I've ever seen a Jeep an
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officer in a Jeep before look at that
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that's
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interesting very
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interesting wonder how many people a day
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are taking photos of his Jeep probably
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at least
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three all right that's going to do it
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for today
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St
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Louis
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Missouri went up in the ARs to the city
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museum two fantastic
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places highly recommend both of them
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