Empty Hotels On Hwy 192 Keep Getting Worse - Giant Eyesore Near Disney & Golf Cart Gift Shop Tour
Empty Hotels On Hwy 192 Kissimmee
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today's adventure begins as I have drove
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my little golf cart my glorified golf
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cart the E2 the gym E2 as a recording of
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this it is Thursday January 25th
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2024 I'm going to be taking this out of
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the celebration bubble today onto
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Highway 192 an area I refer to as no
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man's land coffee achieved now I'm
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noticing there are no residents or
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tourist out here kind of congregating
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looking at the gator so I'm going to
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guess cool is probably not up in this
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front section of Lake ranh heart at the
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moment so we'll check maybe we'll check
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another time welcome everyone Adam the
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woo here Jacob the carpet bagger you
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riding along in tow or you could say in
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the passenger seat we're going to take a
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cruise out of the celebration bubble
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today and out to no man's land which I
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refer to that is Highway 192 now we
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can't ominous we can't take this on the
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highway but we could take it on the
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sidewalks any sidewalk in Florida that's
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wider than 5 feet this vehicle is 5 feet
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the sidewalks out there are like s feet
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we can drive on it so we're going to
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kind of do a little Highway 192
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exploring sounds fun anything in
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particular over in that area that you
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would like to see nothing particular
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just maybe see the sights of No Man's
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Land you said you wanted to check on the
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Big Orange oh yeah yeah the big orange
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because you have not been here since the
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fire 10 months ago no i' I've been here
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since the fire you have yes okay all
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right nonetheless we're GNA stop here
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first the celebration theater and then
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we're going to continue we going to
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watch a movie no they're closed they
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closed for 11 years for 11 years 11
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years no it's been more than a decade
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between 10 and 12 years so nonetheless
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I'm inviting you to join me of course
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the one and only Jacob the carpet bagger
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shall you all right was going to park
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over here at another electric vehicle
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spot but another car this this cap is
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pretty regularly has taken the spot
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there where it says electric vehicle
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parking sat Trumbo all right so we're
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just going to show it from a distance
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Jacob jumped out filmed it real
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quick yeah maybe one day someone we'll
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take this over
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and open it back
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up pretty cool looking though now I've
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often kind of wondered if I could drive
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this on the golf course and I thought
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maybe the golf maybe that's not allowed
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but then this guy's driving a full truck
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and a boat AC cross the grass here he
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going to do a little fishing so I
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guess
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yeah maybe maybe it wouldn't be too
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frowned upon for me to drive this thing
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across the course if someone could take
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a boat
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across all right we have crossed over at
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the light cross
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192 but I want to check out this former
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Orlando Sun Resort which I did a video
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on I don't know maybe half a year ago
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that was completely wide
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open and now it is even more accessible
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in fact the gate is even open before you
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could just walk down to the end where
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the fence ended but now it seems as
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if it's just completely accessible look
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the gate is down it's been down for
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about a month I've been driving by
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people pull up in here ride their bikes
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through here so Jacob and I are just
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going to cruise around on the cart I
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don't think I'm going to go in the
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buildings I don't think that would be
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safe but we're going to ride ride around
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the perimeter just get a quick little
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update cuz I feel like one day this is
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all going to be bulldozed this is like
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Prime real estate through
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here yeah you can see people have pulled
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in here you need a drag racing or
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spinning out here their tires oh look is
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there fire in the lobby
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there is it just
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dark
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I don't know what's on the floor over
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there so I'm going to back up I don't
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want to drive through there probably bro
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broken glass and whatnot glass windows
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and was like completely smashed
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out I actually noticed a couple other
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cars in here
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too that are kind of close up to the
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rooms probably not probably not going to
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drive over to there
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though but yeah there's like a vehicle
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over there actual
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active drivable
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vehicle is that a u there's a U-Haul
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back there there's a u uh a U-Haul back
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there there's a truck and a u a couple
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Vehicles yeah including a
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U-Haul interesting yeah there's a fullon
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U-Haul back
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there yeah people riding their bikes
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through here yeah guy over here with his
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up here by the Comm oh yeah you see
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there's been a there has been a
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fire oh yeah it's torched torched inside
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there down through there yeah it's
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amazing this whole whole uh whole
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structure did not go up in flames you
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see how the severe the fire damage
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is
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it says Jasmine on top of this building
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this is the Jasmine
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building oh yeah yeah all these the
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glass windows have been smashed out the
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laundry and Furniture just
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thrown oh yeah there's fire in there too
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so you have multiple fires this is kind
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of a good start to our 192 Adventure
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today that's a cool looking tree right
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there but notice how like on the tree
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they have surveying markers they have
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like the the yellow or or the orange
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tape around it so I think at one time
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there was a possibility that we're going
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to come here and maybe tear this
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out SCI as
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something it always fascinates me too
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because this is an active Resort over
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there so if you had the top floor at
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that Resort that the view would be this
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really burnt
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down yeah dra contrast to Celebration
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which is right across the street
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there this is like the the the uh re
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check in
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or all right let's get back out on the
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sidewalk yeah again the fence has just
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been knocked down it's this way for
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about a month I'll pass by here pretty
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often and a lot of people up in there
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some cars a U-Haul people are riding
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their
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bikes this has been an update on the
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Orlando Sun
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Resort January 2024 I was got to show
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Jacob this was telling about Arabian
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Knights which used to be right over
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there the amphitheater been torn down
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and now it's all condos apartments or
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stuff but they still have the please do
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not dangle from the statues where the
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horses used to be there's no you can see
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them mounted there someone has drawn
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this right in the middle your pentagram
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there yep but you can see where the
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horse's feet right there were okay yeah
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look look they're even like horse shaped
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see the horse statues embedded there for
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the Arabian Nights Dinner
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Show so that's a little it's a little
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Relic right
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there look there's somebody else coming
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through on a golf cart golf carts
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everywhere around
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here it's a golf cart
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Haven I always like this piece of
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architecture this is an old time share
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building they tried to block off the
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door over here with this plastic picnic
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table stickers some of the SeaWorld
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attractions oh yeah Turtle
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Treck that came by here with Micah like
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a year ago and he pointed out these
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handles here that look like old ticket
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stubs you can even see the yellow paint
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still on them there pretty neat this
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thing's just sitting here empty it is
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for sale be kind of neat to open a shop
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like a gift shop here right cuz I like
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the architecture of it they got the
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bulbs up there the outlet
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bulbs pretty neat it's got the desk in
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there still it's like the got a little
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active bathroom there if you needed the
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yourself or the employees to take a
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little
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break oh there's a Bush Gardens poster
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over there kind of zooming in through
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the window got a little glare but
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there's some retro Medieval Time
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pamphlets
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there welcome to Medieval
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Times
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look at the flag still up top
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there what flag is that I think it's a
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US flag that's not in the best shape oh
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it is a US FL why is it turn how' it
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turn
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black all right Infinity Falls Turtle
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Trek another Medieval
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Times little sticker on the ground there
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and evidently this used to be an ENT
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Enterprise rental car place at some
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point I guess they still have cars
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available probably
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not this hotel over here The Claremont
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Hotel I've done videos on it before in
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fact before they started renovating and
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I kind of walked around and gave a
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little tour but this little gift shop
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next door i' never been in this before
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Jacob's also got the same idea I have
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because there's a very unique sign here
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at 1999 gifs we can get a free vacation
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if we eat at that IHOP maybe we should
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eat lunch at
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IHOP I love these kind of places though
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because sometimes they have like old
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magnets and postcards that you can't
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find anymore it's like stepping back in
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they have a Florida towel
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special oh look at this this is cool so
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here's a layout of Florida you got the
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Panhandle Pensacola over here then of
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course you got Tallahassee Jacksonville
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be straight up 9 5 or no 75 I should say
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from here up to Turnpike connects with
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75 oh no 95 Jacksonville is 95
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Tallahassee would be 75 why is
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Tallahassee way the heck over there
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should be right here nonetheless
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Pensacola yeah it's like Tallahasse is
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not anyway nonetheless Orlando there
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Cape Canaveral on the coast is that a
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Yaga kind of artistic rendering
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there Orlando cm's not on here but of
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course Mick mini there let's check it
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out free gift okay do we get a free gift
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or a free vacation I'll pick a vacation
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yeah I always like to look at like
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postcards got the manatees here these
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are $129 each look at this like Old
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School Orlando
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leiola right there okay not really too
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many vintage postcards but there's a
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few oh we got Al here got Allan and
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there's me right
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there
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down closed down probably about 4 five
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months
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ago this whole roadway ended and the
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gives for Less where they utilize the
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Walt Disney font
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there they did have a sign on the door a
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few months ago saying it was under
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renovation now that sign is taken down
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which I'm going to think this place
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probably is not being renovated I think
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it's just going to kind of sit here
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empty all right Jacob is a connoisseur
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if you will of
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postcards so I told about my little
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secret spot here the 199 store
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everything is now $249 or less but it
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used to be the $1.99 store this is a
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treasure
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Trove of 80s and early 9s theme par
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goodness in here depending on what's
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left here's their hours love this place
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everything 249 right next to Hope thrift
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postcards here body surfing in Florida
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you can see someone the woman's actually
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surfing on a on that man's body look at
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Shamu right there oh I love this one
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it's that Shamu character hello Florida
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oh yeah these are some cool when the
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last time you saw these what these
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bumper stickers are from these bumper
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stickers here stop procrastinating
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tomorrow I'm not sure these from the
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80s
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the fire larm going
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off autograph books this is like a good
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place to come if you're go on to the
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parks and you don't want to spend the
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money at Disney and you want some like
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retro style stuff do have a lot of
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Disney stuff in here it's another Shamu
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there take a look over here they got
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some vintage they got the Florida
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Waterway and they still have as of right
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now anyway this Universal Studios
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Florida alred hitch
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coxman should we be in here the fire
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alarm's going
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on I apologize probably really loud from
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the camera's perspective also oh look
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fidget
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spinners
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all right we just informed it's a once a
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year annual inspection people just came
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in that are running all the alarms in
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the entire complex that's what it
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is no emergency
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though it's like
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alarm different alarms in each
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section I've been wanting to get in here
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to just see if there's any remnants of
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the American Gladiators Dinner Show for
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a while today's probably not the best
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day though because the alarms are going
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all right they got the cones all up here
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in the parking lot something's going on
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at the Big Orange the Cones were not
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here before they got the ultra boom
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around the back progress is happening at
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the Big Orange just got to find a place
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to park this
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cart
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oh yeah look at that they doing some
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painting up there or
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something construction
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update you're actively doing some work
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on the roof there
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the so what you doing up there painting
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or maybe cleaning up got to be painting
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right it's
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ah some pressure washing happening
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that's what it
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is pressure
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washing yeah they used to have this in
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other colors also but now they just have
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the straight up orange one though the
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world's largest
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lb oh look at this Sorcerer Mickey here
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on this little
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Notepad
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bubble
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wand that's very oh this is neat I like
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this little tabs though you got the
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Donal
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tab the daisy
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tab I I like the gator pencil right
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there those are
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neat look at
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that the Eraser is coming right out of
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the Gator's
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face so high energy bounce Citrus ball I
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like no I wanted a color green you know
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what I don't know if I have a orange
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World Magnet or
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not I'm going to buy
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one I'm going to
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buy is it it's good gra I don't think I
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have an orange World magnet
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sure I'm going to buy this I'm so sad to
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see place like this 27 they're fixing it
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up
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yeah it was great probably
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one
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Pamela yeah in the grapefruit family
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more that's
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good oh that's
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good Camelo I would like to browse
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through some of these pens see if I can
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see some unusual country bear pens in
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here you got any country bear
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pens we did you drop off country country
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bear
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country
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be don't have any right what is this
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that's a juicer honey Bell juicer honey
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making juicing but they're not the best
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eating but they're good if you like them
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going give you a better oh there's
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Jessica Rabbit right
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there figment all right I purchased my
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orange World magnet I'm curious when I
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get home to see if I still if I have one
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I don't think I've ever boughten one now
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I have a lot of room my little home gym
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that I built on the little metal
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cabinets that I built more than I had on
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the fridge so now I'm curious
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if I have that if I don't it'll add that
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to the collection and along with the
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magnet the worker here was kind enough
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to give me a bag of these free with the
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purchase so it was very nice of him he
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was really giving Jacob and I a lot of a
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lot of the
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samples so got these they're I think
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they're made for juicing but you could
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eat them you can eat them plain too
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they're like real small they're juicing
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juicing versions all right right next to
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the Big Orange is the flea market here
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see the big orange over there just going
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to pop in here real quick before
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continuing
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on of the old yeah there old you also
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got all the gumball machines over here
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there's even a love meter and a love
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doctor California speed this old pinball
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machine called Comet right here like
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stepping back in time walking through
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this this this flea market is arcade
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this place is kind of hidden and like
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tucked away off the highway I just
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wonder how this place makes a profit
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it's like a big grouping of Mage chairs
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right over here as well no one's sitting
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in
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them hi Adam hey how you doing know
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we're just looking at these magnets too
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delicious cakes tacos a taco tacos and I
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guess they just you stick these to your
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fridge yeah these neck fans I know
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there's like different versions this is
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kind of more like an old school version
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$15 you get like a little neck fan right
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there that will kind of cool you off in
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the summer months
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which I can see working you know kind of
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a necessity when you're here in Florida
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in the summer the swan these swans are
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geese probably geese uh I'd say it's a
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goose combination of both of
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them and just for reference that big
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building over there that's where hope
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Thrift is and the dollar store
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and The Rock Church I think we're going
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to head over to Oldtown CMI now run a
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parallel here to 192 on the 7t wide
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sidewalk not a lot of people ever use
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this sidewalk very rarely if you see
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anyone on
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Old Town used to be a drop ride right
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here where this little restaurant gazebo
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looking thing is now on the weekends
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Saturday specifically they have the
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Saturday night cruise which is very very
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very very popular and it's impossible to
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find parking out here which is nice
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because they have golf cart and
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motorcycle parking right
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so they have an established section
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specifically for golf
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carts all right I have procured a spot
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right here it says no
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slingshots which I think are like really
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oversized Vehicles so those are not
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allowed here as
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stated and I should just also point out
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there is plenty of regular parking at
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the moment I could have just parked in a
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spot you know
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what why yeah what a difference a
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weekend is versus a week day out here I
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mean just look in the comparison to the
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amount of people that are here on a I
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would say Oldtown probably makes the
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majority of all their money one day a
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week on on The Saturdays than they do
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they probably make more on Saturday than
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they make the other six days I have no
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mathematical evidence for that but I'm
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just I feel like that's a
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thing
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possibly and if it's not true then my
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apologies oh over in postmortem the claw
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machine over here is out of order blame
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Michael Myers for the claw machine oh
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Michael Myers over in the corner there
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but yeah blame Michael yeah this is a
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one: one scale of the annab Annabelle
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doll from The Conjuring right here full
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size oh there's a little mannequin over
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here next to this uh next to this old
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classic truck look at this gentleman
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right here kind of like sitting over
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here in the corner is that is that a
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Charles Bronson mannequin I think
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supposed to I think it's supposed to be
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Charles Bronson face right there that's
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a little Bronson I'm going to say that's
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a old Bronson wax figure or something
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yeah I honestly I'm going to say that
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that's Charles
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Bronson a Charles Bronson face has been
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repurposed into a a little thing here
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outside of the the photo
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place all right heading back over
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decided to kind of pop in here to where
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this showed earlier this is the old uh I
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think it was called the roadside in
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was next to the gift shop that had the
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Walt Disney World
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fought roadway in that's what it
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was so this is where the pool was over
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here this obviously you can't go in
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there because it's under construction
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but that's where the pool I used to work
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at a little pool food stand over there
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back in the late 90s now the pool's
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being built up with another
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building I think I'm going to get a
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second coffee it's getting late in the
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day it's about 4:00 p.m. right now go to
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a second Starbucks double down on the
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caffeine had one earlier this morning
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and now been out for a
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while we have just all these rooms
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sitting empty like the only people that
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live here like at the very front there's
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like two rooms that are being utilized
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possibly by Maybe the owner or maybe not
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by the owner I don't even know we kind
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of dipped in this area back here it's a
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lot of condos looks like apartment supp
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see like condos time shares things like
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that this is kind of close to
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the kind of behind
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this hotel right there is basically the
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ones that looks over into that empty
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place we started the video at
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earlier this is like a whole row
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of dozens of condos back in
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here lot people don't even realize this
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is even back
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now cruising along some of the little
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neighborhoods all right made it back
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home now I'm going to check and see if
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my memory did serve correct if I did not
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have the orange World magnet on here I
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don't see it I don't see the orange
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World magnet so this your entire magnet
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collection this is my entire magnet
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collection at least yeah unless there's
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something in a box somewhere that I
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haven't like undug yet but Jack Rabbit
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training post I don't see uh I don't see
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this one so I'm going to I'm going to
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add this one to the the magnet station
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yeah Jacob's probably been to most these
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spots too yeah the
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unarius I think I was with you when I
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got that I had one that I put in my hat
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and it it eventually broke off but I
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wore it in my hat for a while yeah I
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remember that place was pretty pretty
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wild oh yeah Tinker Town one of the
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great place I mean all these places are
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awesome Hot Coffee Mississippi classic
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two Hardware of course where Elvis
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bought his first guitar Pikes
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Peak yeah and I got all my
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AP magnets over here too as well so I
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got plenty of room to add on more I got
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a whole whole one right there that I can
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put plenty of them on all right there
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you go orange world one right down
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actually I'll put it right
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here another one to the collection all
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right with that that's going to do it
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for today see you in the next
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video the