TDW 1845 - The McDonalds Of Disappointment
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welcome everyone Adam wo here got about
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seven 7 and a half miles to today's
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destination I'm not going to walk the
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whole way I'm going to take I'm going to
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take a shared probably an Uber by the
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way working
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telephone it's my second channel daily
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Vlog channel
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it's oh I knew I was going to get took
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me a while but I got a
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little the daily wo we're going to
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venture off the streets of Hollywood
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Boulevard and down to North
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Hollywood H pretty good ways that
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direction and as I walk down one of
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these side streets I noticed there are
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some inscriptions in the concrete this
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guy fabulous Joe
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Schumer fabulous
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Joe Schumer
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schumo fabulous Joe left his name there
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in 19 1990 doing these daily Vlogs is
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very interesting sometimes I have a
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minute detailed idea of exactly how I'm
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going to put things together and
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formulate my day and then there are
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occasions like what is happening right
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now where I really do not know what is
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going to exist when I get there I did a
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little bit of non- Columbo like research
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skills that's research skills that
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really are not super in-depth but I did
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see a few photos and I'm hoping I'm
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hoping the location
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cross my fingers ends up being as
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epic as a pal tree if you look closely
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you can see the city skyline in her
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glasses I don't there's no Skyline in
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mine there's what the heck man I would
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and there's no Skyline in mine one
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thing's for sure around these parts
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there is no lack of expression and
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seeing all these inscriptions in the
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concrete and the sidewalk really makes
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me at some point want to have my name or
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maybe an etching of these sunglasses and
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imprint or my feet or hands somewhere I
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want to I want to do that one day just
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doesn't matter where anywhere is fine
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but one day I want to make it
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happen I think I have
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arrived look at this
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place Mickey D's Overload at least I
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think that's what lies
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inside look at the golden arches and I
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have not set foot in those walls yet but
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I've heard good things i' i' I've heard
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good things and if for some reason the
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indoors is less and lack luster than I'm
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expecting the outside's pretty awesome I
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don't I don't know if I've ever seen a
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McDonald's shaped and designed like this
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one from the exterior there was a time
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when they put nearly the exact number of
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how many people were served now they
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just gave up and just put billions and
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billions one day it'll be trillions and
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trillions and then a goooo Plex and I
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just noticed around the backside under
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that awning if you look closely up there
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on the
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ledge look very closely there appears to
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be some relics of the
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past
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barricaded right up there maybe some old
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rides some old character designs who
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knows I can got to check this out doc
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must be something good in there cuz
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someone tried to break in just just to
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see it you have to wonder if old Ray
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Croc had any idea the momentum or the
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massiveness that this company would
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eventually turn it maybe that's the M I
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should be stand for
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massiveness of the company's growth all
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right going up the stairs I don't know
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what's going to happen I don't know what
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I'm going to see but I'm going up the
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stairs it looks as if they have removed
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everything that I thought was going to
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be up here it looks pretty much just
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like a a normal restaurant area now not
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what I was expecting all the relics
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appear to have been taken out back and
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they are now on that ledge the former
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PlayPlace
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antiques they're out there in the
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elements what the heck why aren't they
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in here being admired by a what's
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happening and the door has some kind of
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crazy crazy lock on it but if you look
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out there look at that there's a there's
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a relic and it appears to be you can see
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the
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McDonald's logos on those pieces and is
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that is that Grim's hand I would love to
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go out there but according to this an
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alarm will sound got to got to stay
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clear of that bar what a complete bummer
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I was really looking forward to seeing
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whoop I just rang the bell I thought I
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thought that opened that but it rang
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like an alarm Bell there's alarms
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everywhere here I don't think I was
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supposed to I do find their q line very
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interesting though there's a stop sign
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and you stand in Ronald's Footprints
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waiting to be the next to get your meal
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the manager on duty said if I would have
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showed up 2 months ago I could have seen
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that upstairs in all its Glory but today
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I just have to stare at this misshapen
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nonsymmetrical filet of fish I have not
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eaten at a McDonald's in a long time
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probably since I moved to
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California but whenn in Rome do as the
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Romans win in McDonald's do as the ham
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the Hamburglar or in this case the filet
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of fish burglar I am discouraged about
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this I wanted to see those with my own
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eyes I am a fan of McDonald's folklore
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and history and that crazy era of
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characters when HR puff and stuff sued
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them and one the lawsuit because
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McDonald's used the likeness kind of the
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image and the the fluctuation if you
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will of some of the images I think
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that's some of the stuff that's up there
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very very loud here I may be incorrect
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but those stools look like at some point
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they had a different type of topping on
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them I think they've been in the ground
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for a while and just replaced recently I
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had to walk upstairs one last time and
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try to get an even better Glimpse man
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why is the door locked why are they why
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are they disregarding all these relics
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of the
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past I'll never understand it back
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outside again above the drive-thru
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it appears to be that there is a mayor
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MC chees head up there and one of the
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tree
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mascots yeah I think I see the tree up
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there barely but it's up there very very
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difficult to see it but you can see the
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eye of the
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tree you can see his eye he's maybe you
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know what he's staring at me he's
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clearly crying out for help help us
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we're all one big
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fam I'm I'm not I'm like a vicarious
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part of his family but he's say help me
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I'm stuck up here help me those
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beautiful pieces of cheese massive
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pieces of cheese can you see them do you
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see the cheese I see them you win again
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change the flag of progress waves brisly
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in the Wind
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can't stop progress for McDonald's from
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this
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angle I think I see the top of a pirate
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hat there's more up there than I thought
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there were there's a plethora a plethora
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of characters up there hanging out if
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only I had a time machine I could see
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this place in all its Glory let's be
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honest if I had a time machine I would
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probably do other things but this would
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be on the list just near the bottom of
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the list but nonetheless I would want to
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see all that stuff in its Heyday oh I
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missed it I missed the boat all we can
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wish for now is that all those artifacts
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end up in some sort of museum at some
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point here's the hoping I don't know
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what's going on up here what's up man
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you a little rapping I'm rapping you a
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rapping I'm clapping chilling in
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Manhattan and Brooklyn I be
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cooking Teryaki young you never really
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know who you're going to run into on the
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streets out here that's part of the
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appeal of living here I suppose just
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walk out your door wander around and
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there's Andy melano and the back side of
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the Kimmel show there's that outdoor
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stage where they have live
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music I always wonder where they placed
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that now I know and classic car
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alert I really like this one especially
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how the age has set in and given it a a
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pretty cool coloration
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I like that here at the corner of Sunset
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and Highland this fire hydrant it's a
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character he has googly eyes googly eye
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fire hydrant nice to meet
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you that's
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right that's right check this out up on
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the ledge up there is a Lego man
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probably about my height from here it
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looks very small but it's probably 6 or
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seven fet I'm not 7t tall I'm 6'2 but
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that's probably about my height don't
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jump Lego man don't that's pretty cool
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little hidden Lego man not a Mickey not
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a Hidden Mickey but a hidden Lego man
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not today or anytime soon but at some
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point I want to do each and every of
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these individual tours around here just
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to see what they say see if I can learn
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anything or if maybe they just make
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stuff up off the cuff I just want to do
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them one day to do an entire Vlog based
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on each and every one of these of these
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tour companies there's like a hundred of
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them okay maybe not all of them just the
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worst ones the ones that are at the
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bottom of the barrel review wise that
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could be interesting I just went in that
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Starbucks across the street didn't get a
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coffee it's a little too late for that I
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did however acquire a new you are here
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mug Los
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Angeles Edition this will go very nicely
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with the other ones I have
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purchased over the years oh yeah I think
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that makes me an official resident right
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if I own the mug I'm sure a lot of
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people own the mug that don't live here
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but I live here now and I have the mug
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so nailed it
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Vlog over