The Echo Park Time Travel Mart - Convenience Store of Past & Future
A visit to the Echo Park Time Travel Mart in Los Angeles California . A non profit organization with bizarre store full of items of the past and future .
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today's adventure brings us to Los
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Angeles California and directly across
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the street is the Echo Park
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time travel Mart welcome everyone atom
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zoo whoo here and while this is not the
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normal store you expect to see among the
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hustle and bustle of quote normal retail
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establishments in LA it does exist
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let's go check it out join me shall you
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little information and backstory on the
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place they are a nonprofit organization
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dedicated to supporting students ages 6
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to 18 with their creativity and writing
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skills helping teachers inspire their
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students to write and that's how this
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place originated and is still run
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current day the official name of the
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establishment is 8:00 to 6:00 LA and in
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this alcove area is something called the
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garden of knowledge the first thing you
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see behind that window and they invite
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you to take a photo in front of it it's
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tough to see it from this angle with the
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glare of the traffic driving by you can
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see the name of the place imprinted
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right there on the glass but as we peek
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in a little better you will notice now
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there are some books some birds there
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even as a praying mantis down there and
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this branch are some paper leaves back
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there is a wooden hand of some sort and
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there's lots of shelving up to the roof
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full of books and all the books have
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been grown over with foliage see this
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paperback called fun and scary at the
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same time but what draws my attention
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more than that is the gargantuan
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hardback version behind it see that
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right there is huge like a huge book
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sitting on the ground there an
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infestation of pants there's one there
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and on the other side of this mystery is
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another one that is another ant right
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there it's trying to hide from me but I
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see him I see you there ant do not look
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too deeply into this if it was spinning
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we've probably hypnotized me as well as
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you sort of focused to too much as I pan
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out there's a caveman and a robot to the
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right is the caveman dressed in all wool
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probably from a mammoth he took it from
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bare feet there and as we pan up to the
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eyes of the caveman look how he's like
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he's not blinking she's just completely
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staring down
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the robots I think they're trying to be
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friends to robots
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reaching out his hand in friendship
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there's a wider shot full-body shot of
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the robot and the caveman making friends
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here in LA their hours are as follows
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you don't have to wake up too early to
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visit this place they open at noon every
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day
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how's it going man could actually get a
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little peek inside the atrium a little
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better without the glare of the windows
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right there and there's a there's a
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dinosaur on that book says all my
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friends are dead of course in the
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sticker there are shaking hands when in
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the window they haven't quite latched
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arms yet but they have some magnets some
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bumper stickers even some some patches
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up here and something called a food bill
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was more like a like a tic tac down here
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in this case some sand that says this is
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the future Los Angeles of the future and
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this is Los Angeles of the past which in
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a way they kind of look very similar the
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only first thing I really notice is that
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this is well more illuminated and if
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you're hungry there are donuts here
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however they are dated in 1985 they were
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fresh and delicious in the mid 80s
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they're not fresh probably not fresh and
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delicious now if there's no coffee in
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there to the coffee over time maybe in
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the future coffee is a thing of the past
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possibly if you're craving a slushy you
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are out of luck come back yesterday if
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you could come back yesterday the slushy
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machine might might be in order there
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are two different flavors of slushy
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there is beer and something called a
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hisin berry
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there's a cardboard cutout up there with
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a dinosaur egg which is used to promote
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what's in this case yeah look at this
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these are dinosaur eggs there's a little
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guy coming out of them one of them right
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now legit dinosaur eggs for the low
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price of $9.99 you can take one of these
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home with you look closely there's a
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there's another one inside the Arizona
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he's laying on his side you're taking a
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nap or he doesn't realize he's been a
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hatched yet down here is the bottom of
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the egg he might not know he's free too
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he's free to roam at this point I
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believe oh yeah look at this opens oh my
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gosh it it's a very musty smell in here
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it's a very musty hey pretty cool it's a
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first story I've ever seen this sells
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prehistoric eggs that's a first
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this is not what you would normally
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think of in a milk case this milk is
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made specifically for robots Jupiter
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Farms robot milk I never realized that I
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never realized robots enjoyed milk but
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it's made of like a it's like a sand
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yeah it's like it's made of sand
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who knew I think this would be more my
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speed anti robot fluid small-dollar 99
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they come and I think I'm gonna pick one
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of these up I'm no robot
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I can't drink sandy milk but I can drink
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I guess this is h2o banging Bob's stone
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smashed juice inside there because
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mostly TWiT yeah there's twigs in there
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and in there wild grass or if sour
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grapes are you're saying
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they have that you have that as well lot
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of these products are are new to me 100%
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inorganic and that makes sense because
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it wouldn't be organic it'd be inorganic
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beverages are not the only thing for
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sale in the Mart there's also a bunch of
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different knickknacks of all all types
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of knickknacks including an arm there
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you put your hand on the one end and you
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can control that arm clamp it down and
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here's some stuff for your hair some
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grease for your hair there's another arm
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that's more that's more Terminator style
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if you want to erase an evil robots
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memory they even have that yes you can
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foil an evil robot different emotions
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I'm not sure what each color
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coordination
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oh it says right here this is the
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emotion of gratitude the emotion of
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happiness and the emotion of howdy
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how do you pronounce that silver we're
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young BOTS silver but wait a second
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$9.99 for mammoth chunks what the heck
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are mammoth chunks 100% woolly mammoth
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meat bold mammoth flavor there's a
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close-up if you had a can opener you
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open it up that's what would be inside
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right there gives you a little
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perspective of what's inside this 15
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ounce can I was just informed that all
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these books were written by the students
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that go here not only inside the case
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but also right here on this old spinning
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rack
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so all the students that are are tutored
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here they have written these books and
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then they are able to sell their product
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in the store and that's that's pretty
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cool on the top is tomorrow's headlines
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and below is yesterday's news you have
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to read quickly though it's moving very
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very fast so you can choose which which
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news article you want to read the top or
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the bottom I look up here there's an old
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old school security cameras like a circa
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1980 we truly have going back in time
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around the back hidden well kind of sort
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of hidden is the wormhole of Fame you go
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in and there's a black light shining
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down on chalk where people have their
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written their memories and their
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thoughts all here in this wormhole is a
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wormhole wall of fame
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Abraham Lincoln said Facebook isn't good
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never lose your sense of play that's
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good advice
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don't be stupid that's also very very
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why in the words embrace the weird
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oh there's a Viking that's a Viking
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right there that's the entryway with the
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exit you go through these flaps straight
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out here back into the store this is
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most likely some pretty strong stuff if
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it's good enough for a Viking it's
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probably good enough for me
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slim in a bottle they have flim yeah
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flim in a bottle for 10 bucks the saying
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is hindsight is 20/20 and now you can
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you can have that at your disposal with
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this pair of glasses this is not toilet
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paper do not be deceived this is an
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emergency mummy kit so if you need to
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mummify someone or something
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don't put that next to the toilet paper
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because that's not for what you think it
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is us for mummies nature's tiniest
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doctors contains two leeches and the
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leech juice give a little bit of leech
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juice down in there for good measures as
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well put a leech on you can does a body
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good looking at the ingredient list on
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the primordial soup it's tough to really
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tell what's all in here but there is no
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artificial life added so that much is
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clear
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and looks to be the nutrition facts are
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too bad ninety calories but zero fat so
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that sounds like a pretty good diet plan
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this primordial soup one thing that
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really takes me back to my youth are sea
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monkeys funny story when I was a kid I
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had some sea monkeys and I grew them in
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my room for a while and then I
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accidentally spilt them in my bed so
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there were sea monkeys loose where I
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slept my my mom was not very happy with
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me you have to be very patient for shade
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basically you take this little this
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little nugget here throw it in the
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ground and over time
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different rules number one travel back
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in time number to bury the seed number 3
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return to the present and number four
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relax under the the glory of your own
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shade worst thing you can get when you
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are traveling through time is a little
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time travel sickness they have solved
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that by these blue pills
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well the pills might not be blue but the
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bottles blue nonetheless these will help
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with your nausea
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they say everyone gets their 15 minutes
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of fame if you haven't gotten yours
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they're still there's still a few
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available and no store would be complete
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without proper merchandise at a caveman
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there at the Tar Pits you can sport this
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future adult t-shirt and behind these is
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one I really like take a look at that
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they are totally in love timeless love
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that's an alien right there I do like
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some of these other stickers as well
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very clever sayings I'd rather be I'd
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rather be tricking caveman my other car
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is a woolly mammoth and my other car is
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a hovering ball of pure white light see
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what's on the bulletin board since I've
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contracted the bubonic plague I just
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haven't felt like myself don't worry if
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you have the bubonic plague you are not
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alone and there is a roommate posting as
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well roommate wanted studio slash cave
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there is no bathroom great location in
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the hills with views not much light but
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they do have a wood burning wood burning
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fireplace but stated here not a whole
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heck of a lot of ventilation town doctor
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or barber needed must have three years
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of bloodletting experience bring your
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own saws you have to provide your own
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saws they do not they do not give us all
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and you have to have familiarity with a
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donkey anatomy that's a big plus that's
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a
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big plus repels on contact you have to
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wait too long for it to work and it
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repels up to 12 barbarians new spring
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potpourri sets dollies anti cloning
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fluid
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it's like a stress ball
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so I'm relieving stress but I'm causing
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causing him a lot of stress so it kind
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of works both ways it helps might
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release my stress but cause us causes
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him a lot of stress to this to his
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retinas this is quite the endeavor
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taking a rock trying to carve out the
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wheel I think it's already been invented
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but you know if you travel back in time
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you could be the first and you can
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patent the idea just have to do a little
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whittling there on that stone some of
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the numbers you can dial the year 2040
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the year 3000 the great zipper Clown
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dynasty if you dial 9 0 0 1 and then the
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number icon there's a old-school
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payphone here net weight zero point zero
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Elsa's alpha zero it's basically just
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air inside this plastic container how to
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use it to act like you invented zero
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purchase this the sum of zero and zero
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is zero zero minus zero zero and the
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product of 0 is 0
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but warning do not divide 0 by 0 could
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be very very dangerous behind the
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counter all the former employees of the
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months for their notable outstanding
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contributions all right up there I now
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get to spin the wheel of Fortune's see
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what happens I'm gonna pretend I'm well
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I just I just lost a peg here okay here
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goes oh I didn't let me spin it faster
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did it go all the way around like Bob
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Barker style tomorrow see what that says
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tomorrow 20 pieces of Reese's will be at
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your door that's good
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as I exit something says no more locks
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am i a Morlock I don't know what a
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Morlock is I purchased this it was $20
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it's a mystery bag they assured me that
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there's lots of fun stuff in here I
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don't know there's an impulse buy let's
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see what's inside the mystery bag oh
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nice a couple of those a couple of those
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stickers that I was eyeballing
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looks to be some sort of clothing
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article
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reading my reading is my favorite form
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this is a t-shirt it's that extra small
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which definitely is not something that
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would fit me there's one last item let's
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dig around in there this
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goldrush dated 1849 that's gonna do it
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from Los Angeles California at the Echo
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Park
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time travel Mart remember wherever you
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are you're already dead and everything
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you purchase including so what I just
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got inside helps keep the plates running
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it's like making a donation to the
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students who are being tutored in the
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back so it's a win-win for everyone
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check this place out if you're ever in
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Southern California it's very unique
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