A Rare LAST Look Inside The Closed Celebration Movie Theatre - Hwy 192 Thrift Shopping & FL Wildlife
Celebration Florida July 2025
Transcript
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Today's adventure begins as the
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recording of this TGIF. It is Friday,
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July 25th,
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2025. I'm standing on the backside of
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the Celebration Movie Theater,
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which has recently been gutted out
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because they are building an event
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center, an events
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center. It's on the the rumor mill
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anyway.
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And I'm noticing that they have thrown
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away a bunch of stuff over here.
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the old movie theater seats where I saw
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a Back to Future reunion,
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Back to Future screening in 2008. I saw
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Castaway here with my mom.
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I think I saw a Pixar movie here once.
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They are tossing
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Just the tops of them though. Welcome
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everyone.
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Adam the Woo here. Got my coffee.
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Beth Vandal's here. Do you still call
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yourself Beth Vandal?
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>> Of course. It's never going to change.
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>> Cheers.
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>> You're drinking a refresher that you
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said was too sweet for you. I'm drinking
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a vanilla latte they put sees the day on
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the size of side of mine. What did they
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put on yours?
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>> They said you rock Adam.
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>> They didn't.
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>> I'm Adam today.
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>> But you rock, too.
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>> So, what did they say? Can we take a
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chair?
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>> He said he doesn't speak English, so he
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can't tell me or not.
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>> Okay, let's uh
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What if we could go in?
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>> Want to try to go in?
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>> Yeah.
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>> All right.
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>> Can we go in?
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>> Can we go in? And thankfully the workers
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that were in there said we could go in
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and take a peek and get one last look
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before it's completely gutted and
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demolished and kind of strolling
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through. Again, I have some core
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memories in here from way back in the
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day. Ended up going 2008 was the first
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time I popped in here, but the Back to
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the Future screening in one of the
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theaters. I believe it was theater 2,
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not one. There's a there's two screens.
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That was the first time I met Chris
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Lloyd, Bob Gail,
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Claudia Wells. 2008, I started my Back
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to the Future poster in there. And then
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years later, my mom and I went saw
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Castaway. I've seen two Zmechus films, I
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think, in in each one of the of the
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screens. The one the one room got rid of
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the the screens already been taken down,
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but the other screen still was standing.
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It looks like most of the chairs that
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are out in the dumpster were broken
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apart, but the ones inside are still
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still connected.
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Yeah, glad I got to go in there. I've
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been wanting to go in there for a while
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since they've it was sitting abandoned
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and now rumor uh room rumor is and word
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on the street is that it's going to end
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up being an event center of some type
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and they're not going to play movies.
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They're not going to have the theater
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style seating. So, rip to the
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celebration twin.
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It's a race from existence.
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And now now I can say the join me shall
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you. Join me and Beth Vandal.
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Shall you? That was a long intro.
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>> Very.
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>> That was an impromptu walkthrough
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of the movie theaters. Do you still go
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to movies?
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>> Why? Of course I do.
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>> In the cinema?
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>> Not here.
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>> But just in general.
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>> I went to one recently,
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but I usually don't.
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>> Don't really have a game plan today.
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Just kind of winging it. What should we
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do?
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>> We should go in that pond and go for a
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swim across.
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>> There's gators in there.
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>> Yeah, but it's it's a game. See if you
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can get it to the other side.
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>> Ah, like Frogger.
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>> Oh, yeah.
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>> I think I don't know. That might be
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frowned upon to do that. I've never done
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it. They probably would allow it. Maybe.
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See what the sign says. You're very
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adventurous.
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>> Well, I
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>> You want to swim across an
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alligatorinfested lagoon?
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>> Has anybody ever died in here? Uh, I
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don't think in this lake, but another
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lake they have.
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But it was because it wasn't because of
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a gator. Please do not feed the
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wildlife. Keep the area clean. Does it
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say anything about not swimming?
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>> But would you be considered food?
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>> That's a good point. Yeah. See, sounds
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like I can't go in there. Never thought
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about this.
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>> Heron.
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>> What is it?
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>> It's a heron.
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>> It's called a heron.
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>> A blue heron.
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>> Is that a blue heron?
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>> I don't know if it's blue, but it's
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definitely a heron.
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>> I would have said it was a stork. It's
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going to fly off. It's going to fly off.
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These people are going to startle it.
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>> It wanted to fly off the blue heron.
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>> There's thunder. It's going to We're
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going to get us We're going to get some
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rain.
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>> Were you agreeing or clearing your
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throat?
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>> Um
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I don't know.
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>> So, why do you like what do you like
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about blue her and Swatty? Why are they
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your favorite bird?
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>> They're not my favorite bird, but look
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how majestic that bird looks. Can you
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not agree? Look at him or her.
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>> A blue heron
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>> or a gray one. I mean,
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can't really tell.
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There's a whole bunch of cypress knees
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right here. This whole little section
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here going up to the cypress trees.
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You'll see cypress knees, but usually
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not this. I'm going to literally going
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to trip over these. There's so many of
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them.
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And a nice little distance view here of
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the theater. That's not going to be a
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theater anymore. Hopefully they keep the
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exterior looking like it did. Hopefully
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they light up the spires over there
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again cuz they haven't turned those on
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in a while.
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>> It's a squirrel.
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>> Squirrel. Come on.
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Kind of call the squirrel over here.
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>> Come on, buddy.
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I don't have any food.
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>> You're the squ the the squirrel
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whisperer. Is
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bunnies. I know it's the cutest little
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thing ever.
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Oh my gosh.
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Oh no. I'll back up.
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>> Yeah, he's he's scared of you know tall.
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>> I'm I'm a giant
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>> power over.
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>> I'll back up here.
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>> Like a monster.
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>> I like the way they eat. It's cute,
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right?
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>> She eating the grass.
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>> I wish I could just eat grass.
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>> I mean, you could.
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>> You could.
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>> You probably could.
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>> You think it would taste good?
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>> Probably not. Want to try it?
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>> Rain water probably wouldn't rainwater
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grass would be okay, but anything that's
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like coming from a sprinkler would
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probably be disgusting.
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>> Yeah. Yeah.
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>> I haven't seen any wild hogs around
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here, but these are some of the lists of
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the wild animals. Raccoons, possums,
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armadillos, gray foxes, wild turkeys. I
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don't know if I've seen any wild turkeys
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around here or wild hogs, but I have
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seen gators, deer, squirrels, bunny
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rabbits.
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Blue herrings. Is that what you call it?
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>> Blue herand. What's a herring? That's a
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fish.
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>> Hey, I don't know. Now I'm confused. Is
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herring or herin?
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>> A herring is a fish.
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>> So,
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>> a blue heron would probably eat a blue
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herring.
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>> That makes sense.
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>> I I honestly don't know. I just That's
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Wanted to show this. This here has been
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not been fixed for probably three or
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four months. A car drove off of that and
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kind of destroyed the the fence line
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there. And they've just kind of put up
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this like partition, temporary partition
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and cones.
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But uh I don't know when they're going
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to fix that, but it's been like that for
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three, four, five months now. All right,
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got to hit up some thrift stores and
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then maybe even pop in see if there's
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any more Halloween decor that's been put
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out some of the stores. This place is
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now a I think it's a church or
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something, but it used to be called the
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Haunted Mansion. Non-D Disney related
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and it was a haunted house
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kind of like Skull Kingdom on Irive that
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closed. This place also closed,
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but there's a thrift store right next to
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it. Going to hit that. Yeah, there's the
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thrift store just simply called Thrift
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Store. You can see right there starting
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to sprinkle a little bit. So, see this
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little puddle. Oh, wow. There goes one
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of the helicopters going by. Helicopter
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stores, but going to park pop inside
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this thrift store. Go in, see what I can
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see what I can find. I always like doing
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a little thrift shopping, especially
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some of the little smaller mom and pop
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stores. I mean, sometimes you get the
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Goodwill and the Salvation Armies and
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those are great and everything, but
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sometimes the the smaller versions which
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are just like mom and pop stores.
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Sometimes the prices are a little bit
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better and sometimes they are not as
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overpicked through as some of the the
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larger ones are. So, sometimes it's good
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to stop off at the ones that don't
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really get the the amount of people
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strolling up and down the aisles and
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going inside. I think this used to be
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like an old 7-Eleven or an old an old
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gas station at one point, but now it's
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now it's been used for the past I don't
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know 101 15 years. has been it's been a
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thrift store right here on Highway 192
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down in the old area of Highway 192. Oh
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my gosh. They have a Disneyland 60th
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right here. Look at that. The D60 right
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there. Is that $26?
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>> That's awesome. They have a pretty nice
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little variety of shorts here. Look at
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this one. I think I can see myself
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wearing these. Can you see me wearing
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these?
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>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You should get those.
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>> Should I? I do. I'm I'd wear a lot of
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shorts.
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I don't know if they'd fit. Maybe
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these are good, too. Turns out, I guess
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maybe before or after it was a
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convenience store, it turned into a
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tourist info center. You see the
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backside there where it says tourist
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info. In fact, when you walk in the two
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front doors, the two door handles look
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like tickets, which was the theming of
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the 192 ticket time share booth. So,
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that's what that building was
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beforehand. Before it was a thrift
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store. All right, back over at the Atome
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Home Home Decor Superstore.
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See if they have any new Halloween stuff
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out. They had some good stuff a couple
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weeks ago when I was in here. See if I
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can find something else that they were
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either out of or
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hadn't put out yet.
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This chair now is occupied by a neon
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green skeleton. I already have a lot of
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skeletons. I don't have this, but this
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is a huge skeleton hat. I don't think
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I'm going to get it. I think I already
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got my skeleton quota already. All
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right, here's what I got. I think about
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my storage unit at some point today,
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too. I like got this ceramic ghost,
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which I like. I got this black cat right
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here, which is ceramic also. Last year,
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I had a kind of a more foamy type of
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cat, which is very realistic that this
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is going to last a lot longer. So,
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getting this. Let me get away from the
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door cuz it keeps like opening up and
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down. And then I got this crow
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right over there just to add on to what
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I've gotten. It's going to be it's going
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to be quite the
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last three weeks of October. I should
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have I'll start putting some of this
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stuff out. Still got a long way to go
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till then. But yeah. All right. I am
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fueling up self pumping gas nozzle here
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at the wall. Price of gas $37
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a gallon here in central Florida.
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Many years ago the Gator in Gator Motel
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over here, there was a huge gator right
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here in the middle of this parking lot.
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I was there forever and ever and ever.
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Like 10 years ago, they tore it out. But
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right over next to it is this restaurant
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and brewery where they have an elephant.
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Look at this.
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I don't ever remember this.
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Got a little hole in the elephant there.
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Those
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>> Feels like a real elephant,
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>> does it?
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>> No, for real. It's like you can push
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into it. It's not even a rock.
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>> Oh. Oh, yeah. Look at that.
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>> Oh, look at that.
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>> That's kind of neat.
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It's like made out of like foam or
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something.
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Yeah, you're right. It's not like uh not
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like a hard plastic.
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>> It's like a foamy kind of plastic.
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Remember when the big gator used to be
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out here?
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>> It used to be that huge alligator that
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like went from there
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>> all the way over there.
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>> It was the Gator Motel, right?
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>> Used to be. Now it's Now it's the Gator
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Inn. They've upgraded. Also, that's not
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a real tree.
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>> No.
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>> Cell phone tower.
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I'm
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>> sure you probably already knew. I sure
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everybody knows that.
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>> That's not a real tree right there. See
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it?
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>> Yeah. Well, that is a real tree.
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>> That's a real tree.
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>> No, it's a real 5G tree.
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>> Oh, it's a five That's true. 5G tree. 5G
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tree. It's hard to say.
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>> There's also another There's a bear on
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the other side of the building. We
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should go look at the bear. It has fur
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on it.
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>> This one has fur.
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>> The guy came out of the the place and
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goes, "Can I help you?" We go, "We're
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just filming the animals." He goes,
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"That's fine. Just don't poke the bear."
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So, no poking the bear. Look at this. It
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is fur.
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>> Wow.
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>> Petting the bear.
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>> Look at the eyes. Look at that right
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there.
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>> Looks like a real eye.
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>> Yeah. Like a reflection in there. It's
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pretty cool.
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>> I think this bear has a skull.
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>> Backside of the bear. The bear's looking
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at 192 over there. Just wanting to get
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closer to 192, but this is as far as it
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can go. Hey, there's a cow.
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Look at this. There's a cow over here.
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Take a look at this. Uh, this cow also
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has the same kind of eyes.
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>> It feels like a real cow.
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>> Look at the eyes right there.
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>> Yeah, I know.
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>> That is cool. That is different than
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what you'd see in like a the front of a
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business like that. The the foam. All
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right, arriving now over at Hope Thrift
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right here on Highway 192.
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See what can be found inside of here.
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Hope Thrift. Love this place. Like this
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right here. I've seen these before in
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stores, but they have one used here. I
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think it's uh $24.99.
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That' be kind of like a nice little
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corner piece right here. Yeah, that's uh
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not too bad. And check out the anti
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antique book hideaway CD rack right here
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where it looks like books. World's
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greatest music. And there's the CDs
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right there. It's like a little hidden
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thing. And I've stood this up to kind of
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show what that looks like. I might buy
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this. All right. Taking the elevator up.
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The storage unit. You got the cat. You
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got the crow. And I got the ghost,
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right? Yeah.
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You got the ghost here. There's the
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ghostly eyes.
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could have taken the cart, but we just
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opted to walk it up. Third floor.
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You guys
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>> get a light in here?
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>> Uh, I guess this is the light outside.
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>> Oh, you even have a bat cap. I'm going
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to put the cat right in front of the
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back cat.
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>> You're welcome, Matt.
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>> Yeah,
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>> it's coming along nicely. This will all
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be in here until October.
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Plenty of room left.
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Plenty of room.
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I even got this wheelbarrow.
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It's a little skeleton wheelbarrow.
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>> Oh, that's perfect. What are you going
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to put in there?
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>> I don't know. I haven't decided yet.
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>> You got to get something to put in
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there. Maybe like a skull guy and put
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him in the wheelbarrow.
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>> Yeah, I'm going to have one pushing it.
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>> Oh, perfect. Yeah.
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>> And then I got to put I don't know. I'll
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find something in there. It's coming
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along now. It's coming along.
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All right, shelf is installed there
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against the wall. I call this room like
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the pointless room where it's like the
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most unthemed room in my entire my
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entire homestead. But yeah, eventually
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at some point I'll put something right
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over there on that shelf.
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I hardly ever use this room, but it's
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here.
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And this here was one of the only pieces
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that the former owners that lived here
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left. that was out in the garage and I
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moved it here into this room. First I
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was going to get rid of it, but I really
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like it. It's like this old cabinet.
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Kind of reminds me of the cabinet in
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Beauty and the Beast. The singing
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cabinet.
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>> Reminds me of like Narnia. If you open
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the doors, we'll go to another world.
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>> Narnia. Okay.
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>> True.
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>> All right. Out on the golf cart looking
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for deer at dusk. And there are some
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already out.
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All right, here's some more different
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area town.
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The woodland creatures.
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I figured they'd be out today. Last
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night there were some out, but I think
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it was hotter yesterday than it is
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today.
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Weather's not as scorching tonight.
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>> I know sometimes people feed them, but
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I'm not going to feed them.
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Hi sweetie. There's so many in these
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woods. I mean, there's like a bunch down
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in there.
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Such a magical place. These deer are
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just out frolicking around. So friendly,
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>> You guys doing
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a dinner time.
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Oh, he's so cute.
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His ears are awesome.
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Someone just fed these deer. There's a
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bunch of them in here.
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One, two, three, four, five, six, seven
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of them right there.
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So, we saw five, maybe four or five at
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the last spot, three at the other spot.
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So, seven, five, that's 12. Then plus
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three, we got 15 deer we've already
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seen.
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It's a lot of deer.
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There's always one out of the group that
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just loves staring, you know? There's
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there's always one that's just like, I'm
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just going to stare at you. And then the
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other one's just kind of doing their own
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thing.
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>> Yeah. They like staring contests. I was
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just like, "I'm going back in the
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woods."
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>> Oh, there they go. That's That must be
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the leader.
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This one's like, "I don't care what's
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going on. I'm going to eat.