Unusual Roadside Stops of International Drive & Hwy 192 Kissimmee - The Wheel At Icon Park / Chuy’s
International Drive Orlando March 2023
Transcript
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welcome everyone Adam dewoo here as a
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recording of this it is Friday March 3rd
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2023 standing on an International Drive
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right here
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Zombie Island
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what are you looking at we waited so
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long for these coffees we did wait a
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while we parked over there in front of
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Chewie's yeah you ever been to Chuy's we
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hide you no what is it do you like
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Mexican food I do at the end of the day
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since we both parked over at the public
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parking behind Chewie's on I drive I'm
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gonna treat you to a Mexican meal at
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Chuy's really but before that we're
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going to gallivant around I drive maybe
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go over to Highway 192.
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you hit me up we hung out yesterday but
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then you said hey we should hang out
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again today I said all right what are we
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gonna do we're just going to wing it
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we're going to wing it because I was
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staying right over here yeah I'm headed
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north what are you saying right you were
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staying right over here at the sexy
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thing store well I am the sexy thing oh
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spoiler alert oh okay I've been wanting
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to walk up in everywhere
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I am the sexy thing all right I'm
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inviting you to join me
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shall you know it's right out here
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also I like the fact that you're a hot
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coffee guy oh yeah it's a lot of my
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other friends I have a hot choppy guys
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coffee folk when it's hot out in Canada
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we don't ask is would you like your
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coffee hot or cold you get it huh you
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know anyone from there I know a few
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people so what I'm gonna do is just kind
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of showcase some stuff that I'm very
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familiar with see if it generates any
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excitement
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like these dinosaurs
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this is a place called Volcano Island
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it's been closed for a long time 10
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years dare I say it's been extinct for
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quite a while yeah what kind of uh what
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kind of dinosaur is that that is
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windy out here now remember the
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Brontosaurus Brachiosaurus when did that
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happen they changed their name yeah
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you just love touching things I want him
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out
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you want to free them I always want the
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task you ever been to the La Brea Tar
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Pits yeah it's nuts there's no tar here
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though and you can't swim in them with
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socks I tried
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you gonna free them
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free Billy come on look at this I think
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I think we could actually put them on
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top of my car drive
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really well I think that would go
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through customs it's fiberglass there's
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another good one right there probably
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doesn't weigh too much if it's
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fiberglass I put on top of my car they
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could open doors
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those can open doors yep I saw the
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documentary Jurassic Park now if you
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were looking at this fencing which you
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are would you think that this right here
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is 100 legit what is the truthfulness
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behind this thing give me your thoughts
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no on a scale of one to ten what's the
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buy the beer bottles in there I'm gonna
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say no
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but was I mean this was water here I'm
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guessing it was like a moat yeah
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but I always love this the spray painted
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24-hour surveillance
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24 hours of surveillance they didn't
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even by the side they had spray painted
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them and they thought surveillance right
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they didn't say it had it's not 24 hours
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in a row nope 24 hours a year which
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hours it is so you can hop over it could
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be tomorrow all right this whoa look at
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the wind over there blowing that Duncan
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sign
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like flapping it around
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but I wanted to notice oh I wanted to
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point this out
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there is a Louisville Slugger two of
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them right here where this old
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restaurant was under lock and chain
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there's a Louisville Slugger back I'm
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supposed to start by shift in five
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minutes you're gonna
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you didn't get the memo I'm doing The
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Omelette station today this is that same
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restaurant but I want to point out this
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fish to this this place obviously is not
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open but look at this fish would you
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call this a it's made out of a stick but
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you could call this a fish stick it's a
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fish it's like a piranha though this
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used to be an old 7-Eleven or old gas
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station of some sort and then they it
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sat abandoned for a long time empty and
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then Hogan branched out away from
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Clearwater and decided to head over here
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to near not quite near downtown Orlando
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but near the tourist district and
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tourist area of
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parallel to I-4 International Drive
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and there's a lot of great Hulk Hogan
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stuff in here I really like coming
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stopping in here all the time of course
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I like Hogan from Rocky III he was
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thunderlips in the flesh
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and No Holds Barred there's a short bit
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of other things just a good assortment
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of great things at Hogan's Beach Shop in
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fact I've never been to the one in
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Clearwater
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I've never been to the one in clear I
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wanted to go to the one in Clearwater
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but you know this one I've probably been
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in at least a couple dozen times or more
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and on the same block more or less the
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same corner right across from Hogan's is
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what they called well we used to be
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referred to as the world's largest
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McDonald's they became epic McDonald's
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now I just think it is a large
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McDonald's
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They Don't Really refer to as anything
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the thing I really like about this place
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is that up on the second floor is one of
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the rare Mac tonights that still exists
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on the top I've showed this before
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but it's you cannot walk by Mac tonight
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and go visually you have to visually see
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them it's kind of like Sunny Eclipse I
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wonder who would win in a piano duel
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Sunny eclipse or Mac tonight that would
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be the ultimate Challenge I never
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noticed this on the side of the wall
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inside either they have like an artistic
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tile mural of
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to make the Epic McDonald's right here I
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believe it is
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I believe it is and then over here have
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you ever seen a fish tank
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side
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and Mickey D's before there's a fish
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tank right here with fish in them
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look he's just like looking at those
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ordering on the menu board with disdain
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sorry fish yeah I know get out get the
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heck out of here oh no you're coming
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down he took me back
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and out front he got Ronald up here
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waving and ever all the tourists and all
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the locals driving by
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saying come on in you know you never
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really see Ronald
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the company McDonald's never utilizes
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Ronald in their commercials anymore so
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he's wedged here on the side of this
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wall for posterity and we have walked
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over here to Icon Park I was kind of
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hoping that the wheel you got a bug on
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you give me a mistake the stick did
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Robin Orlando
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so
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obviously the drop tower is never going
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to reopen in fact I've heard a rumor
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that it's going to be torn down
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completely
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but I am wondering what's going to
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happen with the wheel itself the wheel
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at Icon Park that on New Year's Eve
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people got stuck on there for many hours
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they had to bring the fire department in
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and lift them down I don't know if it's
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reopened but I was hoping it was
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reopened so we could go up on there so I
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could give you a bird's eye we got 14
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seconds we've got 12 seconds across this
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road they don't give you a lot of time
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I'm a pretty brisk Walker
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I'm 85 years old you're 85 you look good
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for your age I would have guessed maybe
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like 73 74 right here
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I guess I should have asked are you
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afraid of heights
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be careful okay they don't care for me
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you know this is kind of historic is
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this thing has been closed for a while
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the muster wouldn't reopened but it was
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closed for a series of months hey this
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is new they've added in directional
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City platter so you got Jacksonville
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that direction you got Satan Augustine
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there you've got Daytona over there got
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Orlando over there Cape Canaveral this
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isn't right
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just completely not right Jackson
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Jacksonville Arkansas
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I love it yeah I was like first I was
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like okay these are this this is in the
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direction you're looking but no they
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just have all these different cities
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yeah that's going to be the new epic
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universe
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Universal Studios Florida's third theme
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park
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which is a pretty good way from where
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the other two Universal Parks are yeah
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that place is not really the hive of
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activity down there that in fact is the
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Epic McDonald's yeah everything's epic
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here maybe epic Universe there's the
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Epic McDonald's
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Logan's beach shop is right over there
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too
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Volcano Bag the distance there's the
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swings going around up top there too
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and you can also see the roof of the
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Ripley's building down there it is a
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little hazy today which is kind of
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unusual for Central Florida
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but that's downtown Orlando they're off
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in the distance you can kind of see it
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in the haze
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pretty good ways to downtown from here
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right over there is Universal Studios
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Florida and Islands Adventure well now
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it's called Universal Orlando
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write the movies
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so now do you have a general layout of
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the land where everything is okay you
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have a better understanding of Central
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Florida
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yeah
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we're really confused because it kind of
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moves around different directions right
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it's East West yeah I-4 goes east west
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yeah but again so you got East that way
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and you got West
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that way Gulf of Mexico
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Key West
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uh Tampa no Daytona Daytona Daytona
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correct Canada
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about 12 miles that way yeah 12 to you
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know 2 500. I could walk home it's also
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noticing that they said everyone gets
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their own pod now yeah and I think the
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reason is you wouldn't want to be stuck
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up here at all but you definitely
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wouldn't want to be stuck up here with
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another party right you
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where do you use the facilities in front
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of strangers I think this I think these
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areas where my drink by mistake
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made it to the top yeah
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Yeah It's a Long Way to the Top you want
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to rock and roll I learned that from a
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little band Tampa is AC DC from Canada
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yeah sort of they're Austria and just
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above the Orange County Convention
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Center that's Sea World
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I always like going up on us just so you
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know Scott about right there
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that is a bird just flying by from there
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it's like an eagle no it was an owl
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even right well there was pointing at
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this and I was gonna fool you into
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thinking that that was Cinderella castle
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I'll fight over I will that right there
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Cinderella Castle as far as you know
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it is a castle
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it's really not Sleeping Beauty Castle
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kind of because this says Sarasota here
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yeah it says Tampa Crystal River Ocala
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so it's I don't know it's kind of take a
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look
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Compass it's a straight west yeah it's
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Tampa damage and Crystal girl right now
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right that way right let's go
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one thing that's kind of nice about
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these too is it used to be called The
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Wheel no it used to be called the
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wheeler Lane the Orlando wheel no the
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Orlando Eye that's what it would cost
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the Orlando Eye is what we're on changed
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owners and changed hands and it became
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the wheel at Icon Park but back in the
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day they would have music blaring in
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here but now they have a narration here
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on this little Pad but you could mute it
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if you don't want to have the jingle and
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the narration playing you can have
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a nice little just us talking and
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sharing a moment together
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I don't know if I'll use this the
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thumbnail
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I think you should
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do this
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you're the Beastie Boys yeah
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there's also simple steps to play your
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own music in the capsule if you wanted
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to have a certain song
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as you went around you can do that just
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follow those simple steps gonna go back
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to the car and head over to Highway 192
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passing by the side angled Ripley's it's
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kind of like shifted it almost looks
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like it's been through an earthquake
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okay we've made the short commute from I
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drive over to Highway 192. the home of
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clearance Disney outlets that are not
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sanctioned by Disney
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but I do like this mural of the parents
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on the side here this Castle
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on the side
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and there's a pirate up here as well
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but you can see they've you can see the
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old Outlet side has been covered up by a
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newer and I say newer probably 90s
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Outlet signage
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there's a lot of these Outlets
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I've noticed with Walt Disney World
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there's a lot more of these
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Outlets things outside the parks than
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there are in Anaheim you don't really
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see as many of these in Anaheim
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oh look at that pirate right there he's
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got the
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big guy there it's got the covering of
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his face there
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we should probably jump on this but
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we're going to Chewie's in a little bit
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but Seafood is back
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try it before it's won
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wait it's already past one
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that's it no more words
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one and done you know what they've got
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their they've got the leg up on chicken
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let's leave it at that Popeye now I was
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here a week or two ago to the former
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Magic Castle from the Florida project
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Scott said he wanted to see what it
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looks like now I also want to see if the
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owners here and just the last time I
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couldn't find it was just some
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maintenance workers and construction
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workers and asked if they have anything
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from the Magic Castle that is left the
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only thing I had seen before was the
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painting of the purple but they took
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down all the other purple
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is that movie coming back to you now oh
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yeah totally willing to vote crazy eyes
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right yeah love it it doesn't look
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there's anybody here there is a
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maintenance crew that just pulled in
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yeah I mean it's a security truck right
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here
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again I cannot find anyone that owns the
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place here just workers
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so I am thinking that maybe there is
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some Magic Castle remnants in these
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storage units here that's what I'm
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thinking they're dumpsters aren't they
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well they're not dumpsters or storage
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units they bring temporarily in to empty
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out the rooms
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but I'm hoping that word gets out
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it gets back to me because I would like
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to procure some of that or purchase some
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of that like a tear from the room yeah a
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chair from the room or even just the
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signage just said Magic Castle but one
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of the opening scenes was right
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underneath here the guy and the girl the
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boy and the girl are sitting right
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underneath there the other day when I
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walked by here I wasn't able to get over
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to the pool but this is the pool where
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the woman's sunbathing and willing to
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foe had to walk over and tell her to put
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some clothes on
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should I go do it
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you got a sunbathe with your uh you know
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what's out for a medium
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it is a bummer they repainted over it
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but
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you know it is what it is
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there's got to be something cool in
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these things
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all right start walking out maybe
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someone will come out and say
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barbecue yeah that's crazy so this is
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where they were and they were given the
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middle finger to the helicopters that
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were taken on and off from here that's
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the sandhill crane right there
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do you remember the line Willem Dafoe
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says when he sees the sandhill cranes
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out here no what'd you say it says no
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harm no foul
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look at the skinny little arms maybe
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that's the one from the movie probably
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or at least an ancestor did you think I
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thought that was one thing
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it's okay oh it's so wet it's easy
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mistake no harm no foul the last update
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on this is dated March 24th of 2020.
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here's the little check-in area here a
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lot of integral scenes took place inside
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of here too but it's all been kind of
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re-gutted out and whatnot but a lot of
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this happened right here in fact I think
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she threw her feminine product right
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against this window right here right up
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against there still has the formation of
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the castle here yeah but I want to know
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where the front of that side I've asked
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this before I asked us a couple weeks
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ago when I was here where is the front
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of the Magic Castle sign is it where
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would you put it over there
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I don't know but I just want to know
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where it is yeah also if anything is
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investigated
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this is the ultimate they're not doing
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the ultimate job right now
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that's lining up a couple little angles
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there
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from the film
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is that noise
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all right
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very popular southern Florida Central
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Florida I'm not really turning into a
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Florida project filming location I've
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done that in the past but one spot that
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a lot people miss when they're doing
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these locations is one of the promo
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photos was taken right here on the
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corner of Vineland
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and us 192. right here in this Lake
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Motel parking lot looking out that way
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yeah same arrow and everything
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I'm in the motel parking lot right now
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and when you think of Highway 192 I
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always think of one of the two wizards
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this is one of the Wizards
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this two wizards there's two wizards I'm
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gonna take you to the other one as well
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this one is holding a scepter it has
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kind of normalized the other wizard his
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eyes are a little out of control you
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don't want to look too intently into
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them might get hypnotized I've never
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heard someone so intense saying holding
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a scepter yes susceptor but he really is
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I love the wizard head and I love how
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his beard parts
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so you almost walk through his beard
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inside there we're not going to go in
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this one but I want to take you in the
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other one
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the wizard that has a hypnotizing eyes
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because inside there's a castle inside
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that one I want to show you this is for
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posterity here
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right it was how do you not wear
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sunglasses yeah I feel like I'm gonna
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fall asleep every time I put it I don't
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think I've ever seen you with sunglasses
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I fall asleep well I'm driving I'll
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switch it around let's get it this way
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you said you wanted to see some
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quintessential Highway 192 Florida stuff
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I think the camera the camera's right
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here oh yeah so he's holding the scepter
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we were joking about the center yeah
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yeah and you're the Magic in one hand
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this is one of your stories yeah yes it
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is a good story please
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I know what you're gonna do You're Gonna
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Wanna cut me off but you're going to
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want to hear you're not sorry I want to
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hear the story about the scepter so
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growing up in Canada there's a legendary
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figure and since we're in the
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neighborhood I'll show this too where
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they're standing in front of the ticket
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booth
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this is six years ago check out the
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little hole in the side of the wall
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there that hole still there I like
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hanging out with you because you get
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excited about this stuff too oh my God
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I'm freaking out what other place that
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you've been to that has a gargantuan
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Orange
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that you can buy citrus at
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there aren't many this is this has been
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here for how many years as far as I can
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remember I moved here with my family in
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91 down to Saint Cloud I remember this
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in the 80s with my parents coming out
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here okay which way is Disney that way
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uh you could get to Disney that way yes
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yeah we go back to 5 35 but yeah Disney
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this would be more that way it's crazy
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elevator all the way in the top
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oh Dad can we go up no this has this
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used to be a old time share
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station as well Time Shares are where it
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used to be very very popular around here
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you know you could go and
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do a timeshare presentation you get you
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know Disney or Universal for 50 bucks
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but what I'm fascinated by is this
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which is the anti-gravity Theater which
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has been closed as far back
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as I can remember this sits directly
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across from the Big Orange
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what is this little uh boot here so this
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is something they used to have called
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they were called timeshare
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oh of course timeshare uh what do they
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call sales pitches so they were they
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were lining Highway 192 for years
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there's still a couple of them open in
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fact we just took the photo over there
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at the one but this a lot of them have
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closed because they're not as popular as
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they once were no because they they're
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kind of a rip off but you get a good
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discount for Disney if you remember my
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parents so this isn't where you actually
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did the presentation or the seminar this
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is where you went in and they would tell
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you about it what in the name of the
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heck is that noise
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okay
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wow
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that whole sign is weaving man
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holy cow
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the wind is
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well I don't know if that's structurally
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sound I have driven by this and seen
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this many times showed it in a lot of
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videos I never noticed that there is a
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stem coming off the top of the orange
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till now there's like a little windpipe
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up there that's in the shape of a stem
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wow oh wait we have a big apple an hour
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and a half from Toronto I'm gonna take
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you there
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bigger than that you can climb up all
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the way to the top for real
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really really it's called the Big Apple
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I gotta point this out
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I have frequented this swap there's a
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waffle house next to the Big Orange
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there's also a Waffle House directly
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across from celebration
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this is the celebration Highway 192
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Waffle House it's closed is it being
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rebuilt I don't know I think it's being
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rebuilt okay look at that look at that
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so you have hope well it looks like
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fresh plywood I'm a wood master and that
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pretty much means being rebuilt okay I
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think
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yeah frequent to this place many times
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and look at the lettering on that just
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relaxed oh I love it yeah pointed that
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out many times before that is uh that's
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a definitely a Walt Disney font right
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there that they're utilizing gifts for
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Less
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the factory outlet
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you know fun fact this hotel is now
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called The Claremont Hotel over here
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that sits empty I used to work back in
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the pool bar back there in the 90s
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really yeah yep I'll drive you back over
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there and show you
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that is one of the coolest Gators you
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will ever see in this area he's just
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chilling man yeah he's got a peace sign
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necklace on yeah look at me
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I think a bird on his hat yeah
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gifts for Less yeah all right I am here
23:03
to report now while back I walked around
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in here maybe a year ago I walked around
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here and I showed the old pool that I
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used to work at the pool bar right over
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here they have leveled it what is up
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with all these Highway 192
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spots that they are renovating turning
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and chain and well I guess they're
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renovating it's better than a place
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sitting empty but yeah right over here
23:23
there was a pool and the pool bar was
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right over there oh yeah there's one two
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three buildings on this property
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they're numbered that's crazy it's crazy
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there's three buildings well this is I
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mean that's a big hotel
23:37
it's definitely a motel it was right
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there the pool bar I spent many of hours
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serving hot dogs and
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beverages to Thirsty turrets he is a
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mute
23:50
towels 3.99 that is the infamous
23:53
mermaid of 192. in famous more that
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means more than babies
23:58
right is there another wizard I did
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promise you another wizard oh you were
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asking me too what the mile markers were
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for so that's mile marker five so
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basically what happened is back in the
24:08
day back in the day when this was a
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thriving tourist destination 192 and
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there was you know still a lot of people
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go through it but it was definitely a
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lot more thriving back in the 90s
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and in the late 90s I believe it was
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they came up with these mile markers
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well they're not even mile markers
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they're just markers markers yeah I have
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these mints in my mouth let me tell
24:26
these mitts out okay that's better I
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could talk about it
24:29
but people would say oh where is the big
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wizard someone would say oh it said mile
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marker five
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but now no one ever says mile marker no
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one ever utilizes the markers for what
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they're supposed to be they just give
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you the cross streets and to be honest I
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don't even know if they are are mile
24:46
markers they might just be a marker
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you see what I'm talking about with the
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eyes he's got the really hypnotizing
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eyes
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he's The Wiz
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so here's a fun fact Scott ah so where
25:10
we just were the you know to bring up
25:11
the Florida project again that hotel was
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called The Magic Castle right this
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wizard is also called The Magic Mountain
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affiliated
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I don't think so however
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it still has the same name because when
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you go inside here there is a full-on
25:26
castle inside here really Disney themed
25:30
castle inside this wizard so we should
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go inside take a look at the and then
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let you film take a look at a Magic
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Castle we're gonna try we're in here
25:39
we're gonna go in there and look
25:41
what look at Dunkin Donuts how old
25:45
short yeah
25:48
there's a plethora of gift shops in
25:50
Kissimmee Florida
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this is a good one
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it's very impressive with the sun
26:00
starting to kind of descend behind the
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Wizard's head
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he's got the hypnotizing eyes
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don't look
26:12
to his eyes
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or his nostrils
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I gotta ride up in the nostril there
26:20
a rather large headed giraffe
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and a flamingo and a concrete cement
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truck driving behind
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hey I made the commute over to the
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former Festival Bay Mall former artigan
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mall now called deserland
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and I just want to see what they have
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done since this this area over here was
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under construction for a while now
26:45
they've opened it up
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two as a as a luxury apartment thing
26:49
right beside me check out this there's a
26:51
old fire drum it's an old fire truck
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but I want to see since they've opened
27:01
this up back here if they have done
27:03
anything with the outdoor area of the
27:05
former van skate park
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a concrete pool area around where the
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vans used to be I'm gonna drive over
27:10
here and see
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it's been open for a while but this area
27:14
around here where they're building the
27:15
apartments has been closed off for like
27:17
a year or two yeah it still looks like
27:19
it's all over there still right there's
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the scale wow yeah there's the old skate
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and they're still right away there's
27:26
some of the mechanics and stuff that use
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the
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area for
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park over here and get out and walk up
27:33
there and look
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yeah the mall part is still open
27:39
now many years ago these have parking
27:41
over here for the backside
27:44
of the mall Festival Mall you always see
27:47
people skating out here riding their
27:49
bikes and stuff and mostly skaters and
27:51
then inside I was here probably three or
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four five six months ago
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and one of the employees at Desert land
27:56
let me go inside the building and see
27:58
the skate you know the skate park inside
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I got to walk over here too
28:04
so at least for now they have not
28:06
started to bulldoze this down
28:08
just going off some rumors
28:10
if they were tearing it out
28:18
people have definitely jumped in here
28:18
and tagged it all up though
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all right you hungry
28:36
starving all right you're starving okay
28:38
that's a bold word so hungry and with
28:41
the sun kind of starting to set almost
28:43
golden hour
28:45
have arrived back to where we pretty
28:47
much kind of sort of began we met here
28:49
we both met up parked in this public
28:51
parking over near chewies this is where
28:53
we first met this is where we met today
28:56
but we're gonna go inside Chuy's which I
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think I like about chewies is when you
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walk in there is a ginormous head of the
29:02
king of rock and roll Elvis out front
29:04
the king a lot of you know Chewie is a
29:07
chain but they kind of they cater to
29:10
Elvis in a lot of a lot of ways you go
29:11
around there's always like a little
29:12
Elvis paraphernalia this one does not
29:15
have as much Elvis stuff the menu has
29:17
some Elvis items as well and you know
29:19
it's a it's a really good Mexican place
29:21
I've eaten here many many times I've
29:22
probably eaten at probably chewies 30
29:25
times in my life and this is no
29:27
exception so I had to bring Scott here
29:28
and get his get his chewies on have a
29:31
little chewy moment
29:33
at the end of our I drive and Highway
29:35
192 day so we're going to consume this
29:38
and then
29:39
do the outro outside
29:41
after we eat some Mexican chewies all
29:45
right
29:46
that's going to do it for today what'd
29:48
you think of chewies very good very
29:50
chewy yeah and it was actually some of
29:53
the best Mexican food I've ever had and
29:55
as a Canadian Living a can of being so
29:57
close to Mexico I know Mexican food well
30:01
I think that technically I think it's
30:02
technically Tex-Mex is it yeah I don't
30:05
know maybe not are you walking really
30:06
fast I'm trying to get in front of you
30:07
God bless Texas so you're kind of
30:10
God bless
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all right that's gonna do it for today
30:13
this might I think this is probably
30:15
going to be our last day hanging out
30:16
while you're around town because I
30:18
don't want to give too many spoilers but
30:20
I will be departing the steak for a
30:23
little bit starting
30:25
probably tomorrow but wrong again oh
30:28
you're driving me to Phoenix
30:33
he's not going to Phoenix with that
30:36
the Vlog thanks for watching everybody
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love you all
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Pizza
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where are we going by why are we walking
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this way