The Last Day Of August On Santa Monica Pier & Venice Beach- Busy Saturday Walking The Boardwalk 2024
Venice Beach & Santa Monica Pier
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welcome
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everyone Adam the woo here as the
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recording of this Saturday August 31st
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the final day is that Happ better
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forward my rhythm Collision hat or
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backwards also trim down the stash today
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got the hat on backwards maybe couple
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years younger probably still look 50
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plus Santa Monica here and Venice Beach
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is happening today I'm inviting you to
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join me I think I like to hat backwards
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with this look shall
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you last day of August
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2024 another month starts tomorrow there
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is the world famous Santa Monica Pier
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sign right over there no real game plan
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today just been a while since I've been
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to the pier and been to Venice Beach so
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I'm going to both that's pretty cool
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looking check out that little old well
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not yeah a little and
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old RV right there wonder if we get some
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coffee but I was noticing over here a
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kind of an interesting little tie in
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here it has the I think it's called
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unconditional surrender which is a
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sculpture that was created well based on
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an old photo but this is a painting of
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that sculpture which was based on the
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photo the photo was called unconditional
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surrender because I believe that the
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woman did not have permission was not
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did not know the guy that kissed her the
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Sailor so anyway the happiness comes in
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way sometimes in the form of a mural on
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the side of the road so I'm walking over
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here to the prominade because it's very
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interesting it looks as if there is some
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some construction taking place in the
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spot that was used in pretty and pink
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right over here this used to be the
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record store from pretty and pink where
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ducky does his famous dance and all that
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and it looks like it was a coffee shop I
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think after that or like a food store
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after that but is now surrounded by
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walls so they are doing some
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construction inside of here yeah Third
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Street prominade couple blocks away from
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the
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beach prominently seen a lot before it
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was completely
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revamped peewee's big adventure where he
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had his bike stolen from Chuck's bike
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arama but this right here was the record
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store in Prett and pink that's where
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he's sitting on the newspaper boxes over
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here at the end when he's like sulking
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about not getting the girl be kind of
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neat if they brought it back to how it
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was when it was the record store but I
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doubt they
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will it's a coffee shop right there some
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just a regular no pumpkin spice today
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just regular old coffee with a little
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cream and sugar I believe this is the
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spot where Chuck's by arama used to be
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ever serves correct repeat we got his
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bike St definitely looks a lot different
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than it used to
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look actually this yeah this is the spot
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this is a spot kind of going off memory
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but I believe that it was the where the
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Sunglass Hut converges into this little
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corner right here over in this little
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area cuz you could see those
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windows right up there and those brick
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Windows over there again it's been a
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long time since Tim Burton was here
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making that movie so things have changed
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considerably they' revamped the whole
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area Third Street prominade looks like
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they're doing something up here on
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Arizona a and thirdd Street a block
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party well no it's not a block party
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it's like a something it is a it's a
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farmers market that's happening actually
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that's the word I was looking for
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Farmers Market get some live plants out
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here get some fruits some veggies things
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like
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that yeah it's a really nice day out
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especially in the shade when you're in
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the shade really really nice and cool
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even in the Sun not too bad but that sun
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is permeating even though the weather is
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nothing like it is in Florida I was
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looking up the weather earlier in
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Florida very hot very rainy
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thunderstorms has it rained here in a
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while and it's nice and nice temperature
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out in my
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opinion about 11:00 71° going to get up
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to 74 at 400 p.m. so let's say 71 to 74
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most today with a little Cloud around
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two will be rearing its head and I put
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this in a Santa Monica Pier because
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Santa Monica Pier is right down
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there the our trees on this little Cliff
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looking down to PCH I believe that's PCH
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down there Pacific Coast Highway I could
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be incorrect on that
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but there's the
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pier right here on the side of the
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cliff is an incredible amount of
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oversized squirrels that's a normal siiz
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squirrel then you got these here that's
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this one here is like a big squirrel
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they're all over there's just like a
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squirrel compound a massive squirrel
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compound take a look over here look I
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noticed this a year or two ago I think
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the last time I was out here was what a
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year ago maybe a little over a year ago
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I noticed these squirrels and they're
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still here they live here on the side of
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the cliff this is their
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dwelling cliff dwelling squirrel cliff
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dwelling squ squirrels
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how you
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doing you
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good just
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chilling just
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chilling someone's put some water out
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for him which is nice I like this one
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just right there on the top of the tree
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trunk don't feed them though or the
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Birds Mary Poppins would be very
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disappointed very very disappointed if
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she heard that it does create an
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imbalance and the native ecology though
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so that makes sense it increases their
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dependency on people and food
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so Sherman Brothers would not be happy
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with that sign it's understandable
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though the visitor center right here
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also the pier is the start and end well
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I guess you could say and it starts in
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Chicago but you could start here and go
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to Chicago or Chicago and go down here
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at end here it isn't either way you're
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still doing all of Route 66 I've done it
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once before me and Jacob the carpet
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bagger did it a few years ago four or
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five years ago we did the whole Trek my
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good buddy Justin scar just finished him
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him and his son just did uh just did a
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Route 66 trip as well I think he just
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posted the the last video when he
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started here and went to Chicago I think
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he started from here and went to Chicago
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but yeah Justin's done a lot of Route 66
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stuff I've kind of just touched the tip
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of the iceberg he's uh he's gone down
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the full Rabbit
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Hole 66 Rabbit Hole wow all the years
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I've been coming out here never realized
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there was a bridge I've driven under
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that bridge looked at that bridge and
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never put two and two together that that
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would cross over to the other side right
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there I also want to see if this is open
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this has not been open since 2020 when
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kind of the world shut down and never
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had reopened so I'm curious to see if
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this is open again now many years ago
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this is 10 years ago or so you used to
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be able to walk up here sign in at the
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front and you could go in and go up a
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staircase and get to to the top of this
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and this was there's only a few of these
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I believe left in the world right up top
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you
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see right there underneath where the
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flags are almost like it look like a
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little chimney thing that is not a
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chimney that is a reflecting mirror that
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you can look through like a telescope
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and get a view I don't believe I'm using
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the word correctly not a telescope but
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it's called the camera
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obscura and there's another one of these
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at at Griffith Observatory top of
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Griffith Park this is located on
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1450
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Sean I think it's supposed to be ocean
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but it's at
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145
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C see if I can go up there let's see
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hold on the building given to the people
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of Santa
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Monica by marcelus Joslyn
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who often enjoyed with him and his
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lovely hour the lovely hours of a lofty
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Palisade watching the lavender and
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orange sunsets fade into
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purple May others find it equally
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enjoyable
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1955 Oh
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California still got these
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up
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well looks like March of
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2020 all the facilities closed and they
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have not removed move the papers signage
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or anything so we not be going up to
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utilize that it's pretty neat though
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it's pretty neat so if you're ever here
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in the future check it out go up to that
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door see if there's anyone in there and
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if there ever is they'll let you up
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there to use the camera obscura oh
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there's a helicopter right there just
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went directly over the pier it turned
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around to look back at the pier now it's
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going away from the pier it flew right
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over the pier that have been wild to be
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standing on the pier looking at thing
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flying directly overhead maybe I'll get
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a chance when I'm on that thing I got a
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bunch of vendors set up through here too
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through this area walking over towards
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the pier not the back side of water but
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the backside of the Santa Monica side
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guys out here trying to sell their CDs
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just like they do on Hollywood
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Boulevard you know everyone listens to
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CDs now every time I see this little
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Skyline here you want to call it that
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the buildings and the pier think a
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Threes
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Company W there's some huge bubbles up
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there I don't even know if they show up
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on camera massive bubbles in the sky
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this is
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crazy that thing fast look at that right
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over the pier look at that
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wow I think he went around it I mean
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from here it looked like he went over
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but actually went around he was really
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low it did not go over the pier it just
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looked like it did from where I was
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before I think he went I think he went
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around the here but pretty close there
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goes one of the bubbles right there look
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bubbles they're like all up there that's
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that's interesting where are they coming
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from where are those bubbles coming from
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oh they're coming from over there
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there's the bubble guy down there I got
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to go see bubble go oh Go Bubbles Go Go
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Go Bubbles
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go like that out Isn't that cool so he's
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just like yeah it's like out he finds a
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good spot in the wind and then lets the
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bubbles go out of that little uh
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mechanism there they go They're flowing
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they're flowing they going by going by
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oh look at
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that oh they're dropping in it used to
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be that both the attractions so while
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the ferris wheel and the coaster were
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solar powered probably still is here at
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Pacific Park maybe probably still is
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solar power a lot of sun got everyone
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out on the beach enjoying the the Rays
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the last day of August as the wavs are
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lightly crashing here on the Santa
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Monica Pier there's also some buskers
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doing some dancing some break dancing if
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You' like to call I guess you would call
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it busking where they all have their
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group of dancers and they're all doing
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things along the pier very rarely though
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in the past I remember like big groups
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of people watching the the break dancers
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on the pier usually you see that at
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Venice Beach and things but they have
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kind of engulfed half of the pier
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they've just taken over the pier with
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their their dance troop breaking it down
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kind of cool to see it definitely uh
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definitely part of the vibe being either
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at Venice or Santa Monica are the break
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dancing and the dancing buskers reaching
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the end of the pier the pier was
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destroyed in a really bad storm many
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years ago but of course they replaced it
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fixed it all up got the harbor Office
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right there and then you got this
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seafood place here on the end of the
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pier not a bad deal all the magnets and
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things outside are two for $5 that's
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pretty good for a
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touristy section over there if you want
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to get although there we go a couple
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Santa Monica items on there there's an
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LA
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66 yeah all these are 2
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five the end of
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2,44 look at this uh is that a hammer
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head up top thing think it is w I never
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noticed all the dollar bills in here all
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along you can put your dollar up on the
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wall there's a big fish up there look at
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this they even have some International
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money up top as well I was like uh I
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never I don't I think I've been in here
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but I don't remember this gentleman too
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this kind of looks like uh gosh who does
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that looks like one of those ones in the
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little machines that you put in and uh
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he'll talk to you papy it's like a papy
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almost maybe that's like a nod to Route
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66 goodness
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there right this little tiny little gift
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shop Tiny cramped and Tiny kind of like
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uh kind of like there's shells in this
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bottle right
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here oh look they still call these shot
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glasses theme parks they call them
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toothpick
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holders on the end of the pier everybody
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everybody fishing got their poles out
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got their bait
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out I can hear some
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seagulls I hear some seagulls up here I
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hear
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something I can't tell if it's the sound
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of Seagulls or
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not I also think of Rocky
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three when
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Apollo and Stallone are running right
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Apollo and Rocky are running right along
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here so that's the spot here where
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Forest Gump was standing in the movie
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right there when he's running all over
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the US heat just felt like running and
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here's the directional air I've never
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noticed this before North is that
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direction West that direction South that
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direction and I am standing dead East
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right there yeah that's where that's
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where Forest stood
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all right this is pretty cool if you
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come up here up the wooden stairs they
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have what it looked like back in the day
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almost facing the same direction so
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that's where I walked in that's where
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the ferris wheel would be over here and
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this is what it looked like look at the
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skyline back there of Santa Monica way
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back in the day there's the pier facing
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the same direction I'm looking right
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over here here is a modern day look at
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what I just showed right up here on the
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edge right up here on the pier a here on
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the pier View
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I didn't mean to make that rhyme but I
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did love this love this love this area
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just quintessential La spot get a little
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selfie
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slvy for posterity because it's a video
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selfie for posterity here there we go
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this I'm going to walk back down there
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love hearing the waves
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crashing in fact it was right underneath
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there up towards the shoreline you can't
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get underneath that now because they've
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kind of barricaded off you can kind of
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squeeze in past the fences and stuff but
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right underneath there was using
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Fletch when he gets gets approached
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underneath there and made the
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offer just entail me dressing up as
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little bow beep oh it's nothing of the
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sexual nature I assure you yes I assure
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you something very soothing about those
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waves crashing now cuz usually there's
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so much noise hoot nannies Hollow along
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the pier that you kind of ruin it kind
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of I want say it ruins but you don't
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really hear the waves crashing when
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you're on the pier but in this
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particular spot it's kind of quiet you
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can hear waves CR of course I'm talking
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over it so it kind of ruins the whole
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thing that way so my
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apologies well they're not being quiet
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people behind me are
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and speaking of Threes Company there's
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the carousel right there where all of
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them were on including Don knots was on
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there as well going around the little
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turn standing up on there was Don not
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John Ritter and the rest of the cast
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love Threes Company I love this still
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exists this building has been here a
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long time you can dig up tons of old
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photos of the merry gound building it is
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a staple of Santa Monica Pier all right
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I'm going to start heading over to
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Venice over at hot dog on the stick I
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got some Sour Patch Kid lemonade
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watermelon flavored limited edition
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lemonade from what was the original hot
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dog on stick but they tore it down a few
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years ago and rebuilt it to look exactly
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the same right here was the side of the
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original Muscle Beach where Ani used to
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lift pump some iron getting a San out
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here of course it moved over to Venice
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and I'm also kind of disappointed to see
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that chess park right now which is
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usually open 6:00 a.m. till 11:00 p.m.
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has nothing going on on a weekend so I'm
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imagine maybe they've closed up chess
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Park they have all the chairs and chest
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pieces over there not sure why but
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there's no one playing chess in chess
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Park which is kind of disappointing cuz
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it was always kind of neat to see people
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out here playing chess in the sun
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everyone out here working
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out getting a tan I just looked it up on
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the GPS says it's about 2 mile walk from
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here to the boardwalk of Venice Beach a
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little farther to the pier I'm not going
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to walk all the way the pier so I'm
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going to walk to two miles there walk
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the two miles back back un last those
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skateboards would be pretty nice never
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be able to do
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that just swing on those like that that
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is it's pretty impressive to be
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honest I probably ripped my arms out of
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the socket she got it down to a science
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though I think she's probably done that
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a few times pretty
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good she going back the other
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way wow
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this gu's limbering up a little bit here
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getting all
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loose all right here's a really intense
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Wheel of Fortune moment because I have
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no idea what this sign SI you can see a
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little bit of lettering there but it's
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like it's either been spray painted over
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or the humidity well there's not
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humidity here so it wouldn't be the
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humidity compared to Florida I would say
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that in Florida but here I don't know
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what the heck that says what is that
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supposed to say it says caution
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something but I don't know what I'm
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supposed to be cautious
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of people play volleyball out here kind
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of giving me top gun
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Vibes bike path and running path is
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hopping today
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I would really classify those as bikes
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though because they're electric those
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are not paddle powered I mean guess they
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are a bicycle but
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yeah ooh does this
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apply okay that's a gray area right cuz
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even though it's electric it this
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considered motor motor I don't know I
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don't know what the rules are I always
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like the different Vehicles you see out
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here I think I've seen this one
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before it's old bus painted like a US
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flag
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pretty cool I like these little things
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you can rent
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those
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right so I'm not up to the two mile
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Point yet but I am
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entering the
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section
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hello
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Venice kind of wish the GV was in town I
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believe he's out of the country German
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and Venice territory
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no bicycles
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Allowed no bicycles
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allowed sure that's said here too very
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well B like a fancy new building they
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put right there and then uh no bikes on
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board walk being out of here too very
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very well it's like this little area
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here on the corner of Dudley is all
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blocked fenced off this used to be a
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little seating area kind of reminds me
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of the spot from Tenacious D Pick of
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Destiny where Kyle and or kg and Jack
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Black meat Jim Morrison over there on
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the end and Maryland little murals here
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here on the speedway that's what they
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call this little section that one's
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parallel to the beach Speedway another
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nice mural okay see you
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okay got some valet parking taking over
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this parking lot there a building right
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back there now it's like a store it's
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like a little gift shop or something but
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it used to be a tattoo shop where I got
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this number five right there my arm when
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I accomplished back in
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2017 5 years in a row of daily Vlogs in
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a row and that took a little bit of a
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break and now I'm kind of daily again
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but yeah 2017 I got that five tattoo to
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symbolize 5 years in a row of not
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missing a day of daily Vlogs and then I
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missed some and then came back I do not
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recall ever seeing this mural this might
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be a new one it's an homage to starving
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night since 1990 but I don't remember
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seeing this here before not that I know
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every mural along here through Venice
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but I just don't recall seeing that
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maybe it's just the homage to one that
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used to be there since 1990 yeah it's
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hopping down here today there's a lot of
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people out here I mean it is it is
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summer famous people lived in this very
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building right here I believe is that
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chaplain right there lived there 1915 to
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16 I best know this know this from the
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Stallone movie Cobra however this was
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hon Cobra yeah it is hopping over there
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going to walk from here over to the big
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V and then also over to the skate park
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check out the skate park over there see
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what's happening yeah I've been down
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here a lot of times I think this is
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probably the most busy it's been in a
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long time since I've been out here it's
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probably been a year year and a half
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since well probably a year since
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been according to the sign it's known as
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the Venice Beach Skate Plaza that is how
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it is technically named this area over
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here I've always heard is a free spray
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paint Zone like anyone can come over
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here and spray paint and you won't get
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hassled or yelled at and even if there
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were signs they probably enforce it just
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like they do riding bikes on the
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boardwalk probably not at all look at
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these trees have been spray painted the
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trees themselves have been spray
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painted watch out trees you're going to
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get a nice dose of spray
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paint like they're having a concert or
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something down here too
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family
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of this is our
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family the ones that do the will of
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God for
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said these are my Breen this is my
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mother do not get
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discouraged doesn't matter what
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comes even go against you doesn't matter
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disciples on
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the the giant of giants is with
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you and he's not going to lose this
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battle with
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you but you must
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understand want you recognize today is
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with
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you he will not going to forsake you
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he's not going to rebuke
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you you're the one who separated
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yourself from
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him but he's bringing you back to the
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house of the
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father maybe you didn't have the love of
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a
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father they abandon you they hurt
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you but the father of fathers is here to
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tell tell you how much he loves you he
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loves
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you turn your back to the
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devil and prise the Lord
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even oh there a guy with a snake down
26:04
there look at that he's got a big snake
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even though the GV has closed his shop
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up here look at this his uh his sign
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still up top right there
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GV also no bikes on the boardwalk please
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there's no bikes on the boardwalk
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according to this washboard yeah it's
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turning out to a pretty nice day two M
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walk not too bad a Cas casual quick
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stroll and then I'm going to go back
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also you could rent a bike you can rent
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a skateboard you could ride a skateboard
26:36
ride share vehicles or also the guys
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that will sit you on the back of their
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bicycle and ride down there you can
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probably hop a ride a lot of nice caring
26:43
people all with a very generous heart
26:45
out here but I just decided I just
26:47
decided to walk it's a nice house that
26:50
is Bikini Bay right there look at that
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bikini Bay here's the main area here I
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always love that mural right here on the
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side of this little building right here
26:59
this is the area used very very
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prominently Touch of Evil Charlton hon
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was walking right through here I did a
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whole whole detail filming location a
27:08
few years on it but that building was us
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in
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it certain areas like Hollywood
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Boulevard Venice Beach you get certain
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sections where guys will try to sell you
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their quote unquote CDs which I don't
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even know if they really if it's really
27:30
their music on them there used to be a
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few of them kind of together and I've
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learned from living in Hollywood walking
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on the boulevard just never acknowledge
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them if you don't if you don't want to
27:39
have an interaction and don't want to be
27:41
kind of hassled to give them a few bucks
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for something and then take their
27:45
signature usually the move is they try
27:47
to stick it like right in your chest
27:49
like they'll like kind of go like this
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oh this is for you man this is for you
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you just kind of like just keep walking
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just look at it keep walking don't even
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don't even acknowledge it or say
27:58
anything what I do have the camera in
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one hand I grab my phone in the other so
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there's nothing they can put they can
28:04
put the product or put the CD into so
28:06
the only choice they have to do is just
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like try to put it towards your chest
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and you just keep walking if you say if
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they ask you where you're from or you
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make any kind of like verbal contact
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with them they've kind of like hooked
28:17
you in and they'll ask you to sign the
28:18
CD and then they ask you for a couple
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dollars so if you don't want to if you
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want to avoid all of that I've just
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learned keep walking never never
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acknowledge it and never grab the CD
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don't grab the CD I show where Muscle
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Beach used to be it's been over here for
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many many years there's plenty of people
28:32
over here working out getting a little
28:34
Fitness on at the Muscle Beach section
28:36
over here working at that's right and a
28:38
lot of people playing basketball out
28:40
here as well this is a key area for the
28:42
movie White Men Can't Jump I think it
28:44
was filmed closer over to Santa Monica
28:46
but basically in the same area all right
28:47
in fact I don't think it was Santa
28:49
Monica but it was not these courts right
28:51
here it was the Venice courts that are
28:53
maybe like another like 6 700 yards that
28:56
way quarter of a mile that way right as
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entering that hello Venice sign that's
29:00
over there that's where the basketball
29:01
cour was as far as I can remember
29:03
correctly I me a couple people told me
29:05
that that was the that was the spot
29:06
right there but I used to always think
29:08
it was this spot but evidently they
29:09
built the they built the they built the
29:11
basketball courts in a parking lot way
29:13
over there see what they got down here
29:15
on this other end up he's going in and
29:19
got it no bikes through here no bikes
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through here
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please no bikes are here that's been up
29:26
there a long time the mural of the guy
29:29
spray painting the sign spray painting
29:31
Venice so the guy spray painted and the
29:33
word Venice spray painted up top there
29:37
many years ago I think it was around the
29:39
2 2017 era the same time that I got the
29:41
tattoo right up here used to be the
29:43
Venice Beach free show used to be right
29:46
inside here and they're not there
29:48
anymore I don't know if the city wanted
29:51
them out or what happened but yeah used
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to be right in there right inside there
29:55
no bikes on the no bikes on the thing I
29:57
don't think anyone l really is a nice
29:59
day out
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here planes going by up top
30:19
Vibes always like this little area the
30:19
gingerbread Court you can definitely
30:21
tell this has been here forever look at
30:23
the architecture of this thing probably
30:26
used to be old uh Apartments of some
30:28
sort this was a d23 the Agatha all along
30:31
bus now it's over here in
30:49
now see the pier over there in the
30:49
distance Santa Monica and you see the
30:51
coaster from here dropping in circling
30:54
around
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underneath this little walkway as soon
31:11
as this drops in showing
31:14
that go underneath the
31:17
pier cuz that circles around
32:15
well there's vendors all down the
32:15
sidewalk leading to the beach now it is
32:17
definitely very very busy out here last
32:21
day of
32:23
August and back up on the pier level now
32:33
all right I did it Santa Monica to
32:33
Venice walked it back and forth oh
32:35
goodness look at that little bottleneck
32:37
of traffic there PCH at this
32:40
moment it's getting a lot busier weekend
32:44
it's Santa Monica it happens and the
32:47
weather's nice so it helps too head back
32:49
back over the parking structure where I
32:51
parked head back out going underneath
32:53
the backside of the Santa Monica Archway
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oh there's freaking Chewbacca look at
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that there's chewy right there I see
33:01
Chewbacca I see some
33:03
Stormtroopers look at that there's chewy
33:05
I don't know if I've ever seen chewy and
33:07
the Troopers out here before but you
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know what today I did today I did