The Donut Hole Food Review at Back To The Future Mall - Iconic Filming Location with Coffee & Donuts
The Donut Hole in La Puente California & Back To The Future Mall
Transcript
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welcome everyone adam the woo here
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today's adventure begins in the city of
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industry the subject matter
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is about five miles up the way
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and i started to realize the general
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vicinity of where i was headed
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was right next to a filming location
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from my all-time
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favorite movie the puente
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hills mall does this ring a bell in any
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way
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whatsoever going back to 1985 i have
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visited this very
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pavement probably 50 times
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over my life in fact the very first time
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i visited california
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many years ago this was on the agenda
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for the
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for the thing i wanted to see above
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and beyond everything else when i
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crossed the state line
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within a matter of hours if not that
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first day
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i was here to just soak in the ambiance
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of back to the future
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uh a movie i hold a very special place
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in my heart and over the years
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i started as i was kind of pulling in
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near the
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the same little pathway that the libyans
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were cruising in
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and and right here also this is where
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where marty
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skateboards down or jogs down depending
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on what
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what portion of the film you were
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watching
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i started to get a little emotional not
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really so much because of the movie
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but because of back in 2016 i did a
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meet up right over there
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with a group of people you really can't
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see it because of the
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the foliage but right over there
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and hundreds and hundreds
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of people showed up to say hello to me
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and that man it blows my mind
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that it's even progressed since then my
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career here on this platform has
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continued
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i've always said i don't say thank you
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enough but i am
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very thankful to be where i am in my
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life
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and the decisions i have made and the
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fact that anyone cares
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about what i do and thinking about
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about when quite a congregation of folks
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showed up over there it really it really
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it really really gets the feels all
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right i'm i'm rambling too much
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also soup plantation sweet tomatoes
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what we call it on the east coast right
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here on the west coast soup plantation
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which is
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no more goodbye soup plantation i
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i consume many of your meals not only at
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this location but
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at all over all over the country
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going down this little angle here
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the signage was right there the prop
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and gonna go down this
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very steep oh i hope i don't slip on
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those
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i hope i do not slip down on
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okay i gotta finish the intro i gotta
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finish the intro here whoa
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it's amazing how he took a tumble right
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here
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because i don't know if i would want to
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do that all right let's get on with the
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episode i'm inviting you
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to join me
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who do you think 88 miles
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i do the worst talk impression i'm
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inviting you to join me
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they found me i don't know how they
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found me
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it's very echoey run for it barney
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so cool this this wasn't
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going to be part of this adventure but
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yeah
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when you're nearby you have to you have
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to swing by here i'm inviting you to
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join me
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as i go over to the donut hole
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a few miles away shout you hello little
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bee
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i don't know what sure your name is but
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i'm gonna nickname you
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doc and i'm gonna put my tripod here
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don't mind me b i'm just gonna put the
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tripod here
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if you would have told 11 year old
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me living in the panhandle of florida at
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that time
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in 1985 i lived in a little community
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called niceville
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and my family and i would walk back to
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the future on vhs
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at least three to five times a week
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mostly on tv trays would be watching
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the television while we consumed our
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dinner
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i had the movie memorized within the
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first year
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and that vhs tape was completely worn
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out if you would have told
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11 year old me
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that i would live 30 minutes
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give or take with traffic from
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this iconic spot i don't know if i would
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have believed you
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that's another little side note i wanted
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to throw in there
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you know kind of brings everything in my
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and just everything is so great
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someone could have looked at my younger
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self and said
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everything will be fine
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and it has been you're right big the
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foot the opportunity to have an
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empty lot like this does not happen
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every day i should take advantage of it
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for sure
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we'll just we'll just recreate the
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delorean path
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before heading over to get myself a
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doughnut and a
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piping hot this is the general vicinity
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it's not it's not precise
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and i i realize i'm not in the exact
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it's a few inches away
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from where marty jumped in the delorean
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pulled off here now movie magic they
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make that scene
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seem so much longer than it really is
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and
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it would be hard to get any vehicle up
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to 88 miles per hour
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right through here but he cuts over a
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bit on this side
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somewhere in this area here peels out
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turns dramatically
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and you can see those little pylons
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over he's kind of zigzagging i'm just
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kind of swerving a little bit
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get your sea legs big the foot and
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makes a sharp turn here
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this is the moment of truth whoa
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over that little speed bump or speed
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hump now from here to that pole
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the delorean would have got up to 88
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miles per hour so
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picking up the pace picking up the pace
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i'm not i'm only going it's only going
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20 let's slow down
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right here
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oh i agree big the foot that is
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way more impressive than i thought it
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was gonna be
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holy cow the donut hole
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states it's the quality a drive-through
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they have
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coffee and donuts and you pull your
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vehicle
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right past this foliage down the
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driveway there is an entry point there
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or you can enter from this side of the
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road
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as well there's a couple parking spots
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that i have procured
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there's also another one over there
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see if we can oh i thought they were
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turning in
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now obviously i'm gonna drive through
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that's the post office over there i'm
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gonna drive through here in a moment
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i just wanted to get out first and give
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a perspective of this entire
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facility wow hey you just it's very
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narrow
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there you go right through the middle
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there
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how oh i can already though the smell is
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wafting
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towards me there is a walk-up window
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okay yeah there's also a walk-up window
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how cool is that located on the corner
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of
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elliott's and amar road
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that's where this almost a quirky
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roadside attraction and
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eatery can be found
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if i'm pronouncing that correctly
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it's a large donut on this side and a
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large donut on the other side
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i was hoping to get someone pulling
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through
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maybe it's maybe it's all up to me
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standing here a few minutes
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they are open
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all right i'm going in and the time it
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took to go
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to an atm just in case they're cash only
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didn't want to take a chance needed some
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need some cash in the wallet
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didn't want to get stuck inside that
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donut hole not being able to turn around
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time took me to go to an atm and get
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back
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a little bit of a line now
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a vast difference than it was just five
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minutes ago
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maybe it's just a coincidence never know
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just waiting for my turn to enter the
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donut hole
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i'm so ready now there are some
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discrepancies on when this was created
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the first one was in 63.
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some say this was 68 that this facade
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was built but
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this one could have been in 63 it's
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really really hard to tell also a couple
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other movie locations took place here as
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well
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moving violations and the late 80s
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dragnet which if i remember correctly
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had dan aykroyd and tom hanks
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it's been a while i think that's who
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starred in that it's happening
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going in and yes according to the
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interwebs
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it has been struck by a few vehicles
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during its tenure i do not want to be
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one of those uh gotta be careful
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now they do have these little stanchions
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i don't really know how well that would
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help
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you know if you veer off but it might
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help a little bit and on either side are
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windows where you can choose which item
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you want to purchase
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brake lights in front of me are being
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activated they might be moving soon
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perhaps or maybe not
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it was just a tease i see the cashier's
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hand up there in the end
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okay i thought we were moving
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i'm not moving up we're moving
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going forward this is happening
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yes
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there's the menu board up top and i
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think i'm just going to get oh it does
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look pretty good good
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i think i'm just going to get maybe a
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mix of like three or four
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yeah oh there's some oh look at those
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they have the
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they have the strawberries in there
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there's some glaze there's some m
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m's here's some hours here oh yeah it is
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cash only so i made the right choice
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on that hours are as shown
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and it says here there is no walk up
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drive through only so
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walk up is closed for the time being but
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there are quite a few
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quite a few menu items here i didn't
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choose those but those look very
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decorative there's a little rainbow
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and candy corn on the on that one
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accomplished got my snack
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and my caffeinated beverage and i'm
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gonna head back over to the mall
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yeah i think i'm gonna head back over to
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the mall only a few miles away and eat
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my
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eat my donuts there see you later donut
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hole
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glad i experienced you total was just
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under five dollars
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for and change already been sipping on
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the coffee a little bit
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and this is a yeah i've returned
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to the f2 pole
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right here i could sit over
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at the incline or couldn't rest
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i don't even need to point a lot of this
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out
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some that are viewing this know exactly
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everything that happened and where
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camera is pointing there
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and the camera is pointing there
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when this baby hits 88 miles per hour
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you're gonna see some serious donuts
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i think someone's been doing donuts out
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here as well
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yeah see the see the tire markings
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there yeah speaking of donuts
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okay i'm gonna enjoy these i realize
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that the coffee is is very mild
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and more of a of a i don't like it too
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strong
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i like definitely like a lot of caffeine
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but i don't like the better like to have
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the bitterness
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in a lot of ways as i slurp on my coffee
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i got two of the glazed that is a
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that is a decent sized glaze right there
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with all the
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the icing protruding off of it
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tasty fresh donuts piping hot coffee
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the back to the future mall
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very relaxing very nice certainly there
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are worse
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i wonder if they still have the
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recreation of the twin pines mall sign
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inside the mall maybe i'll walk in there
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and look
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and double check it could be