Rambo First Blood (1982) Filming Locations In Hope Canada - A Bucket List Day In Small Town BC
Rambo First Blood In Hope Canada
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welcome everyone Adam the woo here with
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nerd
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locations I am at a place that is a huge
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bucket list for me
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1982 classic action film Rambo first
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Blood sester Stallone Richard krena
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Brian Dene we made it man we made it
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hope British
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Columbia
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Canada this is a this is a big bucket
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list for me to be here
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I think all 8s kids love this movie this
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was Timeless I think of greatest action
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movies for me that's ever been made Die
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Hard Lethal Weapon First Blood the the
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trilogy The Holy TR Trilogy I can't
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argue with that so we are standing right
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here where the police station
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was here in Hope British col Columbia
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Canada that Brian Dene walks out at the
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very beginning talks to the locals asks
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him if is ever going to take a
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bath just just I I'm really having a
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hard time wrapping my head around the
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fact that we are here this is like nerd
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overload being
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here so basically we're not Reinventing
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the wheel here this has been covered by
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many people shout out to herv Asia or
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herva I'm not sure how to pronounce his
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name one of the greatest filming
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location videos ever in the early days
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of YouTube he did the top tier video
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this is going to we're just going to
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basically just kind of walk around hope
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and see what we can see and share some
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of our memories about one of the
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greatest greatest action movies ever
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made Stallone in his prime inviting you
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to join me and nerd
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locations shall you yeah I kind of lost
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my train of thought there in the intro
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I'm just really overwhelmed to be here I
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would definitely probably put this in my
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top five of filming lo location places I
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would wanted to go top five or top 10
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as the recording of This TGF Friday
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March 7th
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2025 the fact that they built the police
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station here
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just to get rid of it to destroy it
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think of Brian Dene up on the roof right
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here you think of all the scenes inside
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at the end with Stallone gives his
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speech about how he couldn't even get a
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job now coming back from from the war
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parking car cars all happened right here
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right here think of Stallone on taking
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the guy's motorcycle and driving down
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the road we're going to match a few few
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screenshots
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up basically I just want to walk around
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the town and see what hope is
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like get the vibe little First Blood
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Vibe they your first blood they your
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first blood in fact
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right here is where Stallone John Rambo
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rips the guy off the bike grabs that
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motorcycle and then heads through town
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right in this very spot where this
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zambones type of street
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cleaner cleaning the street right
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here
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again police station was right here
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pivotal scenes at the beginning pivotal
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scenes at the
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end teasel's men he's going to send 200
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of his best
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men we just need to remember one thing a
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good supply of body bags very
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interesting carvings through here as
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well so it'll be a little be a little
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Rambo and it'll be a little small town
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video as well a little mixture of
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both curious to see if any place around
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here sells any Rambo stuff in the mid
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80s I think it was around 85 886 I had a
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vcr and I would record things off TV and
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the first time I ever saw it I recorded
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it off of one of the major networks had
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it on at night it was an edited version
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so they cut out some of the more violent
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stuff and some of the profanity they
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toned it down even though it still was
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in there and I had it with the
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commercials I would pause it for the
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commercials movie came out in ' 82 so I
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saw it 3 years after that probably in 85
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886 and I would watch that VHS over and
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over and I wore that VHS copy of the TV
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version out and that is what has etched
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in my mind I've seen it many times since
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then but I still have the VHS version in
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my mind and one thing that always sticks
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out to me was how the police station was
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here and the very beginning
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scene when Brian Dene walks out he walks
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down the staircase kind of like Taps his
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belly like he just had a nice little
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breakfast or something so he was full
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that's maybe why he didn't want to give
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Stallone something to eat hey somewh
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around here I get something to eat but
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he was he was not accommodating but I
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always remember Dene walking down here
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that walking down the staircase of the
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station that was right
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there just very surreal to be standing
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here in all all honesty also that clock
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up there is completely wrong that's not
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the right time Broken Clock here at Hope
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yeah I'm just picturing John Rambo
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busting out of the doors running down
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here he didn't want to be
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shaved he's tough shave him
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dry so many great lines what was the bit
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when they opened the fire hose on
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there make sure you get them behind the
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ears and when you watch the film again
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it's been what 43 years wild to say that
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there was an old coca vintage Coca-Cola
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sign right there and there was a Rexall
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drugstore in this section this is where
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teasel gets a in his police car and
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starts to make his rounds kind of where
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that maroon truck is driving that's
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where teasel would have gone driven that
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way yeah one scene that always sticks
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out to me was I always wonder why he was
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riding on the sidewalk when he could
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have been in the road but he wanted
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everybody to get out of the way see
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there's like a green pole here to the
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right and then over here are these red
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concrete bricks which means he would
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have been right here
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In This Very spot he could have just
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been in the road but he was riding along
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here out of the way hey out of the
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way definitely see why they chose this
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location it's very Scenic with the
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mountain range and everything right here
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in fact you can even see him driving the
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motorcycle right past this now abandoned
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hotel with the old Neon right there and
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turning this corner this is still the
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same fields in the movie there was a
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fields and I'm just going to assume
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because in the movie he sticks his head
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around the corner of a building and he
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sees the fields I want to walk around
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the corner here and see if that's where
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the staircase is with the fam there's a
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one iconic moment where the shadow of
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him turns the corner I'm going to see if
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it's over here I almost feel like there
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used to be a staircase
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here and this could have been the wall
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where the shadow was because he turns
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and he comes around and then he sees the
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fields but I think maybe the staircase
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is gone yeah I'm pretty sure a lot of
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things have changed but I'm pretty sure
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it was over this
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way there's like a they had a light
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reflecting so it kind of presented him
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in a very ominous form when he kind of
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came around the corner and I think that
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was right here
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I think right here was the scene where
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he comes around it's projected on there
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goes around the side of the building and
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then you see you see the
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fields I do love this is still the same
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grocery
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store little Coca-Cola action up
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here at Peters Food Market in
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Delhi they have
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lotto and a
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nice grocer sign right there
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there's another angle right here showing
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the
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town it's interesting when you go to
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certain filming locations especially
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movies you've seen so many
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times you just feel like you're in the
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movie
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when you walk around places I've
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experienced that a lot of times and I'm
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definitely feeling it
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now think must be some good fish in here
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in this
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Lake yeah this is where he's walking in
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into town I believe this is the same
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Chevron also block past Hudson Bay
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Street so Rambo's walking in this
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way oh look at
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this look at this corner of water AV in
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Hudson Bay
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Street I just want something to
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eat I just want something to eat
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hey
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hey why you pushing me is it wor
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something to
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eat made your first
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blood made your first
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Blood that's so
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cool I know I still Lo thought on point
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but got to do it
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just looking for some lunch I just want
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eat this is so cool
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man this is the old uh train station
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right here which I believe there's a
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scene in the motorcycle he's going past
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a set of trees this was behind it and
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they've since moved it and evidently
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they're restoring the train station we
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go over to those trees I'll show where
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the train station used to be and the
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Hope Visitor Center is just a little
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small
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trailer right here see what they got and
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they embrac us fully there's all the
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information is out there there's no
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secret where the spots are anymore again
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we're not Reinventing the wheel here or
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showing anything that hasn't been shown
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before but I had to show up here and
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hope Cascades and canyons really embrace
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it look at this hope British Columbia is
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known as the home of
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Rambo this is where he's walking in they
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built this gas station for the purpose
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of exploding yeah look at this number
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three right there that's the train
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station right there that's the that's
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the trees where he's doing the
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wheelie right there also The Outpost
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we'll go over to where that is so we'll
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grab a little we'll grab a little photo
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of this just to Showcase it they are
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really embrace it here the Hope self
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guide at Rambo first Blood filming
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location walking tour there is a John
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Rambo carving it's only on dis displ
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spring through fall though there a share
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of diesel carbon as
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well I don't know if they're out though
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I think that's supposed to be over
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by yeah they weren't there supposed to
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be right
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there they only on location on display
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spring through fall yeah so right here
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number
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one there's The Visitor Center so just
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up is uh is where it all
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begins he doesn't want him to go there
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he wants him to
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to get out of
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town There's the H tree they call it
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right there the H
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tree Rambo races The Stolen motorbike we
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just showed
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that man this is cool this is
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cool oh look at this he blows up the
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Transformer with the famous field sign
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in the
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background there is a Rambo
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Lane number 12 yeah Rambo Lane where's
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that at
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number 12 right here right there we got
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to find Ram I'm going to take a snap
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snapshot of
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this see if they have a paper map or any
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other info in here let's find out about
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John J oh look at this here's the book
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that came out in 72 I think for 10 years
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from what I was reading after 10 years
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they tried making the movie then finally
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Stallone adopted the the book and made
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it into a film at
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the didn't have a lot of oh look at this
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it's a Brian Den
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shirt you like to mail a rambow I would
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like yes I'm GNA buy that hey look at
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this so he
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will
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hey your first blood if you want I can
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look at this
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phone is the is the teasel sculpture out
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carving out it's not out right now that
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is good they usually don't have either
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one out in the winter okay um and then
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they put it back out in the the summer
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but this year they made a decision to
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bring uh our new security guard to The
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Visitor Center so he's here so is there
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a story behind these or just to
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commemorate yeah
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just that is awesome there's been so
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many things broken off of him and
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replaced and what not what not this is
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so good one thing about Hope Adam is
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they love wood carvings at night they do
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a lot of wood carvings I can give you a
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little guide so you can there's over 100
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carvings over a 100 carvings
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yeah want something to eat man that's a
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great poster that's a great
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poster you know you think about this
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cast would not this movie would not be
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what it was obviously without salon and
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krina it's interesting that Richard
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krina got top building next to
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Bri kind of way down
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here here and then there's just t look
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at these are little like 1982 First
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Blood canned
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Toppers right
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there if you don't drink your soda
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you're going to put this on you can save
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the soda for later chili
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fill this these are only $1.70 each take
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my I got of them around the back you can
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build your own Rambo you can get Rambo
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out of town just got a lot easier and
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take a look so Gro bridge this is where
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din he dropped him off cuz he didn't
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want him eating in town we're going to
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go out there but the original Bridge was
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torn down and they sell parts of the
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bridge so you can get this little vial
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here for
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$10 or you can get a piece of it there
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here's a shot glass it's got a bullet
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through
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it oh dude
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Rambo John
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J oh dude this is I gotta get this
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that's amazing that's that's the one
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terrible phone that is freaking awesome
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what is this piece of the it's part of
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the it's a bullet made out of the bridge
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look at that's the original Bridge right
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there an authentic piece of the lake
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bridge from Hope British Columbia made
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famous for use some First Blood you know
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what's great is in a lot of movies will
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just tear stuff down and throw it away
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they had the sense to keep some of it
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for us
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fans they actually saw the posters
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too should I get a piece of the
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bridge a little keychain right here and
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then you have the 40th anniversary
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keychain of course that was three years
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ago time just keeps moving
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on PO Parts here man I wish I could see
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that teasel that is really well done of
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good it's over Johny it's over so I have
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the dog t
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on Rambo would not tell them his name so
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they had to rip the dog tag off John J
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J was a Congressional Medal of Honor
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winner Green
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Beret John
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J well teasel was not happy that he that
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he killed his friend so he was going to
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take that Congressional Medal of Honor
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he was going to pin it to his liver
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that's our G boy I was friends with him
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when your mama was still wiping your
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nose it's also the chainsaw carving
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capital of the world quote we have a
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comptition this August a competition for
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the chainsaw carving yeah yeah so Ryan
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Villard should be there he's the one who
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did Rambo oh really yeah okay is he from
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here he's local yeah he's not from po
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here then it's that's something that
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they can take with
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them
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so all right we got our
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merch let's go see some spots thank you
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thank you Margaret and are you guys
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staying for lunch we don't know you have
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something you recommend all right she
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suggested there was a pub next to ano
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gas station that has a Rambo
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Burger I'm SOG a ramburger I'm so glad
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we walked in here we stepped inside and
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we met the legend did meet the legend
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you know watching the movie so many
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times when you see teasel drive his
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Cruiser up you can tell it was a very
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steep incline and now I'm seeing this
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and you know that's it where he's
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driving up cuz I was like man he's
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driving up a steep hill and it does not
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disappoint it's pretty
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steep I did not realize this was the
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carving capital of quote the world
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unquote the wood carving capital of the
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world they have a worldwide competition
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here every year you think think
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Stallone's ever uh taken a chainsaw and
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carved a chunk of wood I think he made
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them all really in my mind yeah the
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thing that's really awesome about this
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so you can just see
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how Den's car is like angled so high up
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but look over here obviously it's a
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different sign but still a
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Chevron that
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is
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man right there there's the hill there's
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the Chevron
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teasel's Cruiser right
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here so just think if we're walking
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there's our shadows we're walking we
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just want to get something to eat and
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then all of a sudden the local police
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chief shows up and just gives us a hard
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time doesn't want us in town he doesn't
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like our kind vagrants
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Drifters he runs a quiet town he doesn't
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need us
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man this is like
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so surreal standing right in the spot I
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can just picture and I can it's weird
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because I can hear in my mind I can hear
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the wheels of the car CU there was no
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music during that that particular
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scene pulling up here I could like I'm
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it's just
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visually in my brain and my hearing I
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don't know it's weird hard to explain
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I'm not making any sense during the
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motorcycle
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chase he jumps the stunt man for
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Stallone jumps the motorcycle
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right off here quite a launch they did
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like a Dukes of Hazard style thing
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probably set up some sort of a ramp
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there to give it that that little nice
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little air and the teasel's cruiser also
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follows suit ramps
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off yeah teasel had no idea the hell he
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was about to unleash upon Hope by just
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not letting John J Rambo get a bite to
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eat that's all he wanted was something
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to eat so right here also I'm hearing a
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chainsaw someone's doing some
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carving well I think you're just cutting
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down some limbs I guess right here was
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probably where the train station used to
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used to be in that H tree which is
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called right
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here Stallone did a lot of the stunts
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himself on the motorcycle but some of
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the more extreme stunts he had a stunt
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man
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do but I just think of like pivotal
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moments that are etched in my head core
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memories of the movie
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I always think of him going this way the
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camera is facing the other way and I
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always think of him doing the the
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wheelie through
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here that's awesome that's it that's the
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angle right there at least I think it is
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yeah that train station was definitely
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in that same
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spot oh you know what it might have been
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the other way might have been looking
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back the other way I may be incorrect if
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you look here see that little hump down
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there looks like it might have been
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facing the other
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way that was definitely this direction
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there used to be a house here had a
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little small house and then behind it
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was a bigger house it was like a
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two-piece house train tracks are right
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there so obviously the train station
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would have been right there and this is
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where John J Rambo possibly that scene
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would have been Salone had to rewatch
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that clip
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but driven right by here does the little
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does the wheelie right there from this
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angle I was thinking it was the other
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way but it's look in this
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direction the train station was right
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there along the
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tracks it's freaking cool man documented
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for my for posterity me standing in
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front of the H tree right there coming
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around the
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corner that's my imitation of a
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motorcycle wonder if this car knows that
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they're in movie driving along movie
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history right now so here's a skate park
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hippie Mike's skate park
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Society right up there HMI hippie Mike
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Industries skate park
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Society is there an indoor skate park or
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no it's over here
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back in
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there interesting hippie
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mics they have skateboard lessons
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too it's
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neat getting the feel of the Town a real
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beehive of activity here at
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bees and also these trash cans are here
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and they're designed like this for Bears
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to not be able to get inside the trash
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you put your hand in there and that's
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how you open it up because a bear claw
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is bigger than a human hand now this is
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very interesting probably just a very
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bizarre coincidence but there is a
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Kitchen and Bar here named
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stallones spelled the same way as
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Sylvester's last
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name interesting coincidence right next
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to the washtub laundry mat of the lady
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at the gift shop or the lady at
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the The Welcome Center said that we
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would be surprised to know that one of
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the laundry mats in town has Rambo stuff
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could it be the
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washtub let's find
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out washtub laundry
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mat look at this look at
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this yep they have T-shirts
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$20 3 years ago was the 40th anniversary
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four Decades of John J Rambo here at the
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Wash Tub they're heavily promoting
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it a little Coca-Cola action let's stop
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inside see what they got inside the
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laundry at the washtub LA laet you call
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it a
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laet okay they have merchandise so you
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could buy a T-shirt and then wear it and
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then come back here and wash it after
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the fact I like this I might well I'm
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not going to might I'm going to buy
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this I'm guessing these are for sale
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right yep okay
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cool yeah check it out they really uh
26:12
really embrace it
26:13
here this is a really cool laundry mat
26:16
right the wash tub laet was
26:19
awesome lady was working in there I'm
26:22
assuming she was the owner was very nice
26:24
she said all that merchandise was
26:25
printed for the 40th a few years ago and
26:27
they did not have our sizes they were
26:29
drastically too small but man that was
26:32
the that was an awesome shirt if you are
26:35
a medium siiz Rambo fan that was small
26:39
man for a small size Rambo fan come to
26:41
the wash tub have the best are there are
26:44
are there any Smalls siiz Rambo fans
26:46
let's be honest now the main road I
26:48
guess you could call it their main
26:49
street is Wallace Street it's this one
26:52
stretch of road right here you got the
26:56
grocery store Buy Low food
26:59
foods but pretty much all the
27:03
shops are on Wallace
27:06
Street I would just call that their main
27:09
street if you
27:15
want classic car
27:15
alert this must be the center
27:18
city or city
27:20
center there's a nice little cute Motel
27:23
here they have Wi-Fi they have cable TV
27:25
they have vacancy you see that Neon
27:29
Center or city center oh look at that
27:32
you see the old Motel neon that's not
27:38
illuminated and then you got a dollar
27:38
store over
27:40
there tattoo shop how many Rambo tattoos
27:44
do you think that place is done at least
27:46
three I got some nice little mural
27:49
artwork here of some
27:59
Eagles got another mural over here on
27:59
the corner of fourth AV in
28:08
Wallace Park Motel there cute little
28:08
Motel it's a little horer carriage
28:10
carrying some logs there got a got a
28:13
logger going down the main stretch a
28:16
little classic car over here you got JH
28:20
Richmond's General store signage and you
28:22
got the Caribou Coffee
28:24
Shop the bright side Emporium
28:29
over here it would be so awesome to see
28:32
the 82 action
28:35
classic in this Cinema however it
28:38
appears as if this movie theater has now
28:40
been closed it says so long and thanks
28:44
for all the fish up on the Marquee which
28:47
I am just going to guess that it is no
28:51
longer in
28:52
business which is a bummer because you
28:54
can see here you can just
28:56
picture you know should have bought one
28:58
of those $20 Rambo posters and just
29:00
stuck it up on there just as an homage
29:03
but look at this beautiful old relic of
29:05
the past with the now showing sign kind
29:09
of reminds me of an 80s Video Store
29:19
Vibe is that open no kind of got the
29:19
camera pressed up against the glass you
29:21
can kind of see it looks like maybe a
29:23
maybe a twin cinema there's also a Rambo
29:35
some Rambo info here if you're playing a
29:35
drinking game on how many times I've
29:37
said the name of this movie probably
29:39
would not end well for you so I'm going
29:40
to recommend not doing that there's the
29:42
original bridge now I heard the stunt
29:44
when they drove up the army vehicle over
29:46
the bridge originally they had planned
29:49
on it not making it through the cop
29:52
cars and they just left it in the they
29:54
just left it in the movie CU it busted
29:56
through and they just left it to where
29:57
he got got through I guess it was GNA it
29:59
wasn't going to be that way they just
30:01
left that in look how serious Stallone's
30:04
face look how serious this is before he
30:06
had a a bar in restaurant in town named
30:09
after his last
30:11
name look at this concessions over here
30:35
Hope
30:35
Cinema you see where it says hope up
30:38
there barely the ease burn out wash your
30:42
hands you fil the
30:49
animal there's a another
30:49
clock you you'll see it should be about
30:53
um I know like a 3x4 thing there right
30:57
there and uh with with basically Rambo I
31:01
think it's the picture where he's he's
31:03
he's in that he's actually in that
31:06
corner shooting something
31:09
I yeah and so it's it's been it's a
31:13
whole description with
31:15
it and
31:17
uh and it's kind of unofficially called
31:21
ran I'll take it
31:30
in look at this I just wanted to eat is
31:30
this something you made y one of the
31:32
ladies here made this oh yeah this is
31:35
for the 30th anniversary 13 years ago
31:39
yeah I'm going to get that
31:42
cool right just popped in there to see
31:45
where Rambo Lane was and didn't realize
31:49
when you were talking to the shop owner
31:51
that they had merchandise so I got some
31:53
more stuff got got a bunch of crap
31:56
including this take my money
32:03
please all right he told us to go into
32:03
the nether regions the alleys of Hope
32:07
follow these large feet around the back
32:10
of the art gallery and there should be a
32:12
mural back here
32:15
hidden to the rest of
32:21
town I don't see a
32:21
mural this is the way he told us to
32:24
go yes said go to light make a left in
32:28
alley he said this is officially
32:30
unofficially Rambo Lane this is Rambo
32:33
Lane right here I don't see a
32:37
mural it's on the arc oh is that it
32:40
could be yeah yeah let's go look Rambo
32:43
was here this is great look at
32:50
this that's when he's on the side of the
32:50
cliff when G it's like trying to you
32:54
don't hold this helicopter still I'm
32:57
I'mma kill
33:07
you that's our G
33:07
boy I was friends with him while your
33:09
mama was still wiping your nose Park
33:14
Motel at that old sign
33:21
nice it's a Canadian
33:21
flag waving in the breeze hey this is
33:24
cool this is cool it's like comic book
33:27
style can you just hold that for like
33:29
one second just kind of show what this
33:32
is there's the bridge that they've
33:35
changed why you pushing me why you
33:38
pushing
33:39
me it's a boring town just the way they
33:41
like
33:43
it he gave him some advice to get a
33:45
haircut in the
33:48
bath man that's
33:51
cool like comic book style there's the H
33:54
tree that we were just at
33:58
there he is going over there I can get
34:00
some of these match up myself it's
34:08
great and towards the end to come back
34:08
into
34:15
town There's that I was looking for that
34:15
but I think that's
34:16
gone there's The Outpost we could go
34:19
show where that is oh there's the
34:21
there's the grocery store that I showed
34:23
earlier where he turns that
34:26
corner and then this is is the fake
34:28
building that they built for the police
34:30
station that's now that empty
34:39
lot it's over Johnny it's over nothing
34:48
awesome I'm a nerd just like
34:48
you definitely is a very quiet town
35:07
uhoh uhoh color
35:07
knives oh they have do they have
35:11
the they have the collector knives in
35:13
here with the compass on the bottom I
35:16
mean I wouldn't be able to take that
35:17
back on a plane though but we could show
35:20
it off for the
35:22
video and the name of this place is
35:25
kerfuffle creations
35:28
they had a lot of good stuff I spent a
35:30
little bit of money on some
35:31
paraphernalia and whatnot but also they
35:33
said they were all out of the they had
35:35
the part one to the part five knives
35:38
part one they were sold out of they were
35:39
like 450 bucks but still had the compass
35:41
in the bottom of it and
35:48
everything a little bit of everything in
35:48
there they definitely really embrace it
35:50
and the owner was talking about for the
35:53
40th anniversary a few years ago they
35:55
said it was just complete madness here
35:57
so many people showed up and news crews
35:59
and they would only allow 25 people in
36:01
the store at once and then the outside
36:04
there were was a huge line down the road
36:06
to get in to look at the
36:09
knives other stuff nice little breeze
36:11
going here not only have the Canadian
36:13
flag there waving in the breeze but
36:15
also the District of Hope
36:18
sign not sign but flag soon as I said
36:21
that the wind stopped there it goes
36:23
going to
36:24
go I mean I'm really going back 40 plus
36:28
years when they had the police station
36:31
here an incredible amount of scenes
36:34
inside so evidently the basement where
36:38
the gel cells were where they were you
36:40
know trying to shave Rambo and sprayed
36:42
him down with the hose was at a former
36:45
prison that was abandoned they used and
36:48
they ended up tearing that down a few
36:49
years after production it's been gone a
36:51
long
36:52
time but basically the station came back
36:55
to
36:56
here there's scenes of Dene on the
37:05
roof and then all the stuff inside was
37:05
all right here so this is this is where
37:06
it
37:08
was there's some sort of a visitor
37:10
center here too as a municipal office
37:13
that's here right
37:26
now it's interesting this opened in 65
37:26
which means this building was adjacent
37:28
to the police station you just don't
37:30
really see
37:31
it Fort hope 1927 commemorative plaque
37:36
right
37:39
here kind of hard to see but
38:09
I just want to like sit on that bench
38:09
right there and just watch the movie on
38:10
my phone on the corner of third and
38:14
commission Street was where they built a
38:16
couple of the sets that they ended up
38:17
destroying at the end when Rambo comes
38:19
back at night and just reaks Terror ac
38:22
across the town there was a set called
38:24
The Outpost which they destroyed and and
38:27
it was right here in this General
38:35
vicinity right next to where the police
38:35
station was nice little mural over
38:45
here here's what it looked like during
38:45
the day the set there The Outpost
38:47
set and then here's a little behind the
38:49
scenes photo as well when they're build
38:51
of The Outpost and of course completely
38:53
destroyed it's over here where the
38:54
fields is earlier but just to confirm
38:57
the bu
38:59
building is gone it was right here and
39:02
evidently there were some people here
39:03
within the last few years and they were
39:04
able to document before the building was
39:07
torn down so you got Stallone coming
39:10
around here Shadow blasted against this
39:12
wall except this a new building goes
39:14
around the side of another building that
39:16
was right here and you could see the
39:18
field sign and then there was
39:20
a there was a power pole over in this
39:23
vicinity that he ends up you know
39:25
shooting out the light or something
39:27
something around this General vicinity
39:29
but this whole area has been changed a
39:31
lot in fact there was another building
39:34
here connected to that one now it's
39:35
that's been changed too so very
39:37
interesting that most of the clocks in
39:38
this town are completely the wrong time
39:41
so this treehouse Health Foods was the
39:45
bank that you could see pretty
39:48
prominently in a scene or
39:50
two looks a little bit different however
39:54
the awning that everything is mounted on
39:57
that like metal awning still the same
40:00
it's just not painted red anymore it's
40:02
painted painted like a brown the motel
40:05
Slumber
40:07
Lodge that's a I I'm going to start
40:09
calling any accommodations that I sleep
40:11
after the evening a slumber
40:14
Lodge it's not a mural we were looking
40:16
for looks like it's just a photo Rambo
40:34
John Rambo is on the loose around hope
40:34
blowing it up whatever he can around
40:36
town seeking Revenge Sheriff
40:39
diesel some of Rambo's targets were
40:42
specifically built to be removed once
40:44
filming wrapped where other permanent
40:46
buildings were used the assistance of a
40:48
little quote movie Magic such as where
40:50
you are standing Rambo stood in this
40:53
very
40:54
spot this very spot right here
41:01
looking across the street at the
41:01
Mountain State Savings bank now the tree
41:03
house treehouse health food I just
41:05
showed a special unveiling ceremony took
41:08
place with a mayor Peter rob
41:10
appropriately named this location Rambo
41:12
Lane as part of the 40th anniversary 3
41:14
years ago in October of
41:22
2012 Rambo Lane right over there The
41:22
Treehouse Foods used to be the Mountain
41:24
State Savings Bank which obviously
41:28
Mr Rambo did not like Banks so that was
41:31
one of his
41:43
van oh this is Rambo Lane right here
41:43
without the signage no one would know
41:45
there's nothing else except that we
41:48
looked around for a little bit for this
41:50
we found it though they just love this
41:52
intersection I just love
41:55
it I know I don't want to leave this
41:58
intersection historic Rambo Square Rambo
42:02
Square
42:46
this is wild right here along the main
42:46
road before you go in this
42:50
Campground the campgrounds closed for
42:52
the season
42:54
however the beginning of the movie
42:57
Stallone is walking underneath this
42:59
walking into town they have removed
43:11
it but the screen used prop is still
43:11
here gateway to Holiday land is right
43:15
here at the closed campground on the
43:18
outskirts of town about a mile outside
43:20
of
43:22
town it still exists
43:31
it was mounted up above the road that he
43:31
walked in on at the very beginning of
43:54
awesome show a photo what it looked like
43:54
in the film when he's walking underneath
43:56
it it had a welcome to Hope red welcome
43:59
to Hope side dangling from underneath
44:01
it that's when he's making his way in
44:04
welcome to Holiday land that is so
44:07
iconic that's scene he's got a sleeping
44:11
bag and everything
44:12
and he heading into
44:16
hope and in the movie they do let it be
44:19
known that they that he is in hope they
44:21
don't try to disguise the name of the
44:22
town
44:30
awesome awesome didn't didn't realize
44:30
this was going to be here so that's kind
44:32
of a nice little a nice little
44:42
add-on this is known as the Rambo Bridge
44:42
you got to take a left right
44:48
here where teasel kicks Rambo out of
44:48
town but we're taking a left here we're
44:50
going to go to the foundation of where
44:52
the original Bridge was thanks to the uh
44:56
very nice associate at the campground
44:58
that came out and talked to us a little
44:59
bit I think it's like right over here so
45:01
we got to find a place to
45:04
park there's a new bridge right
45:23
there said to go down to the beach and
45:23
hang a left and walk along the beach oh
45:26
I think it's right
45:37
here got the 1914
45:37
on right
45:47
here so this is the bridge
45:47
here it was a big metal
45:50
bridge that went
45:52
across and
45:55
connected right over there
46:01
all right as we stand here I do believe
46:01
the information that the guy was telling
46:03
us even though it is amazing that this
46:06
is the old 1914 bridge I don't think
46:08
this is the Rambo Bridge because if you
46:11
watch the clip which I just did I wased
46:13
it back they have replaced the bridge
46:17
which I thought maybe they replaced it a
46:18
few feet over in fact the old bridge was
46:21
right over there because he's standing
46:24
on that side however pretty neat there
46:26
was another Bridge here in hope not
46:29
screen used that has a 1914 stamp on it
46:33
so we'll walk over there over there
46:35
let's do it not to downplay this this is
46:38
still pretty dang cool that there used
46:40
to be a bridge here with the old
46:42
Foundation right
46:53
there look like it went across that way
46:53
the fact this
46:55
house can be seen in the in the frame
46:58
when Sylvester is up here standing
47:01
looking back the other
47:09
way the old bridge was off to this side
47:10
it see if we can find a foundation or
47:12
something but pretty neat that 1914
47:14
Foundation but we thought we got some
47:17
news that
47:20
was not not known to everyone but it was
47:23
incorrect yeah standing here you can
47:25
definitely tell that that is the road
47:27
behind him the house I showed down there
47:29
is now obscured by trees that's why I
47:31
showed it when I was over there but
47:33
there is the angle there so you can see
47:37
how that road curves that's the
47:40
road why you pushing
47:43
me why you pushing me right
47:46
here they didn't like Drifters here they
47:48
didn't like vagrant and Drifters so
47:50
right here is where it all
47:53
happened and most likely because they
47:56
still needed to have the active bridge
47:59
to let people go in and out of town
48:00
slippery not when wet but when
48:03
Frosty I would imagine the old bridge
48:05
was right here going across this way
48:09
teasel was going back into town look
48:12
through his rearview mirror side mirror
48:14
and saw John Jay walking back across the
48:18
music the music just amazing him walking
48:21
back very stubborn
48:31
so old Foundation would probably be down
48:31
there they removed all of it a little
48:33
more info
48:36
here okay there was some wood parts of
48:38
it off to the side here lies Rambo
48:44
Bridge there's your first blood not
48:54
me yeah okay so oh it was wood you know
48:54
for some reason when I watched it I
48:55
always thought it was metal but it was
48:56
completely wooden wooden
49:03
bridge there's the rest of her vagrancy
49:03
original bridge over the RAR was a
49:05
single Lane wood structure made famous
49:07
during the rest scene original script
49:09
include handwritten notes and sketches
49:11
of an alternate location but the
49:13
producers and Salon thought it otherwise
49:15
they saw the bridge and said let's film
49:18
here it was salon's look at that big old
49:21
fly right there it was his decision to
49:25
use hope he felt that the natural rugged
49:28
surroundings were what the script needed
49:30
and called for it in November and
49:32
December of ' 81 is when they filmed it
49:35
and it came out the next year more than
49:38
15,000 fans flock to their Town each
49:42
year to their relive some favorite movie
49:52
memories hope also had local residen as
49:52
extras and then in the
49:54
canyon oh
49:56
Troutman you're not hunting him he's
49:59
hunting you a good supply of body
50:02
bags they drew first blood not
50:12
me so this is pretty close but the guy
50:12
at the campground said that this area
50:14
was closed off for the season so we're
50:16
not going to be able to get in there
50:18
however that's the river right there
50:21
that's the same river it's just a little
50:23
farther down but that area is closed
50:25
today for for the this is still
50:27
technically the end of their winter
50:29
season even though it's you know even
50:30
though it's
50:35
spring yeah you can tell this is the
50:35
bridge cuz there's a turn right there
50:37
there it is and there's the sign
51:02
I got to say he was definitely a trooper
51:02
for the stuff he did in that movie
51:04
laying down the freezing cold River
51:06
going over the Rocks jumping into
51:16
trees we were going to attempt to go to
51:16
where the Cliff's scene was but there's
51:19
some heavy construction over here at the
51:22
park so it's not just closed but it's
51:24
also under some construction so we're
51:26
just going to run parallel to where the
51:28
river scene was and just show the same
51:31
river and I kind of want to dip my hand
51:33
in it and just see how cold it is cu I
51:37
want to know what Salone was feeling
51:40
when he was in that River he definitely
51:42
went the extra mile with playing the
51:45
part so no go on going to the tunnels
51:49
the aello tunnels is where the cliff
51:52
scene was but cannot get in there
51:54
there's some heavy signage and do not
51:57
ENT but we had to try
52:38
all right I was thinking there might be
52:38
Bears out
52:39
here dude I was thinking if there were
52:41
Bears out here and look at this down
52:43
here there's a bear print right
52:46
there I think that's a bear
52:49
print Maybe
53:31
I just think about that scene which is
53:31
obviously down that way he's like over
53:33
on the side of the Rock and then he just
53:34
kind of climbs out of the river with the
53:36
Roaring Rapids he could have just been
53:38
sucked
53:52
Downstream how cold is
53:52
this yeah it's a little chilly yeah if
53:55
you put your whole hand in in there it's
53:57
cold yeah it's cold now put your whole
54:00
hand in there keep it stick your whole
54:03
hand down in there get it in there
54:05
imagine your whole body laying down in
54:20
enough props to Sylvester for doing that
54:20
me freezing cold water my hand is numb
54:23
now I can feel my hand being numb
54:50
woo all right so evidently the guy back
54:50
at the campground said that there are
54:52
two of the gateways to Holiday land
54:55
signs so there might be another one the
54:58
one we saw may not be the screen used
55:01
one so we're going to try to find that
55:02
and also still have that Rambo Burger on
55:05
my mind at the restaurant we stopping
55:07
through the drive-thru got a little Tim
55:08
Horton's coffee going
55:11
on so we were doing a little research
55:13
and there were two gateways to Holiday
55:16
land
55:17
signs I guess the first one I saw was
55:20
not the screen used one there was one on
55:22
each entrance of town and back in the
55:25
day they took took down the one that was
55:28
seen in the film and they dismantled for
55:31
whatever reason they cut it up and they
55:33
moved it over here to Hope Lookout
55:40
Trail but they have since then someone
55:40
has either moved it or stolen it or it
55:43
has just disappeared on its own accord
55:46
but right
55:47
here was where that cut up screen used
55:51
chunk of log used to be right there
55:55
that's kind of a bummer
55:56
there it was they took a Chainsaw cut it
55:58
up just where it says
56:01
Gateway and uh this is a few years ago
56:05
so who knows where the heck it
56:13
is yeah those look similar to The Cliffs
56:13
that g fell from the helicopter from and
56:17
then you got some snow Capa peaks of the
56:19
mountain over there we've arrived at
56:22
Silver
56:24
Chalice Pub
56:26
are we're going to get ourselves the
56:28
Rambo Burger the ramburger that they
56:30
have in here and it looks like something
56:32
we're going to have to
56:39
share it's a local
56:39
pub here in Hope silver
56:42
shallis HB ended up ordering nachos so
56:45
we decided we were going to get the
56:46
Rambo Burger which was $25 didn't even
56:49
look at the price of the nachos and
56:51
thought you know what we should get some
56:52
nachos and then just share the Rambo
56:54
Burger which had onion rings on on it
56:56
two patties and a lot of breading which
56:59
would made sense not to get two rambow
57:01
burgers it just be too much food did not
57:03
realize the nachos are going to be the
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biggest nachos on Earth I mean this
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thing was gargantuan we only ate maybe a
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third of the nachos $22 for this massive
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nachos $25 for the burger which we put
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in half I think the nachos was even more
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filling than the burger split in half
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gotta say it was a mistake getting the
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nachos but never had a portion size
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maybe maybe Canada bar food Portion
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sizes are way way bigger than what I'm
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used to in the US really really good I
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would uh definitely recommend this place
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if you ever you know coming into town to
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see the locations check it
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out and now we're going to now we're
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going to head on now we're going to move
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along Silver Chalice Pub all right we're
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going to carry on we are ridiculously
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full right now and we h a lot of traffic
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back a little rush hour heading back
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over into Vancouver we're making it back
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Nightfall is rearing its head dusk is
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here now Nightfall is rear to headed and
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that's going to do it for
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today see you in the next video the
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Vlog
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is look at how serious he
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is look how serious he
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is over