My Visit To Atlantic City NJ Was Disappointing - Jersey Shore Boardwalk / Tony Bologneys Cheesesteak
Atlantic City New Jersey
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today's adventure brings me to New
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Jersey
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Atlantic City
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their first time ever in this place
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well I've been in Jersey before but I've
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never been in Atlantic City before
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that's the water tower as the recording
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of this it is Thursday
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February 16th
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2023
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I have just parked my rental car and now
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I'm walking over to the boardwalk
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starting
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at the pier
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welcome everyone
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Adam the woo here
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do a little Jersey Shore action today
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motivating you
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to join me
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listen to Bruce Springsteen song
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Atlantic City off one of my favorite
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Bruce Springsteen's albums
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about five times on the way over from my
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hotel
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right on the river at Philly over here
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about an hour drive
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love that song and when I think of this
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city
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I think it's Springsteen and other
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things join me
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shall you hello squirrel
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that squirrel's got its makeup on
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has its hair up pretty
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it just met me today not tonight
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in Atlantic City look there's another
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squirrel
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there's a lot of squirrels around here
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is there really an ATM in here is there
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really no I didn't think there would be
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it's just the skeleton of an ATM machine
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oh there's like a bag down there
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all right don't know what I'm getting
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into
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I'm doing it first thing I'm walking up
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oh is a pizza place called Home Slice
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which appears to be closed if I think of
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boards
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up on the window but there is a rather
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large pizza slice here a greenish Hue to
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this slice
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look at this
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I've been to Asbury Park a few times
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also
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you know a Springsteen
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notable spring stay in place but I've
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never been
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to this neck of the woods of Jersey
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before do not know why it's never
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happened
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this is the boardwalk
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right here
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they have a ferris wheel down there too
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got the manhole here the electric
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well it's not a mantle it's just like
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Electric
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platform
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States the name Atlantic City
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got a little bit of a ghost sign up
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there says Irene's
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kind of one of the
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the old buildings with the new buildings
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popping out from up above this place is
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called the bright star souvenir shop
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which right at the moment is closed the
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lucky star is open but the bright star
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is not which is right here but take a
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look at the take a look at little
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paintings on the window it's really cool
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here you have a little
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you get the little shirt down there
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you got this one here selling T-shirts
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and postcards those Mr Peanut right on
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the side of this one there it is the
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Steel Pier I wonder if I could walk out
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on this deal here it doesn't look like
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anything's happening over there and it
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looks like the answer to that is no it
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says you sorry we are closed a couple
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guys at work here are back in there but
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other than that can't go over there a
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lot of casinos here in town obviously
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it's pretty much a casino driven
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City got Hard Rock Cafe got House of
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Blues down there
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another
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sorted ones there's a big tower here
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this place called the showboat every
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time I see a pier like this as
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attractions on it I think of a Santa
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Monica Pier
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just going you know being an ally
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Southern California for so long going to
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that Pier so many times
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kind of gives me the Vibes of that
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obviously this doesn't
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through here
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but the pier itself
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will take us maybe it's just a seasonal
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thing they're not open right now
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Coast to Coast
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out of California not too long ago
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I'm out on the Atlantic side stepping
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inside the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino
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for just a brief moment not doing any
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gambling or anything but they didn't
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have a few little artifacts in here it
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was kind of neat they had the piano used
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by Frank Sinatra they had some a glove
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used by Michael Jackson they also had
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some Beatles outfits and an assortment
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assortment of other things including a
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well a motorcycle that slashed from Guns
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and Roses owned at one time and I guess
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we rode around about Slash was on this
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motorcycle oh wait is this Ripley's
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Believe It or Not still open or is it
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closed is it Ripley's Believe It or Not
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Here on the boardwalk as well but I
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can't tell if it's still open or not or
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if it's just sitting here kind of
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desolate and empty at the moment yeah
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looking at this sign over here it says
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Ripley's Believe It or Not Atlantic City
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location is permanently
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closed right there yeah believe it or
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not it's closed I also have to wonder if
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during the summer time well I would
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probably wager for no pun intended with
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the gambling that goes on around here
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but I would imagine in a wager that
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during the summer time it's a lot busier
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this place is probably a lot busier
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during the summer than it is when it's
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cold out in this time of the year this
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is kind of cool it's giving me some
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Venice Beach bikes or not bikes but
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Venice Beach Vibes as well there's a
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saltwater taffy place here too it looks
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like it's closed some saltwater taffy
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would be pretty good right about now
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these little sculptures out front
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yeah definitely give me Beach Town Vibes
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I mean the beach is right there so
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that's why it looks like they're slowly
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dismantling they replace
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you can kind of peek in
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undercarriage of the window here they
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got some of the stuff so set up
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some of the theming and whatnot you have
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this covering on the Windows here but
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if you just kind of go down just a
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little bit you can see in there
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as I walk back by here
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really want to know what a piece of
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pizza
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looks like that color what flavor would
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that be
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Wonder
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walking down this incline now
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thanks for visiting the world famous
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Atlantic City Boardwalk
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see what else I can find in town a nice
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little mural right here some sea life
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well more specifically jellyfish
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they're up on the side of that painted
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mural pretty neat looking building right
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there Lots dollar Express
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I think this area reminds me a lot of
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Hollywood Boulevard truthfully
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out of Hollywood Boulevard vibe to it
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that is for certain
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classic truck alert
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really like some of the facades that are
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through here though too fronts of these
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businesses and apartments
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got a mural over here
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hair cream Apex air cream
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let's wait on the light to change take a
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look at all this steam emitting from the
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ground from this pipe right here
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an effervescent flow of steam
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that is a heck of a lot of pigeons
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evidently the nickname for this area is
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duck town it's kind of obscured by that
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little wooden pile on there you see Mr
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peanuts there
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some other it's a Zamboni
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yeah Ducktown
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there's octopus over there squid too
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sounds like some San Francisco Vibes
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through here too this type of type of
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architecture these buildings one thing
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this area says one thing this area I
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should say is known for is the Miss
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America
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contest
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if they used to have it here possibly
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still do yeah total Hollywood Vibe right
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here this tavern brewery and restaurant
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looks like you're seeing something in
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Hollywood if you look closely over there
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in front of this hotel in this little
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roundabout
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there's the crown there's the Miss
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America crown
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he's holding the crown
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these are the windows here at the
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Sheridan so you got the 2000 era you got
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the 1990 era
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and then of course going down to the 80s
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era
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70s
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pretty pretty easy to guess the order
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I'm going in 60s
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50s in the 40s and that contest went all
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the way back to the 1920s
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just across the way there's a really
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great Sammy Davis Jr
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mural I've got to be me Sammy Davis Jr
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right next to that pizza place
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very nice
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also remnants of an old video store a d
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video
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thank you
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always like seeing relics of video
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stores sometimes you can find some that
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are still open
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if that's a church it's shaped a lot
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like a castle
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traffic circle has a very unique
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structure with a little sculpture inside
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there
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look at that thing
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takes a while to get around Atlantic
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City I'm noticing too the one of the
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main roads there's like a light every
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block
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and the lights take a while to change so
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really
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takes a pretty good amount of time
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longer than other areas I've traveled
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through to commute from one side of town
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to the other
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there's a lighthouse here so I'm on the
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the far end Shore
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and there's a place over here called
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Tony baloney's
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I was just in a quick little little
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search online and they said that this
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was one of the places that has cheese
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steaks in New Jersey the Philly
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cheesesteak even though it's probably
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made the same but this one's in Jersey
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I'm gonna check it out
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I've been doing cheesecake the last
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series of days
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when I'm staying near Philly even though
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this is like an hour away hour and a
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half away I'm gonna want to do
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cheesesteaks every single day
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so I'm gonna give one a try see if it's
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to see if they're open
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getting lucky in the AC Tony's big
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deck is open up top as well
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and this is like more or less really
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kind of deemed a pizza place but they do
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I asked if they made cheese steaks oh
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yeah we're in front of cheesesteaks too
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so they're making me a cheesecake
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as well I also don't know exactly know
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what kind of soda when it's like Cola I
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don't know what kind of coal is there
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I've just got Coca-Cola
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possibly like if I taste it I'll kind of
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get a get an idea
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but a pretty cool place
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here in Atlantic City they did have
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indoor seating but I've opted for the
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outdoor seating next to the deck of
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cards here
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there's a little Reaper on there
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Lucky in AC Tony baloneys
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I got my Cola here
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kind of tastes like Coca-Cola it's not
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Pepsi it's not doesn't have the
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sweetness of Pepsi and it's definitely
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not diet my number was number 35
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Adam you see right there it's got my
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name
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right with the showboat off in the
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distance it's a little chilly outside
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but it's quieter out here
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I'm liking this already this
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is what we're dealing with now something
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I haven't done the last series of days
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is put peppers on it so I asked for
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peppers they put onions and peppers I
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decided oh your steam is really coming
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off of it because of the crisp coolness
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out here let's make it a little more
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steamy
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and I didn't ask for extra cheese but
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they kind of layered the cheese
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on there we'll see how this is the bread
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looking at the bread without tasting it
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looks like the bread
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might be like a little harder
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than I probably want it today but yeah
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give it a give it a try
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my themed cup there and everything
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Tony baloneys
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in Atlantic City
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okay that's pretty good first thing I'm
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noticing is the slices
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of the meat are a little thicker than
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what I've had in the past
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but the cheese is good the meat's good
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once the bread's better than I expected
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the whole thing's pretty tasty
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yeah the bread is different they say
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that the bread makes the Philly cheese
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steak
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I could definitely see what they mean by
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that
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bread is a little a little harder than
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the last couple days
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it's good though it's like a different
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spin or Philly cheese steak
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wind is kicking now
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it's getting windy in the AC
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I'm definitely going to say this is not
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the number one cheesecake I've ever had
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in my life it's not bad not the worst
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I'm thinking about a Cheesesteak no
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matter what it's just always good
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I don't think I've ever had a bad cheese
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now I know why everybody else was eating
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inside
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there's other customers in there inside
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I think the temperature just dropped 10
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degrees in the last two minutes
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the meat's really good
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a little thicker slice than what I'm
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used to
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bread is a little different maybe this
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is how they do it in Jersey
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but I do like the cheese cheese is a
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good flavor
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and the peppers onions
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really good
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bread is really kind of throwing me off
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the really hard shell on this bread well
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it's not a shell but you know what I'm
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saying and I'm going to say this is
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probably cooked this is Coca-Cola
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I was doing a taste test right now I
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don't think that's Pepsi
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might be RC but doubtful that they have
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art that they're using RC
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this is officially the most days in a
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row that I've had cheese sticks third or
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fourth day in a row they've had cheese
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it's kind of nice to add on to the
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series
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when I'm in the Philadelphia area
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to do cheesesteaks
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it just made sense
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forget my fill When in Rome he will
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see that there might be a storm rolling
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out it is brisk and cold and windy now
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cloudy
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seagulls up there all right this makes
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sense and just a brief
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couple of moments
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well about 20 minutes from now it's
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gonna start raining 100 percent
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49 degrees right now
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and it's about to storm
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pretty neat this Lighthouse is still
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here
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no longer active
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a little relic of the past
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but now that I say that
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because I don't think it's active it
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looks like it'd be a museum of some sort
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at this point
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let's have a look at see a lighthouse I
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think a peach dragon
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and lampy Mickey Rooney's character
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probably got that nickname because he
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took took care of the lamp
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up and up there oh Firehouse there next
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to that old church building
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paint it over also there's a lot of
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one-way streets in this town I had to
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kind of loop around Circle back
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go down this Alleyway that's one way in
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order to get this view of a mural of a
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chicken why did the chicken cross the
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road I don't know why was the chicken
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place on a mural
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that is up for discussion also
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there's a big oversized chicken
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right here on the side of this wall
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That's illuminated by some lights now
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they're blue lights now they're yellow
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back to Blue
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three of those four illuminated lights
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are working
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the big chicken
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side of the wall I like that
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random
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I'm sure there's a reason I just don't
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not sure what it is
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all right chicken I'll see you later
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oh maybe the chicken wants to cross the
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road the road's here that's what it is
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it's contemplating
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Crossing I can now say that I've been to
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oh if I never go back
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at least I went
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check that one off the list
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raining pretty good now
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we're getting pretty good
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from New Jersey
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just heading back to my hotel which is
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just across from Philadelphia
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Pennsylvania
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pretty much right on the state line
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not a mellow day just drove over to
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Atlantic City saw a couple things ate a
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Cheesesteak jersey style
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I'll see you in the next video the Vlog
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is up