Visiting The Fremont Troll In Seattle - Top Of The Space Needle & Monorail Ride Thru / TB Rays Win
Seattle Adventures May 2022
Transcript
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today's adventure begins here
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as a recording of this friday may 6 2022
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at cowgirls espresso where i have picked
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up a
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piping hot caffeinated beverage
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very unique place in the shape of a
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coffee stand little did i know when i
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went through there
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that
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the baristas were wearing a lot of
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clothes
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but that's a pretty neat looking if it
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pulled me in because it looks like a
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coffee coffee pot welcome everyone adam
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and the woo
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here i tried to find seattle's best
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coffee
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evidently there is no brick and mortar
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seattle's best so i drove down here from
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where i was near the seattle airport to
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a little town called
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auburn washington
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but i drove around to a few spots even
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went to a mall that said there was a
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seattle's hot that's very hot
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so this is the option that is a very
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tall cup of coffee i got a lot of the
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agenda today inviting you
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to join me
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shall you and speaking of someone else
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that doesn't really wear a whole heck of
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a lot of clothing
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bigfoot this is one block away from the
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coffee place i was just
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just went in
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bigfoot java take a look at that now the
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mall that they said they were going to
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have the seattle's best coffee in
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the store wasn't in there anymore
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and then i also read that a convenience
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store called extra mile
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used to carry
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the coffee
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but i showed up to an extra mile
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and there weren't any of there wasn't
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anything i obviously pulled it from
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there too i think the only place you can
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get that particular brand
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is at a
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grocery store buying the k-cups in the
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bags
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fail
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i am now heading about 30 miles north of
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where i just was towards the seattle
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center
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to meet up with a friend who's going to
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drive me around to some spots that right
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there is the space needle
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the real space needle not the gatlinburg
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space beetle gatlinburg tennessee claims
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to have a space needle
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which it really is called the space
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needle but this this is the one everyone
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knows about
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the seattle space needle
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i'm going to go up in that thing
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kind of obscured by the foliage there
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uh that thing's tall
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i've always seen this from afar but
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never been up to the top i got some
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information in here
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all about the
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space needle so i'm going to be going up
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in this this is the photo of it there's
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nixon who was vice president of the time
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oh he's on the monorail also the
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monorail goes through
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seattle as well
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and there's robert f kennedy
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this futuristic car and
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elvis
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elvis presley wooed co-star
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joan o'brien in a in a movie filmed at
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the fair
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in a movie filmed at the fair is it
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called at the fair
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or was it out of fair that they filmed
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it it's confusing also this is danielle
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and andrew
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my friends who live in the general
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vicinity i can't believe you guys live
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within walking distance of this place
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away i can see two percent of the top of
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the space deal from just two percent
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just the two you've measured it exactly
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two percent
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so do you think the movie was called at
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the fair or is it fair to say
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that there was just a movie that elvis
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ate at the restaurant like if it was the
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movie name it would be capitalized i
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think so too or it'd be in quotations
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right here it happened at the well
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oh that's there it happened that
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happened at the world series good eye
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oh wait
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in the needles restaurant was actually
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filmed at mgm studios oh we got tricks
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oh this is pretty neat in july of 1962
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the cool
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everyone in school calls it the needle
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the needle
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all capitalized
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it was featured in the first live
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tv broadcast that reached 20 200 million
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viewers
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that's a lot of viewers
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and there's the gift shop down there oh
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this is made out of legos that is a lego
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top topper right there 41 seconds at the
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top he gets a big view out of the window
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real fast
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yeah you ready here we go all right only
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four yeah pretty good here we go
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i see that welcome
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going up
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that's 184 meters or 60 stories the
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space needle was built back in 1962 in
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the center piece that is elliott bay
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right there elliott bay is 600 feet deep
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now this is safety that's 605 feet tall
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so you're wearing the glass bowl looking
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down it's just about that deep right
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there
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i think i was the only one on here that
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followed this rule oh this is quite the
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view up here
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wow
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oh i see the baseball stadium over there
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too
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recently uh they went through a
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renovation this used to just be a gate
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of mesh so you couldn't see a whole lot
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a gate of mesh it's just a mesh fence
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yeah now it's just a horrifying it was
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just so if there were if there weren't
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drips of water on there i would never
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even know there was a window you're
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gonna lean against it yeah you can why
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that is snow
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and it's at an angle yeah oh my god this
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is almost like the stuff they have at
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like sea world where the shark can't get
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through exactly oh look at this
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605 feet in here okay this is that's
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pretty thick
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605 feet that's what he said
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that is the city in the distance over
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there is bellevue washington it's across
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the lake oh over there yeah the one
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there's a lake in between us with a
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floating bridge on it
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now since you do live in this general
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vicinity do they have an annual pass to
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this that you could buy if you ever just
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wanted to pop up here at any time yes
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they do do you own it i'm not
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intelligent enough to have bought one
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you should buy one at any time you can
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just
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stroll over
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go up here and on the space needle lean
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up against the glass
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terrify a tourist that thanks
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see what if you were leaning here and
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you were so thin
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you lost so much weight that you just
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kind of slithered through there
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it's a long way down
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how many feet was it 605 that's what he
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said
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and which rivers which which lake is
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this this is elliott bay elliott out
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about it goes about 200 miles in that
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direction and empties out the pacific
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ocean
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there's your monorail california
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california where's the monorail right
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down there
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oh you see the track yeah so if we stay
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here for a little bit you'll see we're
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gonna see the monorail
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only one stop yep
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one stop here and then the other one is
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over in westlake
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there it goes
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there's the wheel i was over there i was
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over there yesterday getting uh you ever
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been to the first starbucks yeah oh yeah
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i only waited 28 minutes that's actually
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really good over there it was raining
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and miserable so that's why no one was
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standing there 28 minutes only the most
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dedicated
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caffeinated people want to meet yeah you
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talk about talking about sleepless in
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seattle that's right so like right when
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you go into the market rob ryder and tom
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banks were there and they feel the fish
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and stuff
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i always think of the cable guy and he
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goes oh she loves that movie
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they all do
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they all love painting
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so those are some forced perspective
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spiders right there
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daddy long legs
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and there's a fountain
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kicks in oh yeah
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you can jump baby and what cruise ships
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are there some cruise ships over there
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yeah it looks like it they know
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alaska one of them is a celebrity i
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think that access is a celebrity what's
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the globe
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the globe was the seattle post
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intelligencer it's a newspaper that was
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in that building and they've since gone
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out of business but it used to look
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almost looks like the daily plan it does
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look very daily
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this is really an incredible view up
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here
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this will be one of those things every
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time i come back through seattle we'll
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go up here
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absolutely come
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and i have a fondness for the gatlinburg
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space needle but this is a little bit
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more impressive i have to i have to
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admit it might just be a little bit
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taller i have to i definitely wonder i
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love gatlinburg but this is a whole
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other level
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so you can just chill out oh that's the
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whole oh that's actually scarier than
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what i was doing standing right there
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you're doing it though it's happening
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right now we're really doing it aren't
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we buddy yeah
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just do what just pretend like you're
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leaning up against metal
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then you feel better
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try not to look out of your peripheral
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vision well even no matter what was
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behind me holding my back in place
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knowing that i'm this high up why am i
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sitting here why okay right over here
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because you can't as i can because
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you're in seattle yeah you gotta do that
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you have to come up here in rome this is
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when it's yeah this is when in seattle
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you have to sit on the glass bench and
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then against the wall on the top floor
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of the space station and tom cruise
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tom hanks what tom cruise might have as
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well
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tom hanks has been here was there a
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scene in
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wait a second i'm confused here we go
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folks welcome back to the elevator where
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you are currently looking north out
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across queen anne hill
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oh look at that the seattle center
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monorail also known as the always
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always monorail
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al wait was it a person al ow
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mr weg mr mr alweg himself alwyg the owl
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and there is a monorail monorail man
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look at this monorail man is down here
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made out of machine parts there's a
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vehicle
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detector right there
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and this is monorail man almost kind of
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looks like a a generic flex capacitor
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doesn't it i was going to say it's
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almost the plutonium gauge kind of is
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and look down here his shin guards are
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traffic lights
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right there monorail man oh aka
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train
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i like that
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that's pretty cool
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got myself a little souvenir here
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we got a little take home souvenir the
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original monorail the seattle center
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monorail the original
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all right i do not that's technically i
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am behind the yellow line i'm actually
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to the side of the yellow line but
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that's kind of i think i think it's so i
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was expecting this thing to be pulled in
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a little quicker
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pepsi train arriving
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the door is opening okay thank you
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i like the sleek design of this
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the skylights are nice
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oh i really like this this is a word i
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use a lot stanchions stanchions yeah
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that's a real word see stanchions
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this thing goes pretty fast when it's
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when it's heading out
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pulling away from the station
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this is not the contemporary stayed in
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the same spot he's looking through the
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rearview mirrors
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obviously
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oh it says right there on the thing 35
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35 miles per hour i know exactly what
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you're thinking right now
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88
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oh there's elvis again right there
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look at that there's elvis right there
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oh that's the top of the space is at the
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top of the space needle again this
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building is gargantuan they have
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concerts in here there is a
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icy peaks of this mountain right here
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look at this as tall as the matter it's
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almost we're just throwing a lot of
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disney little like uh there's a tent
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down here
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oh there's a rabbit or is that what is
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that down there hiding in the cave
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it doesn't look like a giant rabbit it
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must be he's a big jack rabbit i think
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that's a rabbit
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or a jackalope oh jack jackalope yep
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gave him dave koye would be proud
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i should also mention that andrew owns
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a delorean time machine
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yes he does
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oh man
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so you want to see the signing of
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declaration of independence the witness
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of the christ
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there's a red letter date in the history
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of science november 5th 1955.
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yes of course
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november 5th 1955.
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well what i don't get it
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that is so awesome
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now you took being a ride in your car
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like a decade ago i came
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that's true we did an unedited one i
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think it was 242 248 somewhere in that
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range oh you even remember the number oh
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yeah
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it was definitely in the 240's i was in
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a band and we played a show and you came
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after the show and then
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drove me around remember the name of the
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venue i played that
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cor el corazon does that sound yeah that
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does sound familiar yeah 2012 or not
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that place is closing up and moving on
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now last time did you you didn't have
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the time circus did you i did not have
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the time circuits i didn't have the uh
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the tfc drive handle i didn't have the
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overhead array i had a different flux
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capacitor and i didn't have the status
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indicators in your plutonium channel
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right here danielle likes to call this
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time machine light edition because i
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don't have any of the exterior stuff yet
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and i'm still building it inside we're
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still working on parts on the inside
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we'll get there and you drove this one
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time down to southern california i sure
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did a couple times we did our video out
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of twin pines mall in uh
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uh 2019. that's right
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huh
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this is awesome so is this your daily
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driver yes you drive this to work i
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drive it to work
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signed by michael j fox and christopher
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lloyd and mr tom listen it drives with
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me to work
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so if your boss ever says how come you
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didn't get that done you say if only i
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had more time that's just not an excuse
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that's right you go back in time and get
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more with your supervisor
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it's good to see you again time machine
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delorean okay you don't have a time
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machine out though it's just no i gotta
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get all this that would be pricey 30 000
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at least yes i think to get started and
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i would need some good help for it
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because i'm not a machinist i don't know
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how to do a lot of that stuff because
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when you run when it runs out of
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plutonium
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a guy drum jumped the traffic circle
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once
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imagine living in a house directly
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across
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from the troll that lives under the
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bridge
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the troll would be your neighbor
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this is known as the fremont troll
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designed
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and built by stephen
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badenez
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will martin donna walter and ross
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whitehead with help from the community
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look at the trolls pause
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right there
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troll has one eye
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the other eyes covered by like a davey
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havoc emo haircut yes
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it's very seattle fits in
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they were thinking ahead
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focus eye opening
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just gotta dismount the troll there you
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go
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this is interesting
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kind of silhouetted out here because
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it's shadowed out from underneath the
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troll got its own road
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it's got a beer it's got the hair and
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then it's got a beard
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and he's picking up a vw beetle whoa i
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never noticed that
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he's got a car a classic car alert right
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i never ever noticed that before
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look at the tires that's like real tires
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down underneath that
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that's the real tire
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i wonder if it's a real if it is i think
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it is a real vw yeah look at this look
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at the
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look at the little hinge there on the
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door
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that's awesome
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this is like
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this creature underneath the bridge
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almost
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because yeah taking it's like cadillac
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ranch to a whole other level
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look underneath the nostril i kind of i
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peeked up underneath there that's that's
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an area you do not want to be looking
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into
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took a little commute
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about a mile or so you see downtown over
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and this neighborhood was
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filming locations of the henderson home
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from harry and the hendersons 1987.
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now this is not the street number that
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was in the movie
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change the street number
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but it is the same house
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fact they still have that very unique
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rock formations down here below
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on the side of the sidewalk there
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very distinct looking house and this
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tree
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over here that's out front as well
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harry and the hendersons john lithgow
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don amichi
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pretty awesome i want to swing by this
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real quick it's kind of in the same area
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as the troll
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and this is what it looked like in the
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movie with the classic car over there
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the 80s car
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in the driveway
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that's the hair in the henderson's house
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this was a movie i used to watch a heck
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of a lot when i was younger
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harry in the hendersons a movie about
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bigfoot
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that goes lives in the house
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doesn't get much better than that that's
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hit 80s movie i love the 80s now both of
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you really enjoy movies
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what are some of the other filming
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locations around here that i should add
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in
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i like seeing anything quite a bit they
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use the fremont area for that and also
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10 things they hate about you tacoma
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okay that's stuff over there so say
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anything was not la it was here uh
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a mix of both so a little bit in seattle
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a little bit um
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that's right and also sleepless in
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seattle of course of course
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seattle and harry and henderson's
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the classic
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if you haven't seen it go watch it right
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now i have seen it i know you didn't
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think i've seen it i've seen i know
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you've seen it i'm talking to these
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people
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this is a very unique
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looking tree yeah what were you gonna
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say i say how much you think this costs
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this tree this tree is at least four
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grand yeah yeah you mean the house
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that's the tree though
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do you think that really you think harry
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and henderson's really upsell the resale
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value on this oh easily i would guess
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you think so yeah how many people that
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you think go it's called cruise by here
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sort of a cult film i have to imagine at
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least
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maybe 20 20 people a day or so maybe
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it's not like our back to the future
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house because the troll had a steady
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flow of people
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i would say more people go to the troll
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than the harry and the henderson's house
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i would agree with that and you're
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allowed to climb all over the troll
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do not go on their property and climb
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around don't go rooting around in that
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tree like george mcfly
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they take beautiful keeping
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george mcfly would have a field day on
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this tree look at this he wouldn't even
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know which one of these limbs to choose
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lots of windows
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that's a lot look at this tree as we're
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pulling out of here this car this park
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next to us
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has the villains from superman too when
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they're in enclaves in case of glass
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they're encasing glass
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superman 2 right there because that's
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it's on the glass window that sticker
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is it superman 2 no it's queen
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i was gonna say
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all right now i'm back in my car heading
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over to the game downtown
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first pitch is at 6 40. it's 6 10 by
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time i get to my seat it's going to be
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almost game time
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also parking today was 40
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last night which was on a thursday was
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30 parking goes up 10 on a friday
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got some pretty good seats first
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first row here right across the race
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dugout
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there it is
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oh my gosh
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it was almost a home run
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what was that go randy go go go
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get down save
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oh i've never seen this
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oh
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oh that's good
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beautiful
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all right three outs left and the race
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got this
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i think moose is even confused by what
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just happened
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that's it
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ray's win eight to seven
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so tight
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nice
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sorry moose
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better luck next time and that's gonna
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do it for today the rays have won five
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in a row pretty good ending to a fun day
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a very fun day very full day stayed very
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busy today
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the raise went five in a row
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and
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i am ending the evening with watching
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the team i'm rooting for win i came back
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at the very end
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freaking awesome
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the perfect the perfect baseball game to
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watch
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good
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seats a win
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let's see the next video the vlog
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is over