A Nasty Weather Day Running Errands Around Central Florida- Webb’s Candy Factory & Mall At Millenia
Central Florida November 2023
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welcome everyone Adam the woo here as
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the recording of This is Thursday
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November 16th
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2023 downtown celebration Market Street
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off in the distance the Christmas tree
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has been erected and they are putting up
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the rest of the items for the very soon
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to be
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upcoming falling of the snoke which is
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between fake snow it's a soap and snow
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some call it snow which will be
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happening later this month and into
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December the road is going to be blocked
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off from now till after New Year so no
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one will be able to drive down Market
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Street in fact they've already started
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putting up the the area for the fake
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well a lot of fake things you got the
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fake snow and you also have a fake ice
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skating ring which they started
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installing this late last night and this
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morning now to be completely honest with
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you I have no earthly clue what in the
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name of heck I am going to do today have
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some errands to run with are kind of
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boring so probably won't put those on
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camera or on film but when I am out and
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about I'll just see where the wind blows
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see where I end up and see where the
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droplets of rain end up dropping not
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only on my head but on my body on my
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torso it has been nasty the last couple
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days
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here in Central Florida no matter what I
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do no matter where I go as always I'm
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inviting
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you to join me shall you woo raindrops
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are definitely falling on my head is
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coming down hard I might not wait for
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this to check to go oh my camera's
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getting soaked it's no10 at the moment I
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got to get out of this rain o it's
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raining holy cow me out of here it's
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lurking over here around the corner of
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this Thai restaurant which they have a
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little Caution tape up for whatever for
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one reason or another now this Thai
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restaurant used to be a Goodings grocery
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store back with celebration first open
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that was before I lived here but right
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over here they have the they have the
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Christmas tree out but they also have
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the plastic ice skating rink that
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they're going to be having I believe the
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25th or the 26th don't quote me on that
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but like towards the end of the month
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they're going to kick off the Christmas
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festivities and they're going to have
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the fake snow falling and all that the
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lighting of the Christmas tree all that
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is going to be going up from the end of
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November up until New Year's and they
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have this place called endless skate I
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saw them applying this to the ground
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yesterday they had the people out here
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doing the construction and everything
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getting it all kind of dialed in man it
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rained all day yesterday and it's
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scheduled and slated did according to
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the weather app the rain all day today
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I'm going to go over Starbucks and get a
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coffee if I can make it over there what
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a disgusting array of precipitation that
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is coming if you're standing it's
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beautiful to look at I even notice the
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wind has blown down the little stanions
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I me get get underneath here it is man
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it is like it is definitely falling from
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the heavens okay now I'm out of the
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elements here see if I can find cool out
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here in the water might be tough to see
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cool is the gator
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that lives in Celebration right here in
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Lake Reinhardt not seeing and of course
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you can see usually there'll be people
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out here along the railing and then the
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people over in the fountain and the
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splash pad where the fountain is and all
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that but not today
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not today
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71° 12:15 next precipitation goes the
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entire day all the way through the uh
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late afternoon and even into the evening
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sunet at 5:30 they have it labeled as a
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drizzle here in town There's even the
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there's even the satellite there of the
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all that but yeah it's just woo so
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basically doesn't clear up until after
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midnight so into into tomorrow all right
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over there is celebration I am going to
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buy a celebration Starbucks gift card
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you can use it at any Starbucks but I've
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been doing these giveaways on my
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Instagram and you'll notice there's no
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one sitting out I usually you rarely
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ever not see anyone sitting out here
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usually there's quite a few people
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sitting in the outdoor seating area here
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at this coffee stand but not today not
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today I mean it is yeah it is I mean
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it's raining so that makes it's all
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puddled up over here too lots of Puddles
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look at this all right check this out
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this is a one day only this might only
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be for the one here in town but maybe
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they're doing it elsewhere so this
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probably will not apply tomorrow but if
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you order a latte or a caffeinated
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beverage they will give you a free
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holiday cup and they W but the cup I got
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is a mocha l a peppermint so peppermint
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and mocha combined which is like really
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kind of like nestled there against my my
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wrist is getting really really warm but
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I'm try standing under another little
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overhang here up
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here and I got the gift card but yeah I
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got I'm trying a mocha peppermint latte
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today but the size I ordered was bigger
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than this so they were like here you can
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just have this but it's only for today
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so if I sh up tomorrow I can't get one
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of
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these wonder if it's going to be raining
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tomorrow It's Beginning to Look a Lot
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Like Water logged everywhere you go at
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least down here it's like like 48 Hours
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of straight rain in Central Florida
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which usually in the you know when it
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rains it'll usually rain for a few hours
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then it'll stop hasn't done that the
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last couple days Bal laala lattes I got
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$30 I put on this purchase this and I'll
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send it out I'll ship it out to anyone
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who decides they would like a piping hot
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caffeinated beverage compliments of just
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the myself and been doing the every day
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pretty much every day in the last week
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or so I skipped one day and I'll
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probably ski some other days but I'm
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going to keep it going pretty solid
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through the holidays and up until
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Christmas all you got to do is go to my
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Instagram Adam the woo a2w on Instagram
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leave a comment under the photo I will
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take of this and I will pick one winner
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after the photo's been up for about 8 or
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10 hours and I'll ship it out the next
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morning whoa it's going to be uh
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beginning to look a lot like water loged
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yeah the Town Tavern is pretty smart
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they have like this uh the little tarps
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well not tarps but the little plastic
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things coming down to keep anyone that's
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eating behind them from getting soaking
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away
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fuel it
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up hey drove quite a bit of a distance
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down Highway 27 over past hanne City a
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few
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miles was noticing this building I don't
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know what this used to be but it's just
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sitting here empty just off the main
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road maybe like an old mechanic shop or
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something Old
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Homestead got a little huge garage
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there
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big puddle here that I don't know if I
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should be driving
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through also when the heck did Highway
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27 get so backed up with traffic all of
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Central Florida really is becoming very
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very busy 7 used to be smooth saing but
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not too much anymore you see a sign down
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there it says webs Pharmacy like this
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whole complex it was even a webs realy a
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block away
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and web's Candy Factory right here which
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has ice cream shakes citrus stuff this
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place has been open since
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1932 according to the sign and all the
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years I passed by this place or been
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down Highway 27 I've never stopped off
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in here 1932 they even has something
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called goats milk
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fudge I've heard of goats milk soap when
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I worked at a feed store in St Cloud
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years ago we sold goats milk soap but
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they have goats milk fudge here and that
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is a very large Dunkin drive-through
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sign look at the original concrete down
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here that's seen some years that
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probably doesn't date back to 32 but
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definitely dates back pretty
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old web must be the family
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name all right after walking in I'm
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seeing this little uh picture here of
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what it used to look like way back in
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the day but they've always had the goat
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milk Fudge Factory in gift shop and this
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is like kind of the extended ACR two
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pieces but it kind of extends on on how
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the distance was and then when you walk
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in they just have some very interesting
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Novelties novelty items that some of the
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places you know some of the items that
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are in here I don't think I've seen at
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any other spots very kind of like
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interesting like home decor that you
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could have like uh kind of scattered
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around through the shop as well on top
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of the the fudge and the candies and the
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the gifts and the coffee and all that is
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some some interesting little items that
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are kind of in here and it's really the
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way 27 has grown it really has
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completely change change the landscape
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of how it was and you could easily pass
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by this without knowing this is like a
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classic roadside I call it a Roadside
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Attraction but a roadside stop here on
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the high the side of Highway 27 in hanne
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City you you kind of like blink and you
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miss it web Citrus packing and Candy
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Factory formerly the Cs Taylor and
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company established in
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1932 the original Citrus Candy Factory
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Taylor's tropical suets right here the
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southland's finest Confections and it
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has a lot of the look at this this is
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like a tray of like chocolate goodies
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here's some of the employees back from
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Taylor's tropical Suites back in the day
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and what some of the original buildings
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look like welcome to web Citrus packing
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and Candy Factor the original Citrus
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candy Factory began in 1931 it was
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called the Sund dial in 32 brought the
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factory change the name of the Cs Taylor
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and Company and ran the operations fast
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forward to today and now it is called
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webs webs now offers quality fresh fruit
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and gifts now I opted not to get any
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goat milk fudge wasn't really in a fudge
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mood right now just because I had the
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kind of a
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chocolatey coffee earlier but did check
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out the well we got to watch out for the
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puddle here the reflection of the puddle
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where says the fudge but look there's
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like a candy cane style little stanion
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holding up this sign and I opted to get
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creating homemade confection since 1932
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I got the assorted Citrus candy these
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look kind of kind of neat I don't know
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if they're gummy style or not but they
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had all the different flavors you could
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buy a pack of the the lime or the lemon
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but I got the
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assorted kind of felt like like in a
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little fruity mood so got the webs candy
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shop since 1932 and all the years that
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I've been in this area I've never had a
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webs piece of candy that's about to
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change right now and it is raining on me
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and it's raining on my camera but it's
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just kind of drizzling so it's not too
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bad let's go with the little webs a
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little
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webbish open that up get the candies
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they are prepackaged so I guess you got
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to well I got to open this up
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too can't do it quickly trying to get
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this open in the
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rain well turning into more complex than
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I thought it would be to just open up
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the package get one of the
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webs almost looks like ice
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cubes here it has like a ice ice cube
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tray
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see so there's three different flavors
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look like there's lemon
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lime grapefruit and orange let me try
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the
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orange
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tasty it's not gummy can't place what
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the the texture of it is but it's almost
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like
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spongy sugar corn syrup water Citrus
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juice grapefruit oil artificial
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flavorings fresh from
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Florida
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it's pretty tasty I'll try the green one
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right
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there kind of feels good when it's like
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misting up
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you good to have a random day with no
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plan like I said had to come out here
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take care of some
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business I'm heading
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back and just seeing where the rainy day
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Le dang these are they
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fingers this this could be a rabbit hole
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a rabbit hole your taste
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buds could go down with joy and
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happiness man these are good I'm glad I
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got this Amer not the fudge I like fudge
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but for these are really good
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C trees now over in pner Park which is a
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big shopping area some new apartments up
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here this used to be boardwalk and
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baseball that was a theme park and also
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baseball stadium for spring training but
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they used to have a full-on also Circus
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World yeah circus world was back in here
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as well too in fact the road I'm on is
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called Home Run
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Boulevard is a little homage to when
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they had the basement back in here now
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there are a lot of active businesses
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back in here there's a Target and a
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couple other places and a movie theater
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but the ones back there seem to have
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closed they're kind of like in the far
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end of the complex last time I was over
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here I went to a Spirit Halloween but
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obviously the Spirit Halloween season is
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over got to go over here for another
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thing making all kind of stops that
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I yeah there's Target right over there
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it is very dreary
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really nasty out today and there is an
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active books a million I didn't realize
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that books a million was even still in
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business there was one in Orange near
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the Orange mall when I used to live in
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Orange County and it closed I just
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assumed the whole place went have
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business but this one's
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open is this the last remaining books of
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million yeah it's certainly a lot
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different over there now than it was
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back in the '90s
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my family and I moved here in '
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91 and it was kind of a around that time
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I think it was still open but not for
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very much longer but we used to come
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here back in the early
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80s I got pictures of me at Circus
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World board walking baseball Michael
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Jackson rented it out once and there was
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like some photos of him on a roller
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coaster right here where the Staples is
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now get back on I4 it's about to be
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gridlocked right now at 4:24
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p.m.
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that's
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exciting there's nothing more exciting
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than just waiting in rush rush hour
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traffic to go series of miles I got to
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go over towards the mall of Millennia
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now that's where I'm heading I got 23
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miles to go it's going to probably take
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me an hour hour and 15 minutes if I had
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to
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guess there a lot of wood right there
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Lumber hey you think there was like a
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major storm front I mean I guess there
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is a major storm front coming in but
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this is like
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just two straight days of
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this Mickey power PO is up here on this
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side but you can't even see it went from
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the opposite
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way ah yeah the balloon is definitely
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not up at Disney Springs today you can
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see it over there just sitting there
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slow crawl from this way it's like
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Westbound at least through Springs is
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going a little bit
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quicker than the other areas the way on
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I for giveth and I4 taketh
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away doesn't really make any sense but I
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said it once and
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it kind of makes sense but it kind of
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doesn't make
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sense you never know what you're going
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to get it's like a box of chocolates of
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course G have that here's the casting
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building wdw casting right there also
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should probably roll my window
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up getting rained
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on
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better it's moist
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outside having fun big the foot traffic
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and rain and inclement
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weather okay it seemed to have lightened
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up just a little bit just drizzling now
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we're here at the mall of Millennia
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which is still a pretty and busy mall
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there's not a lot of malls that are
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doing well oh there's city of Orlando
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fire truck coming through here fighting
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17 stop in here real quick where's the
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entrance there's a Macy's there this
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looks like an
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entrance have not been in this mall in
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probably 5 years Joey
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faton used to have a hot dog standing
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here called fat
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ones play on words for his name which he
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kind of embraced in fact he even kind of
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marketed
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that as well this is slick here I got to
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be careful walking on
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this but I will not be going on in here
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and seeing Joey faton selling his hot
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dogs I think he is no longer no longer
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has his establishment in here yeah I was
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right look at this caution wet floor
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take a look at these little chandeliers
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right here and look at this
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mall pretty dang cool we got the little
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Ambiance going this place is thriving
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this is not like some malls that are
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just completely empty and dead yeah they
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are in fullon holiday spirit in here
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this is like a hot air balloon right
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here they almost kind of look like
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jellyfish as well wao is this like a
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whole Santa's area I think this is a
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Santa area over here what the heck look
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at this these are like popping in and
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out of the boxes yeah this is probably
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the busiest Mall I've been in in a long
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time up they got the Christmas tree all
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illuminated here in the little Courtyard
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next to Brio Tuscan Grill up the
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escalator they have a blooming Dales
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this is a this a fancy fancy Mall very
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beautiful though very elegant yeah this
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place is pretty dang fan look at the
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backdrop behind this mannequin got
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Tiffany there we got Gucci right here
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and we got Prada on that end over there
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in that corner Neiman Marcus Louis
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Vuitton yeah just some moderately priced
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places all right I stepped outside real
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quick going to realize it is just
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precipitating like nobody's business so
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I think I didn't bring my umbrella left
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my umbrella on the car sped over there
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so I think I'm going to go back inside
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and maybe grab a later in the evening
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piping ey CFE I had one earlier I think
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I might go go get another one went back
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inside got a I didn't get the mocha this
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time I just got the peppermint latte
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really I think the mocha one was a
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little too much I just got the
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peppermint latte this time I don't know
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why I didn't got grab the umbrella the
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the weather kind of fooled me into
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thinking that maybe it was over when I
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was walking in but yeah it is uh look at
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look at this look at this this little
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little tunnel of water that is coming
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out of there I could could run for it
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but man it is coming down I spent like
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20 minutes walking around inside there
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again and I grabbed this other coffee I
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guess I could go back in and walk around
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a little bit more but I kind of want to
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head to the
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car there's a pretty good perspective of
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it coming down right there with the lamp
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you know with the rain coming coming
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down from the lamp there it is just
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descending it's 6:30 right now from now
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until 7 and 3:00 the 7:00 hour 100%
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of% chance of precipitation
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so I might just run to the car and just
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chance it okay I'm going for it I'm
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going for
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yeah made a mistake not grabbing my
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umbrella was talking about how much rain
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it was and how nasty it was out and then
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it teased me and stopped should have
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known should have known
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better getting ready to go on the off
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ramp or the on ramp I4 Westbound from
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here you can see the back side of the
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Orlando sign so if you're coming from
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Westward underneath going Eastward you
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would see this
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sign right here just waiting for the
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light to
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change I don't want to roll the window
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down normally I roll the window down
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when I'm filming I'm sitting
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still not doing
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that all right it seems to have lolled
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out just a little
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bit basically how this Fountain is is
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pretty much how the sky
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has been dumping all day just like that
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and it
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finally has subsided it's 7:30 right
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now again like usually when it rains in
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Florida it'll rain for like an hour or
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two and then it'll stop clear up for a
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bit but man it has just
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been whole other level the last couple
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days hopefully tomorrow a little bit a
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little bit better so I think what I'm
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going to do now is go over to Upper
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Crust Pizza which is on that side over
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there and get a slice or two a couple
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slices let's be honest two slices are uh
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Supreme style they have a pretty good
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size pizza pie slices it's over here on
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the right hand side past the tree I'm
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going to get a couple slices and call it
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a night kind of an uneventful day when
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it comes to you know episode wise
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because I had some some things I had to
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take care of that again really some not
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everything needs to be on video but I
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accomplished a lot you know personally I
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got a lot done today so that's kind of
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good I'm going to go grab some slices
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and then go down to the lake front and
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that's going to do it for today from
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indigan celebration beginning in
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celebration Igan celebration and went
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covered a lot of ground today in the
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rain moist I'll see you the next video
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