The Unusual Roadside Oddities of Myrtle Beach South Carolina - Winter 2022 Tourist Town Off Season
Myrtle Beach South Carolina
Transcript
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as traffic goes down the thoroughfare
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welcome everyone why did i say fair
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affair that way
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adam
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woo here
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yes i have
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the jackrabbit trading post t-shirt on
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which is a roadside oddity a rabbit on
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the side of route 66 a little segway
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into what i would be covering not not 66
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but
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this stretch of road leading from murals
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inlet i believe is where i'm standing
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underneath
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this firework stand
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crazy sam's fireworks
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take a look at this there's a lot of
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fireworks in this state
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i have chosen to do my intro right here
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has the reporting of this thursday
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january 20th
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2022
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gentlemen just fly on a bike thinking
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why is that guy talking to himself
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not only that firework stand but
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in front of this stretch limo vw bus
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with a piping hot caffeinated beverage
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getting a little excited
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i'll share some info with you at the end
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of this video i will be in this area for
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more than a few days
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that's all i can say for now i'll give a
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little specifications i checked into a
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hotel
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i can't remember what i check out i'll
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mention that at the end of the video
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right over in this section the murals
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inlet area and i will be venturing up
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into
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myrtle beach south carolina quite a bit
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in the surrounding areas
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for the next few days i'm inviting you
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to join me
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let's check out some roadside oddities
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like that
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like
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this
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and what else i could find
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shall you
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the hole cheers
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my goodness
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look at this place
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jaws
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resort
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where
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holy cow there's a couple of large
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sharks in front of this
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pull over there
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i realized maybe that segue with me
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wearing the shirt of a roadside
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wacky sculpture didn't make a lot of
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sense there there are wacky sculptures
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all over the united states and myrtle
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beach is no exception
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and after seeing this
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i am going to imagine it will be a
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treasure trove of unusual
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large oddities that are
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busting out of the ground similar
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to this
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the shark with very
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sharp teeth
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stanchioned off
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however you can walk around
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do not get too close
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to the shark
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look at that and not just one
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it's got a different shark friend over
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there
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stuff like this is always fun i just
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like oversized
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items to draw you in off of a road to
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basically spend some money and get a
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photo on
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and that's no exception here oh the
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lights are lit up i mean up the lights
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but the eyes
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are lit up look
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got the red eyes
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got the red eyes shark
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does that mean you're friendly or not
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friendly
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this thing is this thing is a good size
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wow
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another fire truck over here too old
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school fire truck in the same parking
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lot
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jaws resort wear
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i feel like i do need to walk
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into the mouth of madness
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ooh
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look down here
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there's an etching
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of a shark and a hammerhead down here
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too
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there's a few of them and they lead the
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way oh
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says beware
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the lifeguards
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have been devoured
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the shark did not enjoy the lifeguard
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chairs though so spit them out
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welcome
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to draw
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also has consumed some shopping carts
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looking back out onto the road
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see us friend out there
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waving at the ongoing traffic
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this is pretty dang cool i did try
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opening both the doors but it's not open
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at this hour
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but as i peek in you can kind of see
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there's a plane right there
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and look up there there's a little
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camera that shows me
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at the front door i'm kind of waving
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kind of waving a little bit waving my
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coffee
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all right this place isn't open but i
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think the main
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attraction is definitely
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the shark mouth
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i might come back later i'll be here
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most of the week as i leave the mouth of
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this magnificent creature
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does it look like i'm getting eaten by
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the shark
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it's all an illusion
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it's not real
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i will be picking up my mom from the
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airport in a few hours from right now so
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until then just gonna venture around
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have some family up here and
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something came up
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and with you know some family stuff
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so told my mom i'm in south carolina why
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don't you just fly to myrtle beach and i
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have the hotel until the 26th so i will
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be in this area
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until the 26th
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and my mom will be here too i don't know
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if she'll be in the videos after today
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but she might be
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but that's the plan that's why i'm in
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this area for until at least the 26th
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family stuff but i'll still i'm still
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going to film videos so try to and
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directly behind me
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well behind the houses that are behind
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me is the beach
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but on this side
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of where i was driving
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is a spaceship type of house
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that is tough to see from the road you
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have to kind of go about a block away
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and zoom in
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but look at this
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it's very overcast today too
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it's also the off season so a lot of
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stuff might not be open and there
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probably won't be a lot of tourists in
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myrtle beach but
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i'm here
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yeah spaceship hope it's unusual i've
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been to a few of these across the
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country along the coast obviously
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and i think a lot of them are built
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simply to withstand wind better than a
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a square type of home
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because the wind can kind of roll over
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the tops and around the edges easier
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and then they just turn into spaceship
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homes
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earth to myrtle beach
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i think this is a suburb of myrtle beach
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there's a few little communities around
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it
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this is a little bit south of myrtle
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beach not far though all right the name
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of this area is specifically garden city
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this is the pavilion cafe
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which at the moment
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is not open next to the yum yum shop
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you made a yummy
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sound a young frankenstein reference
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the slick track
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amusement park is closed down
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but there's plenty of other places
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around here for your amusement trust me
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garden city beach
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little mural there on the side
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yeah like i said there's a lot of little
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suburbs of myrtle
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really like the look of this place
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the village surf shop
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since 1969
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and they got some
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classic neon up here i am not a surfer
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by any means in fact i've never even
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attempted
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to surf
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but i do like this neon
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pretty cool
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really starting to notice a lot of these
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beach vehicles
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kind of look the same you know with the
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kind of rusted out
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maybe from the sea salt air
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at this place called wales
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and look over here here's another one
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there's a couple more back here
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it's an old tractor
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some vintage goodness starting to notice
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also there are a heck of a lot of
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miniature golf courses around these
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parts
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and this mini golf has a octopus
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themed in the front and the little
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lagoon in front of it
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crabby mike's
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has a big crab
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on top of mike's van
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crabby mike's restaurant here seafood
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restaurant
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very nice
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i've seen some lobsters
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lobster
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restaurant around where i live near
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celebration florida i have a big lobster
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i've never seen a crab
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engulfing the top of a van before
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yeah he's got the crabby eyes
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all right crab
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have a good day
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hold over here next to the entrance of
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snake river
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and snake river is no longer open
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it's just sitting here desolate one of
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the many
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little mini golf course many many that's
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a lot of minis spelled differently
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m-a-n-y and then m-i-n-i but pronounced
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kind of the same
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you can see the two snakes up there top
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of the little volcano
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this one is closed
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but as stated there are probably
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hundreds more
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where you can get your you get your golf
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on
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look at that slithering serpent right
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down there
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and there's a gold mine water tower
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right there and the building next to it
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also is empty
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and there's a big eye up on that
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billboard
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i do really enjoy how almost every play
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well not every place but a good portion
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of them have some sort of unique item
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right on the side of the road roadside
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oddities
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i also wanted to point out
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over here next door
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sugar kingdom
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how horrifying
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these sharks are
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they do not look like happy campers
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why
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why do you have the mean look on your
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face
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oh my goodness and the teeth are made
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out of metal rusted metal
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the tail fin is all busted up
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not
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put a smile on your face
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shark
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staring into the nether regions of a
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i haven't used the word nether regions
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in a while
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that's a deep cut
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there's a little behind the scenes on
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how the
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how the shark is made
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i don't want to touch this i might cut
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myself yeah i don't want to
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definitely don't want to do that all
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right moving on
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roadside relics
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something about firework stands
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and
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elephants
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i have seen quite a few elephants
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outside of fireworks stands across the
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country
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promoting
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those establishments and this is no
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exception
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raising the trunk up saying come on in
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spend some money
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okay now technically
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crossing over into myrtle beach
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i'm not now but now i am
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after passing that no one on the water
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slides at the moment right now nor in
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the pool next to this hotel
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i mean it is winter time
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and it is the off season as i stated
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but speaking of large roadside items
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these are not normally sized seashells
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you can see by that little three foot
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electrical outlet well electrical stand
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there with all the power grid
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just that just shows how big in
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comparison
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those seat shells are
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there's some sort of tongue twister
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about seashells
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but i'm drawing a blank on it sign
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states cancun lagoon
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there's a pyramid here
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one of the many
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mini golf courses
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that's impressive full-size pyramid
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also noticing by passing a lot of places
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some of them say see you in march see
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you in the spring
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because it is the off season so i hope i
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can find some stuff to do around here
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over the next few days
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it's a lighthouse on the top of that
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building over there probably a
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restaurant of some sort
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has a lighthouse on the roof
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got a handful of dinos up there
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well two dinosaurs
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and a tusked
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mammoth
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cap'n canes
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must be his pirate ship
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and next to this philly cheesesteak
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place
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of south carolina
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you get a philly in
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south carolina and myrtle beach is the
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captain himself right here
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looking over the
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the traffic as it goes by
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has a
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a life buoy there
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preserver
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right there he's got a a pipe up top too
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and a sweet stash
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look he's got quite the mustache
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as well
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just have to say good day
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cap'n
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not spelled captain but cap
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is that the hypno toad from futurama
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looks like the hypno toad
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got a painting here you see up top it
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says myrtle beach
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the side of this former diner looks like
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it closed down
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there's a lot of stuff open here
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a lot of stuff's closed for the season
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but a lot is open
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but i'm always fascinated by
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you know relics of the past this looks
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i've recently closed
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that's why i'm showcasing this for just
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a moment
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but i really like the architecture of
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the front of the building given that
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classic diner look
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it's called lulu's
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and it has the neon
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still up top
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and those vintage style diner doors
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kinda like something you'd see like a
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mel's diner
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sunset boulevard in hollywood
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they have those doors right there
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and from what i can tell
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it's still it's still a business it's
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not closed down it's just not open now
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because
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springtime is when a lot of these places
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will start to rear their head again now
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it's not bumblebee but it is a
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transformer here like a herbie
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transformer this thing that's herbie's
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number right well hello it's a mater
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golf cart i've never seen a mater golf
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cart before but got the teeth there and
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the eyes that is mater here's a place
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called gretel's candy house it's like
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there's all kind of candy up the side of
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the roof line
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and some gingerbread and candy canes and
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all that this entire place is candy
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filled
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this is pretty dang cool
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a peter pan themed golf course
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got the mermaids here
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this is not this is not tick-tock the
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gator
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there's skull rock over in the distance
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the mermaids are waving
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this is open got to keep that in mind
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while i'm here it's like a pretty fun
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based on peter pan obviously
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you know with skull rock right there you
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could walk through it or play
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through it looks like hooks up there on
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his pirate ship
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and the distance got the waterfalls
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going too
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oh look at this there's tick tock right
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now that is awesome look at this you got
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the little animatronic down here
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you got hook up top there in the crow's
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nest
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captain hook looking across
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the gator right here
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that is
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pretty neat
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there's still a lot of good movement
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here
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that is so cool
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watch out pirate that's not smee
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kind of sort of a smee
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representation of a smee
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well done
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i love this kind of stuff it's just
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wacky
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that is not a real owl
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it's used here as a decoy
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in front of the myrtle beach convention
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center
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and over here
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are some apollo moon boots
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if they still exist
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just reading that somewhere over near
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the fountain are
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footprints of the moon boots
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there's another owl
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ah yes
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found them
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these have been here since
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73 1973.
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these have been placed here
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and the backstory on these are
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these footprints of astronaut
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charles m duke
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a native of south carolina who walked on
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the moon
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1972
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and the first inductee to the south
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carolina hall of fame
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very first
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hall of fame member
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for the state
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and these are his boot prints
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that are placed right here
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in front of the convention center
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many years ago
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these have been here longer than i have
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been
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on earth
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1973 was
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a year before i was born i was born in
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august of 74.
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pretty neat there is a frisbee golf
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course hole over there
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a lot of times i played frisbee golf
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a few years
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got a couple minutes before i have to go
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over and
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pick up my
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mother a little different type of
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episode today obviously
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don't know how the next few are gonna go
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whenever i'm on the road traveling i
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really don't like taking days off
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i'd rather save any days off or when i'm
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at home
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i'm out and about
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we'll see how it goes
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as stated this was
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oh look at a plane going up there taking
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off
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this is something that just popped up
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and family time is important it doesn't
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always need to be documented but not
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everything needs to be presented
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especially when it comes to personal
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stuff
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but i will attempt to continue putting
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up daily videos while i'm out on this
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road trip
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wow look at this
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walk right underneath it
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i see bart simpson over here
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also have a fortune teller on this side
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of the same
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same capsule cockpit
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here's a little information
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aircraft nose art
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nose art has been credited with
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increasing the morale
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of the servicemen
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many choose ferocious or protective
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names
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to ward off bad luck
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nose art
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it's what it's referred to as
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even though i'm in south carolina there
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is a georgia bulldog on the side of this
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one
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the name of the plane is the dog hog
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that's the nickname it was given
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and it has the pilot's name on the side
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pilot captain stephen r
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phillis
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my plan is to go back to florida
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will not be till mid february
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probably around the 20th of february
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give or take a day or two nothing super
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technical or specific but that is my
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game plan
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kind of obviously going with the weather
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a lot of a lot of people will ask why
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don't you go up into the northern states
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that will happen later in the year right
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now
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a lot of snow into north carolina back
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even tonight as a recording of this this
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evening is supposed to dip down below
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freezing maybe even get
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a little bit of snow tomorrow or
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around that time frame here around the
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myrtle beach area
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but in the north carolina virginia and
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even
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farther up than that not something i
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really want to be driving around in
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exploring and whatnot
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so basically going to stay in south
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carolina my plan is after the 26th
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a day or two after or maybe even on the
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26th when i check out of my hotel
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i will venture off
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into north carolina areas depending on
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the weather do not plan on going back to
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celebration florida till
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mid
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little after mid february so
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19th 20th 21st 22nd give or take just
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keep keeping that
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putting that information out there while
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i am here
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i'm open to suggestions
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on things to do
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in the general vicinity i cannot venture
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off too far into towns that are way way
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out of the out of the range because as
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stated
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some family stuff has come up
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but in the mornings i want to go out and
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document so i'm open to suggestions i do
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have instagram adamthewooatw
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on instagram
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suggestions always
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always helpful i will attempt to
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keep filming this week i'll see you in
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the next video thanks for watching
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a little bit different
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showed some road roadside oddities now i
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have to head over the airport pick up my
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mama
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i'll see the next video the vlog
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it's over
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bonus footage
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i've never been to this airport before
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so i figured i might as well just show
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no parking structure like lax or orlando
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international i probably never fly in
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and out of here
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so yeah this is a little extra and i'm
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getting some very heavy
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man with one red shoe vibes tom hanks
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film
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standing here down the escalator
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there she goes down the escalator that's
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her waving