Tour Of San Francisco Castro & Mission District - Chinatown Fortune Cookie Company / Salesforce Park
San Francisco August 2023
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welcome everyone out of the move here as
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the recording of this Tuesday August
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15th
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2023 Daphne is here with me as well
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former local to San Francisco so you
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know your way around a little better
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than I do even though I'm starting to
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get my bearings yeah kind of sort of
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slowly yeah you do so we're downtown now
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we're gonna head over to Mission
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District and where else and the Castro
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we didn't really get to visit last time
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so it's so excited for you to see fish
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so there's a restaurant over there is
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that in the mission or you're in Castro
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it's a Mission District Mission District
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and there's a park we're gonna go to
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I've never been to either one of those
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places so it's gonna be kind of
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interesting now we did this the second
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time we've done the intro oh there it
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goes we were waiting patiently for the
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trolley car to go by but that thing's
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been sitting there for like 18 minutes
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it's been sitting for so long there it
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goes
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it's a car
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Rice-A-Roni the San Francisco treat
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were here two years ago I mentioned rice
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around here like
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all right let's get going I'm inviting
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you to join me and down
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this is kind of interesting there's so
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many pigeons in town that they have all
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these little bird deflection devices
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right here
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so we scan in through here
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then we go in it looks like our train
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our Mimi's gonna be here in like two
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minutes
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I love the muni logo it's very retro
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looking
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see if I can show a car yeah
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if you look at it be Wicked you have to
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look at it closely to even see this as
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Muni it just looks like a unique design
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I like that okay where are we going give
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me the layout of the land here oh it's
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coming right now
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please hold on to handrails or no just
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please hold on
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okay have arrived
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I'm gonna get a cup of coffee somewhere
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any recommendations for uh
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spot in this area
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flowers here
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or trumpets
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I just love seeing all the the wires
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going by
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buses and the all the cars run off about
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the cars but the transportation
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there's a classic one over there hot
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cookie yeah
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Pizza Licious
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a double rainbow
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grab a couple cups of coffee from the
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coffee company right here underneath the
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theater itself
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have hot coffee you got a cold brew
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Cheers Cheers
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I feel like I'm on Hollywood Boulevard
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at the Disney
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kind of reminds me of the Disney theater
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on Hollywood Boulevard a little bit I
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keep wanting to like look down and see
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like the
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Minnie Mouse star
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you got a Skyline up there
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together we can make a better world
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way up there there's
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really pretty cute little Planters here
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plant one on me give me the dirt
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crosswalks that the rainbow crosswalks
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here and you got Harvey's named after he
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was the mayor right uh
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Always Sunny Danny DeVito there
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and then divine right there
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the Shadows well half shadowed out half
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from the Sun
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it's like a wheat paste of the Vine
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it's not like graffiti or attack it's
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like a weak paste divine
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here's the nails and spa place
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a lot of unique names through here now
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if I remember correctly there is a
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Hamburger Mary's in Key West he said
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there's one in West Hollywood also yeah
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but I think they're in Key West on New
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Year's they do they do like a ball drop
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with a drag queen in the like a
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champagne glass or maybe in a shoe or
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something
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I may be wrong on it maybe call
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something else but Hamburger Mary's
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definitely Rings about
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anniversary of Robin Pastor a little
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homage to him here too
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San Francisco has like the best public
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transit as far as you know just look at
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me it's pretty good all around but just
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like looking at it like appearance wise
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just classic look at this thing so retro
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inside this Diner they have like a Bette
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Midler from the Divine Miss Rim days
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classic over there all along the street
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they have something called a rainbow
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honor walk
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this is Ricky
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schreiter you ever heard of him
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well I did see an Alan Ginsberg one I
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recognize recognize a few times yeah so
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over here
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I don't know if this sign is still
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accurate but over here it looks like
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this place is closed however there are
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interviews being held here
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I don't have an appointment but if you
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had an appointment we could be
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interviewed
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seems uh I don't know yeah it seems a
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little a little iffy
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now panning this way you'll see a sign
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that says flower Corner
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this is the general vicinity
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of the flower shop from the movie The
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Room two years ago back in August of
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2021 we were here did a full detail
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covering all the room locations but we
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just happen to be in this neck of the
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wood so we just walked a block down
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check out this place this is this is the
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scene oh hi donkey
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you're my favorite customer
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it's now a restaurant this was the
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flower shop from the movie The Room
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highly regarded as one of the worst
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slash best movies of all time
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for the at the residential area up top
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and the business section down down below
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classic there's Freddie Mercury right
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here singer songwriter and showman of
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course the lead singer of Queen
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right here along the honor walk as well
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very notable
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figure
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crossing over
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sandwich shop over here has a very retro
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seven up sign Church Street Market Deli
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beer wine and liquor and you can faintly
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see
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seven up has been painted over I guess
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they don't sell seven up anymore
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I made it over walked over to the
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Mission District
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a lot of churches in this area obviously
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a very old churches
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went over here Mission Dolores
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I've already had a coffee I don't need
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another one at this moment but Max feels
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look at this
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self-designated the house of caffeine
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all right taking a little brick I've
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been walking up quite a few Hills
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definitely get your steps on here or
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steps in here but look at this view
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sitting in the shade
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nice sunny day here at San Francisco
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that downtown off in the distance
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there's a church over there that
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resembles like an observatory of some
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sorts called The Lighthouse where it's a
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building called The Lighthouse
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but this park
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it's amazing this whole expansive Park
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here
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overlooking the city itself this is
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really incredible
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never been here never been to the spot
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before
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yeah just a perfect view
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of the city off there over there
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see all the skyscrapers the high rises
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the cityscape
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tallest building in San Francisco right
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there in the middle there
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just to show the incline of the street
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so the camera is completely angled or
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completely straight
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to look at
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look at the fire truck and the cars
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there
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all right over to Mission Street now
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I like this theater here the grand
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on the ground here too
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kind of has like a Hollywood Vibe or
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Hollywood Boulevard by mission Mission
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Street house
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check this out olive wood
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beauty salon right there and Hollywood
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Beauty threading
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we're like six hours north of Hollywood
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now see these at other places as well
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it's not really two different foods you
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would think would go together
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Chinese food and donuts
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but I've seen them I think L.A there's a
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couple of Chinese food going up places
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they're definitely populated
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that's it
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any of the places that's it the world's
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largest torta
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Cubana
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do you ever eat here
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you know all the good you know all the
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good food places around here though
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I saw an old 7-Up sign earlier now
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here's an old Sprite sign and then two
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horses over there oh they were unicorns
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the first public they're just horses
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here's another theater that has
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definitely seen better days it's all
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boarded up we got the parts of the
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Marquee
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still left
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let's see where the neon or the the
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bulbs underneath here
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okay
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you want to talk about this place you
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can't talk about it
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wow we don't we don't talk about Bruno
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I'll move on all right earlier I was
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saying the other theater wherever Castro
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will remind me of the El Capitan
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the Disney theater in Hollywood in L.A
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and here is an El Capitan
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right here now it's just used as a
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parking area just a parking lot back in
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no longer a theater this is called Dr
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Teeth any Muppet correlation or is it
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just teeth because it has teeth just the
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name just the name almost looks like
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that was a previous theater as well over
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there a lot of Street vendors a set of
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tables and just selling the random Goods
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flea market style garage sale style
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right here along the streets we are now
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going to grab a bite to eat well maybe a
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couple bites to eat
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gonna get a couple
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burritosis
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and she is getting the beef tongue I
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might try a bite of it she is getting a
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beef tongue I'm getting the grilled beef
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steak and a couple bottles of water okay
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I got the beverages
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got the burritos in there
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and show this mural here of the Mission
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District and we're gonna walk back up
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the side of the hill to the park again
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with a viewer downtown grab a bench
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Sims food
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all right a lot of the benches up there
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towards the top of the hill are pretty
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pretty full so we found one right here a
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little obscured view but we're looking
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at a pretty good view earlier pretty
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good sized burrito you went with the
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beef tongue they did it's so good I
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never had it
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I'm excited for you can you have the
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bite I'll have a bite of it we also got
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some chips and salsa
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as well
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finishing up took a bite
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of the cow tongue burrito it's not as
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bad as I thought it was gonna be
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yeah
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it just tastes like regular beef but
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it's like a little coarser it's like a
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tender meat
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it's like it's not a tender
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it's like a little more coarseness to it
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am I describing that right yeah
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yeah that's good though
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it does not taste like a ton
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my burrito's good too
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this is one of those things that messes
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with your head when you hear what it
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really is
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a lot of motorcycles in town too I'm
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noticing yeah
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cow tongue I've never had it before
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that's not the one I have
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maybe next time I'll get a Cow Town
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oh 90's on the menu somewhere
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every place has cow tongue so it's not
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just the place we just went to cow talk
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is pretty standard
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all right yeah that's a dang dang good
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burrito a lot of rice and beans in there
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too
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which is nice with the carne asada
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used to always get carne asada Trejo's
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tacos when I was in Hollywood
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I mentioned Hollywood like three times
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today
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I think of carne asada though think of
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Danny Trejo and his burritos
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pretty good
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these are good too
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I've also noticed there's a lot
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park space San Francisco tons of parks
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not tons but a lot
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yeah this view up here really is
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something else
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also amazing everybody's just out here
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sunbathing and sitting on their blankets
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soaking up some rays
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we're gonna go from here and we're gonna
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head
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closer to downtown we'll into downtown
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we're gonna go to another Park a new
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park that's built kind of elevated up
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other coffee at Phil's which is a
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company started in the San Francisco
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area based out of here but there used to
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be there's one that opened at the orange
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circle where I used to live in Orange
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County this is something called a
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filtered soul
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which is like a mild hazelnut
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type of coffee they had pretty good
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coffee tallest building in the city
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Salesforce Tower
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home to Salesforce Park
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see the trees and everything are up
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there above
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the ground
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we have to get up there
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to the park
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it's a new park here in the city there
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is a gondola elevators and escalators to
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Salesforce Park via transit center
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we're going on it
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thank you
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Ed
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60 Seconds
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one minute to the top
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Department
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sure beats the stairs
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thank you all of this is completely
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elevated and above the traffic that's
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going on
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down below
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you got the city the hustle bustle of
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the concrete jungle right there
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and then you just got this beautiful
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Park up here above it
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traffic is directly below and everything
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different
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fluffy plant here on this bush
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get down there at the road
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all right back down on ground level
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it looks like a ghost over here is about
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to materialize in this little thing
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right here I don't know what's going on
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with this
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the Short Line of San Francisco Bay
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reached a point 25 feet northeasterly
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from this spot back when gold was
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discovered James Marshall back in
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January 24th of 1848.
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history everywhere
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now approaching Dragon Gate the entrance
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Chinatown
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it's called Dragon Gate because there's
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dragons on it here
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Old Saint Mary's Center
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Ola Bruce Lee right there
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turning down Ross alley right now
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you can smell it you can smell the
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fortune cookies from the fortune cookie
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Factory
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the Golden Gate fortune cookie cookie
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oh wow yeah you can definitely smell it
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permeating this is where they make
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some cookies they're in there making
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them right now
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his pigeons right here they're loving
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the Ambiance of the fortune cookie cat
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Factory here in this alleyway
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oh thank you
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oh thank you so much
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so these are not rolled up these are
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just flat fortune cookies without
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fortune in them create your own fortune
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all right got my order okay have it
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ordered some fortune cookies we got a
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little bag down here
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a little uh souvenir from the fortune
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cookie factory
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because you're wondering how fortune
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cookies were made
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come here
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to the Golden Gate fortune cookie
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factory which started on August 5th
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1962.
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who knew that fortune cookies are also
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Leo's right
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located 56 Ross alley
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so we were here two years ago wasn't
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open
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because it was right after a lot of
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things were reopening after 2020 we were
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here in 21.
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and a lot of stuff wasn't back open yet
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though
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you want a fortune cookie
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this unique sculpture is compromised a
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30 186 vinyl records princess
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album cover of purple rain
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look at that right there that's a bunch
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of Records making up
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Prince on the motorcycle
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which fun fact that album cover was
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taken at Warner Brothers Studio
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right where the Annie
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steps were were they sang hard knock
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life right there in that little alleyway
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from peewee's Big Adventure but Tim
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Burton says we don't take kindly to
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strangers come around here
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same alley
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side note
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Gusty out here now very windy
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that's gonna do it for today
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from San Francisco
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how about some steps in
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I'll see the next video the Vlog
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there's a total step today 23 100
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19.
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most of it up and down Hills nice