A Friday Night In Downtown Boston At Cheers Bar - Unusual Spots / Mike’s Pastry & Paul Revere House
Boston Massachusetts Nov 2023
w/ Derek From DTours
Transcript
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today's adventure begins here at this
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Dunkin Donuts where I have got myself
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actually
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the cups they have are not even
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decorated for the holiday but I did get
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a
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peppermint latte that they started
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yesterday now a fun fact about this
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Dunkin Donuts this is in Medford
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Massachusetts I'm going to be heading
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over into Boston today do some Boston
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stuff this is the one that they use for
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the Interiors when JLo pulled around
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and Ben afflac was working
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inside the Interiors kind of look the
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same but the exterior was filmed
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somewhere else in fact if you look over
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there when you see the customers going
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through the drive-thru you can match up
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that telephone pole and you can match up
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the building in the
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background cheers I was kind of hoping I
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get a holiday cut but no go welcome
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everyone Adam the woo here as the
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recording of This TGIF November 3rd
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2023 I am just kind of winging today
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going to go into downtown Boston see
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what I can find enjoy the day enjoy the
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cool crisp fall weather here in New
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England I'm inviting you to join
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me a lot of foam in this there's a it's
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probably half
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foam it's pretty good though the
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Peppermint's pretty good join
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me think about it JLo went right through
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that drive-thru shall
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you all right made it over to the Boston
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Commons parking
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structure there's a blinking light over
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there it's a haunted
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structure
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all right I need to remember I parked at
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the Boston Common
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garage tont Street or
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tront this public garden foot Bridge
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opened back in June of
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1867 I'm noticing it's kind of
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interesting over here it's the waterers
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all dried up so they have removed the
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water possibly because of the upcoming
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you know snow and Frost and icy season
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that's coming up also somewhere around
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here is the Robin Williams bench from
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Goodwill Hunting I think that's like in
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this general area see if I can find that
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there's a squirrel down there and where
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the water usually is there is a squirrel
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walking around on the little like hard
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packed mud where usually a squirrel
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cannot walk yeah the spot is still here
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there's another gentleman over there
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sitting on the at the same spot they
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place the the bench where Matt Damon and
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Robin SAT but it was right there with
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the water behind them the big old oh
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hello squirrel you coming up to me
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squirrel how's it going you're a good
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siiz squirrel right
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there
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hello yep you know about the Robin
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Williams bench you do this is like a
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different angle so the bench is right
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over
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up going back to digging huh squirrel
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all right fair
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enough and just
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across where I just
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was is a place where everyone everybody
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I should say knows your name and they're
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always glad you
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came
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cheers right here on the corner of
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Beacon
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Street at the Hampshire house the
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Hampshire house cheers established
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1895 you got the danger sign out
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front got some wet paint right
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there they have food in here as well
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they got a menu board there there's the
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side lots of weight they have a gift
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shop oh they have a gift shop I've never
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been inside here I'm going to go in the
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gift shop see what they got in the gift
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shop hot
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dogs
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cocktails
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starters look at this they have Sam
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starters they have Woody Garden
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greens cheers Pub birg they have Norm
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sandwiches oo I like that definitely can
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smell that wet paint located at Beacon
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Hill cheers at Beacon Hill Gift Shop is
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open and down below is the bull and
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Finch Pub down the stairwell a little
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secret door right there I never been
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inside inside this building before hey
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when you go in there's this huge
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staircase that kind of leads up almost
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like to the very tippy top they
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definitely have a lot I've never
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realized all this was inside here all
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the like cardboard cutouts and all the
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like photos of cast all through here I
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just never realized that all of that was
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in here I mean I just kind of figured it
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was just named cheers and they utiliz
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they had it as the inspiration but yeah
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pretty awesome they even have a
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recreation of the set I'm going to be
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walking over to as well here's the cast
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as well there's a residential area out
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back and that's so the set bar is back
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the other way but the real bar that you
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can go down into is down here this is
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the real bar not the set bar all right
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that was pretty awesome going inside
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there not just necessarily the
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recreation of the set which is kind of
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cool recreated to look like it did
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exactly like it did in the show you
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could sit down get a bite to eat and
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also you know drink up in there as well
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they even had you know some nods to the
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show itself they even had Norm spot
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which was very occupied but I asked the
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gentleman that were sitting there like
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just get a little photo of the norm
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thing but then also down below into the
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original area which is what it was based
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on is still open very very very busy at
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a gift shop in the top portion and a
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gift shop at the bottom with lots of
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nostalgia and nods to the to the hit
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show
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as well so definitely pretty cool I was
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able to I was here a year and a half ago
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I believe it was a couple years ago and
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walked by here but I had never been
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inside so it was neat to to go inside
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cheers and everybody well nobody really
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knew my name but if I wanted to I could
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have got a little sticker and put my
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name on it but I couldn't find a
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Sharpie sometimes you want to go where
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everybody knows your name they're always
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glad you
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came this is a thing you can put right
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there look at this big tour bus here
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it's like an onoff tour bus right to
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your
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right is definitely one of the top spots
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here in town touristy
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spots this sculpture has been placed
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here as a tribute to Robert MOSI whose
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story Make Way for Ducklings has made
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the Boston Public Garden familiar to
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children around the world in
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1987 and you have some of the little
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ducklings here placed here on the the
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bricks as well yeah placed here in 1987
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in fact yesterday when I was in that
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furniture store they had a Jelly Belly
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version of this it starts off with the
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mama duck the big duck right here and
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then all the
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ducklings
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behind the big duck right
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here there's 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 nine of
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them total you can kind of see there's
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the that one there's also another plaque
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right here you got the duckling plaque
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duckling sculpture right there
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1987 as
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well all right from here I think I'm
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going to head over to
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Chinatown this General V this general
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area check out quite a few things down
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here cover some cover some ground doing
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some walking not too often you see a
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squirrel at top of a
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turtle
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kite turtle in the
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turtle on the ground it looks as if they
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are building an ice skating rink over
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here one thing on my bucket list I don't
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know if I'm do it this year but I would
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love to go to New York to the ice
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skating rink you know from home alone 2o
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and all those other movies but they're
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doing one here in Boston which is you
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know a few hours north of New York and
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it's not quite open yet all the
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technical name is frog pond see the ice
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is not in there yet but it will
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be ah so here are the
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frogs and the frogs have
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names
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Angela
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Angela and
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Tommy all right I don't think I've ever
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seen this before granted I haven't
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really been to this area too of often
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like one other time but over here is
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like a new sculpture check out what this
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is okay it's only a year old it's titled
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the
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Embrace Martin Luther King and Keta Sky
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King met in Boston in 1952 the Embrace
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is memorial to their love and
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this is kind of neat you go down this
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Alleyway away from the park there is a
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bookstore inside there but then on the
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outer section they have
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a bookstore on the outer section out
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here is this cool they put all they
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bring a good portion of the books
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outside it's pretty dang cool right here
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in this little Al
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Cove got a nice little Marquee here for
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the Paramount Theater with the neon over
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in the Theater District cutting through
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oh they're playing
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Frozen I would like to see Frozen on
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Broadway kind of like this mustache
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right here this wig shop there's this
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mustache on this
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guy this looks like an old theater as
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well now it is a Dimson exotic cocktail
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place here in Chinatown you can see
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where the Marquee used to
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be oh my goodness outside of this
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hospital's medical center is an old FAO
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Schwarz bear now I remember FAO Schwarz
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at Point Orlando on International
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Drive and they had one of these on I
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drive and when you'd walk in the
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store it would sing the S not the bear
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but the theme song in the store was
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Welcome to our our world Welcome to our
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world Welcome to our world of toys over
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and over and over and over and over it
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made the song on Small World seem not
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obnoxious and that's what I remember
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about FAO Schwarz evidently there was
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one in Boston as well look at this it's
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the FAO Schwarz bear so you got
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f
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o Schwarz
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I could say something here
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but over to the sea port area now bikes
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may use the full Lane there's a squirrel
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right there that's a
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squirrel that's pretty clever so much to
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see
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port
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all right this is really freaking cool
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it's a huge milk bottle here on the city
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skyline it's like a big roadside milk
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jug milk
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bottle pretty dang cool says
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Hood milk bottle h o o d must be the
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brand name perhaps kind of back up and
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get a nice little view
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here doesn't look like it's open however
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doesn't looks like one time it was open
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but it's no longer open it's like they
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have some maybe ice cream and milk
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inside yeah it says
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closed right here along the shore oh
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look at this there's the bot 20 250
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anniversary of the Boston Tea Party
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December 16th 2023 will be the 250th
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anniversary of the Boston Tea
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that thing is so awesome that is so dang
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cool the 250th th
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Party just passed oh no it's coming up
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December 16th of this year
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Boston all right I'm looking over into
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the boat look at this you can go on the
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boat oh and there's some like period
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guys that are dressed in the period Garb
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down
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there all right down this one oneway
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Road here is a spherical like a globe
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style of the green monster from finway
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Park take a look at this it's like the
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scoreboard from green monster this
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almost looks like a Pokemon item of some
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sort but it's a transportation device
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for the tea right here it kind of
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reminds me of like a Pokemon ball of
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sorts yeah this thing is gargant well
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not gargant it's probably like 8 ft tall
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inside here got the score oh looks like
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it's the Yankees against the sock
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Yankees got two runs there in the
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third and did the oh yeah then the look
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at this the socks in the fifth got
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three and then the Yankees got two who
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ended up
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winning oh did the socks lose on the
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green monster
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ball
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maybe quite the
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got some glass pyramids over there in
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front of Equinox getting very windy got
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the leaves Blowing by I love this
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weather it's not as cold as it been the
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last couple days but it's definitely
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chilly I love it this little gazebo S
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type thing then a Blue
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Cow it's kind of almost looks like
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Empire State Building a little bit right
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there kind of sort of and of course Blue
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Cow milky
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I've shown a lot of Coca-Cola
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advertisements and murals here's a
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Coca-Cola
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truck man when I was younger I would
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make sandwiches out of this marshmallow
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fluff this is when I was like early
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there so this building is in fact the
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Old State House the original state house
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there's a newer one
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now
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there's a little bit of interesting
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history here too this took place as well
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let me show the back of this so this was
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just right outside this
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building back in March of
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1770
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got another sculpture over here too very
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tall gentleman here looking back over at
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Samuel Adams as he's walking
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past the Oyster House here is a
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historical landmark the Union Oyster
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House and take a look what's in front of
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here there is a fish Ser with a serving
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platter this Pub right here called The
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Bell enh hand
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Tavern
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1795 that is an elderly Pub this
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proclamation of the bell's journey is
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the oldest tavern in the US dated
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1795 old Jimmy Wilson Boston's last town
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crier first hoisted the sign of the bell
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in
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1795 so I just learned something next to
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the oldest bar is also the the Union
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Oyster House which has the fish over
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there the little little Butler Fish but
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this is the oldest continual operating
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restaurant in Oyster Bar in the US the
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oldest operating restaurant it's the
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earliest building constructed between
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1716 and
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1717 also Derek's here
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hey he's the one that told me that it
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was the oldest the oldest operating
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restaurant as far as you know also up on
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the second floor is the JFK booth there
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was a booth that JFK would eat in and I
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went up there I didn't want to film with
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there's people sitting in the top of the
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booth but I did get to see it and the
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sign that was up there but there was a
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lot of people it's very busy inside
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there got some steam going out of the
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pipe there nice and brisk out here all
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right this is Tony DeMarco's boxer over
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here the flame and fury of Fleet
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Street so is this Fleet Street we're on
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well this is Handover
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Street I don't know why uh what does it
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say about Fleet Street it just says
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right here the flame and fury of Fleet
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Street well he was born on Fleet Street
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but I think the statue is just here on
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uh the corner of hover Street what area
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is this that we're in right now this
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this is cross street and Handover street
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so this is this is the North End we call
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it Boston's Little Italy this is just a
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mile of nothing but Italian restaurant
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nor a pizza the best food that you're
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going to eat in Boston this is where you
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go you don't you don't go to like pizzer
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Regina in the mall you come over here
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okay you don't go to papaginos you don't
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go to Dominoes you come over here to
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Hanover Street I like pizza I think I
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might have to get a slice couple
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slices all right I got to say the pizza
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was pretty dang good see the crust was
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really good and the the breading on it
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now we're heading over to Mike's Pastry
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which has a really long line inside
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which means if a place has a long line
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ladies definitely very busy inside of
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Mike's Pastry and they had a lot of
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different options it was kind of
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difficult to figure out exactly what I
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wanted to get
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but after doing a little window shopping
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in the cases all the different pastries
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the delicious goodness I think I found
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what I wanted to get after a post Pizza
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nice delicious
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treat over at
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Mike's am I doing the unwrapping you're
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going to do the unwrapping now let's see
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what we got here Mike's pastries
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handmade since
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1954 you ended up getting a Boston cream
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pie Y which yeah that looks pretty good
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and I end up getting something called a
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lobster roll and since we do have a nice
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delicious treat we probably should get
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either a milk or a coffee or something
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so we're going to get I'm going to get a
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piping another piping hot caffeinated
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beverage in here yeah that's what it's
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called The Thinking Cup you cannot have
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a little sugary item without a little
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Cofe this is
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literally
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insane look at this
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oh almost dropped it don't drop it while
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in Boston you got to get that Boston
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cream pie Boston Boston cream pie you
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don't say Boston like all the other
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Boston well I I spent 10 years in North
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Carolina so I don't really have an
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accent I grew up in the suburb so I'm
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not like picon have as eat your L
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huh dare I sa dare I save moist mine's
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not moist it's very very
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crunchy
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I guess on my face I can taste the
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diabetes the chocolate portion is kind
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of kind of hard but so is the outer
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shells like really really hard but cream
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filling is really good but everything
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else I don't know I don't know if I'd
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get this again I think the word I was
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looking for is like I say it's stale but
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it's like almost stale it's like really
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really crunchy so all this is like you
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bite into it it's just like a big
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crunch I don't think it's supposed to be
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like that it's supposed to be a little
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bit moisture though Skyliner looks Paul
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R PA re house it's one right up first oh
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that's sign right there this is where
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the midnight ride of Paul Riv
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began right here at his
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house he galloped through the streets of
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Boston on this cobblestone on his
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Ste the British are coming the British
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are
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coming I mean that is amazing to really
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wrap your head
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around all this history right
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here right all this history
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yeah built in 1680 the last remaining
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structure from the 17th century Boston R
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owned the home from 1770 to 1800 leaving
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here for his midnight ride on April 18th
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1775 all right so here's an oversized
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lettered sign of the city I'm in right
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now and there's a sculpture of Bill
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Russell up here and Bill russle Shadow
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oh dang the Starbucks has quite the
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piping hot Caffe ated beverage in a big
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teacup well a big coffee cup mug right
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here and it's
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steaming that is the quintessential
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piping hot caffeinated beverage
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container
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look it's steaming out the
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side
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all right that's going to do it for
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today thanks for watching I'll see you
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in the next video the Vlog is over I
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found
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Nemo