An Unusual Day In Denver - Vintage Video Store Shopping / Tiny Town Railway / Red Rocks & Much More
Denver Colorado Summer 2023
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welcome everyone Adam the woo here as
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the recording of us is Thursday July
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27th
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2023 standing here in Denver Colorado or
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at least in the general vicinity of
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Denver Colorado on The Plains of the
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Colorado roamed a giant cowboy
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traveled across the land herding the
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cattle from town to town
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upon seeing Bear Creek
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giant rested along and called the
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water's edge
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his home
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a big Sombrero guy with a big boot
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right here
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this is huge
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there's one of these kind of similar to
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this there is a lady laying on the
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ground in Orlando near Lake Eola but
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this
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is in Colorado yard work taking place I
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cannot Escape it what's on the game plan
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today we're winging it we're winging it
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in Denver we're gonna wing it in Denver
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there's a video store you want to take
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me to old school video store and maybe
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some other secret spots you have up your
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sleeves a couple a couple things you
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haven't even told me that we're gonna go
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through we haven't heard about them yet
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you like to keep things hush on the down
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low maybe I'll tell you guys but I won't
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tell Adam hey Old Death I'll hold this
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I'm gonna go over here oh
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all right what we got in store can you
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hear me okay you can't hear me what
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we've got in store for Adam is I've
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actually got us dropped by Rocky's
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stadium and drop off
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say it but what did he say tell me
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didn't even finish all right it's all
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right no we'll get to it I'm inviting
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you to join me in Denver Gym
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and I must say this was quite the
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quite the adventure trying to even find
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this you can get to the park but you
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have to do like a little hike
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there's a secret driveway almost that's
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not that secret no no there's a driveway
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but it's a driveway only one way driving
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around for a while to find this I think
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this is a slide
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I think this is a slide right here look
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at the size of that boot so what do the
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locals call this they just call it
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Sombrero guy I guess so Sombrero guy
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look at all the heel marks from
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everybody almost like you coming down
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the slide on your bike all right that's
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a pretty steep drop you remember the
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bite you remember me on the bike
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that slide's not there anymore is it
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they got rid of the slide yeah I saw
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your video and took it out oh this is a
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slide look
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it's what it's a slide how hot is this
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though oh my gosh this has got to be
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sporty that is Toasty
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oh wow wow is this bringing back
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memories of your bike should I
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no I'm about to do something really
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ignorant
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it's for posterity
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how hot is that that's a little toasty
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on the old hiney there
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that is cool that was not as bad as the
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bike slide you didn't go down the main
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slide
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that's pretty neat that's awesome
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all right let's get going so video store
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first let's do it check the video what's
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it called
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video video double the video Let's Do It
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so this is Bear Creek
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now put a little note on yesterday's
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video we ate at a restaurant called the
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cow
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which was over in Morrison was it
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Morrison
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and this runs through Morrison yeah so
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this is I asked the question to myself
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yesterday what lake it was we called it
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red yeah River Red Rocks river which is
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not in which is not correct in fact it
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is bare
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Bear Creek and it's not named after the
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animal it's after a guy's last name
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this is very beautiful and peaceful here
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is it cold
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perfect tubing
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oh tubing temperature
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now see in Florida any body of water is
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going to have Gators in it you don't
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have Colorado Gators here right no sir
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look at this in Florida I would just
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assume oh there goes a snake no a snake
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right here look a snaky snake
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he's hightailing it where did he go he's
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gone
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let's talk about Gators and I saw it
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reaching for some snakes I got a
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treasure under here
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what is it oh look at that an old school
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pull tab on the corner of Broadway and
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Hampden is a place called mango tree it
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was a mango tree coffee we're gonna walk
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over there in a minute but more
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fascinating than a piping hot
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caffeinated beverage I know it's tough
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to believe that there is something more
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fascinating than coffee is this future
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style home that is now a bank or it just
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looks almost looks like the bean let's
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probably get out of the road it looks
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like the Bean in Chicago
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look at this there's Cutlery on the
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streets here
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now is this a suburb of Denver or would
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you call this Denver proper like I'll
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call this Inglewood Englewood
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they're really Inglewood
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Denver Lakewood Englewood Sheridan they
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all kind of merge in here have you ever
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had mango tree coffee no I'm about to
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get it
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excuse me I know you got the camera I
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don't drink coffee yeah look at this you
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can see our reflection it's like
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something out of a movie right here it's
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like choreographed perfectly of us
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walking across so I guess I could just
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buy you all water oh yeah sure let's do
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it have you ever had a coffee
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um no no you've never had a coffee no do
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you like hot beverages like hot cocoa
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yeah I do like cocoa
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do you like mangoes no
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rude I'm just striking out on all fronts
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here so whilst I was in there I asked if
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the coffee had a mango flavor and no
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just a clever name mango tree coffee
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and they have one of the little display
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boards they give clever sayings kind of
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like they have at the Starbucks Roastery
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when I went to the one in Seattle they
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had one of those I thought that this is
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Starbucks but all the merchand this is
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in fact Inga would confirm by the
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writing here the information about the
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company itself I think this is an
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artistic representation of that
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futuristic home that's now A Bank
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right
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look at that there it is in real fashion
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right there
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there it is in artistic form
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right beside me here on Broadway
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they say the neon lights are bright I'm
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bright is there neon lights on this
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Broadway
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I have amazed you've never had a cup of
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coffee I kind of like that yeah all
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right as we're cruising along I'm in the
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passenger seat
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I also wanted to show this hat that Jim
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has had for a long time signed this for
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his son like what six years ago at least
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the old field uh
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daily woo hat doesn't even exist anymore
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but I'm noticing my signature here and
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looks Tim signed it also
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I think my signature is a little better
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than Tim's
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I don't know mine's a little I don't
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know maybe
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that's Tim's signature it's Tim's
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signature all right I wonder if Tim
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still signs this stuff like that I don't
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know I'm gonna ask him I'm gonna call
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Tim right now and say is this your
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signature let's do it I love these wacky
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balloon figures this one is dressed up
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as a clown
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video video is the name of this place
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over 50 000 DVDs in stock you want it
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they got it according to the side right
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here this little strip mall
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video video they are open
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and this is technically in Aurora
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Colorado
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outskirts of Denver
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DVDs a dollar and up
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they buy sell trade see if we can find
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anything in here
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not sure which six days but six days a
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week
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closed on Sundays all right my first
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impression of walking in this place is
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how expansive
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and impressive it is so it starts the
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entrance is over that way but then it
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stretches all the way down here there's
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like a thrift store inside the movie
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store as well all the way down here and
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as any good video store would have back
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in the day it has an adult section even
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got some Nintendo games here Jack nickel
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Jack Nicholas golf
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John Elway's quarterback
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Tonka trucks old train sets
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laser discs the whole section of laser
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dusts here All Dogs Go to Heaven Empire
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forty dollars for an Empire laserdisk
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now I have not seen Blu-ray section as
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of yet so there's a lot of DVDs through
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here but then you get past in the far
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corner there's an entire probably like
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500 a thousand maybe more than a
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thousand VHS section and all the video
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cassettes are only a quarter 25 cents
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for VHS so anyone that's kind of like
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Nostalgia driven has a VCR a quarter
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inch for VHS that's pretty inexpensive
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when it comes to VHS because some VHS
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are worth a lot of money now all right I
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passed by the blue Rays when I was over
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in this corner before so here's all the
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blue rise so deep DVDs without a sticker
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price are 488 I don't know how much the
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blue the blue rise oh this is 588 so
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still pretty pretty decently priced
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through here all the Harry Potter
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films as well Hunger Games things like
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that now this is a film I have not
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thought about in like 30 Years baby
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secret of a Lost legend and I have
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totally forgotten that Sean Young was in
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it
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look at that I
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used to work in a videos for a long time
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ago
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and even in the 80s or this is a cross
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between Raiders of Lost Art and E.T I
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don't know if I go that far but here's a
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classic
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I actually own this on Blu-ray already
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Vanilla Ice cool as ice
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drop that zero get with the hero
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how can you not love that oh you have
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found a friend right here the oh the
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original Rick Donald the happiest
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hamburger clown in here now there were a
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couple movies I was looking for on
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Blu-ray that don't see in here but did
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pick up this well I'm gonna buy this
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Fort Apache for 9.88 John Ford classic
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here do not own this so pick up a little
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classic Western and see what else I
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could find so definitely like this place
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so much stuff they want to support the
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place and buy an item or two while in
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here than just being a lookie Booth oh I
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found another good one so now I still I
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used to own Apocalypse Now on DVD moved
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a couple times never repurchase it on
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Blu-ray love Apocalypse Now so this has
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all three Apocalypse Now Apocalypse Now
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the redox but also the documentary
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hearts of darkness which I've been
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trying to find for a while
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okay that's what I'm gonna get I'm gonna
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get the hearts of Darkness
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the Apocalypse Now three movie set and
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four to Patches some good stuff in here
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all right that was awesome so no rentals
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in here what'd you get
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see if any of your viewers have ever
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seen two-lane Blacktop
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29.88 Criterion Collection James Taylor
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as the driver Warren Oates as GTO I
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don't think I've even seen it and then
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you got a cassette tape Dennis Wilson as
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the mechanic whoa from Beach Boys yep
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and I got an old cassette called John
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Cougar Mellencamp singing about life in
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a small town you got it
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he was born in a small town
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I got apocalypse
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and Fort Apache
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John Wayne John Wayne but I made the
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commute to downtown Denver
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see the skyline off in the distance and
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we are heading
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to Coors Field for a little pit stop
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just tag along for the ride
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we're over here on the
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overpass
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there's no game today
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it's gonna pop in for a brief moment
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a little pit stop
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for an undisclosed reason
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well I'll tell you the reason
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I'll tell you the reason
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what what's going on is on Saturday is
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Star Wars theme night at core Stadium
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and I need to ask them if I can wear my
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mask into the Star Wars theme night
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what do you think so you're just going
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to go knock on the knock on the coarse
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field door now ask for the big guy all
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right it's like the head haunted jumper
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the emperor the Emperor of course good
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good
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last time I was at Coors Field I've
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never seen the Rays at Coors Field but
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the rays are playing here next year 2024
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we should go there'll be another be
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another Stadium I could knock off my
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list now when I'm doing all my baseball
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eventually I'm gonna by the end of next
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year I'm gonna go to all 30 current
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stadiums while watching the Rays play
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so I don't count Coors Field as one of
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us
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whoa you almost that must put that
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yellow I'm glad you stopped I had to
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stop yeah you almost turned to the dark
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side
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his home plate this is where the office
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is what are you saying chewy I gotta
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Chewy's gotta find a place to park the
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falcon
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fastest hunk of junk in Denver Galaxy
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Denver
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you're right
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Under 12 parsecs not if you round down
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you're getting a lot of people looking
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at you while you're driving so yeah yeah
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you think so
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it might as well show the football
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stadium also
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and we're gonna drop this
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car off
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and that being told we're gonna take
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another mode of transportation
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what it's going to be but another motor
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transportation
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what do you got in mind what are you
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thinking
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well I'm thinking we take something with
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a little more Style
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what do you think we both gonna fit
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yeah we're both gonna fit how fast that
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thing go
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as fast as you wanted to go
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I'm down oh that's smart you can put a
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layer in the tires
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check I usually don't have a passenger
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because you ride alone right
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can't be too careful hey I knew you'd
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like that idea I got to get something
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out of the house I'll be right back all
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right I am stoked
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man this is gonna be a good
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I was hoping he'd bring this up oh the
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wind in my hair I gotta say how much
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farther is this place
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it's about 6
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I hated that I thought you knew what we
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were gonna ride I wanted to ride in the
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buggy
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so I thought you wanted to ride the bus
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I thought you wanted the bus you wanted
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to do the bike I wanted to ride a
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two-seater bike six miles
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so you wanted to ride in the buggy and
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not the bike I did it because I thought
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you wanted to ride on it
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can we go on the buggy Smalls let's just
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take the buggy all right let's take the
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buggy I feel a little more comfortable
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whether you want to take the dune buggy
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I thought you wanted to talk about it
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the world famous and there's a railroad
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look at that just ahead real famous Tiny
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Town and railroad see all the tiny
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houses over in there it actually is a
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Tiny Town I see where they get the name
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it's a Tiny Town
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it's not just a it's not just a clever
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cleverly babe
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we are gonna take a trade
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Tiny Town
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classic truck alert that's nice old
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Chevy
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hey parked right next to it
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classic cars alerts
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classic car alerts
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I'm pretty excited about this train you
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can see it going by yeah well here comes
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straight right there he's backing it up
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yeah you think they're done for the day
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I hope not I hope not too
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if it is then what are we gonna do
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there's also a real train car
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oh we missed the train ride okay so keep
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in mind we come to Tiny Town
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after
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3 30.
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the train stops running see it
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I think he's gonna come up top here oh
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he is there I see it moving right there
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oh it's the last I see it yeah you see
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the Caboose backing up
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so it looks very similar the seat
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arrangement's a little bit different but
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very similar to the size
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of the one at Griffith Park the live
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steamers at Walt's Barn adjacent to
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Walt's Barn
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yeah he's parking it for the eve
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Engineers though
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I think it's a 15 inch
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rail is what this ride
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there it is there's the little miniature
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train station
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almost like dollhouse sizes but like a
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little bit bigger than dollhouse size oh
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so this gives a good correlation this
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gentleman standing in front of that
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house is almost the same height as the
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house yeah Adam's Family House this
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match is aspired dedicated to Charles
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Adams and Delight they're delightfully
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Macabre and devilish fun cartoon of like
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Millions
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through the years
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that's awesome look at this
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Adam's Family House look at this zoom in
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down here at this basement Cellar window
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yeah there's hands trying to bust their
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hand to get out bars open down there you
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see them
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oh way down there yeah the hands look at
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these here's more tissue right there
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oh that is awesome we're in an elevation
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of 6812 right now
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a mile high city
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oh there's either ones up of the train
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still like he's like teasing us over
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there
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train just pulling away
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backing around the whole place
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Denver City 1860 Tiny Town or bust oh
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yeah
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Argo mine it's up in Idaho Springs
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that's a real gold mine
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oh look they're putting it in the
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station over here
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I think he really wants us to take us
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around the Grand Circle Tour private
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private road when you pulled up he saw
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your car and he like gave you a little
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train Hawk
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man I Love Trains
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I would have loved on that middle should
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try but you know what
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it'll be here
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Tiny Town Tribune some of them are just
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to look at from the outside but look at
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this one
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this one's outside and
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inside
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oh you can look in the window there yeah
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it's kind of tough to see with the sun
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glare Gump glass
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soapy Smith's probably cleaned up in
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see the face on the bar room floor it's
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very tough to see but there is a face
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on the bar room floor right down there
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look he's just teasing us with that
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Trainor
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oh there he goes look
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oh they leave the train out they just
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put the train cars away
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laundry company oil company this is
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amazing how long is this place been open
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do you have any recollection I have
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never heard an opening date long time
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they're playing chaplain
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oh The Majestic
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the ma good movie Majestic
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Jim Carrey let's see what's inside this
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oh wow look at that he has a bunch of
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characters down in there Bullwinkle
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Tasmanian Devil Pluto all watching the
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movie Inside
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the theater itself oh you're sitting on
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a tiny benchy bench in Tiny Town a
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rooming house
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I feel so good the shade
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really neat oh is this American Gothic
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it is the American Gothic house
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yeah look at that
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so there's the photo
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of the husband and wife of farmer the
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farmer's wife right here this is the
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American Gothic house a recreation of it
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little Greenhouse here
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with a flower shop
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Robinson's flower shop
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the pleasant Park School
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safe Tiny Town have fun but please do
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not click do not climb on sit on hit or
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kick the buildings there's the clubhouse
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some eyes up there someone's watching us
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through the foliage here of the trees
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plenty of shade
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plenty of
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shade through this section
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Train's been running since the 40s wow
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oh look at this
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Mickey was here number nine
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Mickey Mouse was at Tiny Town at 89.
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look at that
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what's interesting I wonder why Mickey
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was here
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89
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it's the opening of MGM Studios
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I wonder if Eisner was here too
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the Eisner era 21 miles from the heart
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of Denver U.S Highway 285 where you can
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ride the smallest train in the Rockies
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to the smallest town
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in the world
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White Fence Farm
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chicken
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built from original blueprints
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reduced scale
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it's also interesting how some of them
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have little fences around them some of
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them don't
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like this here
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not to take anything away from
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how great all these other ones are but
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man I was not expecting a CV out of
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something else
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looking up I like to even board up for
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the buildings
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I guess if you take the train through
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Tiny Tap
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there's like other buildings you can't
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see
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on the rails that aren't in through the
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walking there's a lot in the walk
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through
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as best I can tell this is the one from
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89.
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you got the photo of Mickey oh yeah
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so they have painted
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bats that's why it kind of threw me off
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till I got closer recarved his name in
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the concrete here 1989 right there
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you got the depot
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the gift shop
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and refreshments over there all aboard
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the Tiny Town and railroad Colorado
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there's also this one so they were
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established in
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1915 so they are
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108 years old
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train conductor it's driving the classic
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truck and he said that was not a steam
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train
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he said in fact steam trains run on the
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weekend so if you're here on a Saturday
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or Sunday
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they drive the steam train so that was
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just electric diesel diesel
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another building on the national
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register
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first authentic Adobe replica of bent's
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Old Fort
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that was established in 1833. along the
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Santa Fe Trail in Southern Colorado
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bellyaching behind him not tandem
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right there non-tandons how a bike
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should be written single Rider single
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Rider
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throw back to your Chewie earlier bikes
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were made to be written solo
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it's pun intended
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we are both in the mood for sushi so
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we're gonna go to this Japanese Cuisine
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place called Orion
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sushi
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get some rolls all right starting off
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with some miso some edamame and some
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steamed rice I'll just go with a little
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edamame here and a little miso action
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and this is what we're dealing with for
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the table we got two rainbow rolls we
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got one Philly roll and this is a spicy
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tuna spicy tuna spicy tuna right over
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there of course he had a mommy and all
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that but yeah they serve it all on one
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plane two rainbow rolls and I will say
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it came out pretty quick and it looks uh
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very it looks very appetizing but just
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very uh beautiful the way they have the
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arrangement kind of set up or there's a
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little plant over here I can see the
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sign right there the gizz
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world
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of
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ice cream
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next to McGill's curbside and McGill's
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wholesale
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Miguel's world
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of ice cream all right I think that's
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gonna do it for today
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a very full day it's now raining we're
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in a classic bug buggy dune buggy
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video
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blog
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it's over
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okay now that we're back you want to
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take this you want to take this back out
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for a spin no no and no