A Wilde Traffic Filled Day In Paris - Mona Lisa Madness To Notre Dame Cathedral / Jim Morrison Grave
Paris France July 2025
Transcript
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Today's adventure begins as the
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recording of this Wednesday, July 2nd,
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2025, looking off the balcony of my
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hotel here in Paris, France.
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And yesterday, the heat wave was so
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intense that the Eiffel Tower was
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closed. But at this moment, I could see
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there are people up there
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on that second balcony.
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So, who knows? Maybe I'll get on the
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Eiffel Tower today. Yesterday did not
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work out, but today is a new day.
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Welcome everyone. Adam the Woo here. Can
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you see the reflection?
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Eiffel Tower's right there.
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Today is the 13th. 13 years ago to the
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day I started this channel, my second
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channel, my daily vlog channel, The
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Daily Woo, which is the intro I used to
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do because I had an original channel,
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the Adam the Woo channel, about 2 years
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after that, 13 years ago on this day.
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Started this channel kind of on a whim.
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Didn't really have a plan. All I knew is
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I wanted to film something every day. It
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has morphed into what it is and it's the
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one I focus on the most. Rarely ever use
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that original channel. I think years
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from now I might bring something back
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over to that area of the platform, but
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for now still sticking here. So 13
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years.
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Happy birthday. H happy anniversary to
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the daily. Woo. This is the channel that
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I'm on right now. I'm wearing an
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appropriate t-shirt cuz I am going to
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visit the Mona Lisa today. She probably
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will not be chewing bubble gum. But I'm
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heading over to the Loura or the Louv
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L O U V R E Museum later if it's
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possible. I got some things throughout
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the course of the day, but I might try
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to go up there if for some reason the
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heat does not close down the tower
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again. Last night did not have any AC in
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the room. Everyone had their air
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conditions up or down so low that none
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of the hotel was getting air. So, it was
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not the most pleasurable night of sleep,
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but I got a few hours rest, got a nice
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shower, going to get a coffee and head
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out into Paris for the day. I'm inviting
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you to join me. It's good to have you
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here. I really appreciate you watching.
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It's hard to believe it's been 13 years
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since I started this weird
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wacky whatever this is. So, anyone
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that's been here since that first day or
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through the course of the 13 years or
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maybe you're just tuning in for the
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first time, I appreciate it. Join me,
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shall you? Just check the weather. It's
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going to get to 91 today,
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but tomorrow, so today is going to be a
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high of 91. Yesterday was like a high of
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97.
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Today's a high of 91. And then
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tomorrow's here in Paris is only a high
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of 78.
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So tomorrow it'll be a little more
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enjoyable. 7 minutes till noon. So the
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reservation I made to get into the Lou
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Lou Lra the LA the Lou the La
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is at 1:00. It's 11:53. It's about a 2-m
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walk. If I were to walk it, I might just
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walk over there. I probably get there in
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time. But here's the temperatures
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during the undisclosed amount of time
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that I am in the greater Paris area.
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Walking across the river here with this
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kind of old school metal bridge.
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Just taking a stroll. Trying to stay in
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the shade as much as possible. We're
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taking a stroll.
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This is really quite a quite a mess
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through here.
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The traffic situation it looks pretty
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stressful.
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Trying to cut through here. Get across
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the road here. Walk by.
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Yeah. Trying to walk amongst the trees
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and the shay. This
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sculptures over here.
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I was going to try to find the street,
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the R morg, because the streets are
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named the Rue followed by the name of
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the street,
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but evidently there is no RORG. In 1986,
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there was a TV movie. It's been a couple
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different films on it, Murders in the
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Rorg, based on the short story by Edgar
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Allan Poe. George C. Scott was in it,
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Rebecca Deoure, Val Kilmer. And I can
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recall this mid 80s, 85, 86ish. I
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recorded it off TV on a VHS and I
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watched that TV movie so many times,
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but evidently it's not a real place.
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It's a it's a fictional street or a
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fictional area of Paris. Yeah. Shout out
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to that that TV movie. Georgie Scott's
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great in it. Valcommer's great in it.
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Rebecca Deorte
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Georgie Scott was a chess player. is the
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importance of playing chess. I think
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that was the first time see 85 86 I
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would have been 11 12 years old. That
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was the first time I really recall
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seeing chess on film. I don't know. I
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don't know why I remember that. Just
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looked up evidently Edgar Alan Poe never
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even visited
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Paris. Never even never even came to
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Paris. There is a ferris wheel over
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there and some sort of a attraction
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spinning attraction next to it.
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And
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then there's this
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this sphere here. It looks as if there
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are flames underneath it or
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representations of flames. That's from
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back from last year's Olympic games. The
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Olympics were here 24.
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like just some water water effect, a
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mist effect with a light on it to make
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it look like fire. Very cool. Guess the
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lack of shade on the walk I just did was
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really prominent.
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I'm ready to get inside. That was a
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scorcher out here. To be honest, at this
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moment, no clouds in the sky. Supposed
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to be a light rain later, but right now,
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no clouds out. Not a lot of shade. All
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right, there's a time frame entrance
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there for 1:30.
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Mine is 1. It's exactly one. Here it is.
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Right here. Here's the one:00.
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Perfect timing.
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Right on the nose.
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Going in. Showed my ticket. Went through
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the security screening
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and now I'm in.
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There is a tremendous amount of artwork
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in here, but I think I'm going to go to
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the Mona Lisa first. I waited my whole
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life to see that thing in person. Got
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the museum map here. I am looking for
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room 711 71.
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I mean, is there a more famous piece of
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art in the Mona Lisa? There's a lot of
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famous artwork, but when you think of
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famous art pieces of art, for me that's
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the number one. I'm not even sure why. I
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think it's just been ingrained in my
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head through my whole course of my
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existence.
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Really amazed how many people have
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acknowledged my shirt. So like, oh,
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that's a great shirt.
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I just picked it up last night at the
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street vendor. I thought it'd be kind of
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neat to wear today. I think it was like
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€10. Wasn't that much. Yeah, it's got a
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lot It's got a lot of reaction to be
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walking like people probably just saw
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the Mona Lisa and then going down the
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stairs, they see me wearing the shirt
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and they're like, "Oh, that's cool.
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She's blowing a blowing a bubble." I
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know. I'm getting closer cuz this is
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where most people are walking.
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A feeling this room is going to be very
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compact through here.
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Those ceilings are great. Look at that.
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Even the artwork on the ceilings up
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here.
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Wow, look at the roof in here. Well, the
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ceiling, I should say.
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Amazing.
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Holy
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goodness gracious.
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Look at all these people.
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Keep going, please.
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All right. Evidently, I wasn't supposed
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to be walking over that area. taking
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photos. That's like an exit. I guess
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this is like some sort of This is the
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rockar of
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artwork. It's almost like there's going
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to be a performer coming out.
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All right, that just happened.
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That was out of control. That's the only
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way I can describe it is the amount of
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people that were in there looking at
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that piece of art. That was out of
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control.
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One of the other rooms on the 300 level
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Venus to Milo over there. The sculpture
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very popular as well. Quite a
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congregation of people getting photos as
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well. This sculpture discovered in 1820
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on the island of Milos
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Greece. The statue is believed to depict
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Aphrodite, the goddess of love known to
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the Romans as Venus.
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The sculpture is unknown.
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The masterpiece of Greek marble
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sculpture whose sculpture is unknown is
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dated from 120 BC.
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Entire room of sculptures sculptures
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This is very very cool.
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This is a medieval section down towards
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the basement.
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these castle walls down here. All right,
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as I'm exiting out is the boutique
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where you can get her face right here on
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the bag. Little coin purses. I think I'm
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going to get a magnet of some sort. Look
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at this. Like eyeglass case with your
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eyes on it.
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About to head back out into the sun, go
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other places, but
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I'm going to show the magnet I
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purchased.
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And on the back of it, it states that I
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got it here at the Lou.
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in my mind. I thought it was a real
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place.
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Taking a walk now over to the Notre Dame
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Cathedral.
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I want to say Notre Dame, but I think it
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might be pronounced Notre Dame. Here
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there is the Rue de Rivoli
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over there.
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Crossing back over to the other side of
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the river. Got a nice little gust
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coming by right here. Feels pretty good.
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Even though I am in the sun again for a
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brief time period, at least there is a
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nice little breeze. So, got to say the
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the breeze is pretty nice.
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Look at this thing. Look at this boat.
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That's a very unique boat there with
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plenty of observation deck area. I'm
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heading right over there.
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caravan of officers driving through
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This is really an impressive building.
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Look at this thing.
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There it is in all its magnificent
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glory. That's why I've never been
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inside.
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There weren't any reservations
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available, but they said that there is a
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standby queue, but this line is out of
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control lengthy to get in here.
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Wonder if Quasimoto is home.
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Of course, this cathedral.
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Made famous in a lot of different
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movies. A Universal Monsters film. Well,
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Universal Pictures film.
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Wouldn't really call Quasimoto
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a monster, but he was in that era. Early
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20s. The Carl Limley days of Universal.
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Classic.
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Put this place on the map. the filmgoers
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obviously
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and of course Disney put out their
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version which is a now considered a
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classic.
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There was a fire here uh five six seven
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years ago and it was closed for quite a
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while for them to finish fixing it back
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up. Thankfully it was not completely
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destroyed
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but it's back open again.
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Of course, Quasimoto in the story in the
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book, the original book, which the films
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were based on.
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He was a bell ringer.
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I feel like I need to watch the Lawn
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Cheney version again. It's been a while.
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I feel like I I feel like I need to
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watch the Lawn Cheney version again.
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Maybe I'll watch it tonight. I watched
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Paddington the Bear when I was in London
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cuz I went through the Paddington
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station. And now that I'm here
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at the cathedral, maybe I'll watch the
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original Cheney Universal film
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the early 20s. This place is I mean is
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there a I mean I guess there would be
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Westminster Abdi is a pretty popular
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cathedral basilica
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but this is this is one of the top ones.
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Let's be honest. Let's be honest. when I
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was in Bath, England.
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Also, I forgot to mention it when I was
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over there where Mary Shelley started
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writing, wrote the majority of her book
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Frankenstein, which became a Universal
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Monstrous picture, one of the greatest
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Universal Monsters movies ever made.
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The night before I wandered around to
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cover the history of Mary Shelly and
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Bath, I watched the original
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Frankenstein film.
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Yeah, it's kind of it's kind of fun to
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watch stuff when you're in the area that
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things were based on or took place in.
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All right, current time 317. I'm getting
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in line. Do not have a resi.
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I'll time it. This is this this is like
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an HHN line. Speaking of Universal
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Horror,
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this is kind of interesting. They're
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turning a lot of the the ladies away
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that have no sleeves on their shirts.
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You're allowed to wear t-shirts and
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things like that, but I'm seeing quite a
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few women had to leave because they're
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wearing like a a tank top type of thing.
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And this says appropriate worship
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clothing must be worn.
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I'm just wearing shorts and a t-shirt
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like a lot of people are. I mean, a lot
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of people are just wearing
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whatever, but they're
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making some people aren't allowed to go
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in. So, if make sure you wear a shirt
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with at least short sleeves or more
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before coming in here. And the line went
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pretty quick. It's 3:28. It only took 11
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minutes. Also, best remove them,
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which you should do anyway in a place I
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worship.
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Yeah, only took about 12 minutes. That
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was a very, very fast-paced line.
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There's not a lot of elbow room in here,
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truthfully.
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All right. Evidently, they filmed a
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scene from Van Helsing on the roof of
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this cathedral.
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Fight scenes.
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Can't believe I'm inside this place.
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Wild.
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There's a crypt here.
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Here
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you don't exit through the gift shop.
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The gift shop is in the cathedral itself
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over here. Sometimes you'll see things
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outside, but this is inside
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the cathedral.
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There's a serious windstorm. Everyone's
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facing this way because the wind is
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blowing and all this dust. Oh my gosh.
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The dust is like blowing every which
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direction. Oh my gosh.
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It's like a dust literally a dust storm.
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Oh my goodness. All right, it's subsided
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for half a second.
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Oo, it was just like dust was like
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rolling across the
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plane there pretty good
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in my eye now.
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Yeah, knocking off some pretty popular
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spots.
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There's a time in my life I never
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thought I'd see the Mona Lisa or go to
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the Notre Don Cathedral
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stand in a dust storm in Paris. I was
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thinking heading back over to the Eiffel
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Tower, but they have some limited hours
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today as well. And they're not letting
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people up to the summit, only to the
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first section, which I was able to see
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from a hotel balcony.
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But I think tomorrow the weather's
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supposed to be a little bit better. So
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maybe tomorrow I could try to go up to
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the summit because I'm going to do the
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Eiffel Tower. I'm going to go to the I'm
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going to go to the Tippy Top. I don't
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want to just go, you know, halfway up.
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Here's a little update. at 400 p.m.
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today.
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The summit is closed all day July 2nd.
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Visitors with ticket to the summit,
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please check your email if not did not
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get tickets. Long cues are expected
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probably because the entire thing was
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closed yesterday. Well, the majority
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yesterday because of the heat. Due to a
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current heat wave, the Eiffel Tower is
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taking measures to ensure the comfort
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and safety of the visitors and staff.
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Protect yourself from the sun. Stay
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hydrated. Water fountains are available.
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So, I think I'm going to hold off on the
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tower today. Here, I'm here for a little
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while. I could I could do it another
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day. It is gustyoo,
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hot, gusty, dusty.
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What a This is turning into quite the
25:01
experience.
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Wow. Oh, these are cool.
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Magazine, newspaper, book racks.
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Love it. Look at this.
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Very cool.
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If they have have any Edgar Allen Po Oh,
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they have some crime stuff.
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Oh, look at this. There's some film
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stuff.
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Got the monsters here.
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Yes. Yes.
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and a nice little walk in. Think I'm
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going to head over to final resting
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place of Jim Morrison. I've been wanting
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to go there for a long time. He lived
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here very short while before he passed
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away. And this is where he's at.
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Well, not right here. It's another mile
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up the up the way.
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Yeah, I had to get a little water here
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crystalline
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from the source.
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Stay hydrated. I had my caffeine. Now I
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need my hydration. I'm walking some I'm
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walking some miles today. Getting some
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steps in. Feels good.
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Feels really good.
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All right, here it is.
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Hey, a visit to the Lizard King.
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He only lived in Paris a few months.
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Wow.
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They had a map with some of the names of
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people who were here and he was on
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there. Sex section six number 30 was the
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one on the map.
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You don't usually see these type of
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crips with the doors open like that.
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There's a lot of them in here that are
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open.
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There's a crow right there.
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Oh, flying off. There's another one
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right there.
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But this place is definitely
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something that Po
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would have felt comfortable in even
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though he never visited here.
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This is what he wrote about these type
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of places.
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That's a serious siren going on. Also,
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speaking of something serious, look at
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this.
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That is something.
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I'm going to probably assume that this
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is it.
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Maybe not. I was thinking because these
30:26
were around it.
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Oh, it's on the other side. It's over
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there.
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It's over there.
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They put these up around the back just
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so people don't cut through. Right
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there. James Douglas
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Morrison,
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part of the 27 Club.
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Lot of people have evidently climbed
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over these and
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place little momentos
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as well. And obviously I'm not the only
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one here. There's a few other people.
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That's weird. There's like a gum tree
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here. Look at this.
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There was an original bust on the
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headstone that someone stole in the 80s
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and it was missing for like three and a
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half decades. They just found it, but
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it's not back out yet. was
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whoever ended up stealing it, they had
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it in their or others possession
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and the authorities found it, I guess,
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really very recently, but they haven't
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placed it back out here, nor do I know
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if they will.
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Could be one of those things that if
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they put it back out some of Steel, it
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might end up in a museum or something.
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But
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yeah, when you think of the doors, you
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think of LA.
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He lived in LA for quite a while and he
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only lived here a very short while. But
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this is where he passed away and this is
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where his final resting place is.
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So someone that's into the doors and you
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live in the know California or the US.
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You can't just go over to Hollywood
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forever, pay your respects. So I figured
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while I was here in Paris, got to stop
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off here at
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his resting place. Pretty
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amazing.
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Part of 27 club.
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And evidently his girlfriend that he
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moved to Paris to be with is going to
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take some time off from things and just
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relax in Paris with her. She was also
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part of the 27 club
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which is a name given to those you know
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artists, musicians etc that pass away at
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that age.
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You got somebody leaving their Venice.
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He lived in Venice for a while. Venice,
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California, obviously. Venice Beach.
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There's a mural of Jim there.
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Evidently, Oscar Wild is also here.
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So, I'm go find his spot.
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Probably the whole time I was at
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Morrison's
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about 20 30 people, different people
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walked up,
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pay their respects, get some photos,
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talk amongst themselves.
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And as I was leaving, one of the last
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people that approached was a gentleman
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in an ECV cart had a hard time. He was
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with his friend
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rolling up the the brick here. Well,
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back there behind me,
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but he had a Jim Morrison shirt on.
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So, a little older gentleman.
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And you could tell he really just wanted
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to be there to pay his respects.
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And while I just stood there and watched
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him and his friend, you know, looking at
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the grave, talking amongst themselves,
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really made me realize that
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you never know what you're going to put
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out there. you know, as an artist
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that people relate to
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or they can,
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you know, use in their own lives either
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as inspiration or maybe it gets them
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through a certain time in their lives or
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just whatever memories
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that they have of someone. even if it's
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not your thing.
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I don't know. Just it was really
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touching to see to see that.
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And Jim Morrison, a huge superstar in
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the rock world.
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This really is quite the place. I mean,
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just look at these sculptures,
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crypts
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all through here.
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It's just beautiful.
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Look, this guy
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has a sculpture of himself with a book
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there. Edmund About
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Edmund about
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1885 passed on.
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This is a castle.
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Rudolph Lehman
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made a castle to be laid in.
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This is a really unique section
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with some of these headstones and really
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went all out.
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dating 1918. Born in 19 Oh,
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born in 1901 and passed on in 1918.
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This is entire family.
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Even one as recent as 03.
37:47
Most the other ones are 61 and earlier
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1950.
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I believe that this is Oscar Wilds over
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here
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most famously from The Importance of
38:42
Being Earnest. Trying to think of some
38:44
of the other stuff that he did. an
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eccentric eccentric poet and writer.
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That's very interesting. It almost looks
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as if this woman is leaning against
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I guess someone with a cape like almost
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like the Grim Reaper or something.
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Probably not what it's supposed to be,
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but that's what it looks like to me.
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Oh, look at this one.
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Look at that.
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Almost looks like a writing book on this
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one. That is very interesting.
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And he's got this plexi partition
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around.
40:16
That is very interesting. Look at that.
40:16
It's like a chair up there.
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Got lipstick marks here on the glass.
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People have laid things down here as
40:32
well.
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Well, they've probably thrown them over
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the the glass.
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and you got the carvings in there as
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well. author
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was born Oh, here we go. was born at 21
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Westland Road in Dublin
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in 1854.
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Trying to see through the plexi.
41:33
This tomb
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Jacob Epstein
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was given by a lady as a memorial to her
41:51
admiration of the poet.
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I mean that is quite a headstone
42:02
honestly.
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Look up here.
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All right, I took a taxi for a little
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bit of a ways. Man, I have to say this
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is probably some of the worst traffic
43:10
I've ever seen ever anywhere.
43:14
I'm thinking maybe taking the subway. I
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was like, I'll jump in a taxi just to go
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like four or five miles. It was like an
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hour. And there's like some kind of a
43:22
conundrum going on up here. So, I was
43:24
like, just drop me off here and I'll
43:25
walk the rest of the way. It really is
43:27
wild how crazy people drive. I mean, the
43:31
bikes weaving in and out, taxis waving
43:34
in and out,
43:36
people honking, tour buses trying to get
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through.
43:46
This is This is an intersection right
43:47
That's an intersection.
43:57
like explain to me what's going on. This
43:57
is this is the normal intersections
43:59
here. This is not because of like a
44:00
fender bender that I think happened, but
44:03
this is the normal intersections when
44:04
you get not a roundabout. It's just like
44:06
a weaving in and out.
44:35
That's something
44:35
something.
45:03
What are these cars doing? The traffic's
45:03
going that way.
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One more night.
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And that's going to do it for today.
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Back over at my hotel. I'll see you in
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the next video. Thanks for watching. The
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vlog is over and it's still very windy.
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Very windy.