Hwy 192 In Kissimmee Is Getting WORSE - Empty Places & Torn Down Motels / Old Town To OBT Corridor
Hwy 192 Kissimmee Dec 2023
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today's adventure begins here behind The
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Rock Church formerly the American
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Gladiators Dinner Show do some sort of
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firefighter training as the recording of
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This TGIF it is Friday December 22nd
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20123 3 days if my math is correct till
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Christmas either there is a plumbing
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problem or they're just doing a little
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training back here some testing might
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drive a little
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closer you want to drive over there and
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see what they're doing curious oh wait
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look letting out some water right there
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take a look at that that's
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cool I have no idea what's going on
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welcome everyone Adam the woo here ended
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up stopping off at crispy K cream didn't
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get any donuts but I did get a piping
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hot caffeinated beverage this is going
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to be a Highway 192 video I'm just going
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to Traverse with trying to do more 192
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stuff I got to thinking yesterday when I
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was covering a spot here on the road
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that I pretty much started my channel on
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Highway 192 it was my first video I ever
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uploaded on the Adam the woo channel was
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on New Year's Eve of
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2009 and end of 2010 when I was still
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working at the feed store I didn't quit
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there until August of
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2011 pretty much that first year year
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and a half it was mostly 192 content
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so I kind of want to start getting back
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into that and showcase some stuff I
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haven't shown showcase some stuff I have
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shown and how it has changed over the
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last decade or so that's what today's
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going to be and then also later they're
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doing an art walk at the celebration
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around the celebration Lake and Market
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Street been doing a Christmas art walk
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join
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me that's hot it's good to have you here
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shall you all the years I've been around
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this area I've never driven down this
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little side road that runs parallel to
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this flea market where they just started
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putting food trucks a lot of places have
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food trucks on 192 you get the bearings
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there you can see the big orange world's
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largest orange off in the distance
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there's some ducks in this Lake
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here again I have traveled Highway
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192 both directions many times but a lot
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of times I don't Veer off on the little
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side streets that go behind some of the
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shopping centers for example this used
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to be a bank I never realized this was
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an old Bank right here you see the
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teller window see the deposit box is
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right next to Hope
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thrift yeah who knew that was a bank at
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one
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time weird know it sounds really strange
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but in a weird way I want to rent one of
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these storefronts
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here I don't even know what I would use
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it for but there are a few available
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between the thrift store and The Rock
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Church The Rock Church is behind it oh
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there's a lot of back there from the
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firefighting training almost looks like
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fog it's so hazy yeah it's got to be
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training look at that there's like a
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little projectile going up into the air
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there a little water action that's
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pretty cool
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looking power of those
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things look at that stream man that has
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got some serious power
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speaking of fires I'm really glad that
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the Big Orange did not burn down 9 10
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months ago or so there was a fire
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there still
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standing even though they don't use the
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inside but at least it didn't at least
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it burned completely down
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also that Waffle House is still under
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construction back behind some of these
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shopping centers lots of Retention Ponds
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like this one for example this old
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dilapidated fence something like picture
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of the Swamp Thing living in also I
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never realized there was a motel back
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there behind this this is over behind
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Duncan the Philly cheese steak
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place this was a restaurant of some sort
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tore it down
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a few months ago was sitting here empty
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and abandoned for a long
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time all right that explains it that
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clarifies what the restaurant was before
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they tore it down before it sat
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empty Kabuki parking only unauthorized
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Vehicles will be towed away it's kind of
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a bummer they just painted over this
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little time share place here still open
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this was used in the movie The Florida
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project there's a couple photos used to
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be able to match it up exactly with what
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it set on the side but here within the
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last month they painted it like a
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reddish orange and yellow dang another
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area I've never driven around behind so
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this is pretty close to the
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wizard over here a lot of cones been set
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up just random cones that are like
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parked in the
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ground big parking areas back behind all
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these all these sections and what the
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heck was
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here it's a
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Foundation even some steps what the
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heck someone's necklace there are insane
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amount of parking spots along this road
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behind a lot of these shops which just
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shows how busy this area used to be as
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far as tourism goes and people going to
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these places
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I mean so much parking back
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here this is behind one of the two
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wizards on
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192 there's this hat right there the
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wizard hat I've never been back behind
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here additional parking back there but
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in reality I don't know if anyone uses
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it oh they doing a little something here
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with this
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crane maybe it's just the where it's
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parked
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the side view of the wizard love this
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thing I think I like this wizard a
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little more than the other wizard that
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was up by the former Splendid China I
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like that wizard too but have more of a
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connection with that wizard you can see
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them through the bushes construction
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update they're doing some work on the
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road here Road is closed here at ilaha
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station which is the bus stop yeah this
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bus stop here is the illaha station it
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says so right on the side
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fun
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facts there all kind of little tidbits
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of
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info that no one knows about and let's
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be
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honest not many
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care there were a couple Motel here they
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have
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recently been bulldozed a lot of
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bulldozing going on on the
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street the parking lot was here there
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another motel that's still standing
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right next door
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you can see it's all been leveled
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through here they were in disrepair for
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a good while they finally came in
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cleaned it all up tore them down and now
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both these properties are for sale signs
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in front of both little
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sections sidewalk still here all broken
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up grown
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over look like even some power grids
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left see if I can find any info what
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this used to
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also some water pumping mechanisms right
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over there
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too corner of 535 also known as vinand
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and
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all right there's three spots that were
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torn down here's a third over
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okay curiosity's got the best of me I
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want to know what's back
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dock all right I don't know how far I
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want to go I don't know if I want to go
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down the dock
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but this is around the back of the
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property here
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so whatever motel or hotel resort used
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to be here that they've leveled they did
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not tear out the light
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poles nor the sidewalk here or the
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dock leading to this
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little accommodations at the
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this lakefront property where they used
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to rent jet skis at one of these spots
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out
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here back in the day in the
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mid90s they had some advertisements
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saying that they had jet skis for
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rent one of these motels
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you could take jet skis out on that
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Lake part of me has to wonder if there
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is a massive
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revitalization of Highway
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192 in the future that has not really
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even been announced yet because a lot of
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these properties sat empty for many
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years and within the last 6 months I'd
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say there's been a lot of bulldozers
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rolling in tearing a lot of the stuff
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down and usually stuff does not get
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demolished until something's going to
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happen so maybe something's going to
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happen
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I'm all for
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back getting a little fuel
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here price of gas here on Highway One 92
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CMI
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$3 13 a
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gallon this used to be a Checkers a old
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dilapidated fallen and disrepair
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Checkers there used to be a big sign
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right there and I put my name up on that
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sign with lettering this is probably 10
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years ago and it stayed up there for a
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long time I did a video on
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it got a big six 16t ladder from work at
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the feed store brought it out here
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changed the letters
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around and it stayed up there for a long
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time pretty much till they bulldoze the
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old building this value Pond or Pond
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shop next door to where I was just
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getting
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gas wonder what's going on with the side
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of the windows there it's amazing to see
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some of these places are still open
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because semi Gokarts and Gator encounter
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is still
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open
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see not a lot of people parked here
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though like I think the only two people
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that are up in there are the
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employees this is right next to a church
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a lot of churches have taken over empty
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buildings well actually no this is a
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school this used to be a Haunted Mansion
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attraction so looks like the
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castle if you look over here I veed off
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one of the side streets there another
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motel
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that is in really bad shape it's not
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open you can see how they're tearing
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some of that out
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too just countless motels that are no
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longer in use or that aren't even there
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anymore a lot most of them are torn
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down I often wonder how places like this
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stay open in this day and age with the
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internet and whatnot I guess even
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physical media can Branch off into that
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Avenue of entertainment as well people
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like to collect that stuff this
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automotive place used to be an Indian
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food restaurant I used to go to a lot
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back in the
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90s early
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2000s you can see driveways through here
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it used to be houses at one point right
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here along the road there's houses over
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there used to live in that neighborhood
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there used to be homes right here they
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tore them out probably 10 15 years ago
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now they're just empty lots right here
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along the
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road you can still see the driveways you
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can see no foundations but you can see
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where the driveways used to
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be right along the
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highway at one time this was an
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Albertson's it was empty for a long time
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but looks like another grocery retailer
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might be taking over the
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spot stopped inside a little strip mall
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this used to be a public Plaza now
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there's a Goodwill located in here but
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it's kind of interesting very dated very
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retro looks like something out of like a
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Tim Burton film right yeah take a look
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at they got the ceiling fans up here and
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then take a look at the architecture
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here of the roof just really cool
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looking kind of looks like the set from
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peewee's big event Venture when the bike
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gets to up his
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indoor yeah and then over here it was
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used to be a Publix now it's a Goodwill
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so I'm going to pop in here real quick
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all right I ended up getting this it's
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kind of like I think I could use it as
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maybe like a shoe rack for a closet or
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something possibly so yeah I got a
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little something also in here one of
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these stores back in the late '90s my
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roommate that time Rob and I would come
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up here there was a record store was
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very shortlived it only probably open a
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year maybe 6 months of a year it was in
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one of these there was a little record
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store this old 7-Eleven has sat empty on
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the corner of John
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Young and erlo Bronson V Street Highway
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192 for long
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time also a wing place next
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door sat empty a while too but this it's
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very interesting because this is such
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a very busy intersection a very very
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busy intersection you think that a
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7-Eleven here would do really well
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but it closed probably 10 years ago and
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has been sitting empty
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since 51 and 53 are the
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addresses then right over there is a
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Staples used to be a thrift store over
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there and a Scotty's Hardware Scotty's
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Hardware was first and then the thrift
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store and now this this Elegant Beauty
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Supplies used to be a Blockbuster Video
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you know a lot of block all the block
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questioners are closed that's what I
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remember it
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as used to be a food Lon over here
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too then it became a save a lot and now
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the Save A lot's closed look you still
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see the sign
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there all right something's
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another corner of Central in 192 that
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was the longest light waiting for that
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thing to change to go
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across something happened down here
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they're searching for
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something they're here in the middle of
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the road got the road they're all just
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searching throughout the whole Road
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here
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interesting all right I pulled over and
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parked in this parking spot I can't
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figure out what the heck's going
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I got a few people kind of congregating
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looking on
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here very confusing what's
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happening
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scene this is one block off of 192 so
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early Bronson's up
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there
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always something happening in this neck
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of the
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woods I just asked one of the officers
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if it was safe for me to be walking
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around he said yeah so obviously nothing
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that has is imminently dangerous at the
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moment it didn't tell me what was going
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on
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parade highly doubtful I think it's
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something a little more than
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that all right nothing to see here
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nothing to see
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here well there is something to see here
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but I just don't know what it is
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all right moving on okay I was just
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talking to a lady that popped out of the
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pharmacy said there she was she asked
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what's going on she said she heard
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something going on out here quite a
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Ruckus probably wouldn't be good to
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continue walking around even though I
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did
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ask those that are on the scene if it
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was okay and they said yeah but they're
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obviously looking for
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someone it's up to no good out
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here look at all these people that are
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out kind of wondering what's going
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on look at all they have it all ConEd
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off so they got you can't pull in here
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you can't pull in here and then they got
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these ConEd off over
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here the heck is going
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oh those ladies over there look a little
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distraught so I think maybe it happened
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classic car
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alert all right moving on like they got
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it under control look at this sign right
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here hide it keep it take
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it don't be a victim hide it keep it
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take
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it ah Highway 192 all right back over in
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celebration now that's going to do it
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for today
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go to the art walk a little bit later
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not going to take the camera just enjoy
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the rest of the
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evening I'll see you in the next video
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the Vlog is over