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What YouTubers Got WRONG About Our City?
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Apr 22, 2025
Quite a lot, let me tell you - you'll see. Get Surfshark VPN at https://surfshark.deals/honestguide - Enter promo code HONESTGUIDE for 83% off + 3 months for FREE! Millions of people travel to our lovely city every year - and some of them film a little guide here. Great! Let's just say that sometimes... some information are not the most accurate Let's take a look at what they had to say! Get SECRET MAPS & TIPS for Prague here http://patreon.com/honestguide Aaanton's channel: https://www.youtube.com/@aaanton11 Buncharted, Alex & Michelle's channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00H-xx3A1Jo Honest Guide https://instagram.com/realhonestguide Janek https://instagram.com/janekrubes/ Honza https://instagram.com/honzamikulka/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/HonestPragueGuide/ The music we use for our videos https://bit.ly/HonestMusic Get creative assets for your videos https://bit.ly/HonestFilmmakersAssets 0:00 What Tourists Say About Us?
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Millions of people visit our beautiful city of Prague and many of them have their video cameras with them
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and they film and say something about our town that sometimes is very inaccurate
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Trying pizza in Prague for the first time. That's right, they fry the pizza dough inside of this so much oil
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I realize that they don't slice their pizza and yummy and soft. This is just so wrong, you have no idea
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This video has thousands of comments from Czech people saying, that's not pizza, that's langos
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That's like two completely separate things. It's like, oh, they got the Eiffel Tower in Paris
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It looks just like the Statue of Liberty. Just because it's tall, it's not the same thing
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Just because it's round, it's not the same thing. So today we're going to go after these inaccuracies that I found on some travel vloggers' videos on YouTube
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Now, in any way, this is not meant as a hate or as roast
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the videos and the people who made them are great, there's just sometimes a little
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inaccuracy in the information they're giving. Thank you. To begin with, we go to a channel called Anton, to this guy who is one of the happiest travelers
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I've seen in my life. This guy does a great video. He shows that he went for some goulash in Kavarnaslavia
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They walk around a lot with his wife. And then he comes to the Charles Bridge
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And that's where the fun begins for me. This bridge dates back to 1357
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It's, again, got loads of history with it. They chucked Charles off it because he didn't agree with some religious stuff that was going on at the time
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No, we didn't throw Charles IV off the Charles Bridge. He is one of the most famous personas of our history
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And no, we did not kill him. Let's move on. No, we did not throw him in the river
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Although I know where this information is coming from, but I'll let you finish
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And there he is. There's Charles. All right, so thanks to that shot, I know where you got the idea from
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The picture you just showed is not Charles, but it's the St. John of Nepomuk
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And yes, he was tortured and murdered and eventually thrown off the bridge
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So what you did here is you mixed up two stories and you put them together
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Unfortunately, you did it with Charles IV. So for us, that is very, very funny and hilarious
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Now Anton continues and shows some actually very cool stuff to show. The lookout tower, he takes the finicler, and then he goes to the John Lennon Wall
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And he's not inaccurate there. He's more than accurate. And I agree with him, even though most tourists wouldn't
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And that is, he doesn't get the point of the Lennon Wall. But everybody just squalves on it now
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They just draw over what was originally there. I don't quite get it. I can't agree with you more, man
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Now, at this point, he recommends something that I hate more than diarrhea
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and those are these green lime scooters. I hate them so much, you have no idea
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But when I see the smile on this man's face when he rides these around our city
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I just understand it. It makes him so happy. It ain't very big
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I said that with the Empire State Building. This is very similar
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It ain't really big. I said that with the Empire State Building, and this is similar
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I don't really know where you're going with that idea, but it made you and me laugh, so I think we're good
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I love how in the next segment, you say you're going to the Dancing House, which is a beautiful building on the riverside
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but when you get to it, you only talk about your line scooters and how much fun they are
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Hello Niddiya We got our little lime scooters These are brilliant So that very interesting for me very new perspective which is kind of understandable And you also go to locations that are further from the city so I understand you use these scooters
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I just don't want to see the bill, though. These little suckers cost, man. They cost
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By the way, I'd just like to remind all the viewers that if you ride these lime scooters around Prague
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you cannot ride them on the sidewalks. The police will find you
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Now, the gentleman enjoys some luxury time in the beer spa. I would say. I have nothing to say about that because I've actually never been but I know it's
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popular. And then he heads out to... In the middle of the bridge you've got the island, Beaver Island
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Beaver Island, beavers everywhere. That is called the Shooter's Island, Çelecky Ostrov, not Beaver Island. But it's funny and it's not the first time I'm hearing it
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how many tourists nicknamed it or even renamed it to Beaver Island. Because, believe it or not
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there's not a single beaver on it. The animals that tourists think are beavers are actually
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nutritious. He then visits two Italian pizza places that neither of those I've ever visited
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but they both look amazing, so I'll make sure to try them out. And then he goes to a place that he
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refers to as traditional strepici. What do you think that is, Honza? It's in the heart of Prague
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it's traditional, and it's strepici. We need some traditional strepici. Now, it took me some time
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to figure out why is he calling this sweet pastry for tourists strepici, and the reason is that the
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place where he bought it actually has a sign that says tradiční staropražské, and staropražské
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which someone may pronounce as Strapicki, actually means old Prague, staro-praske, which it's not, just so you know. By the way, fun fact, there's not a single tourist video about Prague
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that would be without Tavelnik. All of them have it in Soviet tradition by now
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Our maid then moves to a restaurant called Upavulka. I've walked around many, many times
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I've never been inside. He did some nice shots. I guess it's a cool tourist event
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But we're going to move on to the next vloggers who came to Prague. And the theme of their video was to be on a budget
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So let's see how successful they were. We're going to track it all. But first, beavers
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But first, beavers. But first, beavers. This is Michelle's and Alec's channel that is great. They have some great videos
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And they're starting off in Prague on the beaver island, proving that nutrias are really super popular among tourists
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This is free. Free beavers. Yep she right about that The evil mayor of Prague sitting in his dungeon Should I start charging tourists to look at the beavers One of the first places they recommend in their videos is Smetanjak Smetana Q coffee place
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That is amazing. Mianonza will love to go there. Definitely though not on the budget side
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But once again, a great spot. Yes, yes, yes. If there's a girl in the travel videos, sometimes there's a slow motion shot of her
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But hey, a slow motion shot of the Nutria beaver? I approve of that
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Straight from that breakfast place, there's a bridge called the Legion Bridge, which is a great place to get a view of, I think, the castle bridge
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That's not right. I'll put it up on the screen. The famous bridge that's across from Prague Castle
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We see Alex for the first time struggling to come up with the name of the Charles Bridge
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that we now know is named after the guy that we killed and threw off the bridge
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But hey, don't worry about it. you can just call it the bridge we will know which one you're talking about but he got the
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right name of the bridge on the screen castle bridge it does make sense it's the bridge we
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cross to go to the castle by the way alex you impress me dude you don't know the name of the
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charles bridge yet you know the bridge of the legions the legion bridge behind you not too
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many locals even know the name of that bridge and there are tons and tons of beavers that if you
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bring vegetables you can feed i like how he calls them beavers which they're not which he corrected
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himself in the title they're actually muskrats which they're not they're actually nutrias and
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maybe just maybe i'm wrong because i'm not a biologist or expert in these you know big rats
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that crawl around so if you are let us know what they're called in english we think they're nutrias
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you know what they call them at the city hall now money making machine lawsuit coming up
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up. He almost threw her off the bridge just like they did to Charles the fourth. Alexi
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leave Michelle alone. Alex and Michelle now climb up to the castle. They drop some fun facts about
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the castle and one inaccurate information and that is that the line to the castle is there
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because the entrance is free. Yeah so the reason why the line is so long is because getting into
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the castle is actually free. Nope. The entrance was always free to the complex of the castle
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But just a couple of years ago, there was no line. The reason for the line are security checks that
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were recently installed in. So people have to show their pockets and their backpacks. That's why there
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is a line. If you go in the afternoon, there will be no line. And also, if you stick around a bit
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we actually just changed our president and he promised to put the security checks away
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It's pretty. Also, there's a cool Starbucks over there. There is a cool Starbucks over there. She's absolutely right
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There is a great Starbucks on the square, which has an amazing view
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So if you're used to this Starbucks, this is the Starbucks we have in Prague
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I came to see this very old castle, but I'm gonna mention the Starbucks
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Yeah, and what would be a terrorist video without a Tadami? Oh, she's about to have the Strapicki
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We did it. We got the thing. Also, if the goal of your video is to stay on a budget, maybe I'd skip the Trdelnik and go for some other pastry that may be cheaper
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But there's something else. So I think there's like a little bit of like, not controversy, but what's the right word
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If this is just like a touristy dessert or if locals actually ever eat this
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A little bit of controversy? We call it a war. We hate that thing
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If you know, let us know in the comments. I'll let you know. I'm making an entire video where I'm letting you know. I've been doing this for six years now
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It's a crusade I've been on with my buddy Honza. Prague is like a super walkable city but there is a really extensive network of trams and I think they have a subway Very accurate information here from Alex Prague is more than walkable We do have great tram system And yes we do have subway
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Which I understand that if you're a tourist only moving in the central area, you're probably not going to use it
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But it's cool. Next time visit it as well. It's about 30 koruna for 30 minutes or 120 koruna for the whole day
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So it's also very affordable. Not bad. But walking is cheaper. If they would cut out the Trdelnik from this video
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they'd be great on as guides to Prague. free walking. It's pretty
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Not only it's pretty, but there is a Starbucks right across from it that has a great view
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of the clock. Prague actually has a ton of free museums that we didn't take advantage
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of on this trip, so that may be something you want to check out. Once again, very accurate
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information about many museums being free up until the point where Alex says this
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And the communism museum's free. No, the Museum of Communism is not free
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it's actually more than 10-15 euros, but maybe you're referring to some experience you had on
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the streets of Prague that reminded you of communism. In that case I would be wrong and
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you'd be right. That is possible. They follow their tour to a restaurant called Krčma which
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happens to have some traditional food and I love how she orders the fried cheese
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Fried cheese with I think they're boiled potatoes? Now I'm completely unsure of what
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kind of fried cheese or what kind of cheese this actually is so let's get into it you're not in
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switzerland this is the czech republic we usually put the cheapest item uh and we fry it uh so
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that's a laughable moment for a czech audience or for czech viewers like us it's good on it
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you think yeah horseradish sauce and also when you think that you have a horseradish
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as the sauce next to it no that's a tartar sauce we basically put it on anything
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Tatarka. Oh boy, I just love it. Traditional Czech. Traditional, yeah, yeah
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I've been looking for this all day. For dessert, they're getting medovnik and they call it traditional
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We wondered about it with Honza, did a little Google searching, and it may not be traditional, just like the tadelnik
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It's just, I'm being rude. I'm taking the fun out of fun
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That's all for now. We're going to be in Bratislava tomorrow. All in all, I think these guys were great and it seems to me they had a great time in Prague, which is the most important thing
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I love watching these videos because not only I learned something from them that I didn't know about my city
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but I also see how travelers view our city and the things that surround us here because our point of view is completely different
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None of the information that was in the video was in any way harmful, but sometimes, as I said, they can be laughable for us
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So I hope when you'll come to Prague, you'll also make a video. You'll post it on YouTube, TikTok, or Instagram so we can review if the information in it was inaccurate or accurate
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That being said, we make mistakes in our videos almost daily. We get corrected a lot in the comments
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So doing mistakes, making mistakes, being inaccurate is absolutely normal. That's why we have the comment section below
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So go to the comment section, let us know which of the things mentioned you also tried on your trip to Prague
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or which of those things you will try on your trip to Prague. If I want you in Prague, I'll see you here on the channel
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That is called The Honest Guide next Sunday at 6 p.m. Central European Time
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And at the end, I always teach you a Czech word. This time it will be, how to say, inaccurate
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It is neprzesny. Nepresny is inaccurate. And by the way, if you're curious where we are, we're not at my house
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we're just off the Beaver Island we're in the place called Rybárna Skautský Institute
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that we've mentioned so the Boy Scouts were kind enough to let us lend us this studio
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so we could film this episode overlooking the Beaver Island
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