Jurassic Park Park Ridge Halloween Display

Melissa Forman talks about the Jurassic Park halloween display in Park Ridge.

Episode Transcript

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I have a kind of celebrity onthe line. Joseph Lee and his family
from park Ridge. Every year they'vebeen doing these outrageous, amazing decorations based
on movie themes for Halloween. Thehave gotten the national attention. And I
don't know what he's doing, butit's set and ready for you to visit
their house of park Ridge. SoJoseph's on the line. Are we ready?
Jimmy's you ready? He's gonna announcewhat this year's movie theme is for

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their Halloween decor Joseph, what isit? This year's theme is Jurassic Park?
So the original? Oh, it'sgonna be okay, So Jurassic Park.
We had Encanto, we had Titanic. What am I missing? Do
we have Jaws? What was theother one? Ghostbusters? Oh? Ghostbusters?

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It was great? Okay, allright, So are you tired?
How long have you been working onthis? Oh? Probably a few weeks.
This is probably the biggest build Ihad that I had to enlist all
of my friends and I would nothave gotten anything up if it was just
myself. So yeah, it wasjust so much work and so much construction.

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Now has your family decided you're neverdoing this? Again or are they
still in it? That's what Iwanted. I was like, Okay,
are they ever going to do this? No? Well, my daughter,
I asked her. I was like, man, this is a lot of
work, and she's like, Ican Can we just be Jurassic Park House
going forward? And she said no, we have to do something different every
year. And she is really intoit, So, oh, no,
you're in trouble. Wait, soyou have these big dinosaur structures and you

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have this little surprise I won't say, and I love the whole entrance.
It says Jurassic Park Park Ridge.Right. Yeah, so we're in park
Ridge. And when we're building it, my wife was like, you know
what the sign needs to say JurassicPark Bridge. And I was like,
that's brilliant. So I changed thesign and made it that everybody here loves

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it. What about the neighbors.Let me tell me about the neighbor reaction.
Are they like, Joe, whatare you guys doing this year?
They are they coming to help?Are they are they annoyed by this?
What are the neighbors? I'm notsure. I think my neighbors probably don't
appreciate the traffic that probably comes throughevery day. But I think the feedback's
when great, they love it andwhen they see the sign and says Jurassic

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Parkridge been blown away. Yeah,okay, so it's up this weekend.
People can go, you're in parkRidge near Washington Elementary School. What is
the intersection nearre nearest? Yep,we're right next to Home and Norman.
So that's the intersection that's closest tous Home and Norman and park Ridge.
I'm going to make a blog too, so it'll have all the information near

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Washington Elementary and park Ridge and thisweekend they can go like, will you
have it up at night? Yep, we have it up at night.
We have lights up and hopefully I'llhave the sounds by then. You're having
some technical things. Thank god,you're a doctor, you know what I
mean? Good thing, You're reallyright? Are you a doctor? No?
Oh you're not. Oh that's yourfriend's and doctor. I forgot what

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you do in real life? Whatare you doing real life? I'm in
sales, oh sills? Okay,good, all right, Well that works.
Oh my gosh. I'm so excitedto see this. I can't wait
for again. My friend joe LeeParkridgie has been all over the news in
the past, national TV coverage forhis decorations that are crazy, Titanic and
Conto, Ghostbusters and now Jurassic parkRidge. This is so great, Joe,

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all right, I want to talknext week and find out how it's
going and what people are saying.Sounds good. Washington, You're Washington Elementary
in park Ridge Home and Norman Avenue. That's the intersection. I love you,
Joe. I love you too,Melissa. Thanks for having me on
show. I love sharing this.It's awesome. It's so awesome.