The Henry Ford Museum Is Incredible- Abe Lincoln’s Chair & The JFK Limousine / Pop Culture Walk Thru
The Henry Ford Museum Summer 2023
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welcome everyone Adam mcderoo here as a
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recording of the Sunday August 6 2023
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again since I am in the area where the
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Tim Hortons has coffee got a piping hot
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caffeinated beverage and check out what
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is behind me a rather large
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fire hey mister
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only you have them
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what it's caught on tape you left me up
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in Warren Michigan but I figured I knew
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to come down here so you keep running
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away
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is lick yeah
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up to mine
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I lost my top in San Francisco so you
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were saying that this at one point had
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something to do with a ferris wheel yeah
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was that a world fair and it was a it
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wasn't Ferris wheel that was brought
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here it was right on I-94 this kind of
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signifies if you're especially if you're
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Canadian across the border from Detroit
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from uh Windsor into Detroit yeah you
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can go right down to I-75 that's how
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what the hell you do in Canada you go to
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Florida every you know for two weeks and
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this is like a beacon this is like a
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landmark you cut across a little bit
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okay right there I-94 then back to I-35
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so this for me as a kid when I saw this
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I was like I'm in the states and they
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have time I love it welcome
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to America thank you I'm inviting you to
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join me Scott on tape
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value so right a couple miles from here
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is the Henry Ford Museum we're gonna
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check out a place that I've wanted to go
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for many many years
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we're gonna go over there there's a few
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key items I want to show in there and
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then there's some things I don't even
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know what's going to be in there but I
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cannot take my eyes off this Uniroyal
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do you think
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Uniroyal with the Uniroyal I say uni you
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say unicorn
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you say unicycle
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that's one right that's one wheel and
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that's one wheel that's a uni that's a
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unicycle though you say unicycle I say
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uni oh there's a train that's a trade
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Scott said we're in Dearborn now newborn
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Michigan not Detroit we're on the
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outskirts the Greater Detroit area but
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technically Dearborn
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it's also starting to rain now there are
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a few things I am looking forward to
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seeing one of them is the Charles kuralt
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on the road RV there's also the Rosa
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Parks bus there's also the chair the
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Lincoln chair
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the blast moments of Lincoln and then
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there is also the JFK limo from Dealey
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Plaza those are the four things but
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there's other stuff I'm sure is gonna
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I'm gonna love to the Henry Ford
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I gotta be out of time kind of going
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into the spoiler free I don't know what
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to expect other than the four key things
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that I really wanted to see with my own
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eyes all right heading in cost was 35
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just for the museum are there other
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items on property but just doing just
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the museum and the things I feel like
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the museum is going to be expansive
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enough
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check out this pile it's like the Wright
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Brothers playing a recreation of the set
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same era here in the lobby all right
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this is pretty awesome you can smell the
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moldorama you can also see the machine
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so you can get either Henry Ford or you
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can get the one with the car itself yeah
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a little older on the machine it's good
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to see some working molduramas five
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dollars you can get a little souvenir
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all right here's a bunch of them one two
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three four five six seven eight nine
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there's like 10 of them almost a dozen
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Boulder ramas you can get Abraham
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Lincoln's Noggin right there
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oh even the Wienermobile
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Henry Ford Model T you can even get the
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JFK car locomotive
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have made it in
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first thing I'm seeing is a plane
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off in the distance way down there also
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Thomas Edison's signature is right here
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in concrete take a look at that
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Thomas Edison
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sign the concrete right there Northwest
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Airlines the Douglas DC3
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all right just my first impression
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walking in here this place is awesome
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all right this is selections from
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Michael Graves not the Misfits Michael
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Graves the designer and architect
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Michael Graves all these items here
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were items that he constructed fun fact
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the celebration post office was built by
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Michael Graves
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today's artifacts uh
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so I live in a town that features the
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work
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of Michael Graves not from the Misfits
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the theory of probabilities showing all
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the little brown sphere there going down
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the theory of probabilities
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there's no thing more than Good Sense
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confirmed by calculation
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oh I keep expecting a witch
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to be here prickling the finger on that
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an old Spinning Wheel this place is
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massive all the different areas of
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kitchen kind of reminds me of Carousel
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of Progress in a way
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some antique farm equipment over here
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this caterpillar
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John Deere of course
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FMC Corporation
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look at this
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serious classic car alert
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there it is the Oscar Meyer Wienermobile
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yellow and
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wieners
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look at that tag I love it
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I want to drive that around look it's
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like a hot dog on top of the car itself
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this is a 1952
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Wienermobile in 1936 the Oscar Meyer
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company began to promote their hot dogs
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on the streets of Chicago the only 52
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model in his original design is right
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here
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now this definitely has some Disneyland
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type Vibes even though it is not Disney
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correlation it is from the 1964.
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Fair kind of has that small world type
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Vibes and they have a mirror down there
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that lets you see underneath the inside
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of it but you know definitely
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definitely has that early Disney type of
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Vibes and the 64 correlation even though
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this was an IBM Pavilion kiosk into a
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lot of old furniture area here this is a
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this is a television right in the middle
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of the screen is a predicta television
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receiver
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1958 to 1960 right down there with the
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radio at the bottom of it looks like
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something from the future like something
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like the Jetsons would have in the
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future but really it was in the 1950s
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and there's a sewing machine and this
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table right down this card table
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belonged to John Hancock and right here
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this chest of drawers or Chester drawers
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depending on how you refer to it belong
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to George Washington's mother
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all says so right here High chest of
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drawers owned by Mary Ball Washington
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Samuel Clemens also known as Mark Twain
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wrote at this very desk right below the
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portrait of himself right there that is
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incredible to think about and Edgar
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Allan Poe right here number six this was
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Edgar Allan Poe's writing portable
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writing desk I mean that's wow really
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that's awesome now I was lucky enough to
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go in Xanadu home of the future in
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Kissimmee Florida before they tore that
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down years ago but this is the tour of
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the dynaxium house the new way of living
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for
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1946. it is a complete circle
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Peak down inside you got the couch over
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there you got the table you got the
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coffee table you got the little
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fireplace just listening to a
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conversation one of the workers was
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having with another guest this is the
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only one of these left in the world and
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back in the day you used to be able to
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go in here but they have since the there
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was something wrong with the floor they
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fixed the floor then the events of 2020
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they have not started letting guests
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back in even a couple years later but
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this is awesome the only one of these
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left in the world and uh the cable's
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coming down would tie into these steel
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rods and the house would be kept under
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tension so that's what dimaxium stands
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for is dynamic maximum tension and it
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actually made it very strong with the
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design of it it could withstand a 125
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mile an hour this year with the black
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drawer pulls and the backsplash on the
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on the counter there that's actually the
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refrigerator that's built into it so
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it's not as big because we shop
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different back then we went to the
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market like every other day instead of
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going grocery shopping for a couple
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weeks at a time other side of that wall
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is another bedroom and what you would do
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is you would push a button and those
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would rotate like a ferris wheel and you
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would hold the button down until the
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drawer you wanted came up and you would
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take yourself out those are drawers over
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there oh yeah and so that way
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but there would be two bathrooms here so
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there'd be a bathroom that
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fiberglass yeah I think it's a pretty
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great idea I could see myself owning
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some land and living in one of those
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just plop it down and there you go full
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360 home a lot of Pop Culture items as
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well check out one of the first video
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game systems atari's pong also the
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Snoopy phone oh and even the Atari 2600
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speaking of video game system there's a
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Pac-Man down there oh Scott they
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recreated your room over here not from
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your youth but your modern day room this
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is where you look like now yeah oh there
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you even have the self portrait right
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there right above my head when I sleep
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yep right there you wake up and you go
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you don't even look in a mirror you just
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look at yourself wow they actually have
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some of the Ataris that were I think
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these are the ones that were like buried
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like with E.T oh yeah it's the ETS that
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they ended up buried and then they
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uncovered years later I've never seen
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one in person as far as I can recall say
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hello to internet in a box yes VCRs used
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to be this size this is the size of a
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truck got a steam engine cylinder here
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look at this big wheel they're just like
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tall it's like 20 foot tall wheel yeah
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this thing is massive and I was
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overheard some people talking that this
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isn't even there's ones that are even a
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lot bigger and smaller than this one
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just like spinning around the Tower of
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Power
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you got all the way up to 19. yeah I'm
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pretty strong I'm an athlete
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oh I got to 19. is that me oh it's
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malfunctioning yeah okay dang and now
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getting into the wintry regions from
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right Whirlwind engines right here for
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Josephine Ford bird Arctic Expedition
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plane if you can see there's not Wheels
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there's like little snow snow skis down
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at the bottom they're trying to like
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read the map over there in the winter
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storm the blizzard oh he's doing some
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kind of stunt flying or something you
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know who's got that look I gotta say
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this might be one of the best museums
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I've ever been in it honestly is one of
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the best
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definitely and definitely top tier when
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it comes to museums and this is in fact
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a recreation of the Wright brothers you
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got one of the rights there and you got
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the other right
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over there all right this is kind of
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neat they show it here this is a still
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from that moment and the recreation here
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in the museum in the Detroit Museum
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right there
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well done very very well done well worth
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the 35 admission this place is massive
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just how many different you could spend
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all day a couple days in here if you
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wanted to read everything oh it looks
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like the Floyd Bennett is going to a
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place I could definitely Embrace a place
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called Coffeeville and away from the
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plain area and getting into some
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automobiles this Henry Ford's kitchen
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sink engine is something Jay Thaddeus
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towed would definitely love tariah
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Mr Toad he loves himself a wild ride
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serious classic car
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alert through here
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overload got the neon up there at the
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Douglas Auto Theater driving America and
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then looking down
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row of classic cars right here from the
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fender
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what happens when you're in the Motor
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City you're going to get lots of
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automobiles
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this is my kind of place got some
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Transportation devices got some more
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strong carriages got some Crosstown
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trolleys over here got a wagon from the
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horse and buggy days
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not just cars dating back to the olden
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does even touching on some fast food you
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got Speedy up there
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pre-ronald McDonald
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or the different mascots that McDonald's
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used to have and then of course eating
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on the go you got the orange crush here
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you got Bob's Big Boy there's those
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there was Frisch's Big Boy Bob's Big Boy
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one of my favorites there's Kips big boy
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there's a ashtray from Kips yeah I love
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the reflection of the neon there please
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do not litter you got the
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non-biodegradable Mickey D's containers
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they don't have those anymore you got
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the Transformer fries Super Size Me
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Right There
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there's a old dining car behind it it's
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56 Chevy Bel Air
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a w root beer there's neon everywhere
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White Castle
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again very very well done
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higher place
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always good lighting when you stand
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under
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I've ever been at
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how many times have you been here before
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it's my second second time and you know
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what's coming up right over there are
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you seeing things that you hadn't seen
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before on the first time I can't
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remember the first it was it's been
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about four years but where we are right
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now is my favorite car company I know
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what you're pointing at it's the JFK
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limo right
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what have you been to Dealey Plaza yeah
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I think that it was back in the real
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time but yesterday we went back into
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location as a presidential car after the
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fact it is wild I know it's a huge I
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wouldn't want to say that no I'm gonna
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go look at it I'm not gonna say that
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again
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okay this is
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unbelievable
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on
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unbelievable to see this in person
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Jackie O in the back crawled across the
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trunk towards the back
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to Dallas I've been to Dealey Plaza
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watches the brooder film a thousand
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times
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and this is the car this is the car
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Jackie O on this side JFK on that side
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so just think about it for a minute so
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you got the driver up there you got the
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Secret Service so you got the door he
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was sitting in the back seat with his
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arm right where the door kind of buckles
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there which would have been right on
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this very side
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right they are sitting in that back seat
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and you got the little where the service
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agents were right there against
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hey I just
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blows my mind
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and as Jackie O crawled back onto the
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truck this is where the other agent is
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right up on there
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unbelievable getting into some old gas
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station areas got the Texaco oh they got
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a cab over here
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there's even a holiday yeah there's like
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a motel section down here too the old
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family vacations
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W bus over here and you got the early
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lodging of like a cabin
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pollution of camping
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in a bus like this a toll booth over
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there 20 cents for a toll
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you got some Campground stuff and even
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like a camper
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full-size trains and miniature trains
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galore
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here I do love trying up and the Oscar
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Meyer Wienermobile going around down
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there
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as well just trains everywhere trains
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wienermobiles trolleys look at this
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trolley's racing the train keeping up
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with it very nicely
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do lots of trains take a look at this
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car
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I've never seen that before right there
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and tucked away over here in the corner
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this is one of the main reasons I wanted
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to come here Charles kuralt the on the
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road series it kind of stepped out of
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the comfort zone of normal News
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broadcasting and started going to small
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towns back roads
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lesser traveled areas
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I almost say I have like super
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inspiration people but definitely Huell
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Houser California gold and Charles
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kuralt on the road definitely people I I
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respect their their form of you know
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showing things that other people weren't
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really doing
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and I thought I model everything I'm
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doing completely after how they're doing
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it but in a lot of ways you know not
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only inspiring but also just just
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something I I admired and as The Story
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Goes basically he went to his bosses and
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said I want to do this kind of like back
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road type series and feature small areas
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small towns and they were like oh you
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could try it for a little while
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and it ended up lasting 27 years this is
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the last of several motorhomes it wasn't
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the only one but it was the last one he
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used before for the series ended it TV
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crew on America's back roads they took
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time to quote meet people listen to
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Yarns and feel the seasons change
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there's Charles right there there he is
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in the front
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with Izzy Blackman driving and Charles
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kuralt navigating back before GPS you
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had to use the the atlas there they are
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working on it themselves right there
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look at this Charles
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being the supervisor looking at the guys
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as they're fixing the motorhome
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it's amazing sister Adam
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I really want to go inside that RV but
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can't go inside the RV
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there's like the sleeping Arrangements
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back here so this was like a it's like
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predated my Large Marge for a while even
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though I really preferred doing the van
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dwelling more than I prefer being in an
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RV but this is pretty cool
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it was pretty dang cool
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just got in hit the road document if you
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ever had a chance to watch any of those
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on the roads too you could find them
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online and on the on YouTube and all
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that definitely worth checking out it's
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pretty genius all right over to the area
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with liberty and justice for all Abraham
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Lincoln and that is the Rosa Parks boss
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they have the Montgomery City Line Rosa
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Parks bus in here
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on there as a tour guide in there
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talking
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walk up either towards the rear or
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towards the proper
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ly
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oh wow this is Abraham Lincoln's chair
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right here this is the chair that he was
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sitting at at Ford's Theater right there
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upholstered seat rocking chair
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was made up until 1865. this is the
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actual chair in which President Lincoln
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met his demise on April 14 1865
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it was originally located in the
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president's special box inside Ford
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Theater and in Washington
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that is something else
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just wrap your head around yeah this
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this place just has so many artifacts
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the JFK car the Lincoln chair
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Rosa Parks bus the on the road RV
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those are the four I wanted to see but I
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am stumbling on so much more
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that I was not expecting to see
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honest day of sitting right here not
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knowing what was going to happen to him
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moments later
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it's just right when you exit off of
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where the the bus is
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right over here
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and this little alcove and if you look
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at some of the stains that are on here
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as well they're just right over the back
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of the back of his his shoulder right
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there he was looking forward
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now in front of John F Kennedy's limo is
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the Reagan car now I've been to the spot
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where he ended up Surviving and the
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Reagan Museum in the valley at
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California a really good Museum they
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have his suit but here is the car that
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the service guys pushed him into
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and in English that's uh
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yeah we are now going to head over to a
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place called holiday Grill Coney Island
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evidently in this area in the Detroit
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area gotta get Coney Island Coney Island
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is like a big thing when I think of
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Coney Island think of the real Coney
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Island but evidently it's like a Detroit
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thing
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to as well
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and each Coney Island has its own name
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what we're going to is holiday Grill
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Coney Island
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we could eat here at the plum Market
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kitchen but we're opting for Saucony
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Island
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I'm totally that's kind of like a win in
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Rome moment take a look at this someone
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is driving this whole Relic to look at
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old relics
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that's awesome
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right here parked amongst all the newer
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cars
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look on the front
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there's a bird it's got a CD player
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there no all right now I kind of
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expected it to be a little more themed
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than like a little uh empty uh Romero
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style Dawn the empty store strip mall
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wow
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holiday Grill Coney Island
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have you ever eaten at a Coney Island
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before I have I mean I've eaten a couple
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of them so they're all the same just
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different names in front of the Coney
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Island yeah and party city you'll see
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that where it used to be Party City was
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there it is not being utilized for
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anything even the sign for the mall for
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the plaza
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nothing no words on it oh yeah the mall
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it's just nothing anymore
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all right let's go in so what is what's
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the go-to in here uh well I think
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they're famous for their hot dog for
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sure but they've got everything they've
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got everything all right this is the
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hours here oh they have their own little
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mat down here
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kind of Ansel Adams phone I've got the
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old Diner style booths through here take
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a look at this ready
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oh wow look at that look at that you
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work here
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so I kind of went with the textbook I
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was asking the server what I should get
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just said to get the Coney Island dogs
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it's basically chili cheese and mustard
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on a hot dog bun
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getting some breakfast food I gotta say
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pretty dang tasty
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and uh something that's just in the area
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when you think of Detroit from what I'm
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told you think of
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the Coney Island dog places they also
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have a lot of Greek food too
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which I guess they're known for hot dogs
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and Greek food
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and nobody here good
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it's raining right now
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are you scared of the rain
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I Can't Stand the Rain you'd be all
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right Tina Turner couldn't stand the
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rain did she cut it she said I can't
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stand Lorraine she played that one show
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right in the pouring rain that time I'm
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thinking of a different artist
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I don't know I don't know man I'm pretty
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full right now yeah
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what was that thing that you lit on fire
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naganaki it's this is
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or whatever whatever name it is we gotta
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we gotta run to the rental car from here
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run to the rental should probably end
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the video right here yeah
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all right that's gonna do it for not
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only today but for the two days I spent
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Scott on tape check out his channel
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YouTube Zone Scott on tap Scott on tape
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it's gonna say burner tape call me Scott
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on tape please look them up watch his
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videos tell him I said hello
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Madam yeah tell me Adam sent you I gotta
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tell you a funny story off camera by the
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way yeah this is actually I know
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something happened oh no you were there
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oh that's gonna do it for today I'll see
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you in the next video the Vlog
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is
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oh
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however
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if you wanna if you want a good store
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I want I do want to get somewhere let me
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tell you just for good measure tell me
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one last good story you're gonna go out
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by 94. so you can get to I-94 you're
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gonna get off