Oklahoma Backroad Trip to My Former Eufaula Home - The First Sonic Drive In / Brad Pitt Birthplace
A road trip thru small town Oklahoma and visit to my former home in Eufaula.
Transcript
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welcome everyone adam the woo here
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should probably move out of the road
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just a bit
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this cross streets of state line road
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natalie's back there standing underneath
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the welcome
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to oklahoma sign what's the name of this
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the town right what does that sign say
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this the town
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so that we are crossed over out of
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arkansas into oklahoma we're going to
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take highway 9
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through the middle of the state and just
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see what we can find some small towns
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who knows what'll happen inviting you to
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join me
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shall you first thing i see is
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classic car alert they're kind of rusted
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out but i really like the architecture
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of this building here
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this is a style you don't really see too
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often anymore
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a vehicle with a muffler problem just
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cruise by
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here at the kyota car trading company
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which
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has seen better days
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i really like i feel like the gas pumps
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here though
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i think this was a car wash
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at the change machine over here
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self-serve ice machine over there oh i
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like this too
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yeah these are only the spider right
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here
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look at that oh yeah that's a good one
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you want to go over here and take a
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little closer look at it
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wow i respect your boundaries
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yeah this is awesome though man that's
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cool
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very nice oh nice
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classic car alert pulled into stigler
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now
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noticing here near the downtown section
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this fairy boat
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has j.r williams inscribed on the side
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nice piece of art here you don't really
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see fronts of
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businesses that look like that too i'll
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check that out
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have arrived in eufaula oklahoma the
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corner
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of pine and south main street
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at the building where my father used to
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preach first christian church
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it was right here it is now a community
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center called the legacy
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on main street but for many years
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my sunday school class was right up
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there on the second floor
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of those windows congregation would walk
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right through here
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one very fond memory i had was
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going to eat at jm's restaurant
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which was a hamburger what are the two
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hamburger places
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that we would frequent very often it has
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it's been removed it burned down a few
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years ago
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and there were some remnants here last
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time i passed through a couple years ago
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in this section
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but they have created this pretty
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fantastic mural
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there's a canoe right there
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but all of this was a burger place can
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you just picture a burger place
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being here it would be crazy yeah and
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there's a coca-cola mural
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back there that's pretty awesome so just
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think 30 year ago
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me would have walked in here with my
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family
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the front door was here usually someone
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in church would invited have invited us
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to
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an after sunday lunch or a special
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occasion
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you know if it was a special occasion
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for my mom and dad or myself and my
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sister
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we would go what do you want to go to
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jm's and over here was our booth it was
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pretty much right here where this
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rock was there was a booth here
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there was a booth here and the waitress
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stand was here there was like a little
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little area here where they had the
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bread
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and then over here there were other
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there were other booths and there was a
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a wall there so many many times
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back in i lived in new phallus from 89
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to 91.
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i could have been right in here just
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sitting
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i usually ordered a burger a
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cheeseburger fries
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i always like cheeseburger sometimes a
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bacon burger
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did you get rc cola i never never did
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the rc
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cola i am really happy they let the left
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the signage up however
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a classic neon right there this was this
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was a staple of the community for many
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years
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and now it's 2020 back here again
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there is no hamburger but there is
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another
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burger place that we'll go to and it's
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still open in fact it
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the grand opening was while i lived here
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i believe maybe in 89
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90 it opened and it's it's still there
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so grab a burger
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maybe something else for a short while
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this was an arcade
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and i was not allowed to go in here i
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always ask my dad can i go ahead and
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play some video games
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and for one reason or another he felt oh
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it was a bug there's a
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bug no scotch that was like
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for one reason or another he would not
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let me go in the arcade
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assuming it was going to be a bad
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influence maybe some of the
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the other maybe maybe some of the other
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folks around town
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that he didn't want me associating with
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were inside
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the arcade so i never set foot in the
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arcade but i wanted to go in the arcade
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and now the arcade
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now that i'm an adult and i can make my
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own decisions the arcade
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no longer exists you win dad
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you win this one the good thing about
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when i used to live here everything is
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walking distance this home over here one
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of my sisters two of
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her best friends lived right there
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and i would spend countless for the
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three years i resided here
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spent probably an average of a couple
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hours a day so let's say
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thousands of hours here at this park
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pushing
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this very mechanism which is
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i would say it's probably by today's
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standards is not probably the safest
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you don't see these two have you ever
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seen one of these in a park before
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i have but not like this so
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i think around the time i was 16 15 16
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17 years old
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i was strong enough to push this around
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so we had to go like this and i would
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spin this as fast humanly possible
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just like this and my sister and her
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friends
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would start here they would run and grab
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onto it and fling off we called it
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flying
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sometimes it ended very dangerously
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if you turn that corner right there was
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the park and in the distance
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is downtown and right up here
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is where i lived
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and this wall has teetered
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and fallen in considerably the weight
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of this over time
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wig it would real it would get really
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icy
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during the winter time one time my dad
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fell
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and slid down this very staircase
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he thought he could he thought he could
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handle going down the icy
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slopes not of the matterhorn but of this
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staircase
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and plummeted slid down here and then
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you said you know what i'm gonna go
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back up the embankment around that way
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walk through the yard go back
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into the house get my car in the garage
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around back
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and just drive into town i'm not gonna
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walk
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it and just next door was the first
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paying job i ever had there used to be
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another building here and the janitor
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hired me part-time just to empty out the
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trash cans and
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other items sweep the floors didn't pay
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much but
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that building has been torn down and now
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there's other homes here
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and one of my best friends live right
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down there
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in that beige building on that corner is
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a baseball field behind it
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ah memories all coming back to me now
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and what looks to be
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abandoned now a couple other friends
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that i had lived right here
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in the side yard over there we play
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football
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as well as well there was one time they
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had a tree house
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that their father built for them up in
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this these branches
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right up here it wasn't anything
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spectacular
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but we climbed up
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into into those branches there
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and one of my friends lit a fire
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cracker and threw it at my foot
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and it got stuck in my sock definitely
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looks the same in a lot of ways but
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different in a lot of ways time changes
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uh
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time moves on my room was that little
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over well that kind of little overhang
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there
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right there those windows those two
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windows were my room
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it's kind of neat to say that i grew up
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not far from a main street that's the
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name of this road
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main street about to get back in the
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rental car and head over to the
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other side of town i also wanted to
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point out over in this area was
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my dad's office to the church
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which was right here and on many
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occasions we would play
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ping pong in this back room my dad and i
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would have a riveting game of
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ping pong sometimes he would win
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sometimes i would win
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sometimes we'd call call it a draw when
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this place
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opened it was the talk of the town and
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i would frequent here many times
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get myself a burger an ice cream
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jim varney who played ernest p warrell
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promoted it heavily
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and for that reason it always it's kind
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of
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stuck in my head because i always loved
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that character he created
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you know what i mean the thing is really
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unique about this not only
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is it a fast food establishment but also
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has a little dairy area
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right over here in a little grocery
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store inside
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my mind is really trying to wrap my head
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around the fact that i was sitting in
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these very booths
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over three decades ago and this
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is what we're dealing with pretty much
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we've got the same thing we got a
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cheeseburger well
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hamburger it was the number one special
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comes with these crinkle cut
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french fries and i also got a side of
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chili here
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for a single it's pretty pretty heavy
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in the grand scheme of things on how how
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much is down on there you got the
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the meat patty the pickles the onions
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the lettuce
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the mayo yeah don't mind if i do is that
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one of them new
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brahms hamburgers i'm doing an
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earnest commercial yep it is
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a little time has gone by drove
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a couple hours give or take the sun is
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starting to set over
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those buildings here in shawnee
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town was incorporated in 1894 which
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states at the top of this clock
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pretty neat little area right up here
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aways
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happens to be for sale this abandoned
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building
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that sits empty is where brad pitt
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third floor said that he was he was born
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right up there
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in one of those rooms i didn't realize
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this little natalie told me she spent
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time around here when she was younger
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brad pitt was right up there right up
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the brad pitt i found an article
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online that confirms it as i believe it
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was the doctor
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stating the name of the article was who
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was the first person to see brad pitt
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naked
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there are a couple of other very
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interesting things here in this town
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just so happens that the very first whoa
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that startled me what was that
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just a truck
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i thought it was tyler dirk tyler durden
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that was the character from fight club
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right durgan durgan durkin
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durden tyler okay tyler i thought was
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tyler it's tyler d
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oh durden durden tyler d
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tyler's my club it wasn't
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but also the very first sonic
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drive-thru restaurant is just down the
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road
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and when in rome
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go to sonic i don't think there's a
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sonic and
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is there something in that it might be
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possibly
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right yeah right here it says
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approximately 12 000 square feet
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nowhere on that paraphernalia on the
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front
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promoting it for sale does let's say
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that brad pitt
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and they'd have to charge more forget a
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couple
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it could be used for you look it could
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be used as a condo
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that would be great that would be a
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great business opportunity
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you could rent that out someone could
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stay in the same room that
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b brad pitt's birthing place perfect
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really liking the cobblestone streets
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well brick streets
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through here this theater is called the
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the hornbeck
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look at that nice the marquis still
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there and the neon
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so the neon's not lit up at the moment
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there's the hamburger king
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how many times do you remember eating
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there so many and you can't get ketchup
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on your burgers it's only
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mustard and pickled no ketchup no
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ketchup just mustard and pickles and you
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have to order by telephone you want to
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buy telephones
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i can't wear my telephone at the table
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wow
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oh up top some of the residents in the
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windows and
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she is pointing at someone very
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aggressively
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what exactly is she pointing at
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well found the signage at 1106 north
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harrison
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where the original sonic used to be
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located at
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but discover they have moved it a couple
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blocks down the way
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because now a new facility that is not a
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restaurant
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is being constructed but right here
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even though it's having trouble focusing
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under the shroud of nightfall
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is where the first sonic
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as best i can guess was there is a
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little remnant for now
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right there next to the side of the road
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with look it so has the lettering i
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can't make out what it says
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i think it's a w an s an r and n a g and
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another g
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that's like a that's a that's a good
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wheel of fortune
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puzzle for sure yeah we go down a couple
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more blocks and what's the thing we're
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going to get from from can we just get
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two small
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cherry limeades if you like
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i don't know if i think i've had a
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charity line made before cheers
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cherry cheers all right that's going to
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the vlog we didn't eat a whole lot but i
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showed a lot of food places today
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we had a really good burger at proms