TDW 1698 - The Home Run That Changed Baseball
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there's a lot of really cool old
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Americana style
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motels on the main drag the strip
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leading into Hot Springs Arkansas and
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there's a chicken there on the
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left with tattoos welcome everyone Adam
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the woo here had so much fun yesterday
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in this neck of the woods decided to
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hang out a little bit longer there's an
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old sitgo sign it's my second channel
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daily Vlog channel it's the daily W VW
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Bug Alert and another one they're
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everywhere around here check out that
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old fire engine this might be the last
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place on Earth that laser tag exists wow
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this old high school is like something
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out of an 80s movie and there's a very
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unreadable placard to the right up there
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stating that this is the alma Moder of
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Bill Clinton it's not a high school
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anymore though it's used as a Center for
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the Arts and for events that's where he
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graduated the old Malco Theater here on
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the side is closed until summer of this
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year doing some renovating in there
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bringing it back to its former glory
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this says no vehicles over 30
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ft Large Marge is 24 ft
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long I think we're good I'm doing this
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very sharp small small
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turns definitely not made for an RV
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gaining just a little bit of
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elevation trying to get to what what
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you're seeing through the trees there
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didn't realize it was going to be this
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much of an undertaking however but she
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handled it like a champ now it's time
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for the Mountain Tower oh man we're
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going straight we're going straight up
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and I think that goes without saying
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right this is looking to the West well
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kind of
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southwest of the top of the tower that's
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the touristy regions in the downtown
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area
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of hot springs and looking off at a more
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undeveloped area of the National Park is
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referred to as the northern Vista more
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than
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650,000
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gallons per day of water flow through
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here at an average temperature of
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143° they take that warm H2O and bottle
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it up starting back in the late 1800s
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and up through the 30s
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and the 50s it's a beautiful view up
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here amazing
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scenery just Tak it in the
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sights too bad my RV can't see it from
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where it's
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sitting cuz this
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is nice to look at from this enclosed
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level you can walk up these stairs and
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go out in the open air
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and if you're scared of heights remember
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the words of Ace Ventura whatever you do
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don't look
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down throwing objects from the tower is
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punishable by federal
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law but what if that object is my vomit
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what if I throw vomit are you going to
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punish me for that it's it's bad enough
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as it is this current tower opened in
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1983 and is
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26 ft tall it's the third one that they
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have
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constructed upon this peak the other
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ones started to decompose or were
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destroyed hopefully this one is
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structurally
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sound
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what was that noise there's some
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construction going on down there it kind
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of startled me for a
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second all in all though I felt pretty
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safe up there wasn't too bad a few
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months ago I purchased a national parks
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pass that benefited with a major
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discount to go up in that the downfall
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of this is no drones are allowed in
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national parks and now it's time for The
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Descent hopefully I can handle this
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decently back on ground level and we're
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greeted by This Old Car hello across the
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street looks to be a recently demolished
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building of some sort and this toad
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doesn't seem to have a care in the world
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about that in fact
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below
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him are those patunas Let's Make A Wish
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together could be for yourself or for
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someone
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this I don't know if it's going to come
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true or not because that was that was a
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total failure if seeing steam Rising off
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of water that is protruding out of a
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mountain
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Is Not Unusual enough add in the fact
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that it is formulating
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into a majestic
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waterfall and then careening down into
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those
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pools for everyone to
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enjoy pretty freaking
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amazing not something you see every day
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unless of course you live in this area
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okay maybe Majestic waterfall is not the
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right adjective but it is a waterfall
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nonetheless and they say there are a lot
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of health
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benefits to this particular
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water I wonder if there's less sickness
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in this town than other
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towns makes you
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wonder oh my gosh that is that is so hot
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it's actually oh my gosh it's actually
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really hot yesterday I dipped just my
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fingers in one of the fountains around
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town this time I submerge my whole hand
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in warm whoa two Ace fentura quotes in
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one day is that too much I would imagine
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once you sit your whole body down in one
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of the tubs inside one of the bath
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houses you probably get used to the
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warmth and it feels pretty good there is
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a strong tie to gangsters and hot
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springs learn a little bit about that
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inside this Museum of course he run out
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the whole fourth floor uh Suite reason
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being it actually housed his entire
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Entourage with the adjoining rooms as
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well as it had a picture window you
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could see all straight down of Central
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Avenue and it has a secret staircase
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going from his fourth floor down to the
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basements of the Arlington which would
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connect to the underground tunnels so
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therefore he can hide anytime he wanted
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to of course Al being the celebrity that
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he was he didn't have to hide too often
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he' come out here and hot springs
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welcomed him with open arms as with many
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other places did do a little bit of
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golfing he'd also you know play at the
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beler club now there was one afternoon
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he was coming back from the badier Vante
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had jumped out and made an attempt on
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his life by you know tried to shooting
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at his car but you know thankfully at
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the time nobody was hurt so but it did
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prompt up production of alon's 1928
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armored Cadillac he had bought a
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catalite from years before and took it
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back to the company and asked one of the
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gentlemen over the Service Garage
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station if he would armor the car for
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him since they did such a phenomenal job
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the last time he had it there armored
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and bulletproof all the way around but
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the tire are made of solid rubber so
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couldn't shoot any air out the windows
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over an inch thick you know designed to
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be shatterproof at the time as well as
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the car weighs
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9,850 lbs this is a death mask of John
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Dillinger now it's only one of three
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intact today yeah I've seen a couple
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other ones I can't remember where I saw
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them at but I've seen it I know there is
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another one they say it's in another
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Museum and I'm not quite sure might be
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the one in Vegas it it possibly could be
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one of his lat friends you know one of
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FBI agents sh him in the back of the
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head of course when he died his body was
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sent to Chicago College uh for bombing
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and so uh during this process a little
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lady by the name Marjorie eer uh had got
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government permission to do the death
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mask now of course in here you're going
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to see all kinds of pictures artifacts
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some of the original ones that came from
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the clothes back in the day and of
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course we want you to feel free to look
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around touch play Hey roll the uh roll
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the marble of course throw the dice try
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your luck of course you know if you got
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any really good luck you know I'm I'm
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spending the rest of the day with you
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and of course some of the slot machines
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and the Domino machine all actually
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still work so and what I love about this
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is I mean hey at least it's cheap back
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then but I love working with some of the
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machines just to you know at least try
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it I figure since they work it it won't
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allow me to try anything I'm going to
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see if we can get something D it see
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another one gone but that's it you know
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that's the way it works but of course
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that's what they wanted you to do they
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wanted you to come in play have fun make
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a little money maybe spend a little bit
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more money while here as well but of
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course that's what Hot Springs was all
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about it was a big boom town for over
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four Decades of course that is until' 67
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when Governor Rockefeller took office
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and of course killed the game once you
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roll the marble now the wheel is
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starting to slow down however once the
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wheel slows down enough when the Marble
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Falls in it should connect to but you
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see what I'm you see what it does when
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the marble bounce out that means the
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wheel's going too slow so when I'm going
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to do this again but check this out I'm
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going to reach over here and slow down
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the
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Wheel by doing that which means when the
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Marble Falls in see it actually connects
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to brotherly eled Governor I'd rather
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face a hit man any day than a politician
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cuz you know what that hitman's going to
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do to you but you don't know what the
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damn politician is going to do to you of
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course this is a recreation of happy H
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Saloon so of course was located at the
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end of Fountain Street years ago a lot
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of people come to happy H just to have a
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quick drink maybe look at a paper I saw
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this guy yesterday somewhere else in
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town uhhuh it's right down the street at
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the Ohio Club he has a twin yes yes
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there are two and there's there's the
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only two the Ohio Club has the one
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because that was alone's favorite
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drinking place and of course we have the
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other one here for the museum but check
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out the actual replicas of the Thompson
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submachine guns we have now these
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actually are 50 round drums and of
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course you pull the trigger on this you
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can unload this in 7 seconds flat but
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check it out they weigh 12 lbs and so of
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course you know me being a photog for me
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years I tell most of my customers they
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say hey stand over here bu alone hold
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the gun and say hello to my little
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friend but have fun with it so are you
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Pacino or Capone hey this is our Capone
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have Babe Ruth over here but I'm going
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to this is a you said this is a ticket
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booth from the Red Sox yes Stadium one
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of the original ones from
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fway interesting underground over here
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without ever being
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seen pretty amazing nevertheless that
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under underneath Central Avenue a
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bowling alley does exist just as Legend
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has that was very interesting I learned
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a lot about this town that I never knew
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gambling does not exist here anymore and
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when they banished it people who worked
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you know in the casinos and the hotels
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all of them went overseas and started a
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casino I believe in Istanbul and then
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they were going to come back but then
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that's when Vegas started to formulate
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and become what is now known
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as the Las Vegas we know and everyone
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that originally was here went
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there so this was kind of the Vegas
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before Vegas and according to a film
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that they showed there's a tunnel that
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leads under the ground and arrives at a
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former bowling alley but supposedly it's
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all sealed off and is not accessible be
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awesome to check out though the museum
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it was good I am not a huge fan of
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guided tours and sitting and watching
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very lengthy film pieces usually I
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prefer to do my own
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self-guided viewership of museums but I
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did learn a
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lot just a different atmosphere than I
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prefer it would have been interesting to
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be roaming These
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Streets back in that gangster Heyday
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though things were certainly probably a
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lot different than they are
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now could this have even been the
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floor of one of those old
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casinos quite possibly there's an
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alligator park across the street and
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right here where this parking lot is now
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a very historic moment in baseball
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happened right over there in fact it was
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on this spot on St Patrick's Day in
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1918 that Babe Ruth himself hit one of
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the longest home runs in
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history and they have designated where
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he
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stood by this home plate it's very
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unusual to see one of those in the
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middle of a parking
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lot I wasn't expecting that but
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nonetheless it's here and it's not going
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anywhere it's it's locked down pretty
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tight and now the Outfield is filled
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with
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cars I wonder if they even know about
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the history that they're parked on
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that's where the Home Run landed so
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between those two trees over there
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between between those two there's a
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little Old Pond over there you know uh I
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mean I'm talking about a small p
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uh where the baseball land these
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Concrete embankments in the side of the
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Hill that was the grand stand that's
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where people sat to watch Bay Bru's
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historic home run
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right up there that's it that's the
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embankment there MH which is basically
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where everyone was sitting see it right
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there well that's cool and there's home
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plate right there which is right
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there pretty neat
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573 ft the ball soared through the air
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and landed on the back side of the
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alligator park which was open at that
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time
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and landed in a gator pool the gentleman
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I was talking to has lived here most his
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life and he said they did a big ceremony
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when they placed home plate here and he
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also said the way they figured out the
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exact location was by using GPS a
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measuring tape and looking at old photos
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to figure exactly where the babe was
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standing now I don't know the ins and
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outs and the politics when it comes to
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the specifics of record books but this
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was a spring training esque typ typ game
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so I don't know if he actually still
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holds that record or if it even is
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listed among the top ones without a
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slight asct but just think of how far
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that is Ruth trained here nine times and
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became a very familiar face around hot
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springs on March 17th 1918 he launched a
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mammoth home run from Whittington Park
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which is right across the street that
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landed on the fly from inside side the
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Arkansas alligator Farms walls it has
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been measured at 573 ft baseball's first
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500 ft plus Drive some pretty incredible
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names wandered these
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streets the baseball world the gambling
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gangster
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world oh if time machines
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existed
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but they
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don't at least at least not yet not yet
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they don't even though I've been doing
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these Vlogs for 5 years on July 1st will
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be 5 years even though I've been doing
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it that long as of new years's is when I
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departed Florida in the RV and just been
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just been raming this whole
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year I'm GNA hit it hard I'm just going
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to go go go go go see the US
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all the small towns non-s small towns a
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little bit of everything I'm going to
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pretty much
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annihilate
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traveling hardcore that's the goal 2017
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is the
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year of me roaming around in large March
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that is what it will be known as in the
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future so let it be documented so let it
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be
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told I don't know where I'm going with
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