My Hotel Was Evacuated - Bad Weather Day In Quad Cities / Sylvan Island & Finding The Blues Brothers
Quad Cities Illinois June 2024
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oh I don't want say bright and early but
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it's
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early my hotel has been
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evacuated I checked in around 1:00 a.m.
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last
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night was a awoken well I was already
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kind of awake doing some video
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stuff to the soothing sounds of an alarm
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saying get out of the hotel do not take
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the elevator power was off things were
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blinking lights
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flickering everyone is out
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Molen
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Illinois quickly as possible packed up
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my
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stuff and my bags here just in case
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sometimes when the alarms go off you
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never know if it's just like a false
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alarm or there are a lot of people
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staying here maybe someone pulled
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the the alarm there's a lot of groups
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here so you never know I don't want
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to say that's what happened
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but definitely better safe than sorry
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though
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got ambulance over
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there welcome everyone out of the woo
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here as the recording of this Sunday
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June
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16th 2024 I drove 800 miles yesterday
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got in late late late in the evening got
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a few hours of sleep got up was editing
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uploading
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Etc and then the alarm went off thought
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oh wow something's going on grabbed my
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stuff headed down threw on the Stucky
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shirt I bought yesterday and now I'm
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just waiting to see what will happen and
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if we are allowed to go back inside at
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any particular time and then throughout
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the course of the day just going to
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spend some time in this general area I'm
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inviting you to join me
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all part of the experience
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Russ shall you some point they let us
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back in I'll grab a coffee grab a shower
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assuming the power gets turned back
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on and if not got my bags with
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me worst case I just go to another spot
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but I didn't want to be stuck up there
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on one of the floors just in case
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something did go down
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must not be too wild cuz they are
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letting people just wander around the
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front of the building
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more or less has turned into a tailgate
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party out here everyone over there
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sitting on their buers or their
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trucks it's a little bit of a party here
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in East Mo
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Le or is it mly
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H Energy company is here maybe to turn
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the power back
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on yeah I can still hear the alarm going
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off
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inside got the guys over
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there in their fire outfits just in case
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you never know what's going on inside
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the all clear has been
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given we can go back in
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now maybe it's like everyone is stirring
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everyone's going back in firefighter
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shutting the
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door like coffee is a brewing go check
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and see if there's a piping hot Cafe
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beverage over here
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Sor I'm going to take the stairs back up
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to my room
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big thanks to the firefighters that
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showed up make sure everything was good
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to
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go can't be too
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careful there's
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no all right they're saying no
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breakfast I don't care about breakfast I
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care about this give me that
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coffee
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no Noe
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definitely no up my room now a couple
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hours have gone by I think I'm going to
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head out see what I can find around the
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area this is the Mississippi
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River looking out the window of my hotel
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room power is back on everything's
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good go explore the town a little bit
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see what I can find no real gameplay on
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the rest of
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that so this area is where the
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headquarters of John Deere
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is and they are not open today cuz it's
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the weekend again as I'm filming this
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it's on a Sunday and they're only open I
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was checking the hours Monday through
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Friday but this is their facility right
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here John Deere Harvester works is what
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that sign
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says it's a Kentucky Harvester it's a
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Kentucky Harvester
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that's a really bad accent from Gremlins
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but yeah right across the way there is
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one of those geodesic spheres I believe
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they're called little circular building
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it's not a house that's probably used
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for
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storage sometimes you'll see hay and
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things at it but that's got bunch of
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dirt in it nice old building through
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here discount tool mark this is all on
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the same general vicinity of where I'm
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staying East Molen downtown what that
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sign just
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said see what downtown has to
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offer old theater here which has seen
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better days but still looking pretty
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impressive even though it is desolate
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and abandoned
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always love a good Marquee that's
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left to stand the test of time in some
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form or another again a stade but still
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at least it's still there you can see
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where the old neon used to be buildings
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building little Budweiser sign this
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place called The Racers Edge
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notice a lot of bars and a lot of old
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retro beer signage even when I was
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pulling through town late last night to
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check in the hotel the next town over
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was very similar to this one similar
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type of
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downtown no traffic lights except for
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the one up ahead here just four-way
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stops would imagine at one point there
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probably was traffic lights all the way
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through now there's just a
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couple very windy today too
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nice that's a good old
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sign got the arrow pointing
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downward it's got the yellow light bulbs
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in the arrow booze and bait the old
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Pepsi sign
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Little mascot fish there is holding a
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beer and a fishing pole guess he's got
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to go fishing for friends in a weird
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way right along the river entering
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Hampton now which is you know next town
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over just connected by like a mile or
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so right here along the mighty
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got this pylon here and then there's the
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town
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hall right
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there the Village Hall they don't even
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consider a town they call it a village
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Hampton Village Hall city hall there's a
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museum here not open
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today yeah it's like a museum building
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this building is on the national
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register of historic places I can see
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the sign from here it's called black
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store it's an old General Store it's
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looking really nasty over there and dark
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this is Sylvie I believe the town is
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called Sylvie again they're all kind of
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connected by just a mile or two but yeah
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this is downtown Sylvie look at that
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weather look at those clouds yeah that
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looks just plain evil looking syus with
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an
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S The Old City Hall of
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silvus is right here on the left hand
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side it has now been converted into
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Lofts like
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apartments that is a disgusting
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horrifying Sky the Midwest frightens me
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I got to be honest the Midwest is very
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very frightening when it comes to
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weather not a big fan of
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tornadoes I passed through here last
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night going to the hotel very
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late but my
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goodness that is a really great old
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Frank's Pizza sign ooh the wind is
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blowing o it's whipped up out of
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gosh out of literally nowhere what
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better thing to do in this than to get
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out of the car and check out an old
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ghost sign of what that used to say if
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it gets any worse I might have to dart
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back over to
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the
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hotel oh the birds are scampering across
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the sky getting out of here they're
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flying that
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way it's a place called Mendoza's H
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around the back some old barn style
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doors
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kind of unique looking Windows how those
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kind
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of jaggedly going in there oh look at
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this there's a window here between that
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wall that's different look
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yeah might go back to the
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hotel I just checked and it was a severe
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weather warning for the next couple
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hours starting now for this general
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that flag is completely been detached
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from the top of the pole who windshield
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wipers you're
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uh yeah going back to the hotel
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hopefully the power stays on I want to
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have Deja Vu from earlier today
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hey windsh wipers I get it you're
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working thank
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gosh I don't know if it's smart to take
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a dip in an indoor pool in the middle of
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a storm they also have a workout room
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over here yeah check out the indoor pool
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there it is is 90° these conditions are
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expected to last for another 45 minutes
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at least severe weather and got the
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lightning coming down and everything and
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that's that's pretty much what's
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happening so I think I'm going to like
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stay put for a little bit see how the
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next hour or so goes windy and stormy
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conditions here on here Northern
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Illinois I checked in the lobby to see
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if they had any fresh coffee and they
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made some fresh coffee but it is now
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empty again so I think I'm just going to
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make some coffee up in the room there's
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like a little coffee maker in the room
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there's also a store over there but I
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don't know if I want to get back in the
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car and drive over there so I'll just
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make a cup of coffee in the
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room all right that's going to have to
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do I made a cup up here in the room and
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the little tiny coffee maker they
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have out on the river here hopefully
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waiting for this to pass or I'll just
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have a hotel
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day kind of want to get back out though
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and explore a little more it's just kind
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of a low-key relaxing day
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but wait for the weather to pass it is
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definitely coming down out there on the
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river all right I think the worst of it
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might be over it's still raining so I'm
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going to go back out see what I can
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Island Rock Island is the fual fictional
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not fual fictional home The Blues
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ring Rock
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Island Rock Ridge
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give these out in L of pay now you can
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see leaves all down on the ground with
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the limbs and the branches of let go of
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the leaves during that last storm and
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here's a beacon coffee shop here oh yeah
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I could get a proper cup of coffee the
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one at the hotel was here at Theo's and
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then there's also Theo's Java Club Cafe
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let me coffee it
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up it does well the neon's on
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hey you know
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what this open sign's not
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on think they're closed yeah they closed
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already
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dang oh I love that you can hear the
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birds birds
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chirping very nice After the Storm road
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work sign has been blown down so the
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main road up here looks like there's a
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little construction happening but you
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can walk you can you're allowed to walk
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down here so we're going to walk down
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here according to the interwebs there
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used to be a couple sculptures of Jake
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and
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Elwood right over here somewhere on this
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corner but the whole Second Street has
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been
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uprooted so I don't know if they've been
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relocated or maybe just put away until
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the road is
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redone so here in their Hometown they
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were honored by
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anywhere it was basically rid in here
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from what I could find
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online they're roaming around somewhere
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who knows where
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oh there's a CBS channel 4 W hbf TV
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right over here on the corner okay it's
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not just Second Street it's pretty much
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a majority of downtown that's just all
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ripped apart kind of shifts over onto
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this road
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too construction of
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sh
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wow this way is untouched the stern
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center right there with the side
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dangling
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down oh yeah here we go QC
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coffee myself a proper cup of
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coffee the home of the Blues Brothers
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also pancakes but I don't think I'm
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going to get any pancakes get some
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coffee this is nice look at
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playhouse at the coffee and pancake
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place they also closed it three and it's
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it's well after 3 so that wasn't meant
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to be it's an old theater here this is a
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Performing Art Center now called Center
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West they're on season 18
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according looking at what the mar show
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there's the courthouse here in Rock
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Island
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this is what it's going to look like
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when it's
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finished then well the future versus the
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present like a storm blue down this
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piece of artwork here that's on its side
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there some's
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handprints Lou
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something Louis
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balam
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1994 then you got the mural here got
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some
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moths up top
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here piece of lifting equipment right
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there you got an
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owl this is unique also these are
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parking meters have been moved over here
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that have been painted to look like
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faces that's got a face on
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it that just has a plant a mushroom and
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this over here has an animal on
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it all right I'm seeing a spearm no it's
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wriggley's yeah Wrigley spearm gum go
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sign up
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there check it
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out look like there's even a
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Woolworth sign
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also
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it relic of the past no way I don't even
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know how I saw these through this window
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but I believe here are the Blues
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Brothers they've been moved behind this
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piece of glass what the heck
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there all right pretty dang cool this is
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where they are now yeah I was looking at
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the photos online when they were over
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there on Second Street I believe it is
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where that construction tear down is
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happening this is what they look like
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they're not the typical Blues Brother
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sculptures usually they
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say pretty dang
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cool again tough to see them from the
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reflection
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right they're right over here so they
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originally were right over there on that
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corner but now they're behind this piece
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of
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glass be kind of neat if they put them
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back
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after all the constructions
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done right now they're just
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chilling the
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storm remnants of the
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star that's a good siiz limb look at
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this thing
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dang first I thought I was going to find
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them on the corner and then I was
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disappointed when I saw the road was all
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ripped up did not expect to see them
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just barely out of my peripheral vision
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I was like what is that through the
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window and I saw also there's a bridge
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back there that I believe leads over to
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Iowa stayed in Illinois today
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but Iowa might be in my future very very
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soon jittery Joe's
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Java yes where's jittery Joe's this is
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sound Conservatory that's not jittery
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Joe's
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Java dang she's got a piping hot
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caffeinated
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beverage Think Jesus Loves You
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repent maybe this is where jittery Joe's
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used to be I like this this reminds me
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of downtown CMI where the new parking
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structure they built a few years ago
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there's a mural kind of like this but
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it's more of like a western theme but it
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has this style to
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it Sam's
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Music I'm not seeing jittery Joe's who
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who's this down here playing the
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banjo it's on it's not in his knee it's
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in his nether reach it's in his
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crotch that song banjo on my knee I
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don't know if anyone's ever written the
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song banjo my my crotch sun is
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definitely coming out I can do like it
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be like a cartoon like a Wy coyote
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cartoon Road Runner where anything was
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painted on the wall became real I could
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just reach for the
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telephone better chance of this working
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than a telephone you would find all
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decayed on the side of the road better
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chance of that working cuz telephones
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rarely do you find one that works
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anymore including that one that's just a
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piece of artwork yes vast difference
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between now and a couple hours ago I can
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feel the sun permeating this side of my
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body and it's not sto raining also look
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at the birds circling around the tower
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over
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there well a couple of them have roosted
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on the tower but there are a couple
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circling around as
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well that one's got to think goe for a
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landing
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okay I love this little stoop right here
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I just I don't know I just love it so
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you got the step steps going up 1 two 3
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four five steps up then you got the
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glass and it looks like it's a loss in
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it's a
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lawyer but I just like the look at this
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if I was like you know if you're filming
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a movie or something you want to have a
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scene you can do it right here with this
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cool brick windows up
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here a lot of these
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towns you always think about if you were
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just doing like a gorilla style moving
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or movie not moving if you were making a
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movie and you just didn't want to like
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have locations that you had to like you
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know pay for Backlot or something you
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can just roll over here set up shop real
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quick have your actors run in here get
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the scene do it multiple times no one's
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going to bother you don't know what the
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legalities of that would be but yeah if
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I was filming a movie and I was in town
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I would utilize this right here it just
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looks really cool
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I was hoping I'd see a train today and I
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did yes
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o slight storm damage here go around
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this well not damag just the wind blew
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it
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over I love a good train all right now I
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am in Moline or Moline m o l i n e
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proper
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not the town this the next went over
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that I've been staying in but this is
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downtown
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ear lot of
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bugs the old
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CI Josephs and Jeweler clock is keeping
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correct
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time that was good to see an old clock
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that correct time in a little downtown
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area part of a 2003 preservation that's
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an interesting building to be in kind of
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an old timey downtown like that that
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skyscraper it's like something you'd see
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like in LA or
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something actually that building right
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there does too this looks awesome a soda
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candy they make their own ice cream and
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they're close
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today the peek in the window the old
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soda fountain can't go wrong with
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something like that classic
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Americana lot of these small communities
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on Sundays are closed cuz there not a
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lot of people down here doesn't make
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sense to have the employees in there and
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you got to take some take the day off
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they do the traditional thing of Sunday
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you take the day off have a little rest
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it's the Lord's
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Day yard of John Burns up here on the
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wall behind the
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glass big one of the sky line here in
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all right this is kind of cool look at
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this old little placard here this used
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to be an American Express Travel service
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representative office that is kind of
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cool right it was the Blackhawk the
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Blackhawk World Travel Incorporated
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established in 1961 all right arrived
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over here to silven Island Gateway
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Park and walk over to an island Little
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Island originally it was not an island
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at all but it was a peninsula
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it was a man's need for water power
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which caused the island to be separated
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from the
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mainland lot of bugs out
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here all right so there's this little
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item here evidently this
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is John
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Deere so here's the bridge you walk over
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so the Mississippi River is cut in half
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kind of to go around this side of the
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island but then the main part of it goes
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around the other side of the island
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there's parts of the old factory that
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were back here be able spray paint out
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up lot of spray paint out here I think
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the reason there's so many bugs well the
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time of the year but then also because
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the precipitation that
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happened bugs come out afterwards so
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look at this a slab this is what the
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sunshine does when the storm STS come
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out the sun wants to be out it doesn't
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cry it goes a step forward a step
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further and bleeds out the
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eyes this says welcome to the hell not
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welcome to Hell welcome to oh wait
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welcome to the spot but it says hell
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over the top of the
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spot oh it even has a little little
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double tail right there and a little
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pitchfork
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all right there is an old building here
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the old factory is still still
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here right here through this chain link
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barbwired
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fence there it is the old factory right
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there still on the
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island looks like there's a dam over
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there too
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as you can see bald eagles and Pelicans
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out here and over across the way there
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is that that
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Dam that's going to do it for today very
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random day very random day but an
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enjoyable day
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nonetheless bad weather is cleared
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out sun will be setting
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soon I'm rolling out check it out in the
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morning and hitting the road
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again carrying on continuing on thanks
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for watching I'll see you in the next
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video the Vlog is over