TDW 1470 - Keep Your Distance From THIS

0:31 for how's it

0:31 going look at this thing maybe I should

0:34 trade the van in for that welcome

0:37 everyone ad woo here coming to you from

0:41 Hannibal Missouri and I about to depart

0:43 I'm about to cross over from Missouri

0:46 over into Illinois across the

0:48 Mississippi River the old man

0:51 Deep

0:57 River can you name the movie it's my

0:57 second channel daily Vlog channel it's

1:00 is a daily

1:10 woo goodbye Missouri hello

1:10 Illinois

1:17 yo I've gotten off the main freeways and

1:17 highways and

1:19 interstates I'm just cruising around the

1:21 back

1:23 roads I love it I hear birds chirping I

1:28 hear children laughing actually there's

1:31 no children out here in fact there's no

1:33 one out here if you look over there

1:36 you'll

1:38 see a school bus with a tree growing out

1:41 of the middle of

1:51 it I have made it to Liberty Illinois

1:51 population

1:53 500 and there's something really

1:55 interesting here that I think you'll

1:58 enjoy seeing and what I'm referring to

2:00 is this very unusual shaped Rock

2:04 shrouded in mystery no one knows the

2:06 true origins of this rock some say it is

2:10 a meteorite fallen from the heavens but

2:13 others will say that this Stone will

2:16 grant you the gift of childbirth if you

2:20 sit on it that's right this will

2:23 impregnate

2:25 you I can't make this stuff up in fact a

2:29 few of the local women have tested this

2:31 Theory out and came up

2:35 successful my

2:38 van is directly above the impregnating

2:42 Stone that's all I

2:44 need there a bunch of little wo van

2:47 don't you even think about it watch out

2:50 woman watch out run run for your life or

2:54 ride a motorized tricycle for your

2:58 life

3:04 she escaped this might be one of the

3:04 most

3:05 bizarre strange items I've seen recently

3:09 in a small town and trust me small towns

3:13 have all kind of strange stuff oh my

3:15 gosh look at that down the road that's a

3:18 piece of

3:45 what's up

3:45 buddy what are you doing out here you

3:48 need some help you need some help

3:51 getting across the

3:52 road I'll help you out you want to go

3:55 over here get you out of the road so

3:57 you're safe but you right here buddy

4:01 all right see you

4:11 later have a good one this is the

4:11 benville church in benville Illinois and

4:15 behind it is a cemetery where Robert

4:18 Earl Hughes is buried if you're not

4:21 familiar with who he was if you look in

4:23 the Guinness Book of World Records in

4:25 1958 when he passed away he was the

4:28 world's heaviest

4:30 man at the time of his passing he

4:32 weighed in at

4:33 1,041 lb and a crane lifted him and

4:37 placed him into the ground and the rumor

4:40 is that he was put not in a casket but a

4:44 large piano box because that was the

4:47 only thing big enough to hold him now I

4:50 don't know if that is true or not that

4:52 could just be an urban legend but right

4:54 here is his headstone and the final

4:57 resting place of the world's heav

5:00 man it has also been said that his

5:03 headstone weighs less than he did it's

5:06 amazing how they're really is virtually

5:09 no one out here and a couple of

5:12 abandoned houses right here off the side

5:15 of the road this looks like an old

5:16 children's swing set it's crazy to see

5:19 stuff like this and think about at one

5:23 time people being here living their

5:27 lives little temperature gauge up there

5:30 this might have been a

5:33 storefront at some

5:36 point the wood has deteriorated

5:53 considerably I drove up the road a

5:53 little bit and I'm standing in front of

5:56 the fish

5:57 hook Town Hall and across from the

6:01 market is this the town has placed this

6:04 here saying may we not only remember he

6:07 was the world's largest man from the

6:09 small community of Fish Hook but also an

6:12 average man with an enormous heart for

6:16 people Robert Earl

6:27 Hughes the thing about being in a small

6:27 town is places like this General Store

6:29 do not accept credit cards so I had to

6:31 dig out some quarters to pay for this

6:35 they had a book here's a picture of

6:37 harly waters the great niece of Robert

6:40 Hughes sitting next to his belt that

6:43 stretched across the ground here's some

6:45 photos of the casket so the rumor has

6:47 been debunked that is not a piano case

6:51 he was buried in a casket pretty

6:54 interesting book and the reason I

6:55 purchased this because it was only $9.99

6:57 because it helps fund keeping up with

7:00 the memorial over there and as you can

7:02 see this Tiny Town doesn't really get a

7:04 lot of Travelers through it oh wow look

7:07 at that

7:22 bridge I love how everyone out here

7:22 waves at you it's kind of

7:26 refreshing I'm kind of surprised how

7:28 good these dried okra that I bought at

7:30 that beef jkey place the other day AR

7:33 pretty

7:34 good I don't know if you can see them or

7:36 not but if you look really

7:38 closely there's a

7:41 deer right there looking at

7:45 us what you

7:48 doing just grazing eating some

7:52 lunch he's staring at

7:56 us do I know

7:58 you

8:15 fellas all right take it easy look at

8:15 this old downtown

8:22 area and I haven't seen an IGA grocery

8:22 store in a long

8:33 I've arrived for the night in

8:33 Springfield Illinois do not mistake that

8:36 with Springfield Missouri especially

8:39 when booking a hotel online because take

8:43 my advice that causes quite the headache

8:47 and dealing with customer service on

8:49 hotels.com to rectify that situation and

8:53 I only tell you that because a friend of

8:55 mine did that a little bit ago but I

8:59 digress

9:01 a friend of mine a friend of mine did

9:04 that a little bit ago so this place the

9:06 Cozy Drive-In is the historically

9:09 significant

9:12 location of where the very first hot dog

9:16 on a stick was created don't call it a

9:19 corn dog though call it a hot dog on a

9:23 stick Illinois style right outside they

9:26 have this map of Route 66 right now

9:30 I'm in Springfield but if you go all the

9:32 way back down to the start of ReachOut

9:36 66 at the end of this wooden map next to

9:39 Los Angeles is the Santa Monica Pier

9:43 which also

9:44 claims to have started the very first

9:47 corn dog so you have the Cozy Drive-In

9:49 and then you have hot dog on a stick at

9:51 the Santa Monica Pier which team are you

9:55 on either way they're both tasty

10:10 Illinois is known as the Land of Lincoln

10:10 and no place is probably more

10:12 significant to Lincoln himself than

10:14 Springfield this entire town is

10:17 basically a time capsule of Lincoln

10:19 history it's pretty amazing here not

10:22 only the architecture but

10:26 also something else I don't know where

10:29 where I was going with that but I

10:30 screwed it

10:51 up it looks like they're doing a lot of

10:51 street art here in the middle of the

10:54 road this is really cool it goes all the

10:56 way down stretches all the way down to

10:57 the next block

11:05 pretty cool this is the old train

11:05 facility here in town now used as an

11:07 Amtrak station and the significance of

11:10 this place is when Abraham Lincoln was

11:12 killed his body traveled from DC right

11:16 down these tracks and was dropped off

11:19 right here this is the Old State Capitol

11:21 building and there's something over on

11:22 the back side of it that you might find

11:26 interesting what the heck Maryland I

11:29 didn't know you like

11:30 bacon I like you even more now there's

11:33 so much Lincoln history here they're

11:34 giving tours throughout the town every

11:36 little nook and cranny is filled with

11:39 Lincoln

11:49 history there's a lot of plaques along

11:49 this brick wall Lincoln history Lincoln

11:54 fax which someone has disrespected by

11:57 slapping that Steel Reserve sticker on

12:00 but check this out Lincoln Square also

12:03 marks the departure point of the one and

12:06 only Donner party before their ill- fad

12:10 trip to California and if you are not

12:13 familiar with the facts of the

12:16 story Google

12:19 it it's an interesting one there's a

12:22 bunch of steam coming out of the ground

12:24 out of that little Corridor there hot

12:27 steam I wonder if the temperature

12:29 closer you get to it is in heightened

12:32 quite a bit who listen you can hear it

12:35 oh yeah it's a little bit

12:44 warmer ooo that's warm I'm kind of

12:44 jealous over there they're turning that

12:46 faucet on and on from a fire hydrant

12:49 I've always wanted to do that I love

12:53 faucets they'll be your you'll have your

12:55 time Adam you'll have your

12:58 time

13:08 the Sun is setting under the silhouette

13:11 to President

TDW 1470 - Keep Your Distance From THIS

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