Hidden Backroad Towns of Mississippi & Louisiana - Abandoned Transylvania / The Town of Hot Coffee
Mississippi & Louisiana Backroads
Transcript
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today's adventure begins
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about to head out of alabama been
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driving about an hour or so
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already this morning
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through the lower portions of alabama
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about to cross over into the mississippi
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state line
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39 degrees cool and crisp and the sun
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is just now rising
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decided to do my intro here
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at snuffy's
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no longer open
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however
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kind enough to put a
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piece of signage up top that says
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motorists beware
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speed trap next six miles
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you see it up there on the side of the
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road
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a little painting here
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a general store
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and gas station
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that has seen better days
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but very unique looking
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this is about
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i don't know four miles or so
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from the state i was born in
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line i'll be covering two
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states today mississippi
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and louisiana
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welcome everyone adam the woo here i
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have almost
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finished my
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piping hot caffeinated beverage
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stayed just outside mobile and sarah
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land i believe it was
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got up
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very very early before the sun rose had
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been already heading down
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the road it's a very loud truck
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see oh that's a thing of beauty
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cool crisp
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sunrise
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i love traveling
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i'm inviting you to join me as a
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recording of this it is sunday november
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14th
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2021 going to cover some ground two
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states out of alabama and that state of
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mississippi louisiana see what i can
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find hit some back roads inviting you to
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join me
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as i head westbound
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back to southern california over the
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next series of days
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shall you
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of course it has the no smoking
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because of it because of the fuel pumps
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awesome
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not just that
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no open flames
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and then over here too another
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no smoking
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all right
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gonna get moving it is a beautiful
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beautiful day
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very nice help love this weather
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i always get an extra bit of excitement
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when i cross over into m-i-s-s-i-s-s
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ippi
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it's it's easy to remember how to spell
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it when you say it like that
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i was born in tupelo
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even though i'll be only here today for
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a short time
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it's always nice to cross over
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go through my birth state
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also the birthplace of america's music
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as it stated right there
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as the sun has risen quite a bit
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can't really see it as much but as i've
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been traveling
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and noticing because of the coolness
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in the air and the weather conditions
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a nice little hill haze across some of
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the lakes and the rivers
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that i've been passing
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nice little ambiance there
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little morning ambiance
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as a car passes by
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over this bridge
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it's the little things it's the simple
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things
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we'll go check that out
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down the way
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what a perfect
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little town mclean mcl
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ain on the water tower there
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the downtown area
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dogs barking
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the post office
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a little store
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right over there
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and then
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a western auto
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i love the i love the dog barking it
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just really adds to everything
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you can always find something
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at sandy's
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great gift ideas
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always enjoy these retro signs this
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one's been destroyed a little bit
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towards the bottom
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of coca-cola classic
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not anymore
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pulling through beaumont now
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this cafe you can still make out the
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lettering up top there
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the
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former neon
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there's also a rusted out refrigerator
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an antique
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sitting out front
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an old diner cafe
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here in beaumont
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train tracks
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running behind these
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buildings here
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nice box style van there
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truck
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snow cone shack is closed
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pizzeria
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right here next to the tracks as well
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called the depot
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get a little painting of a train
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on the side
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i have to guess this is something left
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over from halloween a couple weeks ago
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it's already a couple weeks since
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halloween
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or possibly left up it's left up all
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year but you can see how the
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you know the coolness in the air is
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making that that mist across the water
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there
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yeah this is something else
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right
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and of course i always like to
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communicate
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out here on the open road
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with cows
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hello cows
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i know him at a great distance and he
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might not be able to hear me
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just wanted to say hi cows
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just wanted to say hi
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now into the town of richton
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public library right there in the middle
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and the trig
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finance and loan office here on the
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corner
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this is the main street through town
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known as front street
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says it right up here on the side
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front street furniture
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is the store
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and here is the bank and trust company
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add in the flag there kind of adds to it
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as well yeah that has seen some years
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that store could probably tell some
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stories
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it's closed now though
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that's right big the foot
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going through the desoto national forest
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at least a section of it
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yeah you want to hide out these trees
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oh you have had to hit out these trees
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before are bringing back some memories
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never told me that
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yep i'm talking to an air freshener
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how's it going
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any idea where of it is ove
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tt a little small town through here
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just keep on going
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okay
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thanks for your help
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make sure to help cow
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a couple hundred yards down the way
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says the bridge is closed i'll drive
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down there in a moment
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i wanted to show this first and
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check this out
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you know you're in a
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a small community
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when
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just kind of just stand here like this
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you don't have to worry about
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there's no one around there's one
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gentleman up here
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chopping some wood starting a little bit
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of a fire
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outside of his yard but other than that
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and one vehicle pulling over here but
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that's about it
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just me
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me and my thoughts
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got to go a different way
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not making this up
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i just saw a sign
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this direction
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hot coffee mississippi
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the town's name
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is hot coffee
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whoa
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there's a lot of birds back there making
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some noise
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hot coffee mississippi you know i gotta
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go there
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didn't expect this when i woke up this
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morning
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there is a
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hot coffee
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town
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in mississippi i never do that
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it's official
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a couple different stores one of them
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being the mcdonald's store
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no ken to ronald
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well maybe maybe rob but not the clown
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hot
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coffee
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they have to have they have to have a
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piping hot
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caffeinated beverage
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i had one earlier
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but you i cannot not
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i or i cannot i think i just used the
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double negative
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i have to get a cup of coffee i have to
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get a piping hot
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caffeinated
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beverage
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here in hot coffee
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miss i can't get over this i cannot get
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over this oh yeah you can that's
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definitely a brewing
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coffee kettle there
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i always say piping hot
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also no loud
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or vulgar music allowed here in hot
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go get myself one oh i really like the
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general store
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oh merchandise over there as well
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squeakiness here
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the old old-school wooden floors
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i believe i'm gonna get myself a magnet
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there's a couple different sizes i was
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just noticing
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the price and i asked the
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i asked the lady who owns the place
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if the if the price was correct
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she's only charging a dollar 29 for a
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magnet it should be like five or ten
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dollars but
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she says only 1.29
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i'm gonna get this and maybe a couple
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other things
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pretty good deal got a little keychain
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oh
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sun-dried possum
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what the heck is sun-dried
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possums like potted meat
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oh i don't even know if i want to even
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try that
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and of course coffee mugs
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she's also making a
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fresh cut a fresh pot right now so we
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get a
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i think i might get one of these too
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yeah i'll get one of these as well and i
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get a few things
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also some t-shirts in here
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i don't know if i'll get a t-shirt i got
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a lot of t-shirts already but got some
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shirts
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ended up getting
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i've said this a bunch of times
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but it definitely seems appropriate a
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this the magnet
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and the keychain is only
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and fifty cents i had six dollars in
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cash only had six ones
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i said just keep the change
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because honestly it should have probably
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been
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twice as much
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for the merchandise
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you know in my opinion but you get used
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to paying touristy prices she said here
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in hot coffee you'd never be able to
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sell stuff for that price
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like a dollar in change for a handmade
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magnet
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it took someone a lot of time to make
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that
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oh that's good i'm pretty happy as i
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said it's the simple things
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this this is pretty pretty
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pretty random
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cheers ended up giving me this little
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brochure
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which is nice has a some information
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here
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on
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how the town got its name
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used to be an inn
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and they put the
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the coffee pot the big
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the big kettle up on the sign
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the two words hot coffee
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it soon became custom to refer to the
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end as hot coffee
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the end took the name and the
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surrounding area
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the end was in also did the same so this
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community is now
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called hot coffee mississippi
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and just a couple blocks away
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is the downtown area
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signified
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it's a real place
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evidently there was more than one store
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that sold merchandise
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etc
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stated here
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maybe the old
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the old street sign
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but then this states the original
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hot coffee store
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there is one still open though well the
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one on the corner
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down the way where i procured this
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now moving on made my way to mount olive
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quite the downtown area here
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fire station there
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just passed by
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city hall
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right there
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water tower
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straight ahead
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quintessential americana
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downtown right here
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with families moving to bigger cities
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and freeways interstates
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even highways
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a lot of these little communities
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as far as businesses go
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they kind of dry up
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now the locals still will frequent some
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of these establishments
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but not a lot of tourism
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most are just in a hurry to get from
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point a to point b
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and not soaking in the sights and sounds
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of small town life
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you know unless you live
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in said town
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this is what i'm into i'm into the this
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kind of vibe
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just very peaceful i mean i like
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excitement i like crowds
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but i also like
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stuff like this and if you just take the
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time to to look around
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you notice little things
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then calhoun up there
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was the original owner
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now powell
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down here you can see calhoun along the
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ground
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calhoun
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keep in mind as the recording of this it
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is a sunday
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and i can't imagine even on a weekday
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this being a whole lot more bustling
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with the braxton community center here
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and across the way
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db
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mahaffey's it was a savings
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supply store
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and this tree
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has a uniqueness and a personality
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all of its own i'd say sometimes trees
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can
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can do that
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almost looks like a face right there
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in the trunk right there in the middle
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and another face
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up top there
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i noticed
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as i was pulling by here
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that there is a
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classic
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emblem on the side
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which is pretty much par for the course
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some of these older
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general stores
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yeah right there look at that
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nice
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corner of maine and magnolia drive
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the train tracks down there
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some old sheds
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and
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my happies
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my shadow's waving at myself
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i have made it just on the outskirts
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of clinton mississippi
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i don't know maybe six or seven years
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ago maybe not even that long it's been a
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while
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i stopped off here there is a very large
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replica of the mississippi river basin
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that sits over here abandoned
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and i recently heard that there is a
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group possibly trying to restore it
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so i figured i was kind of in the
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neighborhood
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i'm gonna just check it out real quick
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and see if it's still back there
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yes it definitely looks as if
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someone or group of someones has been
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out here
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cleaning stuff up a lot of the the brush
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has been
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put off to the side
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and then over here this mesh substance
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which you said i believe make up like
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the mountain
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terrain
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has kind of been
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piled up as well
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but you can see here
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where the sections of the rivers
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would have been and this is a very
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massive
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property very very expansive
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over near the water tower at the base of
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the water tower
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kind of where i parked is the pump house
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i'll show that on the way out
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so yeah it looks as if
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a group has
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been out here taking care of stuff
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i'm not the only person doing a little
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exploring there's another gentleman who
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is parked next to me and
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he said he's lived out here five years
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and didn't hear about this until about a
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week or two he wanted to come check it
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out
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he's over there in the woods just
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talking to him
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about some of the
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some of the goings-ons
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you know the the hearsay of what might
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be happening to this the numbers down
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are down here
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now i don't know for certain but i would
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i would just guess
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this is an educated guess or a
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non-educated guest because i'm not
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educated about this
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probably the pieces like putting a
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puzzle together
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where the pieces would go
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when they created the concrete slabs
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before they brought it in here
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as stated i really don't know if that's
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true but
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that would be my assumption you know
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what they say when you assume
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something you make a you-know-what
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out of you and me so i could be wrong on
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pretty cool
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still here
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a little bit of a pump mechanism there
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looks like a big
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like a witch's kettle kinda
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all right so i got a lot of ground to
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cover get back in the car and
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head over to the
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louisiana state line not too far away
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moving on
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and now going over the real mississippi
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river
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the mighty miss
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the old man
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deep
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and this is the louisiana state line
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right in the middle of the river
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mighty miss
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yes that's right
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who knew well unless
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you live in this area
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that cotton
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was farmed
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just outside of
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transylvania
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there's a water tower down there with a
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large bat
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on the side of it that also says
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louisiana
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except it doesn't say louisiana just
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says transylvania
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oh yes
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it is a real place
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not a lot of folks in this town
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it's a possibility that this vintage bug
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could be a vampire
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possibly a silhouette
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a sticker if you will
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well a couple stickers there's another
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one here
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of a bat
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at the post office
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documented
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if you were to mail a letter from here
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now granted as a recording of it says
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someday
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can't do so but if you were to mail a
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letter back to yourself it would be
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stamped
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who also knew that they would have had
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the best
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chicken ever
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the best ever chicken
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at the
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farmhouse
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which has hence closed
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a few years ago from what i read
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used to be able to get t-shirts inside
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magnets stickers
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souvenirs
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but it is gone
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and across the way there is a massive
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closed down building
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gotta go over there and
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see what that looks like just about 10
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years ago not to the day but
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more or less 10 years ago
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end of october into early november
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2011.
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that truck goes by
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i did my first
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road trip when i was a
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full-time
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here on this platform
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of youtube i quit my job in august of
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2011
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and a couple months later just before
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halloween of 2011 i went on a
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rather lengthy road trip slept in my van
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traveled around did a lot of videos that
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eventually
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started to catch on
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it was kind of the beginning if you will
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of all that and
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i stopped by here and
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showed a little bit of it
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however it was really late at night it
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was after dark so you really couldn't
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see anything this is the first time i've
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been back in a decade
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and i probably a little less
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terrifying because it's during the day
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and you know vampires
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only one traffic signal in this town
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as well as the stop sign got the stop
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sign and
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the traffic signal as well
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it is very windy with the leaves flying
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off the trees there
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very very gusty
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right here
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let's see if i can walk either in or
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over there not through this foliage but
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around the side
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just kind of peeking through the window
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i would imagine it's probably a door
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that's open over there or a window
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if i really want to go crawling through
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through this foliage though
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be honest
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this might be an organ
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no it's a piano if i was in need of a
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piano
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someone has discarded one over here off
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the side of the road
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yeah there's a piano
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they just drove up
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toss it out here
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commuted over to epps epps
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home of the panthers
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there's a gazebo here in the park
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empty storefront
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bank over there there's a dollar general
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that's open
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and this gas station
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as well so there's a little
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a little hustle and bustle but not too
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much on to delhi now
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probably about 10 or 15 miles
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from the last spot
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there's a pizza place there called fox
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fox's pizza
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not open there goes an rv just went by
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got the little sunburst there
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sun's slowly starting to descend
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still up in the sky bed but
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it's making its way down
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see how grown over this is who i'm
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hearing the train
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i think i think there might be a train
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going through
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a guy over there walking his dogs
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so this is a non-active
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track
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obviously people have discarded some
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water bottles and other
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trash through here this
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is an active
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i've been waiting for a train all day
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the only one i passed
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while driving was parked
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it's kind of misleading because i was
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moving forward but it was it was it was
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stationary the one that's about to go by
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is
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not going to be stationary which will be
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perfect timing
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i could hear the horn from here
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the car is living dangerously
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you made it car
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i would not recommend doing that though
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that permeated
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the eardrums
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oh my gosh
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hey train horns
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loud
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i don't know if that'll show up so much
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audio wise in the video how loud that
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was
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but would have been wise to have fingers
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in my ears
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because wow
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i'm just gonna let this be one long tank
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why not
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yeah i can put an edit right here
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just leave it leave it going soothing
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sounds of the train am i even gonna talk
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anymore
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that train horn was loud quite a
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flock of birds going by there
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quite a few of them and you'll notice
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the sun is now setting
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i decided to get got in my car and drove
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about two hours
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just to make up some time
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and i'm almost could also hear the
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soothing sounds of traffic
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as they go by
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shreveport
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i am right on
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the texas state line
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only a few miles from the texas state
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line
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gonna stop get some rest find a hotel
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for the evening
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i wanted to point out this muffler man
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here at this western world
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wearing a cowboy hat
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very tall there are quite a few of these
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across the us
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the reason they're referred to as
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muffler men
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is because they used to hold mufflers
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in front of mechanics
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some of them hold other items though
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baseball bat
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more birds going by
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tires you'll see sometimes every once in
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a while you'll find one still holding a
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muffler
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because the
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the big portion of the muffler would be
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in the open hand facing upward
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and then the smaller portion of the
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muffler would be in the hand facing
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downward
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that's why i call them muffler men
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that's what they're referred to as and
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that's what they're known as
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a little
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roadside stop here before crossing over
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the state line
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which i will be doing in the morning
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i'll see you in the next video the vlog
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is over