Early Morning At Graceland - Road Trip Day 5 with My Dad / Memphis Sites & Into Small Towns Arkansas
Road Trip May 2021 Day 5 with my Dad
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welcome everyone adam the woo here today
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number
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what day is it five day number five of
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my road trip with my dad we are starting
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off
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at graceland memphis tennessee it is
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four minutes
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7 26 4 minutes till 7 30. now supposedly
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they open up the gates
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you can walk up there to the meditation
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garden for free
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for the first hour from 7 30 to 8 30 and
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i've never been here before you have
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never been
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this will be a first to the gates of
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grant you are officially like the song
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says
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walking in memphis you're going to walk
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through the gates of graceland
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maybe you'll see the king that goes to
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the king walking around
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he has left the house left a building
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he's also well a house is a building i'm
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inviting you to join and we're going to
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we're going to
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where we're going to go through
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tennessee
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we head towards oklahoma arkansas
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through arkansas and try to get to
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oklahoma today
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no real rhyme or reason of what we're
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doing we have no nostalgia
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we have no personal nostalgia today that
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we're not going to go to any places that
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we've lived
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which is a rarity because this whole
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trip has been places that we have been
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living and we're not even done yet
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of course we could we could stop at a
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house and tell you that we live pull the
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wall over anyone's eyes
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join me my dad shall you now it is 7
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29 according to what i have heard in
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one minute these gates will open
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if it doesn't we're gonna have to just
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move on and peek
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over the wall which you can have
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have you even graced your eyes at it
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grace your eyes at graceland
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it was called graceland before elvis
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moved in he did not give it the name
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but this in all honesty a somewhat
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modest mansion it is a mansion when you
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think of the king of rock and roll
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you would think it would there there are
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other people modern day that would have
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a more extravagant
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homestead more and more and more
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property well
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inside is a little gaudy 70s gaudy
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you've never been inside never been in
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we're gonna have to save that for oh i
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just bumped under that little
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we have to save that for another day
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oh yeah by the way i am taking care
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of business
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tcb i'm not working any overtime i'm
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taking care of business
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gates have been open got some yard
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maintenance out
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in the same area where elvis presley
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himself
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would ride around on his vehicles
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horses he would even
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on some occasions there would be people
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at the
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at the street wanting to say hi and he
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would
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walk down and you know have
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conversations and meet up with people
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right over there
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over the wall pretty neat
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this is completely free for the first
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hour every day from 7 30
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to 8 30. now cannot go up to the home
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there is some stanchions there with a
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little chain across
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they do tours later in the day we're on
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a time crunch so we got to be moving on
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pretty neat that it worked out though
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that we were right by here during this
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free hour
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here is the little barricade they have
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set up at the moment
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it goes over from there the birds are
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chirping
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just focus on this for one moment
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the meditation garden is just over to
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the side kind of near the pool
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i would have been three years old in
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1977.
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i was born on august 10th so it had been
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three years and six days
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king of rock and roll there is a eternal
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flame
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here as well well i say eternal flame
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i would assume they'll turn that off i'd
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probably go this
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is vernon's mother
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minnie mae who outlived
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her son who was elvis's dad by one year
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you can see vernon presley
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1979 june of 79
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and elvis's mom over here gladys
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1958 and elvis twin brother
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there is a memorial to him jesse right
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over there
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in the corner do you remember that day
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dad
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i do you remember where you were
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everybody says i remember where i was
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when something happened do you remember
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where you were
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i do my your mom and i and you
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were living in commerce oklahoma
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i was listening to a country music radio
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station out of
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kansas city missouri and they came on
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the radio and
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announced that elvis had passed away
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the dj that day whose name i do not
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remember
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personally knew elvis and his dad vernon
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and on the air called vernon on the
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phone
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oh and spoke to him briefly i was
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listening to the whole conversation
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it was impromptu so yeah that's what i
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remember about that day
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original headstone of gladys which was
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moved from another location
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many years ago and elvis himself was
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also
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not originally here he was moved from
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another spot
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and now the whole family is together
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that is located right over here
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base of the fountain the meditation
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garden
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there are areas you cannot go into the
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modest size of the pool is always what
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kind of takes you back and makes you
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think you could have had a much more
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expansive pool
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and when you do the tour you can go over
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here into this building here which is
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the gymnasium realm yes yes
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yes i prefer to handle this
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a leon
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yeah i'm sure he did a few laps in the
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in the pool
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soaking up some rays there on the
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lawn chairs
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it was pretty awesome they let everyone
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do this the early morning
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all right gonna get in the car head over
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to another spot
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here in memphis before heading out of
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town just real quick before
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we're leaving
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drove a few more miles over well we
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visited the king of rock and roll
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this is the queen of seoul
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the birthplace of aretha franklin right
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here in this very home
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march 25th 1942
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if i'm reading that placard
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correctly yep march 25th 1942
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and this very very house it's now
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abandoned
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there's a fence around it there's a
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musical note right there
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on the gate and just like at graceland
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where
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people will take a sharpie and write
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their
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their thoughts
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they do that so here at the birthplace
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of aretha you can see on the boards on
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the windows people have
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written their feelings in their their
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thoughts
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another stop off just couldn't pass by
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this without a quick look at the
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lorraine motel
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a lot of history in memphis can't really
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cover it all but
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this is this is something that
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and right above the classic cars down
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here at the end
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is where martin luther king stood
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his last moments
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now been converted into a museum
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but they have left
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vintage cars in the lot represent the
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vehicles
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but they are they're replicas as well as
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the the wreath
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so similar to the vehicles that were
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sitting here
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room 306
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yeah they're there
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april 4th 1968.
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i was in college
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now crossing the mississippi river we're
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not in mississippi
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but the mississippi river runs through
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and over at the state line of now into
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arkansas
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we had to take this bridge because the
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other major bridge in town
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is shut down for quite some time a lot
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of structural damage so this is the only
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bridge
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going out of memphis currently well the
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only
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the only major bridge of the third fair
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bridge got some gas here
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self-pumping mechanism on the nozzle
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current price
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289 just topped it off
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only needed five gallons but i'm not
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taking any chances
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with the way the the gas shortage has
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been in some states
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anytime i see fuel
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i fuel up there's some sort of creature
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underneath that tarp moving around in
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there
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what are they transporting
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see it's shuffling around trying to get
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loose
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stopped off in sherwood close to the
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action far from the noise just on the
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outskirts
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of north little rock and check this out
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over here
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the service station very unique looking
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service station
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happy's service station
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wd happy willard was the operator
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according to that sign there
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and sherwood on the signage up there is
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robin hood
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kinda looks like something out of a
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fairy tale doesn't it
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round top road yeah good eye on that
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i was thinking as you were thinking it
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was going to be a round top on the roof
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i did i was thinking of the orange bowl
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over in uh
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in kissimmee the rounded orange yeah
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yeah
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the thing but this is far from around
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this is more pointy
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pointy top a pointy round thought pointy
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round top
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if you turn this upside down it looks
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like one of those like what do they call
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a bottle top
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you spin yeah back in the day yeah
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that's right
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you ever have one of those i did uh what
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are they called didn't have like a
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string
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yeah you put it on the ground they
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called just called it a top
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a top that's what they called it that
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looks like a top turned
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upside down i wonder if happy
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ever owned a top one of those spinning
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tops with a string happy top
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a happy top what year you think this is
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from
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that would be back in the wow 30s and
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40s maybe
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when they used to put these uh concrete
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markers in the ground like this round
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top
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and of course the fire ant hill don't
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forget that
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yeah you don't want to you don't want to
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mess with those
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in my younger days i would have stuck my
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foot in it
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or jabbed it with a stick and just
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watched it get covered up i'm just going
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to leave them big this is the corner of
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trammel and round top
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pretty cool peeking in the window you
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can see some stuff up on the walls there
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also just realized this is on the
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national register of historic places
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as well
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we came under this uh little bridge back
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here overhang
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an overpass ridge thing and it was low
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and there was some water standing in the
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road
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and i saw this sign and yet this sign
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would be true on any road
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when you go under here on this side over
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here you'll see there's no trucks
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allowed
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because the overhang the uh overpass
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rather
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is only ten feet eight inches tall
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now a big truck other than that's gonna
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you're gonna destroy the truck the top
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of the truck and you're gonna destroy
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the bridge
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and you'll notice when we go back take a
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quick shot
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you'll see where there's been many times
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that bridge has been
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hit okay by too tall of a vehicle
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that's a railroad trestle that's what
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that is
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oh oh
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oh yeah you see the little marks up
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we made it arrived at old mill park
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and this old mill could be seen in the
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first
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few moments of the classic
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gone with the wind only in the opening
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credit sequence
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for a brief moment and is one of the
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last existing
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facades from that movie
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well probably really the only facade
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with the exception of
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before the film studios in culver city
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they use the exterior
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of one of that those buildings before
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the movie begins
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other than that just this whole mill
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in the credit sequence just to give an
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example
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this is the brief moment when it has
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william cameron
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menzies and jack cosgrove they're
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credited across the front you can see
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the old mill
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in the distance still looks the same all
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these years later
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amazing this really is a beautiful park
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i was here maybe five years ago
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give or take stopped off and
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from what i was reading the
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the bridge while over there and the
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here is made out of concrete in order to
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keep it
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it'll last through the ages even though
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it's made to look like wood
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it's technically concrete it's made to
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look like wood
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a really good place for photographs
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taking pictures
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very peaceful park all right continued
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on probably about an hour down the road
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well 45 minutes down the road
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this is a serious classic cars alert
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yeah pretty neat you remember in a
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previous video
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we're doing the rocky bayou christian
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school and we're talking about those
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vans if we used to drive for school
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buses the vans
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that went on the end down there that's
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what they look like the dodge on the end
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dodge ram that was about the size of the
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buses i did yeah it looked like one of
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them
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i'm trying to remember the first car
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that my daddy ever had
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it wasn't i think that's a buick right
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there in front of us
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on the far end right there
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that design like in the late mid to late
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50s
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and it was a chevrolet but it was
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they've had that standard same shape
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yeah so these are probably all from the
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50s and 60s
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yeah that's a
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corvair that third one there oh right
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there yeah that's
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the first car that had a engine in the
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rear end
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okay see i like looking at classic cars
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i just don't know a lot about them
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that's about all i know you just know
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you like looking at them
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i know those are rusty they're right
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they're rusted out
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i'm pretty keen on that this says
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hud smith sports cars
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there you go hud spits all right moving
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on down to about a half a tank
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stopped off for some more fuel
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current price here 279
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doesn't seem to be any issues through
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this section of the u.s
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when it comes to getting fuel but there
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was
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we were pensacola right because apollo
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was uh
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out of fuel everywhere pensacola was and
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all the panhandle for the most part
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once we left niceville it was no gas
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anywhere and now we're doing good
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yep now decided to get off some of the
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main highways and take the back roads
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this is the town of
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altus the old general store there
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a very unique looking city hall
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look at the architecture of this it has
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a little carports over there
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and a little archway well
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archway style entrance and this is the
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city hall here in altus
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hello there
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talking to the cows dad yeah i am yeah
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saying hello
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i wait for one of them to say what what
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let's see i got one um
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you did what did you say i could i don't
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speak cow
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it does cow for hello okay let me try
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let me try
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oh yeah well looked over here man it's
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easy
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you guys have having a good day
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yeah all right
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okay let you go about here let go about
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your business
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earlier i said i was taking care of
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business continue
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taking care of your business
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all right we're gonna carry on we're
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taking some of the back roads
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now in my travels i've always said this
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joke over the years
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and i got the joke from you i'm gonna
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now that i'm looking at this
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i'm gonna let you do the honors the
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round bales of hay
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have been outlawed they've outlawed
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round bales okay
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out loud no longer leave it what's
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what's the reason
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why they outlawed round bales of hay
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because the cows will not get a square
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meal
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but um i've used that so many times
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yes yes now pulling through ozark
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population of about
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3 000. now this is very unique the
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coca-cola
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painting is not on the side of brick but
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it's on the wall above the awning up
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there but that's been there for quite
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some time
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nice made it over to alma
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now all
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where this newly painted mural
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is well i say newly painted but the date
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is 2009
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so perhaps it's not newly painted after
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all just looks as
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if it is of the downtown area
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and they are the self-proclaimed i think
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there's more than one
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but alma arkansas
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loves popeye the sailor man
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the spinach capital of the world
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self-proclaimed spinach capital
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of the world and there is a popeye
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likeness well the man the myth
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the legend popeye the sailor man
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right here in this fountain and i'm
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gonna end the video here
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very very close to the state line of
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oklahoma
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where we will be traversing bright and
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early
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in the morning it's been a tiring trip
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going to keep this video a little
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shorter than the others in this series
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some of them have been 30 minutes 45
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minutes
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a couple of them over 50 minutes long
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and that will continue throughout the
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tenure
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of this road trip i'm gonna go find a
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hotel to check in for the evening
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i'll see you in the next video the vlog
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the vlog i was gonna say
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yam what it it yam or is what it is
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popeye he yam woody yam
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just like this vlog
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the vlog is over hello there goat
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yep oh i thought you were gonna pay
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attention to me
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going back to grazing
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is that spinach that might be spinach
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that you're consuming
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popeye statue i just showed yeah
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i did i showed popeye he's like right
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right up the way there around the
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fountain
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shelter it's a storm shelter
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oh yeah yeah yeah right there look at
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that
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it's painted green just like spinach
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that storm shelter is
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strong to the finish because the storm
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shelter is painted green
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just like it that goat seeing its
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spinach
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cash look at the shash
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that spinach
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oh there's another goat hello
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goat eating some spinach goat
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eating some spinach strong to the finish
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because you eat