The Unusual Towns of New Mexico - Finding Fraggle Rock / Truth Or Consequences / Roadside Relics
Traveling thru New Mexico checking out some of the unusual towns and roadside relics that exist .
Transcript
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welcome everyone out of the whoo here
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and Cody come on going traffic is going
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down the freeway we are crossing another
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state line into New Mexico the Land of
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Enchantment a road trip is continuing
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and there's really no rhyme or reason
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today we're just gonna kind of see what
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we can see in Rome Rome especially since
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I've never been here before either
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interstate for me it's your first time
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and the areas of this state that will be
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venturing into I have never seen with my
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own eyes as well we are we're inviting
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you to join me and shall you first
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little pull off of the main thoroughfare
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is this dirt pathway leading to Fraggle
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Rock paint it right there on the side of
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that Boulder
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one thing this area is very is known for
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and prominent to have her snakes
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I'd be a little too cool weather-wise
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didn't want to get up close and personal
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with this item however
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I'm not going to do so well but
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trying to make it up to one of the
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letters
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that's up there
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yeah you made it up here got to get the
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distance shot give me a little wave
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here at Fraggle Rock that doesn't happen
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every day
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the letters are basically the same size
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height as you are some tall letters
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compared to the letters or the entire
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piece of rock the problem now is getting
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down so that is easier to climb that it
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is try to come back down the opposite
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way just be careful you need me to help
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you out assistance in any way I don't
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know you're good
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I don't forget I don't think there's
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really anything I can do I could just
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stand here just make make you feel
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awkward just watch here there we go you
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did it whoo I wish I almost just slept
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I didn't even climb it and I almost just
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flipped on that little rock right there
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come on feet what's happening I don't
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know
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give webbed toes I got webbed toes
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suction suction cup toes for you're
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wearing shoes yeah they go through it's
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like spider-man ah a frog spider easy
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access back out to the interstate
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quite possibly could have been a
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convenience store maybe sold gasps the
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old signage they're still hanging around
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out there in the field with the backdrop
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of the mountains in the distance here's
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another one
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the gas logo lettering up in the air
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there this is a little further off the
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freeway
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Staal still remains there in the in the
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facilities this door it's a desert door
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according to the spray-paint writing on
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the side of the guess he gets a
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water-filled think water isn't there
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like a water tower small water tower
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says permanently closed August 21st 2005
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the entire town closed
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there is one open establishment however
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at this exit so firecrackers it is windy
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out here
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park at the pumps is this vehicle
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the lightning bolt as well as this
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classic a little bit of rust on the hood
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better than that pretty dang cool
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evidently it's an uber and in the back
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some skeletons
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it just so happened just married tie the
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knot finally inside above the snacks is
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this wooden relic from the Trading Post
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it used to be here well I guess
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technically still is but now it's called
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amazing Southwest gifts there's a teepee
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down there you can see how it's made out
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of foam over the years the deterioration
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shining through
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made it to the community of hatch this
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is drugstore or formerly the drugstore a
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few figures over there on top of the
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roof and Uncle Sam next to a chili
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pepper which just so happens to be this
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is the chili pepper capital of the world
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Robin Hood with his bow and arrow
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Texaco classic Texaco logo star this
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piggy bank massive probably 10 feet tall
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yogi a robot holding a burger and an
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ice-cream cone
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gargantuan KFC bucket
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you like that alien like so worried
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yeah
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Thanks
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are you are you hearing the voice I mean
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is it talking to you he's talking to me
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only you can hear me I can hear Bob's
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Big Boy statue wash tub with the cinder
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block and some bumper cars here
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they don't move and it's not
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it's an old it like a fair attraction
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like you gotta get pretend now you can
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go
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oh don't bump me whoa don't bump me I'm
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gonna bump you keep your distance hey
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man
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that's awful so many classic characters
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up there and also here's Ronald even a
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few prehistoric creatures up there as
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well I love these old old classic metal
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sides here's a look from a different
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angle from across the way looking back
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at those those back of those very tall
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sculptures that's that's I'd be filling
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might be
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which one though the the big red one
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here or the smaller green one on the
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right which one's hotter oh the one on
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the left
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this one oh yeah this one's hotter oh
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some types of some types of tiny ones
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pack a punch though they pack a punch
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but that's more like a jalapeno and what
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kinds of that's like a real chili that's
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a chili pepper yeah they're so happy
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he's wearing a top hat
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however nothing says happiness quite
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like yeah this robots really taking it
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to the next level down here what flavor
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is it
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sherry is it Matt cherry might be Apple
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I see at one point this was a different
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establishment and then the fireworks was
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added on to the top of the hotdogs and
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now nothing here is operational
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it's always neat to hunt down these
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muffler man this one's holding an RV
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he's roadside Giants at RV he's holding
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looks teeny-tiny up there file this
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under the unique names for towns
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category Truth or Consequences that's
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its name
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the whatever minivan has it on the front
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tag across the grille
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it's the minivan of whatever full of all
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kinds of items glued to the top and the
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hood that horses made completely out of
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wood first I thought it was like
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skeletons but it's not it's pure wood
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all the bones and the makeup of it is
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made out of wood normally you don't see
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a stallion howling at the moon but never
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know what you're gonna see some
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accommodations on site as well the dude
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motel and apartments a mural of some
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classic cars but also an old-timey
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station wagon a real one parked and over
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here we've got ourselves a coal miner it
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old rot yeah you over here pain averse
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and Goldie yeah I've got an old truck
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here coming through all of your
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different ones yeah yeah what if they
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were using these back in the day doing
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some cannon panning for some gold
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they're rolling up in these classic
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autos and doing some gold panning doing
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some gold panning
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at one point you could get some rustic
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furniture and pottery and antiques the
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property now sits empty
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that's the Statue of Liberty
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right there in the middle with
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strip-mall parts of an old mine cart
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this waterfall has seen me movement in a
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while
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you look closely right up there on the
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side of the wall is a bull head
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protruding out our cow head protruding
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out of it
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you must have a keen eye but on the far
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right of the screen above the awning
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vintage 7up goodness and on the Left far
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left is a Pepsi cooler you could just
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see the words Pepsi spelled out up there
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as well
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a spaceship yeah there's a little
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something flying above the UFO itself
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the tippy-top little green alien looking
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out the portal there with a ray gun
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above his head the angle heading
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downward to earth probably not the
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safest mode of transportation to be a
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rough landing
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there's the cinema see the shadow of the
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flag-waving above my head and the
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vintage advertisement painted on the
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brick for owls cigars a panther popping
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out the top of that roof line and then
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this old neon at this restaurant right
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over here it's pretty sweet as well
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here in the town square shows on the
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tile the painting of the mayor's house
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from way back in the day it still just
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so happens to be on site right over
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there still standard this is a fragment
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from jumbo huge steel vessel use at the
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Trinity site at 35 miles southeast of
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here on July 16th 1945 and this is
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supposed to be a remnant of that it has
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never been 100% confirmed but that's
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what the statement is if that's true
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my bee man something's definitely melted
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it says jumbo was was used in later
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experiments which resulted in the and
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the ends being blown out
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Road Runner lounge and steakhouse and
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the neon Road Runner is still up there
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nice coffee shop that's different and it
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has those those warps above it there's
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like one two three four five
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planet looking things we are coming up
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on the Rio Grande going across the Rio
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Grande right over here there's the Rio
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Grande match it's probably a little too
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cold to get in there right now but we're
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definitely crossing it to take a dip I
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don't think I'm going to take a dip
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it's a stampede
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Sun started to set in the opposite
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direction you can see it bouncing off
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the mountains over there looks beautiful
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