Roadside Oddities of Brooksville & Spring Hill Florida - Eating Where Elvis Ate / Small Town America
Florida Roadside Stuff March 2023
with World Of Micah
Transcript
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welcome everyone out of the woo here as
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a recording of this it is Saturday March
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18th the big truck is driving by and
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there is an emu a camel
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I'm not sure what that is
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but I do know that there is a colorful
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zebra holding
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I don't know what that is
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an alpaca
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okay a lemur yeah and that's a King
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Julian okay DreamWorks
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zebra
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dinosaur so I'm glad that you're here
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world of mica is also with me we are
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going to do some roadside attractions
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today yeah man off the off the beaten
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path if you will yeah Brooksville is
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where we're at yeah we're gonna go to
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Spring Hill two areas that I really have
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I've been here once before too boyettes
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Roadside Attraction yeah but I haven't
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been farther out into the kind of the
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middle we went to like that rich long
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General Store we went to Webster's we
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keep inching out and eventually we get
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to Spring Hill there's the coast there's
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no we got to go the other way we're not
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gonna go to the coast but we're gonna
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head towards the coast and we're gonna
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eat at a hot dog place Presley ate at
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yeah correct supposedly
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hypothetically that's what they say they
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might have pictures they might have
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pictures yeah there's a lot of
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memorabilia in there all right so we're
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just gonna we're just gonna wing it
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inviting you to join me and world of
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Micah shall you over here is like a
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piece of artwork
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it's a pretty neat little little
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Roadside Attraction we're gonna kind of
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pop in here
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what's that
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now I was doing the intro to my episode
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oh I was like I was like what are you
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saying got a camel there
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got a crocodile
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got I don't know what that is eating
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some ice cream
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it's called a citrus attraction it's
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opened year round oh yes also a wildlife
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park an aquarium
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and citrus and produce and a tree that
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has a face on it
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what if they have coffee if they do get
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myself a coffee
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lots of artwork oh look at this ice
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cream cone
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how's it going stepping inside check out
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this postcard the I love tourist
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postcard is great I like that oh I
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forgot about this
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this little area over here where there's
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like some cow pokes
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in here
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oh man I forgot how cool this place was
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looks like there's a showdown going on
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over here
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some sort
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oh look over in the corner by the bar
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very surprised God you look like you've
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seen a ghost sir
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you look like you've seen a ghost
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or a white buffalo
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I think he wants his gold down here his
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coins
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um so he's got his eye on him
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the County marshall right here
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High Noon
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you gotta love the old saloon doors
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that adds to the Ambiance for sure now
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we are going to focus on Brooksville and
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we're going to focus on Spring Hill but
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take a look at this
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this is Main Street in 1885 in
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Brooksville not Tombstone not Dodge City
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Brooksville Florida
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that is really cool
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combination Hardware grocery store
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Browning insurance on the corner of
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Maine and Broad delivery wagon Waits out
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front
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what's he got in there to do a little
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little uh panning for
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treasure yeah some rocks in there
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this is the this is the legend of Jessie
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May Saxon I'm not sure if that coincides
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with oh my goodness look at this
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horrifying face I think if you turn this
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way yeah it becomes
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comes human again
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now last time I was here I don't think
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they had this little haunted area they
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call it the Haunted Mansion
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there's some arcade games over there
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there's a shark had dangling from the
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roof here's Elvis Presley there's
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Marilyn
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oh
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there's a whole little area over here a
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lot of Elvises in Maryland's in here
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there's the king as well oh
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without a glass he's comfy he is this is
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amazing look at this right here look at
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this look at Batman stare down he's got
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seriously the stare down going on
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I just love this place it's got the old
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gumball machines over here this Donald
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right here that you can sold oh look at
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this old space shuttle this is kind of
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the kind of attractions that you get you
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put a quarter in front of a
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in front of a
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department store
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grocery store back in the day
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for 14.95 you could purchase one of
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these little skeleton skulls right over
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here or these Royals kind of these are
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made out of coconuts carved out of
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coconuts and they are known for selling
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their Citrus so they have some Citrus in
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here
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for sale
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as well
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I almost missed the Batmobile and
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Michael was like oh check out the
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Batmobile I didn't realize that they had
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a scale model Batmobile that you could
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ride for a quarter I'm a little too
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heavy for this
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all right
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noticing a lot of creaky doors
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Crystal saloon doors now the front door
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all right gonna move on now they also do
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have a petting zoo back there and they
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have an indoor
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miniature golf course
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check out this sea creature going after
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the swimmer here
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is that a skunky smell yeah
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this is a skunk smell yeah it is a few
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miles into town from where we just were
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to downtown Brooksville we're passing
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the Brooksville Lane which has a bar and
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grill in there Savages Bar and Grill
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check it out I got the little bowling
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pins up top there
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all Town life
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out front motorcycle parking only
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it's like an old Silo like a grain silo
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that has the welcome to Brooksville on
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it
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that was established in 1858 six
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1856. one thing you see a lot
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are train tracks that have been repaved
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and made into like a bike path that is
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what this was now they do have
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part of the train tracks They moved over
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here they have a display train
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but here is the old Brooksville train
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depot dated 1885.
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you see that a lot of towns
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where they'll take the train tracks up
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remove them or move them and then pave
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it with like a walking trail and a bike
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path like you just imagine back in the
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day back in the late 1800s this is where
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the train would have rolled right
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through here
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can almost picture right over through
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that's where all the passengers were
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loading their luggage on and all that
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or at least waiting I guess it would
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have been a little too far
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load the luggage on from here but
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a little waiting platform
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and here's the old one-room schoolhouse
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I know I heard you say Michael Myers it
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looks exactly like the Myers house
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a little different but I mean it's kind
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of similar same kind of like balcony
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the top totally or not balcony but the
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roof line there and then the windows
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huh
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can't go in there
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Lonnie said there's horrible things that
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happened in there
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this is right across from the deeper
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the 1885 Depot
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Brooksville had a population of 500
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people back in 1885.
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the residents depended on horse-drag
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wagons
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and stagecoasters to transport goods and
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passengers
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I was thinking of 1885 I think it Back
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to Future and Doc Brown
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shoeing horses and
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hello
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they're having like a
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that's crazy are they getting ready to
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have like a Braveheart moment over here
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they're all white ride
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yeah I think they're afraid to go past
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the Myers house over here
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they're just sitting there waiting
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patients
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they're gonna have a race a sidewalk is
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dated 1914 there's a date stamp right
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down here it's got the little plastic
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covering over not to damage the date
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that was brought from the downtown I
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think the foot is flailing around
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because the road is very bumpy
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definitely adds to the vibe yeah these
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houses are incredible brick roads and
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these trees like a canopy of trees going
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these houses are incredible
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so big
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in this like hanging moss man it looks
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like um the oldest Road in the United
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States down in St Augustine
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Road looks just like this
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right next to the Fountain of Youth
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oh there's the water tower
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I think we're on the Main Street yeah I
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think so
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oh there's a squirrel with a Reese's
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Peanut Butter Cup wrapper going up the
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side of the Hill got himself some Reeses
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now he's gonna go he's gonna go across
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the
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the line there
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I see up there squirrel
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it's got the Reese's packet right up
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near the water tower
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got him a little Reese's cup
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enjoying a little snack that's making me
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hungry squirrel
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thou shall not pass police automobiles
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you see people are walking around out
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here but evidently but these stanchions
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up they don't want anybody
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driving their vehicle down here
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unless they're authorized this is the
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Brooksville Fire Department
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or what was and they have
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as an homage to the former department
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they have placed these murals here
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with this Cruiser over here and a fire
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truck all right I think I know why the
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street was blocked off last night and as
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a recording of this last night the Saint
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Patty's they probably had a street party
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over here at the country Depot
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there is a rooster and a chicken out
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front and there's also Foghorn Leghorn I
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believe it is
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a heavy metal Foghorn Leghorn
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they're down here
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take a look at that
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it's a nice little downtown well it
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looks like even today they got a little
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something going on got some biker stuff
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down here some booths
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selling different items it's elephant 14
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minute walk to hot dog place we're gonna
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walk the hot dog place
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take a look at this handbag so this
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elephant is very excited about this
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handbag
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smile on his face in his trunk he's
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holding the handbag all right spoiler
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alert we did not walk over here we
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decided to drive because we're gonna go
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a couple other places after this we have
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arrived at Coney Island Drive-In where
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they have Burgers wings and shakes they
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have boiled peanuts but I think I'm
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gonna get a hot dog
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here at Coney Island
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Drive-In take a look at this now I have
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never seen a big boy that looks like
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that that's like a I don't know if
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that's like a rip-off big boy imitation
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big boy but there's a big boy up there
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that almost looks like Frisch's or Bob's
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Big Boy but it is a lot of Frisch's oh
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wait you know what it is a fresh big boy
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yeah if you look closely on his little
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cap there it does say Frisch's Big Boy
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different than the Bob's Big Boy
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I'm used to seeing at Burbank and you
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see a lot of the other Bobs look a
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little bit differently you definitely
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could tell the same kind of pants and
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all that but slightly different
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and it does say here eat here or eat
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where Elvis ate Elvis say here I don't
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know if Elvis wrote on these little
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ponies or not but it was a possibility
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that he did this place is just full of
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all kind of archival Pop Culture
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goodness as you walk through here you
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just kind of like wander completely
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around and they definitely have it
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themed I thought it look cool on the
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outside but it looks a lot cooler on the
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inside as an outdoor eating area there's
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a whole indoor eating area as well that
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you can go in there and the the prices
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really didn't seem like they were too
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terribly bad
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we're gonna go overload on the hot dogs
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you know kind of like a win in row
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moment you gotta get you gotta get some
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hot dogs Elvis ate here I don't know if
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he had a hot dog but Elvis did eat here
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and Mike and I both love the king of
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rock and roll so it's kind of cool that
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we're both here eating uh eating hot
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dogs and fries at where Elvis ate and we
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grabbed a picnic table over here in this
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back room near Betty Boop and Elvis over
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there standing in front of the
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microphone
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sauerkraut dog this one and then we both
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got a chili this is a lot of food and
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then I got a chili and a little sauce
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I'm trying to figure out which one is
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which one has the special elbow sauce
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it's just sauce
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okay maybe these two are mine because I
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ordered those are two years in these are
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my mom who's got the foot what kind of
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sauce was it it just said um coney sauce
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okay so I went with a footlong chili and
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onions I went with a regular
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sounds like they got some sauerkraut and
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some spicy mustard on there spicy yellow
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yeah Michael got two football dogs and
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we got two rather large Beverages and
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and all this was under thirty dollars
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which I think is pretty good deal yep
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and as stated we are eating on a picnic
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table
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this is what we're dealing with
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dog Central and never catch up on a hot
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dog for me everyone has their opinions
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but mine
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never catch up on a hot dog but I will
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put ketchup and Fries
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hot dogs are made for mustard
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not ketchup fries however I'll do some
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I'll do some crushed tomatoes on some
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fries
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I feel like I should probably start off
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with the crowd dog and the mustard dog
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okay the first thing I noticed is the
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hot dogs
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are not the Vienna Beef
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Chicago's battle dogs that's the first
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thing I'm noticing
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is that a good thing or a bad thing
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those are I think the best hot dogs yeah
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these are good too nothing beats a
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Vienna Beef though that's the number one
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yeah for the football
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um
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it's pretty good choice I like the
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little bread I'll eat it with meat or
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without me
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yeah there's two different types of
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chili people with meat and beans and
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without meat and eggs well without beans
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some people don't like it with names I
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like it either way all right eight was
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not able to figure out what kind of hot
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dogs they were using in fact it was
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started to get really really busy in
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there I didn't want to like go back wait
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in line just to ask the kind of hot dogs
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they had but definitely not Vienna or
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they would have had it posted everywhere
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usually when a place has Vienna hot dogs
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they will put signs everywhere saying
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that they are chili was really good but
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I didn't see any songs for what kind of
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chili they had either so
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it's just kind of up for up for your own
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discretion on what they're using here
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but either way pretty good all right I
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did a quick little search on the
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internet and as you know you can always
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trust the interwebs for facts for
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factual of knowledge
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said that the Elvis did eat a foot long
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from in here so according to some 1961.
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we might have had the same meal Elvis
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just had could not find about the but
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I'm also I'm always interested in
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mascots I've seen this before I think
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they have this in the Orange County
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California fair I've seen one of these
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recording ketchup and mustard on itself
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which is always interesting to me that a
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mascot is promoting the consumption of
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his own body
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he's that good or do you think he's
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gonna like devour himself right he also
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put ketchup on himself
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that's true yeah we have now commuted
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aways to Spring Hill
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and might not be able to recognize what
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this is from the front angle but if I
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show it from the side this Auto Care
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Center
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it's a prehistoric creature this is a
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thing of beauty right here
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it is a dinosaur but an active open Car
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Care Center
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I don't see stuff like this every day
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not of this magnitude anyway
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kind of picking up a theme here in this
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area with the dinosaurs and the
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prehistoric creatures
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this one has been nicknamed Pepto the
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dinosaur
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simply because he looks like
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Pepto-Bismol color his name is Fox Bauer
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Fox battle
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Fox Bauer
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I'm like
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oh it's a she like Jurassic Park Okay
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because dinosaurs in Jurassic Park are
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female I was looking at these little
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parking area things here that have been
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shifted over that are also painted pink
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I stepped on that watch yourself
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those are some big ants
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oh the wind just blew the ants they did
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that's how windy it is out here
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it is very windy over here next to Fox
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Bauer
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was built in 1959 she was commissioned
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by the fox power family as a roadside
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Landmark for their Wildlife Museum
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do not climb with the dinosaur they're
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doing their best to preserve a historic
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icon that she is
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welcome to take photos
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I like any sort of prehistoric creature
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that's not real I mean obviously because
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they're not around anymore they're
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extinct but I like when they're built on
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the side of a road hence a roadside
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Monument or attraction
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like Fox Bauer here awesome
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hold on to them hats get glasses it's a
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little windy out here
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give the Pepto Dino a hug now I know a
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lot of the passer buyers love this
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dinosaur but this electrical box is
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really happy to see the dino it is
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really blustery out here very very
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blustery windy I think a storm supposed
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to be rolling out
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think of rain
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clouds Are Gonna Roll in in fact
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kind of see them right up top there and
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off in the distance
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temperatures cooling down
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the wind is rolling out
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Farmers rolling out
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I just love that there are two dinos
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within probably two miles from each
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other
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here at Spring Hill we're still in
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Spring Hill right yeah Spring Hill
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off in the woods over there someone with
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some heavy machinery do a little digging
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over in Dade City now
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a little bit of a commute from where we
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just were there is a full-size Muffler
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Man so it was pretty awesome to see a
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Muffler Man
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you know you see them across the U.S
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they're definitely like true Americana
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seeing a Muffler Man in some of the
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different small towns and whatnot and
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the reason they look like it's called a
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muffler man is because the man himself
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even though he's holding a wrench here
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usually is holding a muffler they
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started to advertise you know mechanic
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shops and muffler shops and things like
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that and they're called Muffler Men
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because of the position of his hand
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would be holding a car or an automotive
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Muffler and that is why they are given
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the name Muffler Men so if you ever hear
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the term Muffler Man that is what they
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are referring to even though sometimes
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they're not really holding them up
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sometimes they're not even holding
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Mufflers at all
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sometimes they're just no Mufflers
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anywhere near them but when I think of
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true Americana roadside stuff
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I think of these massive roadside Giants
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men of the muffler
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persuasion
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even though I guess you could call this
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one a wrenchman
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he's the big mechanic
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oh you know what you're right the big
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mechanic right there she's supposed to
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hold a muffler right yeah see the way
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that the way the hands are held right
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used to be when they first created these
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who would be holding a muffler that's
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right yeah I just noticed they were
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there he's on the wrench so he's the big
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mechanic oh yeah on the sign itself he
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is holding a big wrench so he's the big
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mechanic not a muffler man all right the
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mystery solved just down the way a
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little bit a couple more miles from
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where we just were there's a guard dog
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we'll bite
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one of the Guard dog's name is Chopper
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you know what he's six
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old Pepsi machine over there too
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and the front portion of a car
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protruding out the side of the
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automobile place
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up on like a little bit of a lift
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ing so remind you Christine right yes
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oh it says Christine on the side yeah
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look at that
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you think you hate it now
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where do you drive it
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wow look at that car over there it's
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like a
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it's like a truck bed in the back
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I don't think I've ever seen anything
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like that
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it's like the mixture of like an El
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Camino and a Truck
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this does look like the kind of place
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that Christine
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you just never know what you're gonna
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find driving on the road see stuff like
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this
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I guess a lot of the stuff in here is
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for sale except for the Christine on the
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end down here
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yeah
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did I say it was a pit bull yeah there's
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a sign of this pit bull I thought it
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just said guard dog
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Chopper
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drove a little more and I saw this it's
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an unidentified flying object oh
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there is an alien
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inside there
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alien head
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side this UFO
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here along the side of the road
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we come in peace made the commute back
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over into celebration
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heading home now
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and that's gonna do it for today had a
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lot of fun hang on my friend world of
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Micah if you haven't checked out his
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YouTube channel
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check it out I'll see you in the next
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video the Vlog is over