TDW 1867 - Inside Boyhood Home of President Reagan
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someone has taken a lot of time and
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effort and whittling skills to create
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this the Vulcan hand of magnificent
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proportion live long and prosper
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welcome everyone Adam as a whoo here is
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my second child daily vlog Channel bah
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Davey
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this is a good time of the year to drive
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through this area because the corn is
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that full height potential it adds to
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the experience and so does being out
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here all alone that also adds to the
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experience just just a bit I've arrived
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now and Troy Grove Illinois a quaint
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little community this is their post
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office old Wild Bill Hickok was born on
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May 27th 1837 in a house which stood on
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this very block and they have erected a
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memorial down at the end of the sidewalk
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no joke this is a pretty beastly piece
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of bronze in the size of that noggin the
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pioneer of the Great Plains served as
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country as a scout and a spy in the
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western states to preserve the Union of
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the Civil War and you can see there's
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not a whole heck of a lot else going on
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in this neck of the woods check out this
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old bank building though if you look
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closely there is a metal Bulldog right
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there in the center below the lettering
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holding a bag of money right there what
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do you gonna do with all that money
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bulldog they're farming all types of
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products out here even wind
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and lowly windmill huge lonely windmill
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stopped in the town of Amboy and there
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is a locomotive sitting stagnant on the
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tracks not operational but quite
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impressive most impressive a lot of
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great old signage here which is pretty
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much par for the course for some of
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these small Midwestern towns this
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Budweiser one would be worth a few bucks
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to any serious collector but it's just
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hanging there probably has been there
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for a few decades real-life Americana
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these are the types of towns that Main
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Street USA was based on except few were
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tourists here and let's gift shops the
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old-school digital clock in front of the
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bank I bet when the technology advanced
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and this first came out it was the talk
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of the town this photo is awesome look
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at the crowd gathered back in the day in
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front of the Opera House which I've just
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learned by looking at that picture was
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located next to the bank July 1868 this
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structure was erected and it is a band
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shell just imagine all the events and
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performances that happened right here if
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that stage could talk I picked up this
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item of one of the local shops at first
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I thought it was Mickey Mouse but I
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wasn't a hundred percent confirmed on
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that fact until I read the bottom check
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it out
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Walt Disney Productions Sookie what head
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many years ago there was a storm that
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blew through town at the city park they
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have taken the fallen trees and made
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carvings out of them a baseball player
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this is an umpire and before you play
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ball you got to make sure you have
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plenty of bugs bugs there's a lot of
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mosquitoes out here this is a fireman
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rescuing a baby you can see the hydrant
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there and the truck seems to have been
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some sort of explosion of the head
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region this mama bear has been busy
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catching fish
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which you should have just noticed the D
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composure of her child's noggin I
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wouldn't have even known about this
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place nor been able to find it if I had
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not struck up a conversation with a
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local resident who saw me filming back
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in town and now I'm feasting my eyes on
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this guy carrying a pig all joking aside
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this is pretty freakin amazing think
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about this this was a tree standing tall
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at one point and now it's a train it's a
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train incredible the park itself was
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established in 1854 now prominently
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displayed the year here on this chunk of
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wood pretty fascinating stuff like
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walking through history as you browse
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the grounds oh she's holding she's
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holding a little ducky
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hi ducky
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they're pretty much scattered everywhere
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out here there's two over there tucked
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away as well as put a piece of corn it
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is that's a full piece of corn
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I know this is plenty tall enough but I
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always get worried
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driving Large Marge underneath those
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overpasses hennepin ave but known to
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some as reagan way because of very young
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Ronald back in the day this was his
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stomping grounds in fact he lived in
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this very house there he is
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a statue dedicated to the man himself
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right next to his former home he moved
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to the town of Dickson in 1920 at the
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age of nine not a bad little place to
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live as a child you see the garage
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around the corner this 1919 Model T
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symbolized the type of vehicle the
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family would have drove on their move
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here and check out the license plate
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this camera was used by Elizabeth
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nicknamed be Frey to take pictures of
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her friend and that friend is the former
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president just got my ticket next door
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at the visitor center and now it's time
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to go inside the actual house so three
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bedroom house holds the two boys as a
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meal or outfit not had their own rooms
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the first idea here was the taste of the
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guest bedroom their mother now was very
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generous and she would often house
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treating these prisoners in this room
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really yeah that mother eats owners
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prisoners would sleep in there yeah yeah
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then not easily but you know there's
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just occasionally the occasional
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provocation the occasional prisoner hey
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hey okay what year was this that he came
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back to visit 94 so that was 84 Edward
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694 okay there was a date and he was
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sitting on that exact day which isn't
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the bed he slept in but it was a bet
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that they put when they refurnished it
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right but Reagan and Nancy sat right
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there yeah man his brother Neal on that
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bus so they think that the cause of the
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master
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was converted into the bathroom before
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the renkel tear so if you live in next
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room there's no closet at all nearby the
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other problem okay so this would have
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been the bathroom for this room would
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have been here in the hallway and you
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guys restored it you made this twice as
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tall yeah so when the Reagan's were here
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it would only came up to basically yeah
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my kneecap right he could easily have
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taken a tumble down there yeah ended
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very badly Ronald was not allowed in
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this room that's called the parlor so
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what he would do is he would get on his
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hands and knees right here and lean over
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and he realized that there was a loose
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tile and he would hide his change right
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down in there when he came back to visit
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he remembered the loose tile and those
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are the pennies that he placed upon his
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return if you look on the far left the
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drum major that's him right there
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and prominently displayed on the kick
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drum Dixon YMCA
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so when he returned he ate at this table
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in the China can you pull that up again
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so I can get a shot there you have
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designated that was the plate that he
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ate on you what what kind of meal he had
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I want to taste like average but it
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wasn't it wasn't this fake fruit though
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right it was he wasn't challenged out on
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the type of metal this is zinc and over
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time people just started to pronounce it
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as sink right is that what is that what
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you're saying yeah I think that's true
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it's a good it's a good tale yeah it's a
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good I believe it it makes sense now the
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furniture inside is not original they
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brought that in when they had the grand
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opening and let tourists are coming in
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in the mid 80s but nonetheless the
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structure is exactly the same and I
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picked this up in the gift shop pretty
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entertaining you can dress the president
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copyright 1984 how cool and random and
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bizarre is this thing there's only a
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couple bucks they even have a sweet
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little archway leading through town with
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some neon lights up on top and is that
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part of the Berlin wall over there yeah
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I think that is
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look at that view majestic the elevation
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is not too terribly high but it's still
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wonderfully appealing to the eyes the
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beauty of this land what's that I heard
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a cow mooing down there trying to get in
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the vlog cow way down there I'll listen
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you can faintly hear them you're trying
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to you're trying to do a little shout
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out for the vlog your friends will never
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see this video
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well maybe you never know if the farmer
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whose land that they're on might have
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Wi-Fi but they don't know saying I don't
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know if cows have smartphones if a cow
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would have a phone it'd probably have
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one of those old-school flip phones that
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you came a watch YouTube on you never
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know though I don't know how they do
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things here in Illinois what's that I
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heard that you do have a smartphone
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all right I'm losing my mind
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I'll see you guys tomorrow vlog