TDW 1868 - Emotional Visit To Field Of Dreams
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I really do love these old-timey bridges
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and is that the Mississippi down there
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deep river the old man we are now making
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our way directly into Iowa welcome
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everyone Adam Peru here self pumping gas
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nozzle and caffeine a good way starting
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today and it looks as if this fuel
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station is being protected by a higher
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power it's my second channel daily vlog
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Channel it's the daily whoo I've left
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the pavements and now cruising down this
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dirt road in route to somewhere I've
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always wanted to go if you build it she
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won't come well I'm on my way
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finally I get to see this place with my
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own eyes growing up I loved the game of
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baseball as much as anyone ever has in
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the mid 80s I collected all the cards
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knew all the players watched all the
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movies and of all those films a couple
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resonates still decades later in my mind
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on why I love the American pastime so
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much
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and I can see it from here
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I can see oh my gosh I've arrived to the
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fields of Dreams I can't believe I'm
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actually here this is incredible it
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looks just as it did in 1989 like going
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back in time it might take me a minute
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or two I have to be honest for me to
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fully wrap my head around the fact that
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I am standing behind home plate of the
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famous field that was carved out of the
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corn if you've never seen the movie I
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highly encourage you to go watch a Kevin
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Costner plays a farmer who hears a ghost
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a voice in the cornfield telling him to
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plow down his crop and build a baseball
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field and it's pretty awesome that it's
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in full bloom I'm walking out just like
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the players did is this heaven
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Iowa the character of Terrence Mann
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played by James Earl Jones stated so
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prominently that people will come ray
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and they have my goodness there's way
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more people out here then I was
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expecting how they've also added quite a
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bit of merchandise to a gift shop that
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has been constructed on the property but
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in this cutest little slugger
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and while the parking and admission to
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gaze at the filming location is free in
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order to gain access to the house you
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have to purchase a ticket which I just
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did I'm about to go inside they're
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making us take our shoes off before
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entering or you can use these little
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foot covers but I opted just to remove
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my shoes to protect the house daughter
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Karen is watching a movie called Hardin
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TV there with Jimmy Stewart I don't know
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how many are you familiar with the movie
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Harvey with Jimmy Stewart but for those
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of you who might not be Harvey obviously
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this big sticks with orange tall
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invisible rabbit and only Jimmy Stewart
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can see that's symbolic with the field
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of dreams in the sequence tellers were
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the only ones who could see she was Joe
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work and remember during a good portion
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of them we actually moved on to be in
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quite a few different movies in place
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since then she they received nominations
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for awards for some of the movie she's
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been in course amy madigan moved on and
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she also received a Golden Globe Award
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for one of the movie that he was in the
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after she got the theatre degrees and
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I'm sure she's got us on the words for
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other movies as well and of course Kevin
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Costner we know he's been a movie after
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movie after movie after movie so I'm
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certain he's got a lot of words that I'm
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not even with her daughter Cameron was
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in the next room and that see remember
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she tried to get her attention and Ray
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kept telling her in a moment care you
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know in a moment in a moment they were
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going over finances finally after about
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the fourth attempt she didn't get her
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attention when she said but there's a
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man standing on our lawn that of course
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we in Reverse appears like she was your
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Jackson on the property and got their
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attention and with no right away had to
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lift their spirits because now I
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actually had a bulb I did come out in
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the field where you spend all the money
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doing that theater with the ambitious
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test the patient are probably a lot more
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ballplayers between over watching the
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movies that
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there's a ball signed by James Earl
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Jones right there she is involved for
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the very first time a lot of people
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laughing woman get a picture from
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through the window they're out on it you
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always so important he'll interview play
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enter you know just run the beads as you
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can see there's quite a few people out
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there right now my del was recruited
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from the Dubuque area it's about 20
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minutes to the east of here
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she was actually a volunteer for the
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Iowa film office and she also men's was
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called bell tower theater to do so she
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had it quite a bit of knowledge what
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movies were all about
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so they recruited her to colonists
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Midwest and try to find the farm might
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work a one so what actions did the old
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one they wanted typical two-story farm
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outside square rectangular shape they
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won the classic white clapboard siding
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most 95% of farmhouse in Hannah they
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also wanted the farm not be big they
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just wanted a small Iowa farm for a
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parent it into didn't want no silos or
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anything like that
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but they didn't want to big enough for a
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wall field and they wanted it to have
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Western exposure for the sunset
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silhouette team that they did and they
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also wanted a long lean
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coming down into the farm and this also
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grants me permission to sit on the porch
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swing over look in the field how cool is
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that
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now what I'm going to do is I'm going to
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kind of film you there and then I'm
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going to back up and try to get through
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you can see the whole house on there
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yeah just like you're in the movie that
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shows the whole house now
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then I'll zoom back in again if there's
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any parts of the house you want me to
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film off going to the side and then I'll
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film a little bit over to this side here
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as well okay anything else are thank you
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very much alrighty that's a great Newark
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and I'll just hand it to you can shut it
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off there because I'm not sure you're
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wrong okay thank you he was telling me
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that during the time of filming the
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entire state was under a drought so the
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fire department brought in excess water
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to fill up this drainage ditch and they
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would pump water and spray the corn down
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nightly this backfired a little bit
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because the
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horn was so tall the kevin costner could
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not stick his head above it for the
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scenes that he needed a self so when
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he's walking amongst the corn at the
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beginning and halfway through the movie
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he would have been level with what I'm
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at but the camera angle needed to show
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him above the corn so they built wooden
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platforms going for many many many yards
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for him to walk on and these power lines
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were also rerouted during filming in
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fact they removed them from this spot
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and took them all the way across those
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cornfields when they were done they put
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them all back in their proper places
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holes at all these are the exact wooden
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bleachers that have been sitting here
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for nearly 30 years where Karen fell
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down choking on the hotdogs and
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moonlight Graham played by Burt
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Lancaster walked right there turned from
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a young ball player back into the doctor
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and saved her life
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it's incredible they still remain and an
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interesting fact that was the last scene
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last movie and last scene he was ever
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you'll notice this carving here that
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states ray luvs Annie that was inscribed
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by Kevin Costner during the filming of
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the movie it still remains that's
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incredible it's hard to believe that's
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the spot that James Earl Jones was
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sitting he stood up he gave that iconic
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speech
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why it's money they have but peace they
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lack people will come right
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oh yes people will come as I stand on
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second base I can't help think of
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moonlight Grahams wish to round the
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bases to turn a double into a triple to
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slide face-first into third wrap your
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hands around the back that's my wish
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reconcile and is there enough magic in
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the moonlight to grant this wish now
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that I'm here I have to say there just
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might be four seventy dollars you can
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get a recreation of the buff or for only
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eight bucks a smaller version a little
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teen year and tinier or if you're so
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inclined a deck of cards or maybe even a
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thimble this is a pretty sweet necklace
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here with the catcher's mitt is that a
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catcher's mitt or an idea first it's a
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mid of some sort with the ball in it and
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States the name of the place and I think
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this would be a perfect time for the
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epic reveal bringing back the majestic
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over the field up high in the sky over
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the corn getting a bird's-eye view of
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this fantastic late 80s filming location
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and now historic spot that has a lot of
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meaning to a lot of people including me
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I never thought I would get here there
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was a point in my life that I never
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realized I would actually accomplish my
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goal of setting foot down on this grass
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and sand that may have been the final
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flight of my drones the majestic it's
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just not working correctly even getting
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those shots were very difficult how to
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keep launching it bringing it back
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launching it bringing it back it just
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was not connecting and the biggest issue
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was not only the gimbal but the fact
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that the footage was not showing up on
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that they would hold
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mish mash of problems this thing is been
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to heck and back it served me well but
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if you don't see this beautiful piece of
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machinery again you know why you've done
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your duty you can I might still try to
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use it I might still try all just so
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I'll keep trying to to use it but if you
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don't see it again
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it's because it's acting up quite it's
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giving me hints that it doesn't want to
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take anymore
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this truly is an amazing place people of
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all ages come out here to run the basis
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he's about to touch home he made it I
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love it here time to depart and as that
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sign States thanks for visiting
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keep dreaming and I'm going on my merry
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way just like Kevin Costner I have to
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imagine more than one or two people have
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said it's here upon arrival to that very
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special place
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such an incredible foe and a tearjerker
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some compare it to the notebook for men
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and I tend to agree gets me every time
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see you guys tomorrow vlog over