A Day In Boise Idaho With My Sister - Downtown Record Shopping / Penitentiary Tour & Abraham Lincoln
Boise Idaho in May
Transcript
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Today's adventure begins with a wood
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chipper off in the distance grinding up
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some tree
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limbs. As the recording of this
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Tuesday, May 20th, had to look at my
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phone to even see what day it is. But as
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I'm filming this, it is a Tuesday, 20th
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of May, 2025.
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I am in Boise,
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Idaho, looking at a humongous, massive
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sculpture of Abraham
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Lincoln. And a quick little internet
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search realized that Abraham Lincoln
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never never stepped foot in Idaho.
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However, it is because of him he signed
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off on the
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name Idaho.
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So
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Idahoans are excited about a because the
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name Idaho is because of Abraham
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Lincoln. It's a fun fact. This hat is
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massive. Just to show a comparison
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here. This is my hand. That's the hat.
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This is my hand. This is Abraham
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Lincoln's. Welcome everyone. Adam the
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Woo here from Idaho. My sister is here
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in town. So, hello. Paying a visit to
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her for the day. We're just going to do
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some things around town. I don't really
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have a game plan. You don't have a game
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plan. Probably get some coffee, see some
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sites. There's another Abraham Lincoln
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sculpture here as well. This says here
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the sculpture of Mount Rushmore made
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this. Oh, I didn't even see that. See,
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let me flip this
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around. Interesting.
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Where do you see that on
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here? Oh, okay. But then it says this is
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a copy.
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Gudson Borglham, sculpture of Mount
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Rushmore. A copy by Irene De of Boise in
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2009. So there must be two of these. Oh,
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here's a word I use a lot. I have tried
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to give to posterity in a true unsteady
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picture of the glimpse of possibility of
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best love man in our nation as he might
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sit alone
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unposed. 1912 the quote by Gutsom
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Borglham Abraham
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Lincoln. I'm in Boise.
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Boisey. You got to say it with us.
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Boisey. That's what I That's what I
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heard. I saw a shirt yesterday at the
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airport when I landed. It says I love
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boy and then s e e underneath it. See
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boy tell you
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I am inviting you to join me and my
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sister in
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boyisey Idaho. Join me and my sister.
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Shall you? Yes. I would imagine in the
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heat of the summer this is probably
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definitely true. The sculpture may be
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hot but today a little bit of
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rain overcast. See, this clearing up a
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little bit, but this is
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definitely definitely not hot. Well, it
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is a little little warm. And it's not
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even hot out. Abraham
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Lincoln right there. Old Honest
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Abe. Wonder if Honest Abe ever told a
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lie. Probably did. He probably told more
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truths than lies, though. That's
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probably why he was nicknamed Honest
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Abe. Huge shoe size. Like a size 26 shoe
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there.
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Big
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hat. Pretty
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neat. There you go.
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Comparison of your foot and honest
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apes. Look at that. All right. See you
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later, ape. There's actually another ape
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sculpture here in town. We're going to
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do a variety of things, but we might see
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another ape. A duplicate ape. A
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secondary ape. An ape times two. All
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right. Right across from President
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Lincoln is a rose garden. Check out the
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rose garden. Kind of like pinkish white
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here. These are beautiful.
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You ever seen a rose that color before?
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So pretty.
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Yeah. Over here. Seems to be some old
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historical
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homes. This little
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area got a cabin over
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there. This
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building, this is the Ottoman House.
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Dates back to
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1880. Almost looks like a one-story
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version of the Meyers house from
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Halloween.
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this little park that's closed off. All
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right. A few blocks away, about a half
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mile away from where we just were, it's
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a place called Freak Alley, which is all
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bunch of graffiti, well paintings, I
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should say, artwork on the side of the
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wall
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here. Oh, look at that. It's a little
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trolley going by. That's neat.
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The amazing fish lady. Lucy. The amazing
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fish
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lady. The Hollywood Market. Happiness is
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spoken here. Boise. Boyisey. Principal.
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Boisey.
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principal. That's kind of neat. Look
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over there. There's like some paint cans
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and a skull of some sort. There's a wolf
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on that door tucked away over there with
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that goat painted on the
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wall. That was a little breaking bad,
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but it's breaking
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boisey. I never knew it was pronounced
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Boisey, not Boise. I guess that's when
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you know you're a a tourist or you're a
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local. I just read it on Reddit, so I
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don't
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Boisey. There's Paul Bunan, bathe the
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blue
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ox. There's downtown back in the day.
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right there. The back side of the Alvin
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Merkantile. Kind of reminds me of
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Vancouver. There is an alley that's all
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painted
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up. I mean, a lot of cities have it, but
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a lot of a lot of places will have a a
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spot that you have permission to paint.
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like not just anybody can come in here
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and paint. It's like this was all done
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on purpose. I don't really see anybody
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in here at the moment spray painting and
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tagging it up just because all the spots
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are already filled. Probably would be
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frowned upon if you showed up and put a
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piece of art over someone else's art
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Jesus. Down here, you got this little
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yellow
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puppy. Some kind of contraption. A guy
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sitting in like a maybe he's in a
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dentist
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chair. I like this. Her head her head is
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a TV
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set. Oh, wow. Yeah, it's the whole It's
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the whole alley.
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It's very clean. Very clean. Tagged up
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out. I think that maybe there's like a
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art gallery or something or something
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attached
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to this.
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It's like one of the cleanest spray
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painted alleys I've ever been in. Very
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clean.
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I got to get a cup of coffee from Dawson
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Taylor Coffee Roasters. Here it is right
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there. Sugar-free vanilla latte. What is
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yours? What did you get, buddy? Um,
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mocha. Mocha. It's cute. There's the
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capital building.
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And it looks like we got another
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sculpture of Mr. Lincoln.
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right over
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there like the cloud formations behind
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building and Lincoln
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benchmark preserved in recognition of
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Abraham Lincoln land surveyor from 1834
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to
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1836. That's what that
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little little thing right there is.
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That's called a benchmark. This is
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looking the other way from the Capitol.
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And you kind of shift
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around. You
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see Abraham Lincoln. Once again, it's
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interesting. He's not facing forward.
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He's looking off to the
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side. Presented to the state of Idaho to
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the ladies of the Grand Army of the
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Republic in
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1915, February of
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1915. You have Lincoln's Gettysburg
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speech right here.
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the famous forced seven years ago.
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There he
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is in all his
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glory. Abraham
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Lincoln. This one's well probably about
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the same size as the other one, but it's
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hard to tell cuz he's like way up there.
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So, evidently this is the oldest Lincoln
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sculpture in the
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West as stated right here.
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President Abraham Lincoln created Idaho
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territory appointing the first officers
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and judges address Congress in Idaho
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about Idaho. So in 1863 and
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64 the
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oldest sculpture for
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Lincoln. This monument the oldest
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celebrating Lincoln in the western
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United States was relocated. So it
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wasn't originally here. This is the
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oldest
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one. There he has the backside of
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Lincoln and he has in his hand the
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proclamation of
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emancipation. Most famous president ever
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followed by George Washington. Probably
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second most famous but Abraham Lincoln
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by a by a long by a long shot. Yep. And
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speak of old George. There he
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is. The father of our country, George
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Washington.
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Pretty
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cool. Frank Stewenberg was the governor
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of Idaho from
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1897 to
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1900 and he is here facing the Capitol
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building. Old Frankie Stewenberg.
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Looks like they have a recreation of the
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Liberty Bell right there. also the great
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seal of the state of Idaho. This is the
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great seal in this little manhole. Well,
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it's not a manhole, but it's just a
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little little uh it's a little seal been
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planted in the ground. There you go. It
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has a you got a deer right there in the
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middle with his antlers and you got like
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this uh guy over here with the pickaxe,
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etc. Got a cornicopia down here. There's
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a lot of gold here. That's mining. Oh,
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all the mining. Yeah. That's the great
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seal. Esto perpetua.
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There you go.
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Philadelphia right there. Pass and
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stow. There you go. This rep, this
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reproduction of the Liberty Bell was
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presented to the people of Idaho.
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I've seen the real Liberty Bell in
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Philly and now think this has the crack
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in it. Is that the crack on this side?
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There's no crack.
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It's actually swaying. Can you ring it?
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Oh my god.
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Doesn't ring.
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What do you do? Oh, you grab the ball
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and ring it. Okay.
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That's cool.
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I'm
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deaf. Really nice St. Michael's
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Cathedral here. An Episcopal
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congregation. Episcopal
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cathedral. Very beautiful church
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building. Got some road work over here
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between 8th between State and Franklin
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on 8th
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Street.
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Over on the corner of 11th and Idaho
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Street is a record store. Oh, we got to
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cross. And just realize this, my sister
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just said the record store is in the
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Hitchcock building. Look at
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that. Right over there. It's called the
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Record Exchange. CDs, vinyl, DVDs. A
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Hitchcock would be proud. I looked up
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bands that are from here. The most
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famous band
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from this area is a band called Built to
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Spill, which I haven't heard in a long
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time. But maybe I'll see if they have a
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Built to Spill album and buy it in the
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town that the the band is from. Oh, you
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got it. We're
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good. It's called the Record
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Exchange. CD, vinyl, DVDs in the
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Hitchcock building. DVDs, cards,
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espresso, vinyl, CDs, books, apparel.
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the Edge at the Record Exchange. We also
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have a coffee shop. We've already had We
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already had a little
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coffee. Yeah, we'll take a look and uh
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see what's going on in here.
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Records. You need
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them. I serve the bees now. It's a
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beehive of activity inside here. This is
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a really cool store, right? I guess
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there's another band other than Built to
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Spill called Youth Lagoon. They have a
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used copy for $15. So, I'm going to go
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with Youth Lagoon. Never heard that
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band, so I figured I'd get that and have
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a a local
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boyc Youth Lagoon right here from uh
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from here. I'm interested in listening
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to this when I get home. All right,
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pretty happy with my purchase. I also
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got a couple local fan zenes. I always
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like buying local fanzines. You don't
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really see those too much
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anymore. Kind of reminds me of the old
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old punk rock days.
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And I got a sticker also. And I got the
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vinyl. I got the record Youth Lagoon.
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They have this thing called Sonic Mass
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Magazine, which I asked if it was a
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local fans. They said yes. And they have
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their own bag since 1977. This record
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store has been open since
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77. That's awesome. It's almost 50 years
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old. Couple a couple more two more years
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will be 50 years old. Been around a
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while.
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There's a very interesting Back to the
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Future mural here as well. You got the
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Delorean going through the time vortex
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here in the middle. Kind of their own
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interpretation of time travel. almost
17:16
like a black hole of sorts. Marty looks
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a little different
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than I recall him in the
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film, but he's got the life preserver on
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there or what they assume was a life
17:31
preserver. Old garbage thing for gas.
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Oh, the Mr. Fusion. Yeah. Over his
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shoulder. Flux capacitor. Well, kind of
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a flux capacitor up top. The his hat's
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going off.
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Then over here you got Doc. It's almost
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like a zombie
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Doc. It's the same
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image from the film. He's holding the
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Doc with liver failure. He's got jais
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doc with liver fla failure.
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Chas. It's pretty cool
18:08
looking. Seen this movie a couple
18:08
times. Don't remember Doc looking like
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that with the the horrifying eyes.
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nea. Don't see an artist name. Maybe
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this tag down here spells the artist
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name,
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but pretty
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cool. The Idaho Film Society. That's
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what that mural is painted on the side
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ever. But to get inside this building,
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even when they are having an event, you
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must be 21 and
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older. I like this old
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building. That is a cool looking old
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building. Got the garage on the
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retro. It's got the the old glass window
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style right there.
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And if you look
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closely over here, you can see how the
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bricks protrude out the the side of the
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wall there all the way up
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the bricks are not completely even. They
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kind of like pop
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out like
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that. This is neat. Here on the side of
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this little burm, this tree and there
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are some swings. My sister's already
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grabbed herself a nice
20:06
little little shade
20:08
spot under
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this nonreal
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Comfortable. Kind of leans back a little
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bit. Kind of comfortable. Ah, living
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that boyy life.
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Nice. The weather's interesting here,
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though, because it's like hot when the
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sun's out, and then when the clouds go
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in front of the sun, it drops like 20°
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instantly. I'm glad I brought this
20:43
little hoodie, but when the sun is
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directly above you, you don't need it.
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And then 2 minutes later, you're
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freezing. Put the sweater on, you're
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sweating.
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Love the
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clouds. Beautiful
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day. No plan here in Idaho.
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Idaho. Never thought I'd be staying in
21:16
Idaho.
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This is kind of neat. Over this fence is
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a tree that went to the moon. It's a
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moon tree and they have it
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documented right there with a little
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painting of a rocket going to the
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moon. Evidently, the seedling, the seed
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that flew to the moon back before I was
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even born, early 70. I was born in 74.
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So 3 years before I was born, a seedling
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from this tree went to the
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moon, was brought back here and planted
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on this
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property. And now this tree has grown
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over
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54
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years. Seedling is now going growing
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towards the moon, going back to where
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the seed originated at.
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That's kind of fun. Can't get any closer
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than this because it's behind this
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fence.
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But the moon tree
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bark looks like the moon. What? Oh, the
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bark does. Like the craters of the moon
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kind of does. Yeah, it's got that moon
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Just think the little seedling that's
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down there in the ground that spawned
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into this tree was on the surface or
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near the surface of the moon. So they
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say this is an old
23:02
repurposed vintage gas station. Now it's
23:02
a real estate place, but this is pretty
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dang
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cool. It's a real estate place. I love
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this little midcentury
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Wow, this is cool. They have a little
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showroom
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inside. You can see where you pull your
23:48
car up in there to get maintenance done
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on
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I thought maybe it'd be used as like a
24:08
coffee shop or an antique store or
24:09
something, but no, it's a real estate
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place. Thank you. Yeah, check it out.
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That's a real estate office. Got some
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artwork on the wall. You pull your car
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in here to get the either oil change,
24:30
you get a new
24:32
tire, your
24:34
alternator fixed.
24:38
Oh, look at the
24:39
kitchen. That's nice.
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It's citri modern books.
25:05
Man, that looks like Palm Springs. That
25:05
might be Palm Springs right there.
25:15
Modern mailbox handmade in Boise, Idaho.
25:15
Wow, those are cool. Look at
25:17
these. Oh, I like that. I like those.
25:21
Look at that.
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Yeah, there we go. Palm Springs. Lots of
25:33
Atomic Ranch magazines in here.
25:51
Yeah, I can't be next to anybody except
25:53
for Jessica.
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This is so
26:02
cool. This furniture is so good.
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All right, a few miles from where we
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just were have arrived
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backside this old
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penitentiary which is now a
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museum. You can walk through it. So,
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we're going to see what that consists
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of. Go inside this place. There's the
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guard house there. This was the women's
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ward right here.
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All right. This was last used
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decommissioned in
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1973. Talked to the lady at the front.
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It was $8 a person, so $16 for both of
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us. She gave us a little information
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about places we could go, places we
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couldn't
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go. The old Idaho penitentiary
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originally was a territorial prison and
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then it became the state prison.
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And that little cardboard cutout is of
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Joseph Munch who worked here. And you
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have he was the chief of security. And
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you could see well it's kind of hard to
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see cuz there's like you can see like
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here's his here's his badge right there.
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Here's his little
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information
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photo. There he is. Joseph Munch. Look
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at this.
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the old toggle switches and the name.
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There's there's Mr. Munch right there.
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tower. A violation of the penitentiary
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rules meant punishment inside cell
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number 20, also known as the dark cell.
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The basement referred to as the
28:29
dungeon contained cages
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4x4x4 in dimension.
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And this dates back to 1890. The cell
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house.
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Now, these buildings we can't go in. She
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was explaining that during the open
28:47
years, there was a a prison riot through
28:51
here. These buildings, see the floors
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have been burned out.
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That door the lock on it. This must be
29:11
like the solitary confinement
29:13
chamber. No loafing in this area. Here's
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the rose
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garden. Got the guard tower over there.
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State Park and they had trustes from the
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prison that lived out there.
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It's always fascinating when I go to
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places, you know, that people were
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incarcerated here for many
29:47
years, probably passed away here.
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They had no idea that after their time
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people would be paying in mission to do
29:55
a go to a tourist tourist
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spot. I always think about that when I
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go to my
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travels. Can go in a few buildings.
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However,
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house. The north
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wing according to the map.
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now between 26 and 27 prison population
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reach maximum capacity.
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This is what it looked like back then.
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1927
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almost 100 years ago. Two years will be
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100 year anniversary of the cell
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one shows some of the crimes that they
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committed.
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Definitely some horrific stuff.
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Did you get touched by a ghost?
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First degree murder here. Frank Grooms.
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Ralph Po Dexter was in cell four grand
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lararseny and
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escape. Cell five is a
32:23
double. Cell five is a double
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cell with Lavar Schaffen and Robert
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Kennedy. Robert Bernard
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Kennedy. Four people could have been in
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here,
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too. You got the upstairs, too. Oh, wow.
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There's four levels to this. Second
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floor, third floor, fourth
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floor. Out of that one and into the
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building where they house the ga house
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the inmates, not
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guests. This was built in 1911. The lady
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at the front said this was the oldest
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building that had the inmates.
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Not to mention that's why we have
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now facilities that
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way are safe while they are
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some of these were inmates were very
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young 15 years 17 years old 17
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age 11 Jimmy age
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11 next You want to follow me this
33:57
stretchy? Let's go and check it out.
34:00
It's a bird's eye.
34:05
There was a football field here at one
34:07
point.
34:13
Early on.
34:13
That is the building I'm currently in
34:15
right there.
34:18
Dating back to 1911. Yeah. So I always
34:21
stay out of trouble. I can keep the rear
34:23
so from the last one.
34:37
A little bit different style with the
34:37
the bars. More of like a mesh
34:49
Been to a few iconic
34:49
prisons in my travels. I've been to a
34:52
lot of them. Two to kind of remember is
34:54
the Shaw Shank prison in Ohio.
34:57
Mansfield. Yeah, you were there with me.
34:59
I went there, too. It was really neat.
35:01
Mansfield reformatory. Bigger than
35:03
this. I think there was like more than
35:06
four. Oh, yeah. It was huge.
35:16
And then Alcatraz in San
35:16
Francisco, which is on an island.
35:43
Put the food in through here. Get your
35:43
little tray of food. Well, not even a
35:45
tray. Cup of cup of something. Go
35:48
through there. I guess the food they
35:49
probably got to open the whole thing.
36:03
Inmates used honey buckets stored to the
36:03
ventilation shafts as
36:05
toilets. Every morning the prisoners
36:08
left their cells and dispose of the
36:09
waste in the privy. Honey
36:12
buckets. Next time I asked to use a
36:14
restroom, I say, "Where's your honey
36:15
buckets?"
36:17
Never heard that term. Spending years in
36:20
these would just be such a small
36:23
quarters.
36:25
First level number five right there.
36:29
You think that that's a real Yes. Oh, I
36:31
was look on the way in. They said that
36:32
some of the graffiti and scratches are
36:36
from back in the day. That one says
36:39
Nicolet 1885s. I don't know. Or maybe
36:44
just someone was walking up there and
36:45
carved it. I don't
36:50
know. Got a tin. It's like a tin roof. I
36:50
bet when it rains in here it gets pretty
36:52
loud.
36:58
Would be interesting if all these were
36:58
full and people talking how loud it
37:00
would be in here.
37:12
Across from the basketball court is the
37:12
maximum security built in
37:15
54. And evidently there were what you
37:17
say eight people were put to death here.
37:20
All nine of them were outside hung and
37:22
then one right there after they built
37:24
the galley thing. They hung one person
37:27
before they
37:32
five house built in
37:41
54. Death row in gallows located on the
37:41
second floor.
38:00
So, this is a little newer than the 1911
38:00
spot. Obviously, this was built in 54.
38:16
different different weapons. Like you
38:16
could use a spoon, a Shaw shank, you
38:19
could dig your way
38:21
out. Wow, look at these. That could uh
38:24
they're definitely not allowed in
38:26
here. A
38:33
slingshot
38:33
tiny light.
38:56
where the shower was here, right here
38:56
against the wall.
38:59
So you'd leave probably in a timely
39:02
manner, the guards would lead you out of
39:03
your cell and over to the shower, which
39:06
was just this
39:08
here, the exercise yard. You were
39:10
allowed one hour a day. The other 23
39:14
hours a day you were in your cell. So
39:17
you had 1 hour a
39:18
day to go into the exercise yard out
39:50
He filled his days with crossword puzzle
39:50
and occasionally visited the
39:52
penitentiary chaplet.
40:01
October 18th, 1957.
40:01
He was the last person executed at the
40:04
state before the Ferman versus Georgia
40:07
decision to national death penalty
40:10
moratorium. All right, this really is
40:14
something else.
40:21
The man stood on the trap
40:21
door right down there.
40:30
And then right up there is where the
40:30
rope was.
40:39
Things changed a little bit in 78 where
40:39
they handled it.
40:46
I think it's changed now. Don't they do
40:46
firing squad again?
40:48
I think that they do firing squad again
40:50
somewhere.
40:52
Do they? Yeah. Yep.
41:01
10 10 of them right here. 10 of them.
41:01
One of them in this building. The other
41:02
nine onsite but not in this building.
41:06
And there was actually some 11th hour
41:09
reprievals. All these guys.
41:13
Harry
41:14
Orchard, Clifford
41:17
Zipsy, Rudolph
41:27
Wetter, and Ray Snowden. I guess Ray
41:27
Snowden was the one where that trap door
41:29
was used.
41:31
Yep. Pulled a
41:34
lever beneath Snowden's feet in that
41:37
cell that I just shot.
41:39
He was the last
41:41
man that passed away here. Put to death
41:52
here. Oh, we got to find the
41:52
cemetery. Find that on site,
41:54
too. So, Oh, this is so
41:59
eerie. My gosh.
42:02
You had the hose in the drain and people
42:04
pooped their pants.
42:07
23 started off as a shirt factory and
42:09
then 43 became the laundry. Inmates
42:13
using natural hot water did laundry for
42:15
Gowen Field in the Air Force base close
42:18
by. Laundry closed in 73.
42:39
that no loafing. No sitting on the
42:39
mangle tables.
43:10
socks. Mismatched socks were tied here
43:10
until the mate could be found.
43:20
Even in prisons, you lose the other
43:20
sock.
43:25
I don't know what it is about dryers.
43:25
You always lose the
43:32
sock. The
43:32
extractor removes excess water from
43:35
clothing previously
43:43
washed. And the
43:43
showers. Oh, here's like the main shower
43:46
area.
44:02
Just think of Shaw Shank Redemption. You
44:02
got to watch out for
44:03
bogs. A
44:15
station. This is definitely a road that
44:15
you would go in and out
44:27
of. And back here. Oh, that startled me.
44:27
I thought it was a real person. There's
44:29
a guard in there.
44:38
And there was a there was a yard cat.
44:38
Dennis, it says Dennis. One of the
44:39
inmates snuck him in. Got to find
44:42
Dennis. Dennis is supposed to be out
44:44
here still. Somewhere back here is
45:09
Dennis the
45:09
cat. People have place rocks, coins,
45:14
sticks of
45:22
gum. Dennis passed away in 1968. Born in
45:22
52. He was a 16-year-old kitty.
45:35
cooler would hold up to five men and up
45:36
to six
45:37
rooms. Then you got the solitary shower
45:40
room right there. They were allowed one
45:43
shower per week.
46:12
to six. Five guides crammed in this
46:12
room.
47:16
And you do frying
47:31
seven months.
47:31
Seven
47:32
months in 1966 when
47:36
you you get up when you get out of
47:38
Siberia. It's like going home. God, you
47:41
got daylight and you got real fresh air.
47:44
You even got a
47:46
toilet, you know. It's like going home.
48:01
Try digging out right through this spot.
48:01
An escape tunnel.
48:13
The inmates quaried the rock of the
48:13
foothills for the walls from 1893 to
48:17
1894. So they had to make
48:20
their own wall. If you sit down, you
48:22
can't play with the dirt. This is the
48:28
cafeteria. I showed the front of this
48:28
earlier. This is around the back. And
48:29
then where they would keep all the meat
48:31
for the cafeteria was on the ice house
48:33
here.
49:07
The wood measuring board was used to
49:08
record the height of each prisoner. And
49:11
there it is right over there with
49:13
prisoner 987.
49:32
Oh, this is neat. So, this is an old
49:32
photo of the warden's office from back
49:35
in the day. You can see that door with
49:37
the glass frame above it. Pan past these
49:40
windows. There is that same door where
49:42
that photo was taken.
49:50
number of prisoners today that says 480.
49:54
Picked up a magnet and the magnet is a
49:57
recreation or a photo put with a magnet
50:01
behind it of this front administration
50:03
building.
50:05
So, I got that to put on my little
50:07
cabinets back home.
50:13
Yeah. Well worth coming. Well worth the
50:13
$8 for sure. You get to see a lot in
50:15
there. Going to walk through the women's
50:16
ward real quick.
50:19
1920 women's ward
50:22
over here.
50:49
It's like there were some escapees over
50:49
the
50:56
wall. Warden Luke Clap stands behind
50:56
beside Margaret Barney and Vera Keller.
51:00
Ladder to freedom. They
51:02
escaped. They escaped out the wall
51:05
outside there.
51:35
All right, going to head out. Also, this
51:35
is called a smoke tree.
51:52
As we're cruising along, we're passing
51:52
the castle house
51:54
here. It's a house. It looks like a
51:56
castle. It's just right down the road
51:58
from the
52:04
penitentiary. The castle
52:04
house has some gargoyles out front also.
52:09
They got sitting gargoyle. Yeah,
52:12
it's awesome. All right, still cruising
52:14
around. We've arrived now over at the
52:17
depot here. Train
52:19
depot. It's kind of up on the top of the
52:22
hill. Little classic train
52:34
depot. Full US flag there waving in the
52:34
breeze. Over here we got the locomotive
52:43
2295. Check that out. I don't know if
52:43
the depot's open
52:45
today. Union
52:47
Pacific
52:50
2295, nicknamed Big
52:59
Mike. Oh, Big Mike's making some noise.
52:59
Locomotive number 22. Placed here in
53:02
1959. Just watch a short little video, a
53:05
little information stand.
53:17
Mike. Really an impressive piece of
53:41
shows how the locomotive works. You got
53:41
the coal conveyor back here, a firebox,
53:45
super heater tubes, the smoke box, smoke
53:50
stack, which is right
53:59
there. And Big
53:59
Mike has some train facts here
54:04
listed. originated in
54:11
1911. Nicknamed Mike by the railroad
54:11
men. It was a very successful locomotive
54:14
type and more than 14,000 were
54:26
built. Yep. Built in 1920. June of
54:27
1920. Water capacity 10,000 gallons.
54:37
Big Mike's story shows the route it used
54:37
to take. There's Boise there. Used to go
54:40
over to Council Bluffs,
54:42
Omaha. Just talk about Omaha the other
54:45
day. How I get Boise and Omaha, Nebraska
54:48
confused. Big Mike took that route back
54:50
and forth all the time. 1959 when they
54:53
were moving it over here. There's a
54:54
photo of it there. Union Pacific
54:57
Railroaded donated it in 1959.
55:09
Mike. The different types of different
55:09
trains from the 1860, the American type
55:12
locomotive, the eight-wheelers in 1880,
55:15
the Micadoo 282 in
55:17
1920, the Big Boy 4884 in the
55:21
40s, Portland Rose 1950. What's ahead is
55:24
the future
55:26
train. Also in the video it said this
55:29
rolled through Kansas City. Wonder if
55:33
this ever went by Marceline where Walt
55:34
grew up. There's train tracks by there
55:37
which is on the outskirts of Kansas
55:39
City. Couple hours or two from Kansas
55:42
City. I think there's a Union Pacific
55:45
train in the courthouse. Not the
55:46
courthouse but the courtyard next to the
55:49
train depot and
55:51
Marceline. Also one sitting there too.
55:53
It's not as big as this one though. Not
55:55
as big as Big Mike. There's the
55:58
10,000galon little water holding tank
56:01
there. Good
56:07
view. The flag there, the mountains in
56:07
the distance, the clouds above the
56:09
mountains. You see the courthouse off in
56:12
the distance. You got to look closely,
56:13
but it's right at the middle of that
56:14
street
56:21
there. There's Plat Gardens.
56:21
Boy, the
56:27
beautiful a view from Plat
56:27
Gardens passenger station for the Oregon
56:29
Short Railroad line which is right
56:31
behind me. I just walking over there
56:33
next to
56:44
Gardens named after Howard V.
56:44
Howard V.
56:45
Platt here in depot park.
57:01
Looks like it was created for a waiting
57:02
area for those who are ready to take the
57:09
train. Here's a nice little grotto back
57:09
in
57:11
here right along the stream.
57:22
Okay. What is
57:22
this? It's like a
57:25
cave. Oh, it's a cave in there. Look at
57:28
that. Go over this way.
58:21
It's a koi fish. Actually, there's a few
58:21
of them down in there. Look at those.
58:24
Kind of murky. Tough to see them, but
58:56
Popped over here now to the Idaho
58:56
Fishing
59:04
Game area. No dogs allowed.
59:04
Back down this direction.
59:07
There's a goat, a mountain goat there.
59:19
inside. That is a moose
59:19
head. A pioneer cabin back here. It's a
59:22
black
59:23
bear. Pioneer log
59:27
cabin right through
59:50
Lot of taxiderermy through here. Did you
59:50
see how big that moose head is? Huge.
59:55
Oh my gosh.
59:57
I
59:58
know. I just think of Ace Ventura, too.
1:00:01
When I see this much
1:00:03
taxiderermy, this is a lovely room of
1:00:05
death. Take care of them. Bye-bye. Yeah.
1:00:08
Now, this is a real beehive of activity.
1:00:11
Look at this. That those are real
1:00:14
bees. In fact, that's not just all of
1:00:17
them. Look here. There are hundreds, if
1:00:21
not
1:00:22
thousands of bees inside
1:00:25
here. Honey
1:00:27
bees. Right off the side of this little
1:00:30
thing. Pollination. Got a
1:00:34
little aquarium over here.
1:00:45
Oh, Beaver Ecosystem Engineers shows how
1:00:45
they create the little the dam there.
1:00:47
They got some workers down there
1:00:49
cleaning up the
1:00:51
area. Here's the
1:00:53
fish down
1:01:04
here. Look at all these fish down here.
1:01:04
Do not feed the fish, ducks, or geese.
1:01:08
There's there's a sturgeon. Oh, look at
1:01:10
that big old sturgeon down
1:01:26
here. Got the area over here. She clean
1:01:26
kind of cleaning it up. But that's a
1:01:28
little dam that the beavers built down
1:01:42
neat. Yeah, that is a huge fish swimming
1:01:42
around
1:01:43
there. These are These are I swear
1:01:44
there's even a bigger one, but I swear
1:01:46
there's what I saw was like the length
1:01:48
of the car. It was so
1:01:50
big. There's supposed to be four of them
1:01:52
out here. Four big ones. Yeah, four
1:01:55
stairs. I don't know what these
1:02:03
are. Trout. There's a trout.
1:02:03
That is a big fish.
1:02:12
Swimming dinosaurs. Look for the four
1:02:12
sturgeon in this pond. Ancient survivors
1:02:15
are practically unchanged today from
1:02:16
when dinosaurs walked the earth. As of
1:02:18
2023, the latest sturgeon in this pond
1:02:21
are 30 years old, 7 feet long, and weigh
1:02:23
over 200 lb.
1:02:32
seen one of
1:02:32
them, but evidently there's four big
1:02:34
sturgeons. There's one down
1:02:38
there swimming
1:02:48
around. 6 foot long sturgeon. This is
1:02:48
showing the distance here on this bench.
1:02:50
The feets one, two, three, four, five,
1:02:52
six. Ancient fish.
1:03:02
Little rock formation here with a little
1:03:02
placard on it. The
1:03:03
Morrison Nudson Nature
1:03:16
Center. I hear a waterfall. Oh, wow.
1:03:16
Look at that. The tree grew around the
1:03:18
handrail.
1:03:52
this big bird's nest over here. Look at
1:03:52
this
1:03:53
thing. It'd be tough to get a photo
1:03:56
without the the stairs in it,
1:04:00
though. I'm a
1:04:03
bird. I'm in a bird's nest. I made this
1:04:07
all myself. Flying up into the trees,
1:04:10
getting twigs and branches, creating
1:04:12
this entire nest for myself. I love the
1:04:16
the metal wire you found, too. Very
1:04:18
spacious metal wires. Yeah, this
1:04:21
staircase I found out of a scrap
1:04:24
pile. This is my home from now
1:04:28
on. Deb Hard
1:04:45
Boulder. You see on the nearby basalt
1:04:45
boulder
1:04:47
depetss. How do you pronounce that word?
1:04:50
Depict. Oh, depict. Make something more
1:04:53
out of a word than it really even
1:05:51
I think that hose is a little backed up.
1:05:52
All right, that's going to do it for
1:05:53
today. Had a day in
1:05:56
Boise. Boisey, Idaho. Look at this. This
1:06:01
bad
1:06:07
boy. Not here for a long time, but I was
1:06:07
here for a good time. Saw a lot of
1:06:09
notable things around town. Quite a few,
1:06:12
actually. Hanging out with my sister,
1:06:14
getting to catch up with her. a little
1:06:16
family time, but also went out and
1:06:18
about, saw the town. Now we're going to
1:06:21
get back on our ride vehicle
1:06:23
here, head off into the sunset. Thanks
1:06:27
for watching. I'll see you in the next
1:06:28
video. The
1:06:30
vlog is over.