TDW 1869 - Top Of The Iowa Bell Tower
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look at that morning Sun gleaming off
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that windmill beautiful and I'm at a gas
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station
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I'm fueling up next to a window welcome
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everyone Adam if you woo here it's my
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second channel daily vlog Channel ah
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Davey Oh
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today's game plan to take some of the
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off-the-beaten-path less travel
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backroads of Iowa this is Main Street in
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the teeny tiny town of Holland in fact
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that's their post office and I'm really
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curious - is fire hydrants have an
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antenna there's an antenna on that
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hydrant and I have to say there water
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tower is very peculiar looking looks
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like a UFO you have to wonder if there's
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any symbolism to that this seems like
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the place where you'd see some
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extraterrestrial activity now cruising
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through a place called Grundy Center
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home of manly drug that's an interesting
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name
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and here's a nice little relic at this
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bowling alley
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old-school pepsi sign remember back in
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the day when they used to the taste test
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between different soft drinks to see if
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people knew the difference I'm kind of
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thinking the same thing about these
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Midwestern states with the common I know
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that this is Iowa or would you think
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it's Illinois or perhaps Indiana they
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kind of all look the same this is the
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Iowa River careening by at a very slow
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pace the bird making its way video
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bombing the shot are you coming by
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a couple Birds they really want to be in
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the vlog I found this pathway down
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carved into the foliage here others have
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trodden this path this little run off
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the side drainage ditch that's where the
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judge lived and located next door in the
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park is a wooden carving stating jbs
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that I'm assuming stands for Jack and
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the Beanstalk what are you doing up
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there
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- carrying a chicken to the top whoa a
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dragon a dragon I
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where I saw a dragon and look at the
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mouse it's like he just turned around
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suddenly noticing him and he's thinking
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what the
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what are you doing little guy you using
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your trunk to spray your friend you know
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if you get water in the ear it makes it
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very uncomfortable when you're trying to
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sleep and it oozes out on the pillow
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directly in front of this real estate
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office there's a bunch of elephants and
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an alligator I had no idea these
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creatures could be found around these
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parts
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alligators are from IO you know what
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that might be a crocodile yeah that's
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right crocodiles are native here right
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here's something you don't see too often
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anymore a still open Kmart however this
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one is closing just like most of the
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rest of them interesting fact I work for
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that company in the late 90s into the
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2000s for about half a decade it's
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interesting to think what would have
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happened if I would have continued
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working for Kmart all my former
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co-workers and friends were transferred
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up the road about five miles to another
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Kissimmee Florida location and then that
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store folded a few years later and now
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they're all going the way of the buffalo
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wait there's still some Buffalo around
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all right
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overhead clearance on my RV is 12 feet
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according to that sticker I think we're
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good that says 14 feet one inch we made
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it this classic old service station next
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to the cafe reminds me of something
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you'd see on route 66 but this is not
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that particular route in fact this is a
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section of the Lincoln Highway if you
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peek in the window you can see the cash
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register and some of those antique
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products still in the shelf in the early
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days of motoring two major automobile
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trails crossed at this site a farm owner
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named Charlie Reed spotted a business
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opportunity and began selling gasoline
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to motorists in 1923 you got to love a
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tinted glass promoting coca-cola and
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that's sweet neon sign up on the roof
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and at the base of where I'm standing
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this small placard states in the early
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40s this was the base of a Standard Oil
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sign most likely from Oh
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that little service station carved on
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this rock it states Jefferson Highway
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and that is what's located down the
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bottom of that embankment it veers off
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and for 15 miles connects with Lincoln
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two roads merged into one and sitting at
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the threshold as this property with this
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motel it's been open since the 1940s
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inside the diner is the front section of
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a 1939 Cadillac here's a few photos of
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what it looked like back in the day and
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there's Charlie standing in front of his
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business oh they're getting shorter 13
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and 6 inches whoa they're getting
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shorter farther I go and of craving a
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certain kind of cappuccino or latte each
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morning is stopping you from doing these
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back road trips rest assured there are
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Starbucks
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wait
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that's not a regular Starbucks this is
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what I'm talking about
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not only have they carved words inside
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this tree but also added the torso of
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Abraham Lincoln and going the extra mile
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there's a top hat others noggin there's
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some really large wind turbines out
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there but upon closer inspection they're
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not moving there's plenty of wind but
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they're not turning I pulled over real
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quick to document the links that this
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turkey will go to to stay safe from
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hunters is made out of metal he's like I
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tried that's right here come on he's
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like The Terminator Turkey
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after a pretty lengthy detour arrived in
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Jefferson these paper airplanes signify
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their slogan a place to store next to
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the courthouse
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there's a beautiful bell tower
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serenading it and this is something I've
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never seen on the side of a building
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before the map of the location where I'm
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standing if you look very very closely
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I'm right in there
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you have to like squint your eyes a
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little bit but I'm in there not on a map
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put on a painting on the side well no
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it's not a painting it's made out of two
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actual tile teeny-tiny pieces of tile I
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bet that took a lot of work and there he
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is Thomas Jefferson himself sitting
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alone on the bench doing a little
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reading doing a little studying all
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right I think he just wants to be left
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alone I tell you why he's sitting there
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by yourself probably what's in your mind
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my own business the world's biggest
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vient can be seen right there on that
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barn but in reality it's just part of a
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mural on this wall oh look there's the
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bell tower interpreted through paints
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this thing's been here for a heck of a
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long time you can see how it's chipping
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apart the water tower stating the
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location who what is this
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the wall is decomposing with some sort
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of ooze this fish has been captured by
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this gargantuan winged creature you got
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yourself some dinner buddy Hitchcock
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would be Wow the tower was dedicated on
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October 16th 1966 and I believe I
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believe I can go up to the very tippy
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top they even have a decorative welcome
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mat as you enter and a death mask of the
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man who created it that's slightly
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unusual I realized I didn't have any
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cash on me so I had to hit up this
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little drive up walked up well you could
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drive up to it but I walked up ATM and
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I'm noticing Doreen Wilbur who was an
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Olympic gold medalist is shooting a bow
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and arrow directly across the road
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dodging traffic aiming for this target
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that's a bit of a waste you're wrong yes
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yeah okay so also lest you find a wild
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woman Todd Lee right now here on top of
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the roof now it is to the left I think
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that that's where you with dreams over
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oh there he is right here
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we've got the wildwoman we've got the
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mosaic over there then we have a third
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one new this year called cacciatore
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Rippey I like how they have all the the
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names of what you're looking at
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it doesn't work as well through the lens
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of the camera but that's the stop sign
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down there on the ground
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right above our heads
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now she couldn't fit in the elevator the
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Large Marge had to listen to the bells
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from down there either way they sound
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oh this be Chris please I'm here there's
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baseball look Thomas J would not enjoy
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those when I run a jointer across there
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the blade that sticks out out the bottom
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is going to hit the high funds knowledge
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and but I can't reach out into the dip
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I'd say every day I will take on a guy
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with power tools for speed if you can
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believe that this is not how it's not
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how I've done it this way it's looking
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okay so do that we're going to use a
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plane like this it's called stroke
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Planning Center that round blade can dig
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up underneath next grain you take a
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chunk of wood just take an eighth of an
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inch with every stroke ya got write down
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more than aggressive joinery here cut
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all the way across here and Howie up
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straight edge there was no low side you
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run the fence along the face of the
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board and it makes two cuts
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leaving the middle you want I mean
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faster modules yeah a guy had a set up a
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table for router he'd be 20 minutes and
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go yeah yeah I'm gonna have 30 of those
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maybe is also correctly and they lost
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the front of that every corner gets
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three all Canadians will notice that's
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why in 500 years instant
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and then it's got a depth stop so it's
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going to go and go and go until this is
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riding along the surface here won't take
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anymore grouper back roof or bottom
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loosen this bolt right here you can move
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the blade wherever you want your cut
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down keep the board up against this
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fence you get straight cut and then as
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you cranky itself eats it words going to
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an on tone both leaving rips
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hate that
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No
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that was amazing the guy's name is
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Robbie Peterson and he owns this shop
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RVP 1875 historical furniture the only
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time he uses nails and screws is for
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trim work I worked in the cabinet shop
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20 years ago for about six months I have
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to say what he's doing is considerably
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more interesting and probably more
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rewarding than what I was doing
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working with modern machinery very
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interesting I'll see you guys tomorrow
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vlog over