Small Towns & Empty Places In The Backroads of Middle Kentucky - Unusual Roadside Finds On Road Trip
Kentucky Backroads 2022
Transcript
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welcome everyone adam the woo here as a
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recording of this monday july 11 2022. i
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am in kentucky
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tiny town of butler in fact the market
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is right behind me where i picked up
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this piping hot caffeinated beverage and
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i'm just going to go through some of the
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back roads tiny towns and rural areas of
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the state
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i'm inviting you to join me no real
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rhyme or reason what i'm doing other
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than just getting off
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of the interstates of the freeways away
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from the congregations of
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people and just seeing what i can see
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there is a bird walking along the train
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tracks i'm getting distracted join me
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cheers shall you
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i have heard of a bird on a wire
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not a bird on a train track
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it's like walking a tightrope isn't it
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bird
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i really like the butler deposit bank
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also city hall the municipal building
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post office here
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and of course as i showed a moment ago
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the butler market
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quaint little area just to show a
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general layout of the land through this
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atlas that i've been using
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so basically i am right here at the tip
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of where my sunglasses
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meet there that is butler and i'm just
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going to venture this way now i could
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take a more direct route
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southbound
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but i'm going to kind of stay on this
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highway this is 27 i'll be on that for a
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little bit
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but i'm going to veer off of that as
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well
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and just kind of go down through here
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that's what i'm thinking anyway
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always good to have an apple i use my
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phone a lot
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you know to guide me around on the maps
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but i also like to have a hard copy also
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looks like this is the downtown
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got styles 101 tanning sign there that
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kind of 1970s
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style signage someone's got a little bbq
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action going on over here too in the
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morning i do love a good old metal
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bridge
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doesn't get much better than that
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you drive over a bridge it's good to go
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through an old bridge old metal bridge
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like this pulling up to the depot here
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in falmouth or
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foul mouth foul mouth f-a-l-m-o-u-t-h
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and i'll kind of zoom in on the spelling
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well i already said it but
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looks like there's a ferris wheel of
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some sort next to the star
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still has the marquee here some of the
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letters have fallen off
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appears as if this whole theater became
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a record store at some point because it
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says
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records right there the o has fallen off
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as well but
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bottom of the marquee has kind of
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deteriorated
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used to play movies in here
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even some stage productions and shows
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you could have some of the
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now appearing coming advertisements
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there
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oh
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was not expecting this door to be open
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at all
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the music notes on there the stairway up
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to the balcony it doesn't really look
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structurally sound
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so i'm not going to go in plus
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probably not the wisest thing to go in
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there but yeah the doors open
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i love this this whole vintage inn
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and outside now i walked around back
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and this door is open too so i guess
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i could peek in here too
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wow take a look at this
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i can't believe the front and back door
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is open
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now the balcony probably
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not good to go up there but
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taking a look in the back here here's
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where the stage was
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always fascinated by these old theaters
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the relics of the past
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really neat
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a lot of rusted out
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metal
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shards through here
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there is a lock but the door is
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completely wide open at a clock tower
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over there in the distance
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but also this bell tower
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underneath the mural painted on the wall
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over there
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but there is a bell up in the tower
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itself you can kind of see it right
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in the shadows still an active bell well
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if it's active but it's there
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here's some information about it
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bronze bell displayed here was cast
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in 1882
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across the river into ohio
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and just on the outskirts of town
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there's a place called punkyville
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freshly cut grass here
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and a water tower and it looks like a
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few buildings up this driveway i'm gonna
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walk up there
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got a place called cousins dental
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farmer and traders bank
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an old coca-cola machine up there too
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and old pepsi machine as well
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yeah i got a few little
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antiques out front
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there's the pepsi
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and over here is the coke
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a little barber shop sign
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oh a rainbow bread
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rainbow is good bread look at that oh
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look at this is cool too
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there's a wasp or a bee
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flying around
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bno railroad
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was that a monopoly was it b o in
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monopoly
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up there or at least the shell of one
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here's robbie's fixing station this is
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pretty neat
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here on someone's
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in someone's front yard basically and
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this is in memory of charles m beckett
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who was nicknamed punky he was the
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builder and creator
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of punkyville
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and just around this corner are some
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more buildings
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got the water tower off in the distance
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an advertisement for barks root beer
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up top there also oh there's a train
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back here
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or at least part of a train
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lurking in the shadows
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pretty awesome
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very cool little place and the justice
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of the peace
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probably the jail also
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this little wishing well
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it's like a kind of a place that sat eye
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joe would
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be incarcerated in
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in there sad eye
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yeah probably not it's probably still at
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knots there is something really peaceful
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and cleansing to the soul to just get
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out
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away from major thoroughfares
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take these little commutes through the
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woods
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at one with your thoughts out here
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it could also end badly because a lot of
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horror films start this way
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pulling into the town of oddsville
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spelled just like it sounds
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classic truck alert over here
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it's like someone's inside this building
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doing something
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this truck
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here in audville kentucky
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that's pretty sweet
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and this structure appears to be for
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sale there's a for sale sign on it
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i guess if you wanted some of
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the debris you could purchase that
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maybe it was for sale before it caved in
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also an old car just sitting there it
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doesn't look like it runs and just a few
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miles up the way is a
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slightly bigger town of cynthiana if i'm
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pronouncing that correct or cynthia anna
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there's some zombies here
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and the reason that this bench is
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painted with them
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and
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the reason that walking dead characters
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are featured up here is because the
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creator
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of that franchise that television show
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is from here in this town this is pretty
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neat looking this was painted back in
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2016.
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i have to be honest i've only seen maybe
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the first four or five episodes of the
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first season which was the same guy
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someone yelling behind me
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someone on the corner is yelling at
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someone else but i don't think it has
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anything to do with me i've only seen
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first season the director of shawshank
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redemption where i love shawshank
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redemption
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directed those and then i think he was
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fired and someone else took over but one
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day
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at some point i will watch the series
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but
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to be honest i haven't seen all this is
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a really cool downtown
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up top this is pretty neat too
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this opera house signage
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as i go into the shade to be able to see
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it a little better
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rose opera house this whole neon
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that's right there
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this theater
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it's now an active movie theater but
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they still have the old neon up top
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looks to be the county seat as well
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this bank is impressive
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national bank
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of cynthiana
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continue driving about another half hour
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or so
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and have now arrived in paris
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there is a paris
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kentucky and
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over on the corner
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is a miniature version
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of the eiffel tower
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horses history
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and hospitality
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paris kentucky
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this stands i don't know 25 feet tall 30
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feet tall
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right here in this
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community parking area
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also has
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paris kentucky written on that side as
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there's an old five and dime down there
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jj newberry company it looks like
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and up top here
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the home of good things to eat it's
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either fees or
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three e's and an s i can't tell from
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this angle if there's an f e s
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ease
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or fees and now entering
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the town that admiral akbar
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might warn some about
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it's a trap
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trap kentucky
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t-r-a-p-p it's an extra p
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in there
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a little general store over here
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called fox's general store
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this general store according to the site
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on the side has been open since 1900
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oh there it is over there oh yeah
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approaching another metal bridge
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weight limit 22 tons
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i think i'm good
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just a little
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under 22 tons
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awesome
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making my way into irvine now there's
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some satellite dishes
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sounds like a little construction down
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over by that bridge
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and this is designated
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a city the city of irvine was founded
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back in 1812 there is an irvine
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california a little bit south of anaheim
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area still in orange county
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but this is where the bluegrass kisses
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the mountains
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yeah this is completely blocked off
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there's another
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theater here called the mac theater
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old relic of the past
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and never hurts to try the last one was
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open
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little ticket booth here and here's a
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little info on the name named after
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wm irvine
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it was said that he had a strong hold on
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affections of people
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i guess that means people really liked
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him
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now don't be deceived this train is not
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moving
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but i'm moving past it so it's kind of
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hard to tell if it's sitting still or
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not
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but it's sitting still
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it's not moving it's just an optical
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illusion
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based on the rate of speed
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running parallel
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to this train track
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and the train sitting on said tracks
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without a doubt certainly not rush hour
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out here
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no traffic whatsoever completely empty
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road
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but as i drove over this bridge parked
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on the other side of it
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walking back i noticed that there is a
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waterfall over here
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so i'm gonna go show the waterfall
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looking both ways as i cross back over
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got no cars out here
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i haven't seen anyone on this road for a
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while
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covered a little ground and now arrived
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or should i say passing through
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community of rock holds
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kentucky a couple churches up on the
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hill
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one on the lower hill
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one up on the higher hill at the moment
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there is no train going by in fact the
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entire day
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of going past some tracks and haven't
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seen
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an active train i saw the park train
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take a look at this relic
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all rusted
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out oh there's even a description here
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on the side
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tough to really tell what it says
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plumbing and contractor you see that
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part
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top portion
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to williamsburg
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it's a nice vintage rexall sign right
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there that cornerstore
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and here in one of the store windows
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they have what it looked like back in
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the day that was kind of the same angle
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i was just standing up
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and it appears as if the nickname
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for this town there's a stage over here
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is the berg
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right here on the side of the wall the
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b-u-r-g the berg wits restaurant and
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illiads and the bees missing
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up here
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the old signage with the pepsi logo
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still on it kind of faded out
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does not appear as if this is open a lot
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of the businesses down here are open but
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the billiard place
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no longer is the dentist office right
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here
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yeah that is a beautiful antique right
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still here after all these years and
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it's open
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the store below it is open still
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there's also this store on the outskirts
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of town i think i'm going to stop in and
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get myself a a beverage
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i sewed up i'm gonna get a soda could
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get an rc they have rc here it's called
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the quick shop
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food mart hours blank until blank so
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it's insert your own hours
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or maybe they just don't
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maybe they're not 24 hours anymore maybe
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they don't have
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the hours they used to this has opened
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seven days a week they're promoting
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pepsi on this side and there's a bunny
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rabbit right next to the quick
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because bunnies are quick open seven
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days a week
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no loitering or soliciting they did not
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have rc cola but they didn't have a
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pepsi you know i haven't had a pepsi in
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a long time
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it's probably been a couple of months
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since i had a pepsi so i decided yo the
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advertising worked they promoted pepsi
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out front and rc i was gonna get an rc
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but i got a pepsi heading down this way
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i think i'm gonna try to drive
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another hour or two and just a town or
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two over from where i just was fairview
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check out these pan american trailers
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this is also the last community before
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crossing the state line out of kentucky
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and out of one state
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crossing into another kentucky
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right there
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tennessee
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right here tennessee i have arrived
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still continuing south
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there's also
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the signage up here
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first community pass there i'm gonna
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drive another hour or two to my
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destination for the evening
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i'm gonna follow them but before
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crossing over the line you see the sign
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down there still in kentucky
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i thought this is pretty fascinating
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this building the catholic church up
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that way
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this little alleyway with the
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windows
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looks to have been maybe the downtown
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or a business district at some point
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storefronts
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all grown over
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looks like there's even a little bit of
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a fire
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oh look at all the trees and the foliage
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grown up in there
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pretty cool
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see if there's a date stamp up top there
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is this was called the boston lodge
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and then adjacent to it was the hillside
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lodge
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same building
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that's going to do it for today
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these stairs lead
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to nothing
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i could just walk across the line i'm
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gonna drive my car
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there's the sign right over there
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i'll see the next video the vlog
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is over
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also this alley has a lot of traffic
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here goes another car past me
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you