TDW 1532 - Wasn't Expecting To See THIS !
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heroes in a half welcome everyone Adam
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the a woo here it's my second channel
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daily
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Vlog sorry about that it's a daily woo
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this interstate is super
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Dusty just look at all that
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Dirt Coffee status achieved but it's so
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scalding hot
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got to let it cool down first I'm
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heading into a little town called
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Prattville Alabama meeting up with a
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friend that's going to show me around I
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know it's not meant to be but that
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concrete truck sitting there at the
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light is very ominous looking well sadly
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it looks like the king of
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meats finally went out of business no
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longer The King and I love these I love
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these old Coca-Cola
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signs right over there
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is an old Cemetery right here in the
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woods and this is where Daniel Pratt is
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buried by the way this is Joey right
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here so this is where Prattville got its
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name Prattville got its name Daniel
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Pratt and there's his grave right there
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you can see where it says Pratt on the
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side of
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it he has the tallest
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monument here in this little Cemetery he
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died in 1873
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born in 1799 and at the bottom of the
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hill is a huge Old Mill built by Daniel
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Pratt so Joey is a geoc catcher and he
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is looking up a geoc catch that's in
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these woods and all around town are
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these fountains and you'll notice there
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is no knob on this you can't turn this
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on or off it's constantly running deep
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from the ground and the nickname for
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Prattville is Fountain City because
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there are fountains like these all over
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town taga County a county that is older
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than a state itself are you drinking
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water over there love it you can drink
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right out of that drink right out of
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water I'm now proving the fact that I'm
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not the only person with a dirty
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windshield that's bad right behind this
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gas station
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is another water artisian water well
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behind the backside there's someone
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filling up right now so basically they
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bring their water bottles and
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jugs free
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water Adam the woo Wild
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Kingdom
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400 that's a lot this one is designated
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the dter road artisian well and they
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have a little shelter built over the top
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of it it's pretty cool cool right you
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don't see this too many places water
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from the
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earth a little bit of a small Cliff how
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deep you think that water is there it's
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about 6t deep so right here is not very
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deep not but you could probably jump in
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there there leap off into the you going
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to you going to jump in the water cool
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down a little bit no look at this
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ssess developing over there in the
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corner look at the size of this
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Children's Park if I had something like
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this I was a child I would probably
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never go home look at that wait a second
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what in the heck is
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that any clue what that is Joey got a
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clue oh you know just a random elephant
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in a in
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a in slacks and a long sleeve shirt in
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the back of a Ford no big deal see right
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here where it's coming
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out it's coming out of the ground y oh
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yeah look it's not bubbling out of where
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it should be bubbling out of it's
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bubbling out of the ground and the story
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is there's a few different churches here
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and for years they tried to pave over
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the spring thinking that the water would
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not tear up the concrete and of course
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the water always
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won and they eventually had to build
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this Fountain here you can see the water
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is just continually creeping up through
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the pavement
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some old boats right there oh look
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another old Coca-Cola sign there's the
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old train depot right there just sitting
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there abandoned we're now entering a
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section called Wilderness
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Park 26 Acres but most the locals here
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call this the bamboo forest is that what
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you call it do you call it the bamboo
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forest what is the significance of the
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bamboo for it is very unusual that there
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is a bamboo forest it is very unusual in
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Alabama in Alabama how strange um they
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planted this a long time ago and there's
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like seven different varieties of bamboo
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in this little Park uh they used this
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park back in the 60s for a training
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facility for Vietnam and Korea right
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here in Alabama and 60s yeah so unusual
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some of the some of the varieties can
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grow up to 4T in the 24-hour period of
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time that's
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crazy what song was that you were
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playing no clue you don't have a name
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for it
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bambo look at this pathway on the right
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hand side tons of bamboo that's standing
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on the left hand side a lake full of
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frogs and bamboo that has fallen there's
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a little frog right there right there
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hanging out just
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chilling getting a frog's eye view of
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the
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bamboo I just made that up Frog's eye
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view right along the path there is the
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bottom of a tree the roots of the tree
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and if you look you can see how the tree
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goes into the lake a lot of I'm always
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fascinated by riding either in concrete
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or in trees or in
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bamboo 2008 gosh look at this this is
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amazing Alabama you're full of secrets
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and that is a bamboo root when I first
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saw it it looked like some sort of like
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slithering
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snail were you just shaking that I
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thought that was the wind at first I
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thought the wind was really like
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whipping up out here but that was
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you I got something in my eye I
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seriously just got you just got
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something in my eye there's a little
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creek down there
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hiding I still want to know about that
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bamboo torture you think it's true do
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you think bamboo could really grow
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through you it could
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happen that can't be comfortable man
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it's not how long can you sit there see
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it down in there right there see it oh
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yeah look there's a geoc catch right
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there under this
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tree shh don't tell anyone what happened
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here I don't think they're together
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anymore either that or maybe a tiger
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came through and just just mauled the
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tree black bear but I think you're right
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I think that uh the relationship has
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ended in we're a rabid possum a rabid
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possum we got them it's
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Alabama seems legit and all that bamboo
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started growing in 1940 from seed
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packets so basically there was no bamboo
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here in 1940 all the bamboo has grown
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since then going
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up yep going at it we are now in the
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town's
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museum look at this
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doll Pratt children's
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doll slightly terrifying so these
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buildings this one and this one burned
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down this bridge is gone but supposedly
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in the water you can still see the pylon
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so when we go over there we'll check it
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out and remember the cemetery from
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earlier that's it right there someone
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has done a painting of it up at the top
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of the hill and someone has carved the
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face of Daniel Pratt right there what's
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he staring at what are you staring at
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Daniel and over here it looks like we
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have some sort of cracker
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rations right there they look like
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bricks but they're not that's edible
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look at the absolute shock on this
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Bird's face no no we passed this earlier
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that was that abandoned train Depot
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that's what it looked like in its prime
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I think this might be the happiest face
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I've ever seen George Washington have
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he's smiling he's smiling from ear to
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ear I know he loves money and he's on
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the money which is like it's like a
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double whamming we're now heading
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downtown and I really want to get some
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drone shots of that Old Mill they have
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erected a beautiful Fountain there and
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this statue of Daniel Pratt overlooking
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the mill and the dam and the water and
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aaga Creek Creek get some drone shots
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from the sky overlooking the
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majesticness of this beautiful River SL
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Creek I'm not sure what the difference
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between a river and a creek is but this
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is a poning body of water and from the
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sky it looks pretty freaking cool here
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in Prattville Alabama named after the
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one and only Daniel PR and there are the
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pylons from that Old Bridge that used to
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go across here top of the roof there are
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trees growing out of the top of the
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building you don't see that every
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day look at this old grocery store
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sitting here empty and one of those old
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Coca-Cola signs this one all the red has
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faded
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off that's a
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relic back on the interstate now trying
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to
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get down the road a bit one thing I do
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every day when I drive is I try to pull
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over at every exit this means in the
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course of a
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day caught you this means in the course
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of a day I really only get about 80 to
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maybe 100 miles down the road this is
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after about 8 to 10 sometimes 12 hours
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of filming stuff I see on the side of
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the road and I literally have to force
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myself occasionally to drive for long
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distance es and pass exits pass things
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that I know are probably really cool
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nooks and crannies of goodness off the
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side of the road just so I can get down
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the freeway get down the interstate and
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the highways and gain some distance cuz
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if not I would never go anywhere I would
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only move about a mile a day so I have
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to force myself to go for a while so
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that's what I'm doing now trying to get
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down the road and gain some time and get
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some distance between where I was and
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where I'm going this is a little town by
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the name of
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Georgiana Alabama and according to this
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sign there is a Hank Williams
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museum look at this old school
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building obviously not used
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anymore someone has even smashed the
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window on the door up there thrown
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something through the glass Hank
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Williams Senior fan clubhous and right
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behind my van is another home that has
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an important significance to
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Hank his boyhood
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home this was a place called figpins Log
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Cabin which is where Hank Williams
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played a lot of different
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concerts and they have it right back
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there behind his childhood home that is
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really awesome they have a cutout of
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papy McCormack with his instrument there
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and look there it is in this case that's
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pretty cool and here's the kitchen where
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all the meals were prepared Hank
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Williams could have been right here
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making a sandwich as a
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child that was very interesting I ended
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up purchasing a hat $8 a pretty good
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deal they have all kind of cool stuff in
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there including the piano from his
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church when he would sit at the piano
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and sing along with the pianoist that's
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super cool when he was a young we lad as
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well as a bunch of other really cool
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things all through the home every room
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is filled with all kind of interesting
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tidbits of a younger Hank Williams
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Senior who went on to become a legendary
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not only singer but a legendary icon not
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only in country music but also in music
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all music in
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signs Jerry's
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Place obviously has seen better days but
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look at that old sign it looks like this
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place used to give a robic lessons and
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they had tanning beds horses
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what's up fellas there is like a tree
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full of gourds it's a gourd tree that my
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friends is a cotton
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field whoa why does Ronald look so
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surprised on that billboard
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I honestly think I might be the only
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person staying in this hotel
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tonight I'm in this small town by the
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name of Andalusia Alabama and right up
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here in the town square is a Street
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Preacher bellowing out his thoughts and
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it's the middle of the night believe the
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Lord Jesus Christ and the Bible says he
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shall be saved not
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yourself you can't be good enough
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salvation the Bible said is a gift of
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God a free gift of God Jesus Christ died
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so that you can have eternal life pretty
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cool little downtown area that
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Courthouse over there kind of reminds me
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of the one from Back to the Future right
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there but I was looking over here in the
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window of the store and they have some
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really cool old Popeye stuff look at
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them right there rowing a boat and
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whatnot and then down below here he's on
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the train tracks with olive oil and he
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still has his pipe in the tattoo newer
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Popeye they're talking about getting rid
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of the pipe and getting rid of the
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tattoo for whatever reason so the old
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school Popeye is the way I remember him
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I'm now walking through the back alleys
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of this town
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this seems pretty
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safe hopefully it's safe there's an old
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train car right here this is called Miss
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Andalusia on this spot in the early
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1940s Hank Williams married his first
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wife Audrey right here where this
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building now stands
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and they have a mural
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dedicated to the
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couple there used to be a garage that
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sat right here and they were married in
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the garage and now it's like a general
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store that is very cool there's history
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everywhere around every corner you know
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I was thinking about the preacher down
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here in the Square no matter what your
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beliefs are no matter what your thought
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process is on any subject you really got
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to hand it to someone who will come out
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in the middle of the night stand on the
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street
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corner dedicate their entire evening and
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in that gentleman's case probably his
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entire life to trying to express people
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what your belief is trying to win people
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over the work ethic of
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it it's pretty amazing I'm going to go
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back to that hotel that I'm staying in
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all by
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myself get some sleep I'm going to go
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home and well makeshift home for the
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evening I'm going to go home home and
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sleep well