Small Towns in Lower North Carolina - Eating at Weird What-A-Burger / Getting Parking Ticket & MORE
North Carolina Small Towns 2022
Transcript
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today's adventure begins the truck pulls
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by
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the downtown area of concord north
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carolina
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as a recording of this wednesday
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february second
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groundhog day as a recording of this
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and i'm here with carolina tony
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is there going to be more how many more
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weeks of winter is there going to be did
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you see the groundhog this morning this
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morning what was the consensus more
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weeks six more weeks of winter
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you could have guessed it yeah cause
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there's six more weeks of winter anyway
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you look at it
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we're right here next to this
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classic 1966 mural
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at the scotty store
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oh there goes some hay going by
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scotty stores 1966 obviously this has
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been repurposed a few years ago and
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cleaned up but it still has that
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1966 vibe
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do the intro i'm inviting you to join me
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and
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the one and only
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carolina town yeah
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shall you oh wait let's do it again
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take two i'm not gonna edit that out
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join me and the one and only carolina
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tony and we're just gonna go around
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start in concord and just peruse around
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some small towns cover a lot of miles
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gonna hop in your truck
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and you can be my chauffeur and we'll
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get out on a highway and with carolina
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tony you gotta do the shall you
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join me carolina tony
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shall you nail it and while there's no
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traffic going by just stepping back here
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for one moment and just show this and
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all
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its glory
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that's enough i gotta get back out of
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the road
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gonna get back out of the road
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things go better with coca-cola
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look at this this is a thing of beauty
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right here the artist's name was hampton
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back on 5 24
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1966
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that she has a look of joy
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on her face one that cannot be
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replicated by any other
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beverage except perhaps a piping hot
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caffeinated beverage
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there's a coffee shop right behind me
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have acquired a piping hot caffeinated
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beverage from press and porter
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established 2019 just a few years ago
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coffee and poor house
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it was kind of reasonable i did not go
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poor poor house i did not go poor in
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this house from purchasing this and you
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went with
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not a pot you went with a cool cobra a
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cold brew cool crisp cold brew peppers
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it's called nitro nitro is it strong
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a little kick to it i'm gonna be jacked
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up in a minute now it appears as if the
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courthouse or maybe the former
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courthouse is obscured by this foliage
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good thing we walked down this way
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because here is another
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coca-cola mural five cent relieves
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fatigue which is an advertisement they
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used to use back in the day not only
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delicious and refreshing
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this is a little bit newer this was not
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this is not back from 66 this is
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probably a little newer maybe a
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made to look like a retro relic
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still pretty beautiful nonetheless you
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see there's a lot of new construction
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around here too and i always say this is
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a little more difficult than wheel of
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fortune
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because you only get certain letters you
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got a ca and a vw so probably the world
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something in the world but it's been
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painted over
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through here so your guess
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is
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now through here
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one of a handful
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of whataburgers not the texas chain
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but there are a few of those around
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north carolina and they have numbers on
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them
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i'm excited to see one of the handful of
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north carolina whataburgers not
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affiliated with the chain
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with the silhouette of the water tower
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in the distance yeah take a look at this
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you can enjoy cherry lemon sun drop but
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also underneath that star which kind of
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reminds me of carl's jr it's not another
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fast food establishment what a burger
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and that the only difference in the name
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from the texas version
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totally different affiliation this is
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more of a locally owned place is the
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dash the other one's in mooresville
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right is that am i saying that correctly
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mooresville
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yeah so we should head over there yeah
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and have a burger a little later yeah
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baby
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that's what the burger looks like right
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there i think that's a pickle on top of
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that the city of concord bicentennial
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time capsule back from 1997 that's
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probably when it was placed there no
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indication of when that's going to be
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open
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however that spit looks fresh though
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and just next to that
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here off main street
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is a mural titled off main street
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this is a lot newer this was put here
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back in 2013. also noticing over here
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you see the church steeple there
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but right here where the address says 24
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cab
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is the old concord telephone
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shown here by this painting down this
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alley
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1897 it started and
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disbanded in 1987
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as shown right up here
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and next to their mailboxes is a
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telephone right above the outgoing mail
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slot here's another one
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maybe a jewelry store it looks like
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guys just proposed to his future wife
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or just someone that's really excited to
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have that that's a very oversized ring
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now i gotta hop in i was gonna say hop
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in the back
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but i'm gonna hop in the carolina tony
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mobile drove about a half hour well
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probably 20 minutes up the way to
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kannapolis you see the kannapolis water
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tower and train station this is the
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hometown of
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race car legend dale earnhardt
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these are very peculiar very futuristic
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it's called a bike lid
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amtrak
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has the amtrak logo on the side of it
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carol carolinian carolinian is that how
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you pronounce that girlanian carolinian
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made by amtrak it's like
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you put this over the top of a bicycle
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right
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i don't know i'm just guessing now
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how to use a como used car
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bike lid it's a bike lid motorcycle
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oh look at that park your bicycle in
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here
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the faint sounds of that siren going by
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here at the tribute plaza
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what were you saying you think that they
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they alerted the authorities because you
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lifted that bike lid yeah
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now you fake you never know you never
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know why you said that you you have been
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in a race car before right
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where did you race a car uh lowe's motor
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speedway lowe's motor speed has been
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called everything a awesome couple
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bojangles charlotte motor speedway
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charlotte motor speedway i did 160 miles
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an hour
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that's pretty neat that was i will tell
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you the most awesome thing i've ever
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done in my life
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whenever i think of race car driving i
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think of tom cruise
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days of thunder
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do you ever see days of thunder i am
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that was filmed in north carolina yeah
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i call that
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top gun in a race car
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basically almost the same plot
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but just in a race car
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and there's no maverick no one named
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maverick
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you're my favorite one
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my favorite race car movie i'm on fire
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i'm on fire
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ricky bobby oh
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talladega nights and just a couple
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blocks away from where we just were
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is this very fantastic marquee at the
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gym theater with the neon still an
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active
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theater still in business you got a
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little batman poster over there
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national register of historic places
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love when things end up on the national
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register 1936 and then also down here
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the tile work
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and this has seen some years
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in fact the door that goes into the
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look at that look at that old-timey
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register down there
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this is a relic
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current attraction is rated pg this is
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like looks like it's something from the
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80s right here kind of stepped over here
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just to give an angle from across the
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road
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appears to be someone inside to see if
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we can get in and take a peek on what is
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inside
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this historic place wow
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it's open
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check this out
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and it appears as if they are running a
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matinee at the moment and there's one or
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two people inside the theater all right
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that place is awesome
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completely
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non-modernized is that the word you use
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non-modernized
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i would say so i thought you coined that
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term
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look at this this reminds me of old
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hollywood
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this gives me that old hollywood vibes
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and now pulling into landis
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water tower of landis right there next
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to the tracks and small little downtown
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and it looks like there's a mural over
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there notice the sign up here says the
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lawyer's office
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but before it was that it was known as
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the lin brothers busy store dating back
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to 1901
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still has the etching on the window
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right there
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used to be a general store yes it's
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called the busy store the lynn brothers
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store so atlantis
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was
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what was the thing was it was the
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the factory is that what
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made the town
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so textiles
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and i'm sure there's a depot somewhere
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that's pretty neat the busy store still
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had the coca-cola signage
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okay on the front of those
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those doors thank you
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this is guys now oh where's the where's
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the old jail
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i believe that's a depot sure is we
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should walk over there too and just
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across the way within eye view of
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the depot
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is the post office there off in the
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distance a lot of times you'll see these
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depots little relics of the past without
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the tracks
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tracks have been pulled up you think
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they moved it
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that's what she said
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she said they moved the i thought that
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was a snake at first but it's a stick
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okay so she said they moved the depot
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okay
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the foundation so i was guessing wrong
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but check that foundation out though
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look at it how crooked it is
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you can see where the ramp used to be
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can't see too much in there
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oh you know what the tracks are over
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there yeah okay we passed those on the
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way in
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so they moved it from over there on that
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side of the water tower now remember
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there were tracks when we first pulled
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in here looks to be an old stove in
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there
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as well i'm peeking through the window
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as i pull the camera back you'll be able
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to see the glare of the water tower
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behind me see
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that was a neat effect
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unintentional but it kind of works
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there's my shadow
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you want to test the water
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you want to do the honors
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uh
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you got to pump it down
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no nothing that's kind of fun oh it's a
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different kind of pop yeah
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cut-offs down in the ground
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it's a no freeze pump
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an old freeze pump well
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you want some explanation how it works
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yeah
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the valve that cuts the water off is
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underground
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and if it wasn't during the winter all
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this would freeze you won't be able to
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get water out
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so when you open this it pulls a rod up
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down below and the water flows out and
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when you cut it off the water goes back
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down so therefore there's no water if it
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was working there'd be no water in this
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part so it couldn't freeze okay
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interesting
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you taught me something new it's cause
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i've milked cows for eight years i know
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all that stuff it's the same technique
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as melting milking a cow
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yeah no train horn if a train did go
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through here
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you're just kind of taking your chances
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you got to be very aware and look both
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ways i thought it meant if you have one
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in your car don't blow it well that too
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it's just up the ways a couple miles
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china grove
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still have not seen
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an active train going by here
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i'm noticing over here was a a billiards
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parlor you could faintly make out the
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advertisement that says billiards or no
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ballards there's three advertisements
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here you got the
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bostian mercantile company
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you have this one here called
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patterson's
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guessing that says patterson's
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right there and then the the far one
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down here either says ballards or
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billiards
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yeah i think that's ballard's barely
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could make it out
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this you could somewhat make it out
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this was just a little better
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some nice little relics here corner of
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west thom street and south main
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this is kind of a unique building with
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the storefronts
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place called coleman music that is
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closed down right over there
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it's kind of a neat little apartment
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around the back
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with the wooden staircases here
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kind of decomposing
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fall again
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but take a look at this around the back
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this is tucked away around the back of
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those storefronts
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right here
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does not appear to be lived in
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or being lived in
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now here is the downtown proper
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i'm gonna pull over and just see what we
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can see
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a lot of
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general stores through here
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with the signage there
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this antique signage
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in front
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and the brickwork there
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seen some years
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ah definitely a main street usa vibe
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through here hello
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look at the
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on the wall
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just a little bit
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i'm thinking of ace ventura too right
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now quote from aceventure too
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take a look
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got a jackalope up there
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if these things start talking i'm gonna
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have some country bear jamboree vibes
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going on
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oh my gosh
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this is right here in a store up on the
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store shelves wow
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look at all these says no right turn
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train
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and the train is about to pull through
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holy cow that's moving that's right
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and it's gone
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just like that
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that was a fast-moving train
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it's a candy shop there on the corner
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it's been there for a long time
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a little boutique
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insurance agency a pizza place a grill
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and a place called miller hotel down
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there on the end oh could it be
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could
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could it be
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well there's a cheerwine down there
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adam gets excited when we see phone it
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don't work it doesn't work anymore
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you very rarely will see them though
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even you'll see the shell
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the skeleton but you won't see the yeah
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four minutes
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four minutes very cool
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so it's been unplugged that's a relic
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all right
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there is no
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dial tone on this no dial time at all
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but still i'm holding a pay phone oh
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it's the little things
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look at that look at this right next to
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the paypal
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drink cheerwine
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cheerwine was invented
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right up the road in salisbury
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is that where the steak was also
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invented the steak salisbury steak
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another stop on the national register of
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historic places
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built back in 1895 this roller mill
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this is a thing of beauty right here
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also had chat and dog food
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or maybe it's chatham feeds
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flour
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meal and feeds
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ah this is nice it's closed now but peek
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it in the window here you can still they
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see they have parts of the mill itself
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the working parts in there
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this is a museum that's open sometimes
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but today it's not open
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just kind of peeking in the window here
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that's cool yeah
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all right there you go oh watch out
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there's someone in the window right
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there's a farmer in there
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i saw him oh
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oh you good i'm good
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how was how was your swing it was it was
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a it was a blast it didn't fly over you
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poop on your head
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what are you talking about you didn't
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see it you're talking about the little
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spikes above the swing at the top of the
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swing right a little spike sticking up
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and keep pigeons from pooping on your
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head
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you don't want the pigeons to defecate
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while you're on enjoying the time on the
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swing
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right up there
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let me zoom in on those
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it's to stop pigeons yeah the pigeon
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poop is pretty spectacular i don't know
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it's not even a work that's a tongue
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twister
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and that tire was definitely flat
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on that truck you can hear that flat
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tire driving down the road
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here's the old town hall jail door also
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noticing here on the edge of town
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this is
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an old theater as well you can see where
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the marquee used to be that architecture
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the
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coming attractions of what movies were
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going to be playing would be glued right
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up here on the side of the window with
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the lights yeah look at this
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right there this whole theater
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oh yeah
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marquee would have been right there
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and here's where they would have had the
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movie posters
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as well
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brought something to my pants that i
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will actually do
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this appears to be china
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old movies
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still on our way
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to whataburger
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and as we're just cruising along
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keith's auto sales this building
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is a relic wow look at that architecture
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that's awesome
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stuck in a little bit of traffic not too
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bad though
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oh they're putting the whole transformer
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up there
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look at that
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pretty cool
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well behind the scenes of how the power
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grids power lines work and just pulling
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into town there's a ford mercury dealer
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over here the advertisement still on the
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side kind of painted on the side
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just waiting on this light to change
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almost to the next destination
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designated whataburger drive-in number
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11
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and this has
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quite an amazing piece
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of architecture
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with the style of it look at that
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welcome to whataburger
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yeah yeah
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i haven't had a hamburger in a while i
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don't know if i've had a hamburger since
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in 2022
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wow i've been i've been kind of on a
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little bit of a weight loss journey be
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careful you might be a hamburger
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gotta get out of the way let's drive in
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this retro looking drive-in
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yeah but eating pretty well
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but i think i'm gonna have i have a
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little cheat day get myself a burger
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because when in rome
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this is awesome look at this this old
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signage
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i'm gonna get a hamburger
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went ahead and walked inside
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we have an atm over here
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for those who need cash and this is the
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front counter over there they're making
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the burgers
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right behind it
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got an old photograph there
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of the owners
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el and cw boss
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and this is what we're dealing with look
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at this
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a tasty treat
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tastiest treat in town
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got concord
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kannapolis and there must only be three
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of them left even though they're
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numbered
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differently yeah this is number 11.
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there must only be three left of the 11
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or 12 original ones got the toothpick
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and remove the toothpick and just see
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what this looks like inside this this is
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like a little souvenir this little
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oh they put the pickle on top i think
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i've ever seen that with a pickle on top
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like that
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you can see there's the photo of it
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there's the pickle
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kind of see what's going on down in
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there decent sized
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patty got some mustard just like i like
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it
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lettuce tomato
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fry down in there
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you eat it with the pickle on top or do
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you put the
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i'm gonna put the pickle on it
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just about like that
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and see what all this hype is enough
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pretty good
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it's tasty
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the internet said this was the number
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two burger in mooresville yeah
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i'm gonna say it's the number one
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i've only i've never been to morrisville
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that's why i was saying that i'm never
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anywhere else in mooresville that was
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thoroughly enjoyable
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just a good old standard
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tasty hamburger
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here's the mooresville depot
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right here off center avenue in main
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street
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right along the railroad tracks
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a couple pretty good
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soda murals here in town too as well as
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this cells royal blue shoes
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jp mills department store over here to
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the side and this is on top of look at
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this on top of a coca-cola mural says
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delicious and refreshing you can make
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that out below the shoe mural and here's
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something you don't see every day is sun
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drop golden cola
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she is sitting inside the golden cola
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she's the golden girl
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the original golden girl
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right here i never realized
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that she was called the golden girl
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promoting sun drop golden cola
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refreshing pick-me-up
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golden girl
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cola interesting now i've heard of sun
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drop
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but i had never heard of golden girl
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interesting in memory of margaret
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towel king
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i am really fascinated coca-cola over
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the sales shoes
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are the shoes over coco i think the
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shoes is over the coca-cola and this is
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a very
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good size
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this entire side of the building
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down in the distance you could see the
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silos should draw a blank on those words
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the silos way down there
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can you see me i can see you
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and before ten digit dialing even before
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seven digit dialing
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there was three digit
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dialing
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back in the day
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the most comfortable mile a minute car
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ever built pictured right here now it's
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closed today
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right there says closed today but this
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is known as dale earnhardt's
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garage mahal
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we'd probably drive up there though
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gone some
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lawn maintenance workers over there
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the garage mahal
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i never even heard about this you know
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this place even existed
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now this says
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thank you for smoking your winston's
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outside
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look at that and then inside here you
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kind of
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peek through the window there's the good
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rich
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good wrench
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car
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snap-on tools advertiser
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how about that 1994 chevrolet lumina and
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i don't believe it's open at all right
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now yeah not even today but just in
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general
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going off of that sign
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see our reflection in the window can you
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see us faintly there
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give a wave
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all right got a tractor
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pulling two round bales one on the front
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one on the back and now pulling back
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into concord with the concord water
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tower
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over off to the side
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and i've done a full circle around some
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of these small towns
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and have made it back
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to this mural
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where it
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began same one here at the scotty store
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we saw a lot of these
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yeah coca-cola murals
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saw quite a few what did you say this
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this used to be over here
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a hotel a hotel hotel concord
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that's gonna do it for today
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from me
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the one and only carolina tony yeah i
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saw show adam this is a very heavy
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not only tow truck town
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but also a parking ticket town
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i had three hours to park in the parking
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structure over there they don't charge
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you to park two hours street parking we
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were gone a little longer than three
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hours
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i got a parking ticket for parking in
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the structure
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okay now let's do the outro it was only
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ten dollar parking ticket but
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all right i'll see you in the next video
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the vlog
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is over
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let's see i'm used to you know paying an
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admission to a parking structure
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and then going in here and parking it's
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not the case there's all street parking
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here in town
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but thankfully talked to an officer
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that's in here and he said i could pay
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in cash i'm going to go over here past
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the city hall
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and go ahead and take care of because
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they do not accept credit cards online
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we're just gonna walk over here and and
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take care of this
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parking ticket
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just real quick
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yeah it's like the smallest little
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golf cart that goes around
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they must they must mark tires i think
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we're probably only gone for what three
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and a half hours
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there was a three hour limit
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i guess we could have probably should
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have got back a little quicker all right
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i got my receipt here
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i have paid my debt to society
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oh
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got my receipt and i'm good to go
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i'll always remember this parking
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structure
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be wary anyone
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three hours they mark tires
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and they will give you a ticket here in
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concord