The Oldest Town In Illinois on Halloween Day 2020 - Backroad Trip Thru Eastern Areas of The State
Backroad Trip thru Illinois on Halloween Day 2020
Transcript
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welcome everyone adam the woo here
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today's adventure
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begins at a cool crisp 38 degrees i
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might should probably have a jacket on
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currently it is halloween morning in
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tilton
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illinois just over the state line from
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indiana where i will be traversing
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southbound down highway 150
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also known as illinois one going through
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quite
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a plethora of small communities
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no big cities no big areas
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all just soaking in the the ambiance the
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sights and sounds of americana
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i'm inviting you to join me it's going
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to be about 250 mile trek or maybe a few
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more
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added on if i veer off just a little bit
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it is brisk
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i'm inviting you to join me
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shall you a little bit of a breeze
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going past mike's grill now a lot of
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stuff around these parts does
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close for the season you know due to
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winter
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a little drive up facility there a
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little diner
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very nice and just like indiana the
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state over
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plenty of corn here in illinois
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a lot of corn fields this is the road
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i'm taking all the way out till
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southbound until i get out of the state
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westville very interesting
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this was the home of the first night
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football game back in 1928
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huh i always like to see what kind of
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grocery stores are prominent in
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different areas of the country
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iga are are big around here
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zamberletti what was that noise
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zamberletti park there's a display here
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of a mine cart with some
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some coal in it
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there's a good one right up there smooth
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and refreshing
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georgetown settled in 1827 known as
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buffalo country they were the football
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state runner-up in 94.
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it looks like
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also looks like this is the spot of a
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railway station up until
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1936 as well as
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a video store hollywood video
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and tanning modern day sells appliances
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but in 1950 they designated this
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with this little placard it just about
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tripped over that brick there 1950 grab
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it here stores
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which was a grocer
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they gave something called king corn
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stamps
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where ma saves paz doe
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just barely peeking up there over the
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trees
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ridge farm sitting at the corner of
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north state street and west owen
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that's my view for moving on
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it's called the smokehouse but it looks
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like it was a maybe a mechanic shop at
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one point
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and then maybe a barbecue place
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perhaps it's stationary it's not moving
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i'm the one moving it just appears to be
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going down the tracks but in reality
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it's sitting still
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frosty top root beer stand here in
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chrisman
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that thing's got to be about 10 feet
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tall from the bottom to the
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top i have no idea what that
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is or was used for
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at one time very interesting
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it's the water tower up there now
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obscured
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and since as of the recording of this it
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is halloween day
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either someone is doing yard work over
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there
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that's leatherface i know it's just
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someone trimming a tree
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now that is an awesome dq right there
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yes very nice
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little dr pepper action here
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i love it
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lincoln walked here the banner just
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stated that
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here in marshall oh yeah this is nice
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through here
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hello cows i'm not gonna stop just
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slowing down
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those cows thought i was gonna stop and
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talk to him i fooled them
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tiny community of west union
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see the post office there in the
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distance of this mural of a
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a fish with a spoon and a fork
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the retro pepsi machine there
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next to the eminem one
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maybe the 80s i'd say probably the 80s
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for that pepsi machine
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a couple of former store fronts here
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along the main road
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possibly a gas station there where the
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pumps would have been at one time
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and just up the ways a few more miles is
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the little farm market
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hmm
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it says indiana railroad but technically
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in illinois rc cola
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right there
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sand barons it's the name of this
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well not a gas station it was a mechanic
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shop
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this is crossville home of wristers
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hardware
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there's their post office and then over
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a ways and the town of karmi
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the newspaper has a neon sign
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the karmy times i think i've ever seen a
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newspaper
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that has a neon sign above its door
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reminiscent of
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a muffler man but not holding a muffler
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holding groceries
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little giant grocery outlet
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with this gentleman carrying lots of
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bags of groceries that is a that's a
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tall guy
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at first i thought it was a muffler man
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when i got closer i realized
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it wasn't a muffler man
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taking a different path generally in the
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same area
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but just changing direction just a bit
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keep things interesting
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this is called the saline valley
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i believe
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this is designated as a
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village the village of junction
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remains of a vault that was the site of
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the first state bank of junction
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the bank opened in 1910 was torn down in
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the 1980s
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and there it is right over here in
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someone's backyard
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more or less
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definitely looks like all those trees
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were planted
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and rose even though it's called a city
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shawnee town is only about a thousand
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residents
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give or take that maybe closer to 1200
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according to the sign a little coca-cola
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goodness there
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on the the dairy bar faintly you can see
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the lettering spelling out harmon's
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right there on the on the side of that
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which probably a furniture store of some
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sort
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i would guess and might be tough to see
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but there is
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there are some spider webs some cobwebs
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real not these are not halloween
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decorations
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kind of dangling from that that post
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there on the left
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and the town i've just left there was an
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older version of that same town right up
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here
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settled in 1793
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a little bit of a little bit of standing
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water
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oldest town in the state of illinois
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may have at one point had more residence
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than the 200
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i saw on the sign leading in that
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is an impressive bank
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for only 200 residents
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state line is right over there that
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bridge goes over the ohio river
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that does that doesn't lead into ohio
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but the ohio river stretches
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all the way down this way
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the hog daddy saloon
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this this is wow i can't even get over
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the size of this bank
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that's incredible
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in 1803 lewis and clark
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pass through here on their expedition
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through
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illinois country
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and there's a texaco here well a former
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texaco
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and this is right beside a residence
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where
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family is out during the day
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that's gonna do it for today i believe i
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have one of those yeah i have a
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yeah this is a cobweb i guess since it
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is technically
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halloween it's october 31st as the
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recording of this
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happy halloween also heard the news this
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morning
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when i was uploading yesterday's video
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you know for
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wait the way i usually will do things is
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i will film throughout the course of the
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day
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edit at night next morning make the
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video
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live for the previous day's adventures
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it's always been that way that's just
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kind of
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how i do things and as i was uploading
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yesterday's which would have been
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released this morning before i started
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filming this got up
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started traveling and filming this heard
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the news that sean connery
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ash
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he's passed away and i've always
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always loved james bond loved sean
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connery especially in the untouchables
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darby o'gill all there's a whole a whole
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plethora of films that i enjoy and
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always
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kind of started saying the they go home
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and
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sleep well which friend of mine justin
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scarred
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has kind of taken that ran with it
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adopted that as one of his
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catch phrases but it all started from a
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sean
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connery quote from the movies movie
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the untouchables where he says
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you've done your duty go home and sleep
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well tonight
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well that kind of turned into an
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exaggerated version of what that has
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become i
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rarely will say it anymore but i feel
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like this
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is a good it's a good way to bring it
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back and homage
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to mr connery as i go over
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state line tomorrow will be another
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another adventure the last couple days
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have just been
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kind of a mishmash just traveling just
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seeing sometimes it's good for your
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brain to just
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soak in the ambiance of really no
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particular subject matter than just
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cruising being along with your own
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thoughts thinking
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enjoying small town life
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if you enjoyed this particular episode
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give it a big thumbs up
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it lets me know you care i'll see you in
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the next video the vlog
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like i said it's not gonna be the
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typical ending
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you've done your duty by watching this
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vlog that is now over you've done your
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duty
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now you can go home
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and yes i know my routes
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make no sense whatsoever