Taking My Mom To Field Of Dreams In Dyersville Iowa - Inside The Movie Farmhouse & Other Small Towns
Field Of Dreams - April 2024
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welcome everyone Adam the woo here as
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the recording of this it is Monday April
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15th
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2024 nice day out today a little
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Sunny Clock Tower just chimed in right
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here in debuk
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Iowa as the recording of did I already
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say that got got distracted by the the
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clock tower there it is Monday April
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15th I think I said that twice
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2024 I'm heading over to
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dville to a field that had some dreams
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in it I've been there before but my Mom
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requested to see it so her and I are
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going to be hanging out today going to
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head over that way but on the way and
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back I think it's about a 30 give or
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take 25 30 m
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commute west of here so going that
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direction and heading back into debuk
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going to be all Iowa going to hit a
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couple other small towns
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going to be a small town day it's going
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to be a small town week the last two
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days have been small towns and today is
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going to follow suit on that theming as
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well it's kind of nice to detach from
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the the content I have been doing theme
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parks baseball games crowds conventions
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populated areas kind of get back into
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the small town Vibe this week join me
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good to have you here shall you now
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certain times of year there'll be a lot
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of corn up but right now no corn
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one thing's for sure not a whole lot of
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traffic out
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here it's Rush Hour
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cows all right fueling up here with the
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self- pumping gas
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nozzle in Peosta
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I believe it's called Peosta
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Iowa price of fuel
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3905 a
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gallon you know you're in this area when
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there are Casey's convenience
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stores certain areas of the country
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country have different different places
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you get familiar with that truck is
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hitting his
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brakes this area of the country is gas
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stations a lot of mar
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cases maybe the name of that rooster is
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casy maybe that's where it got its name
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maybe a perfect place for a piping hot
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caffeinated beverage I'm sure they have
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coffee there it is
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KC's
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it that would be the most oversiz look
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at the size of this thing buy one get
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one free why would you need two of these
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look at this thing this thing is
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like 1,000 Oz
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got the water tower off in the distance
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I think I'm going to see if there's a
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little small downtown over at
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POA whenever I travel I always
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mispronounce not on purpose on accident
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names the town so I'm hoping that's how
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it's
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pronunciated Peosta or piasta okay
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didn't find too much in that little area
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so went to the next town of
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Epworth the last place is basically like
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a big industrial
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park over here in Epworth though there's
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like a windmill and a
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bridge that's little barn on the
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water all right pulling through town
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this looks like a either a grocery store
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or a pharmacy or a general store or
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something big town oh small town big
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heart Epworth
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Iowa right up here is the post office
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little post
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office and there's the water
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tower Epworth water tower second water
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tower I've seen
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today really like this house right here
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very
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cute the water tower in the background
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nice little
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angle I just saw a side back there that
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this is historic Route
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20 now approaching Farley is going to be
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the next little Community see what we
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can find in
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Farley oh I see the water tower off in
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the
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distance zoom in on it from
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here almost looks like a like a bottle
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top spinner or spinner of some sort
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mhm got the Corner Bar up here there's
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the Dental
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Center oh it's a restaurant Family
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Restaurant oh yeah this is what we're
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talking about we got a nice little
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downtown all right we made it to our
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destination mom dirty
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ernes yeah
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I guess dirty eres is the local
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bar how the water tower just protrudes
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up
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there oh dirty diry local Legend all
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right we have now made it to
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downtown Dyersville Iowa a place I have
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never been to the downtown of
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Dyersville there's Mom right
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there you never been here either nope I
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haven't and you never I've never been in
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the state of Iowa until you brought me
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you never even been in the state no not
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until not here what do you think about
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Iowa I love it was if I wasn't too old
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I'd move here cuz it's still
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traffic you don't like the
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traffic go for miles and never see a car
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I do love a good clock and there's one
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right up here
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city of Dyersville clock and I am happy
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to say that it does keep correct time
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some some do not this one does it is
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12:08 couple minutes before 12:10 a
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little
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afternoon oh I like this check out the
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city hall emblem or the uh not emblem
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but the little lights there get the
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police and the City Hall lights the dyer
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Botsford house evidently dville got sa
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from Dyer historical house with doll
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museum says sorry we're closed on the
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front door it's also interesting they
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did not film all the little small town
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scenes from Field of Dreams in
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Dyersville considering the field was
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just on the
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outskirts they went all all the way over
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to a small town in
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Illinois they could have just used this
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town
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here that still is a shoe store this
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reminds me of where your grandma
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Williams and them Liv they had a shoe
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store in aine Mississippi and it was
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just a shoe store and that's when she
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bought all of her shoes speci the she
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cuz she only had like a five shoes she
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was so was so
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small so she got to be special this
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she dville commercial Eastern Iowa
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shopping news that must be the paper
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it's a long it's a t it's a that's a
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oh yeah let's get a little nap in
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the get a little
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nap the front of this one is made to
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look like a
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castle look at
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now that's awesome there's a mural of
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the White Sox coming out of the cord
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field from Field of Dreams I know I
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mentioned Field of Dreams the last
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couple days not doing a full filming
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location but can't be in this area and
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not mention that classic baseball film
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Jamesville Jones Kevin
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cner that is awesome
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is this Heaven no it's
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come look at this little door right
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here next to the insurance agency see
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you got this random door wedged in
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between the brick and then you have like
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vintage glass blocks right there and
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then next to that you have this unique
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building which used to be a well it is a
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barber shop insurance agents on this
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side but I just love the the the '70s
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era I'm guessing is the the decade of
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the glass
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bricks look at that impressive steeple
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down there from that church it's hard to
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pick a favorite baseball movie there's
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there's a bunch of them I would even
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know if i' I I mean it's baseball is the
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backdrop of field of dreames I would say
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it's it's it's one of the best baseball
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movies baseball's just a a footnote in
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the film it's a lot of other things
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going on in it as well there's also a
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scoreboard right over there yeah take a
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look at this visitors inning home ball
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strike out fair play don't know what
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that's from but sitting here on this
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little porch the baseball
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building it's what it's called
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says right there on the side the
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baseball
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building if you build it written on the
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side oh I don't think they're open ah
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sad trombone moment there
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the Hall of
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Dreams oh this is neat want to have a
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catch glove Library borrow and return
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gloves and ball but right now it's not
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open so
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obviously it's not
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happening if you build
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it you will come
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I just want to somebody open where we
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going reopen in the
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open well that's a
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bummer if you built it they will
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come except don't be open because when
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they do
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come you won't be here for them to see
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it
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made from that sand pretty called
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Sandstone yeah I think that's what it is
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but might not be it looks pretty sturdy
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that's not going anywhere in a windstorm
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that house has been here a long time I I
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would imagine they get tornadoes through
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here pretty often I would think so I
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yeah y still standing
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strong yeah I'm going to say that's
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probably a tornado siren up there
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I don't know about that one
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but that one
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there look at this
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car got the roll cage on it got the
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lights got the
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speaker interesting all right that was
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the downtown
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now and then after the field check out
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some other SP other other towns there it
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is 5 6 miles on the outskirts of town
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give or take a
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mile Farmhouse still there Barn still
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there field still there
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doesn't look like there's anybody on the
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field I hope they're
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open uh see what
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happens open daily 9 to 6 all right
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we're good all right this is your first
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time here yep it is so I was here with
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Dad a couple years ago Dad wasn't able
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to make it this trip I figured this time
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take my mom
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here I think this is my third or fourth
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time being
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here there is a $20 suggested donation
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all right I gave the suggested donation
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of $20 said for $50 suggested donation
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they give you a poster and a bunch of
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other stuff but for any donation they
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give you the is this Heaven bumper
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sticker and a little pin right
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here doesn't seem to be a whole heck of
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a lot of people out here which is really
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really nice it's going to be very pleas
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yeah sacred filming location baseball
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ground right
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here so interesting they built another
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field farther out of course the the corn
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is not up where the Outfield line is but
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over there within walking distance is a
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secondary field used by MLB I believe
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two times they have played games out
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there and I asked that person taking the
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donations on the way in she said they're
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not doing a game this year I said can I
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walk over there she goes nope I said
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okay I won't walk over
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there she said it's kind of a work in
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progress if they're going to do another
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one but that's where the field is over
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there I don't know a few hundred yards
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past where the Home Run corn would
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be out
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there maybe one day the Rays will play
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and I'll come back out here for that
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I'll definitely do it if the Rays end up
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playing now this field is available for
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a to throw a catch have a catch if you
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so choose have a play a scrimmage game
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of baseball practice game if you so
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choose but there is a if you step on the
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field you are taking responsibility for
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your own actions and they are not
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responsible for
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accidents fire or
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theft Ray Leota right here Kevin
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cner mood like Graham comes over he
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can't walk off and
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then daughter falls off the top there
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choking on the hot dog walks onto the
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grass and
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then you know the rest I don't want to
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give too many spoilers all right this is
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in
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remembrance of Denise Stillman pass away
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in 18 she came to Dyersville in 2012
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with an ambitious dream to expand to
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preserve the the famous field
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by creating a tournament
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complex first time I was ever out here
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many years ago I don't even know what
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year was 16
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17 corn was
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up players all walked out over there
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from Left
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Field it is just so cool they left this
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up just out here kind of in the middle
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of nowhere oh down the just a that's a
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foul ball that's a foul ball right up
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those right up
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information coming in evidently Kevin
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CER carved this so busy I didn't get I
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don't remember it being on the top
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though I thought it was like on the
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second one up it's my first too my
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second where are you from uh Florida oh
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okay okay I kind of figured that they
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recreated these I don't think these were
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original from the late 80s but maybe
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they were one there one over there got
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some family out here playing ball as
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well creating some memories also a
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little snack bar over here I don't even
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think they're open they might be okay so
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evidently if you go past the
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cornfield well where the cornfield
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starts you're near a construction
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site
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proceeding to the MLB site constitutes a
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punishable fine of $200 and removal from
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site over there
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evidently they tried to play the MLB
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games once a year on the actual screen
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use field but MLB had too many
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technicality so they had to build build
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a
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legit Major League Baseball sanction
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site on that area so that's where the
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the last two Field of Dreams games were
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played
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and they you know they built seats and
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things like that right now it's just the
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field itself over there but can't go
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over there $200 all right getting
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conflicting reports violators will be
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fined now it's up to
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$500
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$500 or is it
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$200
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$200 I don't know I'd pay $200 to just
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walk over there where do I where do I
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pay 500 might be a little steep but
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cough up
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$200 go stand on home plate where that
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walkoff home run I think the white socks
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won that first the first game was pretty
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pretty insane yeah stand on a little MLB
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field for
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$200 200 or500 I wonder if I find out
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what the penalty is 200 or 500 I'm very
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confused all right just checked the door
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snack bar is not open where the food
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is off season I guess gu this would be
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classified as the off season cuz a lot
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of stuff hasn't reopened even cuz spring
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you know just started so it's not fully
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into the season yet found a little bit
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of shade before the next tour
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starts what do you think oh
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it's beautiful kind of neat that just
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out here in the middle of nowhere
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right
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wonderful really a beautiful area
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that's and they say that when the corn
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is up and you're going through all these
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Hills and going through Iowa to other
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towns that you can see all this Hills
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going up and down you can see all the
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corn instead of she lives in Indiana
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it's flat there so all she could just
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see is just corn Straight Ahead she can
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see that the hills rolling it's just so
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beautiful she
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said the lady you were talking to yeah
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she's from Indiana that's where she
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lives
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I've never been behind the house like
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this this is a neat little seating
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area don't remember too much about what
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was inside the
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mower looks like they're still building
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it right yeah 30 plus years later
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they're still building it people are
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com they just they you know they just
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got City Water there's the same
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Annie sat with their
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daughter overlooking
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it that real tall thing over Yonder is
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that my dad had he they were sending him
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to Vietnam all right we're sitting in
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the bench I he the porch well not a
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bench it's a porch swing when I came
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here on
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9911 of the this is the spot September
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10th and I Wasing a drive I was on a
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trip
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the time is just the four of us okay so
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um we allow video in small Snippets for
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your personal use
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uh well I want picture of myself right
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where you're standing
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okay let's get go ahead get
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it well welcome to darville and the pH
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dream side my name is David and I'll be
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your tour guide today so we do know that
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the house and the glancing that lived
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and formed here on the property from 19
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in this kitchen when they started uh
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decided to start doing tours in 2017 it
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took a group of second time as when he
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hears the voes when he turns he sees the
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field materialized and he sees shoess
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joke the third time is when the ghost
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players are practicing they go up in the
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corner and he hears eases pain um couple
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reasons why that the big big the voice
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The Voice Reas a couple reasons why that
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movie was picked so Jimmy Stewart was
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originally slated to play Moonlight
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Graham it was not Bert Lancaster jmy
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Stewart he got ill that summer and he
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was not able to do it so it then went to
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C I'll tell you what I really appreciate
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BT
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Lancaster I love Jimmy St but he trying
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to convince R to put the corn back in or
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he's going to lose the form that's one
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of my favorites cuz he starts joking
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he's like he don't even like forming any
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what's a
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crow well you guys did a very good job
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with those you can credit those interns
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it took a year uh to go through the
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movie yeah go through the movie and do a
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great this winner and they're bringing
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it back up so maybe the baseball will
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testing and make sure it's up to their
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standard okay one other scene that was
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shot here is when Ray and Annie are
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discussing finances yeah cuz it was when
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they went yeah you know all the lines y
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um cuz that was after he went to the PTA
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meeting and he figured out it's Terence
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man I have it's I have to ease his pain
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they wanted it to be with some Rolling
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Hills and of course they needed corn
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they wanted corn so this place made the
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short list um the day that the director
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and the producers went out to look at
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the sites when Phil Robinson was on um
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baning road that you guys came on when
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he saw this he said lighting they
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updated the wir and they put in central
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air to keep the actors
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cool electrician yeah so that's all the
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improvements they so they got back
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around the table and they came up with
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Phil the dreams and so they were
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actually going to name us shess Joe it
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was going to be named shess Joe they
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shot a movie called shess Joe course
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Phil Robinson was nervous to go back to
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WP Canelo to tell them that they had
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changed the name of his event that they
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had um in 2016 they called it um you
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watching the
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step you even got the Maryland
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photo I've seen the movie couple times a
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long
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time
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seen you
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see from the
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W all right great
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tour do little chores in there which is
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always
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awesome had to swing by here again I've
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been here before but I will never not
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come to this area and not stop by come
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on you have to I also picked up a
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shirt figured why not got myself a shirt
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and they gave me a little bag to go with
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it as well till next time Dyersville
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till next
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time all right continuing on some back
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road see what other little small towns
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we can
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find yeah out here kind of in the middle
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of nowhere is this
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massive Cathedral style church it's like
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an old schoolhouse right there
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too steeple
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here don't see that too often just a
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bunch of
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trees cut laying down up
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there might be a lumber meal up there
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somewhere
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behind you know we can't
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see again no
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traffic lots of Rolling
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Hills I figed off on this dirt road
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doing a U-turn going back to the paved
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Road near the town of graph
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too doesn't look like too much in graft
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just some houses if there's any
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businesses or
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not just past the welcome sign little
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Walkin Trail there and lumber yard off
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to the side
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if there was a Twin City to this town it
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could be a
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paragraph is working got some cows out
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here this is old highway road that's the
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name of they're all looking at me Old
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Highway road Oh's a farmer out there too
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on his track on his
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four-wheeler Old Highway
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road it's a a lot of grain
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silos a satellite disc I didn't know
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those still existed
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anymore that is not a real
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Rock fake rock alert you can spot these
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a mile away look at this fake rock fake
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rock alert plastic Rock
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over something I don't even want to pick
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that up and fig feel I don't even know
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what's underneath there and that's going
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to do it for
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today from
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Iowa thanks for
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watching ah just so much traffic here so
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much
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gridlock know can't can't handle
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it I'm in the road right now I'm in the
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middle of the road it's a one-way
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Street see you the next video the Vlog
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no it's not a oneway street the Vlog is
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over bonus
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footage photos I got throughout the day
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I'll probably
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post one of these on my Instagram maybe
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even more on the stories my Instagram is
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Adam the woo
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atw a little good one there with my mom
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and I on the bench there's a farther way
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angle on the porch swing kind of neat
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though CU I got the same photo of my dad
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a few years ago my dad and I went there
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he really enjoyed it my mom really
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enjoyed
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it there's me at the stairs
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when have he having a conversation with
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his wife and his wife said she had the
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same
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dream about Fenway
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Park there's my mom she had the dream
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too all right that's it