Dreary Iowa Day At Mississippi Riverboat Museum & Dubuque Aquarium - River Otters / St Luke’s Church
Dubuque Iowa April 2024
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welcome everyone Adam the woo here as a
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recording of this it is Wednesday April
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17th
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2024 I am in debuk Iowa going to be
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having a family day today we are going
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to go to a couple of tourist attractions
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here in town an aquarium a riverbat
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museum and possibly a few other things
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in downtown debuk Iowa it's a little
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overcast today sun is starting to
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protrude out a little bit storms came
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through town yesterday they were pretty
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pretty bad there was a tornado warning
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not a watch it means they were they
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might be out but nothing ever formulated
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thankfully and that has passed I think
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there might be some storm systems still
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in the air but not as bad as yesterday
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hopefully I'm inviting you to join me
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shall you just like that the wind has
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picked up
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dramatically spoke too
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soon like the wind was so Gusty
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yesterday all the
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pollen is fallen from these tree well
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not the pollen but
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the petals from the flowers the buds
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here National Mississippi River Museum
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and Aquarium is where we're going to
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start there's the bridge that goes over
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Mississippi
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River that's the gift shop over there
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everyone's all bundled up I'm in shorts
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and a long sleeve Epcot Center
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hoodie looks like it stretches all the
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way down that direction here's the
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entrance River
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awaits so this is definitely out of the
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elements which is nice forside building
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go back in
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1991 heading now oh through a is that a
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quarter it's a quarter nice the big time
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yep a little more weight to it than a
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penny circling around
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this is when it gets good right here
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though nice it's hypnotizing nasal
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Rivers Hall of Fame exhibit right here
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Beyond this are saltwater forms in the
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back of this okay there are exhibits on
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the second floor there's stairs here or
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elevator to get to the second floor uh
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there's also an observation tower on the
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top it's totally enclosed all this is
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going to be pretty dang
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exciting get the horse and buggy up top
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going to learn about the rivers of
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America and then also one of the other
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buildings specifically about the
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River love
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it I'm actually really impressed with
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the theming through here they got some
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some little mannequins I don't know if
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they're audio animatronics or not
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but here is a guy putting his wees into
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the canoe right here and then over here
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we have this settler talking to the
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Indian here doing a little trading of
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sorts each beaver fur was scrapped or
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scraped and then stretch onto a Willow
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Branch with lacing to dry next folded
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stacked and press into 90 lb packs and
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you can flip through the fur itself it's
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almost like the pages of a book right
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here two beaver pelts equals one axe
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that's interesting three beaver pelts
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equal
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one small tin
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Kettle REM maker it's or old canoe right
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here a hole in the canoe there Whitted
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out of wood you got a little carving
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here as
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well rain God figures ceremonial clay
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figures look those pipes right there
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that is
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a
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yeah you put your weed in there Jim
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beckworth lived his life among the
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rivers he was the Mountain Man Riverman
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near the Mississippi Mighty Miss
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the old
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man deep all right there is a cave here
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that you can go inside of well maybe you
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can go inside of cave stories that says
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oh it's not a full walk through okay
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push a button and they start telling you
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cave stories in the cave listening to
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the little historical stories of the
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rivers in the cave you walk out of the
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cave and the stories the voices of the
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past are still narrating inside the cave
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that is a pretty wild map up there of
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the US it's showing the rain and
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everything so up top there is George
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Washington Crossing the the Delaware
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over there very famous photo as well so
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here's kind of an interesting fact so
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Samuel Clemens of course took the pen
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name Mark Twain got it because a rope
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with a lead weight was thrown into the
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river to measure the depth a l man would
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call it Mark Twain it meant two marks or
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depth of 12 ft for the steamboat and
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that is why he chose that because he
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like the riverbat in steamboats he chose
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that as his pin name and also you go to
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Disneyland they have the riverbat it's
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also called The Mark Twain and they will
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chant out Mark Twain and they're not
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talking about the AR author they're
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talking about the Rope system and the
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distance there's a really old camera
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back there there motion standard Motion
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Picture Mach American Standard Motion
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Picture machine from
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1914 first movie stunt ever filmed in
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1910 was a man jumping from a burning
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balloon into the Hudson
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River this is Jacob's Ladder right there
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it it really is Jacob's Ladder yeah wow
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I never knew that was a real
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thing really there's the Delta Queen in
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miniature form right down here couple
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Captain Henry Miller
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shes
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boat down below this big eagle here
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which is probably mounted on the front
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of a river
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boat oh Louis Armstrong here got to
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start at the age of 18 playing the
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corner oh no playing the
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Coronet not on the
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corner another Steamboat over here some
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of the steamboat whistles I do love some
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boats I love boats trains Transportation
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devices things like that this is
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definitely a cool exhibit you got the
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whistles steam whistles up
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there this is a board here is from the
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city of at arouge
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Louisiana it's a really great
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museum a lot a lot lot more to see been
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doing seeing a lot of sea life lately I
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recently bought an annual Passa
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SeaWorld and then I also did a whole
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video on the living
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Seas at Epcot Center which I am
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wearing an appropriate t-shirt and now I
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am at an aquarium in debuk Iowa oh my
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gosh look at this little
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guy that is a cool looking
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fish look at that
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thing
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aallon that is awesome
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hi hello there got to give the camera a
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little smooch up against the glass
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little kiss
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I don't know if I've ever seen a fish
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like this up close and
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personal just like right up against the
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glass there saying
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hello very
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thing all right see you later nice
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meeting
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you that is neat how they just wrap
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themselves
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around starfish wraps around the the
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shell like
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that never seen anything like that
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before
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either that's
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funny close up
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reach in
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andou the two finger
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touch got little hand stamp
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here oh yeah gra yeah it's almost like
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one of those things you get out of the
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the quarter machines little
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sticky little sticky
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uh yeah wall
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climbers fish here oh my gosh that's
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cool
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interesting texture water is very cold
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also this is like such an odd feeling it
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almost like Stitch to your fingers
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animal keeps something else that water
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is over like hter hunting water's very
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very
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cold some jellyfish in there were you
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changing the light is that what you're
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doing oh interesting you can change the
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Hue of
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the of the
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tank ly neelon
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you get a lot of good eye contact from
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these fish
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today rare Japanese fighting
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doing all right got the big tank over
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here the big aquarium tank right over in
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this
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section they're all swimming around
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take a look see what we got down in here
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a little closer up to
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it oh hey how you doing how's it
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going oh
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yeah fish
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overload and debuk
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just hanging out at the bottom old
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grumpy
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face that's me before a cup of coffee no
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just like a Tropicana Field you can
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touch the
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stingr over in
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here yeah we need if you guys want to P
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you just got to R your
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hands of them in here I feel like the
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trop right
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now this is why I was doing the two
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finger thing
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it's almost like the the Disney two
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finger point
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do all right got a couple coming by here
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go in with his
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hand she'll use his hand come on in here
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we go there we go oh I got my hand arm
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wet arm we both got our arms
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wet it's okay though it's worth it the
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sting oh okay that's the secret over
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there they're like no we're going to
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stay in the deep end so you get your arm
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soaked here I come here I come here I
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come
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we no way you already me get away how
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you doing this is
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faces they are so
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funny don't be messing with us buddy
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it's so funny they're just like they
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they standing up just looking
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around oh back in the hole they went
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back in the hole get in that hole get in
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there get in that hole back on in there
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you go yeah they are like this seem like
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they're breathing breathing is that like
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a type of like a octopus or what is
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that I don't know I thought Starfish at
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first but then it looks like an upside
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down jellyfish I don't know what it is
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it does look like an upside down
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jellyfish now that you say
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that exactly .1 miles from here the
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Mississippi river Pacific Ocean
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1,677 Atlantic
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999 the Nile River
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6,19 miles
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head up to the second level now looking
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down on where we walked
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in going to go up to level
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two these stairs right here ah here's a
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painting of where Julian debuk the
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namesake of debuk Iowa it's laid to rest
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we were there a few nights ago we hiked
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up there where's a parking area up here
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and you kind of look down onto debuk
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which is here he is at the base of this
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Castle esque structure right there
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it looks like there was a hill next to
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it
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also here's the capital building over
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there inclin
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railroad elev
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pular that's what it's
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car it's interesting they call it an
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elevator which is basically an inclined
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railroad check out the Beaver Lodge
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right here
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and go inside this Beaver Lodge made out
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of
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sticks
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things really tall to go through here
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but I'm in the beaver
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L really happy to be
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inside e watch oh look at this
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there's the Lock and Dam there the
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River then over
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here it's more of the museum and
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downtown debuk all right I'm making that
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bucket poor poor bucket
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po I'm on this bike oh I'm getting my
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exercise
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here I don't know what I'm doing start
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pedaling to make the Water Rinse rise up
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to the cloud
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there I am for
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posterity took the elevator up to the
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tea level observation tower level
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goodness it is windy out
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wind got a boat Tugboat pushing a
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barge down the Mississippi River as we
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speak out there in the wind going
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towards the bridge which is over there
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got to be really Gusty out there on that
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water kind of tough to read it because
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it's perforated here or indented
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attribute to Nostalgia and Good Times
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Arina Street Coffee named after quiet
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neighborhood in the Mississippi river
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valleys of debuk Iowa this is a true
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local coffee and they don't allow it in
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the museum but you can go over here into
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the little snack bar so I think I'm
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going to go ahead and drink this on the
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way over over to the other section
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Outdoors little piping hot caffeinated
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beverage achieved got a train going by
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the William M
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black is there a bald
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eagle oh my gosh there's a bald eagle
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over
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here what the heck is just a bald eagle
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just chilling over
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I have never been stared down by a bald
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eagle
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before luckily he turned away thing is
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all bu I know he's
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lonely reminds me of a
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we should take him home with us that's
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probably illegal but yeah this is what
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I'm talking about a catfish that you can
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go inside its
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innards a catfish that you could go
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inside its gullet inside the belly of
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this Beast almost like Jonah and the
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whale except I'm Adam and the catfish
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right here there's its mouth here's its
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heart here's its
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liver here's its bladder swim bladder
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intestine and kidneys
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and
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goad
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hearts and kidneys are Tinker Toys old
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brisk out here also it's a little brisk
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now I got this coffee to warm me up
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cheers I just walked through a catfish I
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just walk directly through the belly of
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a catfish
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B yeah old riverbat
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here this area I think I'm going to like
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a lot got the Mississippi River history
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and Riverboat history and you can go
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inside the
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logden imagine living on the river with
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your family
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I'd probably go slightly insane but
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yeah the old man in the
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sea the young man in the
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river I like they have the antique
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commode over here and they have a do not
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pee sign on
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it no pee
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she know someone has all right here we
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go the Julia Bell SW
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oh the button I realize it very nice
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that is too
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cool a little wooden
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Recreation
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1971 man that is so
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neat there we go here's some of the guys
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that created the boat it was a it was in
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the modern point of point Port of debuk
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so that is a local boat also got some
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Native American boats up here like the
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canoe style there's a canoe up top can
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you imagine those days also inside here
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is the top portion there with the wheel
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the Paddle Wheel paddle boat wheel
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inside almost kind of reminds me let me
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go up in here real quick see what we got
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they enter into the Captain's
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Quarters right here you got
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the full half slow dead slow full half
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slow dead slow oh check it out it's like
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a tugboat he's pulling the the barge
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there just like I saw out of the the
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mighty Mississippi
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earlier it
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over I control this thing
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like a hard turn it's an assortment of
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different River vessels through here
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this is a fireboat model this is the
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Delta Queen model right down here here's
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the
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waterl Pacific model here's the American
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Beauty look at that thing toeo model
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look at its eyes it's got the demon
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eyes like the devil's eyes yeah these
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are interesting kind of turtles there's
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actually a few of these in Lake
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Reinhardt in celebration I always see
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him hanging around with cool the
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gator long neck
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turtle I was hoping we see some otters
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what little 's in here swimming
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around oh my gosh so stinking
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cute they love the
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cameras both to swim with
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them that would be an experience
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swimming with an otter
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that's not venomous no these aren't
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poisonous look at this uh it's a diamond
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back what is it Diamond Back watern
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Diamond Back water snake non
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venomous I'm not taking any chances
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though glad is behind
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glass oh there's a gator down in there I
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know these creatures very well they are
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very prevalent in Florida that's a good
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s good uh good size Gator right down in
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there you can't you can kind of see from
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the top but if you get down in here you
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can really see see the gator there just
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hanging out interesting exhibit here of
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different medicines and devices that are
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proven not to actually
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help misguided medicine or outright lie
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like this
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one a violet Ray electrotherapy
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device 1951 American courts found the
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device ineffective against most
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conditions conditions that claim to
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treat think of Doc Terminus from Peach
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dragon how about some body
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Thunder oh an ear trumpet I hear birds
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chirping I hear children laughing now
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it's pretty well-known fact that Smoky
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bear is not referred to as Smokey the
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Bear as shown here Smokey
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Bear however this is blowing my mind
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because this says Smokey the Bear on the
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side of this and look at this LP record
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up here that says not Smokey Bear Smokey
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the Bear or the bear depending on how
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you pronounce
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it I've always been told and corrected
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when I say Smokey the Bear that there is
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no middle word in there but evidently
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back in the day there was my mind is
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now blown this is also really neat this
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is a miniature of the inclin railroad
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the elevator the Felon Place elevator
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right here in miniature form it's kind
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neat what you guys reading um I know
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can't read that
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I what is it say
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you're going to kiss Mark Twain for a
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minute I don't think so no my C bought
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me that mustache like ad over there I
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know I'm trying to I'm trying to become
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Mark Twain with my mustache like him
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right there he pulls it off better than
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I do
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though Samuel
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Clemens oh it's uh the adventures of
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huckle very thin oh okay old Huck
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fin he's reading his own book that he
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wrote
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wow man he'll read it to you if you sit
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down next
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to I like he wrote the book and then he
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just hangs out on the bench reading his
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own book I don't know I guess I we kind
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of have you right we do have the same
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stash
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yeah I realize how awkward it be when I
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look over it he's just right there
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there's an owl it's all by
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yourself I
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know hello
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owl the Woodland or the Woodward Wetland
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Woodward
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Wetland going over to William in Black
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I believe cannot walk past this closed
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gate
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nope all locked up as I'm filming this
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it is
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Wednesday they're only open on Sat
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Saturday sad trombone moment oh there's
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a log cabin over here though there is a
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log
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cabin cabin was built in the 19th
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century along the Mississippi River
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Backwater slow
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slow called fress Lake
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locked it's good to look at from a
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distance though W cabin right on the
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river the river
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boat going by the bridge in the
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distance Pilot House from the towboat
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Mary built on the river and then also a
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railway to the water there's still some
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tracks
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here and then there's also the
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remnant the top of the
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boat all right going to head out of this
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location just give a little aerial view
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of everything they have here pretty
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expansive piece of
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property was about $25 $26 give or take
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per person to get in it's about 20 I
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think it's $24.99
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two different sections this is where we
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entered went through all the two levels
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of that walked across through the
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outdoor area then went over here past
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all this into this
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inside upstairs there and then out over
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to that
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area that is a loud jake break I think
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that's what they call that that truck
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going to head over and maybe check out a
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couple old
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churches around town a couple of them
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said to be open today we'll see a lot of
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times in this area a lot of things are
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not open but see if those
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are the season
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anyway it is Gusty the temperature is
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dropping
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rapidly and it's
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Breezy I went by here the other day this
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according to this little information
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Placer is Iowa's first church St Luke's
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Methodist episcop
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beautiful here's another artistic
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rendering of debuk Masterpiece of the
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Mississippi okay this sice is awesome
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this organ came from a train from noted
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Oregan manufacturer in Detroit required
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two train cars 2,200 pipes some of which
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are over two stories
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high all right driving around a a little
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bit check out the West Locust Mart video
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store right here tobacco and liquor low
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prices but also used to be a video
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store see these too often anymore even
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though they no longer have the old VHS
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videos they still have the sign up top
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and that's going to do it for
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today it is getting chilly the
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temperatur has dropped pretty
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dramatically in the last few
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hours thanks for watching I'll see you
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in the next
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