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Oh, welcome everyone. Adam the Woo here.
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You just caught me hiding some Adam the
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Woo
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stickers in this little planter area
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that used to actually house a light. You
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can see some of the remnants of the
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lights inner workings, the nether
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regions that I like to call them, if you
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will. I'm here on the outskirts of
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Atlanta. I honestly do not remember the
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name of the town that I am in. It is not
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Atlanta, but it is probably about 15,
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20, 30 minutes from Atlanta. I parked my
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van right here in this facility of
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consumerism. It's not really bustling
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with excitement, but there are stores
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open that do have a few customers in
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each one. There's a tax place, a hair
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cutting place, a supermarket, a laundry
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mat, which I could probably use. I'm
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going to let you in on a little secret.
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I have actually not done laundry on this
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entire road trip. So look back. How long
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have I been on this road trip? Almost a
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month and a half, two months. I have not
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done laundry. Been wearing the same
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shirts. And then I will discard the
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shirts by putting them in my bag and
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I'll buy other shirts at thrift stores
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and I'll wear those. And then I will
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purchase new socks and underwear at
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Walmart and that keeps me going. But I
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should be back in St. Cloud, Florida by
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Thanksgiving, which is Thursday. Today
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is Tuesday. So, in two days, hopefully
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I'll be back home in time for
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Thanksgiving to my parents house to
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enjoy some time with my family. But for
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now, I'm enjoying time with you, my
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secondary family, my friends on the
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internet, my
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vicarious folk out there. And I have
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something exciting to show you guys
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today. And it's not my van. It's not the
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exciting,
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bustling mill of goodness known as
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Shops, O'Reilly Auto Parts, Farmers,
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Home Furniture, Family
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Dollar. It's my second channel. It's my
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daily channel. That's right. You're
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watching the Daily Woo. So, I started by
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putting those stickers over there
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because if you're in this region, you
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will be able to come out here and get
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these stickers. So, just Google some of
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these businesses. The way you can figure
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out where I am is because the name of
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this complex is Hawthorne Plaza.
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So, I'd ask you to do me a favor and
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figure out what town am I in on the
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outskirts of Atlanta. What do they call
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the outskirts? The nether regions of a
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big humongous popular city. What are the
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outskirts
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called? The suburbs. I was going to say
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the BBS. the Tom Hanks movie that I'm so
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fond of that was filmed on the Universal
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Studios Hollywood backlot which looks
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nothing like it does in the movie
3:33
because it's changed around a lot. That
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section of the back lot I think is
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actually used for Desperate
3:39
Housewives and a few other movies. I
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think the Monsters were filmed back
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there. But I digress
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from Hollywood talk, Universal Studios
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Hollywood, and I'm talking about the
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suburbs of Atlanta. And I'm right here
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on the corner of Old Powder Springs Road
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and Veterans Memorial Highway. You can
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see those two signs swaying in the
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wind. Hawthorne Plaza. There's a Family
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Dollar, an O'Reilly Auto Parts, a Homes
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Smart, an attorney. If you need an
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attorney and you're in Atlanta, and you
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don't want to deal with the people in
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downtown Atlanta, come out to the
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suburbs right here at this little I
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guess it's not really a strip mall. It's
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just one of the old school 1970s, 1980s
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built, what they thought was going to be
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a thriving business opportunity. You see
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how large the parking lot is? But the
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parking lot does not need to be this
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big. So, there's really only maybe a
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total of 40 cars total in the entire
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complex. 10 businesses, 40 cars. That
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means there's about four customers per
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store. So, they do not need this
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massive parking lot. Why am I showing
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you this? What is so important and
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vitally exciting about an empty,
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somewhat empty parking lot in a kind of
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moderately empty shopping
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complex. We in this day and age are
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obsessed with consumerism. Everyone is
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guilty of it. I'm even guilty of it to a
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degree. Not the degree that a lot of
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people are, but I over time as I've
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gotten older, I've started to be sucked
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in to the
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consumerristic
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world. Needless to say, places like this
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pop up all over the place. These
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fortresses of money grabbing, money
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sucking goodness are created and built
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everywhere. and they've only popped up
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within probably the last what hundred
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years. These massive
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structures of
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consumerism. Some of them continue to
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thrive, some of them fail. This
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particular one, I think, is kind of
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right on the brink. We're not talking
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about brinks, however. We are talking
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about a cemetery that was here before
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this complex was
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built and money talks. So they they
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actually built a shopping center on top
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and around and in the non- nether
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regions. They didn't tap down the nether
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regions because that would just be
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absolutely awkward and creepy. But
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they've actually built this complex
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around Prepare
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cemetery. A
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cemetery right here in the middle. smack
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dab in the
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middle of this complex. There's a car
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wash over there, some apartment homes, a
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car care center right there, a fence
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shop of some sort, another apartment, a
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car maintenance facility, and this is
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the back area of what I just showed you
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in the front. And look at this.
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Right next to H&R Block, you can get
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your taxes done and then you can sneak a
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peek. No pun intended because the name
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of this cemetery is Strickland and what?
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Strickland and Peak.
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Strickland and sneak a peek at
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this cemetery established in
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1853. Long before these walls were
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festoned around the
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sides, this cemetery has been here. And
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the people that are buried here probably
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in their life did not think that when
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they passed on that they would actually
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be part
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vicariously of a consumerristic
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nature. People say rest in peace. When
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you think of that you're not thinking of
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shopping. Even if you are a big
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shopaholic, when you're alive, you
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probably are not thinking that in death
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that you are going to be surrounded by
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people spending money on discounted
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clothes, accessories, electronics, and
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other wonderful things.
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But these people are stuck with that
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curse for the rest of
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eternity or at least until this place
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gets bulldozed, which I don't know if
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that'll ever happen. Most places like
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this eventually when other big
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corporations and other malls come into
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play, places like this shut down and
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these places will sit empty and
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abandoned forever and ever and ever. So
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eventually this place will be abandoned,
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but this place will never be abandoned.
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There will always be residents here at
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this very interesting, odd, I wouldn't
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really say it's creepy. It's just very
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unusual cemetery. And I say we go
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inside. Hopefully there's not a lock on
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there. There is a lock on here, however.
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H&R, not block, but H&R lock, which I
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think actually means H&R block. So
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there's a lock there in the form in the
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form of writing on the wall. But there
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is no lock. Look at this. There is no
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lock on
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this. In
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fact, they're welcoming us.
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Welcome. Welcome everyone. There's a
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welcome mat. So we're going to go in.
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This sign here actually says that this
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area was restored by the Boy Scouts of
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America in
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1975 through
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1976. The scouts that were involved are
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all written right here on this little
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tin plate. You can actually see all the
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names of all the scouts that were
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involved from
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1976 here at the Strickland and Peak
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Cemetery that was established in the mid
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1800s.
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So, let's check out some of the
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graves. See, I believe this graveyard is
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so old they actually do not know the
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name, the person that is actually buried
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here. So, they've actually been marked
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with a number. This one has actually
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been designated number six.
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So, no one's really sure the gender or
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the persuasion of the person who's
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actually buried
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here. So, they've just been given a
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number. Number
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six. There is no name on this one
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either. There is some very faint
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lettering engraved right there on the
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top. Very hard to make out though.
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This is very interesting too, this rock
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structure. There are actually three
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crypts, three graves right across there.
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One, two, and three. And these are the
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This is the Strickland family. You can
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see that wooden
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sign mounted, I should say, against the
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wall, which is probably some sort of a
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clothing store now. And Strickland's
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wooden wooden plaque is bolted into the
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wall directly next to their grave. You
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got to wonder if the people on the other
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side of here that are actually being
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rang through the registers, swiping
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their credit card have any idea that
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there are people right here in a
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cemetery, literally feet away from them
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through this wall. I'm going to say
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probably not. A lot of people probably
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do not realize this cemetery is back
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here.
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Now we're back to the numbering system
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again. Here's number five, 4, 3, 2, and
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1. There are no names on these graves.
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That's how old these graves are.
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The very last one actually does have a
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name on it. David T.
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Peak,
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captain of the
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COC7 REGGT Georgia Volunteer Infantry,
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Confederate States Army. He's buried
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right here. David
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Peak. Very interesting.
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I'm going give you a little moment of
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quietness just for a moment
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here just to give you the ambiance of
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what I'm feeling. So, I'm going to be
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quiet for a minute. Shh. Everyone, just
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a little moment of quietness
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here in this graveyard of consumerism.
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So, there you have it. Another
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interesting
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place that a lot of people do not
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realize exists, but now you know that
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this exists. And I'm glad that you join
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And you joining me and me meeting you
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vicariously is one of those awesome
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things. So, have a great day. Have a
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happy Tuesday. And if you're in this
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area, if you figured out exactly where I
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am, which you should be able to based on
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all the locations that I've given you,
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come out here and get those stickers
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that are actually right over there. And
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if you get the sticker, go on Instagram,
16:56
Twitter, or Facebook. Make sure you
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hashtag me or post something on there
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letting me know and letting everyone
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else know that you got the sticker. and
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go around the back and take a look at
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that really unusual graveyard. That's
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something you do not see every
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day. There you go. Georgia, a suburb of
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Atlanta. I really wish I would have
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looked up where exactly I was before I
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started the vlog, but I'm sure one of
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the first comments you guys will
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actually share that information with me.
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All right, love you guys and I'll see
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you tomorrow. Oh, yes. You will be
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seeing me tomorrow and I'll be seeing
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you. Will I be seeing you? I'll be
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seeing
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you
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again
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tomorrow cuz you're my best
17:52
friend. You, sir, ma'am and
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child. I don't know where to go with
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that one. See you.