The Halfway Point on Route 66 : Adventures of The Mother Road
Day 6 of my cross country journey down Route 66 . Today I stood in the exact halfway point , ate a huge steak , attempted to find an open Stuckys , spray painted at Cadillac Ranch , kisses some blarney stones and much more .
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Transcript
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welcome everyone Adam the whoo here
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today number six am i continuing route
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six six adventure from California to
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Chicago it still happening join me
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shalyah first stop just passed these gas
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pumps is Russell's Travel Center unusual
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as it is there is a free car museum
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inside always nice to stop off at
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something if it has no admission price I
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must say Oh hugger oh thank you very
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much just can't stay clear this guy its
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Pappy the fortune-teller
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this time he's commandeered a cart with
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horses remind me of the clapping monkey
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toys from that horror film these are
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very similar but that's a bartender and
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a chef entire wall is adorned with the
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beautiful Marilyn Monroe very impressive
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something of this magnitude inside a gas
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station convenience store there's Bob's
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Big Boy
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Fab Four hanging out Pinocchio and whoa
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I was just talking about this guy that's
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him even more terrifying version here
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what dick monkeyshines and with that I
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am now in Texas well not not yet now
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that one now I'm in Texas looks like
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there's a Stuckey's up ahead heck yeah I
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love that place I can get three t-shirts
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for $10 oh man
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I'm stoked breakfast served all day
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scrambled eggs here I come
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whap whap whap where it's it's closed
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looks like it's being renovated to be
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reopened however most Stuckey's are no
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longer in existence but this one
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most uh keys are closed and or burned
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down but this one looks like it's gonna
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be brought back to life a monumental
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moment is about to happen
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look at the ground look at the marking
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on the ground this is the precise middle
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of our journey some would say a very
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short distance just 1139 miles to either
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the end or the start depending on which
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direction you are going of route 66
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oh I'm halfway there
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whoa I should probably get on the road
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before Carcosa
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I feel like a little bit like this
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should be documented with some sort of
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souvenir thankfully this diner has the
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appropriate gift shop t-shirts bumper
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stickers even coffee mugs but out of all
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this cool swag I think I have to go with
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a magnet even a really cool miniaturize
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recreation of this little roadside stop
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just next door this sticker signifies
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that this vehicle made the entire trek
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that was a long time ago and if you
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don't believe it by looking at the
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facade at the outside of the truck this
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guy's weathered face can tell quite a
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story while in this neck of the woods we
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can't forget about the bent here at this
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abandoned gas station and it's not just
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a clever name there is a legitimate
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reason there it is the bit door you're
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not in a funhouse this is not an optical
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illusion
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it's reality you know those sodas are
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really old I don't care I'm thirsty
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now in Vega and outside dots many Museum
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which appears to be currently closed is
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an interesting tree a few dozen cowboy
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boots are dangling from its branches oh
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I was incorrect
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looks like the museum is open a little
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one-room building and once inside there
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is a cavalcade of goodness artifacts and
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relics trinkets of the past here at dots
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66 gone to Grand Old Opry be back in a
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week
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Oh even Dixie Stampede flag there sure
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do find the most interesting things out
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here make sure you have to close the
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door as we exit got a bag full of spray
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paint that could mean only one thing
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Cadillac Ranch first step is to give it
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a little background taking the white for
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the backdrop of where we're gonna put
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our names
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TCB has left his mark and the possum is
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now permanently hash well
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semi-permanently now it's my time very
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windy out here a lot of it just kind of
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goes off in the breeze
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mission there are certain places that
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when you visit in your life you always
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have to stop at for future visits this
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is one of them so many layers are paint
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just look it's almost an inch thick
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that's all paint except this this that's
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car the rest it's paint not only one of
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the most iconic roadside attractions but
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to come off and carve just a stone's
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throw from the field is a gift shop I
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don't know what I'm more excited about
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the muffler man that's been repurposed
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or the wacky inflatable balloon guy
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inside is also another Cadillac this
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one's in the correct position oh it's
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horizontal
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well it's perpendicular I should see old
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photos and some information back from
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the early 70s when Cadillac Ranch got
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its start time has now come for the meal
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of the day here at the Big Texan it's a
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steak house if you consume a 72-ounce
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steak in one hour or less you get it for
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free I will not be doing this challenge
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yes you heard that correctly of the
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carpetbagger is going to consume more
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meat than a human should over the next
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60 minutes
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but it's not just the steak he must
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gorge also six shrimp a salad a baked
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potato and a roll I am however gonna try
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the quarter challenge 18 ounces of
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sirloin with all the sides but still a
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lot of food the Big Texan quarter with a
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current record of 69 thousand four
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hundred forty wins against only nine
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thousand six hundred and twenty losses
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this bout will last up to one hour he
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has to eat four and a half pounds for
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Texas top sirloin a baked potato a
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dinner roll three fried shrimp and a
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garden salad
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now don't worry folks either way he is
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not going to leave here hungry today but
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a piece stands up wave the white flag
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and gives up or picks up the thrashing
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will you know then he goes up seventy
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two dollars get them one more round of
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applause to cheer him on today guys
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can you do it and this is what I'm
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dealing with 25% the size of what's
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being consumed up on stage and see the
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progress so far 12 minutes in oh yeah
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definitely
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doing pretty good current progress on my
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meal that really does pale in comparison
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let's do a little update here and see
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see how it's going oh yeah he's just
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going at that thing like like a beast my
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plate is cleared 18 ounces completed I
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am I feel very uncomfortable I can't
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even imagine how he's feeling right now
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great man 22 minutes left to go I have
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to admit I think I think he's got this
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the rule state you do not have to eat
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the gristle steak has been annihilated
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now he's going in for the bread the
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shrimp and the little bit of lettuce I'm
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not allowed to sit at the same table as
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have one of them once you let you in on
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a little secret I didn't think he was
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gonna be able to do this I didn't have
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faith I was proven wrong I I was proven
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wrong
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the homestretch
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the timer stopping
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they did it with 10 minutes and 37
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seconds remaining Jacob the carpetbagger
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has stapled his place and food eating
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history how do you feel pretty fall
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not only is there normal merchandise
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inside the gift shop but also this a
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rattlesnake slithering around slowly
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approaching slug bug ranch and I'll be a
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spoof or parody on its larger
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counterpart a ways back sitting here
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would probably give you a nice little
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bout of tetanus however almost like a
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post-apocalyptic town full of spray
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paint is this a warning to beware of
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zombies or are the zombies supposed to
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beware of something else may have heard
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of the Leaning Tower of Pisa this is the
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leaning water tower as the day starts to
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come to an end
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pulling into shamrock Texas where you
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can kiss the Blarney Stone except there
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is a little discrepancy here in town on
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which one is the real one see there are
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two Blarney stones one fake one real one
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real one fake might as well just kiss
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both up for everlasting good luck place
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your lips on this
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and the second one a few hundred yards
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away down the block is on top of this
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cylinder imported and erected in 1959
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some of the locals said their luck
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changed for the better after giving a
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little love into this hunk of goodness
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things are getting better from here on
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in I can feel it sky this evening is
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very beautiful very colorful
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the Sun is setting right before us just
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in time for the neon to be illuminated
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around this classic old iconic Mother
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Road gas station it doesn't get much
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better than this do you drop in I've
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seen this in countless photographs books
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postcards every time I stand here I get
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