TDW 1648 - Most Satisfying Town In Georgia
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Transcript
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Welcome everyone. Adam the Woo here.
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Just checking the RV to make sure
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everything is secure because last night
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was interesting. Southern Georgia had
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some pretty nasty storms last night, but
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she weathered it like a champ. Welcome
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everyone, Adam the Woo here. In fact, on
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more than one occasion, as I laid back
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there to slumber last night, I checked
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the Weather Channels app on Twitter just
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to see how close in proximity tornadoes
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were to where I was. And let me tell
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you, they were not far
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away. Terrifying. It's my second
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channel, daily vlog channel. It's the
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Daily Woo. Spoiler alert,
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I do not like tornadoes. It's the Daily
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Woo.
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Who does honestly except Bill Paxton?
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It's an old plantation
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home. Those might be the former servant
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quarters, maybe. Very beautiful. Look at
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these
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trees.
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Impressive. Most impressive. There's a
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bunch of geese out there grazing in the
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rain.
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little raindrops falling on their heads.
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They don't seem to mind. The reason I
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drove back in here is because there was
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a rumor that something existed on the
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back of this property. And it is
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true. Oh, how I could have used you last
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night. Noah's
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arc stansion there behind the pine trees
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as much
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rain fell from the sky would have come
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in quite
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handy. Quite handy indeed. Noah's arc.
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How incredibly random that this is on
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the back property of this
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inside. There are artist renditions of
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the 2x two
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animals all inside the
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ark. The artist's name is Clifton
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Sheepard from Palm Beach, Florida. And
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they've listed every single
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animal that's in here. Look at these
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little cute guys. What are you doing?
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Get your nose out of that, hiny. There's
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even a couple grasshoppers. Is that an
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animal or is it technically a bug? And
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I'm thinking that might be Noah with the
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dove, maybe.
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It's a pretty incredible pump
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house. It's very beautiful. I'm glad I
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drove back in here. It's awesome. As I
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was leaving the property, I just noticed
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there is a massive pet
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cemetery right here. Look at this.
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There are
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hundreds of grave
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markers. You can see them there above
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the
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leaves. Wow. Oh, even look over here.
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You can see some actual headstones as
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well. That's a lot of animals. Usually
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you'll see two or three spots where
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family pets are buried. This
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is really something you don't come
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across every
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day.
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Wow, that is a lot of trash over
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there. That's a That's a lot of trash.
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And just to clarify, that was not on the
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property of that beautiful plantation.
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It's down the road a bit. I've seen a
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lot of fire trucks in my day, but this
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one is fullon beast mode.
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Look at that thing. The tank on the
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back's for water. That is not what you
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normally would think of when you think
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of a fire engine. Is it used for
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something else? Something different that
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I'm not putting my finger on? Oh no,
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it's a
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stampede. Keep your distance, cows. Keep
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your distance. Oh, woo. There's a fence
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there. I got worried for a second.
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Thought you were charging the RV.
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This one's a twofer. The old Midway
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grocery CocaCola sign there. And then
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down below, a sign that is unleably
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unreadable. I love both these things and
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they just so happen to be in the same
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frame. Success. This antique store has
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constructed a
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memorial to D-Day.
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They also have a cross here and a Statue
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of Liberty. I don't think it's open for
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business anymore, but if you look
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closely through this window, you can
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faintly see the outline of a classic
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car. And next to that is an old
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horsedrawn buggy just sitting here
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behind this glass. And this, my friends,
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is what they call Georgia clay. It's
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everywhere out here. In fact, your feet
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sink down. That's my footprint right
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there. That's an old 1980s U-Haul rental
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sign. I think they've adjusted their
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logo just a tad bit since those days.
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That's pretty cool. And I guess right
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over in here is where all the U-Hauls
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used to sit. Still got their Christmas
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lights up dangling down. Really not that
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much higher than the top of Large Marge.
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Living in a town where the local movie
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theater is called the Zebulon. Not a bad
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thing at all. They have Piggly Wiggly,
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too. Whoa. That sign said they were
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selling hog jowls. I pulled off the side
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of the road because I happened to notice
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that there is an abandoned radio
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station,
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AM790
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WG. Here's the old sign they would put
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promotional lettering across for events
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they were having. You can even see the
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rusted out screws there from where it
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used to hang. You really don't see those
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types of antennas too much anymore. And
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check this out down on the ground. An
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era of bygone past vinyl. Wow. Now, I
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know they still make records, but these
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are ones they used to play inside there
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for everyone to hear. Every time I see
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one of these towers, I think of the
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Weird Al Yanovic movie UHF. You don't
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want to cross this line, or at least
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back when it was operational, because
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radio frequency fields may exceed FCC
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rules for human
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exposure. There's the cord that went up
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inside the building. Look at these old
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satellite dishes. This one here has seen
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better days. It's now used pretty much
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as a impromptu planter by Mother Earth.
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You can see the thermostat. This is
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where the DJ would sit. There's some old
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computer stuff here. He would look out
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the window at the weather and see how
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cold it was. It is now 65° here at WGam.
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Lots of old files in there. And of
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course, right up there on the file
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cabinet, a bumper sticker. This antenna
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seems to have gotten mixed up in the
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dead foliage.
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They must spell things a little bit
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differently around here. Is that how you
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spell buses? Wouldn't it be crazy if on
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a whim I just traded the RV for this,
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started cruising around in that thing?
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Wouldn't be so bad, right? Oh, yes.
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Yes.
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Yes, it does
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exist. Climax, Georgia. Now, there's not
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really a whole lot here, but there's
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something about this place that's very
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satisfying. There's the city hall right
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there. Seeing that place didn't take
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long to
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finish. Man, I could use a cigarette.
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What are the odds that that really is a
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cell phone free vehicle? Does the
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employee have to leave theirs at work in
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a locker somewhere? What if they break
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down? Inquiring minds want to know.
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Got a couple things I
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needed. This, I think, will come in very
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handy. An inverter that I can plug up
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front to charge my laptop, the drone
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batteries, other accessories while I
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drive, less of the generator. For years
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now, I've been eating these
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Americanstyle pasta salads when I'm on
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the road, even back when I was sleeping
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in my van. And I also got some creamy
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spinach, some $2 chips. I love that for
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a snack. And Milo's famous sweet tea
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from The
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I got to mention the second one in two
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days. An old Pepsi, not a Coke, an old
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Pepsi sign. This giant Indian head was
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personally carved by a man named Peter
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Toth and was made out of one single tree
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as part of the Trail of Whispering
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Giants, February
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1973, as a gift to each of the 50 states
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to honor the Indians. From what I can
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tell by doing a little research online,
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the original one fell victim to rot.
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This is the secondary one, but I can't
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find any info about that on the placard.
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Either way, it's pretty freaking
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awesome. Look at this thing. And just
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down the road is something else very
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cool. Look at this
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silo. Gigantic silo painted with a
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farmer and some cotton. Each one of
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those pieces of
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cotton is about half the size of me.
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It's very tall. And whatever they're
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doing on property there, woo, stinks. In
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fact, the entire small downtown area is
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filled with a plethora of murals. I
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think that's supposed to be Clint
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Eastwood. This one probably signifies
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some of the events that have happened
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here, like the circus and then the
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courthouse and family members going off
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to serve in the military. Small town
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life, you got to love it. And the name
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of the town is Call Quit. And this is
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really cool as well. This train
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painting, it actually protrudes from the
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wall 3D style. See how it just pops out
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there? This place is also famous for
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something called swamp gravy. Not sure
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what that exactly is. Come on. You know
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you want to try some swamp gravy. What
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in the heck is swamp
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gravy? Don't tell anyone. We're going to
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make a million dollars off this swamp
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gravy. They even have a yearly event
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celebrating that. You ever see the movie
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The Stuff, the old horror film? That's
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what I think of. Swamp Gravy is the new
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version of The Stuff. Seriously, what in
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the heck is Swamp Gravy? I want to know.
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If I had to give you my favorite type of
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downtown area, these would be the ones I
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like the most. They remind me out of
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something of the Dukes of Hazard or even
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Stranger
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Things. Very cool. Even the alleys are
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all painted up. Now, I don't think it's
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supposed to be, but this woman up here
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looks a lot like old school Sally Field.
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Places in the heart throwback. Little
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Photo has fallen in the water and Uncle
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Timmy's trying to save him. But before
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that happens, Sally over here is beating
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the living snot out of a defenseless
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alligator who means nothing more than
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just hanging out in the swamp. What did
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that gator do to you? Beating the living
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tar out of that thing. The other side of
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that silo shows a farmer picking
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peacons. And that is something they do
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quite often around here. In fact, this
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old service station buys peacons. People
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just show up in their vehicles, drop
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them off, and they give them a couple
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bucks. But what do they do with the
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purchased peacons? Do they make swamp
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gravy? I'm telling you, it's just like
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the stuff. That's a cotton field right
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there. A big
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one. I'm not 100% sure on when cotton is
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harvested. I figured by now, this time
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of the year, there wouldn't be any
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planted. That shows you how much I know
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about farming and picking cotton and
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planting
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cotton. Lots of it there. This is
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Donaldelssonville. Quaint little town.
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Really cool old water tower up there.
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That's the historic Donaldelsson police
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station. That little teeny tiny
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vestibule. One thing I like about old
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architecture are these clear, you know,
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foggy looking bricks they used to use
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way back in the day. I like seeing
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buildings that still have those. You
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know, a horse is a horse, of course. Of
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course. But some horses have a little
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bit of a drinking problem. I'm talking
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about Mr. Ed. He's got a drive-thru
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package place right here. Mr. Ed, I had
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no idea.
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By crossing this bridge, we are now
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entering
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into Sweet Home Alabama. And with that I
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will say a do see you tomorrow
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vlog over.