TDW 1871 - Playing Basketball at Johnny Carson's House
Johnny Goes Home TV Special 1982
https://youtu.be/pPVGy65AeEk
Transcript
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judging by that time we are now in
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Nebraska welcome everyone at it next if
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you woo here and I've always wanted to
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drive through this state in its entirety
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while listening to this repeatedly
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without removing it from the CD player
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my second channel daily vlog channel
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kids get in there get in there daily
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they put these big stop signs up with
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the lights flashing because if not you
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just come to get in your own world and
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drive right through the intersection
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belt popping whether they staked us I'm
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in rude to a little community just up
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the road here that was the childhood
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home of Tonight Show host Johnny Carson
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a place that he held near and dear to
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his heart that was made evidence in the
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1982 NBC special simply titled Johnny
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comes home I'll put the link to that
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video down below because I will be
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referencing lots of points throughout
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this video to that special in fact I
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highly encourage you to check it out
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it shows the side of the man that you
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might not be familiar with 35 years ago
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it came out time sure does a lot and it
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looks as if Norfolk has embraced their
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own with this fantastic mural showing
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his career from the very beginning as a
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magician up through his life and his
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tearful goodbyes upon retirement when I
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mentioned the name of the TV program I
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got it slightly incorrect it's not
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Johnny comes home it's Johnny goes home
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and he mentions that when he was 8 years
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old in 1933 his family stayed on the
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fourth floor of this hotel and he got
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very little sleep because of the traffic
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that was driving through here and as a
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small child
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to us it doesn't seem like a lot of
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traffic but to him he remembers it well
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now called the Kensington but it was
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called something different back then
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I'm sure the constant train noise as
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they pass by didn't help in the slumber
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department either one thing you don't
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see in too many places are these old
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school video stores
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look there's Rambo up there a new worst
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nightmare and check it out they actually
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have the VHS tapes on the side Wow
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Mel Gibson Danny Glover Lisa weapon
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action up there
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Eastwood Blues Brothers and take a look
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inside they still have the old-school
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format a nice little 7up painting on the
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side of the brick I always love us it's
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definitely like walking through a time
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capsule look at that old neon sign circa
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1919 hotel Elkhorn walking down the
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sidewalk he tells a story how he
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purchased his girlfriend a Valentine's
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Day present from this jewelry shop looks
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considerably different repainted but if
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you look closely up top you can see the
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brackets where the sign the old neon
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sign used to hang Wetzel jewelry it's
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amazing that the brackets are still up
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there just down the side street a bit is
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the former home of Nelson's bike shop
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looks pretty much identical now as it
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did then the exception of a few
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different color schemes on the paint on
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the trim with the bricks still remain as
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well as the entryway
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his dad purchased his very first bicycle
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right inside this door that's a pretty
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big part of anyone's life for him it
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happened here when he revisited in the
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early 80s they still had the logbook the
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receipt confirmation of a purchase that
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happened 40 years earlier pretty
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incredible and as I peek back in the
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window again the bathroom and the stairs
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and the back door and sink are still in
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the same spots he was over there in the
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corner looking at the logbook fascinated
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by how they still had it on file cue the
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local ride through the streets on a
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bicycle with the local female resident
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on the middle bar that's where it
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happened right here on this block there
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was considerably more people and
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vehicles but this is where he was just
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cruising along this vintage piece of
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neon is pretty interesting office slash
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bar I guess technically you could have
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your office inside a bar so
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stop behind one of the businesses on the
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alley it's almost like you could play
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Wheel of Fortune with those letters
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am I right lion you want to buy a vowel
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you have to look very closely but you
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can faintly make out the words
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barbershop in fact the pole the colorful
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spinning pole used to be mounted right
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there and you had to descend this
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staircase into the basement now the
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gentleman in that special who was the
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barber who owned this place his name was
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dick Adams I did a little research and
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later in life he was shot by a would-be
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robber inside that door I just talked to
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a local resident there seems to be a
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little discrepancy on where the incident
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took place
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it seems he moved out of that shop and
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into this hair beauty salon before
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obviously before they moved in and
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that's where the incident took place
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this is the back entrance of a former
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five-and-dime called Hess Ted's the
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store used to be painted red and Johnny
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tells a story about how the shop owner
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pulled him back into the alley and
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threatened to take him to his father who
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worked right over there now this looks
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all totally different and it's changed
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over the last three decades but he
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shares the memory of his first time
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shoplifting and it convinced him that he
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need to follow the straight and narrow
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and do things the right way a pretty
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heartfelt story that he told right here
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this is 13th Street but notice the sign
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they have renamed it in honor of Johnny
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Carson and there it is the boyhood home
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painted brown now back when he lived
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here it was White's and I think about a
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decade or so ago an SUV drove off the
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thoroughfare onto the porch and
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completely destroyed the first third of
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the house but they restructured it and
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it's back to its former glory peeking
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through the screen you can see a
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fireplace on that wall his father built
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that fireplace with his own two
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someone has done a heck of a job
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restoring this place
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pigeons used to nest right up there in
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that little corner of the roof and he
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recalls looking out his bedroom window
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right there and listening to them make
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that incessant racket and the first time
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he learned how to drive a car was right
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here with his driveway is now he didn't
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pull out in the street he didn't have
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the guts to do that
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so he would go forward and backward
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forward and backward forward and
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backward attempting not to run into the
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garage door the neighbor's house looks
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pretty much exactly the same and I'm
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happy to say that they have replaced and
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put a new basketball hoop where the old
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one once stood when NBC was here he was
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shooting three-pointers
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from this very Klein and syncing them
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three or four in a row
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it's a pretty good basketball player Oh
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haha yeah I'm going to be like Carson
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I'm at the I'm at the line
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this is a dodge ball by delighted on a
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regular basketball makes it more
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difficult way more bouncy
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b.o.b like arson be at one with Carson
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now like Carson not like Linna don't be
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fooled by the junior high lettering this
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used to be the high school in fact this
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is the one that he attended and he
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mentions that he hopes this place never
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gets demolished because it was in a
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magazine once as one of the most epic
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marvels of modern u.s. architecture well
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you're in luck
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it still remains the carving state's
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1921 almost a hundred years old we're
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getting a first-hand view a passing
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train Nebraska central very quiet for a
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train it's one of those newfangled
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silent trains oh you know what the
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windows because I wind up there we go
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now you can get the I'll be up
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you'll notice how the salon is titled
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Grenada they did that as an homage to
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the former theatre they used to sit in
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this empty lot it was connected to the
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building he recalls being an usher here
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in fact he was working the day that the
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attacks on Pearl Harbor happened and he
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goes on to say down in the basement all
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the other co-workers signed their names
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on the wall so below this now concrete
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pad could be buried with either cement
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source and his signature from way back
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when who knows if it's still dominant in
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reality there's probably nothing
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down there except the chodz the judge
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down there had a little bit of a hike
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down these railroad tracks crossing the
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river and this is a stand by me moment
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to say the least but it's also where the
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end of that television segment happened
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in fact there was a news article in a
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magazine where he's standing right here
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at the threshold of this very bridge
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right there in the middle whatever you
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do don't look down the interesting thing
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is he actually hung from the bottom of
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this no joke the host of the number one
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nighttime talk show climbed right down
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there and then scaffolded his way
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underneath the rails and hung there
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while the train went by
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Lost Boys style keeper status
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you're better at this than I am
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yeah oh by the way this is Chris we have
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the YouTube channel mobile instinct
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right I'm stuck here I'm stuck here just
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don't leave here so don't leave me no no
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don't leave me I'll be down here don't
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leave me don't leave me the trick
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Oh huh come back come back the atom blog
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over