Georgia Roadside Stops With My Mom - A Short Road Trip To Atlanta / Unusual Stores & Gas Stations
Mini Road Trip to Georgia with My Mom
Transcript
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today's adventure brings me to the
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georgia state line
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as a recording of this saturday october
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30th
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2021
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leaving florida for a few days have a
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special guest with me
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not big the foot
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the writing co-pilot
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say hello special guest
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give away give them hear me i can hear
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you okay give a clue on who you might be
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give a clue
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the clue is that i am related to adam
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that's a clue
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that's the clue and the weather looks
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like
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could rain
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possibly rain
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going by this old homestead now we did
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not live here
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i did not live here i don't want to give
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away the special guest yet because i'm
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about to do the intro
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special guest did we live here back in
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the day
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no i don't think so we never lived here
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nope we have no affiliation with this
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former home i keep i think i'm giving
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more clues on who you might be special
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guest
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special road trip guests
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just think this was somebody's
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dream home one time and they lived in
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this lived in this house for many years
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and had many memories
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and now it just sits there with nobody
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there
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so sad
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welcome everyone
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adam
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the woo here it is a little more brisk
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and cool after crossing over the georgia
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state line
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i'm inviting you to join me
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on this adventure
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first spot
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of the day
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is this teeny tiny church building i've
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seen a lot of these small
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buildings
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that are housed you know houses for
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congregation and churches throughout the
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course of the u.s but i've never been to
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this particular one
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in valdosta
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georgia
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go a little bit closer here
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see what it says
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oh someone said someone's in there
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someone is inside says dream big and
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walk in faith got the steeple there
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the door
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is open
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who who
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who are you hi son
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it's my mom
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right now
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you've been hiding out in here
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we're in valdosta have you ever been to
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valdosta before yeah before you have
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over the years have you been to this
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church building
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no no
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no
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the door does not open
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it's as far as the door
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are there any pews in here yeah a little
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bit
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okay church pews
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which is another word for seeding pulpit
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the pulpit there
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in the bible
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the holy bible got the bible there
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the cross
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and over here you got the ten
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commandments yeah
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there's a little cul-de-sac outside this
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is in the side of someone's yard
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as well be hard to sit in the second pew
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over here
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because the pews have been kind of
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pushed
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together this should probably be
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back just a bit
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like this
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there it is
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is this the smallest church building
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you've ever seen mom yes it is
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and i've seen a lot
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it's the northern oil you wanna be
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anointed let's see anointing oil yeah
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you north yourself with it
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all right so this is kind of the first
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stop
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we're gonna be in georgia for a couple
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of days
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three days give or take don't want to
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give too many spoilers let me flip this
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around
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but you're going to be visiting your
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sister
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and her husband my aunt
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and my uncle
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will be watching on television tonight
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the world series yes with their
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homestead
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and there's a possibility to see braves
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are up as a recording of this two games
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to one
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game four is tonight
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see how that goes
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and then be here a couple days and then
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head back to florida dad is holding down
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the fort
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yes he is all by himself in central
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florida
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maybe he'll be watching the world series
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on tv
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babe do you guys have do you guys have
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he won't be watching it no we have
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streaming we don't have cable
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okay
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let's keep moving on
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i gotta squeeze through this door
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we haven't done a little mini road trip
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in a while since we went to gatlinburg
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last year about a year ago
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not too long ago we went to gatlinburg
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and pigeon forge
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and we just decided let's just go to
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georgia get away from it all for a
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little bit watch out for the mud here
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all right moving on into georgia towards
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atlanta we go does have its own mailbox
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address 4109
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oh there's an ant bed right down there
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don't want to disturb them
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don't want to take a stick
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you've heard don't poke the bear don't
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poke the ants
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also this could have been built by the
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resident that
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it's in the side yard of
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because there is a
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residence right over there you can see
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kind of off to the corner
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and not sure what denomination that
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would be but pretty neat with the
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steeple and everything
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okay moving on
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pulled off i-75 not really doing a lot
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of back roads today
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trying to make up some time
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staying on the interstate but kind of
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pulling off at anything interesting
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like the magnolia plantation house
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a gas station but also looks like a
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a georgia plantation take a look at this
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with a water tower and everything
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interstate 75.
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yeah you think this was a real
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plantation home
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until you go around the other side of
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this
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it's just a gas station convenience
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store
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quite an assortment of different items
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inside
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i stated you wouldn't really think by
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looking at it you could buy
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all the different goodies that are
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indoors
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throughout the counters
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this is kind of this is kind of what's
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as well as you know different suites and
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treats
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and savory
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items and pecans
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also some pecans as well
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georgia pecans as shown here advertised
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on the side of this
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you get a handful of them
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or a truckload
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no price tag on the truckload however
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a handful probably
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isn't going to break the wallet too much
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but a truckload
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and you have to have a truck to connect
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to it
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no matter how much the price has
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all right got to keep moving
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got a lot of ground to cover
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i'm walking backwards i'm going to trip
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over these sticks
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and upon exiting going back
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back by
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the el dorado georgia bulldog house
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says go dogs
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dog spelled
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d-a-w-g-s
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the braves
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not the only georgia team people root
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for
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different sports as well of course
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college football
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it's pretty obvious what team he roots
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the owner of that home just a little bit
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of ways up the road you have the dwight
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david eisenhower memorial gardens a
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tribute
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to the georgia interstate highway system
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of course
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dwight d eisenhower so we have to thank
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the interstate system
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take a look at that dedicated to
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president eisenhower
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whose wisdom and foresight launched the
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interstate highway system in america the
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greatest transportation miracle
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of all times
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wayne
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shackleford is the one who stated that
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and also another transportation device
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there's a train track over here i just
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heard the train
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but i'm not seeing the train
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they are doing a
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halloween weekend event
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over here at the farmer's market
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not seeing the train though
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nah
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those aren't petunias found a cotton
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field
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are you picking some cotton mama
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i have a story to tell you about our
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when he was a little boy
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couldn't talk very good
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you're talking about me yes
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we stopped at a cotton field in
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mississippi and got you out
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and we showed you this
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and we said this is cotton
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and you said
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cotton
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you called it cotton
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that's that's how you pronounce it that
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was your first experience of saying clot
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was in mississippi
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and he was a little bitty boy
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wow that's pretty neat that's cotton it
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is pretty neat that's what our clothes
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are made up
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did you ever pick cotton at any point in
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your life no
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you you said you worked in some fields
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tobacco fields i'm from virginia from
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virginia
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so we work in tobacco in virginia is it
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as rough on your on your hands and
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fingers as
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it's got sticky stuff sad
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this this is prickly this will this hurt
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your fingers
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somebody picks this then their fingers
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are going to be bleeding by the time
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they get through
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oh look at that is that an ant bed down
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there what is that an ant bed yes those
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are ambience
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and you don't want to get over there
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stay away from the ambulance
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there was a movie sally fields was in
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and
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her husband got killed in the
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first movie
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oh places of the heart yeah that's if
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you ever watch that movie you'll see
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what caught me you picking cotton what
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it does to your hands okay that's a
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really good movie
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um
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all right moving on
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up by 75.
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this is interesting
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this is what the above looks like
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before it pops open
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and then
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it pops open like that
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see yeah but that's the bub that's neat
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yeah there's another one
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wow that is neat i've never seen one
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enclosed like
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enclosed like that
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it dries and it
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pops open and this so when you get ready
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to pick it
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your hands are gonna be touching that
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real dry pod
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that's what makes it
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hurt
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oh yes
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throw up the way about another hour
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north
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to warner robins
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to a buckies that i have never been to
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i've been to a lot of buckies
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there's the car alarm going off that's
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not my car
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i've been to a lot of buckies through
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texas also a couple of the new ones in
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florida and now i have been to this one
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in warner robins
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georgia right off 75.
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the first your first time first time you
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said now you told me your friend lives
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in texas and you visited her and they
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have a smaller bucky's there right yeah
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but i've never been in it you've never
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been in it because my first time ever
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going anywhere okay so you've seen
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bucky's from a distance but not been
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inside one and the bucky's next to where
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your friend lives in texas is like a
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almost like a 7-eleven style buck he's
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not the big super center
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style buckys
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do you know anything about bucky's
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you've got lots of stuff they got lots
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that's all you need to know lots of
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stuff
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and just like all the other locations
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got this little statue here of bucky but
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this is bucky mama
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hey he's a big beaver there how you
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doing
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how you
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ended up controlling myself to some
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extent didn't get too much food or
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merchandise there was some
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some buckos
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and uh
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beverage there
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i also got these they're called beaver
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chips whoa don't slide off there buckos
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stay right there
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and couldn't find my mom in there she
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got we got separated
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up i think she's walking out though like
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she's walking out now
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did she buy anything
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she escaped
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didn't get any merchandise what did you
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think about what'd you think about your
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first visit to bucky you didn't buy
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anything
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no because i didn't know what to buy
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you didn't know what to buy
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you can have some of my buckos if you
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want i did i did buy my christmas
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present from you
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you got
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oh i found my christmas present oh that
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i'm gonna give to you yeah okay you have
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to clue me in because i don't
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now in monroe county
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water tower says monroe county
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invites industry probably another 40
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minutes
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up the way from where i was at bucky's
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and there seems to be a wrecked plane
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as well
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voted the cleanest outhouse
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in georgia
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take a look at this
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voted cleanest outhouse
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got some tractors
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some farm equipment
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pick out a seat
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that fits your backside
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put it back clean when you're done
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here at hamlin hills
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liking the coca-cola memorabilia here
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along the side as well as the signage up
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on the barn
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1947 ford flatbed
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definitely
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embedded into the ground there
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to get some photos
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in front of it with the pumpkins
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check this out
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little merry-go-round and whatnot
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oh goats on a roof there's goats up
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there they're metal goats they are goats
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nonetheless
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still keep it out in the
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all right nice little stop off
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pretty neat
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those rooster wind chimes
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don't
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is that mint nope
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it's a strawberry plant strawberry those
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are strawberry plants
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yep
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and i can say i utilized
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the cleanest outhouse in georgia mom
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it was pretty clean
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and it was a real outhouse
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it really is a restroom
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that is that's a fancy one
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made it to atlanta just outside the
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airport
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i'm gonna end this video
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with this muffler man
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called a muffler man because the way
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he's holding his hands
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they used to have mufflers
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you know
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he could be holding a muffler more or
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less now he's holding a tire
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always good to see a piece of americana
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here
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across the u.s and in atlanta the old
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muffler man
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made it to atlanta
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it's nice and breezy and cool and windy
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and rainy
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see the next video the vlog
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is over