A Very Strange Day Near Bat Cave North Carolina - Stuck In Mud / Chimney Rock / Roadside Oddities
Another Day on The Road in North Carolina
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welcome everyone adam the woo here as a
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recording of this monday february 14th
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2022 behind me
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is the very beautiful it's also very
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windy lake lure
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north carolina
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i will be starting here on this episode
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going to chimney rock and then making my
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way back around
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through the mountains
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towards charlotte north carolina but i
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want to start here
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just show how
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beautiful
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nature is out here
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i'm inviting you to join me
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don't know what i'm going to see no game
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plan
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other than just
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rolling through north carolina join me
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shall you and since i'm in the same area
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as scott on tape
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you asked me if i wanted a tag along
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with a
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secret project that you were doing and i
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said
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i have no plan today so i'm just going
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to film my own thing
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and
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be in the passenger seat with you
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welcome to my world adam according to
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this the town was established in 1927.
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the flowering bridge that runs parallel
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to where the cars go by is a bridge made
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of flowers got this little archway here
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walk underneath
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here we were just driving by this and i
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go whoa whoa we'll pull over
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what happens to the garden stays in the
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garden find out
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this is such a beautiful area
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through here
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just driving around
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through the winding roads of the
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mountains
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very beautiful
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a pink flamingo right over here
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we have some candles set up
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this is so neat
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looks as if this was an old drivable
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bridge
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and they converted it into what it is
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now
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even using that kayak down there as a
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planter as well
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but just look at these mountains
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gorgeous
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tall
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huge now over here it says mirror mirror
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on the wall because there are mirrors on
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the wall
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i'm not going to ask the mirror who's
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the fairest
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because i'll probably be disappointed
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the mirror does not say me
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there's also a tub right there
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and a windmill
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this is clever
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oh grow up talk about the plants you
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want the plants
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to grow up and talk dirt to me
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you know don't talk dirty but talk talk
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dirt
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that's clever okay if you're wondering
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why i'm walking through
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you're gonna have to watch scott's video
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later whenever he finally uploads it
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you're going to see why the heck am i
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walking in a stream there's a reason for
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it
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there's a reason for it
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yeah i wouldn't normally be doing this
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but
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something interesting happened okay back
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to back to back to the rest of my video
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yeah i am muddy
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that's what you call a teaser
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you're muddy too
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come along with me scott said
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it'll be fun it'll be fun come out to
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the coast we'll have a two laughs
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so i got a little bit more mud
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on my feet
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here
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let's get this mud off
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the shoes can dry off the mud
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okay i'm just standing in a stream
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okay that should be good moving on
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okay you're probably gonna have to
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change
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these sweatpants that is all mud you
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were up to your knees in mud yeah but i
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i started the day off dirty so but not
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this way yeah why did you
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why am i listening to you why did we go
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out there yeah take a look at this
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waist deep there
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in the mud
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look at that
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it's like wedged down in there i went
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about kind of knee-deep at another point
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pulled a shoe off threw a shoe over
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towards me and then the other shoe is
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like wedged down in there all the way
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down knee deep there
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there's the other shoe there all in the
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mud
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oh my gosh that was an experience
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all right moving on
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look at this he's going down deeper
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have the audio off you get the idea and
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my shoes yeah this is uh i didn't know
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what i bargained for for this
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you were in there a good 10 minutes
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probably four hours making my way now
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towards chimney rock heading from
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this point this direction
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up around this bend
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towards chimney rock a couple miles up
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the way look at that house up there on
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the stilts
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overlooking the river beautiful through
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here and this is the main stretch here
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the downtown if you will
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says
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yield there with the yellow light
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of chimney rock a very
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very cute quaint little community
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nice little tourist town probably more
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tourists
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go through here than locals that live
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here's the main side
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naturally wonderful north carolina state
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parks and i can see the rock
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up on the top of the hill it's a very
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unique looking rock
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to say the least
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now we're not going to do the hike up
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there
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it's a hike all the way to the top but
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not after what we just went through not
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at we yeah
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i yeah
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we went through we had quite an
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excursion
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my heart's still beating your heart's
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still beating back there which is good
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let me zoom in on this and just show
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chimney rock
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that's supposed to look like a chair oh
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over here near the end of the little
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corridor
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is this a big the foot
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well big the foot
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it's the air freshener that rides around
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me on road trips there's also a oh i see
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a family
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of oh look at this
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i don't oh this is good look at this
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what is going on here
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oh just the hair
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stick your face in there you are really
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seven feet tall people don't believe it
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but i am let me get up there you are you
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have a big foot you have a big foot face
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and i want to see exactly is my hand i
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think my hand is the same size as a
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sasquatch hand which is good and chimney
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rock had its first
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library
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ever
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just a few years ago four years ago in
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2018 the first public library
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is right here it's one of the little
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free libraries and inside this window
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are these they're bouncing from the roof
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line there's even an octopus up there
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that's bouncing and then we got ernie
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and bert
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right down here can i say something
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about bert
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sure
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feel me
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still
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birds it's not the same haircut
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i think it is i know
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kind of wish
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this was open
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this is the chimney rock county fair
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that would be kind of neat to you wanted
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to see a fair today i wanted to see an
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affair but it's not open
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that's a fair to remember
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i don't think that
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almost looks like the bates motel back
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there is just so much natural beauty
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around here
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this bridge
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which has been reinforced with these
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pieces of wood
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overlooks a very
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view of this river look at this
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wow
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amazing
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like i said i had no real rhyme or
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reason what today would be about but i
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am just it could be a lot of scenic
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beauty
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i was being quiet on purpose just
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because i felt like that kind of speaks
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for itself over to the other side of the
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i always say it's the little things
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it's the little things
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kind of put a smile on your face and a
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little joy in your heart
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how
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awesome
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north carolina it's very scenic
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i got really excited about those bales
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of hay going by for whatever reason
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yes this is a real town
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bat cave north carolina zip code two
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eight seven one zero
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and when i think of bat cave you
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obviously think a batman
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when you said we were going to bat cave
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i i honestly thought
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we were going to see bats we were going
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to look at some sort of bat yeah this is
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a town called bat cave
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but we asked one of the locals in
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chimney rock and they said
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the caves are on private property there
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really aren't any public caves
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and over here off to the side of the
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road are a couple buildings that have
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caved in
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kind of falling in look this used to be
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like a homestead
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right here wow
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right here along the river
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look at this
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this one's someone's house
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the old mill inn the old mill
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in
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take a look at this place
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this is a relic of the past
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no longer structurally sound
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by any means
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but look at this old signage this neon
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here the neon's been removed but the
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sign is still there then down here
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there's like a little moat
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of some sort
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this is this is fascinating oh my gosh
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there are bats
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there are bats right up here along the
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little banister
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that is cool
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that is these are thorns
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almost looks like rhubarb
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but they're thorns
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you can see some foundation here where
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the
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the motel the accommodations stretched
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along
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back in the day
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let's honk in there
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this is cool the old mill here in bat
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cave north carolina and adjacent to the
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post office
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says the hip hin
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bat cave on there a very large blade
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there and this signage here
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has a bat on it
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what are you
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a batman
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or a very unique mustache that kind of
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looks like a mustache
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be pretty neat in a place called bat
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cave
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be pretty neat to live in a place called
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backhand
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this appears to be some sort of fruit
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stand
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or a flea market during the on season
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it's the off season right now
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it says chicken coop for sale
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are you in the market for a chicken coop
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i can use three right now oh there's an
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outhouse
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right there
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why are you so excited because it was
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like an old antique outhouse
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and here's some firewood
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i think i have to take you back to the
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all right look i usually like to talk to
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cows
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just looking for some cows
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you out there cows
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you out there oh hello there cows
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hello cows actually turn down this road
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this is the
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puncheon
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punchian
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camp creek
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hello cows
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oh there's more stuff down this road
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oh all right let's go we'll go down this
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road thank god good to see you cows
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this car just passed us we're going to
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follow
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we'll follow the other car but look
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there's real cows coming up real cows
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real cows those weren't real cows
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i hate to break it to you they were fake
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ass no they're animatronic they were
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cyborgs those were animatronic cows yeah
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they were they weren't moving them but
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they weren't moving at all
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other than that other than that
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not sure wow you're you gotta get your
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give me a good cow joke no problem but
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um
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here's some real cows slow down let me
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talk to these cows
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i'm gonna talk to these cows
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hello down there cows
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hello
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yeah i know his jokes are
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almost as bad as mine
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got milk
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like they're having a staring contest
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what were you saying before
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they have no idea wow over here off in
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the woods
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look at this old western town there's
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the chapel there
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with the steeps like a little house on
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the prairie
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over there and then if you go really
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slow through here look closely there is
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some old coca-cola signage down there
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why don't we turn it down can we go to
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okay now that has signs saying we're not
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allowed to
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right on right on the side there you see
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it says posted yeah but there is a cow
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you can't see it says yeah yeah
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there's a giant paul bunyan over in the
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corner you can't see it now might be
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able to see it from the road if we pull
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up just a little bit more
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there's a muffle a couple of muffler men
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here on the side
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a shell sign
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can i get the angle oh there's another
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cat big
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cow down there he could eat and make the
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cut is that a bob's big boy
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is it i can't tell it's happening here
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oh overlook wait what's up right there
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look
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there's another it's an indian muffler
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man down there
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right there with the headdress on and
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everything
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see it yeah i'm just so confused what
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i'm looking at what is it it's someone's
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private property
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and they own all this stuff and they
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just have it out here they just they
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collect all this stuff
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there's a silo
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wow okay where was the other muffler man
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well there's a giant paul bunyan
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see him yep
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oh yeah right at the very back it's all
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right there okay stop right there wait
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oh no go a little further go a little
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further
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right
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okay let me zoom in yeah let me zoom in
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zoom more i just move just just idle
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forward just a little bit yeah we can
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get a little space a little bit more
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yeah i'm looking you got this yeah yeah
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there it is there it is
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where's thomas oh right there that's
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good yeah or tom selleck yeah it could
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be an inch forward just a little bit
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more yep now these muffler men i am
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faster a little bit more yeah another
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like three or four feet right there good
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i am fascinated with these muffler men
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because a lot of times they'll put axes
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in their hands and things like that or
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other products that places that purchase
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these old relics
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roadside relics
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in their arms holding something like a
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product
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or whatever the store is but they
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started off holding mufflers
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that's why their hands are gripped
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really yeah so it's not even paul bunyan
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sometimes you'll see a paul bunyan
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muffler man
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but the way their hands are being held
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they would originally be created by
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mechanic shops to hold mufflers really
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so that's why they're called muffler men
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now did you see that general store down
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there that looks like an actual working
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store i was looking at at some point but
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we cannot get on the property that
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yeah look they either transferred an old
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store down here
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into the mountainous regions of north
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carolina this is up here by the way oh
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yeah this is way up this is the bits as
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far out far out cool and this is far out
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it'd be hard to move a gas station like
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that
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move maybe the road ran through there
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we'll play as the gas pumps
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this is an amazing property
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kind of wish we could get up on the
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property and right over here is the
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north carolina flag below the american
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flag and it says something in that
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window there some somebody's place
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oh right down there
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it says
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eaves or bubs bub's place oh it's bob's
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place oh oh i got an inn i can call him
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right now you know bob of course
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he's canadian all right we all know each
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other this cow's telling us to what we
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just like to
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move along oh there's a car coming
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behind us let's have them go ahead
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they've got a canoe on there or kayak
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you know would be fun to hang out with
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joe pesci and there it is left there
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what was that
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what was that noise you just made
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you were like
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let there be pieces it kind of there's
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no piece in my belly apparently look
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you're getting hungry right now it looks
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like the amityville house sort of too
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it does kind of yeah yeah
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did you like the remake with ryan
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reynolds he's canadian
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legally we have to like everything he
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makes
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even new guy
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we have to this is a totally different
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property about a mile away but here's an
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old prospector and this is not
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about
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what are you laughing at oh prospect
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you're just on the side of the road this
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is not a muffler man this was different
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what's he supposed to be doing he's
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dancing he's doing like the the tango so
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just kind of pull up a little bit so i
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can get a side angle here we're staying
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in the car yeah but this is almost like
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a mechanic shop of some sort
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and this is about a mile away from where
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we just were
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this is the strangest town i've ever
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been to it's very what is even the name
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of this edneyville edneyville something
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like that it's called edneyville yeah
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and there's
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we just passed another place where all
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the cars
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like there's cars everywhere and every
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on all the property they're all on
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slants
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and like like
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put in a certain way
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to draw attention but i guess
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everybody wants to do each other here
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how does he dance in those boots
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oh it's very easy i'll show you all
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right we keep pulling up i'm going to
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film him as we drive off and then that
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way he can go up keep continue dancing
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prospector i'm an old prospector but i
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got a few moves up my sleeve can't help
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myself i got the devil in me i gotta
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dance boy now turning into a place
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called
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granddad's
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apples
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and even though it is closed for the
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season there are no apples
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right now being produced at grandpa
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granddads
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there's something very interesting
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on the top of the silo
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wait for it
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wait for it the reveal
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when's the last time you saw on the top
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of a silo
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a tractor
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you might need to pull up just a little
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bit a giant tractor a giant
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tractor just so i can get the
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perspective though
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you're going to need to pull up you
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can't really see this
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and the front gate over there is open
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even though it says closed for the
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season
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it's kind of kind of just trying to
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drive through the parking lot
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i guess those would be apple trees
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yeah pretty neat
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this is the store front itself
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it's a barn here
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and up top
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is that tractor
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they probably had a crane
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that put the tractor all the way up
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there big crane probably hoisted it up
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or they jumped at dukes of hazard style
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with a ramp and it landed on their
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pinpoint precision and they just left it
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they just left it there around the
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corner
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is the world's largest um
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lonnie anderson statue pretty cool you
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want to see it i don't believe it yeah
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and now as i wave to myself we have
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commuted over to
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hendersonville
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let's put my hand over the microphone
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because it is windy
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just to
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help make the sound a little bearable
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hooterville
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is the name of this
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in hendersonville
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he's messing with that tiger over there
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corner of duncan hill ave and seventh
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ave
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right up top there's a cow says biltmore
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dairy farms one thing for sure about
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this neck of the woods there is a lot of
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odd
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roadside relics that people have
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collected
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all over that has been the feature of
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yes they like their uh of today statues
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a lot of oversized statues here in this
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area of north carolina got this circus
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cage here got a little tnt over there
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in the distance and of course as i
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stated there's yoga the name of this
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place is
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piggies right up there on that ice cream
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cone above yogi oh look there is a big
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boy there either a bob's or a frisches
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big boy or a shony's big boy kind of
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silhouetted out there is the sun is
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starting to dip down
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not quite sunset yet but getting pretty
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close
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with the ice cream cone kind of
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permeating there from
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big boy's hand
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and even though you can't really see it
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there because he's in the shadows you
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can tell it's a big boy
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oh the wind is blowing that cow up there
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hold strong cow
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hold strong and up on the roof is it a
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sword oh it's another big boy up here
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with an apple holding a big apple
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yeah this is this area within probably
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10 15 miles
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of this section is just a beehive of
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activity what are you pointing at
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i can't describe it on what it is i'm
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looking at is this is
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oh it's a pig
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it's a pig with an apple in its mouth
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big boy's holding an apple he's seen
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better days i think there's another big
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boy inside there look yeah there is
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right here
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yeah that's crazy
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what is happening in this place what
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have we said look there's a giant
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elephant
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up top piggies
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right there that's the name
23:50
right above yogi's head and that's
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booboo right
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now this is a thing of beauty right here
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now it sounds like someone's playing the
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drums across the street but it's a sign
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the wind is blowing a sign
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and it's making like a
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interesting racket
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look at that big old hamburger right
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there oh and there's a steer head
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right beside us as well look at this
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plot look at this parking lot call back
24:25
to another video we just did have a
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pepsi right above punk's hybrid you know
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very recently what a few days ago we
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went to the birthplace of pepsi cola an
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alligator
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not a crocodile no
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now you know how to tell north carolina
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you know how the tail had never seen an
24:48
alligator in the crocodile
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the teeth and then the snout right the
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step
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now it is the crocodile has a flat one
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stop look and listen
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how cool
25:02
is that
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do you think that's real own bank and
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trust me
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probably no i don't think this was ever
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a bank
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maybe though
25:15
this place is great
25:15
a lot of good stuff and even these
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tables down here are relics of the past
25:19
kind of like something you see in an old
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pizzeria
25:23
this is where miss piggy
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parks but do you notice that it's
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spelled so there's no copyrighted phrase
25:30
ggie yeah
25:33
so you recognize well not bond wars but
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this
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yes so that's that's he said that was
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canadian that's for our canadian viewers
25:41
your canadian viewers because you have a
25:42
lot of adam i do so you have a lot of
25:45
caveats do you think a lot of people
25:46
from canada watch my videos i know five
25:48
of them that you know you guys have know
25:50
each other i have five
25:52
my essay is a huge gas got me there over
25:54
here is the hooter via hooterville
25:58
jail
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the hooterville jail
26:01
also inside the hooterville jail is some
26:04
picnic table there's some tables in
26:06
oh there it is hendersonville north
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carolina we have covered some ground
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today
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once again i was just kind of tagging
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i was in the passenger seat
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oh look this is open you can go inside
26:21
the cell
26:23
and eat that's pretty cool it's pretty
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dang cool
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kind of kind of wish it was open
26:29
because it is about dinner time getting
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close to dinner time
26:35
on the other side here yes that's
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magical
26:40
there's an owl up there i hate owls you
26:43
don't like alice freak me out man oh
26:45
what the heck there you are that's what
26:46
i wanted there you are right again there
26:49
you are they i didn't that is not the
26:53
same haircut all right just about done
26:55
for the day for this episode but there
26:57
is one last spot i kind of wish this
26:59
place is open nonetheless still pretty
27:01
cool to check out one last spot just
27:03
down the way that i want to show and
27:06
we're going to call it a day
27:08
there it is there we've done a lot today
27:10
we've done a lot we've done
27:12
a lot today birch am i
27:15
what am i saying
27:19
you're going gonna give a hint about
27:19
what we're gonna give a hint about that
27:21
location yes
27:23
bueller
27:42
take a look at this
27:42
ferris wheel in front of jackson steel
27:48
right off the side of the road
27:51
this is a good enough place to end the
27:52
video isn't he
27:54
with the sun setting there behind the
27:57
here in north carolina
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you don't think it works i think they
28:02
use it just to advertise probably
28:04
that's going to do it for today
28:07
can faintly read some of these has
28:08
machine shop custom fabrication
28:11
grinding facilities heavy equipment
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repairs sheet metal fabrication
28:19
here in front of the store that is
28:19
closed for the evening
28:22
this magnificent ferris wheel we had
28:24
quite a day
28:26
we did a lot of stuff that happened
28:28
isn't going to end up in my video but
28:32
it will be out there somewhere
28:35
someone
28:36
who just happens to be driving this car
28:38
will probably give more details on that
28:40
oh yeah when that video will be up from
28:42
you
28:43
check out scott on tape no no no no no
28:45
oh i already i already did the party to
28:47
the plug you just got to end the vlog
28:51
so now i usually say i'll see you in the
28:52
next video
28:54
the vlog i keep forgetting you have a
28:56
channel but okay
28:57
adam will see you in the next video the
28:59
vlog
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is