TDW 1688 - What SubUrbia Taught Me
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welcome everyone Adam the Wu here it's
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good to have you along for the ride
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today and every day if my second channel
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daily vlog Channel it's the daily Wu
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straight ahead Austin Texas
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the early 90s really impacted me in a
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way because that is when I discovered
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punk rock and that's still that whole
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idea that mentality still transcends
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into what I'm doing today I'm going to
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talk about that a little bit not only
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the music but there was also a handful
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of movies that I felt define that era of
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my life two of them sharing the same
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name suburbia there is a 1983 film that
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will stand the test of time as a classic
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because there was also one that came out
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in 1996 that holds a huge special place
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in my heart it was filmed right here the
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back side of this convenience store let
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me rephrase that not just the back side
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but the entire property in fact
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three-quarters of the movie was filmed
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at this location it's now an insurance
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company but back then there was a group
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of teenagers hanging out on the very
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corner of the structure this is bringing
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back some curious memories watching that
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movie with my friends repeatedly this is
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a shot where the group is walking across
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right across here it looks the same
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except for all the writing on the
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windows when they were shooting the
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scenes they built on an extension right
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here but most the time they were hanging
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out against this wall
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there was a payphone right in here
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pretty incredible still remains all
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these years later right on this exact
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box is where Giovanni Ribisi 's
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character went on a ramp stating the
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fact that in 50 years the people who are
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doing the same thing that they were
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doing complaining about the price of
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Oreos and drinking beers on the corner
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of a convenience store would not even
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know who they were and if you've ever
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seen the movie seriously so much of it
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was just right here against this wall
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right here as well as back here in fact
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that used to be the laundromat
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we're a couple scenes were filmed in
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front of in recent years they have put
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cinder blocks over the glass and it's no
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longer a laundry facility but if you
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look at this here these bricks are still
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the same and they changed this a little
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bit it used to be a ramp coming down to
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the main characters we're sitting right
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there in that exact spot before they
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walked off into the woods past where
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large marge is there was a van back over
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there went back there to make out one of
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their old school boyfriends became a
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rich rock star and returned back and was
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sitting right here playing the acoustic
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guitar and this was a pivotal scene
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another ramp right in here oh my gosh
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look at this I did not I did not put
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this here here is a Bud Light can almost
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in omage to those days try writing
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another song about Sandra Bernhardt
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salad a whole pretty certain if I would
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have seen the movie now for the first
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time it would not have had the impact
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that it did back then life is funny that
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way when you see something or hear
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something the way you relate to it a lot
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of it is based on the perception or what
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you're going through at that particular
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moment it was almost like when I watched
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the film I was hanging out with my
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friends the characters that were in the
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movie we're just like me and the friends
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that I had at that moment at that time
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period if that makes any sense a bunch
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of rebellious kids thinking that they
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would never go anywhere in life
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embracing the slacker mentality I think
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a good portion of us have been at that
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point
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in our lives some of us still might be I
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am thankful enough to have pushed past
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that looking back on that era crazy to
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think about I never realized that you
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could kind of break free of that
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mentality and push forward because truth
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be told nothing is going to be
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accomplished hanging out on the side of
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a store getting drunk on a nightly basis
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complaining about life
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however reverting back to what I was
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saying something positive can be taken
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out of these type of situations it is a
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very good thing to develop the attitude
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of not giving a crud what other people
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think of you what society thinks of you
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what their brain is pushing in your
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direction and what they're going to
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formulate an opinion or what their ideas
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that you should do that is the positive
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aspect I get out of that movie the punk
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rock ideals that I grew up with and I
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still embrace to this day and in some
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weird way just staring at this facade
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from a lesser-known mid 90s film kind of
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jarred my brain a little bit and
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reminded me of that the good and the bad
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that can be taken from any situation at
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one point they were standing up on top
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of that roof next to that air
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conditioner launching their empty
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bottles towards that church I don't
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think they threw it that far I think it
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landed kind of in the road and the fact
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that the field has not been developed
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where the van was sitting that's pretty
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cool I just noticed something that is
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pretty awesome behind this new
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chain-link barbed-wire fence is the old
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sense that you can see in the movie
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right here this green fence with the
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white axis going all the way down that
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is all fallen over and decayed you can
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see that a number of times when the
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characters walk from the store cross
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over it and head to the van
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some parts of the state are flat other
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parts not so much downtown off on the
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horizon going around this up not going
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downtown going around downtown and in
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keeping with the theme of Richard
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Linkletter movies I'm going to grab a
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bite to eat a top-notch burger from
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Dazed and Confused all right all right
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all right
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looks like they even have some prop I
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don't know if they're screen-used
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or maybe recreation but they have some
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problems from the movie itself now
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that's what I call Wayne Roy
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it's a random dinosaur hanging out here
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as well I would have liked to had the
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full experience parked underneath the
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awning like they did in the movie the
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Large Marge she doesn't fit under there
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kind of glad I escaped there without a
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paddling cannot escape often about
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paying a toll all the cash lines are
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closed by mail once again how the heck
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am I supposed to pay back very confusing
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the rest area is here not only have
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restroom facilities but also storm
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shelters it's a tornado entering a
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little town called pelota a very
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beautiful serene Creek with a small
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waterfall
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going underneath both bridges that lead
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through the town as I was standing here
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I just realized I'd been here before
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and the reason I know that is I noticed
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this little rock structure here there
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used to be a mermaid over in there and I
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did a vlog here I looked it up I use my
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own Columbo like research skills I was
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here on the daily whoo
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day one three three very long time ago
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and I did an unedited vlog of the
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mermaid that you see right over there
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it's not there anymore and I think it
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was located right over here next to
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where this bubbling bubbling brook out
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of the ground was somewhere in there why
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how did they get rid of the mermaid okay
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I'm not going crazy they moved it up
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here onto drier land that's it right
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there
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I knew I wasn't going crazy I knew I'd
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been here before up at the top of the
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hill is a park right next to the former
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Salado college which burned down in 1924
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the statue is in honor of Elijah
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Robertson who not only founded the
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community but also the school gotta love
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old relics like this that's history
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right there don't climb on it because it
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will destroy it and alcohol is forbidden
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hurts like my throat when I do that
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that's what it looked like in its heyday
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still a pretty good portion of it left
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though I just have to use your
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imagination to remember what it was I
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was a tree going through the middle that
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tree definitely was not there in 1870
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the trees were outside the building not
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inside it have the old gate there too
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1859 that's cool
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hey thank you in the very recent past
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actually within the last couple of weeks
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you might remember my friend Jake of the
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carpetbagger
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visited Texas and we did seven days of
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eating barbecue and on day one of that
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adventure of us going out and testing
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out what the state's vbq has to offer we
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stayed at the filming location of the
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gas station for the 1974 horror film
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classic Texas Chainsaw Massacre in fact
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of our t-shirt from there we stayed in a
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cabin out back we had the most amazing
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barbecue in fact we mentioned throughout
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the whole week how all the other
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briskets the beef briskets did not
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compare to their barbecue and that is
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because the gentleman who made it was
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the former owner of the gas station his
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name was Calvin Bilbo and he ended up
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selling it to the new owners who are
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doing a new entrepreneurial business
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where people can stay on the property we
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ended up hanging out with Calvin for a
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while eating the barbecue and I just
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found out that he has passed away
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and it's very sad to even think about
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especially being just in the very in the
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last week 10 days ago 12 days ago we
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were there hanging out with him Jacob
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and I were the only ones on property
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listening to some of his stories about
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the cast who has visited their
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happy-go-lucky guys seemed very healthy
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I don't know the reason
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on why he passed what the complications
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were the reasons were but I thought you
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should know it really kind of hit me
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hard like how quickly everything can be
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gone so I just wanted to send my
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thoughts out to his family and his
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friends I didn't know him I was not
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friends with him but the brief time that
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I spent on the property there hanging
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out with him and talking to him and
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eating what I consider to be Texas's
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best beef brisket BBQ that he made he
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put a lot of time and effort into his
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barbecue recipe spam log over