Day 301 Wine SilverScript Sun Aug 20 2017

Day 301 Wine SilverScript Sun Aug 20 2017

Day 301 Wine Poems By the Hudson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igcDfXsnvjE

Transcript
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hey everyone that my stories my
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intention are to tell the stories of
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America through my eyes and through the
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people I meet and I met a couple this
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evening and I said I said that I said
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I'd get all my stories from people I
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read nothing I get all my stories from
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people and he was he's going to know I'm
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talking about him now the gentleman was
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an architect who was sitting here and
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his wife was an English major and I
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asked what college are you from
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and they said Overland I said oh the
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conservatory the conservatory the
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conservatory just outside of Cleveland
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and they they they joke because he was
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an architect that she was an English
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major and I won't say their names and
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they said it was the joke
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at Overland what instrument do you play
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you know wasn't what what's your major
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is what instrument do you play because
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it's so well known for the conservatory
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but but there are some famous people one
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of them who happens to be the mayor of
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Eugene that I that they told me I didn't
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know was one of the graduates and Eugene
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is one of the highest populations for
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using bikes
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I think 20% which is like one of the top
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cities progressive cities for using
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reusing bikes and public transportation
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so so I like that
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that was good and the gentleman here was
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a little bit of a tougher nut to crack I
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always want to engage in conversation
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and his wife being an English major was
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well schooled and all the things I
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wasn't smart enough to learn being an
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English minor but
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through every through this art through
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this word through this word that we've
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been given right
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there are these stories and and she
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asked me what do you want to do I said
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I'm kind of an itinerant vagabond
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YouTube journalist and you know you want
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to change the world how do you want to
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change the world I said once Shakespeare
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quote at a time once Shakespeare quote
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at a time she said how do you spell your
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name at the end and I said me you know
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web to bees you know to bees or not to
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bees you know - to bees but I was really
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working on there
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she was expressive and she was giving me
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you know quotes from her days as and and
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her evolved thinking as an English major
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as a teacher and she was a teacher of
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the disabled the young kids disabled
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children and she didn't want to give
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that up early she wanted to she held
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that back and this is so true of this
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kind of sober soul from Ohio that comes
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and I said you know that these folks
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with dirt on their on their overalls but
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dreams but big dreams that they could go
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anywhere and have big dreams and I think
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I said that in the Saenz model and I
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very much believe it we talked about
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overland we talked about Kenyan we
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talked about Denison college and how
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they all had this kind of overachievers
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dream and what I was working on the guy
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I was working on him that's like he's
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got it he's got to give up some stuff on
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architecture so we got to Frank Lloyd
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Wright of course you know the easy go-to
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and falling water falling water and I
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said you know I've talked to a lot of
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architects to say falling water leaks
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and he goes oh that's an easy go -
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that's an easy criticism and for some
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reason I thought falling water was in
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Oak Park in Chicago but it's not it's
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about an hour out of Pittsburgh and it's
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one of the Kaufmann it would happen
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department stores and I guess this son
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of Kaufman the department store owner
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became a devotee of Frank Lloyd Wright
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because he was so ambitious in his his
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climbs architectural e and that's what I
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try to do in journalism I mean I know
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that is a ridiculous comparison kind of
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like you know chalk and cheese but but I
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do try to reach for something better
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something higher and and and try to
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embed I said you know there's no story I
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do without a Shakespeare quote and it's
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not me it's the crowd that provides me
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with the Shakespeare it's a crowd that
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provides me she was a big devotee of the
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bloom was very group and I had to go
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well that's Virginia Woolf
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that's ianforster right and she said no
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I can't remember she said that was not
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ianforster the wasteland and the lost
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generation but it was I want to say I
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can't remember but anyway I had this
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impression so we got to the architecture
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piece of this and I got this impression
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that well first of all I said have you
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heard of this guy named I heard of this
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guy named there's pretty famous guy the
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Spanish painter guy this Picasso hey
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yeah yeah he said yeah I've heard of
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Picasso and anyway I remember these
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globes these globes of lights with
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whatever this elm tree is I don't know
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whatever kind of elm tree or sycamore or
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whatever this is but I remember him
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being in a little town called Vova nog
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Vova nog it was kind of the last place
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that that he lived after he had had his
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100 paramours and
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whatever and he just wanted to be quiet
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and tranquil and with the cicadas right
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so I thought
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you know I'm thinking all these poetic
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thoughts about Hastings and Hudson and
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hard by the Hastings and hard by Hudson
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and and then they told me this story of
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this painting group this influential
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school of thought painting the called
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cosplay cusp gosh I'm forgetting it out
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Copley cosplay copeley cosplay this is
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how the crowd helps George
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but Jacob cosplay anyway the Hudson
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School Hudson River School of painters
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and I think that came about because of
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full nice speculated of course as I do
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as Lee miss Lisa has said I conjecture
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and I do conjecture on the 1840s
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painters quite often but but I said you
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know the the steamboat probably made a
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lot of things because it was so
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difficult to go upstream and we saw a
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sailboat actually coming upstream the
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Hudson tonight there was so many things
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that were made economic where they
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weren't economically before by the
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steamboat and Fulton and so forth and
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did that enable props Lee crops Lee
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cropsey crop C crops Lee crop C Hudson
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school of painters did that enable the
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did that enable this whole Hastings on
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Hudson I normally don't get up to this
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kind of hoity-toity neighborhood usually
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down in the Bronx doing rat lines but
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tonight I came up here at Sunday night
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and I had my Teddy Roosevelt moment
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where I could be a I could be a
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progressive I could be a I could be a
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Hastings on Hudson progressive and I
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don't mean to do I don't mean to demean
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and these were just absolutely wonderful
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people but one of the things I said I
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got into the architecture we started
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talking about ambulant emulator and you
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know Barris tolls and all this stuff and
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relief and what I said what there's got
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to be some Greek you know my children
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havea for this there's always got to be
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some Greek you know that said you know a
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wash of concrete is not good and we need
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the relief
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we need ambulatory need things that
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protrude and things that recess and
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light and shadow and art and feasts for
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the eyes you know every building should
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be a feast for the eyes and they had
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talked about how they gone on all over
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Europe and visited places that they
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liked and didn't like but these were
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both Overland grads so deep so deep I
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could deep well like a deep Connecticut
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well I thought of Bill Buckley's
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Connecticut well with all its secrets
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where we had gotten invited to go to a
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farm-to-table breakfast with all the
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elite but all the elite of Connecticut I
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can't remember who invited us to do that
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but someone invited us to do a
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farm-to-table breakfast on will
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Buckley's estate next to the cross from
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the Rockefellers and all this and of
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course Rockefellers estates not too much
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further up River at Tarrytown I've had
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friends who swim in that pool so it's
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just this interesting mix between
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incredible wealth and the Bronx which is
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the ratlines
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and I love moving between those two
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worlds but I told him I said you know
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what I'm gonna I'm gonna do a story I'm
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gonna do a story here it's gonna kind of
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be my end cap for the day it's not gonna
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have any content in news or whatever and
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I'm gonna call it hard by the Hudson you
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know hard by the Hudson you know that we
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are literally that's Hudson's by
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Hastings train station and we look down
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on it we look down on the Hudson tonight
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we saw the sailboats that could have
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gone up that river a hundred years ago
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we had a little incident here with an
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elevator and the fire department being
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called out and so we had our Hudson
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excitement but what the real takeaway
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for tonight the real surprise well first
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of all following water being in
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Pennsylvania the Kaufmann estate about a
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mile about an hour away from Pittsburgh
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that was the first like waker-upper the
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second one was
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that no that kind of American Gothic
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emulator the wood emulator you know the
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relief it was copied by the stonemasons
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it originated it originated in wood and
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I'm not gonna question a guy who he said
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I I did Overland architecture and I
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think he went to another you know
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graduate you know program and then I
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went into construction to have make a
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lift yeah but I can't really read the
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comments but I'm not here to make any
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money or promote any channel or have any
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fame or whatever I'm not gonna do this
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of course not gonna walk this tread
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these trails tell these stories for
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anything other than remembrance and not
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remembrance in a kind of a fatalistic
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way but I'm gonna smell the roses while
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I go right I mean how could I meet how
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could I mean two people from Overland
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these are places I've wanted to go I
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wish I was smart enough to go I wish I
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could go to Dennis and then speak French
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you know between basketball practices or
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Kenyan you know and being a literary
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scholar at Kenyan and speak Shakespeare
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at lunch break or have the musical you
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know immersion of an overland
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so that's my Ohio that's what I think of
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when I think Ohio and so people when
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they talk about Zanesville that's what I
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think about every town I think that's
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what I think about every town in Ohio
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that there's something more there's
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something better and hopefully by
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dropping Shakespeare and meaning
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Shakespeare and everyone else you know
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Dickens and Hugo and Sherwood Anderson
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and whatnot will remember that you know
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will bear arms and bare our souls and
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and all will remember that will we in it
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we're here on st. Crispin's day and that
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is our culture and our heritage as
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English speakers above of course I love
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Pakistanis I wanted a Pakistani of them
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uber driver to go around all the
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different ISI safe houses that the
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Ilan's built but you know every year we
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should bear arms and bare our souls and
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remember this st. Crispin's day so heart
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by the Hudson Hudson happenstance
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Requiem for Hudson who knows there's a
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there's a story and there's a poem here
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somewhere
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now they say there's a pony in there
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somewhere a big girl at digging away
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that and that's how this story want
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stories been there's a pony and there's
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somewhere but most of its clawing
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through crap and if I had to just
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slightly alter that story about the
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little girl trying to find the pony
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because there's so much shit I'd say
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there's a poem in here somewhere so I
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guess that's my final thought for
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Hastings and Lutz and never I've always
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rolled through here but I've never
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actually spent any time here and I
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thought it would be time to do a video
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letter if I if I ever spent any time
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here so
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thoughts of Dolly when I went through
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Spain thoughts of Picasso when I went
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through Ho manag the cicadas and there's
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a poem in here somewhere