Pratique du Shadowing: A Rural American Childhood - Apprendre l'anglais à l'oral avec la vidéo
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Do you do any moves on that?
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I can do no hands.
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You can?
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Yeah. In the camp.
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It might have...
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The camp.
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Where is that?
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Right up here.
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I can show you if you want me to.
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Oh, can you?
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Yup.
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I'm following you.
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There's quite a bit of crazy people out here too.
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There seems to be the basketball team.
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Crackheads walk up and down that every night.
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Every day.
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I think they're fighting because they just hit stops.
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Yeah, they're crazy.
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As long as you don't mess with them, they don't mess with you.
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Right.
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Basically.
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Sometimes.
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Sometimes.
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What do your parents say about it?
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In Missouri's Ozark Mountains, we found a childhood that we didn't know still existed.
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Kids ride their bikes, explore the woods, and enjoy life in a way that seems ever rarer.
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It felt like my childhood in the 90s, before internet, social media, or anything else that has come since.
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If you want to experience the nostalgia of a late summer vacation day, come with us to Irondale, Missouri.
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We didn't set out to make this video.
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Instead, we went to explore the Leadbelt, an old mining region of southeastern Missouri.
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To find our story, we had to pass through two towns.
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The first was Bonterre, a pleasant working -class former mining town.
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How you guys doing today?
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We're good, I'm Max.
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I'm Justin.
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Nice to meet you, Justin.
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Nice to meet you.
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Here driving around it seems just like a really pleasant small town.
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Yeah, yeah, we don't really get a lot of, you know, real big attention, really honestly.
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It has its ups and its downs, just like everywhere else, but really there's no drama, there's...
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Hell, we don't even have plot cameras here.
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One thing you notice driving around here is just an insane number of American flags, American signage.
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The one lady we just spoke to was drinking water out of an American flag cup.
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It's very patriotic down -home Americana town.
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Next we headed from Bontair to Leadwood where things were a bit rougher.
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What's what's Leadwood like?
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I mean you see it.
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It's not very much nothing.
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and sewers running into the river.
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That's disgusting.
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The, what is his name?
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The governor, not the governor, the mayor, whatever it is.
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He don't want to get nothing fixed.
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All he has to do is say something and get the county to do their work, their job, and trim the stuff like power lines, like cover, look, right there, right there for instance.
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Go ahead and show the camera that, right there.
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Show them that power line like this.
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That is a hazard right there.
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That's a fire hazard.
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Nobody cares.
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It is.
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You got a wide range of tattoos here.
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Can you say a little bit about what you got?
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This one here I had covered up.
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It was a heart that used to say, Mom, with the wickedness grown out of it. That one?
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Fear no evil.
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It's just something.
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They don't care, man.
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Like, you have shit flowing in the river.
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And driving past Leadwood stinks on the highway road back there.
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It's almost like it'll kill you, choking on somebody else's shit.
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You're exactly right.
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You can literally smell shit in the air.
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I guarantee you, before you turn back into Leadwood, you're gonna smell shit.
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Yep.
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Promise.
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I bet you every vehicle I got sitting here right now.
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Bike, four -wheeler, car, and SUV.
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According to the state of Missouri, Leadwood's wastewater treatment plant has been malfunctioning and releasing fecal matter into the rivers.
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Officials say Leadwood's failing wastewater treatment plant is releasing partially treated wastewater into the river.
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It's been like this for like four or five years now.
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Four or five years?
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Almost, yeah.
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Something big needs to happen with the smell and the drainage and the access over there, I think.
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You guys want to stick around here?
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Uh, yeah.
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I don't plan on, no. I don't plan on sticking around here at all.
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Why do you say yes and why do you say no?
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I hate this town and I hate it.
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I want to stay close to family.
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I don't know, it's getting just.. bad.
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I can't even go swimming at my public access area.
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Still, some people enjoy...
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I wouldn't say it's polluted to here.
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I don't know where it would actually connect to this river.
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I don't believe it does.
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What's it like living around here?
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I would say people around here are good Christian folks, Bible Belt, of course, and friendly would be the word I can offer.
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And they're having snakes up there at St. Francis that are, what do you call it, mix?
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Like a mixed race relationship.
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And when I got bit, they were like, well, where'd he go?
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So I didn't ask the sumbitch for directions.
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You got bit by the hybrid snake?
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No, I got bit by the copperhead.
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But that's when I found out there are hybrid snakes out there.
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But you're not worried about the sewage?
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Because in Leadwood, everyone kept saying, like, everyone's freaking out about the sewage.
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It stinks.
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You've been over there, it stinks.
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Wouldn't the FDA or some — not FDA, but somebody, government prevent that from happening anyways?
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I mean, you wouldn't think.
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Finally, we reached Iron Dead. Are you from here?
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Yeah, I live down in Big River.
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What's it like?
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Great.
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I live right on top of the river.
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It's great.
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What's this stuff you got here?
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This here?
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It's knives, balls, hatchets, shovels.
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What should we as visitors try and understand?
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Where should we go?
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Or what should we try to know?
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They're definitely in the river.
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I beg everything you got cold away too, so I mean, it's a lot clearer really.
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They've been here up my whole life, that's all I know.
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Alright, thank you.
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Nice to meet you.
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Thank you.
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I like your dog too.
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Yeah.
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Irondale was once a prosperous little forest town, known for hosting a Boy Scout camp catering to people from St. Louis.
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Today, that's gone, along with many of the locals.
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Irondale's population fell by 17 % just from 2010 to 2020.
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Still, many remain, including the boys.
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Do you do any moves on that?
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I can't do no hands.
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You can?
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Yeah.
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Can I see?
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Hey, see this car right here?
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Listen to it.
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That's my sister's car.
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I'm scared.
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Grab it up!
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No!
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So what's it like in Irondale?
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Well, I'm not here a whole lot because I work in Potosi.
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How old are you?
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I'm 16.
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16?
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Yep.
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And you're already working?
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Yeah.
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You start working young here in Missouri.
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Yeah.
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Try to.
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I have two vehicles.
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Gotta keep gas and mobile levels.
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So you guys do a lot of this, hanging out, just walking around, hanging out here?
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Yeah.
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I hang out with his sister, which is my girlfriend.
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Oh!
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Yeah.
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How do you feel about that?
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He's actually my best friend.
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You're dating your best friend's sister?
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Yeah.
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Bold.
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Very bold.
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Yeah.
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Do you guys have a sense that, like, here, you've got a lot of abandoned stuff here?
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Yes.
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You know why?
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So, I'm not sure why.
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I think it's whenever the train station closed down.
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I think it just kind of killed everything out in the camp it might have
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The camp like the boys camp it used to be like a camp And there's like a banded pool and everything.
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Where is that right up here?
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I can show you if you want me to.
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Oh, can you?
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Now, back to Missouri.
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Years ago there used to be an old boy scout camp out here.
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And this is where they would like fish, do the boy scout stuff and camp out.
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There's quite a bit of people out here.
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There's quite a bit of crazy people out here too.
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Crazy in what way?
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Like, they do a lot of drugs and stuff.
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That's a big problem here?
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Yeah, it's a big, big problem here.
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Do you worry about that for your friends?
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Um, a little bit, because some of them like to hang around these people a lot.
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Actually, I had a couple friends that live out here.
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They actually got hooked on some drugs before, but they cleaned up now.
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How old?
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Maybe 12.
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It was bad, but they're cleaned up now.
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I'm happy for them.
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Wait, so this right here, this was an Olympic swimming pool for the summer camp that's gone now.
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The flag right there has been up since they've been like...
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There's a brick place over there.
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That flag was for them and if you go over there you can find all the shacks and everything.
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It's windows, bushing out everything, right?
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There ain't really nothing much.
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And there's also like two little lily paths that are ponds, but I think they used to be pools or something.
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Maybe, because they're concrete.
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You guys know a lot about the area.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, they've lived here a lot longer than I have.
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Yeah.
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I've only been here about eight years.
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I've been here 14 years and I'm 14.
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I've been here for five years.
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My brother...
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He's 15, he's been...
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We all been...
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Well, me and my family...
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Wait, so who's your brother?
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I'm his brother.
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Your brother's?
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That's my little brother right there.
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Gotcha.
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Coming in here, he said that there's a lot of crackheads out here.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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They're nice.
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They can be.
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Some of them can.
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Some of them are crazy.
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There's more crackheads in camp than there's like actual corn dough.
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Like yeah, this is kind of like the bad side over there is kind of like the good side well Yeah
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Think you're fine because you just stopped together What do you guys say good?
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It sound like it.
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What do you got?
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What do you guys think about that?
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It's growing up with that that is normal.
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Yeah, yes, it's pretty much like It's kind of normal.
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As long as you don't mess with them, they don't mess with you.
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Right.
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What do you guys' parents say about it?
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My parents don't really like it.
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That's why we kind of live about four miles out of Irondale.
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Every day.
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That's not a crack.
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Yes, it is.
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No. Nah.
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You won't see a crack at driving a car.
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Unless it's stolen from the cop.
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We can show you below if you want.
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Yeah, come on.
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Beneath the pool?
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Yeah.
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Yeah, it's underneath.
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A couple years ago, me and my friends rode out here on a pool at night time.
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And we actually went under the pool and we heard people doing something.
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You're saying you went down here at night, underneath the pool?
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Yeah, I went over there.
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And you found crackheads underneath the pool.
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Yeah, there were people sleeping there.
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They were making something.
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I'm not sure what they were making, but they were making something.
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The peachy thing?
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Yeah, pretty healthy.
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Yeah, this is...
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You only got a flashlight?
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I got a phone light.
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I got my phone.
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Watch out for needles.
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Watch out for what?
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There used to be a sleeping bag right there.
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I don't remember that.
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Get some Van Gogh type paintings in here.
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This is cool.
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Alright.
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See like this right there?
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Some of that right there was where they used to have the camp hat.
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And they actually used to have like a towel thing right here.
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Did they hold them?
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See look there's some of it right there.
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You can see a little thing right there. Where?
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Right there.
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See the little concrete back?
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That thing there?
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Yeah.
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They used to have a teller like right up in there.
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It's over there.
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They didn't bore it now like about three months ago.
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When are you going to train station?
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The Civic Center.
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Oh, the train station.
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Yeah, I was going there.
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Have you guys seen that?
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Have you guys seen the Civic Center over there?
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No. Kinda. About there?
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I don't think so.
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Did you see the volume there?
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Yeah.
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He goes fast on that thing, man.
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We just mess around all day walking around
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This is the new they just built this actually it's brand new
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but so this is like a place to have like to have events
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and stuff like that Basically it used to be a lot more like broken down
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but somebody who was it wasn't the mayor of irondale
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that rebuilt this
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that rebuilt it yeah it was me oh yeah well you
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you guys live in new york i do you do yeah were you alive when 9 11 happened i was
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what i'm old what kind of question is
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that man for real like is it bronx is like the
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rougher rougher part of new york you guys ever meet mr
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beast no never i would like to I'm guessing there's plenty of stuff to do up there ain't there.
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You guys ever do like mystery boxes?
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Like you want this dollar mystery box?
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No. You guys should do that.
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Like give it out to people?
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Yeah.
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We could be your first people to do it.
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You guys got a lot of ideas.
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I appreciate your ideas.
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Can you adopt me?
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I want to do this.
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If this video gets 1 million views, we offer him an internship.
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Oh dear.
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Well, should we go see the train station?
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Yep.
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And then after that I think we'll get on the road.
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Yeah.
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What age did kids start hunting?
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I really never had nobody to hunt with.
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My dad used to be an addict growing up in my lifetime.
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But he's been clean for three years now.
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Good for him.
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This is the train station for this town a long time ago.
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So at one point you can imagine, so you have the train station here, You got the big camp over there.
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You got all those businesses and stuff downtown.
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Yeah.
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And now it's like this.
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Yeah, this is definitely an interesting place to grow up.
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It gets boring after you ride all the trails and everything.
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Yeah, it seems like it wouldn't get boring.
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It gets boring real fast.
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I'll just stomp on it.
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I don't know if you're going to get in there.
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He is not going in there.
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Ain't no way.
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He's probably going through.
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You're going to get cut up.
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Oh you can look through here.
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She's tough.
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Yeah.
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Can you go through there?
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No, I can't.
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You can't hold baby stars so much.
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Look at this.
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It's all poison ivy.
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There's poison ivy in there, I promise you.
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If it grows on a tree, it's probably poison ivy.
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In there, poison oak.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Like I'm real allergic to poison oak.
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Yeah.
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What do you think people should know about being a kid here, growing up in this part of America?
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Well, I will say Missouri is not the most like, scenic place, for sure.
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It's really nice in the like, fall kind of, but other than that, this kind of stuff, like the old towns and stuff, those are cool.
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Honestly, I think about Missouri that it's pretty hated, but it's really not that bad desert here.
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like it's not a place to grow up I don't think it is
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what brings you to Irondale man what what made you throw
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a dart at the map on here for Irondale you know we go all over the country I've seen
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that she was checking out your YouTube channel that's cool are
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you guys from here yeah we live up up here in town yeah yeah unfortunately We don't know a lot.
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We're kind of transplants, if you will.
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We've lived in town here, what, six, seven years, something like that?
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Eight years.
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Eight years.
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Yeah.
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But it's a cool town.
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It's a really cool, you know.
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It's a lot of history, man.
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It's kind of like stepping back into time, I guess.
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We noticed it ourselves, talking to people, and we heard it from the kids.
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They said there's a lot of crackheads and stuff like that around town.
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Is that true?
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That's...
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I guess they are crackheads, but...
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they'll do wheelies on their bicycle for you.
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They don't cause any trouble.
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They just don't mess with anybody.
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They just don't mess with anybody.
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Even when he was younger, I could let him and Brody, we live up at the other end of town, they could walk down to the store to get them a candy bar.
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They would come back home with a candy bar, a soda, and a sandwich, and 10 bucks in their pocket.
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I'm like, how'd you do that?
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And then we'd come down later on, they'd be like, man, you got good boys.
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We bought them a candy bar and bought them a soda and gave them a few bucks.
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I'm like, you don't have to do that, you know?
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We've been all over the country, and I wouldn't want to raise my kids anywhere else.
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Maybe out west.
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I'm lying.
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Maybe out west.
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I like it out west.
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It was nice to meet you.
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Very nice to meet you.
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Thank you, guys.
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Hey, nice to meet you.
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Nice to meet you.
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Good luck with everything.
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Thank you.
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See ya.
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Bye.
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Okay.
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Irondale may have its crackheads and boarded up buildings, yet what we saw here was special.
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The simple beauty of an innocent childhood day, unspoiled by technology, violence, or the stresses of the modern world.
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Two days after we shot this video, I turned 32.
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For this one late summer day though, I remembered what it felt like to be a kid again.
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Vous vous entraînez en anglais avec "A Rural American Childhood" en utilisant la technique du Shadowing.
Qu'est-ce que la technique du Shadowing ?
Le Shadowing est une technique d'apprentissage des langues fondée sur la science, développée à l'origine pour la formation des interprètes professionnels. Le principe est simple mais puissant : vous écoutez de l'anglais natif et le répétez immédiatement à voix haute — comme une ombre suivant le locuteur avec un décalage de 1 à 2 secondes. Les recherches montrent une amélioration significative de la précision de la prononciation, de l'intonation, du rythme, des liaisons, de la compréhension orale et de la fluidité.