🌆 Discover Chattanooga: The Ultimate Downtown Walking Tour Experience - 4k City Walks in 60p

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hello Walkers and welcome back to City walks the channel where I walk you
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around places that are hopefully kind of interesting and
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I well I share discoveries we make together um I'm going to flip you around
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so hold on to your seats there real quick hi my name is Henry I will be your
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proxy Walker today your virtual travel guide and co-discoverer here in Chattanooga
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Tennessee let me get some light on my face here there we go it is a beautiful
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day here in Chattanooga along Tennessee River and I'm going to flip you around again hold
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on all right uh as I said we're along the Tennessee River here that flows
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through Chattanooga I am back uh after about 18 months I filmed a couple walks
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here last year last summer and it was much hotter much more humid uh well I
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don't know about more humid but it's definitely warmer and but I had a great time it's a beautiful city um it's got a
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really neat downtown and an aquarium over here that kind of anchors this
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area uh and we're going to get back up into there in a little bit
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um but first we're probably going to walk over to this cool pedestrian bridge where I think I might have started a
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walk last year but I want to revisit that uh and we are going to walk over
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here give you a little bit better uh view of of the river ever since uh the Civil War and
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before Chattanooga has been a hub for Transportation uh the river here they've
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had roads and Railways and consequently a lot of manufacturing and that sort of
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thing historically and it was a at the meeting place uh between the what is it
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the Appalachian Mountains and the Cumberland plateau uh this kind of a neat Jojo
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sbsn I don't know what that is but it's a Ross landing and actually let's walk down here cuz it's a cool way to get
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back up there and there's uh not sure if that's part of the aquarium but that is
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and you can see a guy on an ebike here on a nice little network of bike paths
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as well let's uh make our way down here it
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is about 70° Fahrenheit which I think is 21° C according to my app beautiful day
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here in November about 11:45 in the morning uh it is extremely Pleasant look
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at this cool mural I guess um native
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peoples from the area and it's I think I I assumed that it would have been
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primarily the Cherokee here but according to Wikipedia the Cherokee didn't arrive to this area until about
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1776 when one of the leaders broke away from the main population or nation
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and uh brought his folks here I'm going to
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peek around this corner cuz I don't remember exactly coming down this far it was at the time last summer they have a
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kind of a splash park system behind me right now and um
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it was really cool teaming with kids at the time this looks like it's just a a boat dock which is kind of nice and I
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think that's an island down there um excuse me we'll go back up this way and
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you can see why it would be fun what looked like steps on the right I
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believe or maybe it's just in the middle but there was a bunch of water sort of cascading down here we'll get a better
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look up here and you can see places to sit hang out and of course get some
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shade right now this looks like
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it's thought maybe it was closed off uh this all would have
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water um right now it is about the perfect temperature honestly it gets a
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little warmer in the Sun and uh yeah I think the water flows all down
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these steps which is super fun um um and pretty cool so we'll go up
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here and find our way around thank you to our patreon supporters uh yall's contributions
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one of the things I like to do here on this channel is remind people that I do talk a lot
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so uh if you're looking for one of the quiet walks you um there are plenty of those
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over on out on YouTube and totally understand that I'm going to rush to get
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across here but uh it's just not that kind of
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Channel and I like to talk so little hustle there some kind of
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cool outdoor sculptures oh yeah there's another one at the bridge this is not the foot
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bridge but I want to take a peek out
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here it looks like this other brick building is part of the Tennessee
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Aquarium will eventually end up in front of that so neat bronzes here in front of
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the entrance to the
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bridge 2009 kind of a neat old school
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Bridge with the art deco lights and blue Iron Work
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so last year I walked in this area I walked in
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the Southside neighborhood and uh can't remember if I
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walked further up or not feel like I did I can't remember it's one of it was part
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of one of those other walks
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if you've watched this channel before and seen some of the other places where we've had or gotten to enjoy public art like
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this is pretty cool um you'll know that I I'm a big
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fan I think it just adds a lot of character and enjoyment even if
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you see it every single day the same stuff
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it's kind of cool hi
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there and I think this is primarily residences over here it's pretty new um seems to be a
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booming place you know especially over on the south side with new
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apartments and condos going in restaurants uh Innovative
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stuff I love the smell of the boxwoods as
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well I guess it looks like they have a bike sharing program which is kind of
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nice today is Monday and I believe it's Veterans Day so as I
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film so I want to give a shout out to the veterans out there who
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have uh put themselves at the service of their
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communities and Country thank
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you and what we'll do is just walk out here ways I think and uh then we'll
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backtrack a little bit and see the rest of well not the rest of the city
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but more of the city this is I think the Hunter Museum which is an art museum
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pretty cool design and architecture I think in my
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opinion this Serpentine stairwell that'll get you huffing and
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puffing
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there's the bridge we looked up briefly earlier and the dock that we
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didn't get
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on I really like the Iron Iron Work iron work on these old
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bridges for
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see the island over there I don't know if that's a park or privately owned or what the story is on that I think and
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look at this Cliff you can see why that's a pretty cool location for a museum
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all right I don't want to spend too much time on the bridge but I did want to take a look at over here looks like it's a
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drawbridge it's kind of a old old
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style uh command house or operator's house over there probably
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not be lived in but where there's all the mechanisms for doing that I don't know I like that old school
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design I think it's an old bridge as well I'm not sure exactly if you know let me know in the comments I I do love
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interacting with you guys uh I love hearing about your connections your memories your
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Corrections sometimes um and all that fun
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stuff makes uh makes me feel like there are real people on the other side of this
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camera and hopefully you're going to enjoy these walks
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um so that direction and I'm not entirely
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sure if that's upstream or Downstream to be honest with you um
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is Lookout Mountain and there was a battle there and to
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the North or the South I'm a little bit turned around right now
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so um uh anyway Civil War battle and they
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have a little Park up there I walked around the park in the neighborhood and learned some stuff and
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got some fantastic views looking back at the city
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you know I think I don't think we walked over there last year so I'm just going to walk over to the museum and uh get a closer look at the
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buildings and stuff over there and then we'll go back towards the
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aquarium I think oh the Edwin Hotel interesting um
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Tennessee I mean Chattanooga does have a minor league baseball team here which is
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kind of neat um
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and uh my son went to a game last year and he was visiting some friends he we
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we're not really a sports fan family but so I was curious to see what he thought
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would be uh if it was fun or not and baseball by nature is kind of a slower
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game um and I think he
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enjoyed having had the experience but I don't think he's going to be a convert
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I have not been inside this Museum and I think next time I come I'll
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have to make some time to do that
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kind of neat this fancy
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place my assumption is this is primarily Modern Art
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this a baseball Motif
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art all righty all right let's head back to the aquarium
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again a little bit of backtracking
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here sorry I'm trying to take a photo as well as
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fil hi
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there some cool stuff here I think it would definitely be
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worth taking some time to explore and enjoy it learn a little bit
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about it see what it has on offer I kind of
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like this bridge too too
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honestly you know it's it's a nice it's an interesting contrast the iron work over there versus the metal work over
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here
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there's a little ice cream shop here on the corner that I might have to check out
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later those steps look like concrete but they're metal
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edwind looks pretty
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fancy I was wondering the other day what makes fall so appealing to
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me seems like like you would it would you know being the signature or the sign of
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coming winter you would think it would be ominous but with all the colors and the
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change I think maybe is brings a level of a little bit of excitement A Little Bit Of A Thrill at least for
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me do you guys like fall I like fall winter I like
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summer here's a nice view of kind of some downtown buildings I think that's Lookout Mountain down back there so
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we're at the top of that looking back towards the city exploring
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Etc and you get a lot more of the older taller buildings if you kind of go keep going
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down this way and to the left you know sort of that um I think this is Market
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Street up here it leads back in there
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here's another thing I like so these look like new homes but they've got that
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old classic uh look to them you know they've I'm
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sure they're new and modern inside but they they've made an effort to blend in
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with the classic local or yeah local architecture here and I'm I'm
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a fan of some cool modern stuff too but I you know not everything has to be modern not
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everything has to be old and classic I think I appreciate it when it's some
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efforts been put in to do more than just be the cheapest possible option
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I think last summer when I was here it was a uh big Market Day down here and it
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was really crowded today even though it's a holiday there's schools in session people are
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working it's much quieter there's the entrance to the
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aquarium here or an entrance I guess
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bunch of stuff has been taped off over here they doing some
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work oh yeah so all this little faux Creek had water in it and it flows down
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to those steps where we were earlier and kind of a neat
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little um design feature you know especially given that
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it's here at the Tennessee
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Aquarium I like how they've done the cement too so it looks like it's sort of collapsed like maybe nature taking back
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a little bit there was a fountain in here
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there are a lot of parking lots downtown and on street parking and they all seem to use a parking
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app uh Park Mobile although that one looks like it might be a different app so maybe it's a
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private de and you can just kind of see the lights of the baseball
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stadium between those buildings there
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um there's a Courtyard by Marriott several hotels I pointed out that other
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one there's a Windom further up this direction maybe a Weston I'm not sure uh
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so lots of options let's go this way and then of
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course uh a ton of bars and restaurants if I didn't say that already
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this is Broad Street um again it kind of goes up and into that
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uh older downtown
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area this
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way oops
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little bit more chain type restaurants down here I see have Ben and Jerry's over there but also a good mix of what
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appeared to be anyway local restaurants
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morning and some um looks like we're going to get into
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some what do you call those things murals that's what I'm looking for and
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then some old signs we have these around our Livingston area they call them ghost signs because most of the businesses are
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no longer intact but they leave the signs on the brick wall that have been painted on there which is kind of a neat
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historical flavor to it believe this over here is a big
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giant uh well there's a climbing wall but also maybe a parking garage
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escape room I
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guess I'm happy to see so many people out on their bikes even in the middle of the day here uh not just commuting but
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getting around and enjoying the fresh air and outside I've been noticing
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myself how nice it is to get out of the office and be just out in the fresh air
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and it's not just the air but um like the insulation those psycholog
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for me the psychological insulation of being out of reality not being present
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you know even in the car or at home not just the office it's easy to forget that
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the outside world is uh still there in a real
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place with real things going on uh I read a
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book by a guy named eert tol it's pretty famous called The Power of
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Now and one of the things he says in this sort of a
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philosophy self-improvement type book is that I think it's something like
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you know the past is fixed it's immutable and the future is really just
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imaginary CU it hasn't happened yet we try to all our worries and stresses
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about trying to predict what will happen our our imagination at work so
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sometimes just focusing on what's real right now in the moment to Hampton in
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the Suites um can be really psychologically beneficial
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[Music]
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all right I'm not going to go too far down here I'm going to circle
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around so last year on the I was walked up the other side of this little Street here by that yellow building and a woman
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who I suspect might have had some mental health issues approached me and said don't fil
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me don't fil me don't fil me so I totally respect that right I don't I try
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not to invade people's privacy there's a certain
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element of uh when you're in a public space there's no real expectation of
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privacy um however you know I also
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believe in hold on let's this
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[Music]
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I believe in Relentless positivity and kindness and
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uh so it's a long way of saying I I blurred her out cuz I'd already edited
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it and posted it look at this stonework I love this I think I pointed this out last time it's an allergy clinic now
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but really neat um so that's a long concluded way of me
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saying if you ever see yourself in one of these and you don't want to be in it just shoot me an email or shoot me a
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comment and I will and with the time code of as closely as you can of who you
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are and that you don't want to be in it and I will do whatever I can to make
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sure you are not that you are not reg recognizable there
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um yeah so our our attachment thing's all messed up so um
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I grew up in let's go back this way we'll do a
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little figure eight loop I grew up in Wilmington North Carolina and so I grew up with Southern
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accent and um people speaking a certain
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way and um it's kind of and I've been away
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from there for a long time and it's uh it's fun for me to hear that southern
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draw I think the media and entertainment for a long
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time equated that accent with lack of intelligence sometimes and
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I I find that interesting as well um because they that seems to be a
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universal um human trait you know there's certain
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people are don't have all anyway I'm not getting that but you know it's not a
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southern thing is what I'm saying
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I'm just waiting for the crosswalk
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light [Music] although just going AC cross
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CU and what I'm going to do is I'm going to take us over and get a better look at
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the baseball stadium just from Below
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um even today Chattanooga is a still Nexus in a hub of Transportation there's
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two highways I think 75 and 24 interstates a lot you know railroads
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come through here and in fact it's probably if people know of Chattanooga
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from outside of the region it's often because of the song Chattanooga chuch Chu and they have converted that station
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to an entertainment district and bunch of restaurants and bars and
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stuff I should be calling out these streets more we're on West Third and this um Left Right street is Chestnut
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Street sorry about that
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it is quiet down here today so much different than last summer
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but again I was it was a weekend and summer
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AT&T
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field uh I I I've been to I used to play baseball as a kid and I do used to enjoy
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going to the Cincinnati Reds games when I lived in Cincinnati um even just by myself you go
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used to be able to go down and get tickets um last
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minute and you know you go down you spend a couple hours even if you don't stay for the whole game and you have a
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good time it's a good way to spend some to relax and have a little bit of excitement from time to
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time uh but in a lot of ways I think the minor league teams they have to work
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a little harder um to keep people entertained and
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generate excitement and so it's can be a lot of fun and it's just more intimate as well
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you're just closer right and you know these guys are making barely minimum wage if
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that and they're just in it for the passion you know a lot of Hope and
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Dreams out there on the field it's just fun
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this is Aquarium Way and we're walking down Power Alley I
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think we
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Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory Rocky Mountains that's out
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west they're trying to trick
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me not good that they have an exterminator outside
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though again here's the aquarium and we're back down at the river and we're
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going to walk down here a little bit to see that again uh I think I read that across the
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river from the aquarium is a park which I'd like to explore sometime
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as well I see a now leasing sign on a fairly new apartment complex I have to imagine
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that'd be pretty cool place to live nice views of the city
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one of the things you get here is because it's in the the sort of hilly River
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Valley the roads are very
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Serpentine or can be
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[Music]
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again back to the Tennessee River last summer they had one of those
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amphibious duck tours uh that was Drive people around on
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the land and the water we did one of those in Dublin super fun we had a great
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guide what a I love the use of this Riverfront space I wonder how much of it
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actually gets used like how often it gets used for public events um if you're
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from Chattanooga or in the area let me know I'm curious about that
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and then Southern bell couple of paddle wheelers down there old school river
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boats and then some more modern industrial barges
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across the way they're I'm not sure what they're doing over there they seem to be moed
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anyway I want to thank you guys for joining me here again in Chattanooga I
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did walk up at Lookout Mountain this year here I went out to the battlefield of chamagua
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Maga chaga um and uh filmed kind of a nature walk out
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there through the woods it was beautiful peaceful it was very nice uh I'm not sure where I'm going to film next I'm
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hoping to squeeze one more in on this trip but it probably will be in Atlanta
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or between here in Atlanta and uh not sure what the hell that's going to work out but until
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then keep on stepping

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