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Downtown Raleigh North Carolina - NC Capital - Virtual Treadmill Scenery & Virtual Walk - City Walks
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Mar 17, 2025
#walkingtour #CityWalks #Raleigh #virtualwalk #treadmillworkout #treadmillscenery #virtualtreadmill We have arrived at the Capital city of Raleigh, NC. I wish I'd had more time to walk a bunch of other places in the area but alas, the road called. It was a quiet winter day and I essentially walked from the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences and the Legislative Building, past the Capitol Building, and down along Wilmington St, Salisbury St, and Fayetteville St, to the Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts. It was a quiet, grey morning but that made for pleasant walking. I hope you enjoy the treadmill walking scenery. As always, please remind me in the comments if I said I was going to link to something and forgot. -Henry Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/CityWalks Paypal Donation: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/CityWalks A fun way to donate? Try Crypto Currency: https://1upcoin.com/donate/youtube/citywalks My Story: I'm a filmmaker by trade. In 2016, we sold our house to go traveling for the year in Europe. Since I couldn't work there, I decided to start another Youtube Channel. I love walking as a way to explore and this was an easy thing to share. It got popular and I've continued. My goal is to share these treadmill travel videos to help your work out with virtual walks. Instagram: @citywalks_virtualtravel Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MyCityWalks Twitter: @walks_city You might be interested in our other Channels: CityWalks360 - 360 VR walking videos: tinyurl.com/yg5dkewu TravelingMel - FamilyTravel - https://youtube.com/TravelingMel Nature Relaxation Therapy -http://tinyurl.com/y3h93tvl Gear: Either this one: https://amzn.to/2OUGGEx or else with: https://amzn.to/2vyGZ14
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hello walkers and welcome back to city walks a what am i calling this a relaxed travel
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channel a virtual travel virtual treadmill no treadmill travel walk sorry
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a lot of keywords in there um my name is henry i will be your proxy
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walker today your virtual travel guide which i always like to caveat with the fact that i'm not actually a guide
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because uh we're actually more of a co-discoverer here um
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the uh trying to get my camera to work the way i want it to
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because i don't know all the details here i did a little research and i've certainly been here
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40 years ago and i like to have discoveries and
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notice things and share these with you i think that's a lot of fun and it's going to be sort of
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a slow meander through downtown uh from where we are now oh did i tell
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you we're in raleigh north carolina um
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i told you my name it is about 46 degrees fahrenheit eight degrees celsius
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we're on jones street here at the north carolina nature museum or natural history museum as well
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as the history museum i think is this other one but they've got this super cool massive globe
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uh structure it's probably i don't know 30 feet 40 feet tall super cool so we're gonna
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come over up salisbury towards the state capitol but i feel like i've got some other things to say oh yeah
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encouragement uh to know that these walks are helpful and valuable
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to you guys and it just makes me excited about getting out here and filming more
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i'm not sure i think that museum over there is a history museum and this
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is the museum of natural sciences and this is at least in part a nature research
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center and museum and coffee shop and after that
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i'm not really sure what's going on here uh it is a misty day uh so hopefully
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hopefully we won't get too much moisture on the lens here it is
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comments i love getting your comments love interacting with you guys and hearing about what you value
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love hearing about your personal stories your triumphs your travails your additions and even your corrections
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so please leave comments okay i grew up in wilmington if you've
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been watching you know that because i just did a couple walks out at riceville beach
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and a couple walks downtown in wilmington uh but we would come i think we came
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here a few times on family trips and school field trips
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down you know because it is oh here's the department of justice
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and also education i'm not really sure um one of my my foibles here on this
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channel is that i'm not easily distracted i like to
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talk and have a conversation with you guys but then i'll break into that and
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talk about something that i've just noticed or that i think is interesting
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uh so hopefully you guys can [Music]
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forgive that crossover um
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coming up salisbury here salisbury and eden edenton
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and this should be the capitol building over here that we'll walk up to
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we've got some older buildings um raleigh is 474 000 people in the city
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proper the metro or research triangle area which i'll discuss in a second
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has i don't know two to three million um the research triangle is
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a sort of geographic triangle from between raleigh durham and chapel hill
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and i think it was started back in 1854 with the technology or research development park
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or something um anyway it's referred to as a research triangle now raleigh is home to north carolina
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state university durham about 20 30 miles away is home to duke and then chapel hill is home to the
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university of north carolina aka the tar heels
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raleigh's named for sir walter raleigh back in the day
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who funded um the lost colony
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and uh which was a colony that kind of just disappeared on the coast of north carolina
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uh 1600 sometime
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what else can i tell you about raleigh it's i guess one of the first
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planned cities i'm going to slow down here and show you guys around
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i missed looking at the there it is hillsborough street oh the oak city i think because they
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have all these oaks that they planted and kept in the downtown area supposedly
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which i was noticing when i was over in um look at these trees these are fantastic
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uh over in charlotte the downtown had all these great trees i don't know what kind they were but
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didn't really notice um but it just really added something to the
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to the city just made it so much more organic and i'd say livable but i've never lived
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there look at that massive magnolia tree that is awesome we had
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in wilmington where i lived we had two they were about half that size and they
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were still massive and they were fantastic i'm gonna have to keep on this
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uh screen i guess as the let me get a little little swipe
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sorry about that uh as the mist continues to come down [Music]
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it's a very nice city it's uh it's fairly quiet today i didn't tell you what time it is it's
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about 11 o'clock in the morning so people are out walking i mean i'm working in their offices so not out
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sorry [Music] i think this is an oak tree um
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but there's traffic around we came up through i-40 interstate 40 from wilmington
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and uh really wasn't um that busy at all
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now i'm gonna go over this way this is fayetteville street in morgan the corner of
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well i don't i guess i don't have to go down there but uh we'll wend our way back and forth so i might as well go
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down here there's a great sign down here um about president johnson so
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north carolina is home to a bunch of presidents for what has been
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um cross over here uh one of them was andrew johnson
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apparently who there's a sign up here it says uh andrew
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president of johnson united states was born about a mile northeast of here in a kitchen
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which seems oddly specific but i guess it illustrates his humble
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origins maybe
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when i was growing up he is known as the only president to have been impeached
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that is no longer the case there's been three of them now
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here we go 1808 1875.
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there's your placard [Music]
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sorry to be swinging you about this is wilmington street we came in on this way
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there are a lot of cool trees along here i have to imagine that in the
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in the summer it is well in addition to being hot and humid
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fairly shady which is nice [Music]
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what's going on here but
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it's a interesting structure over there
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i guess this stairway to a parking garage
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oh somebody's cooking this smells good down here coming up on target street
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h-a-r-g-e-t-t [Music]
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wish i had had an umbrella but i
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we don't normally [Music] film in the rain so
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it's usually either super rainy or not at all for us
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it's kind of a cool old looking block of buildings
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and we're going to go to the right excuse me what's up man why are you recording me
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oh not you man just the street
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rally times over there try not to focus on any one person
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and i certainly respect uh that guy's desire to not be filmed or to
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be at least know why he's being filmed so if i can remember i will uh blur them
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out before posting hopefully i can do that
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i don't want to impinge anybody's privacy
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[Music] coming back to fayetteville
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i don't know what street what building this is wells fargo i guess
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makes sense
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so i think we'll wind our way back and forth and then we'll come back up fayetteville
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to the capitol how's that sound should
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get us some a good walk i looked these up these trees were in
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augusta i think like a chinese elm i love the um
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the pattern of the bark the colors it's really pretty
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coming up on salisbury how i pronounce it salus berry
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[Music]
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maybe go down another block here
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so
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[Music]
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it is a nice leafy place not sure if this is sort of the center
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of social action down here or not
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coming up on mcdowell
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somewhere over in this direction south maybe it's the other direction nc state
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is around here somewhere
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across down curious about this park over here
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see it's a nice green well-maintained treed park
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kind of like that we are on this massive
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well i call it massive basically was turning into a three-week road trip my son and i
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we started off in montana of course uh and uh
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hold on william holden was uh an editor
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and provisional governor elected governor and impeached and removed in 1871.
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i'm not sure what the story was that was um
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it's probably not even a laughing thing but anyway we're on this big road trip
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uh from there we went down to south carolina and then
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up through north carolina and now we're headed up to dc
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well northern virginia and then we're going to head home
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it's been a it's been a lot of fun doing these walks and i'll be doing a few more of course
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look at the colors of those trees over there it's red and yellow i like that this is
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sort of the shade and i don't know what is about that structure that's so nice
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so pleasing um anyway i'm looking forward to getting up
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to dc and doing some walks in there and possibly a couple of northern virginia um
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but i'm also kind of looking forward to getting home here's the wake county justice center so in addition being the
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state capital it is the county seat and if you're not familiar with u.s
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governmental organizational structures or
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hierarchical structures the county seat is the capital of the county which is a subunit of the state
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[Music] state being a subunit of the federal government or the nation
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but a lot of uh the states here i don't know what it's like in other countries but
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here the states have a lot of sovereignty and autonomy
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that are a lot of things that are reserved specifically for them um
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in fact it states that in the u.s constitution um
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that all other rights reserved for the states uh so anyway that's a little bit of a us
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civics lesson the nc state
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mascot is the wolf pack
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strength in the back i didn't call out the street name forgot
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to look but we're coming back up on salisbury so hopefully i'll get a glimpse of what the
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street we're currently on is
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martin look at that thing that building is a little bleak
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it's the county courthouse
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look at that some i missed out on some i'm gonna cross over ah
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nice mural that's right
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this is the pnc building i think
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pnc is a bank i don't know what it stands for
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this is kind of a neat restaurant garland
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[Music]
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about to cross fayetteville
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[Music]
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see the uh museum down there no it's a performing arts center that's what it is
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[Music]
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mecca restaurant down there cool old sign
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this looks like news trucks movies for spies
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like these old buildings in here they uh been turned into
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shops and restaurants and bars and there's also a fair amount of
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residential stuff down here which is good and a couple parking garages so we make
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our right on wilmington again
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red hat you know i've seen that we're also coming up on a building
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for truest i've been meaning to look up
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what that is
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it's a bank
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huh big banking company i guess we're gonna get into some uh
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music being thrown out into the street there
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a little pop music from the 80s
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i think red hat used to be i think like a
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service company for unix operating systems although it was more of a i think is
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public we call that it's freeware open source
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it would help companies implement that
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system it's quite the building i remember they went public in the
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early 2000s big ipo
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it's funny that i would no remember that
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remember coming over here out here too and going to the history museum i'm getting these little toy bronze
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cannon kept those for years those were a lot of fun
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little miniature things
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we are on davey now this looks like a fancy hotel
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i guess maybe it used to be a fancy hotel
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you can see it's boarded up at least at the base
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level could use some work for sure
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[Music]
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we've got a good mural coming up here on the left too
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i used to think murals were so uh i didn't they didn't appeal to me
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i think partly because so many went up in the 60s and 70s and just sort of
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they didn't age well and they didn't they weren't maintained um
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but i like the new ones really cool let's go take a look at this one pardon me this is
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salisbury again it's from whence we came
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this has some text on it looks like but i don't it's a dance i don't i don't
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know it's a myriad media building oh good
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alfred williams and company i wonder if that is a performance company
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as i wander my wander and wonder my way around the city if you know any of the answer to these things
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please feel free to put them in the comment section below i i welcome any kind of additional info
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and any kind of curious about myriad media um
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info that i might have not uh
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realized
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it must be a video source uh they had a bunch of video cameras in the company in the window and
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i don't always wonder about that this is the sheridan by the way
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um this brick building looks like maybe across the way too in
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that modern building
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that's interesting um anyway i don't want to like
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make people feel uncomfortable and went anyway by filming inside without permission
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uh i think that's not okay
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to do there's a residence in by marriott down here and then this massive building on
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the right too that looks like it might be some court of i'm gonna guess it's a theater maybe an art museum
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let's find out coming up on cabarrus
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c-a-b-a-r-r-u-s
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no it's a convention center so oh look at this dude
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you know
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uh here's a statue of a quite a
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flamboyant rally we'll go over take a look real quick
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there's definitely a memory of what he looked like
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that i picked up from school here
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obviously we studied we all had to learn about him
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i think he got beheaded if i recall correctly here's a the convention center window i don't
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feel bad about that because it's not specific it's a cool sculpture
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with guitar necks oh look at this
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look look what we find this is one of the things i love doing right so somebody has left a painted rock in here
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you can do it and then it says rally rocks
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post to pick keep or re-hide i'm just gonna put it back because i think that's a sweet little
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easter egg there super fun all right so we got the marriott
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all kinds of hotels here nice little garden this is a pretty cool looking building
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too it's always hard to know
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what's going to age well and what's not but this looks like a pretty cool design
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you know a little new different but not pushing it too far
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look i'm going to give you a kind of a look of the skyline here
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that that's kind of uh
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you know it doesn't it from that perspective it doesn't uh
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feel that it looks bigger than it feels it feels like a smaller town
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this christmas decoration here
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coming up on lenoir or lenoir
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leno ir uh and of course we're walking along salisbury still sallisbury
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the mist seems to have passed for a little while anyway that's nice
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oh
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[Applause] this is the residence inn
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uh off to the right is the we're at south street here we're gonna go kitty corner at some
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point we don't get run over
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and this is the duke energy center for the performing arts and
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i had forgotten what uh duke is a big name here there's duke
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university there's duke energy uh it's all over the place
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the best of my knowledge not affiliated at all with the racist politician from i think
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louisiana mississippi named david duke who was infamous for
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a hot minute back in the 80s and 90s um it was
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i just looked it up and i i want to get his name right james buchanan duke
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uh 1856 to 1925. he was a tobacco magnet as well as an
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electrical energy production magnet and he's affiliated with duke university
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i think he helped found it maybe uh or fund it but this is and then there's the duke
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energy which is a big energy production company here and uh this is the duke energy
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performing arts center which is pretty pretty cool
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uh very it's like they took a classic old building
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and made it modern took ripped out the guts
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and made it modern but i think says remo raleigh memorial auditorium i suspect that that whole thing is new can't
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guarantee that but uh some nice christmas decorations
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and just really pleasant structure and building and little park associated with
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let it take let's take uh a u-turn and let's head back we'll just
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go along fayetteville street here and uh
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head back to the capitol and we'll see all the kind of it's kind of the main street and we crossed it a bunch but
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you can see the truest building over there i have never heard of the truest bank they have all these massive buildings
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here in north carolina i wonder if it was a company that changed a name or rebranded
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um anyway we're um
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we'll walk back to the capitol and see some stuff as we come back to
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lenoir
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now obviously there is much more to raleigh than this downtown area and maybe someday we'll come back and cover
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that too but for now we're just gonna stay here in the downtown area
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there is something pleasant about
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the lack of hustle and bustle now they're um
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in places like charlotte or st louis they are full-on busy
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vibrant downtowns with lots of stuff going on lots of people doing things and going
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around and that's great because you know that level of excitement and vitality is
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necessary for success or progress or whatever but
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just walking around it's really nice to be walking here in raleigh too and it's
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just kind of laid back people are going around doing their thing but there's not
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thousands of thousands of people on the street and again
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that's great you know those cities are exciting they're fun but there's something nice about this
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too it's a cool little piece of art
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interesting i don't see a plaque
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i like that well this is cool down here this square
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there's four columns down here
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i guess the tr the truest building on the left and i'm not sure what's here on the
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right we got first national bank and some other things
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but you can you can see these things they look like they probably get lit up at night
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lots of leaves on them metal leaves
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see there's four of them
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looks like they maybe have speakers on them too they probably i have to assume that they'll close this
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off from time to time and uh turn it into pedestrian only
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i love it when they uh look at these little lights here as well the oak leaves
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[Music] you can see the the trees that line the roads up here
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the streets
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i always get a lot of funny looks with this camera
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so
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[Music]
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coming back up on davey street now this is that hotel or i assumed it was a hotel because it's
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got that little roof thing which i cannot remember the name of
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and this looks like that used to be the sir walter and i don't know if it's still
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being used and it's just the uh it's apartments but the ground floor is
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uh kind of trashed you know looks like they're redoing it
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looks pretty classy though like it used to be oh it's an elderly community
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maybe they're hopefully they're just reworking it
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coming up on davies again
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wait i'll wait
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curious about this building too looks like it's about
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80 or 90 years old
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let's cross over there and find out because there's another cool building too
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that's the courthouse but beyond the courthouse that's the waverly
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aikens wake county office building
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the reason i want to come over here is this kind of grass looking window treatments
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that are retro and cool and could have been replaced a long time ago but they haven't been they've been
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maintained i like that it's partly probably because it's a county building
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ah there's something uh retro cool about that
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at the news station over there
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and then you've got the county courthouse off to the left here this
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uh imposing legion of doom looking structure
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um but this is the other one i was kind of curious about which is probably also county building
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but we'll find out
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a little surprise well let me put it this way i think it'd be super cool if they turned these few blocks into pedestrian
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zone it's so close anyway
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oh it's a federal building century postal station
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a little surprise if that was still the case but it does have a post office box
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united states bankruptcy court
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i think um raleigh is listed as one of the fastest growing cities in the country
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or at least has been recently uh
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run across here test this gimbal
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love these old buildings just the
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treatment of them the visual they're visually interesting compared to
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at the street level compared to some of these other buildings i've said this before this blue and
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white one is nice too good right a lot going on there
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boyle pierce like these old retro signs too i'm gonna pop out here real quick
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right that's empty unfortunately but i can see a
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fancy dress shop in there or maybe an old maybe a bar
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let's go take a look it's got like some cool uh wood in there
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you see this wood siding i don't know
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coming back on hargett street
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you can see that old building that's nice [Music]
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pardon me i caught a light
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[Music]
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yeah i'm gonna turn around i don't remember if we came this way or not but
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this building here i like
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isn't that funny i have a building that i like
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but i do
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big parking garage here just so when you're next to the capitol building yeah
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you have to have parking some nice outdoor space here too
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[Music] uh
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[Music] i like that outdoor dining too this sort of covered space but it's open
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it's hard to have that in montana where we are
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all right i think we will swing around the other side of the capitol
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we came from over on the left before and we'll go right
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this is a pretty small building i can't imagine that this is still where
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well i can't imagine still where the legislature meets
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maybe it's the executive branch now
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hit me up in the comments if you're from north carolina and know some of the answers to this
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i didn't really have good internet connection on the way in so i didn't do as much research
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i didn't read the full wikipedia article i love these trees aren't these trees great
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especially this one look at this one look at that oh
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big branching shading trees like
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it's giving us a big ol hug have my
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southern accent starting to creep back in a little bit
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which was never really strong wasn't nothing
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all right here are the presidents from north carolina some bombards
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not the people these cannons uh james k poke
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james knox poke andrew jackson and andrew johnson
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all presidents of the united states uh from a long time ago
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i want to thank you guys for joining us here in raleigh north carolina capital of the state
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uh hope you enjoyed this walk this meander through the downtown area
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and i hope you will come back again we're gonna have more walks as i mentioned earlier uh like subscribe
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comment all that stuff especially the comments i love those but mainly come back again next time oh
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you might tell your friends you know if they're on their treadmills and need something to do and watch
48:44
this can be kind of nice i think so i hear uh anyway thanks see you guys again
48:49
soon till then keep on stepping
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