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My First Live Stream!!! What a great walk we had. I loved getting all of your comments and questions. I'm super excited to have this figured out and working and I hope to do many more of these in the future. I'll try to announce them beforehand as well. -H
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hello walkers and welcome to livingston montana
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a second live stream attempt i'm gonna wait until i see some people
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signing on here in the meantime we're just going to start walking
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[Music] hello walkers and uh somebody send me a
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chat if you can hear me not sure about the audio on this
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i see we have three people pretty psyched about that [Music]
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we are in livingston montana is degrees fahrenheit i think
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before looks like is not great here
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can you hear me mike or mac
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[Music] i'm going to switch directions here
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having a little issue with the audio excellent welcome ordo bravos this is
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one of my first uh live streams my first to be actually listening to people chat we are
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walking along the yellowstone river here in early may
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you can see i'll show you the color of the river the water is muddy
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right now a little bit muddy hello nick uh nicolin paulson
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hi there um welcome the water is a little dirty
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because it's starting to run off the spring run off we actually floated yesterday and
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had a great quick float it was running it you measure these things in cfs cubic
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feet per second and it was at 4 000 yesterday up it's up to sorry about that working on
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some technical issues here oh maybe that'll work a little better
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all right [Music] um having an issue with my gimbal
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um yeah it was a quick float we did about four or five miles in an hour and a half just through town
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floated on that far side you can um
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that's livingston peak the big cross there is a the main channel of the
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river that we floated in got kind of wet in the rapid there a little exciting
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hit me up with any questions you might have about livingston
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trying to get my gimbal to work again here there we go um and
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over here we have our lagoon which uh we'll walk down that way i've got a
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somebody wondering what i'm doing here um [Music]
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we've got some geese we're going to walk by i'm going to show you this uh band shell
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miles park here it's where we have music and our farmers market in the summer
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that will start up in june [Music]
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and it's really a pretty nice deal there's arts crafts food it's not as big as
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big cities would normally expect um it's you know this whole thing will be
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full of some food local producers a lot of uh
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food vendors a lot of arts and crafts they also have this uh
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organization that runs uh um the sorry the western sustainability
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exchange which runs the farmers market i think they have a cool program where they rent
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space to kids and they can start a little business and
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learn all about that otis yes it is a small town about seven to eight thousand people
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we are known for our wind that comes through in the winter blows over semis and that sort of thing
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community center here just because there's a nice mural [Music] um and again if you guys have any
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questions let me know um
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bordeaux nice to see you uh the covet situation is um i don't want to say anything
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too controversial here or like i'm an expert because i'm not but it's actually pretty much under
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control we definitely have new cases there are some hot spots but nothing like
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you would see in some of the other parts of the world the governor last month i think it was
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maybe the month before we have a new governor um he revoked the
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uh covid requirements the any kind of like that we
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however can maintain some restrictions we had here in park county some restrictions
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that were just recently uh rescinded
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now they're depending on people just acting responsibly i think we've had
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in this county 30 new cases in the last week in a county of about 17 000
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this is a general what that city is but it's a cool mural
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i'm going to take you over to the lagoon real quick in this building here they'll have uh this is small town life
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this is where they'll have some basketball games little league style basketball games they will have
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community activities you can rent it for a birthday party uh they even have roller skating inside on
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the basketball court in the winter uh
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indoor places to do stuff in the winter when it's windy as i mentioned and super cold
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and so finding a place for kids to burn off some steam is pretty important i'm going to come over and
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show you a statue of sacagawea sacagawea who
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you may or may not know of from lewis and clark fame um
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yeah uh otis this is my town um where i'm based out of i was not born
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here i'm gonna try not to get run over here uh but we i moved here
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in 2006. so thanks for that question this is a nice uh statue here
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lewis and clark came through here back in the day i'm going to take you
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out here kids are fishing maybe
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we're doing something we'll get too close i don't normally like to film kids without consent but i do want to show
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you hello mary thanks for the shout out welcome from salem oregon
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it's pretty cool i think just very scenic of course in the winter time this whole thing freezes over people
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will come out here and um shovel off snow and do some ice skating play a little
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bit of hockey i just noticed they're redoing that entire house
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nice you can see here some of the trees
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walking with thompson welcome i love scotland we've been a few times love it there the weather is fantastic
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today in fact we're hoping it'll stay fantastic because next week we're gonna
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go smoke uh float the smith river which is a river um
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you need a lottery you need a perm back country canyon and it'll be
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a four day float with some friends and if the weather holds out it'll be
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wonderful but the last time we floated it it was snowing and raining and
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cold and we pulled out a day early so hopefully we'll get a better more
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warmer experience this time again my name is henry i guess i haven't
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mentioned that i'm referring to myself as a proxy walker [Music] taking people around showing them around
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different places primarily in the last year so montana which is where i live this is livingston
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montana we are about 30 miles east of bozeman
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which you may have heard do people around your town know you as a guy that's always walking i think they know me more
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as the tall guy i'm six foot six inches tall 2 meters
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and you know they actually know my dad a lot more because he's very gregarious very
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um we maybe see some goslings here in a minute um
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national park down there sunday and uh explore there
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a little bit just in gardner which is a gateway town hello shoe walker good to see you thanks
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for tuning in for those of you shoe walker is another
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walking channel and tour channel so check them out they've got a good one
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[Music] what is it saying oh yeah yellowstone yellowstone is
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the last two years because of the cobit situation has gotten really hammered with people with new
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visitors which is great for the local economy except that they're not really set up for that
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my wife traveling mel you lifted in choto mary great sorry to
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stop that yeah it can be windy over there as well um my wife traveling mel does a lot of
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travel blogging and instagramming about yellowstone in this area so
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if you are traveling planning to travel to yellowstone check out her website travelingmail.com that's a shout out to
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her you know i'm really excited to see some of you guys in real time
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uh uh otis i only see the show yellowstone i
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mean i'm not sure what you mean by that um
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uh maybe re-type in the question it's up above where i can't see it i think uh
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anyway i'm excited to get this working and see so many people tuning in 15 people i'm i'm super flattered
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we're going to walk over here to [Music] well you know what we're going to do i'm going to show you this
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this is this pretty neat little central thing that the vfw that ever
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veterans of foreign wars keeps and maintains and another thing they do is
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memorial day which i believe is coming up soon um they put out
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they line this whole street with flags american flags which is pretty neat and they do a
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so i'm gonna go back to the river because there's this really cool thing
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a local artist who goes by the screen name of yellowstone banksy does these
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these rock art things with various uh colored rocks river rocks you can see
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two of them right there she's anonymous i think it's a she
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but she often puts her artwork below the high water mark so that it is
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a bit like a mandala and that it's likely to be washed away she does do some other ones i'm again
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referring to her as a she uh i'm not sure gender or sex or
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thank you walking with thampson uh trey's montana primarily bozeman ah
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yes uh the one with kevin costner uh i haven't actually seen the show yellowstone i have
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uh my doubts about it i've heard some things that it's got some unrealistic
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and um here
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is great because not just the artwork but you know is what is referred to as 9th
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street island and
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right in here is a great place in the summer to come and swim because the current is
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fairly slow the water isn't very deep and kids can play in the
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construct dams and channels and stuff that sort of thing
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over to the right is sacagawea park that is where it's one it's basically
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our main park we have a couple others uh and i'm gonna
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drop down to we'll walk over there i wanna show you a couple things just sort of the local knowledge
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fun stuff looks like there's a a magpie nest probably up there i'm going to cross
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over we've got a lot of dandelions bloom
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[Music] well guys i am thrilled to see you here
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see so many of you online thanks so much for joining us if you get again if you have any
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questions tap them into the chat and i'd be happy to try and answer them [Music]
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over here is a labyrinth
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ah thanks shoewalker i appreciate that [Music] uh i will say and i said this in some of
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my other um pre-recorded videos how much i enjoy the comments from the
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community from viewers it really does keep me motivated and is a source of joy so this is used to be
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sort of a wading pool and someone uh got permission i think it was aj scaff
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uh and some others to create a meditative labyrinth so you just walk through along
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the path as you meditate or just let your mind wander a bit
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looks like it hasn't been fully maintained this spring but it's just one of those things that
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individuals in the community can do thank you otis
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over here we have a little pavilion you can see that roofed space it's great place we've had
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a number of birthday parties for our kids there [Music] there used to be an actual house here
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that uh they've torn out and put in some pit toilets looks like they're doing a
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little video shoot over there by the pit toilets and i recognize a
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couple people from the shane center which is our local non-profit theater and um
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office space and studio space uh the reason i'm coming over this way
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i'll try and avoid these some soccer fields so kids play over
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here but then we're gonna cross the field and we're going to go to
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[Music] another part of fleshman creek and i want to show you
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[Music] thanks for toting tuning in oda ordo i
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appreciate it a lot [Music]
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and uh nice so we've got some [Music] antiquated uh
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old uh playground equipment here which are actually kind of cool and then
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we've got another place over by the tennis courts with slides and things to climb around on a whole little
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area [Music] is livingston community oriented oh
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yeah it is a lot of people commute over to bozeman and we're getting a lot of people
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here as a bedroom community because uh the bozeman median house price in the
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last two years has gone from something like low 400s to over 700
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last i heard and housing prices have gone through the roof
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livingston uh so yeah it's community oriented but we do
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we do go most people go over to livingston at least a couple times a month for shopping and entertainment and
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there's a costco over there that's a big draw as well as jobs and i want to show you
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if i can find a good example here's a duck but this is fleshman creek
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the water is up fairly high right now because the river is up i don't know if you can see across
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the way uh yeah it's very similar to boise's
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market boycees sorry it's a lot of people from other places
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bigger cities moving in and places that think 700 000 is actually a deal um
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so yeah it's it's demographics are changing rapidly let's see if i can find another example
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of a little friend we have here [Music] and but basically there's a beaver that
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lives here thank you so much nick uh
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hamilton montana yeah i would love to get over to hamilton
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go film a specific place different places
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i just
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here i'm really trust me there is a beaver
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further down which is
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up close these have been nod by beaver
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and uh at the far end where this runs into the yellowstone
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there's a family of beavers down there clear out the dam because it um
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laces but the beavers are intransigent
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i think i will probably do another um walk
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live stream from bozeman epic moments from new york hi there thanks so much i appreciate it
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um fairly soon and i was going to do this tomorrow morning but we're actually expecting to have some
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wind and that plays havoc with audio so i have opted to do it this afternoon which is a
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beautiful day um thank you very much epic adventure uh
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epic moment sorry loving all the birds here we're getting
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um got finally gotten some robins we're seeing some redheaded black birds along
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the water here we also have of course magpies and crows
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the wildlife in town every year or so we'll have a sighting of a black bear and even a
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mountain lion and then deer are
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play havoc with my wife traveling mel's garden every year so uh
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yeah tweet tweet for sure i mentioned the red-headed blackbirds
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red wing blackboards they also will be supplanted by the yellow-headed
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blackbirds which i love because they have the most endearing
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and ugliest call it's it's so gravelly and rough somebody's
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lost a toy there and someone else has left it to be found festival's there yeah well we have
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have our um our weekly on wednesday's farmers market
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here's some more of uh fleshman creek here and this is our seventh street footbridge
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um but as for festivals we do have the annual in normal years
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[Music] livingston roundup july 2nd 3rd and 4th
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which starts off with a big parade
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and uh i'll get to that in a second shoe walker um and there's a rodeo and a parade and
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fireworks every night other activities at art fair that sort of thing
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[Music] and then we have uh the hoot which is they shut down main street
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and they uh sorry about the connection
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[Music] and they have a big country western band coming in play
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and they have others like that shoe walker we are probably
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oh i want to say a quarter mile from the yellowstone gateway museum
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in fact my son and i took a bike ride we went by there earlier today we are currently on 7th street
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[Music] headed it livingston's laid out on a
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strange grid it's i want it to be north south but it's really
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uh northeast southwest and then vice versa perpendicular so
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it's on like a diagonal and it throws me off i've lived here for 15 years almost
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yeah about 15 years and i still get confused when people talk about east and west
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on these streets because it doesn't make sense in my mental geography
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[Music] again anybody has any questions
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hopefully the signal is getting better
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a lot of people assume we have a lack of these sort of services but we
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actually have pretty good cell service throughout most of the state
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especially out anywhere near a town we've got broadband but not as broad as
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say new york or la [Music] but enough for us to do upload videos
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and that sort of thing any travel plan soon well um thanks for that question john we
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have my wife's actually trying to buy tickets for 2022 to japan right now we're excited about
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that at least the possibility uh we have a lot of local travel that we're gonna do so
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by that i mean we're gonna float the smith river next week weather permitting thanks epic moments
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um we are gonna go down to idaho my wife as i mentioned as a travel blogger we're about to cross
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geyser street um so we've got a couple trips down to
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idaho which she is organized we're going to go down to flaming gorge to float down
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there [Music] that's down in northeast utah
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and then we're going to do some backpacking trips it was a trailer behind me
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um one into the bob marshall one
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down to the trip one of the trails that i've filmed two in december two versions of
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uh the stillwater river and then we're gonna try and do a bike trip through the gravelly range
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south of ennis [Music] where in idaho this first trip is going
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to be in the drigs area and then
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in idaho falls kind of area and then the second trip will be more
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unfortunately we will not be floating live streaming there's no cell service in
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there it's pretty remote i would love to do that though maybe
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if starlink [Music] becomes more once that gets more mature
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i can uh maybe do something through that um yeah
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all right watching this makes me miss montana daily daily dail um a lot of great
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people here in this town in particular and to my friendly wonderfully welcoming i don't i
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say that i'm not sure i would want to live here as a single person because it is a small town
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and socially i think it can be a little difficult but i'm married with two kids and we have a
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great circle of friends a great community as we come up on clark street so
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if you're wondering somebody asked how far to yellowstone i think it's about an hour um
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and you would go make a left here on clark actually and actually what i'm going to
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do is since i'm going this way i'm going to walk you guys up to mark's which is sort of a livingston
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institution [Music] we are heading towards 89
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basically northwest right now [Music]
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uh daley dale type in the comments if you would where were you in montana i'd love to know
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[Music]
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uh yeah so i am not an ultra runner i'm trying to get into bike riding
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notice but 50 miles is uh is a long way even on a
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bike for me [Music] hey john
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i'm so glad that's the type of thing i love to hear um i i love to hear that people are
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getting some value from these and they're helping i started this out because we were traveling and i thought
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well i'm going to go out and walk anyway i might as well film it and i did not
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expect to enjoy get so much enjoyment out of the community side of it
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but i really love hearing people's stories their connections to these places and um you know to hear
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about their lives a little bit in their locations so we are coming up to louis
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street at the stop sign seventh and lewis if you're following along on a map [Music]
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it is i said it was 60 degrees but i didn't really check that i was kind of guessing it's
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probably closer to 70 now it's pretty warm it might just be my thin montana blood
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[Music] but we're gonna make a left here [Music]
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oh nice dale um daily sorry i have a hard time reading that my eyes are terrible daily um
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yeah bozeman is a really cool town it has changed a lot just in the last
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five years i moved there in 2003 before moving over here
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wow it is really grown it's a it's an interesting place though a lot of cool stuff to do over there
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so this is yellowstone guidelines if you're going to yellowstone they do
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guided tours down there wildlife type tours that sort of thing they do a great job so consider them
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also yellowstone wolf watching tours are great we've done that and then
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i think it's yellowstone backcountry outfitters for horseback riding and pack trips amazing experience
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[Music]
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so we're coming up on 8th street 8th in lewes and i want to show you a sign that
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they've been putting out today over the last couple weeks and it's actually
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put out by the city and the city one of the departments
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and it's no mo may save the bees and the idea is to keep
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flowers growing so the bees have a little something extra to to tie themselves over and
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here in montana um in fact you can see truckloads of
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them being shipped around because there's so many people are dependent on them for
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pollinating their alfalfa or their hay or their other
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thanks epic moments [Music]
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so you can see kind of oh i want to show you these flowers over here there's tons of daffodils and tulips this
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is certainly an eclectic town [Music] like a lot of small towns you get purple
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houses and chartreuse houses and uh hi there lovely flowers
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i was look looking at your tulips and daffodils
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yeah no no i'm henry henry oh what are you doing
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oh i'm filming live stream to the youtube on my citywalks channel so
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so i had a someone uh asking what i was doing here sorry about that um
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so anyway we have a lot of agriculture obviously um and a lot of tourism
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in this areas particularly particularly um
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[Music] and uh so we love our bees we like our insects
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we like our guides i'll have to go back and mention that i
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i was a little hesitant to put her on camera without her permission but she had a uh adorable cat that she
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was a giant adorable cat she was carrying you thought i was one of her neighbors i
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think i actually used to live right around the corner here
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before we sold our house and moved to and when traveling
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across this is calendar c-a-l-l-e-n-d-e-r it's named for a person i believe i
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don't know the exact history and then we're coming up on park street which is the city's
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sign but it's also one of our uh local institutions
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actually predates the big chain first person walker thanks so much for
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checking in uh welcome and hopefully you get a chance to
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see marks you guys they have amazing burgers they're not big but they are
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delicious and they have great ice cream and malts and milkshakes and that sort of thing
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and you can take it across the street and eat it at a picnic table with
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lots of gophers and groundhogs and that sort of thing so that person pulling a boat was a
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fishing guide you see a lot of that around here and we mark our seasons by when marks
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opens and closes they usually open in late march early april and uh
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just a moment and uh closed down late october maybe
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[Music] well i think uh john i i hear you
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these uh this one has as predates the one in california so
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if anybody's gonna be in trouble i'm pretty sure it would be them um at least i would hope so i guess
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that's not the way the law always works so this is one of the main primary drags
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through town if you make a left here at this stoplight that will take you
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along the frontage road out to back out to i-90 if you go back the way i came from so
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behind me it'll also take you out to i-90 that's another exit and if you go straight
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it'll take you out to i-90 so there's three livingston exits
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um and you can see the train tracks across the way livingston started out
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primarily as a well as a gateway town to yellowstone with railroad
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that sort of thing this is seventh we're gonna duck back down just to get away from the traffic noise
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i have a agricultural yeah sorry about that uh tourism town and uh it still is
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in uh and then became a train town so a lot of railroad type jobs and then
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in the 80s the big railroad company sort of pulled out
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pretty much crushed livingston sorry daley
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mission dropped by like 30 percent uh and it's sort of been grow growing its
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way back up uh shows and films that are set in
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montana [Music] um so daily
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the answer is complicated it actually has a lot of film industry
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people here but it's also a fairly conservative state politically
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and the [Music]
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the tax incentives that some of the film companies pursue um
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were basically taken out and erased because the conservative folks didn't want to
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help out any of the hollywood types [Music]
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and they are starting to reinstitute some of those
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which should bring back some more jobs hopefully uh they're just a tad different
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john yeah that's a different part of the part of the road for sure [Music]
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hi wren welcome to the stream thanks for joining us wow we're up to 20 people that's fantastic
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[Music] so you will see a lot of uh like 406
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type things here in montana which is our area code we only have the one area code
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we have just over a million people and due to the census [Music] we get to have another representative
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for the first time so we'll have two senators and two reps uh yeah it really is ran
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[Music] uh we do not have a uh walmart here in livingston there is one
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over in bozeman and it does a lot of business but the
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downtown is super vibrant right now uh part of that is just the number of people coming in and moving
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into town and the amount of money coming into town quite frankly
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and most of those people prefer to shop downtown or at one of the other box
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stores which is out on 19th i'll do another live stream since this is going so well from over in
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bozeman another time and we can certainly talk about that but
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uh but we'll go downtown maybe and we can uh i can show you around what that looks like
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hi there sorry hi there uh
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it's always a little awkward to be live streaming and talking to the camera
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when uh people walk by that was actually the wife of yellowstone guides
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[Music] do the five wren i'm not sure what that
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means [Music] um we
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are back on calendar we're on louis sorry walking back down towards downtown
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this is a lot of fun for me guys i'm glad you're here i'm commenting i love showing you my
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town my state it is a brilliant place i actually
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have had a couple ideas along this walk that i'd like to try maybe later in the summer
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one there's a gal named lindy frank who has lived here for genera her
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family's been here for generations and she knows so much about the history of livingston
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thinking maybe i would uh see if she wants to do a walk with us and uh give you a lot
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more of the history than i possibly can um
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hopefully this wind on the microphone isn't too bad uh john uh really that's interesting
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i'm a little surprised by that but i guess not it's a it's a turn of the century small town
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so although turn of the century um another idea
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would be to go around during one of the art walks and um
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maybe stop into the various venues and um
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and talk to the artists or the gallery owners that sort of thing i thought that might be interesting and
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then they also have a yellow bus tour sort of someone has purchased an old yellowstone
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tour bus from the 1930s and uh they do tours around town it
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might be fun to do that yeah otis the price house prices here
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are for a town of 8 000 people in rural montana yeah they're
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they're immense thanks ren i appreciate that i'm using a dji osmo
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mobile 3. and uh we've got an older iphone 6s
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[Music] also for those who are interested speaking of film productions it was
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30 years ago but a river runs through it was filmed in part here
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and i believe this is one of the churches [Music] that are in the film although they
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flipped the image so that it looks like the reverse
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and they must have reversed the sign as well because i remember there was a sign out front
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down this way we'll go down to calendar what the hey so this is 5th street
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and across here is the united methodist church i don't think that was on sorry
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was on uh uh what do you call it river runs through it but the one across
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the street was as was some of the early shots of the when they were kids in the alley
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one of the boys uh makes makes a funny face at one of the ladies
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on the balcony i think that was filmed downtown more wind here that's what we're famous
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for beautiful old homes here [Music]
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so this is 5th street over on 4th street which we will probably walk down
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has a lot of the older big homes these across the street are fairly new
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they're about 10 years old but i wanted to show you a stone's throw
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bed and breakfast at least i think they've had to shut down but there used to be a bed and breakfast by
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mick and donald and they're just putting the finishing touches on
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this little house up here as well these lots were empty for years
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but i'm so i'm glad to see that they are being built upon and developed in such a
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nice way to see some of the
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gear try not to get wet here
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so across the way is an old school house and uh that has been converted into
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um condos so and then back behind there there's some
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new buildings that are condos as well
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stopping by hope you have a great day great afternoon great weekend thanks for stopping in
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[Music] yeah someone mentioned forget who was
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checking zillow [Music] i think they're uh a lot of local
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brokers trying not to are not posting as much onto there and so if you go to eralandmark.com
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you can select a bunch of homes you get a good idea of what's uh
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really on the market in actual prices and you can do it by map there as well
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it's a pretty decent site so this white house across the way is
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now owned by an architect friend of ours but used to be the hospital
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and there was something like 40 rooms it's a big house but not 40 rooms big this is yellowstone
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and i'm gonna take us down here if we went down two blocks we would be downtown again but uh i'm gonna go down yellowstone for
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at least a block you can see it's oh it's not tarmac it's
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still cement big cement slabs and it's been like this ever since i've been
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here last 15 years with a couple patches so whatever they've
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done to it it has withstood this the test of time for sure
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love this old studebaker wagon [Music] again i apologize for the wind
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you can see how wide the street is too [Music]
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mainly want to show you i have [Music]
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greetings dr reza al-rumji john thanks so much
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thanks so much and i hope to see you again otis uh yeah so
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it is there's not a lot of um volume some nice old houses in livingston
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there's not a lot for sale things that do come up for sale have been getting put under contract almost immediately
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people are buying houses sight unseen [Music] here's a couple historic
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i don't want to get too close because people live there i'll show you this big one though
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because it's probably one of the biggest homes in livingston [Music]
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thank you doctor hi there um try not to get run over here
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[Music] i'm just joking people don't run over each other here
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um hi there so this house here it's fantastic
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every halloween um this house all the houses along here decorate and
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there's a big um they shut off traffic and this is kind of where all the kids
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come not all of them but most of them and uh all along yellowstone here and
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people that live here will have parties and sort of the the price of admission for their friends
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is to bring a bag of candy um for them to hand out to the kids because there are thousands of kids
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that come along here and it's a lot of fun you see all kinds of great costumes they didn't do that this past year for
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obvious reasons [Music] but hopefully they'll get back to it
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their the rodeo is unless something else happens the rodeo
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is going to happen july 2nd 3rd and 4th some tickets get them beforehand if
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you're coming because they do sell out [Music]
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i am so used to walking around town that i just realized that i drove to our starting point along the
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river and at some point i'm going to have to go back to get my car uh otis thanks so much for stopping by
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thanks for your great comments and your interactions i really appreciate that and i hope you have a great weekend
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[Music] so a lot of these trees are ash trees
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along the boulevard here and there's been a real problem with uh
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it's like the ash borer insect um coming and killing them and they've
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had to chop down a bunch of them which is a real shame because they in the spring and summer they are just
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beautiful and they add so much wonderful shade there's something about a city with trees
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versus a city without trees that it's just so much more livable
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here's a well let me show you this one this nice
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old historic home and then there's going to
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be another one up here on the right you can see some of the diverse colors that are
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painted so i'll do another live stream this is
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going real well and definitely do another one from livingston maybe do it downtown and i can talk a little bit more about
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some of the older downtown stuff but there is if you
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[Music] see dr reza
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not a lot of traffic it's the middle of the workday and this is more of a residential side
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of things and it's a small town um anyway jim harrison uh
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many of you may know he wrote [Music]
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the book he wrote a lot of books and poetry great author um they made a movie about
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it with brad pitt um ah sorry about that blanking on that
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book um but his daughter jamie harrison also writes and she wrote a couple books that are
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set in town a town that is basically it basically is livingston
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although it's called something else one of which is called the widow nash great book really enjoyed that so if you get a
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chance to read that i think it's well worth it [Music]
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i've got some kids trying to uh be on live stream
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yeah thanks tom i appreciate it i'm excited about this it's taken me long enough i've been wanting to do it for a year
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i tried to do it last spring with a gopro and i couldn't get it to work
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uh but this is going pretty well we'll see what my uh cellular bill is but that's all right
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um anyway i know a lot of a lot of these houses that we're passing
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i know people that live there and i'm a little reticent to
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mention that because i don't want to infringe on anyone's privacy
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got our flag out nice [Music] we're going to go back and cross the
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bridge that i showed you guys at the very beginning the stone bridge over the lagoon
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it's uh it's a lot of fun to oh love this tiny little library we got a bunch of these around town uh
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uh daily i don't know i haven't watched that i think if i'm
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remembering the right movie that might have been filmed over in ennis i'm not exactly
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sure i think he played sort of a husband that was [Music]
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kind of having a hard economic time and that sort of thing i didn't see the movie
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they do film a fair amount in fact there's been three or four movies being filmed here recently i don't think
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they're but several documentaries and a couple
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fictional films i think the that industry is picking back up uh the last year or two well not last
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year but the two years before [Music]
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so in montana one of the seasons is mud season which we are in the middle
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of and uh it's kind of the time when the snow
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hasn't quite melted yet things haven't quite greened up yet and
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but there's not enough to ski on so you're kind of left wishing for warmer
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days drier days uh we're kind of uh hopefully not too much further before we're done
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but at the end of that is green up and that's kind of what we're in the middle of now where all the dead grasses and all the dead
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trees start to uh come back to life to bud and have
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flowers and show signs of life again and then we get like uh two and a half
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months of sorry i'm trying to get you a view of these brand new leaves yay um
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then we got a couple months of summer and then it's gone uh it always is surprising how quickly it goes by i apologize for
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that swirl i know that makes people dizzy but here's our stone bridge you'll see
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kids and adults fishing from here all summer in the spring
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where kids come out and they they i think they stock the pond you're
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not allowed to they're not allowed to stock the rivers but they can stock ponds in montana there's a civic center across
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the way and the statue of sacagawea sacagawea and uh we're walking along the bridge
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here's livingston peak in the absaroka range in the distance that's a wilderness area if you saw
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[Music] my seuss creek walk from yesterday
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i filmed that on monday i think any case it's right behind that hill you see in
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the distance it's on the far side so not far from town at all about
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probably a 15-20 minute drive and most of that is along a slower dirt road
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at the end that takes about 10 minutes um
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sacagawea park we've got our tennis courts a lot of kids in the playground so i'm
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not going to go over there [Music] but i will show you we'll go over to the
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horseshoe pits i don't know how many of you are familiar with the game of horseshoes but
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it's basically cowboy bocce where you throw horseshoes at a steel
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post in the ground trying to get a ringer
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that's a lot of fun and later in the summer you'll see people out here in the evening having cookouts and playing horseshoes
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and uh you know having soccer practice that sort of thing playing tennis it can be a challenge in
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a place as windy as this to uh to play tennis
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but where there's a will there's a way they just redid these tennis courts a few years ago
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these have always been well maintained but the two on the far side had
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they sorted that out and refurbed it all and now we've got i think five tennis courts
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here and another i think two over by the middle school
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[Music] and i'll show you these [Music]
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these horseshoe pits which could also use some work i think some love
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but you don't really need a whole lot of i mean it's literally a
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two steel posts and some horseshoes
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[Music] so you can see the steel post and one
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person stands on this side hello kinetic flow welcome and then you
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throw that direction so there's one two three four five six seven eight nine ten
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i think twelve twelve uh horseshoe pits is what they call them
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good vibes kinetic flow thanks so much [Music]
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love these big giant trees and in the fall all these trees and foliage turns
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orange and yellow and on a good year super vibrant absolutely gorgeous we're going to go
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back over to the yellowstone river [Music]
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maybe another time we'll uh go out onto night street island it's not is there's only a few things to
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see out there one of which is the river so we'll avoid showing these ladies
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but this is the uh the place in sorry the place the river yeah
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hi uh and so that river to the right of 9th street island has
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really filled up over the last few years six or seven years ago the bridge got
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washed out and they had to replace it we put a military bridge over the top of it for a little while
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kinetic flow it said good vibes not goodbye sorry about that
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but um this whole living thing is the longest undammed
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river in the continental united states and so it ebbs and flows and it's not going
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to be too long and this whole section will be filled in and the river will be
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150 yards further out you can see the rip wrap
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here to prevent erosion i think it was 1996 or 1997
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they had a massive runoff big melt big water big warm spell
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melted and uh flooded a good chunk of the town and um so they've been
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uh they've taken measures a few years ago they were expecting another big flood they
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made a temporary quote-unquote dirt levy all along the golf course further
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downstream the flood never really showed up and
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we still got the dirt levy which is actually kind of nice so they won't have to reinstall it next time
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and maybe i'll do another one of these when the um
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during run off the peak of runoff if i can it but it's been an hour and three
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minutes guys thank you so much for joining us today here at citywalks leave us a comment tell your friends
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do all that fun stuff but mainly come back tammy tillman thank you so much thessaloniki walker welcome thanks so
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much join us we're just about to sign off but thank you thank you guys i will
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see you again soon uh monday i'll probably be posting another
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pre-recorded walk and uh we'll check you out again soon but i'm stoked
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about how well this has gone and i'm stoked that you guys all showed up and left a comment
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we'll see you again soon until then keep on stepping
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