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Diggin' Up The Past with Andy Thaxton · Tigs Bits Podcast

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All right, everybody. Welcome back to Tigs bit.
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And man, do I have a very, very special guest this week.
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My good, buddy, Andy Paxton, who graduated?
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We're not going to say the year that we graduated, but obviously
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it wasn't yesterday. Yeah, for sure.
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We'll have you been doing things are good?
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I can't believe it's been that long since we talked man.
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I tried to think we've probably I'm guessing we saw each other
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at one. Point after like, I don't know
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2003, four ish, maybe. And then, we haven't really
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talked or seen each other for sure since then.
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No, no. Just keep up, you know, keep up
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with each other, through social media, of course with.
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Yeah, I'll tell you, man. That's it.
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That is a nice thing that has happened.
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Do you know? There's a lot of, a lot of
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negatives with social media as we all know, but one of the, one
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of the positives are things like that.
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I've watched you move and do all of your stuff.
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Finn and your kids grow up. And, you know, and all of that I
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don't feel like it's been 15 or 20 years since we've actually
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interact it with each other. I feel the same way, I felt like
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I'm still connected in some way to Brantley Salter somehow, you
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know, just absolutely you are and you always will be.
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So to kind of bring us up to speed number one.
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Let me tell everybody a little bit about you Andy and I did
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graduate together. Sometime in the mid 90s we will
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not get too specific. If occur on the year but went to
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school and little fluorine Louisiana for many, many years.
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The black cats baby. You better believe it.
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Whenever we graduated, I went to LSU and Andy went to the
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Marines. I've had one question and I will
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just start there before we jump into some other things.
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What made you what made you decide to want to go?
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Join the Marines and thank you for your service.
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Well I appreciate that, man. You're more than welcome you
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know looking back I think it was just something I knew.
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Always wanted to do. I can remember I went to the
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recruiter very early like I think when were in the 11th
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grade and kind of signed up for the early program, but I don't
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remember ever thinking about doing anything different.
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I don't know how much I express that back, then, I'm not much.
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I talked about it, I don't remember.
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But of course, my dad was a marine.
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He never really talked about it but I think that probably played
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a lot into it, but I just never thought about doing anything
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else. I think that was your answer
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back then. I mean I'm pretty sure that I
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did that. We did.
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Ask like, are you sure you want to go do this?
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Why do you want to, you know, it's what I want to do.
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Okay, I think I remember just before you left that summer, we
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hung out at my sister's house. It's crazy.
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I hadn't even thought about that until right now.
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Yeah. It's funny how funny how it all
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comes. Flooding back, you're still
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serving. Correct, I'm still active duty.
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So I Trend Friends mission from the Marine Corps to the Navy.
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The Marine Corps sent me to school, and I went to 20,
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Because am got my degree over there and commissioned into the
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Navy out of the Marine Corps. So from the enlisted side of the
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Marine Corps to the officer side in the Navy and it's it's been a
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few years now. It's all I've ever done where
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uniform. It's all I know and I think it's
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probably coming to an end pretty soon maybe later this year,
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maybe next year equipment, but I've retirements in the in the
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cards very soon for us, I think we will do that.
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I think you've. I think you've earned it, you
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deserve it. And did I, did I see that yoga?
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Got an RV. Did Am I Dreaming this?
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Yeah. Danny's always wanted like a and
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we finally kind of worked out to work or you can get one and
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we've been Trucking that thing or all around.
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We're in Tennessee now. So we've been all over the
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Middle Tennessee, Western Tennessee, State Parks, and it's
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been fun. So, yeah.
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We've got one now. Well then, of course, the really
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get to the meat and potatoes of what he and I are are going to
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talk about he forms. I dig history and has a YouTube
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channel and I don't think it just It overnight obviously you
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got into metal detecting. What got you started there?
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How did you get involved in? And even starting the so, my
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brother actually, he's actually the metal detecting expert.
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So he got me starting. He's been detecting for, I don't
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know. Long time.
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Probably 30 years, I don't know. He's been doing it a long time,
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but he can't tell me, you'll enjoy it.
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You'll enjoy you love to history aspect of it and I finally got
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around to trying it out a few years ago and he was right.
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And I've just kind of Bought into it, you know, fully much.
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Like I think you were with fishing there for a while.
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It's all I do. It's all I do right now.
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It's all I think about you know I want to go next.
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Where am I going to go? What am I going to find?
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That kind of thing. That's right.
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It becomes an obsession. I I get it totally totally get
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it and I still that once it once it's built into you you don't
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you don't lose that. I don't fish like I used to but
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I'm still just as passionate about it, your full spa I was
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yeah, it was at one point in time I was sponsored Nitro bass,
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boats and Castaway rods and was real.
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I mean I was it at that professional touring level, but
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I was, I was close. I was quiet and then Hayley
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Hayley was born. And in 2003, and it's like,
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diapers are tournament injuries priorities changed?
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Yeah, I wouldn't win a lot, so Priorities, change priorities
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change but I wouldn't change it. You know, I really wouldn't
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wouldn't change a thing. Get back on track here.
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So Darren kind of gets you get you into the metal detecting and
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all of that. Now, I've known that you've
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always been a bit of a history buff.
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You always were and and, and could see where where these
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artifacts and things would come along and and Peak your
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interest. But where did that kind of get
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started? Like how did we go?
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How did we transition from Darren?
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You and Aaron doing it. Hobby.
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Learning to like, where you're at now?
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24/7, it's on your mind. You're creating content.
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All of that. How did we, how did we get to
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this point? Hey, a great great question,
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man. I think my wife wonders wonders
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the same thing. I think it probably has to do
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with the Civil War. I've always been a, you know,
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I'm interested in the Civil War and to be in this is when I was
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down in south Louisiana stationed in New Orleans at
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Belle, Chase to be able to put in some research.
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Search about where some of these smaller skirmishes were not just
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the big battle sites. You have to stay away from
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those, those are all protected, but you know troop campsites
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where troops had moved through to be able to do that.
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And then go out to a place that has no visible recognizable
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features that tells you this is the location, but to do the
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research and go out there and then actually find a piece of
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Civil War history, a bullet, a button, you know, a piece of a
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musket, whatever that That store to just really, really, you
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know, brought it all together for me knowing that this is real
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history that I'm looking at. I'm the first person to touch
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this thing in a hundred fifty plus years.
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And probably, the last person that touched it was a member of
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either. The Confederacy are the, the
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Union federal troops, and they were the last person to touch
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it. So that's, I get a kick out of
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that being down in New Orleans, specifically, you know, one of
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the oldest cities settlements in the South period, but certainly,
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in Louisiana, besides Natchitoches The history around
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that area, you know, the, the Antebellum Colonial history,
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it's all there that the early 1700s late, 1700s history there.
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I mean, I've dug stuff from the 1700s that's hard to believe.
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But wow, you know, that's just amazing to me.
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How is it totally? Is it really really?
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Is it just you know that people are coming through these places,
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it's skirmishes or happening war and all of that.
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It's just buried off in the woods somewhere.
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It's just right off the interstate or you know, like can
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you can you imagine going back and to whenever is happen and
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showing those people a picture of modern day today and where
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their Battlefield is? Yeah.
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Yeah. What would they think?
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We'll just what would they think?
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So I've seen you have recently on your YouTube channel and
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please give all of Of your credentials of how to find your
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YouTube channel, your Tick-Tock social medias, but I saw
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recently, you've had had a couple of videos to explode
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because of some artifacts that you found.
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So tell us a little bit about them.
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I so pretty much. It's the channel is consistent
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across the platforms. It's just basically I dig
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history. You can you can search for
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what's on YouTube or Instagram or Tick Tock Facebook as well.
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But so the last one that took off was it wasn't very old
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Relic. So this is an Old World War One
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soldiers, dog, tag that I dug here in the local area, the the
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Western Tennessee area, right? So no one was fighting World War
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one here but this was A Soldier's dog tag that come back
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from the war. Had his name on, it could get a
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little bit information about him and the part I love to do is to
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take the stuff home and start getting online and digging into
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the history books and seeing if I can put the pieces of the
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story together. And so I was able to track this,
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this gentleman's family. Lee, you know, his lineage who
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he was got. Some got some of the documents
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that had his name on. It is draft registration card,
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like some old census information found out about him, you know,
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basically his whole life and he was actually buried here in the
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Memphis National Cemetery. And so I kind of put all of it
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together and then actually went down and visited.
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This guy's grave, he was a private in World War 1 and then
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so if you watch the real or The Tick Tock, I put all that
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together. And at the end, I show it at the
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grave there. But that's if I can tell the
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story. Of something I find that's the
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ultimate, right? Finding something is cool.
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But if I can tell something about the store, that's what
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that's where I'm at, right? It's it's just it's just cool to
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me. Oh yeah, that's the juice.
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Yeah, exactly. I mean it really is just took to
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find something to take the time and that's another thing, how do
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you to preserve some of these things that are encrusted in and
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dirt and things like that, they have to, I would think that they
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would have Have to be pretty brittle and could break fairly
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easily. So that part of the hobby I
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guess is I've learned along the way, is some of the, the
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preservation aspects of some of these relics, everything from
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doing rust, electrolysis removing the rust using
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electricity on iron things specifically.
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So that's, I got an electrolysis tank that I drop stuff in and
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hook up the wires on it. Leave it there for two or three
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days. But so that's another aspect of
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this its how to preserve some of these things.
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You you learn all about. Chemicals to use and not to use
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but you're absolutely right. Some of these things are, you
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know, if you're not you're talking 1700s there, Hanging On
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by a thread, you know. So especially like little small
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buttons or yeah. So yeah, that's that's another
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piece of it, which I enjoy that aspect as well.
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You know, cleaning up stuff and figuring out what's, what once I
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get home from the hunt kind of thing, you know, you never know.
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You may see something. I would think that would, you're
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going to be. This is just, this is a cool
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button. Yeah, but then, as you uncover,
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Were it you're like this in just a button tell how deep, how deep
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are you having to dig to find some of these things or the find
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a lot of this stuff especially like Civil War era things.
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So the general rule is the older the deeper, right?
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Unless you're in a farm field that's gets plowed a lot.
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So you could find anything at surface level, my detector will
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go down and detect objects about 14 inches, 14, 15 inches,
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depending The size of it. But for instance, when my
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brother, and I get to detect together, a lot of times, we'll
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just hunt Farm Fields, right? For, you know, there was a
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battle there, there was a skirmish there and you really
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you could find bullets, you can find buttons just laying almost
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on the surface that you know, your detector picks it up and so
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you just kind of scratch the surface a bit and it's just
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right there because it's been plowed up so many times.
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But one instance, just talking about the how it's interesting
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and tying the history together. My brother and I were able to
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detect at a battle. Site in sort of, I guess central
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eastern Louisiana, but we did the the history of it and our
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great-great-grandfather very likely fault in that battle for
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the Confederacy and we were out, we were able to go out and find
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bullets of that battle. So that was a cool thing for
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both of us. It's hard at several times and
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come back with some pretty cool relics.
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Wow man. Yeah, that's the ultimate, dude,
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that kind of gives Jill's. That's, yeah.
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That is really, really, really cool.
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Where are you finding this stuff?
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So the I do Bright Now doing all the my hunting up here, in
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Tennessee. All In, come down to Louisiana
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over now. And then don't with Darren, but
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down in, and in south Louisiana, so mostly st.
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Charles Parish st. James Parish st.
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John Parish out kind of West of New Orleans, you know, out that
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way. But along the River Road you
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have these old plantation sites and a lot of them are still
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there. You can see some of them.
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Some of them are tourist attractions, but the ones that
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you don't see are the ones that have been lost to history.
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The plantation houses are long gone, all you see is a sugar
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cane field. And so, doing the research and
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finding out where those old plantation homes were that were
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there in the late 1700s in a lot of cases, you just go.
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I, you talk to the farmers and you say, hey, I'm you know, this
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is who I am. I'm interested in swinging my
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detector in your farm field. I'm happy to show you what I
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find, you know, it's your stuff you get from First choice of
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whatever you want of It kind of thing, some are interested, some
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could care less. You know, someone just say have
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fun that kind of thing. The way you do the research is
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basically there's some there's some Warehouse sites on the
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internet kind of old maps that you can get on these websites
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and they're basically Geo rectified like old topographic
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maps. Basically, I can go in and
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scroll in and look at where old home sites back to the 1800s in
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some cases. It's on some of these maps and I
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can I can put my pin pointer, right.
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Own for the old house used to be or where, I think the front door
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and some cases of the old house used to be.
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And it'll give me a lat-long of exactly where that was that.
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I throw it into my GPS, my phone, I walk out in the field.
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It takes me right to where the front door of this Plantation
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Home was and guess what? That's where they dropped.
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A lot of stuff, coming out of there from their house.
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So it's kind of putting all the pieces together and that is
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incredible. Yeah, holy cow, man.
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So, that's your finding history but you were 100% using some of
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the latest technology. The G only available to find it
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along with along with just that old school, metal detector
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that's been around for years. Absolutely, that's why I find
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it. Interesting is, I know you're
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not just going somewhere getting lucky.
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You know, it takes the planning, the research, all of that, to go
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in, to be able to find these things.
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Then, you know, at least, you've kind of shrunk it to where you
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can find, maybe find the needle in the haystack.
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Yeah. So your Running.
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I mean it's a true hunt. Oh absolutely yeah.
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So the old home sites, you know, you can do a lot of that with
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the old topographic maps, some places you won't have as old of
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the map as you like, but for civil war stuff, it's a little
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bit different, right? So you have to just read, you
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have to read about, hey, this regiment, camped, overnight near
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this River Crossing or near this Creek and then when you go out
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and you see what's there, it looks nothing like what was
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described in the 1860s and so then you kind of Really start
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having to think about where would troops come through at?
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Where would they cross that? You know, so Civil War is
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tricky, you got to really think about where troops would move
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through a lot of times. The roads, the main roads are
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the exact same place that they were that long ago, some of the
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smaller roads have been created but like main River Roads and
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stuff like that. Those are in the same places
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they were then people don't change stuff, right?
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They just make it better, totally make sense as you know,
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go coming back to home how you can find all kinds of things
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along. The cane River throughout that
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whole area around that go any stabbing Parish should just all
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throughout their mean. There's so much stuff where we
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grew up that, it's it's crazy that we didn't kind of get into
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this stuff when we were in high school.
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I know, I think about that. Yeah, I guess we were just doing
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too many other things Darren and I got a chance to do some
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detecting up around the, for Jessup area.
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So, obviously for Jessup, that was an actual old Fork.
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So there's some Are some properties you can't obviously
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you can't detect there in the park.
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That's a protected area. And that's that's another thing
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about this hobby, folks. Think, you know, sometimes
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you're going into some of these protected areas.
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That's, that's a no, no, we don't go into those places at
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all properties around around the fork, right people let us hunt
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their land, and some of the coolest things that dare and I
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have found I think, just because it was so close to where we grew
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up have been right there in the for Jessup area and we're
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talking the early 1800s, right? So wow.
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Some military stuff, some coins. So that's that's the cool stuff.
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It's it was close to home. We were always in that area and
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just to note was always in the ground there that is nuts.
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And, you know, you just go along Highway 6 and you pass that sign
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for Jessup State Park, you know another piece there and this is
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just taking you back to the Sabine Parish the neighborhood.
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They're the highway sixth, I don't know if you've seen these
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signs, you probably have but that's the old El Camino, Real,
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the King's Highway that traveled basically between I mean, the
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Natchitoches saint-jean-baptiste for over there, the Natchitoches
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area and that went all the way into East Texas and over and
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parts of Central Texas. So that's El Camino Real, that
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just means the Kings Highway and that's where traffic came
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through there. So, if you travel Highway 6,
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you're going down where where, where some very famous people
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have traveled through that area and, and one of the coolest
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things that that we found Darren actually dug it, and it's not
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that of a rare of a fine. But the, where he And it we know
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it where it came from, it was right in front of mom and dad's
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house. So we know it was right on that
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trail and this was an 1830s, seated liberty dime, very worn,
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and it had a hole in it. So we know it was worn as a
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necklace, but he found it right? Is like 12 inches down right out
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there in the corner of our, it's a of their yard and we know that
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that came from the traffic that was traveling this Trail back
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and forth just sitting out there all those years.
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Wow that's so amazing and All the road constructions that, you
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know, widening of the lanes and all of that, that it would still
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be there. Yeah, the untouched most likely
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hadn't been touched since it dropped on the ground that day,
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right? That's just, I mean it really,
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it really is just interesting Beyond interesting but how it
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can tell a story and it can just make you think that you have to
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link it back to this. This and that, and that and
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it's, I mean, it was a wagon trail, you know.
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It was nothing more than probably a two-lane to a
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two-wheel Wagon Trail through there but that was considered a
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main thoroughfare at that point. You know horses and Buggies
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could go through there. So that's where they travel
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through, right? I don't know if you can see
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right up above me here. This that's a grouping of
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plantation tokens right after the Civil War.
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So, during basically reconstruction, when slaves were
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turned into basically paid employees, Right?
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For the most part, plantations would turn around instead of
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paying an actual legal, tender the plantation stores, the
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commissaries that they had on the plantations, they would
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basically make these brass tokens with denominations on
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them. And so it was a closed system, a
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rigged system, it wasn't fair or whatever.
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But this is what they did. So they made these tokens and
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they paid these now, now paid workers former slaves, they paid
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them with these plantation tokens to go use back at the on.
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Station store to buy their bread or tobacco, or meat or whatever.
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But that, that whole case right there, I found basically,
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someone had either buried them all together or someone lost
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them all together because they were all together.
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And so it's a it's an interesting probably one of the
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more interesting as far as the historical aspect of it.
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You know to being able to kind of put the the south Louisiana
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story together and you know just being able to tell like this was
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actually used and for this purpose and you know there's
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there's there's stuff. There, you can turn it in for a
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loaf of bread or a pound of meat, some of the tokens say,
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but, you know, that's just another way of telling the
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story. I didn't realize that they had a
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currency even even like that a token, what it, whatever, I
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didn't realize that. That even existed, that's neat.
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And that happened that stuff was happening all around us, where
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we grew up? Yes, it was.
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I don't feel like we learned as much about it as as we should
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have. That's a great Point.
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That's absolutely great knocking.
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Anybody or anything. But somebody should have been
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rolling around the parish show and stuff like this to get folks
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interested in just didn't know where we're from and what's
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happening and all. We just thought the Free State
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Festival was just for carnivals and fun Raymond Goodman, but it
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was not, it was for oh man, Grace and all that stuff.
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You need to go dig around flooring High School there.
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No, telling what you may find, did we actually bury a time
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capsule and dr. Decker's plastid.
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I just dreamed that. Or did we do that?
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It's still got to be there. I've all I thought about that
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many times, we're getting off the rails here in Collectibles.
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So, tell me about some, some more of these other things that
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are behind you. I see the coins.
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What something else that most of the stuff behind me here is a
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civil war stuff. You see that?
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So, that's basically pipe, that's pirate's treasure, that's
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from the early 1700s. That's a hammered silver,
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Spanish coin. It's got the cross on it.
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I think I forgot which king it was.
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But these were basically little little chips off a piece of
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silver. It would just kind of knock a
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little chip of it off and they would stamp it on.
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And that that's what their coins were.
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When people think about pirate treasure, they think about
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these. These are called Cobbs, but
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that's probably the oldest silver coin.
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I have early 1700. I actually have two of them but
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a lot of people ask what's the most expensive thing that I've
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dug? What's the most valuable?
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I dug something that's With well over worth ten thousand dollars
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well over ten thousand dollars what was that?
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It it's it's a coin ish type of thing, I'll tell you that.
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What do you do when you found this item?
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What would you do? I freaking mind I'll tell you
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that, it's in one of my videos, then you gotta go, watch them
23:17
all and figure it out. I flipped out, I mean, like,
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when I found this stuff, I get really excited and, you know,
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couldn't believe what I just found kind of thing.
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Let me ask you this. Will you ever sell it?
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That's a possibility? Yeah, I rarely still Things I've
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done it a few times mostly it's the modern stuff that I find
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like a modern gold ring or a modern silver ring.
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I have no interest in keeping that kind of stuff and it can go
23:40
back into the hobby of for the next hunt for whatever, but
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soft. Yes, I've sold some some jewelry
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type stuff. Yeah, I mean I would I would
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think over over time you would collect enough stuff and some of
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those things like you just mentioned, you know.
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It's like those are a dime a dozen for you.
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Yeah. It's not you know you found that
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kind of stuff. So Make a little money to
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support the Habit. There's nothing wrong.
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Nothing wrong with that. There you go, support to have
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it. I like that.
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What are your plans kind of, in the future without giving too
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much away? Well, it's, you know, it's kind
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of like, a, your secret fishing hole.
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You just got to kind of be careful about what you say
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you're going. Other people will show up if you
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start talking too much. I mean, it's just a matter, I've
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proven that's the case, but I'm always on the hunt for places to
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the detail. Got I actually I took work off
24:27
tomorrow so I took a day of leave tomorrow and I'm going
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Down to a place on the Arkansas side of the river.
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I've got some, some big expectations for an old
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Community down there. That's no longer there.
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It's gone completely, it's a ghost town.
24:39
You drive by, and it's just Farm Fields, but oh wow, it's an old
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plantation, there used to be a store and to churches and a
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commissary, and I'm looking forward to seeing what's there.
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Now. Do you go on some of these
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occasionally and not find a single thing?
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Yeah, it happens. I've gotten pretty good though.
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As far as knowing kind of what I'll find or what.
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Try to find the problem to be honest is it's becoming harder
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to find places that have not been detected before.
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This hobby is growing like crazy and people, you know, have the
25:09
same ideas that I have and I try to do that.
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That really, really, really in-depth research, but somebody
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else probably has done it already but I'm pretty good
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about thinking or, you know, knowing what to expect to find.
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But yes, there are times when I'll come home and Daniel asked
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me if, you know, what did I find?
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And I'll just kind of shake my head and Walk slowly up to my
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bedroom and closed. The door and be sad for a while.
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Right? Sure.
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I understand. It's like go like a day on the
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water and you just didn't catch anything.
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It just wasn't your day. Yeah, those that those days,
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they happen. Well Andy, it's good seeing you
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in visiting with you again, we don't need to be strangers.
25:48
I get what we need to do this again.
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We're going to keep watching your channel and go to.
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I dig history. Go to his YouTube is Tick-Tock
25:56
everywhere. You can, you can see them and
25:58
you are going to see some Some fascinating things, if this is
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what you're into. And if you're listening to this
26:03
at this point, this is what you're into.
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So so go and check it out because and he's one of the best
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one of the best that I've seen I did do a little research and a
26:12
little due diligence to see some other channels that do similar
26:17
similar things and I'm like my boy and he's killing it.
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That's it. They mean that's why you're
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getting the attention that you're getting on there and
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getting the likes and the shares and all of that stuff.
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It's because You do a great job. I appreciate that.
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Thanks for having me. I told you about my my caveat
26:34
coming into. This was I don't know what your
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audience is going to think, but I appreciate you.
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Having me nonetheless too kind of geek out for you for a few
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minutes on my hobby. But you look good man.
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You sound good. I'm proud of what you've done.
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Just just happy to talk to you again.
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Yeah, me too, buddy. Me to thank you.
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Thank you so much.