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  • Good morning John, it's Friday. I'm going to be talking about sidewalks for this entire video, but if you bear with me

  • I know that it doesn't seem like it, but it will be worth it. Four years ago

  • I didn't have an idea for the video that I wanted to make so I asked Twitter to send me ideas, one of the things

  • that was until I was told to do by Shaina Joseph was to interview the sidewalk so I did that I'm here today with a

  • Sidewalk to talk about what it's like to be a sidewalk so sidewalk. What do you think well?

  • I got no complaints except tree roots. Don't get me started on tree roots. Fascinating

  • I also did this dance, which that's good. There's a link if you want to watch that

  • 2013 vlogbrothers video. Ever since I made that video I have spent

  • Surprising amount of time thinking about interviewing sidewalks. Where we grew up in, Florida

  • Sidewalks were boring and consistent than they were all they done at the same time here in Missoula

  • Sidewalks were laid down a hundred years ago

  • They were laid down last Tuesday

  • So it's like a weird patchwork and a lot of them are falling apart and also they have

  • Occasionally you'll see makers marks that will tell you who laid the sidewalk and what year it was laid down maker's marks are part

  • Advertisement part like record-keeping so the city knows who did what and part warranty, so I like if it breaks

  • You know who did it after the 50s these kind of go away

  • And so you are more reliant on people actually carving like just illicitly carving the year into this sidewalk

  • Which I actually appreciate, though

  • Not legal technically if you look hard enough

  • You could see that sidewalks look different from different eras

  • both because of how they've weathered and also the materials that were used in them

  • Look, it's a thing that I think about which is why...

  • Recently I was outside of a friend of Mines house, and I had a moment

  • It was like a rather intense

  • sidewalk related moment sometimes in sidewalks

  • You will see footprints like people footprints or dog footprints

  • So I was seeing that there were these little people footprints

  • They looked like they were probably from a kid like two or three years old

  • just like a kid wandered onto the wet cement

  • Just walked down sidewalk for a little while.

  • And I was following those footsteps

  • And I got to a makers mark where it said:

  • "miracle and trip of the maker 1909"

  • and as a person who thinks a lot about sidewalks... my,

  • I did the the math, I actually did some research on this

  • it was Frank miracle and Henry Trip where the the guys who laid that Sidewalk in 1909.

  • And actually had a guarantee for five years after they were the sidewalk if anything went wrong

  • They would replace it and here it is

  • It's a hundred then nine years later and Frank Miracle isn't around anymore

  • Henry Trip isn't it around anymore

  • and that little kid who made those little footsteps

  • presumably grew up lived a life and is also gone. You might be thinking

  • Oh Hank is sad because he has a baby and baby grew up and lived and but it's actually kind of a

  • Thing that I like, um

  • I-I like I don't have context to that person's life

  • But what I do have is knowledge that they were there, like that moment when the sidewalk was laid down

  • This this thing happened this tiny insignificant

  • Little human thing. I like when people

  • Create things with the the knowledge and the intent that they're gonna be around serving a purpose after those people are gone

  • But here's the real thing. I like that this

  • inanimate chunk of concrete

  • Connects people who don't know that they're connected, and I don't think that we're ever very good at understanding

  • How connected we are to each other,

  • to the whole sort of system of the Earth.

  • Like people take drugs to feel that feeling, and I got it from a sidewalk.

  • That feeling of being part of something that existed long before us

  • stretches out way beyond us

  • Is very neat, it's very good. It's very real. It's very big and I like it

  • and

  • That's my sidewalk story John. I'll see you on Tuesday

  • Oh hey kitty, hi you you surprised me

Good morning John, it's Friday. I'm going to be talking about sidewalks for this entire video, but if you bear with me

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這看起來很蠢,但請跟著我走吧 (This is Going to Seem Dumb, but Stick with Me)

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