Lake Taneycomo

This one will blow you away.

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Now grab your camo and your backpack as we go ninja into the backcountry of New Zealand with Manny.

Look that up." So I'm sitting here, and he's, like, right next to me on my computer, 'cause he wants to watch me watch this YouTube video.

And he's like, "It's about giants and about them being under the lakes in Missouri, and about the, like, the reason that they flooded, like, Table Rock and Bull Shoals and Taneycomo is because of, and, like, the dams and stuff, is because of these giants.

They're trying to cover up these bones."

Mm-hmm.

This is gonna be all your historic stuff, five and dime shops.

The little skinny water there is Lake Taneycomo.

We got the Branson Landing right along the strip here, or right along the start of the strip.

We got the District Theater, which is the strip, and then that's gonna lead right out to the west here where good old Silver Dollar City is.

Um, some of them are a little bit bigger as you go off to the right here.

Um, but there are m- multiple units in there.

Uh, you got part of a, a little shoot off of a Lake Taneycomo right over here.

There is a boat ramp, which is another unique factor with these.

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At least Lake Taneycomo is still there.

Big Cedar, come on, baby.

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So as I said, I gave up on that dream, but it, it was always in the back of my head.

So one day I'm fishing with a friend on Taneycomo.

It's a reservoir in Missouri, full of trout.

And it's in...

Anyway, Andy Williams used to have the Andy Williams theater there, and when he got out of television and everything else, in his later life, he would perform there in this town that I can't think of.

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And, um, obviously w- the day I was fishing in Taneycomo, he had been long gone.

And, um, but as I'm talking with my guys, we're floating down this river fishing for trout, um, I...