Riding On Worlds Largest Monster Truck - Showcase Of Citrus Florida Roadside Attraction NEW Location
Showcase of Citrus NEW Location
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today's adventure begins here on Highway
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27 between CMI and Claremont as the
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recording of this it is Wednesday
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January 11
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2023 this is the former home of showcas
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La Citrus pick your own Citrus Swamp
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Safari rides has been moved just down
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the way a bit according to this 1/4 Mile
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North now I have been to this
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establishment probably four to four five
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times in my life but it's been a few
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years and since I was here they have
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uprooted from this
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spot and gone down the
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road relocated so says the
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sign in fact right over here they used
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to have a big shark used to be able to
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walk out there and see the coconut the
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weather telling
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coconut and more welcome everyone Adam
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the woo here I am going to be going to
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the new location and I have heard a
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rumor that their monster truck they have
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added new experiences they're going on a
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different route than they did before
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with even a
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Bigfoot moment Bigfoot experience so
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going check out the new location of
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Showcase of citrus here on Highway 27
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I'm inviting you to join me shall you
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few hundred yards down the way they have
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one of the monster trucks obviously one
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that's parked just to promote boat the
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monster truck swamp truck experience
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down
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there now for years former visits to
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this place that I was out here they had
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a couple fake alligators out there in
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the water I'm sure there's real Gators
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there was a couple fake ones also you
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could walk out on the dock and
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see and they had a
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recreation of Key West southernmost
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point right here that I got some photos
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out started some videos at over the
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years and then of course the shark was
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dangling right there yeah I'm going to
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miss it in this spot but I'm excited to
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see the new spot and what it will
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bestow upon those going down Highway 27
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now the reality is they probably still
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own this property they just moved the
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mecca of the gift shop area to a
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different section as you can see there's
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someone on a cart over there rolling
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through the the Orange Groves and then
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down up the
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way past this little slushy item is a
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big gorilla King
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Kong it designates the new
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entrance so really it's all kind of in
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the same area all right let me get my
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car drive down there now must turn on to
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Frank Jerel Road they move the gy mine
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over here the greetings from Florida not
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the most southernmost point but Showcase
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of citrus
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Point Claremont Florida Florida's Hill
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County no Florida's Hill
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Country and if you go in the other way
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on 27 FL world's largest 4x4 Rock check
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out that
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4x4 well I haven't seen it yet but do it
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back to the future quote in fact it
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looks as if the world's largest 4x4 goes
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right through here look at the wheel
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markings Florida's fresh air attraction
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ahead on
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left out here in the swamps rows and
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rows of citrus
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trees it's where they get their
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name this is a little farther off the
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road than the other spot so it's not as
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noticeable and there's no there's not
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like a beacon right there on the main
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road to bring you in well I guess maybe
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the the little water tower and the
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signage and the southernmost point
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Recreation could maybe use that possibly
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two parking sections there's one here
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but then there's also another one down
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there even though I'm assuming that if
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you pass be there it's maybe for
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employees and whatnot but I'm not for
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certain I'm going to find out either way
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but I stopped off here because CU this
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is where the entrance sign is this John
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Deere
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tractor an old neon possibly from an old
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roadside stand
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before I don't know what that's from but
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that's definitely a retro neon sign
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there and then this tiger over here
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which is there are a lot of live animals
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on site this is
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not a live
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animal give it a little pet
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though I got to go across this bridge
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they put this little piece of wood here
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so no it drives up on
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there yeah I think I could have probably
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parked over there I but I just I saw the
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entrance sign I thought yeah just follow
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the sign it's like is there a band that
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sang a song about Signs Tesla got some
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decoy Ducks down here what if they've
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ever met Howard the Duck the decoy duck
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in the lake Reinhardt at Celebration you
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guys know Howard the Duck possibly so we
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got a dump truck going by here with some
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dirt and stuff possibly some other
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properties down the way my first
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impression of this I think I like this
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more than the original location just I
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think it better for them because there's
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more room here to kind of expand upon
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even though they may have already owned
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this to begin with but I feel like kind
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of having this offset from the road it
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just seems a little more spacious that's
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just that's just first impression though
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this big shark mouth over here look at
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this big old shark
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mouth could use as like a photo op you
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get in there at first I thought these
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were real people over here that were
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working on this engine trying to get
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this truck in order but they're just
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mannequins you got a couple lawn
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maintenance here
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behind you got these scarecrow
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mannequins looking under the
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hood trying to get this thing all fixed
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up back in running
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condition and you got the shark here
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that I was referring to yeah I could I
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could have parked over here got the
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shark here similar to something you'd
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see
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like Universal or something with the the
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photo op with
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jaws this might be jaw's
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cousin and they have moved over all the
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the different directional arrows and
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this look at this Gator right here it's
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not a real Gator but it's a gator right
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there
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I kind of remember something when it was
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over at the other spot that you would
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get good luck there was a sign up that
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said if you rub the gator the fake
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Gator's nose you would get good luck
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kind of like when you rub like Abe
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Lincoln's
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nose but I'm not going to rub that
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Gator's nose kind of Muddy according to
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this Disney World's 5 miles and then you
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have la which is 2,180 Miles I'm not
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sure if that's by Road or the crow flies
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Tampa 58 miles Dallas Texas 9950
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according to that
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Havana Cuba
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380 nowlands Atlanta 400 miles Miami
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world's largest moner truck okay 200
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2,500 Acres 4x4 rides here on property
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and this is one of the rides here so I
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think I'm going to go ahead and try to
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purchase a ticket for that I really want
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to do the monster truck that's what I'm
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here for and uh kind of see the new
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layout there's a sheep right here well a
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few
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sheep then over here we got some
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Bulls they're kind of grazing oh yep
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Christmas is over the holidays is
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officially over right goat you're you're
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you're just you're ready for the h the
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all the Christmas stuff you're happy all
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the Christmas stuff is down you're just
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like rooting your your head around in
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that tree there saying see you next
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year I get it
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always like this forgot about this sign
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I mean the donkey and pony they may bite
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but they also might do they might give
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it a little give a little
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toot you don't want to get too close to
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their
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hinies you can also buy feed if you want
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to feed someone oh they have a kangaroo
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here what if they have a
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kangaroo eat it all look at that look at
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this like a old neon eat it all ice
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cream sign right there as well and then
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over here are some WABE
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and kangaroos over here you got this is
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where the Wales and kangaroos are and
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camels I see you over there just kind of
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putting out the vibe this one this
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kangaroo or this wallaby I'm not sure
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what the difference is it's kind of
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digging around up you just dug a little
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hole so you can Nestle down for a nap
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right there in the in the soil what is
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that creature over there in the end look
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like a big gopher of some kind not
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really sure I mean I think I know the
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name of it but yeah you know what I for
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it's on tip of my tug I just can't
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remember what the name of that is and in
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case you're wondering what they have
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what we have is the world's largest 4x4
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on 2,500 Acres at gem mind you pick
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Citrus local beer tropical wines fresh
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healthy juices and cream sickles Honey
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Farm Fresh Honey Farm homemade jams and
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jellies an exotic jerky and Frozen
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alligator meat and one PB packs ooh you
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want a little bit you want something you
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want a little snack don't you ostrich
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ostrich if you get too close look at I
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don't have even holding anything I don't
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even want to get too close cuz I don't I
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don't want to teas you cuz I don't have
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any food yet oh you can bite in the wire
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I've heard on a Bird on a Wire but not a
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bird biting a wire oh you just got you
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got that on to a science right there
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through the hole then the camel is over
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here look at this camel there's a little
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kitty cat right here a real cat and this
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Old Stage Coach and a bicycle hey got a
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nice little setup in here as stated it's
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a little bit different setup than the
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other spot was I think it's a little
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bigger room in this area they have some
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items that they had at the other spot
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and they have some stuff I hadn't really
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noticed before or maybe it was just over
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there because everything was kind of so
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jumbled in the other spot I didn't
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notice before but they sell all kind of
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items I mean obviously they have a lot
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of stuff that's not for sale but they
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sell a lot of different items too not
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only the Citrus but you know beverages
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snacks little knickknacks souvenirs
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things like that all through here as
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well and this also is the area where you
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can purchase a ticket to go on the 4x4
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world's largest 4x4 according to them
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through the the new route not theout I
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did this years ago and never went on the
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old Route so I'm excited for
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this the total of the monster truck
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tour I think it was around $25 it may
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have been 25 or 26 I didn't get the
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exact number but my total came to $31
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that's with tax and everything because I
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also got this fresh squeezed no
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additives Showcase of citrus orange
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handcrafted on 60 acre 15 minutes from
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Disney World ride the world's largest
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4x4 I got this which is really really
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good they used to sell these at the Big
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Orange on 192 but lately they haven't
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had it they haven't had it in the the
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prepackages so I'm kind of got to got i
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l some so it's $31 for this and for the
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monster truck tour that I'm about to do
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the 1:00 clock monster truck tour I got
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a ticket to ride right here present this
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to my driver got a little should
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probably read that just in case I need
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to anything else and looks like another
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group's about to go out now but I will
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be the one after that they said to get
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there few minutes early they said to get
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there 15 minutes early walk over there
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so at 12:45 I'm going to walk over and
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get on one of these well no there is no
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other group I guess I'm the next group
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but there they are there's the monster
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truck look how tall that thing is can
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Wet My Whistle a little bit here fresh
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squeezed oh that's
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tasty that's really
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good with the shark here not the
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backside of water but the
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backside of a shark looking on while I
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drink my
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go like chug this whole thing not going
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to probably make my tummy tummy ache a
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little bit but it's tasty yeah take a
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look at this
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thing pretty pretty good size over here
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at the General Store on the way in I
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guess you can also purchase a bucket of
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animal feed and snacks for the T as
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well maybe I get a bucket of snacks to
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feed the oh these pigs are over here
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snoozing oh what's around the corner
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there's a chicken or a rooster okay here
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are the size you get a small cup of
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animal feed for four the largest bucket
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is
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25 yellow cups are for farm animals
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behind the feed store so you can get a
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big bucket for $25 feed a lot of animals
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that would be a lot of food for those
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animals they have a shirt over here
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wonder if they have this an adult size I
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survive the monster if they have that
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adult size
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I might buy it o I see some larger sizes
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down there okay I might get one of
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those obviously this is a younger
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size this shirt might be mine at the end
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of the day yeah there's some over there
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looks like they're $15 you can also get
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your birthday party down here want to
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drive the monster truck I could drive
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the monster truck if it was my birthday
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what if I show back up on my birthday if
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let me drive it probably not
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I'm going to say probably
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not be pretty cool to to drive this
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thing though it's not the best thing
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with those little wheels in the look
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at there's like two or three here
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there's another one there there's
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another one there this one I guess you
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can go up to around the side and get
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like a little photo up if you
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want I do want to buy a bucket of that
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feed
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though we can go
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up all right they're saying we can go up
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if we're riding oh yes I always love a
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good ride on a monster
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truck
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Extravaganza look at these things huge
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when they make a
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statement it's probably legit that this
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is probably the world's largest even
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though they had one this size in Pigeon
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Forge for a while but the one in Pigeon
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Forge has been gone for like five six
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seven years maybe they bought the
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leftover ones from Pigeon
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Forge same size I think don't quote me
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on that all right heading on now at this
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little Mine The Gap kind like when
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you're on Jungle Cruise and they have
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the the painting of the giraffe supposed
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to
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mine M the
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Gap snat to guy this afternoon I know
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there's some people they don't like
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rules but I do have two rules on my
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truck believe me they're very and easy
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to follow uh rule number one is for
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everyone's safety is when the truck is
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in motion and we're moving everyone
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remain sa very simple uh rule number two
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uh actually call it a rule but it's not
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a rule it's all about you guys have fun
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enjoy the tour very important
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the property he's still alive he live in
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the property part time his name is Dr
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John aror Dr John he was a heart surgeon
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cardiologist back in that era we now in
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the 70s 80s and 90s this is a family own
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business for 61 years and according to
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Dr John for many many years
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any yeah you guys see those containers
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in there I mean they're not that big I
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mean don't look that big I was talking
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to the guy the supervisor he go ahead
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and place this container near where
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they're picking up the fruit so they
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come out of the ladder with the sling
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and they dump all the oranges up
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there section over here this is the new
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section that we added to our
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routes it's pretty cool
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uhoh and just real quick you guys see
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that beautiful um adertising there who's
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Rudy right yeah that guy back there he's
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he's the Creator that that guy up there
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he has how many million you have in your
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C he he he he paint in Disney he paint
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all over the world he's awesome he's he
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just he's very
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creative his
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there look at that guy there let uh look
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what happened to me that was the last
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one looking for bigfoot he couldn't
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find what I see Bigfoot over here look
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right there's Bigfoot
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noell yeah we found one look at
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that yeah they are all the place I think
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I think there are three of
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we this is the an that we have out with
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prop
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see more if you guys look over there you
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guys going to be able to see the zebras
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out there and we're going to see the
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zebras in the way
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this guy right here he's been he's been
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caught there since
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197 this guy over here that's Mr Pete
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that's a port
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P poach your Peach o there's a
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it's an animal approaching the the 4x4
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up here look at this right in the middle
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of the road you guys were wondering if
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we got Gators yeah we do the baby gator
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up there he love his moonshine the side
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of the
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night a little
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cow it's a little baby cow
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baby cow on the up here we got AIS here
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bison and that's the baby um we named
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them Bonnie and cly Bonnie and
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clyve
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actually the Texas
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and see the big white one on the ground
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yeah yeah yeah and they're always
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together and when they're together we
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call
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them yep someone just threw an orange
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they want to take a picture of
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you there you
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go for that I hate to say
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that Watusi meat is eatable uh it's very
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expensive out there Oklahoma state is
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the largest state in North America
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racing got
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attention yeah that's looking at you
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that's
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Jimmy Jimmy and Dean yeah it work though
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he ate
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it
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heing over
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here little baby down
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here right
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bo right there bro
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nice you have to cut it a little bit so
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that it can smell it it's funny last uh
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last Friday I was driving oh one the
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girl the
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T orange get stuck on the horn
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once I took a picture It Happened One
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ining a million
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bro that's awesome
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M and you know I'm going to tell you
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something about no you good um one time
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we're going to see the zeas um I'm going
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to tell you the more the more pregnant
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I'm going to give you some more
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information and then everyone on the
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property everyone on the property know
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that we started with the back
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there was donated to us most of those
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animal that we have on the front they
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donated a rescue okay
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so the zebra was donated to us about
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five years ago and later on jump Jun and
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they getting the May to keep her company
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there's something perched up in that
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Branch right there it's like a werewolf
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if you think that someone's looking at
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you a werewolf right there someone's
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looking at you what
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right there
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Castle um if you guys give me one minute
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I'm going to give you some information
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about the zeas then after that I'm going
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to drive the truck forward I'm going to
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tear off the truck and you guys going to
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be able to take pictures of this guy
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even if you guys behave maybe you guys
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going to be able to feed this guy too I
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do have some snack for them all right
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real quick uh we do have three beautiful
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C in our property they were very mean to
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these guys over here very mean chasing
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them out whatever is up this new section
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over here does the paradise we just beat
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that last week for them so they don't
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have to bother all the
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other here they come from the other side
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make it those on are in this side right
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here
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got a little piece of ala that they
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handed
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out so their names are receip barcode I
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can't remember the other one but they're
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all named after the way they're striped
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like
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that receipt and
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barcode stand up stand up there you went
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I think it
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may what are their names again receipt
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scanner
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scanner so QR code will be
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next put something over
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there scan
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barcode
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receipt Bunny and C B and this little
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one over
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here I named him
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surprise took Everyone by surprise
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nobody knew that Bonny was pregnant no
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one that's funny so Wednesday
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surprise cuz you're here on
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Wednesdays no she
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okay I think he knows you got food
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though yeah they do if you guys
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wondering which one is Mom the one to
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Mom Dad doesn't have those dots and
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their stripe are a little bit whiter
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than Mom do most females have a DOT no a
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lot of femal has dots but not all of
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them
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in this particular case she has it we
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luck it for us so we know which one is
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Mom and which one is Dad you know all
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the I mean all the animals farm they
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love oranges Texas little hor
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they Asian water B they eat they eat
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oranges but people ask me hey Orlando
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the eat oranges no they don't and I make
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a joke about it about that what I'm
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going to tell you 200% true
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are one of the few
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animals one of the few animals they can
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see human they're not color
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blind but they don't like oranges they
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don't have a healthy dose of vitamin C
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in their system look over here they can
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see for taking some time off bu over
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here and up first has been my pleasure
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and privilege being you driver a GU this
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afterno now I just want to ask you guys
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a favor I know you guys can do this for
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me it's very simple and easy to do it's
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PR back now now just real quick when you
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guys go back to your community work
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church school Etc could you please let
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your friends and family members know
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that we're here that's it you know we up
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in 365 days a year 9:00 in the morning
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700 p.m every single day
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a lot lot easier like in the
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hot it's pretty cool though um but every
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tour is different too sometimes you see
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the
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but I actually went on like a ranch ride
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like with the family we went all the way
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back it's pretty pretty intense it was
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like 1:00 a.m and all you see is what's
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in front of you and we were going
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through the
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here almost perf is that a Sho string
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all right I just asked and one of this
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is the one from he said he he thinks
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this is the one from a zipline in Pigeon
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Forge which is the one from Pigeon Forge
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into gatlingburg it used to be like the
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roller coaster zipline this is the one
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that used to sit out front there Pigeon
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Forge his name was sterling sterling
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he's the one made this Sterling is the
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one that made it okay his name very
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similar yes so these are the ones you
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guys built here that's the the that's
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the first truck oh that's the first
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truck that's the first one actually he
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started with the band but actually
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um I wish said 99 or 2000 that's when he
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started with that that was the first
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truck you see the pattern on this is
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like different than the pattern on this
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he took all the idea he came over here
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yeah okay good idea went up there and
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and did it yeah they only had one truck
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there though they just had the one truck
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yeah that's that's
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awesome how freaking cool is this so I
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have been on this years ago probably
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five years ago in Pigeon
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Forge when I took this up to that roller
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coaster zip line as they called it and
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now they're using it
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fascinating I knew they kind of look
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familiar but yeah you can see the the
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difference here so you look over here at
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the pattern of this versus the paint job
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on this one so if you ever been to Smoky
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Mountains Pigeon Forge into gatlingburg
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when you drive driving through the Spurs
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they call it right before you go in
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there's like an interesting place very
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reminiscent to like a like a spaceship
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earth type of spher dome but it's made
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out of PVC and inside there they had a
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zip line it's been closed for like four
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or 5 years now out at the bottom level
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of that before you go out of Pigeon
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Forge into Gatlinburg this thing used to
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sit right there I'm glad I asked cuz now
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it's here in Central Florida fun fact
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all right that was pretty cool learned
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something new discovered a little secret
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about the the old 4x4 that used to be in
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Tennessee now has been uprooted and
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moved getting used here at
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the Citrus showcase Florida Showcase of
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citrus some of the world's largest
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monster trucks according to them which I
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believe it in fact I think I I opted out
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of not getting the T-shirt but I used to
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have a shirt I don't know I go through
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shirts pretty pretty often over you know
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over years and stuff but I used to have
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a shirt that had that monster truck from
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Pigeon Forge on it let's see if I can
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still have that
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these gentleman still working on the
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engine go back to my car which is over
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here but I think I could have parked a
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little closer but I didn't that's going
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to do it for
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today from Central Florida Showcase of
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citrus the new spot not the old spot and
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I think probably a better setup than
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before dare I
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say a better setup I'll see you in the
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next video oh I'm in inside the shark's
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mouth got get out of that shark's mouth
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it's not wise there's some cacklin going
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on over
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there sounds like a some kind of a a
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train of some sort moving forward but
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it's really like geese or
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something thanks for watching I
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appreciate it I'll see you the next
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video the Vlog watch out for these
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teeth the
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Vlog is over feels so good out here
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feels so good