TDW 1876 - Two Hour Standstill on Interstate
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found a Walmart got some supplies some
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beverages and a few other things in that
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bag the dinosaur is gonna fuel up Large
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Marge fuel it up whew whew whew whew
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whew whew whew whew whew whew whew whew
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whew whew pure welcome everyone atoms
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are you here it's my second channel
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daily portal it's the daily moving
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westward on Interstate 80 through the
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barren the beautiful landscape of
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Wyoming that rock formation up there
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looks like a chimney hold your breath
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hold your breath we're going through
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when I just held my breath today what's
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the point of doing that when going
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through a tunnel
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nothing is what I thought that was me
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thinking though it was creepy this is
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not the type of place you'd expect to
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see a friendly fella from the Antarctic
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but it's true here at little America is
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it penguin
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who made the trek the idea was to have a
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live mascot from the frozen tundra right
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here at this rest stop slash fuel
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station in fact they even gave him a
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name
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Emperor sadly he did not survive the
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trek he passed away during transport but
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he's still here on property he's inside
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in a case there he is just hanging out
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behind this piece of glass standing
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three feet tall with a hundred and
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twenty pounds he seems to be pretty
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comfortable in there and this old
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postcard of the property shows they've
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always used the penguin as their logo in
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fact there's one right up there on top
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of the roof hanging out but he still
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lives on in the form of merchandise even
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though sometimes overshadowed by huh is
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that a joke look how cute that little
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guy was now his real name was not
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emperor just the type of penguin that he
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was he was an emperor penguin in fact
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there were two others just like him
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owned by the same hotel group down the
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same interstate and they never had real
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names only nicknames they were all
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emperors
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that's confusing these are the types of
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ants you don't want to mess with they
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packed quite a bit of a punch think it
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on your skin and bite you leave a small
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little welt a reminder to mind your own
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business look at those guys oh man see
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you later after staring at those things
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I feel like I feel like they're crawling
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all I know they're not but I feel like
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they're losing all over my skin I've
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heard stories that certain species of
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those creatures can take down cattle
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they climb up on a cow and before you
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know it they have completely annihilated
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the herd
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that might just be an urban legend but I
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think it it might be true they just they
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indistinct the structure of the cow and
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then pulled over at Fort Bridger
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population 400 but they do have a quaint
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little motel here it just so happens to
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have color TV if you're looking to check
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in just ask for Norman the community is
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named after a gentleman named Jim who
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passed away in 1881 famous mountain man
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trader and scout not a traitor like he
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was stabbing someone in the back but a
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traitor like he traded goods I just
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looked up a little information on mr.
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Bridger and it appears he was the
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ultimate mountain man story say that he
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once spent three years with an Indian
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arrow lodged in his back that's right
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come on stick an arrow in me look into
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my eyes see what's going on India what I
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can tell each and every one of those
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wind turbines is quite operational
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sometimes you see these fields and some
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of them are not working but not in this
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case
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all of them are spinning some
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combinations are know not to go together
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and one of those are these two items
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liquor and fireworks are you supposed to
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mix those two things together
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probably not probably not why wait for
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it wait for it wait for it wait for it
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wait for it
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there it is cute ah on the side of this
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hill or three rock formations the far
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left is called Castle Rock directly in
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the middle is the cottage in the extreme
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right is the ghettos post office how do
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I know this fact because it stated right
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here on this rusting outside and also in
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1847 there was a Pony Express stop right
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down there as well there is a helicopter
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landing can faintly see it going on the
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backside of that side and if you look
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closely next to the railroad tracks to
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the right of it a vehicle has gone off
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the road and they have traffic
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completely stopped blocked off for the
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helicopter to land emergency vehicles
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trying to get through you can see how
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far backed up traffic is I have to
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wonder if this train that is now moving
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ever so slowly is going to have to stop
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up near where the wreck is
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coming to a crawl and probably going to
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make a complete stop and it did they're
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not even going to attempt go by the
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location and from what I can tell seems
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to be a crowd congregating up the side
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of the hill towards the copter second
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helicopter is arriving train has started
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moving again and you'll notice the
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original copter is now heading off over
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the mountain after about an hour and a
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half back up I move forward just a
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little bit they let a few of the
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vehicles through but then they stopped
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us again and they are moving the car up
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on to the tow truck as you can see right
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they are about to the far right of the
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screen dragging it in by a steel wire
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pulling it onto the back of the truck I
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can't even imagine how many miles the
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backup is that's just only the part that
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you can see but it looks as if we're
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about to move and with that
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back on the road look how beautiful that
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this through here in the shadow of the
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canyon rock formations are incredible
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making my way into ogden should be there
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in a few minutes
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currently on i-84 still proceeding
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westbound now there's something I've
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been looking for for about a week or so
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picked up a couple items including this
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zoom lens a 55 to 250 this will come in
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very handy for getting shots way off in
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the distance I've been using the 10 to
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18 wide-angle lens and sometimes it's
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very difficult to get things in the
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distance I also picked up this
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polarizing circular polarizer 58
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millimeter and that will fit on the
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front of this to help with rays from the
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Sun at least I think that's what that's
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for just to do a little test this is
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what I've been using for a lens you can
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pull it back to a 10 instead of the
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standard which is an 18 so if you have
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it back at its full extension the
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wide-angle which would be considered the
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10 you can get some pretty good shots
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that you can't normally get with a cell
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phone when you come all the way into the
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18 that's as far as you could go so if
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I'm trying to zoom in on the mountain
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range or maybe that shoe carnival or
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pier one sign this is as close as
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possible as I can get now let's put this
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bad boy on the camera I had to walk
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about 20 paces back just to get the
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standard 55 and now I'm going to zoom in
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all the way to the 250 look at that
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right on the license plate and remember
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what I was saying about the mountains
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and the shoe carnival sign BAM
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impresses I have been asked more than a
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handful of times in recent weeks and
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more prominently in the last couple days
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if I will be traveling and venturing to
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a spot where the eclipse will be totally
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submerging and engulfing the sky the
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path of totality they call it and to
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answer your question
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shut the bunka the bunka cookin
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I'm on my way
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vlog over