Anakeesta in Gatlinburg - Mountain Top Attraction - Ride Thru & Tour of Sky Lift / Tree Canopy Walk
A visit to Anakeesta in Gatlinburg Tennessee . My first time at the attraction since it's recent opening . Starting in the daylight hours and stayed till nightfall to get both experiences .
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Transcript
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welcome everyone Adam the whoo here
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after a year and a half I have returned
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to Gatlinburg which is where our
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adventure today takes place starting off
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with a good friend of mine Beauregard
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and Jacob the carpetbagger
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join us tell you for all that time I
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could barely stand to be away there's a
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lot of new things that have popped up
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around this neck of the woods one of
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them being an acoustic a new attraction
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this cool guy right here he's got a
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beverage Oh
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given the bunny ears and he's come
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prepared he's got a camera
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Jacob's got his camera to uh save you
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guys are you guys like twinsies don't
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know a hundred percent on what to expect
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of this I know I go up the mountain on a
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ski lift of sorts but what's at the top
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I have to find out when I get there
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here's a map of the general layout of
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the land
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a treehouse village is up there all kind
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of stuff some pathways some little
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bungalows pictured here is what be
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cruising up the side of the hill on
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there's two different mechanisms that
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you can choose from the normal
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old-school ski lift or the boxed
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new-school
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version maybe I can do both you'll
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notice there's a couple of pumpkin folk
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out front just chillin they might be
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afraid of heights that's why they're not
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actually on it or maybe they are maybe
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they already win they just enjoy in the
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moment afterwards
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I would really hate to be pulled up him
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out and buy my scarf seems painful
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oh yeah doc do you definitely that
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doesn't need to happen let's let's try
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to avoid that you're given the option
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the cabin can seat up to six people the
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chair up to four people and when you get
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to the top all guests must unload leave
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the mixture of chair and gondola I'm
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having a mine scramble now I've always
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pronounced that gondola but I guess the
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C the CH or maybe I'm pronouncing it
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wrong
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I learned something new today it's
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spelled CH not gh or I've been saying it
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wrong all these years it's happening
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quite the ambiance with the church bells
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off in the distance is incredibly larger
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the seating arrangements than the other
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sky lifts where scragga ski lifts sky
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lift here in Gatlinburg most the other
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ones account for two people are two of
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us there's me Jacob there's plenty of
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room plenty of elbow room only two other
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guys in here we could or two other
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ladies said here yeah anyone to be
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sitting in an theoretical Scarecrow's
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around town we could just like you have
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another crows and the interesting thing
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is we're going above homes whatever you
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do don't look down and if this breaks
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down that's the that's the ladder that
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they would climb up I don't feel like
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this is like steeper like it's going up
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at a faster that compared to what
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compared to like the other one in town
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when did this open do you remember you
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remember whoa oh I think it was but
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we're swaying about a year ago right I
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haven't been here since May I believe it
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was so close we are that but May 17 you
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could be hanging out in your front porch
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and look up
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and the sight of either locals or
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tourists careening by at a semi rapid
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pace all I have to do is just yell hello
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I'm thinking on the way down we grab one
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of the boxes I know that's not the
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technical term that's what I'm calling
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another amazing thing is how cushiony
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seats are this is like it's very
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cushioning it's not like hardwood
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whenever they stop in them Oh
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we're about to go over a thoroughfare we
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have now suddenly stopped for the third
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time
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mysteriously it well oh there we go I
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think I know why it stops like that
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because they're unloading the cars the
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big car the big red box or the big red
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cars take a little more time you can't
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just jump off flippantly you can with
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these just scramble out of it so there's
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there's no technical error it's just
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part of it's just part of our the
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experience yeah it's all part of the
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experience
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there's at the air a real bear listen
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closely you can hear
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here at operating
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have some wildlife bear oh he's looking
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over a little bear
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I think he's chowing down
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oh yeah he's chowing down on something
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there's a second one up there in the
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tree that is cool this is where I'm very
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thankful that we're not standing next to
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him because he's not huge that you
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probably do some damage oh there is one
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up in the tree there's one up in the
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tree as well as we move past the limbs
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of the there it is
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right there see him hey bear
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he's all the way up just in time to see
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the Sun setting on the mountain they're
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not a bad view we're not quite to the
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top but pretty close it's like a photo
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opportunity
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another photo opportunity is about to
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take place it also appears as if there's
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a little restaurant up here with a nice
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overlook there it is UNL OAD
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and some paw prints run run run run run
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run we did it
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Firefly village nice a lot more than I
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expected
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up here very cozy you've been a little
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fire going this is the highest point of
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the property breathtaking as I pan
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around just to bet see the mountain
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ranges and you'll notice these burn
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trees these are from November of 2016 a
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horrible forest fire that was had in
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Pigeon Forge Gatlinburg area in this
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section up top it kind of dedicated as a
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memory of that event I really like this
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piece creates a heart and you can see
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through it pretty fantastic that the
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leaves have not completely fallen off
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the trees yet so beautiful this time of
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year
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I know it's impossible for you to smell
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these flowers but smells really good
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through here this has to be the closest
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thing to the Ewok village in a real life
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I think I've ever seen in existence or
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even Robin Hood Prince of Thieves stated
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no running no jumping down there there
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are tree canopies to wander around oh
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wow upon closer inspection its people
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are walking probably a good 40 50 feet
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above the ground putting a lot of faith
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in this and putting a lot of I'm putting
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a lot of faith and the fact that it's
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just yeah it's just placed upon the
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trunks of the trees that's the only
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support as you do that I can feel
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everything swaying you think it's big
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it's wise for both of our body waste to
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be we want to spread out a little bit
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yes yes but just try to get the
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proportions correct
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for real though just look just look at
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how how far up this is and it goes on
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for quite aways more than halfway across
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and I'm noticing just how expansive it
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is you can see you know in the
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foreground but also way off in the
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distance so it wraps all the way around
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and then up that direction and finally
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back to safe and secure ground
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I will say I am pretty impressed by this
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though never seen anything quite like
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this before in real life anyway
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well done anta Kista well done
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impressive most impressive now see this
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is the height I'm more comfortable where
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I see the grounds right there this is
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the height that's the height that I like
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a little bit about about but about good
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foot and a half take a look at all of
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Gatlinburg down there not bad they're
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just the table right here we're just
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hanging out neon all around the Ripley's
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Aquarium of the Smokies and then just
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off to the left a little bit is the
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Space Needle right there also properly
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illuminated nothing's pretty tall but
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we're way above it
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we're much higher that it is this is
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steep
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this is so cool notice how incredibly
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quiet it is it is on the way back down
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it's very dark for the moment we're
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about to go under a light we have faced
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reveal my face to face reveal its kind
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of you ready for it
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well if it revealed it and I had like no
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skin on my face that'd be terrifying
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have you ever wrote a rollercoaster by
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yourself yes it's kind of an unsettling
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feeling for somebody it is
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always makes me feel better just shake
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my legs helps me cope with the heights
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see it works right that way if you fall
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when you hit the ground you'll start
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running yeah I've learned that from
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Wiley coyote
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what happened with the bear he never he
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never came after you
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nearing the end of round one we're going
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to attempt to get inside one of the
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inside one of the buckets off of the
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seats and into one of the the read and
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closed versions on the way back up
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one of these two will be our Pony
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jumping again
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the one hand make sure you watch the
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doors the doors are gonna open up midway
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through but they're gonna close by
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themselves just make sure you don't jump
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or they're gonna open midway through oh
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it's a serious locking system that just
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happened I'm not 100% sure if I'm
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supposed to be hey no attention to us
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hey sorry we're just two grown men that
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are afraid of something that's perfectly
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safe okay everything will be fine no
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joke though this thing sways she's like
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the wind that's a that's it it's a
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little play on words there I did with
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the Patrick Swayze he sang this song
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that's that nevermind I rode in the
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gondola back in the summer time Chon
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Dula chontal I'm sorry I wrote in the
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channel back in the summer time and that
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was really hot and stuffy in here it's a
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little nicer now that the weather is a
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little cooler this thing is swaying like
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crazy she's like the wind and my trams
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remember that song that was things that
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sways dog
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so he's dog here's the photos ended up
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purchasing both of them I like this one
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the best because it's it's not
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photoshopped in that's really the
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mountain background behind us there look
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how look how ecstatic we are and then
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over here
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get the glare off Jacobs face there it's
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like kind of like you see you there
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right in the face
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shift that up thumbs up if you enjoy
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this video do what he did give it a
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thumbs up
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soothing sounds of Technology
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see in the next video the vlog so far