TDW 1518 - Remnants of 1st Miniature Golf Course
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Transcript
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welcome everyone Adam the woo here man I
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am tired did not get a lot of sleep last
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night in fact I just basically rolled
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out of bed took a quick shower meeting
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up with a friend this is my last day
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here in town and I hopefully maybe
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possibly have
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made Chattanooga
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weird someone gave me this sticker
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pretty cool though right it's my second
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channel daily Vlog
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channel it's the daily woo
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first things first I need coffee success
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and this coffee according to the sticker
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is delicious heading up into a place
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called Raccoon Mountain I don't know if
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we're going to find any raccoons but we
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will find something awesome Andy assures
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me of that right definitely can't get
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over this fog above the trees it's just
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like creates a cool
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Ambiance look at this big hunk of
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Machinery right here what is this again
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Andy this is a ball valve it would
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control water from the lake to the
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generator
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room it's pretty incredible looking
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massive what you're looking at now is
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the Tennessee
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River coated with a fine
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mist of
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fog looking rather
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spectacular you can hear a faint
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rumbling almost like a freight train and
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that is the water projecti in through
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the mountain itself it looks like
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someone has changed a diaper down here
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leading down to the waterways oh look at
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that there's a bubbling Fountain over
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there a Loch Ness
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monster there's a dead fish right there
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floating in the water you were also
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saying if an alarm goes off we need to
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run for our lives because this water
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will Elevate and we'll end up going over
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the mesh so you have to basically just
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run as quick as you can I don't know if
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you would drown but you would definitely
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You' definitely be in in pretty deep cuz
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all this would be completely covered in
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water up the side of the
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wall I'm being attacked by ants there's
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ants all over my feet I think they're
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red ants too I should
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probably get those off my get those off
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my foot it's hard to translate the
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feeling you get standing here but
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there's a very low frequency Roar and
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the Earth is just rumbling just a little
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bit going up look at that light beaming
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through the
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trees the Ark of the Covenant there is a
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lake at the top of the mountain in fact
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the water down below is being pumped up
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here look at that how often do you
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see a huge precipice like this at the
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top of a mountain mountain did I use
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that word correctly precipice making our
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way now to The Visitor
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Center we might be the only ones
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here these almost look like two eyes
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watching us Andy and I are now standing
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inside the
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eyes basically you could say we're
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pupils
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that is the intake structure and there
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is a sign here showing the height of it
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below the water that you can't see is
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taller than the Statue of Liberty that's
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how deep that is we're about to drive
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over the lake huge body of water no
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water water no water
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water this is definitely a new way of
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walking your dog right here people
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driving their dogs put the dog outside
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the car and they walk the dog as they
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drive their car
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exactly I've never seen that you can't
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make this stuff up folks you can't make
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it up and of course this is a on lane
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road so there's no way to get around
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them so the dog takes precedent it's all
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right
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buddy it's all right have yourself a
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walk enjoy it
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enjoy it it's very windy and very hazy
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up
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here and if you watch yesterday's
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Vlog I was way up
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there that's where the umbrella rock is
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it's like an old abandoned gas station
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and check out this Coke machine that is
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awesome and then right next to that
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store is an old fireworks stand and if
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you look in the windows the fireworks
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are still inside do not light a match
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that would not be good nice little
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spider right there and this roof has
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definitely seen better days it's about
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to cave in I think the old black cat
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poster describing what each fireworks
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would look
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like crazy all those fireworks are still
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in there when was the last time you
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think this place was open it's been
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closed at least 15 years if not longer
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it's amazing that it's just sitting here
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and everything is still inside
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back behind this building is an old
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Skylift tourist attraction basically
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that would take you up the side of the
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mountain this thing is
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awesome so when you were younger you
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rode this right oh yes A Younger You was
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inside here riding this cart here's
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chunks of the mechanisms the wheels and
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the pulley and whatnot all just sitting
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here next to it there's the cable right
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there you can see how it starts at the
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building goes straight up the
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mountain oh yeah this is
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cool very cool all this Machinery just
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sitting inside this building not being
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used anymore if you look closely right
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there above the trees you can see the
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first Tower and then way farther up the
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mountain there is another Tower way way
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up there you really can't even really
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hike to you could but it would be quite
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treacherous that's where this drone
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comes in
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handy pretty cool looking
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right you'll notice these rock
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formations leading up the side of the
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Hill while deep buried down in there are
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caves it's called Raccoon Mountain
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caverns CRA to this top little
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crosssection and it it up through a 7in
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hole so they were able to go around the
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The Rock through that to the other side
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and they end up having to blast little
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pathway for us to walk through they put
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the dynamite right in there yes sir
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that's crazy right there we do have a
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fern growing um naturally but
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unnaturally in this cave and what I mean
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by that is we do have light we do have
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water um and there's not supposed to be
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seeds or any stuff like that down here
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so we actually bring it down here in
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that combination mixed grow oh yeah
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there it is right
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there so sometimes we see possums down
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here sometimes we see kitties um
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sometimes we see snakes and it's just a
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random event um but Above This formation
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right here up into the back we actually
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have a little hole so animals will come
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down and leave their young ones behind
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they call this the Iguana head the
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Iguana head yeah you can kind of see it
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looks just like a iguana so I used to
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own an iguana and my iguana used to eat
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about 50 crickets a week and it was kind
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of pricey you have to drive out 20 miles
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to get them so I think it's kind of cool
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if you look look really closely there's
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a bunch of crickets on wow yeah look
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there are crickets right there so this
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iguana has plenty of food yeah he's he's
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good he's a he's a happy iguana you can
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definitely smash your head on that thing
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oh yeah I'm sure a lot of people
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have very low U this is a reflection
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room so sure you thinking it's really
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dry once once again CU normally this is
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actually filled up all the way to the
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top very low ceilings
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there comes down brings down that
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calcium carbonate and actually starts
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forming downwards um after
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water right there might get ready to
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drop yeah that's cool so those guys
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right there actually took about 20 to 40
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years to grow right there but that guy
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right there will drop and so that
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guy there he goes he dropped that's
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awesome
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Yep so it's pretty much growing like
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right before her eyes almost there
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hasn't been one falling anytime recently
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um but when they do start falling
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supposedly they'll give you about 5 days
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warning so you'll hear cracking and
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popping before they fall we call it the
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shield here at Raccoon Mountain he calls
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it the plate um but all in all this is
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just a super super rare formation um
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there's only 60 of these um in 60 caves
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in the United States it does look like a
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pig
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no so it goes down to the bottom the top
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pinches back down yeah look at this guy
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he looks just like an owl that's
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cool oh yeah look see a little cave
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salamander can't really see it can you
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pull the light back just a little bit
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there
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yeah that's cool you actually see cave
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salamander actually see him breathing
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man that's cool so these guys have four
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little fingers if you want to call them
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and if they get hungry they can eat
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their tail or they can eat somebody
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else's
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tail wow must be part of the Doner
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family look at that big Monument right
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there I'm not going to make we're going
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straight oh oh who we're okay going off
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the road whoa that was a close
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call moccasin band see those big
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buildings over there yeah federals were
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over there they were locked down
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so they brought the union guys came up
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on the other side of the mountain came
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around here came up the mountain and
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then a big battle happened all around
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this property that window is where the
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sistern
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is yeah that's cool we're going into the
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Shrubbery we're going into the
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woods ah some Thorns through here whoa
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but we are not the nights who say
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holy cow look at this place what was
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this this was the spring in the cold
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house for the Craven's house used to be
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that the spring would come out of the
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mountain and there was wooden piping
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that would run over to the kitchen
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there like a little little Cavern area
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inside this
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Boulder little secret hiding spot crazy
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rot
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iron door hinge
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there man this is awesome it's an old
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bird bird bath there and you can go
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inside the rock yep wow you can go look
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at this you can go inside the rock it's
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a little stairwell leading down
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inside so cool there's bees in there
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there were that was three years
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ago wow look at this there's like a
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gargantuan Rock in
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here look at the old Nails where they
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would like hang stuff there what do you
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think they hung on those Nails probably
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curing meat this is probably me like
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maybe like a makeshift Meat Locker maybe
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definitely pretty cool to see little
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tunnel and passageways inside
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rocks someone is busted in the door look
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how cool this old door is and you were
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saying there used to be a family crest
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above the fireplace yep the name of the
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family that lived here were the hardies
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and they have designated the H right
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on the side of the outside fireplace and
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this is footage of when you went in the
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house about a year or two ago yes it is
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and What's the title of this video so
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people can search it Guild and Hardy
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Trail so just look up guild and Hardy
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Trail and you can see what lies inside
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the house gild and Hardy
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Trail yeah check out the inside of the
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house here's a very narrow
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passageway and what you're looking at is
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the incline railroad that I went on
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yesterday goes right above where where
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the car goes underneath and if you're
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taller than 6 ft you can't make it
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through
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here look at
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that we are in route to where the very
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first Miniature Golf course opened to
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the public in existence was right down
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this road so just imagine in the 1920s
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all through here a miniature golf course
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with gnomes and people paying an
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admission fee and playing rounds of golf
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right here next to to these rocks so the
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main hole was right over in here well I
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mean when I say main hole it's the only
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one that like the whole piece of it's
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left would have been right in this area
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on the other side of this rocks where
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those bushes are
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growing hole in one so you'd put up that
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way and then the hole would be up at the
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other end right up at the top this is
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amazing lots of History right
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here so somewhere in here would have
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been where the hole would have been and
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if you want to look it up the name of
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the golf course was called Tom Thumb
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Golf Chattanooga just look it up and do
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your own Columbo like research skills
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it's pretty cool if you look up old
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photos you'll notice a lot of these
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rocks can be seen from back in the day
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with people standing around with their
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golf clubs right next to these and I
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think I've matched up one of the photos
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look at
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this this is the spot look at the rock
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formations so right over here they would
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have been standing
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that's
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amazing that picture's like 90 years
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old that's insane to think about right
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there so up at the top of this is a
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gnome footprint right in front of you oh
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it's up
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here see it right to your left in the oh
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it's right here there they are two
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Footprints from one of the themed gnomes
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from the miniature golf course look at
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this little teeny tiny
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feet that is amazing and here's two more
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right here on top right there so there
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was a series of gnomes up here in this
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cave theming and if you look down that's
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where the miniature golf course would
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have been I was just walking out of
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Walmart and these two guys are here
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hanging out in the parking lot and you
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have't you have an Adam the woo hat a
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daily woo hat and you have the Adam the
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woo shirt the wear in the world is Adam
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the woo and you found me randomly just
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driving through the parking lot right
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pretty awesome you guys want to say hey
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to the Vlog you just hit record you got
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to hold the phone hold it like this grab
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it and then just do like your what would
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your intro be if you had a
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vlog I don't know what would it be John
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would it be the daily Johnny so this is
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the daily Johnny say it start it it's a
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j it's a daily Johnny perfect see you're
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on your way so keep an eye out keep an
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eye out for Johnny's Vlog it's going to
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happen one day right one day you're
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going to be on
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YouTube that truck has somehow impaled
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itself on the side of the
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building how' you manage to do that
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truck there's an adult bookstore I think
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they have books about adulthood in there
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some sort of old drive-thru signage
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there and then over here it looks like
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it led into a restaurant of some sort
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maybe like a Captain D's or a Long John
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Silvers at least that's my Educated
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Guess the day is winding down and you
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know what that means it means my time in
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Chattanooga has come to an end tomorrow
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it is time to start moving on carrying
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on the journey continuing the adventure
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not only in life but also here on this
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Vlog Channel The Daily woo and I must
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say as always a huge thank you for
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having a vested interest in my life I do
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not know if I would be able to do this
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with the passion and the drive that I
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have without you in my corner and on my
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side and for that I am eternally
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grateful and humbled and I must say it
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is now
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time for Vlog over