North Pole ALASKA Below Freezing Temps - Meeting Santa Claus & Visiting Reindeer - COLD Walking Tour
North Pole Alaska
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welcome
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everyone Adam the woo here as a
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recording of this Sunday November 10th
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2024 I am in North Pole Alaska cold
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crisp snowy beautiful North Pole Alaska
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and when you think of the North Pole
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even Alaska version who do you think of
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not me but another guy with a more epic
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beard than my little small one that is
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starting to come back to
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fruition Santa
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Claus I'm going to go to Santa's house
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join me shall you it's 10:46 right now
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it's
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12° it's a dozen of
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degrees happening it's going to get up
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to a high of 17 today here in North Pole
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Alaska I'm walking through the
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snow not deep snow through this section
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but snow nonetheless
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looking for Jolly Old Saint
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Nick where you at buddy where you
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at it's not his busy time yet next month
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he'll be really busy so he should be
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here there he
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is an artistic representation
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the man the
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myth the
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legend Chris
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cringle Satan
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Nick Santa
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Claus that is tall that is very
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tall I can't walk up and get a
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selfie with this large Santa Claus
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because it's little stanion off right
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here says
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St a ooh sleigh parking
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only all others will be missl toed I
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love that I love it no one picnicking on
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these tables look at the buildup of snow
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right
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there oh yeah you got the Christmas
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tree yeah I was saying last week when I
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arrived at Anchorage that I really
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transitioned completely from Halloween
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into the holiday season abruptly
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by going from Orlando to Minnesota to
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here it's full on Christmas time it's
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not even Thanksgiving yet but it's
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Christmas season and I'm doing it right
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it's a freaking North Pole Alaska
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version big old Christmas tree oh this
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is getting me in the
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mood the holidays look at this over here
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look at this there's some reindeer right
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here in the window should probably have
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my gloves on right now but I have I've
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got well I got the little thing over my
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my thumb but yeah so a couple
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reindeers here's a little
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mannequin there's a sleigh right
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there yeah they got to have coffee right
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they got to have coffee in here or hot
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hot
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cocoa all right there's a mailbox where
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you can mail a letter right there picks
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it up right there people have wrote
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letters there on the side a little sign
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little kind of antique looking sign that
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says
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joy holy Lord this is awesome oh my gosh
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Alaska Santa by Century old sleigh
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there's Alaska Santa and this is the
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century old sleigh right here oh this is
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the way to kick off the
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freaking holiday sees it he is holding
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the sign of where I I am in the freaking
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north pole north pole again Alaska
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version but nonetheless I'm in the
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freaking North Pole this look at this
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right here and here's a tree with a
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bunch of elves all over
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it okay I have gone full on Christmas
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already in early November there's a
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gnome hat on top of this tree and here
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is look at this here's ay reindeer here
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that's not Rudolph it's not Rudolph look
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at I don't know if Rudolph would be in
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here these are great all these little
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like all these little paper weights and
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little like items for the shelves of
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Santa this place has it all oh
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no oh oh oh oh Santa
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Mickey Santa Mickey right there
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Frosty the Snowman right there M&M's
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another Mickey it's great right here
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this is
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awesome little Grinch action could wear
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that at grinchmas if I make it to
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grinchmas this year out of Neva I'm not
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sure if I'm going to but I'd like to
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look at all the Grinch stuff right here
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Grinch and training they got a whole
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plethora a caade of Grinch
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items man this place is so good they
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have everything here yeah say this is
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like a this is way better than I thought
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it was going to be I was thinking it was
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going to be like just like a little
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little tiny section but they have got
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the gift they at the gift shop area and
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souvenir game is on point through here
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oh maybe over here is where you get this
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coffee all right I have now purchased a
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piping hot caffeinated beverage from the
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North Pole Coffee Roasting Company
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Alaskan made I am disappointed though
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this the biggest coffee they have is
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this size it's only like 10 oz or
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something but nonetheless I'm drinking
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coffee in the freaking North po oh
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there's are
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antler horns right there that made into
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a snowman right there I don't know if
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that's cute or just absolutely
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horrifying but nonetheless that's what's
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uh that's what's happening right here
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these are kind of neat here's like a map
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of Alaska or like a TV
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tray little Explorer
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map
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o like this is like what you put like on
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a luggage R like a your luggage tag or
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something or No Maybe not maybe just a
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coin purse the coin first up on the
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Rafters up there check out Snow White
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and the Seven Dwarfs up top then you
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have the uh you have like one of the
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ventriloquist uh dummies up there you
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got some you got Pinocchio You Got Bugs
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Bunny you got some really old school
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Mickey's up top there got some this is
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just all kind of lining a little like
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top portion above where the above where
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the register section is got the Polar
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Express train op Edition right here a
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lot of Polar Express pretty pretty much
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yesterday I pretty much took the real
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life Polar Express yesterday went on a
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train ride 12-hour train ride from
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Anchorage to here to arrive in Fairbanks
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which is about 20 20 mi 15 20 mi away
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from here took a uber over here to get
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to Santa's house whoever knew you could
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take a ride share vehicle to Santa's
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place this looks like the freaking Toy
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Factory right here this is this is
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that's got to be what that is this is a
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little behind the
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scenes right here
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of like where all the magic happens
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right inside of here there's even a
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globe over here see the globe right
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there that right there has all the
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different it's like lit up and
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illuminated maybe that oh green and red
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maybe showing where some of the the good
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boys and girls are versus the bad boys
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and girls I don't know I'm just thinking
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that's what that is but wow that is a
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humongous stuffed monkey right there
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raggedy ant an Andy down here a duck you
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got an Elmo right there that does not
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appear to be one want to be tickled got
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the barrel of monkeys monkeys up top
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there we got a Woody from Toy Story got
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Slinky Dog Buzz
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Lightyear up top you got a little
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dinosaurs you got some elf on a shelf
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think well they're not on a shelf
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they're elf on a tree running around
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here well they're not running they're
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just like
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dangling dangling on the tree oh my gosh
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Santa Claus is hear I hear him talking
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now he's talking behind me I'm going to
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meet
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him there's a little bit of a line that
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was very
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popular I did not think that Santa was
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going to be
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here Santa freaking
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claws is in the house
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thank you hello Mrs Claus and Santa I
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have never been to the North Pole before
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so this is an honor for me to meet you
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both welcome welcome where you visiting
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from I live near Orlando Florida in a
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little town called celebration sure
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celebration
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ofo yeah we got eles that live in
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in okay listen I was in h Davenport last
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year sent the reindeer out to give me
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some coffee we got on the I4 and I still
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haven't come back so if you see them
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they're stuck somewhere I4 is not good
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so I've always had a question so you're
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always busy the Night Before Christmas
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does coffee ever help you out do you
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drink a lot of coffee no no I don't
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necessarily drink coffee it's the
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cookies the carbs and the cookies keep
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me going the carbs and the cookies are
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do you bake the cookies I do okay
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favorite of course are whatever's free
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all right the tradition is for people to
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leave me out cookies so when I get to a
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house to deliver there's usually a plate
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of cookies or if you're in California a
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Out Burgers animal
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style from Florida I got love Joe Stone
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crafts and Cuban sandwiches you know it
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all oh of course Georgia Carolina
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there's
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barbecue Wisconsin we got we got the
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cheese curds the kingles in Minnesota
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all they have is ludus and Stu you're
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married to a foodie are you kidding when
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he goes to Ohio he eats those Bucky too
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oh yeah okay and Sky well it's nice to
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meet you both I've been good kind of
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good I've been better more good than bad
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so let's just say you're sketchy I'm
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what sketchy I'm
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sketchy you made it here you're on the
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all right thank you I'll just let me get
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down here here we go got you both in
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here nice to meet you both thank
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you thank you so much here's a little
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tip jar next to s Mrs CLA going to put
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this back up in there I got a little
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flusher I was very I was very uh nervous
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to meet the meet both of them they' got
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really great stuff in here you can
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purchase all these like little little
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Christmas Villages and things you even
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have a little section over here with a
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Christmas Village this is actually more
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like Disney themed right there you see
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the Disney water tower right there
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Christmas edition you got hville right
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over here as well you got the hooville
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grit stuff you even got Harry Potter
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section right over here you got Harry
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Potter go ahead and get a refill on my
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cof cfee since it wasn't a large coffee
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we head back out into the cold check out
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the Little Fudge here got rainbow rain I
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said rainbow reindeer tracks got red
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velvet seems to be the real popular one
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peppermint
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mocha the holidays Halloween into
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Christmas not a good time to try to
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watch what you eat thankfully I'm more
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of a Savory than a sweet guy but man I
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can devour some serious savoriness too
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much
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savoriness coffee refill achieved I'm
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ahead of over this direction go take a
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look at the reindeer heard there's
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reindeer over
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here purchased a few items too I got a
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magnet and a shirt this says North Pole
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Alaska on it and topped off the
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coffee who knew that Santa was an animal
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style guy he likes in and out just like
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I do he's a Savory guy too I was
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thinking maybe he consumed lots of
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coffee to get his work done but now he's
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more just a Savory treat kind of guy he
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likes those double doubles well he
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didn't say that he said likes the animal
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style in and out but he knows his
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food and when I was planning on going to
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Alaska when I was doing the pre-planning
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on you know booking the flights and
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everything up here this was on my list
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of things to do in fact I just in my
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mind imagined what would it be like to
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stand in front of Santa's house in the
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snow thankfully it's snow on the ground
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it's not snowing at the moment but it
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has snowed here a lot and there's a lot
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of snow and I am fulfilling that thought
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process that I had when I originally
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thought of Alaska and realized there's a
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possibility I could go to the North Pole
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in
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Alaska this was in my mind and it now
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has happened the North Pole Alaska
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standing in the snow in front of Santa's
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house and I met Santa I met Mrs
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Claus told them I was good I don't know
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if they believe me don't really need
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anything for Christmas but you never
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know Jolly Old St Nick will slide down
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my chimney I don't have a
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chimney
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celebration he'll figure away we'll
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figure away to get me
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something that was so cool that was so
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I've never tipped Santa before all right
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now that I'm back outside I'm going to
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be outside for a little bit glove went
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on at least this
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hand and
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even though the sun is out which is nice
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still ice on the roads snow on the roads
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my Uber driver was hitting a little
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slick spots pulled into here his car
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kind of was sliding off said glad you're
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not driving and not me
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and zipped up the
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coat sometimes I zip it up sometimes I
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don't more times it's not zipped right
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now it's been zipped again it's in
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zipping mode all right going over to the
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reindeer pin
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that's the sound of the tires driving on
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the snow and
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ice candy canes everywhere out
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here small candy can well Tall candy
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canes and even taller candy
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canes look at that oh that's the North
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Pole well that is a pole and it's in the
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north that that is is that the that is
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the north that's a pole and it's in the
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north that makes that makes sense
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now got Santa over there big tall St
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Santa standing by his
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house oo it is yeah when you're out in
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this for just more than a couple minutes
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I see a
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reindeer I see him
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starts getting pretty cold when you're
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out in the elements for more than 5
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minutes
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antler Academy of flying and reindeer
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games North Pole
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Alaska here they
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are
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reindeers
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yes now I saw a reindeer and
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Anchorage actually I saw one reindeer in
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Anchorage
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but there's a few reindeer in
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here you just a little scratching your
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face there aren't you reindeer how you
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doing you having a good day right in
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your you're in your element right here
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in the snow you like this
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right you you guys are used to this
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weather yeah you can just put you in the
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put you in a good mood I get in a good
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mood when I'm in the snow too you guys
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just kind of look like you're just
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resting now just
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relaxing preparing for next month next
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month's going to be busy especially on
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that especially on Christmas
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Eve you know what I'm talking
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about all right it's good to see you
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reindeer I'm not going to climb reach
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through or pass items through this fence
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even though I want to want to pet a
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reindeer probably wouldn't end well look
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at
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this at this look at this reindeer right
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here woo it is brisk out here
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fellas it is brisk
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what's your favorite Christmas movie
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reindeer Earnest sa Christmas yeah
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what's one of mine too one of mine too
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oh how you doing you're St you're over
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here standing standing around what's
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your favorite Christmas film too early
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November's too early to start watching
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oh you're shaking your head yeah too
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early to start thinking about
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Christmas yeah it's going to get hectic
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pretty soon I know you're just nibbling
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on some
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snow Die Hard okay all right yeah I know
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I'm I'm in that camp I'm in that camp
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reindeer games was that a Christmas film
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I don't know maybe all right let's take
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a little walk you know what I need is
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one of those things that go up to your
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nose little like pullup things or like a
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scarf wrap around the nose down cuz now
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I'm starting to feel it a little bit out
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here starting to feel it a little bit
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out here now there's some look at this
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here looks so cool looks so cool
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reindeer Santa on the
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sleigh right here in the snow Santa's
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house in the
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snow a life is good all right it's
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cold it is it is a little on chilly side
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starting to sink in now through the
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cloth even through the gloves the gloves
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are warm but I can feel feel the cold
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going through the gloves
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though you definitely are more awake
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when you're
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cold had them
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caffeinated Santa Land North Pole Alaska
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oh I just met them Mr and Ms Right There
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101 St Nicholas Drive that's the address
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right there on the side and that is the
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real address when I took the ride share
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over that was the address the
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coordinations the coordinates I should
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say see they're all bundled up they're
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doing it right
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Santa's house right here this is Santa's
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house in case I haven't mentioned at 87
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times this is the house of Santa Claus
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here standing in the snow in front of
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Chris kringles Homestead
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there this is getting me in the mood
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this is get me in that holiday
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spirit all right I want to see how far
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down town from here is
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I love the crunching sound of snow
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through the boots yeah I'm going to walk
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oh that's
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slick that was a slick
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spot see what I can find
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downtown like a little Sun sunb Burst
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over there too
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candy canes everywhere through here on
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the light poles all the light poles are
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made of candy can there a roundabout
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just got to be really careful cuz
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there's some slick ice going around that
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roundabout so over here is the North
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Pole
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crepery see what they got over here I'm
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going to I'm honestly probably going to
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get another
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brisk oh I am 100% when I find a
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store that has something like either
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a something that goes over my nose a
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little pull up like a
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like a ski mask or something also these
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are painted like candy canes little
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stanions there protecting the
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fire
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hydrant the nose is feeling the fact
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that it's definitely not worm out the
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nose nose this entire area right here is
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just all ice that's all ice so it
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definitely takes quite a uh an expert on
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driving in these conditions which I am
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not that's why I did not rent a car
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while I'm here if I got to go anywhere
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I'm just going to do ride share let's
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give this place a try went in the North
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Pole you got to do it right you got to
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do it I like the doors the old wooden
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doors no skateboards bicycling bicycle
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riding we're roller skating through here
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who the heck is roller skating through
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here right now here we go little
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grinage right there a little Grinch
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action they're
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open here's their hours look at this
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they close at 4: CU When the Sun Goes
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down so like why even be open the sun
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goes down and then it gets frigid all
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right even though they did have the
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Savory ones I went ahead and got the
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PB&J she asked if I want whipped cream I
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said oh sure why not throw a little
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whipped cream on there give it a try
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it's steaming well actually asked my
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M dang that's good I haven't had peanut
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butter in a while that's awesome it's
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also very interesting I have my
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sunglasses on now the Sun is up it
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bounces off the snow like a reflection
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in fact the driver when he was driving
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me over says sometimes when he's driving
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when the sun is out it'll like give him
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like a suntan just CU it's bouncing off
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the snow I don't know if you meant when
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he's out of the car or when he's in the
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car
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but
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whoa so that
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says it's the fire department city of
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North Pole
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Alaska fire danger very low right
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now hey you can just see how elongated
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my shadow is the sun behind me and I'm
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not walking into the sun I'm walking
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away from it cuz it's bright walking
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towards
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it really not a whole lot going on here
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in town but I can find see I don't even
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really see like a designated downtown
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area of North Pole
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back out into the Shadows kind of now
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again number one Santa Claus Lane that
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road right there is Santa Claus Lane
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that's the name of the
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Road River down here frozen over
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completely there's no water
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flowing and this is the city
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what is is this this is my reality right
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now I love
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it so
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good got the topiary esque reindeer out
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front you got the sleigh
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here just decked out in snow sitting in
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that would be cold
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old all right the camera I'm using just
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alerted me that the temperature is too
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low still working a little popup side
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temperature too
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low it's still
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working I think it saids something with
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it wanting to charge it I can't charge
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it till the camera warms up but I'm
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using it not charging it so thankfully
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still going so there's a low temperature
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warning the
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crossing of the two
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roads Santa Claus Lane even the Mickey
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D's
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sign is candy caned themed also and I'm
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walking very slow because that's all
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that's all straight ice right there I
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mean that would be quite a tumble if I
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wasn't treading lightly on that yeah
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candy canes everywhere even at
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Micky's the golden arches of candy canes
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here we go north pole Plaza we're
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playing a drinking game on how many
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times I say those words not Plaza the
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other two words probably wouldn't end
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well for you but at least you'd be
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warmer than I am right now
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yeah the indicator came on again I
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didn't know if it was recording or not
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next time it happens I think I'm going
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to take a photo of
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it I think it's
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recording here's the hotel here in
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town find a trash can throw this
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away what if you get a discount if you
27:25
check in here with a
27:26
reindeer probably not right took a photo
27:28
of my phone to show what my camera is
27:31
showing again it seems as if camera is
27:34
still working but it says temperature to
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low temperature too low camera will
27:38
start charging after battery is warmed
27:40
up so if I try to charge it in these
27:42
conditions it would not charge have to
27:44
be indoors and let the camera kind of
27:47
regain itself a little bit I know a lot
27:50
of people use these
27:51
cameras so just showing the fact that it
27:54
can't get too cold to
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charge again the shop things suer
28:05
here where the spirit of Christmas Lives
28:05
all year
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round area over here that's like right
28:21
next to the Safeway got grocery store
28:24
check out these little relics of these
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pay phones
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those are cool
28:33
right this little attached strip mall oh
28:37
even this look at
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this some point dur on my Alaskan
28:45
Adventures I would definitely like like
28:47
to ride one of
28:48
these I'm not going to buy one but I
28:51
would like to ride one going back in the
28:52
grocery store curious to see if they
28:54
have any of the like ski masks in here
28:58
there is Elf on a Shelf
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cereal so this is the appropriate place
29:03
to be buying I already got the Christmas
29:05
decor out the Christmas wrapping stuff
29:07
out to employee over at the grocery
29:09
store said do you have anything that
29:10
would be like a cover the nose ski mask
29:12
type thing he said no but try the
29:15
century hardware store and it looks they
29:19
have something right here for
29:23
$23 polar scarf oh that actually might
29:27
work
29:29
polar scarf it just goes over the nose
29:31
and
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mouth or I can go with the whole kitten
29:36
Kaboodle
29:43
here let's get
29:43
this all right I changed my mind I went
29:46
with the full the full kitten
29:49
Kaboodle covering the nose going on
29:52
there so I could do that I could do
29:56
that now when I'm not walking around
29:59
it's no big deal but when you're out in
30:01
the elements for more than 5 or 10
30:03
minutes you start to really start to
30:06
really notice
30:12
it I can handle 5 or 10 minutes but once
30:12
you're once you're walking and the wind
30:13
starts hitting you that's when it gets
30:14
cold feeling pretty comfortable now
30:17
hands covered up nose covered up ears
30:21
covered up I'm good I'm feeling good now
30:25
continue walking around sun's out not
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that the sun is really heating anything
30:30
up in any
30:36
way don't mind me I'm not from here
30:36
where the spirit of Christmas Lives all
30:40
year round I don't know who I was
30:43
imitating there
30:44
but look at this NP oh yeah straight out
30:49
of
30:51
NP here we
30:54
go that's what I'm going to start saying
30:56
the rest of the time instead of saying
30:57
those two words which I've said so much
30:59
already just going to go full NP oh here
31:02
we go here's a layout of the land of
31:05
NP oh let's see see what we got
31:09
here get my shadow out of it see the sun
31:12
is just
31:13
permeating permeating light but not
31:15
permeating heat City Hall police station
31:19
fire station I saw all that you got all
31:20
the schools bike pass pole markers oh
31:24
there's a skateboard in a BMX park D5
31:28
dog park ball fields that's about
31:31
it that's about it Santa's house where's
31:35
the BMX park
31:37
D5 where the heck is
31:40
D5 I don't
31:42
know now it is
31:44
Sunday as I'm walking around here
31:47
goodness gracious
31:50
slick so the post office is not going to
31:52
be
31:53
open
31:56
however if you want to to mail something
31:58
to yourself from here or send a letter
32:01
to
32:02
Santa this is holy cow this is just pure
32:06
ice pure ice right
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here oh my
32:17
gosh I mean I don't know why it's
32:17
surprising it's 10°
32:20
but here it
32:23
is NP post office 997 705 wow we're in
32:29
the double
32:52
99705 that is pretty dang cool be to be
32:52
honest that's that's so freaking cool NP
32:55
does not have its own newspaper closest
32:58
one would be the town 20 mil over where
33:01
I took the train into where I'm staying
33:12
Fairbanks newspaper rack theft is a
33:12
misdemeanor think about
33:15
it you know what's crazy is so when this
33:18
was up over my mouth me breathing
33:20
started to freeze up and it started to
33:22
get ice on the outside and outside of me
33:26
breathing on the facial
33:32
covering North Pole Lodge wh I said it
33:35
sorry NP Lodge
33:44
306 the family fraternity of the
33:44
Moose right there they got a satellite
33:48
dish this is
33:50
300 South Santa Claus
33:54
Lane you know what the song says
33:59
here he comes right down his
34:01
Lane there you go Crow flying around
34:04
there's like a radio station or
34:05
something no one's riding any bikes out
34:09
here at this
34:12
moment I was asking the driver earlier
34:14
that brought me over I said how how much
34:15
of the year is Snow he goes more than
34:17
half the
34:18
year probably even more than
34:25
that and this is only the beginning I
34:25
mean this hasn't start getting crazy
34:26
till January February December January
34:34
February these are
34:34
stairs this is stairs
35:27
there a food pantry here and a lending
35:27
light library right there that's
35:34
nice about a mile from here is a kind of
35:34
an old school Diner so I think I'm going
35:36
to stop by there I think it's called
35:38
Little Richard's Diner it was actually a
35:41
mile and a half from where I was I've
35:42
already walked about a half mile so I'm
35:44
going to hit this little cut off road
35:46
and walk over there you'd see my shadow
35:48
here with the sun behind me all right
35:49
here's a clever
35:55
one polar espresso there's all these
35:55
little drive-thru coffee
35:59
places how does Moses make
36:02
coffee he brw it Santa's fireworks right
36:06
there this parking
36:08
lot and here's the
36:11
diner if it would around here so nice I
36:13
was about a half a mile from here I
36:16
walked about a mile of the mile and a
36:19
half and then someone pulled over nice
36:22
lady pulled over and said you want to
36:23
ride I said we're not going that far
36:25
just a few more blocks half a mile
36:28
that she gave me a ride dropped me off
36:29
right here it was very short distance
36:32
but that was very nice for her to do
36:33
that Little Richard's Family Diner
36:37
they're open from 8:00 a.m. to 900 p.m.
36:40
I
36:41
love the look of these old
36:53
looking gra a bite of eat from here and
36:53
then I'll order an Uber oh what is that
36:56
over there
36:57
wait a second I got to go look at that
36:59
first there's a
37:00
church the church at
37:03
NP right
37:06
there but I want to know what the heck
37:08
is this
37:10
thing look at this house it looks like
37:12
it has a
37:14
airplane what the
37:34
look at this thing it's got a fish on
37:34
the side I don't even know if anyone
37:36
lives here or what it
37:39
is it's a fish on the tail end then also
37:44
an airplane torso well it looks like it
37:46
but I think maybe it's just the snow
37:48
that makes it look that
37:49
way
37:57
interesting then there's an arrow
37:57
even see me breathing through this you
37:58
can see the it's going through the
38:02
correlation of the facial
38:04
covering you take a look at this it's
38:06
got a little arrow almost looks like
38:10
fire arrow sorts leading
38:13
over to the actual
38:27
pole the pole exists well there's a
38:27
bunch of Poes here in town but
38:30
yeah look at that's like a beacon out
38:33
there of
38:35
sorts and this is right next to the Old
38:38
Time
38:39
Diner which is
38:41
located right over there I'm going to
38:43
get a Savory bite to eat yeah I'm
38:45
enjoying it I'm having a North Pole kind
38:47
of day NP kind of day and no problem
38:51
kind of day an NP North Pole kind of
38:54
day I don't know what I where I was
38:56
going with that
38:58
but man I'm feeling good loving this
39:01
trip now so glad I'm not
39:15
driving pretty cute little place
39:15
definitely got that old school Diner
39:17
kind of feel they're playing a lot of
39:19
Johnny Cash I think every other song in
39:22
there was Johnny Cash and the cooks were
39:23
singing singing along with it which is
39:25
really kind of a neat little vibe ended
39:27
up getting chili well I got coffee big
39:29
cup of coffee I got chili with onions
39:32
and cheese and I also got Alaskan cod
39:35
fry I didn't get any fries but I got the
39:38
Alaskan cod quaint little diner Little
39:40
Richard's Diner here in NP
39:44
Alaska in the pole of the
39:47
north all right I think I'm going to
39:50
start heading out of this area start
39:52
getting back over to Fairbanks where I'm
39:54
staying this evening
40:01
I that chili warmed me up and the coffee
40:01
definitely warmed me up coffee and the
40:03
chili was really
40:05
good it was like 3798 for everything I
40:08
noticed the prices are a little inflated
40:10
here versus other areas of the US but
40:13
that's I guess a standard for like you
40:14
know local
40:17
seafood what do I I don't know I don't
40:19
really know how much Seafood is
40:53
it's hard to believe the sun is about to
40:53
go
40:55
down not a lot of daylight here at this
40:58
time of the year in
40:59
Alaska it's like not even 3:00 and the
41:02
Sun is only going to be up another hour
41:04
all right didn't think I was going to be
41:05
able to get back into Fairbanks in fact
41:09
from where I was which was on the
41:10
outskirts of North Pole I ordered an
41:13
Uber there wasn't any then I canceled it
41:16
ordered another one tried that waited a
41:18
while that didn't happen turned the app
41:20
off turned it back on there were none
41:23
called a taxi they go oh we're going to
41:25
get a hold of the driver they're going
41:27
to get a hold of you just wait where
41:29
you're at so I was waiting right there
41:31
in that last place I showed by that
41:33
little metal dinosaur right there on the
41:35
outskirts about a mile or two on the
41:37
outskirts of North Pole wait there for
41:40
about half hour never heard from a
41:42
driver I was next to a like a liquor
41:46
store or something people were coming in
41:47
and out of there I thought about just
41:49
asking someone hey can you give me a
41:50
ride to Fairbanks I'll give you a few
41:51
dollars or give you some money take me
41:53
over there and as I was about to do that
41:55
I turn around and there is a taxi never
41:59
got a hold of me they just showed up
42:01
from the dispatch they said they were
42:03
going to call me never did I was like
42:06
woo thank you I thought I might not I
42:08
might be walking the 15 20 miles back
42:12
over to
42:14
Fairbanks thankfully it worked out I
42:17
went to the North Pole I saw Santa Claus
42:19
I got this and I uh enjoyed some food at
42:23
a diner Sun's going down
42:27
Alaska is pretty much on Bankers hours
42:29
when it comes to sunlight not a lot of
42:31
sunlight sun comes up around 10:00 sets
42:33
around 4 or 5 actually little before 5
42:37
that's going to do it for today thanks
42:38
for watching I'll see you in the next
42:39
video the