La Brea Tar Pits - Prehistoric Excavation Site and Museum in Los Angeles
A visit to the La Brea Tar Pits and Museum in Los Angeles California . Lots of animatronics , skeletons and history .
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welcome everyone Adam Zulu here coming
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to you from the site of the La Brea Tar
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Pits a very unusual let's just call it
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an attraction here in Los Angeles
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California tar bubbling up from the
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ground in the middle of a city now I
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have stood at this premises before I
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have just touched the tip of the iceberg
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if you will but I have never dug deep
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down the rabbit hole and showed the
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detailed insides of the museum and what
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this place has to offer I want to do
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that today
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join me shall you hidden trap see how
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leaves and twigs conceal the tars sticky
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surface one false step and this hidden
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trap could be your demise just look
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under the surface of those leaves
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that's tar down there a 1914 photo shows
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this gentleman looking deep down into it
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and she says deep down there a mammoth
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find how did 27 Colombian mammoths fit
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in this small pit that's a good question
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how the heck did they project 23 happens
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behind this enclosed gate off-limits to
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the public there's some photos of some
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of the recent fossil finds a few crates
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over there wonder what's inside this oh
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here we go
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this explains that each wooden crate
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before you contains fossils that were
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found a few hundred yards from here
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during parking lot construction and
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there are some animated examples of how
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they went about excavating them and
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they're just behind this fence already
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starting to get down into the the
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slickness this is a little slicker than
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it look one of those are my feet prints
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I kind of slid across it's not regular
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dirt or mud it's a lot slicker that
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looks it three and four it's almost like
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a mosquito netting down in here it
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almost looks like a reptile or a snake
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there on the ground that's weird that's
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its own little camping tent set up and
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behind it just to the right is a big
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pool of char no two pits are alike
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starts off with underground pressure
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then asphalt losses upward active seeps
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form surface pools
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and lastly gas bubbles check that out
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even in modern age today there are some
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air pockets some bubbles of tar popping
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up towards the surface the very folks
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there Gus you gotta be patient it
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doesn't happen often there's some
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statues built out here give you the
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ambiance the experience of what it was
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like you know way back in the day Oh
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you can see the remnants oh there was
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another one
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pretty cool it's so interesting how this
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is all happening next to a main
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thoroughfare you see the traffic over
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there just driving by at normal speed as
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if as if nothing was happening
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off to their side
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pay no attention to the tar coming out
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of the ground or the air bubbles
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protruding out of the floor of the earth
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the museum opened in 1977 but it dates
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back even farther than that in 1875 the
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first fossil conformation was found in
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the photograph you're looking at is what
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we're standing in front of at the moment
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this is the GU glossary what is the odor
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I'm smelling the rotten egg odor is
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hydrogen sulfide and what is the goo
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made of the tar is asphalt
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the lowest grade of crude oil asphalt is
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left over after crude oils lighter
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elements like kerosene have evaporated
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you can really see it good from this
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angle
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something you don't see every day as
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certain parts of the country you can't
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stand out in an open field and see this
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back in 1968 they drove these gigantic
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reproductions down the freeway here they
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are
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than hanging out here for decades and
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decades this little guy this little guy
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down here what's happening you're a cute
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one
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you haven't grown that's the late
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sixties
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maybe the stars a makeshift Fountain of
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Youth bounce ahead inside the museum now
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first thing your grace with is these two
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huh they're being friendly hopefully
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that's a friendly tussle George see
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Paige
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his name graces the awning a sloth
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I've heard of a southpaw I've never
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heard of a sloth yeah but it gives you
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an idea how beats yes it is and this is
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part of a sloth also that is and that is
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real and what part is what part of the
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sloth is that that is the femur just to
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keep him standing strong there's these
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strings while they're like metal ropes
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holding them up I'm sure it's very heavy
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probably heavier than you would think it
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would be discover what it's like to be
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trapped in tar they want me to grab the
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handle you look down in there all right
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I'm gonna grab the handle oh yes I'm
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trying to pull it out and it's like oh
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my goodness that is like
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that is very difficult to turn try it
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with the other hand okay this hands a
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little this is a little looser but oh
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there we go there we go oh my gosh this
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is like yeah it's a lot of restriction
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here lot of restriction American
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Mastodon was the last survivor of a
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primitive group of animals that were
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ancestors of the elephant there they are
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the mastodons I've heard of you
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you could see the adult the tusks um way
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out where the infant or the younger
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version he has teeny tiny tusks is the
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older you get the the bigger your tusks
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grow
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how cool is app didn't realize that
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certain camels went extinct but this one
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did its head was larger its limbs were
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longer and joints Navi ur than the
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modern camel this head is way up there
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that's a camel and here is its jaw
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that's the extinct camels jaw and
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another piece there but this has a piece
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of plant fragment you can see the little
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designating arrow showing where the
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piece of plant was ooh
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California a saber tooth at those teeth
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an antique bison I would have guessed
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that was a bison
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how old does something have to be to be
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designated and antique bison this is the
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full torso and body of the saber tooth
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and the jaw muscles there there's the
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brain that the brain yeah I think that's
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supposed to represent the the brain and
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the different colors the blue is for
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smelling the yellow is for feeling shows
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the different sensory organs of the
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brain dwarf pronged antelope I mean that
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little guy's cute but seeing just the
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insides of his face not so cute this
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little guy is known as a dung beetle
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imagine if he went to like flusher
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toilet and not only was you know what
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normally is in a commode was there but
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also one of these dung beetles hanging
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out
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Colombian mammoths left tusks the sky's
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name is Zed he has been named Zed
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Zed's I have to Zeds Dead States here
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that he was found during construction of
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an underground parking lot on the west
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side of Hancock Park which says the
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premises that this museum is located on
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you can see that someone has inscribed
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the word mammoth tusks well they have
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scratched out the T but it says mammoth
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tusks the Shasta ground sloth not a
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hundred percent sure what the Shasta
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refers to first thing I think of is the
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soda beverage and there's nothing
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stating on the inscription why they got
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the name Shasta small ground sloth had a
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tubular shaped snout and fewer teeth
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than the large sloth wonder if he lost
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his T cuz he drank too much shasta if
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this still had its flesh and meat on it
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it would be fifteen thousand pounds
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imagine that thing just like charging
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towards you
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be be quite the quite this quite besides
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standing
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12 feet tall
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to look closely you can see you see
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where his teeth are or were right up
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there get down in the nooks and crannies
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of his mouth almost looks like the
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bottom of astronauts feet where
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Wow notice how they're bent or out I
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guess they got so long
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similar to fingernails you ever see the
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photos of
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people who grow their fingernails out
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really long they start to twist and turn
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I guess tusks they're also kind of fall
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out of that category the section
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designates birds you see the vulture
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feeding its youth and they also behind
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this is this is pretty cool they have
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you know the artistic renderings it
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shows you the wingspan of what each of
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these creatures look like you know in
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real life and then their skeleton in
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front yeah look at this yeah look at
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this one
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that's a neat way to definitely display
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and show show what they used to look
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like
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lots of friendship happening on this
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little mural Oh everyone's friends here
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like now they're playing a game of tag
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and they're playing a little game a tag
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they're you know he's just just hanging
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around he hasn't seen him in a while I
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just wanted to say hey how's it going
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long time no see buddy
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they're all friends here one could say
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friendship is part of the Dan tan
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tan-tan these wolves are in a
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single-file line
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this one's charging rather intently I
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think there might have been a couple of
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year in front of their painted
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counterparts but they've been they've
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either been removed or they have escaped
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ooh you okay buddy all right he looks
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cold you look sick
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oh my gosh she does not look doesn't
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look healthy so many of these wolf heads
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15 high nearly 20 across you do the math
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that's a heck of a lot of wolf heads
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they look all similar but they're
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probably different in their own in their
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own ways
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it's a strange exhibit just a wall of
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wolf heads here's an aerial view an
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aerial view of the museum right down
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inside there currently I entered through
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here and now I'm somewhere oh no there's
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a little internal like a veranda I think
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I'm back down in here somewhere at the
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moment I wonder if I can go into there
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that'd be cool
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oh there's the there's the mammoth stuck
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in the stuck in the tower known as the
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American lion this feline was closely
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related to the to the living Jaguar
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he's staring at me click mean-mugging me
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part of a carnivore skull taken from box
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13 at the project 27 that's all broken
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up at this station we are conducting
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repair and conservation work on fossil
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specimens by mean of an adhesive called
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Polaroid b72
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I'm trying to match up turtle shell
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fragments from at our pet project 23
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these fossil shells are 30,000 years old
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the inner workings of a museum not just
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displace it's an act of working
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paleontologists laugh oh my goodness
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what the heck is going on over here
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this animatronic is simulating this
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tiger just going to town on the sloth
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kind of scary what a children coming
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through here on
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a little chores and school trips it's
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kind of scary I mean if I was if I'm the
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kid and I saw this it's Tiger bowing
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down on a sloth noggin
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that'd be like nightmare fuel entire
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family this is an entire saber-tooth cat
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family
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I think we have a staredown going on
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my contact has been made
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I don't know what's happening here
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perched up on the top of that limb
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yeah he just perched up there I don't
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know who's trying to get to who is he
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trying to get to her where she trying to
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get to him the mysteries of science
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those relics are in a chunk of ice at
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least I think that's what that's
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supposed to simulate
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an attempt to go outside now I think I
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can go out here
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well maybe not oh wait yeah it is
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accessible feels like it's outside but
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in fact it's indoors it's an atrium
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simulates simulates being outside but
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the elements do not get to you there is
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a roof kind of reminds me feels like I'm
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in the biodome Polly Shore Stephen
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Baldwin or even Tenacious D which is the
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first time I ever saw them was in that
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film or around here anywhere it's some
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similar to this and inside of course as
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most places have there is a gift shop
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box water for sale
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seems like box water is starting to take
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over because it's healthier than what is
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contained inside plastic or cans or you
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can just put your water in one of these
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as you're shopping you can look out the
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window it's the fish that are feeding
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out there if you want to party down got
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some shot glasses if that's your full
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attack of course of course the sloths
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are just sitting around keep moving guys
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come on you'll feel a lot better if you
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just start becoming active must be
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ambidextrous or not ambidextrous before
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we like bend backwards and the Dexter
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yes not double-jointed double-jointed
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hanging around my neck I can never do
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that I would get get an arm grab the
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circle of life or oh no no get away from
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the circle of life the circle the circle
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of our Oh get out of here
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get out of here no I got to be in here
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gotta be in here somewhere
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and getting closer
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I'm in the A's gotta be here oh oh here
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it is nice focus
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that's better back outside now and I'm
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just noticing at the top of that grassy
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hill appears to be stairs I think you
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can look down into the atrium Oh check
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that out the admission to the museum is
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$15 there are some other experiences
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that you can pay extra a three-d show
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but basic admission $15 to walk on the
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property however everyone in the
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background was looking down into you
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know the lake of Tar Pits that's all
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free so you can come out here wander
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around if you want to go in the museum
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it's just under $20 alright made it to
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the top yeah this is awesome
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it looks as if I was moderately
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kinda-sorta incorrect what I was saying
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earlier it's not in close as you can see
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I was down there but that couple is
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walking thinking that it was all
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enclosed within reality it's open air
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the elements can get in now from above
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there is a roof so you won't get rained
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on
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wait no I'm wrong I am completely
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incorrect there is no roof there's no
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glass up there
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it was fooled my eyes my eyes play
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tricks on me it's completely open to the
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elements
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I've been wrong before and I will be
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wrong again to see you down there see
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you down there
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are you trying to hide you can't hide
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hiding in the shadows see that koi fish
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like a chameleon
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doesn't want to be in the Sun he's
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hiding in the shade but he's down there
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I really like it here this section is
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also free so if you could find a place
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to park nearby you just wander up here
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stand on that overlook over there
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and look down into the greenery here the
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waterfall
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perfectly for photo opportunities spoil
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that kid just fell I think that little
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kid just about fell on the rocks
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certain areas are blocked off but others
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there is tar coming out of just normal
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spots they have placed these cones over
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the top so you don't trip on it there's
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some more there it's just a big pile of
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tar coming out of the ground and
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sometimes people will pick it up with a
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stick and they'll wipe it on the side of
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things like this tree you can see it
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smeared all down the side of the tree
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this one as well this bust has been
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erected for Captain G Allan Hancock and
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the land that all this is on is known as
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Hancock Park named after this guy Oh
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I've just now noticed he even has
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a little piece of wax bests tuning from
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his nose
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I thought his nose was running someone
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has smeared wax on his face I'm sorry
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buddy I apologize for four people's
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thought process I also realize I
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referred to the mucus emulation as wax
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and not tar is it the same thing I don't
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think it's the same thing please do not
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wait in the stream I would recommend
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following those rules because that is
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not the most crystal clear water
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entering pit 91 which is a historic
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excavation site the treacherous goo
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oh wow there's a ladder you can climb
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down into that sticky mess it almost
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looks like an elevator as well
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yeah you climb the ladder into the
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elevator and then
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that makeshift I guess that's an
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elevator goes down deep into the ground
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appears to be some oh yeah there's some
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relics in there look closely there's
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some some bones and relics
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just floating around in that do over off
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to the side you can see some of the
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tools of the trade just shovel ya bunch
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of shovels a pickaxe what are we finding
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here at pit 91 a swath a direwolf a
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Western horse and a saber-tooth cat
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I guess that's what's down there
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remnants of all four of those animals
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that's gonna do it for today from Los
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