Altitude Warning At 3 Miles Up Mountain - My Pikes Peak Cog Railway Experience / Jax Seafood House
Pikes Peak Railroad Summer 2023
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welcome everyone out of the Wu here as
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the recording of this it is Monday July
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24
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2023 I am in Pueblo Colorado still going
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to be making a commute today from here
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up to Pike's Peak to take the Pikes Peak
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Railway up to the top of a very high
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mountain train ride good views and who
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knows whatever the heck else I discover
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my family's going with me and I'm
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inviting you to also join me
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shall we all right I made the hour
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commute there's a dinosaur up there
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top of that ledge you can faintly see
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the dino made out of metal
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only three blocks to the Cog Railway
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this particular real
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train is going to be a cog train
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there is the Cog
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railroad Depot the parking is twenty
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dollars for four
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and a half hour street parking you pay
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for this little
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little item over here so twenty dollars
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got parking till 6 pm
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ours departs at 2 40. they said we'll be
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back down by six so leaving at 240. you
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will be back down the mountain
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by 6 p.m parking ends
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I think it's 45 minutes up you get an
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hour up there and then another 45
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minutes to an hour down the Mana towel
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Cog Railway at the Broadmoor Pike's Peak
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we're just train engine number three an
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old photo here
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looks like it's an incline railroad of
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sorts
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hey we're gonna be going really really
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high 14 000 feet so they're giving an
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altitude warning here you'll be
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traveling 14
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115 feet I think I said 100 above sea
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level regardless of your age and fitness
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level lightheadedness
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a disorientation can occur at this
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elevation If you experience these
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symptoms
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you may be experiencing altitude
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sickness
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so the National Historic mechanical
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engineering Landmark list
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Railway was able to overcome the
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exceptional steep grades of Pikes Peak
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up to 25 percent
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that's a steep grade
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Yeah by employing me
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genius propulsion system of Roman at
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there's a little seating area in here in
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the waiting room
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you know a little bit about grades
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you nine gray for a trucker is pretty
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steep right yeah you want to be careful
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of the nine grade we're going at a 25
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grade that's pretty steep that's 90.
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so a quarter of a grade
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yeah
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there's a steamer shop over here
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some of the merchandise out front
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summer sale
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gosh it is kind of warm I don't know if
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you want to wear a
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hoodie right now but these little
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warnings are pretty much
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everywhere these little washboard signs
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Sasquatch saw me nobody believes him
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elevation 14
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000 feet
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there's an adventure shirt elevation
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fourteen thousand
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Pikes peace Peaks weather
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37 degrees up there
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windshield 24 conditions sunny it's
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gonna be 37 degrees
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all the way up there
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definitely not 37 degrees down here
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right over here near the parking area
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where we parked the street parking
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this says Manitou and Pikes Peak
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railroad station the highest elevation
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rack Railway
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and at the 8.9 miles is the second
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longest in the world the only railroad
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type
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west of the Mississippi Iraq Railway has
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a center Cog rail
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called Iraq that enables trains to climb
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at steep inclines
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Millions have ridden the 8 000 feet up
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to the Pike Peak Summit
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Railway opened in 1891. there's a fly on
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my on my hand it's a fly right on my
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hand but it was it flew off
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there it is it's right there there's a
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fly
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there's a fly right there it was on my
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forehead I could be in troll too
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it's a deep cut and we're also taking a
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few waters with us everyone's got a
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couple Waters each well one water each
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taking these over to my mom and dad was
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so sure Ryan already have theirs take a
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look at this
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right here
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's the water for you
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he's got some pressed pennies here a lot
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of attractions have these
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take this train up the mountain
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where am I anyway
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that is hot
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oh it's open air on the side
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if you feel on your journey today again
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all seating is a sign put all the
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barcodes on your tickets you will find
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your car number phone number and seat
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whatever you're gonna be on track number
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two you know you're in the right place
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if you can see me talking if you can't I
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don't really know what to tell you
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ads for the trip looking to our favorite
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part rules
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yay we're going up 14 115 feet today
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what that means if you think for any
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reason you are not safe you know
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elevation got high talk to me or my
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ticket oh work something out that also
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means it's gonna be colder up there it's
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still comfortable but please bring a
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jacket or something else just so you
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know you're nice and comfortable
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pulling away from the station
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probably frowned upon to give her a high
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five as I go by so I'm just not gonna do
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that
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we're already at 7 000
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but I shouldn't be leaving
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rings
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yep the train is passing I think I can
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get a honk I think I can get a honk
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all right thanks I'm just doing a wave
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got it
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look at that
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it worked either that or he just does it
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automatically even if no one's doing
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Hotel was no joke everyone had 22 rooms
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at all a post office a real resistance
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the whole hotel that burned down look
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for the halfway house sign
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somewhere over here all that's left is a
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sign oh it's right here that's it
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I was like thinking it'd be a little
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more hidden than that
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I was looking over in the woods
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up up
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High Falls
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get ready right here Pike Falls
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OH pipe Falls just a super pipe no no
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it's like a that's not a sewer pipe it's
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just a pipe with the water not sewer
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water
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pipe water
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all right there are definitely more than
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two of these
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there's another one
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one that was parked we passed another
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one that was active and here's another
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actor
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ah I got another one
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another one
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approaching 10 000 feet
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elevation
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all the old carts right there four four
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thousand more to go
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1800s
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came up here
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I was so enamored by The View
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but she went home and wrote the words
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that became America the Beautiful
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Oh beautiful for spacious guys for amber
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waves of gray purple Mountain's majesty
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above the fruited flame were written
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which she looked out over here it went
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to the top of Pikes Peak
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Inspiration Point
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all right we're stopping again so this
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is like the third or fourth one so there
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are there's a constant flow of these
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up inside up on top of the up and down
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the side of the mountain whereas the
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mountain goats
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it goes
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it's like a Big Thunder Mountain yes
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000 plus feet
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yeah there's the Zebulon Montgomery Pike
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marker there see if I can zoom in on
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Pike's Peak it is brisk
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cold up here there's another marker down
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there
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is this the highest up you've ever been
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yep
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1400 feet we went to Crested Butte we
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hiked up to about 11 11 500 this is
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no you know what Grand Canyon will be on
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the road it was about 12 000.
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we're about
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so which that's uh
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problem
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no that would be Pueblo
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wind Wells way over there about 40
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degrees colder than where we were
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feels great I love it nice and brisk
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this is the orientation map layout of
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the land
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and there's a gift shop up here
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as well I guess
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he has a donut shop up here at this
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really kind of popular if they have any
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coffee but look who else hiked up here
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fourteen thousand one hundred fifteen
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feet look over here in the corner
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this really is amazing up here
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get enough time to get a piping hot
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caffeinated beverage at 14
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000 feet gotta head back over to the
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trend they only leave up here for like a
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half hour now they do have a museum up
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here
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with some certain things the Museum's
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over there
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but honestly so they have exhibits but
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really it's you don't really have a lot
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of time to look at them by the time you
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get up here kind of walk around the gift
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shop and wait in line if I took like 10
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minutes
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to get coffee they were saying oh the
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Train's Gonna Leave 10 minutes earlier
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than we expected so they're already
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making the final call for
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let me run here through here real quick
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there's kind of some information about
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it here
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reaching the top used to be able to come
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up here by mules here's a man in 1900
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that snapped a photo from the rocky
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Cliffs
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right here good old Pike's Peak look at
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this guy right here
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it's an Old Prospector
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Prospectors hoped to fight in the
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fortunes on the slopes of Pike's Peak
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this guy means business look he's got
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his trusty Hound with him right next
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right there
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look at that guy that it really there's
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probably not a cooler guy on Earth than
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this guy at 1800 right here look at this
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got his pickaxe he's got the cabin
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he's got his trusty best friend by his
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side
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with some of the local Wildlife you see
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around here
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original Summit House
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73.
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yeah we really like to explore a little
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bit up here but uh
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not in the car
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in the car how long do you think we were
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actually up here
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you could drive up here drive a hike I'd
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rather hike all the way up here
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so I am drinking coffee up here but I
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also changed my mind on the magnet I got
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and I got a coffee good for your soul
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you know the high ball chime change very
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quickly I apologize for that as a way
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for me to say sorry to you if you do
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currently have any food on you or
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anything feel free to eat it
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it's getting better with every moment
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all right so by the time got back on I
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had to chug this she just knocked on the
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window of the conductor and said make
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sure you polish that off in two minutes
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I'm paraphrasing but yeah I got my help
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me finish the coffee
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it feels like 14 000 feet up in the air
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coffee excuse me actually it's not bad
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I didn't put a lot of I didn't put a lot
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of sweetener in it that's why
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it's just pretty much like black with
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like one squirt of the stove all right
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I've polished It Off
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to get in the bag here make sure you're
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not gonna yell at me anymore she comes
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in and you make sure you tell her
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she'd rather just hike up here and then
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take the train again yeah absolutely
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it's the sun in your eyes
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we can do that tomorrow Bob we can hike
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up here
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she's dumping coffee out look she's
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making the rounds and dumping and
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dumping the coffee house literally
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no coffee she's gonna be like she's
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gonna know she's gonna say you're the
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one you're the one that I told you to
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drink the coffee on the way and finish
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the cookies from the box
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I finished it she's gonna be like
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where's that coffee
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cups
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that would be awkward
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okay everyone please go ahead and start
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to find your seats thank you if we have
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anyone on board who did not ride up with
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us as well I'm talking to you hikers
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anyone who drive up here get off my
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train
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I'm not saying that because I just like
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you or nothing I'm just letting you know
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high ball
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is that you have the right away you can
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have a driver
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driver's like up there so he switches
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sides obviously
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I'm going to be going through to take
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account of who we currently have on
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board you can all do me a small flavor
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I'm sure all children are very clear and
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easy to see any open scene
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I guess we're already moving doesn't
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matter now
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I'm gonna do my princess wave
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there's a guy up there doing it too we
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are three miles closer to the Sun than
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he would be in Florida
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think about that
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see you later Pikes Peak you were fun
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for about 18 minutes
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probably like seven and a half
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seriously we came down here
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oh no it's a black crow
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I think it was singing hey little thing
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you light your candle because the mama
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show up to hanana mess around that's
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what those things well that's what I
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wear oh no oh that's just a puddle
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what are those things called they're
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called Barman varmints
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I want to see a Mormon in the in the
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wild
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on the way up there on the other side of
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the train
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I saw some goats yeah they were over
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14
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000 three mile up goes
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I forgot to mention so Ryan was telling
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me that this little road right here
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which is used for the employees to drive
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up and also guests can drive up here but
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some of it takes a couple hours
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depending on you know the winding roads
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used in Fast and the Furious 7.
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some say the best of the Fast and the
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Furious films is the seven of any
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franchise in Sequel as always the
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seventh
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there's Vin Diesel and was The Rock in
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that one I don't know I've
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been yeah
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I've never seen a passive appearance but
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I've been on the back lot of Universal
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Studios Hollywood and one thing I know
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that Vin Diesel says very well when the
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trams not moving I'm going to say it to
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the trainers driver move that vehicle
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stop listening
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it's got Cookie Puss
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y
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Vin Diesel the rock says that Fitness
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would never say that I mean diesel says
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driver move that vehicle so much emotion
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it's an acting in his face and his voice
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my favorite Vin Diesel roll
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new giant he provided the voice of The
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Iron Giant
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oh Pitch Black was good yeah kind of
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reminds me of The Sound of Music up here
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too yeah I get picture Clark Griswold
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down there
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the hills are alive
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with the sound of
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Criswell so there it is what movie was
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the Marvin
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it's not it's in Big Lebowski because
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he's like it's not
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a wow
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what I like about this bab you take it
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home it's gonna tie the room together
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just ties it'll tie the room together
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all right this looks really cool like
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Cliffs down there then you got the trees
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Valley
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and who knew there was this like Lake up
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miles
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what was the elevation that there's no
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more trees grow yeah it's usually around
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3 600 feet I think he's just Timberline
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it's different at making something
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so the Timberline Lodge is above where
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the tempers would grow
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okay that's interesting I never knew
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that at a certain point trees won't grow
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I guess that does make sense there's not
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enough oxygen up here also if you ever
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do this they do not sell the oxygen
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because we're using
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sell the oxygen
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you buy it
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so my dad told me that steaks will not
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go past a certain elevation what
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elevation deck and the snakes
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I don't remember the
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it's called The Snake line the snake
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line the snakey line snake line snake
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mine the snake walk
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you hear about that on the snake line
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hello
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looking it up 11
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000. really so there's no snakes up here
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what do those marmots eat
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the Marvin's and Mormons what do they
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eat
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they don't eat snakes tough to see them
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but there is a marmot down there
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what if we got back down to like the
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9800 foot and all of a sudden there's
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just like a row of snakes there's like a
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there's like a Congregation of snakes
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that was us waiting earlier to go up now
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they're we have the right away
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and down
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hit me all of a sudden
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I think Starbucks is missing out on
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having their pikes place
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up the top of Pike's Peak
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genius
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part right hikes Pike's Place at Pike's
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Peak
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I think actually Starbucks caught he's
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had Starbucks Coffee what was better
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Starbucks coffee or the coffee up there
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mom has this thing where she crunches
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the water bottles but still puts the top
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back on
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it doesn't expand these fans like an
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accordion
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so playing you can just send one of
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those down
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carry it on you'd have a trooper
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December for Christmas time
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that's like a not to use a Chevy Chase
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Trapper that's like a Griswold Christmas
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Vacation style tree
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pretty steep
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the tumble and fell out of here
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it's been back down where we just were
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so we're in 1400 yeah we're now we're at
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10. going back down to six
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past the
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caretaker's house
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for the winter time we have a real Jack
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Torrance moment
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everyone who would have thought we made
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it back safely
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I must repeat
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in the office
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and thank you for riding I hope you
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enjoyed the super sergeant and welcome
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back to the bottom of America's favorite
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bounce to everyone
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looks like they're putting our train
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away
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that was the last one of the night at
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least the last one or at least the last
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one to party from here there might still
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be another one halfway I think there was
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I think as we passed one going up but no
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more departures today also the price of
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the one that we did was I think 70 71
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dollars per seat because we have to
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choose our seats so we all sat together
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they're fifty dollar seats but they just
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seat you wherever you don't get to
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choose your seat so we did the 70 per
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person and now driving through town
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we're gonna head over about six seven
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miles from here
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to a seafood
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Mana towel or Mana two
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oh there's a Bigfoot gifts right there
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in Sasquatch gifts someone had the
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bright idea to open a gift shop for
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bigfoot right here at this level is a
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mermaid
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OCTA mermaid on the side the side of
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this building on the top of the roof
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OCTA mermaid they're on the modern
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warehouse store your goods here
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downtown now
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check out this theater over here the
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Peaks Kimball's Twin Peak theater
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pretty cool
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some murals all downtown
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where's this place called Jax JX Fish
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House
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an oyster bar we're gonna get some fish
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we're all in the mood for a little
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Seafood here in Colorado Springs
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so we're gonna go in here get some food
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all right so we just realized all the
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tables inside
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only whole four people it was only one
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or two tables to hold five this is gonna
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be an hour and a half wait for the table
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of five but they had seats outside so we
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just sat down outside they brought us
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the menus and
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don't have to wait the hour and a half
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look at the seasonal entrees here
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we have a North Carolina catfish black
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indoor fried
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it's like a zucchini and arugula
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and his drink menu has a fish on the
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front of it here the skeleton of a fish
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yeah you can end up getting a West Coast
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oyster or an East Coast oyster the East
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Coast one's called the Cracker Jack
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oyster which is a new one look he's
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given like the peace sign the Cracker
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Jack oyster right this is what we're
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dealing with squash this is zucchini and
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arugula
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black and catfish right here thank you
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is that salmon yes it looks good
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you got the black and catfish oh yeah I
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got the fry catfish fried catfish yeah
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they've got the wedge salad yeah
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what else did you get tuna you got the
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tuna and I also ordered some of the
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Cracker Jack oysters fries
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look at this pretty good this is
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probably not too too horrible calorie
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wise not getting the fried in the grill
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thank you so much thank you
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we've gone to Outback a couple times
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this is tuna
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onion
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tater tot it's an onion Tater top all
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right
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to try
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that's a little kick to it a little
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spice to it on the catfish
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the only reason I really tried to get it
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is because they had the Little mascot
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down here
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and that sold me on it and I tried to
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eat more oysters so I can get like
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acclimated to them I've had them like
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three times in my life so this would be
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the fourth draw one face yeah anybody
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else want one or is just me and her
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um let's see what faith says you're
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gonna pass I'm gonna pass over the
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oysters okay
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I'm gonna take that big old sloppy one
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take it right there just put it on there
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there you go I have no idea you put a
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little bit of this on there too all
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right hot sauce or something yeah
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it's got horseradish in there
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is
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yeah they're actually weren't that bad
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I think the horseradish and the other
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stuff covers the taste up
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that's a little taste to it does all
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Porsche type of taste
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yeah it's like a tastes like chicken all
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right I would recommend Jack's Fish
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House and Oyster Bar in Colorado Springs
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pretty dang good sat out on the balcony
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just keep in mind they do not have
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tables more than four there's only two
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in there so you gotta wait a while for
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one but yeah pretty good we sat out on
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the a little Lanai I'd like to discuss
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the business on the Lanai but I will eat
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Seafood this is Hank
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Pike's Peak or bus rodeo
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Hank is the cowboy that's promoted
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Pike's Peak
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Rodeo since 1939 he's reading on
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a paper or something
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maybe a map trying to figure out where
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he's going
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to outside
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old Hank
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Pike's Peak or bust
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that was us today
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really trying to get the Pike's piece
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and we did it
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I'll see the next video the Vlog
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it's over