Rainy Day In Gatlinburg At Donut Friar & Sky Ride - Anakeesta Tree Walk / SkyBridge Park Tulip Tower
Gatlinburg TN November 2022
Transcript
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how's the recording of this Monday
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November 7 2022 it is a little overcast
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here in Gatlinburg Tennessee where we'll
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be spending the day
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is there someone behind me there it is
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someone walking up behind me I didn't I
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thought this was a desolate road because
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this is abandoned
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this little Sky ride right here was a
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area called Fun Mountain and you can see
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that right up top here
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is the remnants of the old
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little gears
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and whatnot up top you can see it's all
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grown over with the vines right up there
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and all the years I've been coming here
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like 10 years this has never been open
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there's a raccoon or a squirrel just
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crossing the road down there look or I
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don't know what that is I think it's oh
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it's a dog
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I don't know what it is
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nonetheless
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skyrides ski lifts even though this was
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closed are gonna be the topic of today's
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video from Gatlinburg Tennessee I'm
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inviting you
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I was not expecting someone to walk out
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of that tunnel
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but they did join me shall you you can
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see the old wooden stairs leading up to
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the base of this
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this is a located at a parking area that
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I usually will frequent I park at one
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side of Gatlinburg Gatlinburg is very
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walkable I should also add Pigeon Forge
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you kind of need to drive or take the
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trolley but the parking area is right
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over here there's these like former
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stanchions
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right here that have kind of been ripped
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out from where The Sky Ride was but I
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want to do a bunch of Sky rides today
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I'm going to meet up with some friends
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here that are locals to the area
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hopefully they are on board
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even though the weather is very
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inclemented it is raining right now
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drizzling
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hopefully some of the sky rides are open
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anakista is what I want to do and the
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ski lift Sky ride up to the world's
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longest pedestrian Sky Bridge both of
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those and then whatever else happens and
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speaking of the trolleys over there
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there's one pulling up there welcome to
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Gatlinburg this is one of the original
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Cabins in Gatlinburg over here
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still underneath this parking structure
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now now there doesn't seem to be a whole
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heck of a lot of guests up on the little
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Skylift
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ski ride ski lift whatever you want to
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refer to it as
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but it might be kind of fun to be up
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there in the Misty Rain of the
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overcastness up here the Smoky Mountains
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or could take one of these Gondola
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chandalas I believe they print they
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spell them chandela here in Gatlinburg
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as opposed to Gondola I always call them
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gondolas but those right there would
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kind of shield from the inclement
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weather if I decided to go that option
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but I'm gonna go up the side of this
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mountain this is anakista up this way
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now one thing I've learned with this
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area pancakes are a hot and popular
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commodity look at the line over there
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for that pancake place on the corner but
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I'm gonna stop in here to the Village to
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go to the donut fryer to get myself a
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coffee
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also look how I'm gonna be hanging out
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with today Yankee in the South Dawn and
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will will and Dawn I asked where's a
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good place to get a cup of coffee what
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was your what was your answer donut
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fryer definitely did I call it the donut
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Prince I called donut princess and
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Burbank donut fryer are you a coffee
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drinker Dawn
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sometimes are you a coffee drinker will
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uh when it's cool out I will is this
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cool
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um I will today all right all right all
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right let's do it let's donut fryer it
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up back here in The Villages over here
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and they have the snowmen out so they
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they put stuff up for Halloween right
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yeah yeah so they do Halloween decor and
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they do Christmas no credit cards
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allowed inside the donut fryer but this
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is kind of a neat little place inside
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here in fact I don't even know if I've
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ever been in here in the past I'd like
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walked to see like the the Rain on My
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Lens I just probably should have wipe
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that off now last time I was in town I
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tried to come by here and the line was
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so long outside that I wasn't able to
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okay here's the here's the logo right
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down there I don't know should I should
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I get a dessert item too it's kind of I
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mean I haven't I haven't had any food
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yet today but they do have this white
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cream pillow over here and a little
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based donut over there as well I think
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I'm just going to get you guys gonna get
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donuts I don't know you got to go full
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you gotta go you want to get donuts you
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want to just going for the donuts should
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we get a donut we should get a donut in
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each baby
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we'll get a donut let's get a donut
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probably all have donuts oh I just I
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missed him over here look at this here's
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like a it's like a four three and a half
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to four foot little sculpture of the
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donut fryer itself right here
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is that a Baker's Dozen one two three
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four five six seven eight it has more
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than a maker's dozen there's probably
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like 20 Donuts on there
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so a Friar's dozen is like 20 Donuts as
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opposed to Baker's Dozen which is only
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13. actually I didn't really count all
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of them I just kind of guesstimated this
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is the fryer the smiley is the fryer
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special it has great it has to have
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cream inside of it of course I think I'm
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just gonna go with a regular glaze
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it used to be oh no Mr
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oh that used to be Mr Bill
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for this okay is this are you gonna eat
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this now uh we're gonna eat them now
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yeah and a cup of coffee also all right
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this is what we're dealing it's almost
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like a Hidden Mickey kind of Sword if
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those were like a well kind of sort of
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there's three of them there all right so
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there's our Donuts this is our coffee
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let's do a cheers here
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let's give it all the cheers hot cocoa
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and coffee and look over here there's
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snowman right here is that can you wear
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that it's like a costume it looks
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I like to walk
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I found an area where we're like out of
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the elements and out of the rain
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this reminds me of four years ago we
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were all at Dollywood and we shared the
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cinnamon bread remember that yeah
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it's all it's cracked up to be
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how's yours Don
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you want a plate
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I got my glazed does it have like paint
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fill under there yeah that's white cream
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so my idea today was Sky rides
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ski lifts and skyrise anakista and then
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the one that goes up to the world's
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largest
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Bridge yeah okay I just went inside and
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asked this is not for sale it's just for
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decoration only so sad shop out you are
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enjoying a piping hot caffeinated
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beverage right now will
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Don's having a hot chocolate or a hot
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cocoa you call it hot cocoa or do you
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call it hot chocolate hot chocolate hot
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chocolate hot cocoa I don't know what to
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refer to it as now once it you can go
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ahead yeah I'm just just showing there
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so she just had an umbrella that walked
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underneath there but after I've stated
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going up on the ski lifts and the sky
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rides now it is coming down in full
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precipitation mode right now
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so what would be a contingency plan for
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doing for this now will since you're a
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local I have heard stories about this
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tree so this is what I've been told by
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some of the locals around here that
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originally were going to tear this tree
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out and they had something called a sit
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in years and years ago to save the tree
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you know anything about that that's true
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it is true that's reason why that
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valuable available yeah
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um parking spots are Yeah by that tree
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that's pretty neat I always like
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confirming the things that I hear are
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true by other locals
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and you can see there's really not a
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whole heck of a lot of people on the
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sitting portion of the ski lift now the
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chandelas they call them chandels here
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not gondolas are completely full they
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said it's going to be an hour wait for a
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chandela that's crazy so what was our
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what was our answer no we'll just take
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the chair left yeah we'll take the chair
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lift up it's marine and it's a little
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wet we got our high knees are a little
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soaked yeah that's all that's fine it's
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all part of the experience for us yeah
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there's R2 down there and Vader you
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don't know the power of the Smoky
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Mountains
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all right I'm in the middle of both of
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you you just did an impression of me
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yeah what was it whatever you do don't
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look down it's pretty good she does it
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all the time I've been on this before
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and have seen a couple Bears maybe we'll
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see a bear today
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possibly
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you see a bear no but Lean Forward oh
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that is a pretty big drop actually the
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whole thing shifted when we all leaned
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over all three of us
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now this is not a drop-off section it
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says do not unload here it's also a no
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drone zone
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let's keep feet up get our feet up get
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our feet up get them up hit them up
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seen any bears
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all right we're on the lookout for Bears
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all right
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oh this thing is going back and forth
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look at this look at this it's like
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shaking back and forth
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the Bears
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someone has disrobed and thrown their
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clothes down there what is going on on
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the ski lift this is like the party this
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is like a party town
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right I don't know what happens in
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Gatlinburg stays in Gatlinburg is not to
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say I'm thinking of Vegas Vegas yeah
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take it to Vegas not everything stays in
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Gatlinburg but but right now it's a
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Monday some things make it out of
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Gatlinburg yeah some things maybe not
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good but you notice it's not that busy
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today because it's a Monday it's
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overcast and rainy but this weekend you
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know yesterday was Sunday day before
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Saturday
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Smoky Mountain Area was really busy but
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today it's kind of mellow it's kind of
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nice there's no one
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during during the week and stay away
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from the weekends oh inside tip with
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Yankee in the south
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yeah okay Don pointed out what I thought
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was a bear over here and I really did
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think it was a bear I didn't catch my
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reaction on camera because I didn't hit
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record quick enough but really it's a
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Bigfoot
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it's not big the foot
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that's my air freshener hanging in my
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car back in Florida
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but that is a SAT you call it Bigfoot
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here not Sasquatch or skunk ape right
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calm Bigfoot Bigfoot yeah that's uh or
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at least a artistic representation and
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the rambler's coming up the mountain I
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don't know it's the the sun is starting
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to pop out now though
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so maybe we won't take the Rambler down
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let's just I don't know do we take the
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Rambler down just to be part of the
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experience let's take the Rambler down
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I don't know you know what though I kind
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of like going back down the side of the
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mountain this is a ski lift video not a
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rambler video
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yeah even though I'm rambling
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is that where they drop them off right
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there no
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it's just like getting a Scenic View
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getting a photo op
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or they're out of gas
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there is a staircase down here
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the base of this hill I mean it's
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probably about an eight or seven eighths
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of the way up the mountain but there's a
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staircase well probably like 19 20th to
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the way up the mountain not a
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mathematician but
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look at this staircase leading up the
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side of the Hill
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into the haze so you're saying I'm not
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going to be able to get a very good view
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from up here because of the fog not
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today
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it could roll out though now if this was
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La this would be smog but this isn't
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smog prepare to unload raise bar get
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your Flintstone feet ready yeah we're
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gonna raise that bar here we go power's
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going on oh we're raising the bar up up
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now the water's dripping on us oh we did
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it oh is that a cabbage plant
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we got this three two one and go go go
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go go go go go go go go go go we did it
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that's always fun with this says when
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thunder roars go indoors stop all
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activities okay that's good to know it's
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raining now it's drizzling but there's
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no Thunder yet now when you reach the
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top up here there's this little village
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of sorts which is anakista proper that's
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the name of the area this is the cliff
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top section I really like this little
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building behind this here here's an elk
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and there's a bear up top here and here
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is an otter
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I always think of Dennis Leary's
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stand-ups talking about otters I'm an
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otter I swim around on my back I do cute
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little human things with my hands
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there's a squirrel over here this is not
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an animatronic that is a real oh hello
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squirrel next to the cabbage plant
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look at this squirrel
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so close
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hello squirrel
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oh he liked you for some reason I think
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oh I almost slipped down
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up I made it over too quick
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I almost slipped on that I almost I
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literally
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I almost just slipped I got a rope bird
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it's very slippery
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I almost got like a little rope bird
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here is it a slick
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were you gonna you were gonna about you
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were gonna bounce the bridge on me it
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was it's not me it's will I gotta say
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this is almost I don't like it's so
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slick on this wood right here am I the
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only one feeling the slickness of this
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right
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you could see through the slats here
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I don't really no I don't like this oh
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who's bouncing
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oh it is
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well
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just bump into me
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don't look down I'm not looking down I
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do love this tree canopy oh look there's
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someone going by on uh what do they call
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that zip line
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going through the woods
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that's pretty fun
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but this always reminds me of like the
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Ewok Village
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Return of the Jedi kind of because you
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have the tree canopies we're gonna start
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singing yub nub up here
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all right I'm attempting to go down
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without slipping because you have this
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like incline
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oh
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you definitely have like an incline here
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why are you bouncing so much
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I honestly don't even think we should be
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on this when it's this wet
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yeah it's like such a steady incline
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that you almost like will flip and fall
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there see look at this it's really kind
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of hard to tell on camera but look at
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the incline downward of this
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Slippery When Wet right there so I
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always tread really lightly I do have
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these little strips here that kind of
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help you know Shield the bottom of your
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shoes but that's still really slick like
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look there's no traction there you know
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what I need is a machete like in Indiana
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Jones and the Temple of Doom when he's
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on the bridge I'm Dr Jones and he's like
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hey
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okay
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did you ever see that movie yeah I've
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seen it a long time ago yeah it's like
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this reminds me of like an Indiana Jones
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Bridge
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did you bring a machete I didn't either
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they're probably not allowed up here
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it's probably frowned upon
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am I I'm not over exaggerating the
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slipperyness of this right oh no it is
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no it's very very slow very slippery I
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almost went down over there that would
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have made for a good video
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oh that's awesome
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look at that into this the haze
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wow that is a long zip line
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oh my gosh have you guys ever done the
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zip line no
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that's more my speed right there the
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Rambler yeah
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oh it goes way down the mountain it goes
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all the way to the bottom I thought
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there was like a station over here but
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look at there all the way over there
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oh my gosh that is awesome this whole
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thing's shaking
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this whole thing's shaking it has to
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move
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thank you
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this whole thing is shaking right now
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this is the tree wall so if you had to
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rate any Gatlinburg
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experience this is on your top this is
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your top this is the top one one of the
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top ones all right who's swaying this
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who is swaying this
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what it is not
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much well
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I don't know who to trust both of your
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smirks oh
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don't lean over the side
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oh my Lord why I've done this before but
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I haven't been in this like
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afraid of it because it wasn't wet and
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Slick like this giving you a taste of
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your own medicine giving you a taste of
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your own medicine right now
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see it was my mistake he said you go
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first
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gotta get up here just to kind of give
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an overview here this is where it exits
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out but you can see over there in the
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trees the tree canopy goes all the way
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around all the way up and then up into
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the woods over there and then the
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entrance is over here so there's a lot
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of canopies through the trees yup knob
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oh here's a bear right here wearing it
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looks like kind of like uh Marty McFly
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bear hey get a get a load of this guy's
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life preserver dork thinks he's gonna
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drown and back down the Mountainside
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what's the name of this peak this
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Hillside I believe they call Anarchist
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the mountain the original name for it
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there's a bunch of different mountain
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ranges one over there there's one over
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there I think the one that the sky
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bridge on is called Crockett Mountain
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Crockett Mountain that's the and then
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you go of course you got Harrison which
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is above
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over mountain now okay
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so the one the next Sky lip we're going
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to over there that goes up to Crockett
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rocket Mountain yes it stopped moving
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yeah
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we're stuck up here oh boy isn't the
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rain supposed to pass over soon
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I don't know is it I'd like to think it
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would it looked like a new one you said
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it was gonna rain for a couple hours and
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then it was going to subside
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I kind of like it though I'd rather have
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this than it being scorchingly hot I
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like umbrellas I used to carry my my big
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cannon you know my my
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gosh anyway my D my d uh your your Canon
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DSLR yeah that's what of course always
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use the uh the umbrella because you
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can't get it wet you know yeah so but
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I shouldn't be having the g7x out in the
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rain but I'm just a glutton for
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punishment yeah I was gonna bring mine
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so now I'm gonna use this it's supposed
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to be waterproof you're just going full
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on phone this is a little behind the
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scenes with Yankee in the South a little
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BTS
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that's what that's what that's what all
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the cool folk call it BTS behind the
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scenes yeah
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I just love these I will ride any ski
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lift any Sky ride I will just ride all
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of them I love going to fairs
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and I love just coming here
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I just love the sky rides and skate
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levels all right about to debark off of
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one and walk over to another so we're
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getting ready to exit off anakista and
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then we're gonna walk down the parkway
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to the other one which is up here on the
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side of that
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nice just caught some geese going by
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passing by the mountain ball walking
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down the parkway construction update
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Yankee in the South has the scoop well
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Ben and Jerry's has the scoop because
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it's ice cream what is this going to be
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it's a Jason Aldine
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um hockey talk Rooftop Bar oh really
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country singer Jason Aldean
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is going to have a rooftop bar right
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here pretty cool
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everything
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happening in Gatlinburg
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right here on the Strip they call this
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the strip or the parkway I call Parkway
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and strip the parkway is what it's
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called that's the real name is the
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Parkway right
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take a look this is going to be oh
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they're repurposing an old building
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that goes
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and we'll just confirm with me this used
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to be a McDonald's back in the day right
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over there the building still stands
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they used to walk down the stairs here
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the basement bar and puckers
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lower level
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people would uh have you heard any
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rumors or speculation on what might end
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up going here
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um I did hear they were they're looking
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in a rebuilding they're going to read
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okay excellent
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I mean I'm always out here every year or
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so so hey when I come back there'll be
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something built here this is a big piece
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of land
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it really is
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we said McDonald's there's not a lot of
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there's no real franchises really here
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in town other than not not anymore Paula
20:39
Deen Dolly and Jimmy Buffett pretty much
20:41
that they're pretty much the three
20:43
franchises and Ripley's those are the
20:45
four those are the Big Four
20:47
McDonald's not allowed here they got one
20:51
outside get out of here Ronald
20:53
look at this I started to put the
20:55
Christmas decor up
20:57
pretty soon a couple days I wish you
20:59
could get some we should go get some
21:00
food let's go to what's the pizza place
21:03
up here on the end Mushroom Mellow
21:05
Mushroom let's go to Mellow Mushroom
21:06
that's kind of a staple for me when I
21:08
come here it's like a tradition
21:10
I think I've eaten there like four times
21:11
to be the fifth uh the first time I ever
21:13
had Mellow Mushroom was in Asheville
21:15
North Carolina and it was kind of like
21:16
immediately really into the style of
21:19
pizza and then the one in Pigeon Forge
21:20
I've eaten out a couple times but this
21:21
is like the fourth maybe fifth time I've
21:23
eaten at this one in Gatlinburg right
21:24
here along this trip pretty close to the
21:26
the Space Needle Gatlinburg Space Needle
21:28
it's kind of like down just down the
21:30
street next to quite across from Bubba
21:32
gumpson and whatnot across from the
21:34
Hollywood star cars Museum but we ended
21:36
up going with an appetizer got some
21:38
bread and some some like dip some
21:42
what was the name of the dip what kind
21:43
of dip we got artichoke I already choked
21:45
up artichoke
21:47
there was something else in it
21:53
artichoke spinach dip
21:53
and then we ended up getting the pizza
21:55
which is basically their version of a
21:58
supreme everything with the kitchen sink
22:00
on this we didn't get anchovies though
22:01
so no anchovies but yeah definitely
22:03
definitely enjoyed Mellow Mushroom I
22:05
always do it's a tradition now whatever
22:07
I'm here take a look at this sign here
22:08
at this Resort inn
22:11
can't really ever see if I could focus
22:13
in on it see what this says here
22:19
says
22:19
dang
22:21
dang some left like it owed someone
22:23
money just saying
22:25
that's my interpretation of how the sign
22:27
talks
22:28
the road is closed
22:31
but the Gatlinburg Skylift Park is not
22:34
closed they're just still building a new
22:36
ticket office here in the front the
22:38
Skylift up to the very lengthy longest
22:42
bridge here in town is open
22:46
all right have just purchased the
22:48
tickets well I got the mail the meal
22:52
will got this and it kind of equaled out
22:54
to be about the same price this is not
22:57
cheap this is not inexpensive at all I
23:00
thought it was going to be very
23:01
inexpensive it is not it's like 35 plus
23:05
tax per person yeah am I getting the
23:07
middle again I'll get the middle can we
23:09
get on this all right all right right
23:10
here make sure you're right in the right
23:11
spot like I said oh we're tight squeeze
23:14
oh this is a tight squeeze I'm hogging
23:17
it up we did it
23:24
I know
23:24
going up
23:27
what you got it yeah
23:29
I uh so I can remember this used to be
23:31
like seven bucks to go up the mountain
23:33
yeah it's like 35 bucks now so really
23:37
proud of that bridge so I know that
23:38
Rocky Top
23:39
was written in one of the rooms over
23:41
there
23:42
actually it's one of these rooms
23:45
right over here
23:47
look over there yeah but I have heard
23:49
that the Gatlinburg Inn owns portion of
23:54
the Prophet from this because they put
23:58
the Skylift ski lift the Skylift the sky
24:00
whatever this is called on their
24:02
property and for like the next how many
24:04
years they get like one or two percent
24:06
of the profit because they're is that
24:08
what it is am I correct in assuming that
24:10
yeah it's owned by a company called
24:12
Blaine Mountain out of Michigan and they
24:15
came back I guess the story was that you
24:16
come down here to vacation
24:18
and he goes this be a great place
24:20
because he owns ski resorts up in
24:21
Michigan he said this would be a great
24:22
place for a lift and then I guess you
24:24
talk to the maples and the maples so
24:27
even now that they even though the
24:29
Gatlinburg here does not own this
24:30
they're getting a cut of the profit on
24:33
some percentage Yeah for so many years
24:35
that's what I've heard so I'm glad
24:37
you're confirming things with me yeah
24:38
because the caliber again is raking in
24:42
some dough the fire that's some of them
24:43
those are some of the original share
24:44
lists yeah that's the one from they were
24:46
here during the fire
24:49
no he kept a few
24:53
going up to the top have they added
24:55
anything new up here since they opened
24:57
the new bridge
24:58
oh the Tulip Tower
25:02
tulip Tower yeah that's what they call
25:04
it the dual power this is by far the
25:07
steepest I think of all this okay this
25:09
confirms it right here longest
25:12
pedestrian cable bridge in North America
25:13
the Gatlinburg Sky Bridge
25:17
hey it looks like they're putting some
25:18
of their Christmas lights up that's
25:19
where that little Archway we're gonna
25:20
walk over there
25:21
and walk across it but I have not been
25:24
back over to the Tulip Tower which is
25:27
over that way last time I was here I
25:30
think they had just built this but you
25:31
had to go up and turn around and come
25:32
back now you could walk all the way
25:34
around
25:35
and go over to the bridge and cross the
25:37
bridge just in One Direction instead of
25:39
going here
25:41
to there and back
25:44
you could just start over there
25:46
and just go one way I love this whole
25:48
photo here
25:49
this is right here this is what the ski
25:52
lift
25:53
the Skylift used to look like it was
25:55
just like a one seater
25:57
this is back on August 1st of 1963. now
26:01
that looks pretty cool there with the
26:02
Tulip Tower and then the bridge well
26:04
I've never looked at it from this angle
26:05
that's kind of neat
26:08
oh there's another bridge for you to
26:10
shake oh it's really moving
26:17
oh it is moving look at this oh my
26:17
goodness
26:19
it's not me I'm walking normal
26:24
oh I think oh wow this thing is swaying
26:39
it does Shake A lot it sways a lot okay
26:39
yeah it really does sway there's sways
26:42
so much oh my
26:45
hold on
26:51
this thing sways so much
26:52
more than it should
27:02
yes that's a pretty cool view right
27:03
of the Space Needle
27:06
and the sky Bridge itself
27:08
just shows you how much taller up the
27:10
side of the mountain
27:11
Sky bridge is from the Space Needle
27:13
because space now is pretty tall too
27:19
it's a great View
27:19
and before you couldn't stand in the
27:20
spot you had to just go on the bridge
27:22
and now you could go past the bridge and
27:23
look downward now Dawn just said
27:26
there's a monarch and I thought I heard
27:28
it as there's a monorail because my
27:29
mind's always thinking of a monorail but
27:31
it's really it's a monarch it's pretty
27:32
you know what's interesting years ago
27:35
when this first opened just the first
27:37
leg of it
27:38
I think I bought a similar shirt like
27:40
this with this bear on it
27:43
or maybe I'm getting my Bears confused
27:45
but I did buy a Gatlinburg bear shirt
27:47
one time anyway this is the merch
27:50
cattleburg Sky Bridge merch up here at
27:52
the top to print this bucket hat too
27:54
yeah I should probably zoom in on
27:56
anakista there over on the other
27:57
Mountaintop that we were just at earlier
27:59
zooming in
28:14
and akista
28:14
they're kind of the same general type of
28:16
attraction in fact Sky Bridge Park which
28:19
we're at now is kind of
28:22
utilizing the game plan that anakista
28:25
has across the mountain and building a
28:27
little village up here as well as a lot
28:28
of construction behind me which makes me
28:30
wonder if some of the locals are they
28:33
team Sky Bridge or they team anakista is
28:37
it a real thing
28:46
all right the time has now come to walk
28:46
across this bridge
28:49
going across and in the middle of the
28:51
bridge is a glass see-through area you
28:54
can look down to the ground it's pretty
28:56
cool yeah just look how this is shaking
28:57
too like I'm trying to hold the camera
28:59
steady and just look how it's kind of
29:01
swaying just a little bit
29:03
but here's the glass hey we're walking
29:05
kind of good view here's the glass
29:09
now let's say this is strong enough that
29:12
you could have like a herd of elephants
29:13
walk across it I don't know if they've
29:15
ever had any elephants walk across here
29:17
only one only one elephant
29:19
okay the worker just said it had one
29:21
elephant up here walking across once
29:23
you think the elephant laid down on this
29:26
are you gonna lay down on it Adam I'm
29:28
not just because look how dirty it is
29:29
it's not that I'm I've laid down this
29:31
before but Mom and I visited here in
29:32
late 2020
29:34
and I laid down on it actually I had her
29:36
lay down on it too but look how dirty it
29:38
is I think it's just more if I don't
29:40
want a fear of getting dirty more than
29:42
it is laying down but I'm not like
29:43
afraid of it anymore I mean this is like
29:46
pretty solid this is almost like the
29:48
Shark Tank at SeaWorld Orlando it was
29:51
used in Jaws 3 where the you can see the
29:53
Sharks through it pretty secure but look
29:55
at this
29:56
that's a hole right there there's no
29:57
glass there you see right down to the
29:59
ground
30:04
it's creaking a little bit
30:06
you gonna lay down Don
30:12
will are you laying down I'm gonna lay
30:12
down you're going to lay down on
30:14
it all right all right here we go ah
30:17
comfortable I guess
30:23
you need some you need some help getting
30:24
up
30:32
were you afraid no you're good I
30:32
wouldn't want to wake up that way
30:34
no looking over this direction this is
30:38
where I parked and where I started
30:39
earlier at the kind of shutdown
30:42
abandoned ski lift Skylift let me zoom
30:44
in on that
31:02
right there's where I began
31:02
today and the video like I still have a
31:05
magnet on my fridge
31:07
yeah with Old Yeller and a cartoon
31:10
version of both of you I saw my fridge
31:13
I think it was a was it a magnet or a
31:14
sticker I got a sticker animation I got
31:17
both but I think I think the magnets
31:20
yeah I've had it for years
31:22
I think he gave it to me like when you
31:24
guys first started your channel yeah
31:25
about seven years ago you guys been
31:27
doing YouTube uh yeah all seven years
31:29
I've never noticed these little cylinder
31:32
pod looking hotels over here
31:34
yeah those been there for
31:37
for a long time
31:40
oh wow
31:45
how have I never noticed those
31:45
did you give your vehicle the name
31:47
nickname Old Yeller to someone else
31:49
someone else named it it's a good name
31:52
there was one time when 2020 2016 with
31:56
my mom we were doing a Pink Jeep tour
31:58
and you were behind us
32:00
in the Old Yeller yep so it was a pink
32:03
Jeep and a yellow Jeep going up in the
32:05
mountains
32:06
I remember that
32:12
I remember it too
32:12
it was like look that's Adam's arm
32:14
sticking out with the camera so who's
32:15
the guy with the camera
32:17
out there I'm gonna wait a second
32:18
there's only one person that could
32:19
there's only one person who that could
32:21
be Adam it's him he's filming
32:24
I can't remember the olden days when no
32:27
one was doing videos in the Pigeon Forge
32:29
Gatlinburg area this is like 10 years
32:31
ago I would go to Dollywood and people
32:33
would look at me filming myself like I
32:35
was an alien yeah no one knew what I was
32:39
like are you are you okay sir
32:42
no times have changed
32:51
still look at me funny when I'm
32:51
um doing a food review and I'm like
32:52
talking to the food you know they're
32:54
like why does he gotta take pictures of
32:56
his food all the time or something you
32:58
ever go out to eat with someone who
32:59
doesn't understand what you're doing and
33:00
you'll be like Oh I'm gonna go I'm gonna
33:02
settle this hole up for a good framing
33:04
of all this and then you look over at
33:06
them and they've already eaten half
33:07
their sandwich you're like no
33:16
yeah you're not afraid that if a tree
33:16
falls in the force you don't hear it
33:17
does it really fall if someone eats
33:19
something without filming it do they
33:21
really eat it empty calories
33:26
you get up to just like go wash your
33:28
hands you come back out of the restroom
33:30
after you've like utilized the
33:32
facilities getting ready to start
33:33
filming your video and they've already
33:35
consumed all of the the seasonal tater
33:37
tots and you didn't even get to film it
33:44
oh that's happened to you
33:44
what
33:50
and it's gone I've had that before
33:50
really okay you've ordered something and
33:53
then went to the restroom and came back
33:54
and someone ate all your food yeah were
33:56
they at least sitting at your table you
33:58
know
33:59
um probably there was truth though with
34:01
the Cancun Mexico Cancun there's a whole
34:03
story to that and we had to do the
34:05
changa line
34:06
so what happened yeah so what do you
34:09
call it the conga line Congo the conga
34:11
or changa Congo is it Gondola or
34:13
chandela we went to Senior Frogs and we
34:15
were in the Congo conga line they made
34:17
us do that when they brought the food
34:19
and then we looked over and the way back
34:21
and the waitresses
34:22
I'm not touching this
34:24
I will not touch it because you're
34:26
eating I'm getting all the juicy details
34:28
from Yankee in the south on YouTube it's
34:30
crazy we haven't moved in like five
34:31
minutes yeah
34:32
that's a long way down don't look down
34:34
you know the saying don't look down
34:36
whatever you do Dawn
34:38
Don't Look Down
34:44
it's gonna be the longest video ever I
34:44
should just leave all this in and not
34:45
edit any of it out here well that's the
34:47
what's left of Christ in the Smokies
34:48
down there
34:49
that's the foundation from Christ in the
34:52
Smokies wax museum
34:54
any inside scoop on what's going to be
34:56
going there well I think the sky Bridge
34:59
here the Skylift Park bought it oh okay
35:03
man this is just they're just taking
35:05
over
35:06
got anarchista up there you got Sky
35:08
Bridge here so basically Gatlinburg is
35:11
Ripley's
35:16
anakista
35:16
Sky Bridge or like the three big ones
35:19
and then Pigeon Forge is Dolly
35:22
Jimmy Buffett and Paula Dean are those
35:25
the big six
35:26
could be this case it's called as the
35:28
big six what's the dirt piles
35:31
if you had a choice to ride earthquake
35:33
the ride
35:35
with Jimmy Buffett Paula Dean or Dolly
35:38
who would you want on earthquake to ride
35:40
with you dolly dolly
35:42
but it would be interesting to see Paula
35:44
Deen it does seat eight so we got three
35:47
here and we got Jimmy we got Paula
35:56
that's six people we can invite Jacob
35:56
and then we'd have and then we could
35:59
just raffle off the eighth sea or
36:02
whoever's working King
36:08
Jimmy Buffett though
36:15
song did we hear that song
36:15
we were really close proximity to Dolly
36:18
Parton four years ago when they opened
36:20
up rainbow Ridge what's it called
36:23
I like lightning Ridge Wildwood
36:33
at Dollywood she sang for us right there
36:33
she was like there you could have
36:35
reached out and I touched her I did it I
36:38
was tempted but I did it
36:40
and she whispered I don't know if I
36:42
didn't get this on camera no one did for
36:43
some reason no one was filming during
36:44
that moment but she leaned over and said
36:52
but it wasn't documented so No One
36:52
Believes Me but it really happened it
36:53
might she whispered in my ear like sweet
36:55
nothing's in my ear Polly pardon so I'd
36:58
rather meet Jimmy Buffett now because
37:00
it's all these old news I've met her a
37:02
bunch of times go way back
37:04
I'm leaving all this in by the way okay
37:06
this is gonna be a long video it's gonna
37:08
be a long week am I talking too much
37:10
will no not really that's a yes that's a
37:14
yes
37:37
if this bear down here is doing some
37:37
calisthenics and we have stroll down
37:39
here to the very end of the Gatlinburg
37:41
strip to the Mountain Mall because I
37:43
figured ending this video on Border
37:45
guard just makes a lot of sense
37:48
old Beauregard here
37:51
Mountain Mall established in 1978 trying
37:54
to put my sunglasses on so I'm gonna do
37:56
the outro right here at Beauregard get
37:59
you guys in there all right that's gonna
38:01
do it for today
38:03
Dawn and will YouTube's own Yankee in
38:06
the South and Border guard I'll see you
38:08
in the next video the Vlog you want to
38:10
do the ending of the Vlog the Vlog is
38:13
nailed it nailed it