My Impulsive Decision To Leave Belize - Flight Delays & Trying To Go Home / Ending In Snowy Atlanta
Leaving Belize
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today's adventure
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begins from the back porch the
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accommodations I'm staying at the hotel
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right here along one of the many rivers
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in
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bise my first country that I've gone to
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in 2025 many more will be
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happening a successful trip but I have
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decided today I'm going to head home was
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going to fly home on the 16th but as a
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recording of this it is Saturday January
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11th
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home just feels right it feels like I've
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accomplished my goals
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here I'm going to be moving on welcome
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everyone Adam the woo here wearing an
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appropriate t-shirt you better beli
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it there are mosquitoes everywhere wear
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here a lot of mosquitoes a lot of bug
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spray has been worn going to be heading
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home my flight today was
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delayed changed my mind late last night
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decided to take the flight originally it
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was going to be on the 16th convert it
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to today and then that flight was
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delayed but appears as if it is going to
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be leaving I'm inviting you to join me
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weather is a lot crisper and cooler at
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home in Central Florida which will be
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nice that it is here in the jungle of
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Biz I'm inviting you to join me for a
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travel
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day shall you yes bug spray
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very very good
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here even since I was very
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young mosquitoes have always like like a
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track I am a tractor beam to mosquitoes
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so also want to talk a little bit about
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California
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SoCal I Liv in California for many years
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Orange County Hollywood Boulevard a
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couple years as well a lot in the OC and
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LA area and since I've been here they've
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been having a lot of fires dramatic
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tragedy taking place out there and it's
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really been on my mind a
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lot and very
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saddened by what friends of mine friends
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of friends of mine people I know have
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lost their homes
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businesses livelihood memories
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anytime tragedy happens it's very very
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saddening and my heart is definitely
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with California right now a former home
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for a little while and really a second
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home in a lot of ways CU I just go out
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there all the time I'm always going to
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Hollywood and going to
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Anaheim Alena which is just North of
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Pasadena place I've been to many many
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times has lost thousands of homes and
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businesses
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Pacific Palisades which is just right
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next to where I just was with my Mom and
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Dad recently Santa Monica Pier is right
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there which I spent a lot of time at
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seems like no matter where you are
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anywhere in the world I'm mostly
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familiar with the United States there's
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going to be something that happens as
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far as uh you're going to have to deal
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with so you got on the west coast
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California you have fires you have
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earthquakes just very
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massive you know acts of nature that
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could just really are hard to stop then
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you have Florida hurricanes tornadoes
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that spawn off on those hurricanes
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massive flooding
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recently up on the coast from a
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hurricane going across the US North
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Carolina Virginia South Carolina got
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massive amounts of flooding people lost
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their homes there and it really makes
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you think
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about what's important and how
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possessions are really secondary to
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family and friends Community I just want
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to know I want everyone to know that I'm
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definitely thinking of my former home in
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California and a place that really holds
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a special place in my heart to me really
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sad to see what's been going on out
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there taking this highway to the airport
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I'm going to be passing by a highly
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recommended place known as The Biz
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Zoo heard good things about it and I
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have a little time so I'm going to stop
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off there see some of the native animals
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that are here talking to a few locals
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over the last series of days this place
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came up in conversations fact been
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checking out the place I was just
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staying at at the front desk he said
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what time's your flight I told him he
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said you have time to go by the biz zoo
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and one thing he was
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saying is that unlike some
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zoos all the animals in here are rescues
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so all of them had an
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issue that they needed to be rescued and
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saved so that's why this place
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exists according to those I talked to
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they said you're going to
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see oh look at
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this said you're going to see all the
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native animals to the country of bise
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all of them will be in here some of them
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you don't want to see in the waterall
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because it might be a little dangerous
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so maybe I can finally see a twocan on
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the way
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out glad they're open right now too my
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flight was going to be at 2:00 p.m. it's
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11:00 a.m. right now but now my flight
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is going to be at 3:30 we got plenty of
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time plenty of
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time all right welcome to the
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home
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biz's native animals
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here's the price
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points $20 us 40
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bise here's the Zoo entrance all right
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here's the bise
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story Sharon Mata arrived in Biz in 1982
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do a documentary on rain forest not to
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start a zoo but fate stepped in and
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that's the B Zoo began there's a
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papier-mâché crocodile over
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here another animal down here that I
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keep saying is an anator but I don't
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think it's an anator maybe I'll find out
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while I'm in here's the map right
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here shows all the different things
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scattered through here some of them are
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not on the list anymore considering the
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is like e Eagles vultures may not be in
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here anymore but also when I paid my
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admission lady at the front side oh you
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have your jungle perfume
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on talking about the bug sprayer said
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there's actually some biting flies in
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here so it's wise that you sprayed
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yourself with that stuff so got
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mosquitoes biting flies quite a
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variety of different things oh these
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maybe there are vultures in
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here there also some rules here no
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running no climbing on guard rails no
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feeding without permission from the zoo
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Personnel keep noises at a minimum a
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taper or a Tapper t a p i r that's what
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I thought an anator
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was in fact animal has its own driveway
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own little
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Street this is so
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cool I'm so special I'm the national
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animal you can call me a mountain cow as
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well they're related to but not anator
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but to the horse and the rhino
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now oh weird they're not related to
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anator make sure you keep all body parts
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behind the barriers okay and do not sit
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on
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Rails hear a weed eater or
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something no perf
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perfect thank you very much finally
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turned around goinging to get some more
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food's a deer over
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there
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hello hey
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there was that a m no it's a
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butterfly when they cross the highways
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it causes a great threat cars and trucks
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go speeding by sad collisions often meet
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our national anthem needs national
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animal needs help
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so you just got to be weary of
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them as they're crossing the roads oh my
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gosh I've been wanting to see one of
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these since I've been here spider
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monkey I'll come at you like a spider
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monkey I'm all hopped up on Mountain
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Dew spider monkeys once live plenty of
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the nation till yellow fever came and
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reduce the
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population they make Bad
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Pets keep them in keep us forever in the
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jungle
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canopy not a
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pet right
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here oh
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hi that's
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look at these little things look at that
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what are
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those all right not a weed eat I think
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it's a chainsaw
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mother a mountain cow a
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Tambo hey hey
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sweetie oh tampo
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love
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evidently not supposed to be touching
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this tree at all I didn't touch it
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because I saw the
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sign
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Poisonwood black sap and leaves are
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toxic contact with the plant may cause
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blisters swelling and
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the Jaguar jungle through here at least
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this is the
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shortcut my name is Martin I was raised
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at a resort
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attraction when it was abandoned the zoo
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rescued me I'm a reminder that Wildlife
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aren't pets or
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toys I cannot be put back in the wild so
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wild so here I live happily teaching
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guests about my
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species don't touch the enclosure if you
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value your
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paws okay I must be hiding in the
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foliage taking a little
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snooze my name is Edgar Hill brought to
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brought here actor Scavenging at a dump
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site only has one eye
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really easy to get lost in here there
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lots of different Pathways you can take
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this is
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Lindo see if I can find him up
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here wow
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look like taking a little rest staring
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staring at me over there top of the
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cou how you
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doing 800 Jaguars remain in
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eagle oh yeah look up there there's a
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female wow
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that is a really large
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Bird
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yeah that thing will mess you up
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yeah yeah
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R big old
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crocodile big old
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crocodile got his head up right no
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that's wood right got head
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up oh yeah
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water that one is a fresh
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water oh they're separated yes yeah
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they're
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wow I want I just looked that was a
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freshwater this is a saltwater croc I
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think saltwater croc might be the meaner
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of the two but I don't know I don't know
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what I'm talking about but I know
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crocodiles are a little more aggressive
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than alligators which we have most in
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Florida the jaboo where would you
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find that
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jabaru Central America to Venezuela and
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Northern
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Argentina what's on the menu for the
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Jabber through frogs lizards snakes
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Crustaceans mammoths mammals and
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rodents there's
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Pelicans scratching
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black howler
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monkey also known as a
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baboon oh oh oh
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oh I think I see him up there or I see
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one of them I don't know how many are in
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here but
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yeah do not have owl at
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them oh there's a couple in here so
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there's the one right
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here there's another one up there in the
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tree kind of see it right in the middle
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of the screen kind of silhouetted out by
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the way the sun is right in the core of
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the tree
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there oh there's another one up there
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hidden in the shrubs of the branches
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another one up there a few in here
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actually quite a few up there tough to
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see them though the way the sun has out
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of the six species of the
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howlers our species alota pigra is the
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rarest of them
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all here's a little look a lookout
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station that you can kind of stand on as
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well they're not doing any howling at
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the moment
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though I also wonder what these fences
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are even going to do I mean they could
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easily just jump from tree to tree I
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would think wouldn't stop them from just
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going over into other
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areas these s these fences are not all
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that tall they could easily just jump
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out of that tree onto this tree and then
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right down here and just Scurry on out
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some Pumas all the way up to Argentina
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they found from Canada to Argentina
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they can get over 200
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lbs big cats roar small cats purr yes
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Puma only purs even though they get to
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200
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lb see any Pumas though they're kind of
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back a little farther in the
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foliage is there an escaped animal you
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see no it is a wild
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Peery which are the birds that you hear
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up here
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oh no not a
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bird definitely not a bird it's one of
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these there must be one that just roams
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around
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outside a few over there as well see
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them over there kind of looks like an an
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eater also very ante eater
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is the sacred tree of Ancient Man
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oh no Ancient
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Maya excuse me Ancient Maya this one was
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planted in 1991 you can see how big it's
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gotten since
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then
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massive in fact the root system is
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tearing up the sidewalk there
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on the way out I'm noticing a photograph
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of crocodile hunter back when he was
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still alive was here at the bully zoo
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and also Dolly Parton has been here as
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well sure other celebrities as well but
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notice both of these on the way out all
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right another interesting turn of events
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so I left the zoo now I'm passing by
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hatville that's the police station it's
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like I got to get over to the airport
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before my flight takes off however my
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flight's been delayed even further
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originally was going to take off at 2
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then it got pushed to 330 now it's
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pushed back to
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510 there little speed hubs going
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through here through
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hatville
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so curious what I should do I look to
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see if there was a flight tomorrow maybe
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grab a another hotel in bise city on the
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outskirts but all the flights tomorrow
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are full and the next day are full so if
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I don't get out today
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I might be here for a few more days so
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maybe maybe I'm not going
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home we'll see how it goes a Mass's
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truck in front of me all right that is
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definitely a prison over
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there you see the little guard towers
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and everything with the guards up on
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them all four corners you see those
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little guard towers there and there's
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people up on it
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it's decision time that is for sure
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rental car still have the rental car for
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a few more days but I could turn it in
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early no real flight no other flights
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going out from other airlines that are
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anywhere near non super
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expensive it says thanks for choosing
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bise still on time for five originally
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was two but now it's still on time for
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five
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think I'm just going to drop the rental
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car off and just give it a
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whirl problem is if I turn the rental
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car
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in then I'm rental
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carless if for some reason the flight
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doesn't go out today and I got to get to
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a hotel take a
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taxi I'm I just going to roll the dice
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Delta's usually pretty
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decent with having flights get off get
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out even though sometimes there are
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delay
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I'm just going to turn the car in do the
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5:00 flight worst case I just sit around
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this airport for the rest of the evening
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till the flight takes off here's the
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speed this does mess up the connecting
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flight in Atlanta by the time I land the
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connecting flight would have already
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left but I kind of feel like if I can
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just get to Atlanta even if I have to
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get a hotel in Atlanta no big deal fly
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out in the morning from Atlanta there's
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a million flights out of Atlanta not too
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worried about that just getting out of
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bise is the the first step just got to
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get past the first step right I've gone
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through the little gate here point of no
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return at this moment with the rental
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car pulling it up to the Rental Station
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dropping the rental car
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off just see where the day leads it's
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1:30 right now my flight's supposed to
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take off at 50:3 so not too long but
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okay rental officially dropped off
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flight still says it's on time for
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5:00 I guess I could figure out if
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there's going to be a flight from
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Atlanta downward to Orlando no direct
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flights to Orlando from bise or
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from Orlando to bise and bise to Orlando
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is what I should
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say here's
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fod not sure what that stands for but it
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reminds me of a Green Day song
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international arrivals everyone waiting
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to pick people up here's the departures
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on the Delta app it's interesting when
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you go to check in for a flight I
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already checked in no QR code you have
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to go up to the to the desk to get a
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paper ticket so bise airport does not
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have not accept QR codes you have to get
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a paper
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ticket so going to arrive a little bit
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beforehand just so you can go up to
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the up to the helper to get a ticket I'm
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not seeing a Delta SE ction through here
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I see Copa Sun Country Maya Tropic Air
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but I'm not seeing Delta on this side
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interesting so even at the zoo I did not
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see a twocan I didn't even see it on the
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list was in a little bit of a rush cuz I
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thought my flight was going to leave at
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3:30 so I kind of bolted out of there
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pretty
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quickly but I did see it on the list of
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animals in there and then I got back to
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my car and realized oh crud the thing
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hasn't taken off till 5 now all right
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different section so you got United Air
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Canada Delta American Alaska Air
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Southwest is down this way all right
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it's kind of confused in there why I
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didn't see him but that's the
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reason it's good I'm not in a rush
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though that's true at least I got plenty
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of time all right this is the spot I'm
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looking for all connected in the same
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building just different
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entrance someone else is handling your
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bag this is what they're suggesting that
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you give them for a Porter's fee never
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heard that term before Porter fee
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minimum is $2 Bel it's only a buck give
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someone a buck per piece of luggage they
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handle 10 pieces of luggage us give them
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$10 or $20 Bas they are not
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salary therefore if you use their
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services you are
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required to pay almost just tripped and
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let just tripped on this very
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unusual section right here it's like a
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little indentation
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wasn't expecting to lose my footing
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right there but I was so concerned with
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the
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quarter the facts about the quarter it's
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a lot bigger in here okay I got to go
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check in there and then there's all
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right I'm in line to check in I showed
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them my passport before I even got in
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the line to get to the Del Delta section
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they gave me this little piece of
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paperwork here every person leaving
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believ must provide the following
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information etc etc
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etc and uh got my Crocs on today that
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was a mess even going through the sky
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priority line took about probably 45
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minutes half hour to 45 minutes to get
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all that fixed and good to go they said
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that they could not get a hold of anyone
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for the connecting flight they do not do
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the re-bookings of the connecting here
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they go in the back to the office and
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then from there they call and try to get
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you on another flight they couldn't so
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they said I got to wait till I get to
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Atlanta to figure out the Atlanta
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situation no big deal no big deal also
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informed that the plane is already left
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or waiting to leave Atlanta so even
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though it's delayed she has pretty good
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confidence the guest agent the agent
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said that I'll be get able to get on
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this flight should be leaving tonight
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also she gave me a little tip on not
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waiting over here in this section for
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security said go back to the other one I
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was just at and go through that
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checkpoint so I'm going to do that right
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from Gates Terminal 2 over to number
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one again I showed how many people are
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over there there are like what a dozen
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look at this a dozen people tops in this
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side that's the end of the line right
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there that's it 12 people six people not
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even International there's like three
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people like One 100th of the amount of
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people that's just a few feet 100 yards
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away on the other side that took a grand
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total of about 5 minutes look at these
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chairs these have these chairs have seen
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some things yeah 5 minutes tops true
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glad they gave me that tip to go through
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the other the other side now we going to
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go into the department Lounge this is
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the lounge right here this is the
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departure Lounge
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unbelievable from the slogans here in
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bise all right I guess everyone just
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waits in here there's a lot of people in
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here and not a lot of room we got to
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find my gate I guess there is another
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little
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section
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over opposite of this
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I think I'm in gate four it's also a
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full service snack bar duty free shops
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down this way oh there's way more down
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goodness there is a lot of freaking
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people in here you wouldn't think it by
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outside but it's packed in here another
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two can they're just rubbing that two
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can thing in my face I didn't get to see
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a two can at least I see a wooden wooden
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two cans they called Maya
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ruin a a cup of coffee would be pretty
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dang nice right now a little uh cup of
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joe piping hot caffeinated beverage
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would definitely uh yeah would be nice
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all right this is
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fun push back now to
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614 this is maybe the loudest
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section oh something just happened nope
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still
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64 this is the loudest section waiting
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for a gate I think I've ever been it
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just nothing but just people talking
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elbow to elbow in
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here all part of the experience it does
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go without saying no chain stuff here no
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Starbucks no McDonald's no Burger King
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no Taco
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Bell all right coffee accomplished well
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a little bit of a
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latte right there there's a regular
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latte ad Amic also but I figured once
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they're making it out of the machine
30:50
just go and get the latte see how it is
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all
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right now 623
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It's 301 right
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it kind of want to get something to eat
31:10
but I'm not really sure what there is
31:13
this here build your own sub they also
31:16
have items here in bise prices little
31:19
chicken patties cinnam twists those
31:23
those are like the little meat pies all
31:25
right I got a Caribbean
31:28
fried apple juice right there also got a
31:31
chicken and a beef meat pie they're not
31:35
that big they're kind of small almost
31:37
looks like half dollar size and then I
31:40
got this like a half a
31:42
sub little
31:45
chicken right here a little snack plenty
31:48
of time plenty of time before my plane
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arriv
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so pretty much walk the perimeter of the
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entire loud airport I a little snackage
31:58
on 430 right now and this place is
32:02
clearing out what a 180 from how it was
32:06
a couple hours ago guess even the stores
32:09
know when the place clears out because
32:10
it's 438 right now all the gates are
32:13
down is that interesting
32:15
like many spots here even the twocan
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places close their gates up I don't know
32:20
what it is at
32:22
4:30 but evidently they know there's not
32:25
going to be a lot of passengers in here
32:28
at this
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time at all the places are closing up at
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it's not even I guess 5:00 they all
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close pretty wild look at this the best
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quality in B where I got the coffee
32:40
earlier shutting
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down exactly at
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439 it's an odd time to close but must
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be five they just closing up early odest
32:55
thing comparison between earlier and
33:05
now really unusual difference I know I
33:05
keep harping on that but
33:08
yeah also a little planes I guess just
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go around the country itself called
33:14
Tropic little small
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planes over here
33:28
oh there a lawn
33:29
mower pulling the luggage those are
33:32
lawnmowers those are John deers
33:35
that well that's a good way of
33:38
interesting I don't know if i' ever been
33:40
to an airport where they had little John
33:41
Deere lawnmowers pulling the
33:43
luggage right now they're detaching
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no
33:59
kiddings they all
34:03
L
34:05
interesting this is what I do when I'm
34:07
waiting for flights just stare out the
34:09
window with things oh there's my
34:12
plane
34:19
there look at this I think I am actually
34:19
going to be departing pleas today
34:46
now Atlanta I cannot guarantee I'm going
34:46
to get out of Atlanta I'm probably going
34:48
to end up staying in Atlanta tonight
34:49
just just a
34:50
hunch sh and it's our pleasure to
34:53
welcome you on this flight today we are
34:55
expecting our departure time 6:23 p.m.
34:59
with a boarding time of 33 minutes we P
35:03
ask boarding is call all right this is
35:06
the first time in a while that I will
35:08
not have a window seat they only had one
35:11
seat
35:16
available when I was booking this one
35:16
sitting in 2B which is not a window
35:21
seat yes
35:23
sir the front go ahead thank you
35:43
get to Atlanta safely as quickly as
35:43
possible FL time tonight is going to be
35:44
2 hours and 29 minutes that's wheels up
35:47
to wheels down I'm Che a few bumps along
35:48
the ride we'll do our best to find that
35:50
smooth there and do our best as well to
35:51
get that seat belt sign I was much
35:53
practical remember I do I if while SE
35:55
please keep that seat belts very fast
35:57
looks like look like we got everybody on
35:58
board should be pushed back here in just
35:59
a few minutes once again I do appreciate
36:01
you join us gosh even on the gang way
36:03
walking out of here I can tell it's much
36:06
cooler here in
36:18
from and obviously not catching my other
36:18
flight so I booked a hotel in downtown
36:22
Atlanta I haven't been to Atlanta in a
36:24
while well I mean I was here when I went
36:26
to bise for a layover but haven't stayed
36:28
in Atlanta in a while I'm here for the
36:31
evening till tomorrow at least till at
36:33
least till tomorrow I booked a room at
36:35
the Marriott Marquee Peach Tree Center
36:38
which is right downtown which is what I
36:41
always call the belly of the Beast or
36:43
and Dragon Con I went to Dragon Con for
36:44
10 years in a row I did not go
36:47
2024 I skipped it on purpose just
36:50
because I wanted to break the routine
36:53
and the habit of going every year to
36:54
Dragon Con but I've always wanted to
36:56
stay at the Mary got Marquee just simply
36:59
because that is the hot spot and it's
37:02
impossible nearly impossible to get a
37:04
room during it but right now I was able
37:07
to book a room so I'm going to St at the
37:08
Marriott Marquee just for my
37:11
overl why not right I looked on uh
37:16
looked on the website on the app and
37:19
there was a hotel room available so I
37:20
book it order a ride share and should be
37:23
on its way soon yep it
37:25
definitely has
37:28
snowed out here big difference in
37:41
snow wasn't planning on being in Atlanta
37:41
wasn't planning on seeing
37:43
snow here I
37:46
am here got the passenger pickup at
37:50
Atlanta airport no go on an
37:53
Uber it kept just spinning and spinning
37:56
and no one was accepting so I'm going to
37:58
go over here and grab a taxi take a taxi
38:00
down to well that one's
38:01
leaving okay wait for the next taxi at
38:05
1033 it's 29° in Atlanta woo again vast
38:10
difference where it just was also
38:12
there's a few people that's like a q
38:14
line for the taxis but it is a Saturday
38:16
night so it's pretty busy so I think
38:19
that's why there was no Ubers
38:21
nearby good thing I brought a little
38:24
hoodie in my
38:26
bag there's one there got about six or
38:29
seven groups of people in front of me oh
38:32
there's a whole look at this a whole
38:33
caval like a parade of
38:40
taxis look at this all these taxes
38:40
coming up I guess I could have taken the
38:42
MARTA but I was already on this side so
38:55
I all right this is slightly different
38:55
and unexpected
38:57
ice snow on the ground my luggage back
39:01
there uh just got dropped off slick ice
39:06
snow was not planning on seeing snow or
39:08
staying in a place that has snow but
39:11
here I am snowy look at this it's
39:15
also very unusual because I have been
39:18
here so many
39:20
times for Dragon Kong never when there
39:23
has been ice and
39:25
snow in this area I've never been in
39:28
this area right here that I am so
39:30
familiar with where there has been ice
39:34
on this sculpture here and I know it
39:37
snows here I know obviously it snows
39:40
here
39:41
but I'm not used to seeing snow
39:49
here I just didn't expect to be here but
39:49
I got up this morning
39:51
B didn't think I'd be staying here but
39:53
here I am
40:01
didn't make Dragon Con in
40:01
2024 not sure if I'll make it in
40:04
2025 but I'm here now going into the
40:07
belly of the Beast always gave the
40:12
Marriott Marquee that
40:14
name during Dragon Con because it is a
40:18
beehive of
40:24
activity it is
40:24
brisk woo
40:34
all right without a doubt it's a little
40:34
bizarre seeing it
40:36
empty walking through here empty without
40:39
any
40:39
cosplayers without any crowds without
40:45
Insanity one of the
40:48
greatest conventions there is my
40:50
favorite convention Dragon Con I
40:54
immersed myself in it fully every year
40:55
again last year I skipped it
40:57
purposefully it's because I figur if I
40:58
didn't skip by 11th year after 10 years
41:01
I would never ever skip another year so
41:03
I skip
41:04
24 they're working on the elevators
41:06
elevators were down they've added the
41:08
tables back during the convention they
41:10
don't have all the tables and stuff but
41:12
wow just it's almost like Eerie in a way
41:16
wouldn't be Eerie to someone who didn't
41:18
go to the convention every year or
41:20
wasn't you know during that weekend
41:22
Labor Day weekend I spent four or five
41:25
days in downtown Atlanta and seeing it
41:26
like this just so bizarre and I've never
41:30
stayed here so I'm pretty excited to be
41:31
staying here these rooms are nice really
41:33
nice like the backdrop to the bed I got
41:36
a good siiz bed here
41:38
to relax
41:40
in little table over
41:43
there got this chair with only one
41:46
chair I'll turn the lights off in the
41:48
room so I can see out the window at the
41:50
view momentarily but yeah I've always
41:54
wanted to always wanted to stay here
41:56
again it's nearly impossible to get a
41:58
Host Hotel during the convention there's
42:01
a few of them this is the main
42:12
one one day I will though one day when I
42:12
return to Dragon Con
42:14
hopefully ni shower
42:21
there all right I'll flip the lights off
42:21
that way there's no glare we'll look out
42:23
at the City View
42:25
nice very nice
42:35
guys now I did stay at one of the host
42:35
hotels one year a few years ago four
42:37
years ago maybe I say at the Weston
42:40
which is that circular building but it's
42:42
a little off site from the Hyatt and the
42:45
Hilton and the other one whatever the I
42:47
can't remember the the other one off top
42:48
of my head
42:50
but but I did say it that one not a lot
42:53
of activities going on in there as
42:56
compared to
42:58
the ones that are just kind of like
42:59
right here and then I've stayed downtown
43:02
many times as long as you're close and
43:06
I've stayed offsite too where I take the
43:07
Mar
43:08
in 10 years of
43:11
memories at that convention I'm sure
43:13
I'll make more as other years happen
43:16
but I'm here now there's snow on the
43:19
ground there's World of Coke over
43:22
there right there World of
43:28
Coke very
43:28
nice there's a flashing light down there
43:32
and there is snow on the
43:40
ground all right I'm in Atlanta for at
43:40
least
43:41
tonight I mean I do have a flight home
43:44
tomorrow in the
43:52
afternoon see what happens could always
43:52
change that stay in Atlanta for a couple
43:53
days or I could go
43:55
home or I could go somewhere
43:59
else pretty
44:00
random I was going to say lately but all
44:03
the time that's going to do it for today
44:05
thanks for watching I'll see you in the
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