The Odd But Amazing Attractions of Pigeon Forge & Gatlinburg - Moon Pie Store / Cooters & Dark Rides
Pigeon Forge & Gatlinburg Attractions
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welcome everyone Adam the woo here has a
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recording of Sunday November 6 2022
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Patriot park behind me and you can
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probably see in the reflection of my
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sunglasses there's someone wandering
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right over here someone who has not been
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in this vicinity this neck of the woods
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since 2007.
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YouTube's old world of Micah that's a
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long flight you just flew it yeah boy
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are your arms tired yeah
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there it is we're here I have a few
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favorite things in town that I would
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like to show you yeah you can add to
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that list as well of something maybe I
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haven't done but in all reality we're
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probably going to do the same things
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that I have done 18 000 times we're
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making eighteen thousand except you're
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gonna be with me yeah and this is going
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to be a because Christmas has kind of
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started in this in this area so it'll be
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it'll be in November even though
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Christmas is next month it'll be in
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November 2020 update on some of my
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favorite attractions and I get to see
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them through your eyes Micah eyes I'm
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excited yeah you just landed I did you
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got dropped off here yep we're gonna get
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my rental car and we're gonna start in
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Pigeon Forge and then go over to
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Gatlinburg to see what we can find I'm
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inviting you to join me and world of
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mica shall you and I don't know if it's
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gonna rain or not but it's a possibility
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of some precipitation over there
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the clouds and the Smoky Mountains
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Great Smoky Mountain National Park and
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Gatlinburg is over that direction
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currently we're in Pigeon Forge and
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gonna roam around now we're on our way
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over to the Jurassic boat ride which is
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kind of a win and row moment it's kind
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of a rite of passage when you're here at
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Pigeon Forge
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but stopped off here at the moon pie
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General Store I'm gonna get myself a new
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t-shirt
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because I have been in California and I
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brought a lot of Halloween shirts
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I don't think I don't know about wearing
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like a skull and crossbones during when
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Christmas is kind of kicking off here
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you can go to November in Pigeon Forge
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so this moon pie like a tractor beam is
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sucking me in I'm gonna get a I'm gonna
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get a t-shirt in here or maybe even a
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moon pie for later yes
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you're a moon pie fan oh yeah anyone
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anyone from the south you're from
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Mississippi yeah you probably like RC
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Cola and you like moon pie just like
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Andy Griffith yep
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just all there's pews out here you know
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you're in the South yeah church pews yep
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I grew up on peas like that see I I know
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we're like kind of brothers from another
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mother yep when we both know what a
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church pew is yes both from Mississippi
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yeah there's a lot oh that's a good one
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that's the one you're gonna get I think
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so look at this eat Mo pie eat my pies
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look out
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the original moon pie sandwich I might
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actually get a case of an advice while
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we're in here too oh yeah is that the
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one you're gonna get I want to get the
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yeah I don't want to be full on twinsies
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what are the odds we're going to wear
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this the same time but the next time
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we're at Disney together exactly okay
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this is an RC Cola what's ice ICC cold
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they probably couldn't get the RC logo
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oh yeah ICC icy Cola and a moon pie it's
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a southern thing look at this I got
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mooned
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oh look at this Micah
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oh there's a photo out there yeah
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that's a photo you should get up in the
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Moon yeah there you go you're the man
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there's an REM song about you
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the man of them take a look at these
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gargantuan cases here double decker kind
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here's the minis they've been actually
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really like the bananas there's a bunch
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of pumpkin spice get this pumpkin spice
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out of here Halloween Halloween is over
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stages of the moon pie right over here
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look at this Moon me oh I might get this
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would it be appropriate to wear a moon
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me shirt
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it says Moon me
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I think so I might I don't know am I
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gonna get the sweater oh is that an ugly
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Christmas sweater yes look at that
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it's on sale is great oh this these
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socks are good too
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found a different shirt than Mike is
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going to purchase and I kind of like
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this one just as much this is the deluxe
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moon pie original marshmallow sandwich
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shirt because you know what who couldn't
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use a good Moon
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pie Moon me okay this is making me want
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to get a piping hot caffeinated beverage
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somewhere I don't think they have any on
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tap but they do have look at this they
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have vanilla ground coffee right here in
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chocolate and chocolate what if they
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have K-Cups probably not awesome
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well you could just put that in a cake I
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could put it in a K-Cup that's a good
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point and then they have these mixer
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match for 9.9 for 10 for 10. uh
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12 for seven bucks yeah singles the
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doubles were 99 Cents and 9.99 look at
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this
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yes sock monkey is that what it was yeah
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I'm hungry okay you know what I was
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talking about coffee but I should start
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the day off
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should I get a moon pie maybe I'll get
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the moon pies for later but we should
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start off with an RC car oh yeah or
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cheer why are you more of a cheer white
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guy
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Cheerwine or RC hmm I'm gonna go
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everybody with RC because I get
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Cheerwine all the time back home do you
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yeah I'll grab it something I get two
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two RC's start this start this day off
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right that's it
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thank you
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I was just mentioning how inexpensive
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moon pies are but they used to be five
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cents the biggest and best lunch in town
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for five cents
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oh what's that are the K-Cups
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oh nice individually these are the minis
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oh yeah no wait that's an empty box oh
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it's a it's a cigar box oh it is it
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Keepsake yeah
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okay we got we got a dozen you have
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eight I have four that's a combined
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amount but I think this has your name
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all over it right here because you've
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been doing you've been doing like the
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handkerchief style yeah like you're
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gonna rob a train lately you've been
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putting much science experiments okay
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take a look at this for 44.99 there is a
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logo mat right here can I imagine
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walking around Epcot with a moon pie
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umbrella right there this is 19.99 for a
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moon pie
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umbrella
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all right got my bag full of stuff I got
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a dozen here they gave me a box too and
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I got I got that t-shirt I wonder if he
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did the peanuts in the RC I used to do
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it I'm gonna say yeah yeah that's like
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the
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ooh I can smell that banana kicking in
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you got the banana I got the chocolate
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it is like 1 30. is it okay I'm still in
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like
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I I got up at four this morning so
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it's good morning to me yes RC
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sugar overload
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you don't eat the whole thing
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but it's so good
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that best marshmallow left
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that is good
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but it gets everywhere
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only 220 calories
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I could eat like five of these yeah have
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made it over to Jurassic boat ride
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hey look there's some dinos back here
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all shrunk wrap up and these are the
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vehicles that used to be parked out
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front I used to park these cars out
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front
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to appear as if there was more business
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in front of the place off you know off
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the parkway so people would pull in but
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they now they have the cars around back
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but if you listen closely you can hear
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the Dinos
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well that's a car rumbling
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you can hear the dinos back here
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wait for it
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they're right here behind this wall
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are you looking directly down the neck
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of a dinosaur it's pretty terrifying in
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here because you can see a little tongue
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and something yeah some teeth
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the claws there
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I'm so excited for you to go on this yes
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I hyped this this is one of my favorite
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attractions
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in the Gatlinburg Pigeon Forge area and
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I'm excited that you're about to go on
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this I love this ride this is not the
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back side of water it's the back side of
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Jurassic boat ride prepare
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to have your mind completely blown yes
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my first time we're on the same
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we we're Kindred Spirits when it comes
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to cheesy bad not so good roadside
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attractions we find joy in that
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that's why you're gonna love this you go
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into this thinking it's going to be a
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Disney or Universal ride
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sorely mistaken
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you'll see what I mean
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it's a Jurassic jungle boat ride
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got the queue over here
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first one's here
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first ones here Micah come over here and
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tell me who this mannequin looks like
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not this mannequin not this mannequin
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but that mannequin oh right there I know
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it looks like a weird uh not Nixon um
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Ronald Reagan no Jack Nicholson it does
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yeah so Wax Museum of Jack Nicholson
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right there is it really cheers
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dinos wait till they get a load of me
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it's a ghost boat
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they used to have a big T-Rex up here
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and I guess the T-Rex broke they
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replaced it with this newer is that a
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velociraptor yeah they replace it with
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that guy
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he is like uh Harrison Ford if if he had
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my body built right he had a few too
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many moon pies right there oh there's a
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pigeon up top oh there it is all right
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we got to buy our tickets for this okay
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here is the price 18.99 and just to
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reiterate you do not get wet
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fear not he will not get wet on them
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okay another boat is pulling through now
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very slowly making its way up to the
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dock we are going to be in the first row
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of our boat
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right here first row
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pulling into the station there's our
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vehicle
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I can sense the excitement in you Micah
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I'm so excited honestly I know you're
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gonna love this I have no idea what to
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expect other than what I've seen in your
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videos that's pretty much it yeah
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he's waiting for the Swamp Thing Swamp
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Thing to jump out at us
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oh there's a dinosaur right there below
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the exit side so if we have to exit we
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got to go past this Dinah oh
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foreign
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that's the look on your face right now
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Micah you're so confused
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oh look up here
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it's got a young person
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he's taking a guest out of the boat and
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stopping midair okay now he's going
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friends right here
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how's it going
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little foot Little Foot
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oh they're telling Secrets wait a minute
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oh look right here
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that one's sleeping oh
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fail foreign
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okay last time I was on this this wasn't
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working this charges up beside the boat
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here see if they fixed it this is us
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here what four months ago five months
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ago
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six months ago
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yeah
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it still isn't working
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usually just run beside the boat
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tired wait there's another one lurking
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behind oh now it's moving now it's
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moving now we started moving
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the delayed movement now we're gonna
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Spit with us
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oh
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it's like the same ones they have on the
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universal Backlot tour at Universal
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Hollywood when you go through the
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Jurassic Park area but that one's not
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spitting
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I love this ride so much it's so good in
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a bad way
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let's see
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the snake
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right here by the exit the snake is
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right up there
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years ago probably six seven years ago
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when I did this this whole thing was
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lift up elevated and it would put you
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right at the top of the snake's mouth
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if that hasn't worked in like seven or
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eight years
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pop out of here T-Rex would come out
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right here but the T-Rex is snoozing
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back behind them T-Rex he's back there
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I'm pretty sure
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that's it
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how was that man you did it my very
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first time what'd you think amazing
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okay the goats on a roof area has really
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everything properly adorned for
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Christmas here in fact Santa's gonna
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stop here
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so it weighs off you know it's early
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November but yeah goats on a roof which
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is always a place I like to stop at here
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where the goats are up here on the roof
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sometimes but most of them are not up on
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the roof at this moment most of them are
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over here on Goat TV I don't know if
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it's really a TV channel for go TV but
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look there's a goat there there's a goat
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there there's a goat there get a little
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skid some snacks those
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feeding them here this guy was really
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ready oh look at that coat right there
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wanting to say hi that goat's going up
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to the roof
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get up there it's called goats on a roof
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maybe maybe it's getting a little roof
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shot here's what up here this one's on
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the roof
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the code's going down from the roof now
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okay the goat's coming down from the
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roof
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treading oh don't slip goat lighting
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look at that
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got it down to a science yeah
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have one of the Pigeon Forge Gatlinburg
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trolleys going by well Pigeon Forge
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trolley right over there oh look at this
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this is pretty neat it's like a duck on
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a bicycle a lot of these wrought iron
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art pieces of artwork here this donkey
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on a tricycle got some Christmas decor
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here as well and there's the goats up on
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the roof and now have made it over to
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the shops at Pigeon Forge where there is
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a tow truck here for Hazard County this
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is Cooter Davenport's
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business Cooter's garage which Cooter's
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garage or cooters which is basically
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based on the Dukes of Hazzard it's a
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gift shop used to be in Gatlinburg moved
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over to Pigeon Forge a couple of years
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ago into a bigger spot located here at
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the shops at Pigeon Forge is kind of in
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this parking lot up across it across the
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way there I don't know if it's frowned
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upon or not but a lot of people have
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taken Sharpies and wrote their name you
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think it's allowed you're allowed to
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write names on the on the side I'm sure
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it is because look a lot of people
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there's a pencil have written there's a
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pencil down there number two pencil the
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people have wrote their names all over
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Cooter's tow truck right here
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and then there's the island off in the
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distance the island which has the big
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ferris wheel over there also
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look at this there's scoob and Boog
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spoon forever
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dude's a hazard fan I was the kid yeah
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there it is the General Lee parked out
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of cooters this is probably not a screen
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used one
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they went through like hundreds of these
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vehicles when they were doing the show
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I don't know if I've seen every episode
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but I've definitely seen the first few
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seasons start to finish and then kind of
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peppered in the
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the ones after koi advance
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but the first season of Dukes of Hazzard
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was filmed in Covington Georgia that's
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right and Conyers Georgia
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I've been wanting to try to get in the
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church
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that is was the do was The Boar's Nest
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for many years now that's right it was a
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church but I've never been by there just
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to see what it's like inside there it's
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still there yeah
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all right gonna head inside one thing I
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really like about this place it's bigger
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than the place that was over in
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Gatlinburg which was right on the side
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of the Parkway in Gatlinburg right next
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to where anakista is now building's
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still there but it's used for something
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else but I think this is a better spot
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because there's more room there's all
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these different photo ops inside that
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you can get your photo in different
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areas of Hazard County which you
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couldn't do at the other places there
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was as much room so definitely they have
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torn down they have the original spot
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here and then they tore down a wall now
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they expanded into a much bigger place
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there's a lot of photo ops in here which
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is pretty cool it's free to come in here
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and take photos and also inside also
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look at it generally again with the
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wheel in the back
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quite a bit of not only merchandise but
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they have like an entire like a mute not
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a call I guess you call it a museum but
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they have some different artifacts and
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whatnot from different seasons of the
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shows
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mostly the first season they have a lot
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of stuff from Covington in here as well
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which is pretty pretty awesome but then
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they have all the different merchandise
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and photos and signed pictures and
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things like that pretty expansive area
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as stated originally was just one one
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section of the building and then they
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tore down the wall and took over another
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business and others have a lot of room
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to put all these artifacts and
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merchandise and stuff out
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pretty if you're a dukes fan it's worth
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stopping at not everyone's a dukes fan I
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have a little Nostalgia for the Duke so
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I like stopping in here when I'm in town
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and now made it five miles to the
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mountain out of Pigeon Forge in to
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Gatlinburg this is usually a fountain
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but because of this time of the year
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that the water turned off and they have
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a pumpkin-headed item here holding aside
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and I should probably show that this was
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where cooters used to be now it's over
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in Pigeon Forge but it's Marquee still
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the same now right here where the
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mountain mall is now was ee ogles I
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don't know if it's Ogle or Ogle
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it was the first store in Gatlinburg
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Noah augle's store built in 1850 and now
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it is this epic looking Mountain Mall
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made out of wood this thing has been
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here for years
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I'm gonna go inside too because there's
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a music shop on the bottom floor of this
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place which has been here forever they
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have DVDs I think they have blue rice
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these have vinyl they still have CDs and
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whatnot go in there check that out
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and the name of the place is Rhythm
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Section and I must say it is still how
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it was for many many years not only do
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they have CD but they also have a lot of
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vinyl
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and a lot of blue rice they have so much
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so many horror Blues I want to show the
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selection of the horror Blu-rays they
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have whoever's working here obviously
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stocking up on some kind of classic
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you know horror B films one of the best
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selections that I've probably seen I
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would not have expected to see this in
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Gatlinburg inside the Mountain Mall at
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Rhythm Section
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yeah definitely if you're if you're in
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Gatlinburg and you need some good blue
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rice or vinyl or records check out the
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mountain ball
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awesome really shocked at this election
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how good it is and now this snowman
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because you know the holidays are in
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Full Effect here
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pushing a little puppy here and
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next to the Mountain Mall which was
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established in 1978 which
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has Beauregard the bear there he is
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you've never met Beauregard before super
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nice and what was inside the Mountain
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Mall that kind of like struck a chord
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with you as well no pun intended so you
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know I bought a bunch of stickers there
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back in the day back in 2007 yeah Blink
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182 No Effects
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bunch of stuff a good record store right
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yeah they're Blu-ray horse right I was
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just talking about that definitely yep
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it kind of overshadows Beauregard didn't
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mean to overshadow your Beauregard give
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you a little fist bump here
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old Beauregard the bear we're hiding in
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the shadows in here Micah we are you
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should probably explain where we are so
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2007 my band played a show here tooth
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and Ill records put on with a band
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called jonesetta who were friends of
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ours my cousin was in the band from
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Mississippi and they invited us to come
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and play and we had a stage
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right up there was that you that's me
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and you can see those lights oh yeah
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that's one of those up there
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oh that's you on stuff and that screen
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behind my brother playing drums is still
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up there
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it's all coming back to you now dude
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what's the name of this hotel Edgewater
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he went to the front desk and asked him
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if we could walk in here and they said
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okay that's fine I showed him the photo
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and they got a kick out of it too so
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they said yeah go in there
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match some stuff up so pretty cool
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I mean I never played in here but I
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understand what it's like to be in a
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band and return to a place he used to
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play local shows out or on tour
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all right so there's this look out the
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window over here and you can see the
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Space Needle yes I know there's a Space
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Needle in Seattle but there's also a
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space needle in Gatlinburg much smaller
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space needle
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we'll walk over there
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and then the little pigeon Rivers right
23:09
now and we're taking this elevator down
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it's kind of interesting the name of
23:12
this hotel is called Edgewater at the
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aquarium because it's really like a five
23:16
minute walk from the aquarium yeah but
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back this is one of the older hotels in
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Gatlinburg so it was promoted as as
23:24
Edgewater at the aquarium and there's
23:26
other hotels between this one and the
23:28
aquarium which things you know yeah
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because the aquarium is way over there
23:34
kind of interesting and the Mysterious
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Mansion The Haunted House of Gatlinburg
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which I highly recommend doesn't really
23:41
allowed filming I was able to film in
23:42
there one time but it's
23:44
just kind of a special event that
23:47
was able to go in there and film but
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normally you can't film inside there
23:51
it's right over there this is a real
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Gatlinburg experience notice my voice is
23:54
echoey because we are inside
23:56
the cage cage she's a cage match brother
24:02
speaking of rustage you know that a
24:04
wrestler is the mayor of Knoxville who
24:07
came really Undertaker's brother or it
24:11
was
24:12
I say that I think he got elected now
24:15
that I probably should have looked it up
24:16
first but yeah
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Kane he doesn't wear the mask we're
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going up if you're still going on no you
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ever been up in this before I've never
24:23
been up in here up in here there's
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stairs
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and I saw a sign that said you gotta
24:31
have to agree to walk down those yeah
24:33
the elevator and break down I hope that
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doesn't happen
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see they don't when you purchase a
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ticket they do not tell you read that
24:39
sign first make sure you can walk down
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the stairs the sign says if it breaks
24:44
down you'll have to walk down these
24:48
kind of like that to happen yeah that'd
24:49
be fun it'd be fun it would be burning
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off some calories oh for sure how many
24:54
calories should I give birth going out I
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have no idea at least a dollar
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a dozen thousands
25:02
oh yeah this is a relic of Gatlinburg
25:06
it's the Space Needle
25:09
not to be confused with Cialis
25:12
which one's gonna open you think it's a
25:14
Seattle one
25:16
Oh you mean what door yeah which door
25:17
it's gonna be the store right here okay
25:20
oh boat doors they're both you go out
25:23
that way
25:29
we're up here oh yeah you just walk
25:29
right out here here's the whatever you
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do
25:32
Don't Look Down
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I love it up here though I've been up
25:38
here in the winter when this was
25:40
completely ice oh no like chunks of ice
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up here
25:44
sliding across this oh yeah it's all
25:47
part of the experience this is the first
25:49
time I've been back to Gatlinburg so the
25:51
Gatlinburg Inn is right here and in this
25:53
room over here adjacent to it is where
25:56
the song Rocky Top was written Rocky Top
25:58
Tennessee the song was written so the
26:00
rumor says in this room over here at the
26:02
backside well the side of the Gatlinburg
26:05
again however this area here which I
26:08
thoroughly documented in fact I went
26:10
into a little section that was kind of
26:12
closed off and abandoned back in here
26:14
last time I was here I don't know four
26:15
months ago five months ago half a year
26:17
ago I don't remember what it was three
26:18
or four months ago
26:19
thankfully I did that because it is gone
26:22
now it's been a race from existence it
26:24
burned down this whole section here
26:26
there was like a bar restaurant up top
26:28
there was like a knife store or
26:30
something like they had some like
26:31
throwing stars and things like that and
26:32
it kind of went down a little bit it was
26:34
like a three level building and it was
26:36
all right here next to it this used to
26:37
be a McDonald's this McDonald's has been
26:40
closed forever but that building did not
26:41
burn down but this building looks so
26:43
interesting that this has all been
26:45
completely removed
26:47
and also earthquake to ride is over
26:49
there right over there we're gonna go on
26:50
that shortly once we go back down really
26:53
clear like you can see the Gondola from
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Ober Gatlinburg
26:57
that always gives me James Bond Vibes I
26:59
can't remember what James Bond movie it
27:00
was where he was on the gun there was
27:02
also a Columbo episode on a gondola like
27:05
that that went up the Side of the
27:06
Mountain Palm Springs a so I think of
27:08
Colombo and James Bond
27:11
wouldn't it be cool if Peter Falk would
27:13
have played 007
27:15
I think so there's a lot of history up
27:17
here on this little information plaque
27:19
or information photo one thing that's
27:21
really fascinating is the name of the
27:23
town Gatlinburg used to be called White
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Oaks flats and was changed to Gatlinburg
27:29
after the name after the guy who owned a
27:33
shop in town Radford Gap
27:36
and it says here they named it because
27:38
of the space he provided for the shop
27:39
but in reality I've talked to some of
27:41
the locals and the rumor is that he was
27:44
not liked he was kind of a troublemaker
27:46
and the town they had like a town
27:48
meeting and they told Radford Gatlin
27:51
that if he left town if they could never
27:53
see him again they would change the name
27:56
to his last name Gatlinburg and that is
27:59
kind of what I've always heard I don't
28:01
know if there's any truth to that
28:02
but it sounds like a good story for 51
28:05
cents you get yourself a little souvenir
28:08
see I'm not lying it is called the Space
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Needle oh yeah it really does have the
28:14
same name
28:15
Space Needle yeah and then there's some
28:17
bears and a train
28:19
space needle for 51 cents that Penny
28:21
could be yours or back in the day you
28:24
should take a penny and put it on train
28:25
tracks kind of did the same thing as
28:27
smashing a penny for 51 cents now
28:41
at uh somewhere all right we're back on
28:41
there's the penny machine we're back on
28:43
the elevator
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ground level press the G for ground
28:48
or the OB observation I think owes the
28:51
observation and going back down
29:04
so I guess this is like the ropes that
29:04
go up and down and like pull it up and
29:05
down
29:07
this is where I'm showing here it's
29:08
Gotta Be oh there's a pulley system of
29:10
some sort or some bricks
29:12
yeah I saw the bricks
29:14
look at this big okay there's a steel
29:15
chain
29:20
start to smell that food
29:20
is like the fair food
29:23
it's dry food I can smell it like
29:25
pumping in from outside
29:27
oh there's another elevator right there
29:30
it is there are two
29:32
totally no I've only ever known the one
29:35
there's one that doesn't work and there
29:37
is a pulley system there's another one
29:39
over there see the pulley wow
29:41
interesting I learned something new
29:43
today well on the back side there it was
29:45
roped off that entrance that makes sense
29:48
yep
29:49
at least we're gonna have to take the
29:50
stairs okay I'm walking across the
29:51
street where the fire was this is very
29:53
interesting because this is where you
29:55
would go down and then you would go down
29:57
to the lower level here this was almost
29:58
ground level and it looks like some of
30:00
the businesses have moved to other areas
30:02
remembering the other day this was not
30:04
been moved remembering the oldest bar in
30:06
town puckers pop up
30:09
it's like they're moving it to a
30:10
different spot because
30:12
I can't really tell where it's been
30:14
moved to though
30:15
pucker's pop-up but this one over here
30:18
be China Bazaar that was the place that
30:20
had like the knives and the throwing
30:21
stars and whatnot they removed over to
30:22
Pigeon Forge but it used to be kind of
30:24
down like in here this little
30:25
indentation you could see where it was
30:27
like a basement Style
30:29
and then there was like an area back in
30:31
here where I got some old-timey photos a
30:33
couple years ago it was one of those
30:34
places where you dress up in like period
30:36
Garb and whatnot as Cowboys and did some
30:39
photos it was kind of like right back in
30:41
here
30:42
yeah showed this many many times in past
30:45
videos and now it's kind of unusual to
30:48
see it just a flat piece of land like
30:49
this is he making the Taffy yeah
30:51
wrapping it and everything is he shaking
30:53
that laffy taffy yeah shaking that laffy
30:55
taffy that's always interesting to see
30:57
how they make this look at how it's just
30:59
like compressing through there dumping
31:01
out into here available for purchase at
31:03
all these conditions look it just like
31:05
slings it down in there yep I said this
31:07
you like zoom in it's like the opening
31:09
of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
31:10
machines
31:12
look at that thing over here taking the
31:15
paper wrapping it all up yeah
31:17
it's like something out of Vincent
31:19
Price's laboratory and other
31:20
Scissorhands too
31:28
and update time world of Illusions is
31:28
now Tennessee Stud Cider Company an
31:31
alcoholic beverage company they have
31:33
repurposed the building the world of
31:36
Illusions is now
31:39
complete last time I was through here
31:40
was like under construction the building
31:42
has taken shape again and now it is stud
31:45
Tennessee Stud
31:48
and around the back door where you'd
31:49
exit out check this out mi World
31:52
illusion World in my world I'm guessing
31:55
that's probably illusion world I don't
31:58
know I kind of just make sure it sounds
32:00
about because you used to walk out of
32:01
the backside of a world of Illusion
32:03
right here and out this way but
32:04
thankfully there is an attraction right
32:07
next door that is on par with the
32:09
greatness of world of Illusion and I'm
32:12
talking about earthquake the ride still
32:14
open for business and I think it goes
32:16
without saying there's probably going to
32:17
be some strobe lights or a little strobe
32:19
light warning flashing light warning now
32:20
there's a couple guests on it right now
32:22
and then we are up next this couple has
32:25
been waiting in line for a long time and
32:28
I always always wonder what exactly
32:31
she's looking at I think she's looking
32:33
at this crack up here you could pretty
32:34
much say that this is kind of similar to
32:37
the earthquake the ride at Universal
32:39
Florida but not all right Micah that's
32:42
us right there so did you ride this in
32:44
2007
32:46
him when I was younger too so it's been
32:49
15 years since you've been on this yeah
32:51
spoiler alert nothing's changed oh wait
32:55
no I think they may have added some new
32:56
rats okay okay I'll take that back maybe
32:58
something has changed it doesn't seem
33:00
like it seems like there's more strobe
33:02
lights than last time I was on there
33:03
these I don't know if that's an effect
33:05
or if the light bulb just needs to be
33:08
changed
33:14
this is made I have never kept track of
33:14
how many times I've been on this but
33:16
it's at least 20 at least 25 times
33:18
probably 25 times I might be the biggest
33:22
hype man for this attraction
33:25
I don't know I think it's probably tied
33:27
between me and Jacob because Jacob and I
33:29
have been on this a heck of a lot of
33:31
times
33:32
I don't know if there's anybody else
33:33
that Hypes this ride up as much this is
33:36
a win in Rome moment you have to do
33:39
earthquake the ride when you're in
33:40
Gatlinburg and you have to do Jurassic
33:43
boat ride in Pigeon Forge meaning I have
33:46
to no one else probably will but I will
33:49
microwave
33:55
but we'll plan on doing this more this
33:55
week
33:55
I haven't even done it yet
34:02
we're moving
34:02
oh the seat's going the seat goes up the
34:05
seat tilt his back oh no the throttle's
34:07
Jeremy we're out of control getting very
34:10
dark out here okay it's okay
34:13
yeah the seat basically dry rights and
34:15
lifts up and down man I'm hearing a
34:17
monkey should be a big gorilla over here
34:22
on fire yeah
34:51
okay we're going up here
34:51
oh my God
34:59
all right
35:00
oh my gosh
35:08
oh my central one's an alligator one's a
35:08
crocodile I think or maybe they're both
35:10
crocodiles why do they have to be snakes
35:12
there was some ramp there they used to
35:15
slide up and down the side
35:16
of the wall there I love the alligator
35:20
the crocodiles
35:56
now I wonder if the water's gonna work
35:56
this high oh look there's a Metro sign
35:58
I've never noticed that before there's
36:00
the water
36:03
the water's pouring up and there he goes
36:16
oh my goodness
36:39
you got me it's like the best thing ever
36:42
got me that's gonna do it for today from
36:45
Pigeon Forge in Gatlinburg
36:47
a fun time let's see the next video the
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