Gatlinburg Chili Cookoff & Winterfest Kickoff 2022 - Last Day in Smoky Mountains / Light Up Downtown
Gatlinburg Chili Cookoff 2022
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today's adventure begins with me walking
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down this dirt path to these rocks along
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the little Pigeon River which I think is
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a good place to do the intro
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Maybe
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whoa
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right here along the spur that's this
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roadway that leaves from Pigeon Forge to
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Gatlinburg
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where I'm heading
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fine
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Adam the woo here as the recording of
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this Thursday November 10th 2022 also my
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last official day here in the Smoky
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Mountains Sevierville Gatlinburg Pigeon
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Forge staying in Pigeon Forge driving
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over to Gatlinburg today because what
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was a tradition for me for quite a few
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years in a row
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but I've missed the last couple I am
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starting it up again
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the Gatlinburg winter kickoff and chilly
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cook-off
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I'm back
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and I'm gonna eat my weight in Chile
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21.34 35 21 and change was the ticket
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price they call it a VIP Early Access 30
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minutes before the non
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-vip so for fifteen dollars the chili
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but five dollars additional you could
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get in a half hour early to eat a little
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more chili before the crowds go in so I
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purchased that online
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getting over there a little bit early
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it's only about two o'clock 2 30 right
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now it doesn't start till 5 p.m because
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I want to do a few things around the
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strip in Gatlinburg I'm inviting you to
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join me
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that was a very long-winded entrance
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shall you I was incorrect on the time
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frame it is not to 2 30 p.m it is about
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1 30 P.M
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cook-off doesn't start until five so I
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got a little time gotta play a couple
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stops I parked over here at the bear
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claw lot it's on the far end of tab
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to walk the entire strip is twenty
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dollars so you put your to have my
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rental car so they put the tag in over
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here twenty dollars are cheaper places
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in town this person's waving as they
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drive by in that red car
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there are cheaper places and there is
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street parking but I always just kind of
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Park here that way I'm on one into town
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and can walk the distance the reason I'm
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getting into town this early a couple
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different reasons but I want to beat the
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crowd before it gets here because it is
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going to be a real behind activity down
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here also over here in the bear claw lot
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there used to be miniature golf course
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right here with the waterfall that sets
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empty and then the other day I showed it
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too but up there on the top of the hill
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is the old ski lift that's closed ah
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there's even a banner up there
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above the Gatlinburg sign the pumpkin
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headed scarecrow holding the welcome to
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Gatlinburg sign at the top Gatlinburg
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chili cook-off and also arrived a little
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early down here because I'm going to
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stop over here at the Mountain Mall to a
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place called rhythm section and get a
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few blue Rays they have a really good
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horror film selection I saw the other
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day so I'm going to stop inside the
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Rhythm Section check out what they have
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for horror blue rates have some good
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Classics and some beef fill some obscure
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ones and some other things I like
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physical media so I'm going to stop in
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and get some items since I am leaving
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town
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they follow me everywhere I spent a
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little bit more but I knew I was going
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to spend quite a bit because I had my
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eye on a couple of these the other day
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but I'd rather just kind of shop at a
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locally opened place but I may do order
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a lot offline but figure when I see
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something that has a lot of good titles
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might as well purchase them take this
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back to my car now I want to carry these
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around on it again yes I probably could
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have got these a little less expensive
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online
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but I went ahead and got them you know
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went in room type moment and I really
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like physical media because you know
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some stuff I have been wanting to get
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the entire collection of dukes
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for a while and you never know when some
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of the stuff won't even be on streaming
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pretty excited to get this Eden alive
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which is Toby Hooper from Texas Chainsaw
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heated this story I think it's Marilyn
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Burns was in Texas Chainsaw she was also
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in this and Freddy Krueger himself
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Robert England was in this for a moment
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I've been needing to get a new copy of
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motel hell this movie Mandy these are
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all Blu-rays by the way except for this
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one I think it's DVDs yeah this I think
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this is DVDs everything else is blu-ray
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this I watched when I was with my sister
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and her husband he really likes this
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movie and I kind of watched it and I was
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like I didn't know what to think about
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it but now I've been thinking about it
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for a few months and saw the Blu-ray
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decided to get it Nicholas Cage not a
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lot of dialogue in this from him but
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quite a performance and I think I have
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one and two already but I picked up
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Basket Case three alligator two which
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kind of ties into the eating alive
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as well and of course also dollies from
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this area so I need to copy a vessel
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Whorehouse in Texas film this this house
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is at Universal Studios Backlot in
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Hollywood and I've never seen this this
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is an aero release Arrow video release
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I've never seen Phantom of them all slip
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past my radar
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but yeah I got this
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it's been a little bit of cash but you
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know what
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they had a good selection so I figured
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heck it all right onto the chili cook
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offer at least walking through down the
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Gatlinburg strip one thing that's also
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an additional bonus about well no pun
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intended bonus features about
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traditional media you know hard media
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rather than streaming and whatnot is to
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get the behind the scenes director
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commentary bonus footage all that I am
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really I like something I want to know
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what the director has to say about it I
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want to know
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so yeah I like having I like having hard
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copies DVDs Blu-rays things like that
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now many years ago when I first started
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going to this they would block off the
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main Parkway and have the chili cook off
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on that then they moved it over next to
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earthquake the ride and then they moved
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to the anakisa both the years it was
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next to anakis I didn't go to it this
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year it's going to be by the Space
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Needle these pigeons over here are
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chowing down I'm gonna be chowing down
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some chili later but these pigeons
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already getting a head start on the
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snacking snacking away but I can't
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understand why they decided to not have
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it in the road anymore because look at
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this traffic through here blocking the
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road off and only having people drive up
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a River Road
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definitely was very congested all right
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a little behind the scenes as they are
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putting the tree up here that these
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gentlemen working hard to put the tree
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up he'll be illuminated this evening you
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can even see the branches over here
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it all kicks off tonight winter
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Christmas kickoff and of course chili
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I always got to say hi to
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borgard here before walking the strip
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here at the Mountain Mall just decide
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where I bought all the blue rice I have
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good music section too records and vinyl
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and CDs I'm not sure if I saw any
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cassettes but they might have cassettes
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seems like kind of place I would and I
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am back inside the donut fryer where I'm
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gonna get myself a not a donut because
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I'm going to be quite a bit a little bit
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later two and a half hours till the
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chili cook-off I'm gonna get myself a
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piping hot caffeinated beverage get
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caffeinated beforehand walked up here to
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this little overlook
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you can see they're doing some
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construction down here
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but
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up here at White Oak Flats
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there is a bear
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up on the top of the hill
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quite a few people over here
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trying to get some photos of the bear
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that's at the top of the hill
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so how long has this bear been up on the
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side of the Hill well I've been up here
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close to a half hour now and I saw other
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people watching
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I noticed how no one is getting really
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close no one wants to go pet the bear
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which probably would not be smart it'd
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probably be frowned upon in the Bear
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World
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and over there on the hill was a
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miniature golf course there's a couple
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families looking at the bear over here
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but I'm trying to find
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the Roman the roaming man not Roman not
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winning Rome but the roaming man of the
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mountains
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who is laid to rest over here also
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Carolina Tony's here how do I address
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you as the one and only yeah Carolina
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Tony I am you're gonna also be at the
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chili cook-off tonight if you've never
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been up to this little this little
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little property up here have you I never
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have didn't even know what it is we're
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gonna look for the roaming man of the
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mountains who wrote a couple books and
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he was one of the first Guides of the
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Smoky Mountain but I cannot remember his
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last name is Oakley Oakley yeah I can't
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remember exactly where he is though he's
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up here somewhere all right found him
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right here Wiley Oakley
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who really promoted the Great Smoky
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Mountains the Roman man of the mountains
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and his wife Rebecca Ann
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both of them had 1885 passed away in
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1890 so yeah he dates way back the Roman
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man of the mountains
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he's one of the first to promote the
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Great Smokies
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play some like pop culture pop
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literature style and he was a guy do
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guides all around the Smoky Mountains
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he's right here at the top of the strip
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of Gatlinburg you call it the stripper
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you call it the parkway what do you call
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it
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because also there's a Parkway over in
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Pigeon Forge
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so I guess this would probably be this
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trip but I am hoping that bear that's
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over there doesn't also want to come
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over to see the roaming man of the
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mountains maybe that's why that Bear's
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here he's looking for the roaming man of
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the mountains where he comes over here
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he can see the Running Man The Running
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Man of the bat you'll be the running
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well I was gonna say you could climb a
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tree but that bear was just climbing a
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tree so I don't know if you'd be safe
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climbing a tree away from a bear
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probably not is this like a milk jug or
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it's a cookie jar every time I see
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though I think it's like a milk jug over
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here this is like hypnotizing just
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watching this Taffy right here if I
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wasn't going to be eating you know
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probably 18 gallons of chili tonight I
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might get a piece of Taffy
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come on it is about time I had some fun
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and they have all the snowmen out the
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smoke folk out the smoke snow women snow
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men and the snow Folk
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I don't think these are cookies I think
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these are chili patties they're prepared
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for the chili cook-off those are those
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are chili patties
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I love that they have all the the
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snowfolk out here though got the snow
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boots on
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what's it made out of snow fiberglass
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now it's snow okay don't ruin the
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illusion
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this is kind of like a wall here that
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you can get a photo in front of has the
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bear on the side we just saw a live bear
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but up here Gatlinburg written all
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across the top and then down here it
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says standing strong on the side of that
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this is almost like yeah like uh you
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could get a you get like a selfie in
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front anybody get a selfie in front of
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everyone and over here next to Bubba
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Gump's is a Forest Gump not for not the
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normal Forrest Gump but a snowman
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Forrest Gump with the comfort those look
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like very comfortable shoes and this is
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kind of nice usually you can't get
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anywhere near this
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to get a selfie also Odin Von zeros here
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I haven't seen you
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I have not probably not seen you in like
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three or four years
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you're gonna be happy because you're
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into a lot of like cult classic horror
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films I just purchased a lot of Blu-rays
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down at the Rhythm selection Rhythm
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Section let's pick up uh I picked up
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Dukes of Hazzard which is not a horror
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film but I also picked up eaten alive
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the Toby Hooper classic I remember that
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yeah I got a nice little stash myself
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not long ago fun house another Toby
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Cooper film ah Phantom of the paradise
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Creep Show
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all at that record store Phantom of The
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Paradise all at that record store no
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inside the convention center there is a
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gift show oh it's wholesale only so this
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is not going to be open to normal guests
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it's open to trade does that mean I can
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just go in and trade something or I have
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probably have oh it's not open to the
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public not open to the public
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this guy's this guy's getting up he's
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getting in the Christmas mood you in the
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Christmas food yeah
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happy holidays
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all right we are going up to the top of
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the Space Needle to get a bird's eye
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perspective of Gatlinburg over that
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direction and where the chili cook-off
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will be so we've still got about another
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hour for the chili cook-off again so go
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on the top of the Space Needle get a
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little bird's eye view all right peeking
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off the top of here
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now was it just me or does it seem like
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there's less Booth this year than in the
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past so if this is all of them so over
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here you got some of these hotels and
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whatnot but it seems like there's only
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one two three four five six seven eight
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nine ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen
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fifty let's say 20 booths now many many
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years ago probably 10 years well nine or
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eight or nine years ago next to those
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kind of old-timey Church buildings down
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there there used to be a window that had
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an arc of the Covenant just like the one
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in Raiders little lost ark it was like
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on display for all to see it's been gone
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for like almost a decade now but it was
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down there next to those old church
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buildings all right just to give a
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little history of the chili cook-off so
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Anna quistas down here the last two
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years has been in that parking lot
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before that for three or four years or
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two or three four years it was in this
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big parking lot right here before that
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it was all along the strip so when it
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was on the Strip there was a lot of
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booths then there was a lot of boosts in
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here too I think anakisa May a downsized
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a little bit and now I only counted 20
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boosts which is on the other side
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it might is it all just in my mind or
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you feel like there's less boost this
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year your list is yeah it feels are at
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least like 30s 30 some in the last few
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years only 20 we counted of course maybe
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I get doubted it might be more boost but
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over here used to be puckers and then
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behind puckers me you and the carpet
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bagger five years ago got an old-time
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photo you haven't you're having memories
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of but now it all burned down it's all
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down there but we have we have memories
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right now there gift shop uh just pretty
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big but it was a small haunted house in
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the corner there right here where
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Ripley's is now well more like where the
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restaurant is now there was a small
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haunted house in the corner
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I forget what it was called and there
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was like a small t-shirt store this was
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all Rebel corner where Ripley's is now
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this is the top of the Ripley's building
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so if you went into I think both
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Ripley's and the haunted house exited
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into the rebel Corner gift shop how many
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years ago was that
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oh see mid 90s mysterious magic no it's
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open they're remodeling they're doing
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some Syria but during the fires they had
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assumed that they had burned down
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because no one could get down to see it
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but they are still open thankfully but
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it is under some heavy construction
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it is remodeling
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I heard a story that the the day of the
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fire the morning they set their
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sprinklers on
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in behind the building there and that's
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pretty much one thing that saved the
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building no kidding
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it's a really good haunted house
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it's pretty scary
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what I'm looking at down here is The
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Last Remnant of Christ in the Smokies
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wax museum
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it's the last portion of one of the
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walls that has not been torn down yet
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all right so basically the way it works
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is did you guys get your tickets all I
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got my ticket online
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you go in here they you pay the one
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admission they give you either probably
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give you a wristband of some sort and
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you will walk away walk around to all
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the different booths which are some of
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the local businesses and they're all
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competing to have the best chili and
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it's unlimited amount of chili you get
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these little cups but I mean if you have
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two or three cups of chili at each 20 of
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these you can have 40 to 60 little tiny
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pint-sized chili
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so there's gonna be a lot of chili what
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did you do last year last year when you
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go in they give you chips yeah five
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chips for about for balance and they
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gave you an edible spoon yeah and I ate
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my spoon
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and then I didn't have anything to eat
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my chili with so what'd you do I went
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back and said I ate my spoon
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can you give me another they gave me a
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plastic one that time
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let's take a cup yeah let's tip it back
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it's a tip don't eat his food now
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heading back down down to ground level I
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need some Aviator glasses seems to be a
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little bit you need some what I need
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some Aviator glasses
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but then you wouldn't be the Gatlinburg
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is it hussy The Gambler hussy the
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Gatlinburg High Street yeah
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my last name the Husky people were like
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why are you gonna call it the Gatlinburg
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car seat my last name is it your last
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name it ain't my last name all right for
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so many years I hated my last name and
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now I embrace it yeah hi what's my name
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there you go welcome Gatling girl you're
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like uh Heisenberg you say say my you
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just looked across the street you told
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the people to say your name
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God
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God Gatlinburg hunting
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oh there's will and Dawn over there too
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say you watch Breaking Bad absolutely so
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do the Heisenberg do your say my name
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okay my name
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got some of the local news out here as
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well
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it appears as if this is sponsored by
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Bush's best baked beans
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which is kind of a local company
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all right here are the two got early
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admission line starts there general
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admission you want to be in the video
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being the first of the line yeah sure
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you're the first one in line and looks
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like someone's showing up with either
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this is their chili cook-off stuff or
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are there some Moonshiners one of the
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two now standing across the street
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looking at the Line This is the VIP line
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you can just see how many people from
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what I heard the VIP actually sold out
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there are no more VIP tickets available
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that's where the regular standby starts
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over there yeah you can see it really
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does stretch all the way down the hill
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here by down past Bubba Gump this is
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just what they consider the VIP for an
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extra five dollars early entry a lot of
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people here take a look at these birds
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up here circling around
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up in the sky and I imagine later
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they'll probably have this little
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Christmas decor illuminate about I love
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the birds also the line is growing it's
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all the way down over on this corner now
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and going up the hill got quite the line
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formulating here backed up behind this
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garbage truck that stopped over here in
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the middle of the road this maybe go
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where all the empty canisters of
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everyone that's going to be completely
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annihilating the chili will go in the
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back of this garbage truck
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and I would imagine there's going to be
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a lot of empty containers after everyone
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polishes off the chili and I just if
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it's like deja vu I just saw you the
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other day both you guys
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Jackie in the south is here Dawn will
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will and Dawn how do they refer to you
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will and Dawn or Dawn will and Dawn
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Donna will Yankee in the South this is
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the one and only Carolina Tony there is
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no other
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not yet are you ready for some chili
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amen are you ready for some chili what
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do you say Donna when he
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says are you ready then what do you say
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I'm ready let's do this that's it let's
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do this I can't remember the catchphrase
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let's try it again you ready for some
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chili are you ready for some chili Dawn
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let's do this everyone here in this line
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is about to park themselves in the midst
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of the chilly Revival
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it's not really a Revival
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they have this every year though in
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revivals every year all right the
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garbage truck is now pulling away for
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whatever reason the garbage truck is
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moving on to other duties all right so
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it just turned around did a u-turn
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a tow truck get a U-turn right here and
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this is the Loco this is the logo right
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here for Gatlinburg the sanitation logo
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I don't know what the odds are of it
19:55
raining there yeah it definitely looks
19:56
like it's a little cloudy up here oh
19:58
they are demonstrating
20:00
the garbage truck works right here
20:10
oh the Moonshine obviously the Old Smoky
20:12
Moonshine you're smelling that moonshine
20:14
Carolina Tony yeah you're getting drawn
20:16
in like a tractor beam
20:18
we're getting drawn in like a tractor
20:19
beam don't don't waste it here put my
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cupboard
20:27
okay they're making an announcement I
20:27
believe the law
20:31
to heading out we gotta make sure I got
20:31
my QR I heard the whole event is sold
20:33
out not just the VIP the VIP is being
20:36
letting in and then over there is the
20:38
standby for the regular also hearing the
20:41
tickets this morning are not on sale
20:43
anymore is that what you said yeah they
20:45
stopped selling them about noon I think
20:47
all right yeah
20:53
this is a very popular event like a
20:53
small little area
20:55
this is probably the smallest area
21:02
you need to get one of these edible
21:02
spoons like they're not edible don't eat
21:04
it they're not they're not edible but
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okay you can throw it try to hold on to
21:08
it all right try to hold on to it is
21:10
this the edible spoon that's the voting
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oh the voting tokens
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okay thank you okay so any any one of
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the chilies I like I can vote by putting
21:19
these in the basket oh my goodness it is
21:21
Whoville and it's the Grinch over here
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it's the Grinch that stole the chili
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hello Grinch I'm gonna try I think
21:27
you're gonna be the first chili I try
21:28
over here
21:34
without smoked bologna this is this guy
21:34
tried with it I'm gonna get the bologna
21:35
I'll get the smoked bologna
21:37
the edible spoon all right Chilean
21:38
oregano all right thank you so much
21:45
here they have cheese jalapenos and sour
21:45
cream we get a little cheese and sour
21:46
cream full on cheese and jalapenos on
21:49
this and check it out there's even like
21:50
a little extra piece of meat in there
21:52
I've never seen that on the bologna on
21:53
there evidently judging by the packaging
21:55
this is from Ripley's Aquarium let's say
21:57
it's a very healthy amount of chili
21:59
right I've made 20 of these I am going
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to be yeah I'm gonna be full how do you
22:03
you're trying to fit you're trying to
22:04
figure out how to hold it and eat it at
22:05
the same time it's an art form it's
22:07
definitely definitely an art you got it
22:09
there you go nailed it got it very
22:11
perfect over here old smokey look over
22:13
here they're kind of like they're just
22:14
like spinning they're like just like a
22:15
bat all right I'm hearing the Gatlinburg
22:17
fire department has really good
22:18
chilisburg fire department Chili Thai
22:21
look at this a little smaller cup than
22:23
uh Ripley's yeah the fire department
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chili was really good I polished it off
22:26
now over to the police department
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which has oh yeah the little little
22:30
crackers over there if you like it I'm
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gonna get my chili fill Filled from that
22:34
put the oyster crackers in mind so this
22:36
is my doing down here so do you guys
22:38
have the better chili or does the fire
22:39
department oh they absolutely do oh you
22:41
have the best one I'm over here to eat
22:42
ours get the taste out of their mouth
22:43
for me so there's a there's this Five
22:45
Alarm what is your what alarm is yours
22:47
uh it's not Five Alarm we like people to
22:49
actually enjoy yeah the fire department
22:51
was very very spicy I will say that
22:53
doesn't need jalapeno no you'll be able
22:54
to eat it all right thank you yeah I
22:58
gotta say I definitely like some oyster
22:59
crackers I've got some oyster crackers
23:01
in this chili and definitely people are
23:02
starting to formulate their way in now
23:04
the crowd is making their way in world's
23:06
most visited Distillery
23:08
number seven Old Smoky Mountain
23:10
moonshine does this have moonshine in it
23:13
I don't know oh it has little pieces of
23:15
corn in it though I don't know if it has
23:16
moonshine I don't know if I want to do
23:17
any boozing it up tonight but they're
23:19
like I don't think it does I think it's
23:21
not alcoholic hopefully
23:24
is that corn and like some spices and
23:26
some Chili's actual actual chilies
23:29
inside the chili some peppers that is
23:32
hot I don't mean spicy I mean like it is
23:35
warm popping hot piping hot that thing
23:39
is that was the one that had the fire
23:41
that's fire cooked with fire
23:45
I like it it's got a mixture it's like a
23:47
goulash sweet that's what you call it
23:49
goulash with a southerner say goulash
23:51
but he put like everything but the
23:52
kitchen sink and the chili that is from
23:54
the Old Smoky Tennessee Mountain
23:56
moonshine
23:58
have you used your edible spoon yet no
24:00
I'm afraid to yeah you should save it as
24:02
a little souvenir I threw away my uh the
24:04
last year my first bone so you got to
24:07
get another one I've already thrown one
24:09
away so Christmas time over here over
24:11
here is enjoying some moonshine you got
24:13
this down to a science you bought the
24:14
little muffin pan that is that is genius
24:17
right there it is for a dollar 25 at the
24:20
Dollar Tree and remember that for future
24:22
for future years that's a hack I like it
24:25
and for those that want to wet their
24:26
whistle with a beverage of the adult
24:28
persuasion there's Hee Haw Brewing
24:30
Company out here as well okay my
24:32
favorite so far is Ripley's which is
24:34
Whoville the Old Town the old smokey was
24:37
pretty good I think there was like too
24:39
much going on for my flavor I had like
24:40
the goulash in there Gatlinburg fire
24:42
department was like almost a little too
24:44
spicy for me I really did like the
24:46
police department one and I'm gonna make
24:48
my way down the line I think Ripley's is
24:49
my favorite so far next up is Red Hawk
24:52
security
24:55
oh they have a little goldfish on this
24:57
one not oyster crackers but goldfish now
24:59
I am no chef but it almost seems like
25:00
there's like some brown sugar in this
25:02
with that kind of brown sugary at least
25:04
like a little sweet taste to it yeah I
25:06
like this one this is the Red Hawk
25:08
security one here kind of brown sugary
25:11
with the little no oyster crackers is
25:13
going in full on with the Goldfish I
25:15
think I like this one ready for some
25:18
heat right here must be hot is it hot
25:23
they even have some merchandise for the
25:26
new name over here oh this is all says
25:27
over cow member but they've changed the
25:29
name to Uber Mountain so over Gatlinburg
25:32
merch will be going away soon no joke
25:34
this has a little bit of heat to it it
25:36
just definitely has some heat to it a
25:37
little bit of heat
25:38
a little after bites and they also sell
25:41
sodas and water over here at this booth
25:43
so for two dollars I ended up getting
25:45
this because I'm gonna probably need
25:46
something to wash a lot of this down two
25:48
dollars for sodas coca-colas and Sprites
25:50
Dr Peppers and I'm going with the
25:52
purified drinking water and next up Land
25:54
Shark Bar and Grill kind of like a soupy
25:56
soupy style it does look pretty good
25:58
though it's called chorizo chill almost
25:59
looks like pinto bean style it's not as
26:01
soupy as I thought it was going to be
26:02
like it was pretty good these might be
26:05
pen Tower the chorizo stuff okay that's
26:07
got a little kick to it too chorizo
26:10
chili right here and then after this
26:12
gonna go over here to holster she puts
26:15
Eagle sauce in it evil sauce yes
26:25
that must be really spicy
26:25
got a little bit of a kick this is
26:27
holston's fresh
26:30
kitchens I'm gonna try the I'm gonna go
26:33
with full evil okay right next to land
26:36
shark which I haven't even finished I
26:38
got a little bit from holston's kitchen
26:39
and she put a little evil in it she said
26:41
a little bit of evil which I think is
26:42
going to have a little bit of a kick I
26:44
have to say I really like the shirt so
26:46
we used to show this shirt but you also
26:48
have a TNT new threat shirt from back
26:50
when I was at the punk rock days you
26:51
wanted me to sign it so it's got a screw
26:52
my name on there but that's awesome so
26:54
which do you treasure more the the band
26:56
the Obscure band that no one's ever
26:57
heard of I was in or this did you make
26:59
that yourself or was that no no this was
27:01
one of yours really yeah I haven't sold
27:02
t-shirts in forever it was the last
27:11
do you have a YouTube channel yes what's
27:11
your YouTube channel priest Adventures
27:12
say it again priest Adventures priest
27:15
Adventures yeah priest b-r-i-e-r
27:18
-e-i-e-s-t Adventures we do a lot of
27:21
hiking a lot of hiking awesome we were
27:23
wearing one heck of a shirt yeah it's a
27:24
deep cut
27:25
all right priests priest adventurous
27:28
nice to meet you both all right I'm
27:29
already starting to get full and I've
27:31
only got like only a third of the way
27:32
through I got this one of the pucker is
27:35
the place that kind of burned down they
27:36
have a pop-up they moved over to a
27:38
sports grill they have a pop-up as well
27:40
so I got all these and then I got a
27:42
bunch more over there that I still got
27:44
to do all right on to the next one now
27:45
crawdaddies and Johnny Rockets
27:48
oh this is Loco burro okay Loco same
27:53
company but we're on three different
27:54
booths oh okay excellent okay gotcha
27:56
thank you loco Burrough this is their
27:58
chili and I gotta get another spoon I've
28:00
already lost my spoons
28:06
the edible spoon I'm gonna say actually
28:06
I ate a little bit of it it kind of hits
28:08
it broke on me the edible spoon broke
28:09
all right I went with some chili here
28:11
with some peppers yeah some onions and
28:14
cheese and this is from the [\h__\h] Papa
28:17
all right I just saw it tried
28:18
crawdaddies and it's really good that
28:20
was really pretty funny it was pretty
28:22
good and now on to the margarita Hill
28:24
Resort Booth which I'm hearing has some
28:27
pineapple in it says pineapple in there
28:29
yeah pineapple and Olive
28:31
Spiced Rum jerk chili Island Spice
28:34
I'm gonna try some of that all right the
28:38
Margaritaville Resort
28:39
it's very spicy but it also kind of has
28:42
like a fruity flavor to it kind of has
28:45
some pineapple or whatnot in here and
28:46
here's some winter magic chili cook-offs
28:49
2022 it says I'm feeling a little bit
28:52
chilly right there with the bear and the
28:55
spoon
28:56
entertainment over here as well
29:00
four or five chilies chili stamps left I
29:03
know a lot of them are pretty spicy
29:05
whatever spicy that's the seed tonight
29:07
spice okay over at the Savannah Bee
29:09
Company some sort of dessert right here
29:11
and they also have flaming hot chocolate
29:19
it's dip this in there this is unlocked
29:19
anything I've ever had how was this did
29:21
you try this it is it's got It's got a
29:24
spot
29:25
to them I hope you guys enjoyed checking
29:28
out on our team spot y'all been great
29:29
thank you so much
29:39
and now over to hillbilly cooking and
29:39
Adventures over here they have the fat
29:41
going stir in the bat hillbilly oh crazy
29:45
crazy hillbilly cooking and adventures
29:48
all right how crazy are you
29:52
very crazy well we'd be very crazy
29:54
normally but right now we're a little
29:56
dedicated all right dedicated dedicated
29:58
hillbilly cooking right now all right
30:00
I'm excited about this we need our noon
30:03
here and we are going to
30:06
look up as well glad you folks and next
30:09
up is a food truck
30:11
BBQ 865 food truck over here
30:19
we have some sort of fantastic devices
30:19
here as we start the light let's start
30:22
with 10.
30:28
you're doing a countdown
30:28
six
30:29
five
30:31
four
30:31
three
30:33
two
30:34
one light them up oh wow wow
30:46
I thought the whole city was gonna light
30:46
up into some sparklers
30:54
riding of the lights over here I was
30:54
looking at the Space Needle like where
30:56
is it like oh they turn on the Christmas
30:58
tree
31:00
now over here
31:08
oh look at this this is like full-on BBQ
31:08
style right here I like it
31:16
oh you know it's a grinch right there
31:16
too
31:17
yeah
31:20
there is just a plethora of meaty BBQ
31:24
goodness
31:26
what'd you think of that one what'd you
31:28
think of the BBQ one it wasn't on my
31:30
list would you say it tasted like yeah
31:31
it tastes like warm sticks warm sticks I
31:33
kind of liked it though foreign
31:40
from exploration unknown
31:43
last time I saw you we were like finding
31:45
an abandoned train and going to a jail
31:47
yeah we were in jail together now what
31:49
was the name of the jail Rusty Mountain
31:51
Brushy Mountain where there's a rumor of
31:53
a cigarette that smokes itself in the in
31:56
the thing there yes I've seen it with
31:57
Mona I know I I try to I try to forget
32:00
it all right there's one more chili I
32:02
have not tried it's the channel 8 news
32:04
station Chile over here the official
32:08
station
32:09
foreign
32:19
I have not tried I think my favorite are
32:19
Ripley's and the Landshark okay I do
32:22
think that my favorite was the Ripley's
32:24
welcome to Whoville even though I really
32:27
like the other one that was a close
32:28
second and coming to go with Ripley's
32:30
here I'm gonna give you all five grunch
32:32
all five of these for you there it is
32:35
they're all in there no problem and
32:38
since I gave the tokens over there I
32:40
should probably go ahead and have
32:42
another another bowl of Ripley's chili
32:45
this is the last one there is a bear
32:47
right oh that Bear's trying to steal the
32:48
entire thing of chili right there also
32:51
the channel 8 Booth is giving away blue
32:53
bells vanilla sandwiches so I can't pass
32:55
up on this it's a nice little dessert
32:58
treat at the end of the overflowing
33:01
amount of chili that is flowing through
33:02
my belly right now and on the way out
33:04
gonna go back up to the Space Needle at
33:06
night all right it is illuminated green
33:08
up here and one of the city of
33:10
Gatlinburg Commissioners was in the
33:12
elevator on the way up and he in fact
33:14
did confirm that when they let the
33:16
sparklers off earlier that was when they
33:19
simultaneously switched all the trees on
33:21
to light up for the Christmas season the
33:24
Christmas winter while the winter not
33:26
the Christmas but the winter which
33:27
coincides with Christmas kick off
33:29
Christmas season kickoff on the Strip on
33:32
the parkway so it did coincide with the
33:34
Sparkles going on so it is official here
33:36
in the Smoky Mountains of Gatlinburg
33:38
winter officially begins right now and I
33:42
am officially full
33:43
of chili in my belly the green light up
33:46
here makes it kind of kind of
33:47
interesting like but I haven't even
33:49
eaten my edible spoon date about half of
33:51
my elbow spoon so I should finish off my
33:53
edible spoon it says right here oregano
33:55
chili flavored edible spoon didn't
33:58
really taste that good here is the
34:01
edible spoon
34:06
as I'm walking back to my car I thought
34:06
maybe they'd have the tree lit up
34:09
still working on the tree but soon
34:13
very soon
34:15
but all this down the parkway was lit up
34:17
in sync with the
34:20
the rest of the sparklers that were lit
34:23
off the chili cook-off
34:30
oh yeah and over there too all lit up
34:30
funny part and also in front of the
34:31
aquarium we got Frosty the Snowman or
34:35
I'm not sure if atrocity but it is a
34:36
Snowman
34:37
and there's a tree also in front of the
34:39
aquarium and there's a little walkway
34:43
and there's even more trees
34:46
all lit up over here
34:48
Christmas
34:49
and winter kickoff
34:53
in Gatlinburg
34:57
just happened
34:57
look at all those cars look at that
35:00
traffic and that's gonna do it from
35:02
today for today from today and for today
35:04
I'll see you in the next video
35:07
it was fun time here in Gatlinburg for
35:09
10 year of my trip here I'll see you in
35:11
the next video moving on
35:14
out of the Smoky Mountains starting in
35:15
the morning I'll see the next video of
35:16
the Vlog
35:18
is over