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I'm currently standing in the loneliest town in America.
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I'm in the middle of Alaska, hundreds of miles away from the nearest city, and there is pretty much nothing out here.
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The town is called Chicken Alaska.
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It's an old gold mining town cut off from the rest of the world.
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No cell towers, no grocery stores, no main electricity.
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And I'm spending 24 hours here.
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But that's the fun part.
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The real challenge was getting here.
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It says rerouting right now.
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Let me explain.
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Denali, Alaska.
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Whoa.
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We've traveled a long way to get to this point.
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It all started in Seattle, where my little brother and I embarked on one of the loneliest cruises in America.
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The cruise took us through remote waters from Seattle all the way up to Juneau, Alaska, where we boarded a flight to the final city of Anchorage.
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From there, we hopped in our rental car and started the drive into the isolated wilderness of Denali.
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After surviving a night in the wild and seeing some crazy wildlife,
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it's now time for us to begin the final stage of our journey of reaching the loneliest town in America.
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Let's drive.
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So we reserved our base camp.
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They sent us a confirmation email telling us a little bit about what it's gonna be like.
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This is what it says.
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Welcome to our unique area of Alaska.
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Chicken is completely off-grid.
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There are no public services available.
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No groceries, propane, telephone, internet, cell towers, electricity, water, trash, or sewer within a hundred mile radius.
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Good luck.
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I'm just kidding, I added that last part.
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They didn't say good luck.
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And so began our final stretch of the journey, a seven hour drive across beautiful Alaska to reach the lonely town of Chicken.
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I pulled off because there was a sign that said there's a scenic view over here, but.
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I don't know if this was it.
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I think it's more that way.
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Okay, we've been driving for a few hours at this point, but there's two things I really want to see along the way, and the first we're coming up on, which is the literal North Pole.
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Yup, we're officially so far north that we've reached the legal town of the North Pole.
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All right, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the North Pole.
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Dude, that wasn't even rehearsed, bro.
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We got chemistry.
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We're finishing each other's sandwiches.
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Yay!
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I'm looking at a road that says St. Nicholas Drive, which is kind of crazy.
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I guess we've literally made it so far north into Alaska that this town is literally called the North Pole.
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What does it smell like?
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What are the vibes?
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It smells like concentrated cigarettes.
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And Santa looks a little unique here, but...
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Oh my goodness.
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Fun part about the town is that all the lamp posts and light posts and sign posts are designed like candy canes, which is cool.
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And I guess Santa Claus house here is where Santa Claus lives.
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We went in there, it's pretty cool.
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There's souvenirs and all the like.
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Unfortunately, as much as we love Santa, we gotta get to the loneliest town.
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So this was stop number one.
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Super fun.
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Let's keep going.
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We still got like what five hours of drive or something?
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Yeah.
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Alright, let's see.
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This is the loneliest series and if you know me, you know I love a good gas station.
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So I figured if both of those things are true, I gotta find the loneliest gas station and my friends, I think I found it.
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Unfortunately guys, it looks like it's closed.
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On maps that said it might be open.
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You guys getting chills?
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Wow.
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Nothing like a good gas station.
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Alright, uh, I think I've seen all I need to see.
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Let's get back on the road.
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Chicken, I'm coming for you.
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We're about two and a half hours away and we've already seen our first sign for the Canada border.
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Might have to go get some maple syrup.
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And after a few more hours of driving, we reached the final stretch.
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Guys, look.
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This is officially the first sign we have seen for chicken.
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We're 66 miles away.
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Map shows were like an hour and 19 minutes.
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And we are literally out here.
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Dude, how are you feeling?
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Good, I'm ready to get there bro.
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I really hope that there is like a restaurant or something open when we get there.
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But dude, this is it!
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We're getting closer!
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Woo!
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The road we're on is not just a regular highway.
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It's 66 miles of bumps, dirt, and gravel that completely cuts you off from the rest of the world.
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Once you turn on this road, you are officially in the wild.
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Oh look, look, look, look, look, look, look.
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all have a good night we're heading to chicken all right
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guys we have been driving on this road for over an
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hour now we have not seen a single other car
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or a single other soul on this road we have a zero cell service uh
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and our map is stuck on rerouting right now the roads
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are starting to get very bumpy as well not only have
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we not seen like any other cars we have not seen a single other structure.
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Not a single gas station, not a single truck stop.
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Literally nothing.
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It's all just forest as far as the eye can see.
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I do need to go to the bathroom here soon.
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All right, I'll check back in when hopefully we pull up to Chicken.
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this right here all the road is kind of like that we got 13 miles of dirt roads
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says we're two miles away we're getting closer guys whoa guys I think we made it.
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Look at this.
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Oh, look at this. So cute.
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Bro, we made it.
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How do you feel right now?
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I'm stoked.
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Guys, after hundreds of miles traveled, cruise, ship, spending the night in the wild, we have made it to Chicken, Alaska.
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This is crazy.
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While we're here, I want to explore everything this place has to offer to the restaurants, the hotels, the environment, the people.
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I want to see it all.
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It's like 10 p.m right now, so the first thing is first.
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We've got to go find our hotel and get ready probably for bed.
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And by hotel, I mean, well, you'll see.
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And then tomorrow morning, we can check out more of the town, but let's get in here.
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This is where we're gonna be staying for the night.
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To get the full picture of this town, I'm gonna be looking into the hotel, the food, the people, and lastly, I want to learn about the gold that has so much history here.
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At this point, it was like 10.30 p.m., but this is where the email told us to come and check in.
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Guys, where am I?
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It is so quiet.
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Chicken is up there.
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Well, guys, I guess everyone in this town is asleep.
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It is pretty late, but in case you've ever wondered what the loneliest town in America's hotel looks like, I'm calling it a hotel.
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It's going to make people mad, but I'm going to go try to find my cabin.
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I think I can just pick one.
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It says they have espresso here, so this might be a good place to come and get some coffee in the morning.
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We just got to find where our cabin is.
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showers there.
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There's nobody here right now.
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Crazy.
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I think this might be my cabin.
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Let's see.
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Oh, sweet.
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Okay.
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So the key was just sitting here on the table.
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So now I have to put my information on this and put this with money in the drop box over there.
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And then this is officially my room.
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Nice place.
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And there's beds.
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We didn't know if there was gonna be beds or not.
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We knew such little information about this.
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When some people go on vacation, they stay at the Marriott, the Hilton, the Four Seasons, all great hotels.
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But I bet they've never stayed at a hotel like this.
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Tomio, that's not a hotel, that's a campsite.
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Give me this, I've been driving all day, alright?
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This room is cozy.
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Look, I've stayed at some lonely hotels in my day.
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But this might just be one of the loneliest cabins I've ever stayed in.
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Chicken has some charm, what can I say?
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This cabin is called Steel Creek and you walk in and first thing you notice is how big this room is.
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It's pretty cold outside right now, it's like 30s, high 30s Fahrenheit,
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but in here it's honestly pretty warm and there's a nice space heater on the wall as well which made me excited.
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I didn't know if we were gonna have power here, turns out we do have power and plugs so that that we can plug our stuff in and charge it.
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Right when you walk in you notice a nice little lamp, a mini fridge to store your food in that we don't have.
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There's some nice art on the wall including a saw that's a little bit questionable but not to worry right?
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And then you have not one bed, not two bed, but three bed.
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Very excited about that.
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A nice little mirror
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and you have a table in the middle where they've left
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us what appear to be grocery bags with towels in them in case we decide we want to take a shower.
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And perhaps my favorite part about this room is the view
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because from my door I can lay eyes on the big chicken the icon of this town an old structure
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that I believe has something to do with gold hopefully I'll learn about
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that tomorrow as well this is just one section of the town there's more to see tomorrow
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so despite it being very bright outside it's 10 30 p.m right now
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so I want to snuggle down and get some rest see you in the morning.
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If there's one thing that I've realized going to all these lonely places
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so far is that I'm really really thankful to have my brother with me.
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And I just know tomorrow we're gonna find some cool stuff around here.
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Good morning, everybody.
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Let's go explore this town, shall we?
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Before we start our day though, it's shower time, which was in this cool building.
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We needed to exchange our dollar bills for quarters, because that's how the showers ran.
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Time for this rooster to take a shower.
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Sorry.
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We're gonna use these quarters to pay for the showers behind us, but this is the part where, uh, my camera, we turn the camera off.
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When we made it back to our cabin, we met a friend named Mike who started giving us some info about this place.
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Yeah, this place, they named it chicken because they couldn't spell ptarmigan.
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I looked it up looked it up, ptarmigan is the Alaskan state bird.
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No shade on the people of chicken.
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I couldn't spell this either.
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Are you serious?
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No way.
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No way.
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And this is where the gold rush started 100 years ago.
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This thing.
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That was eating gold.
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So these buckets hook to this thing.
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It just goes, and it pushes it all the way through and spits out the rock and keeps the gold in.
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Well Mike, great to meet you.
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I'm sure we'll see you around.
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If you see Joseph, go say hi to her.
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Okay.
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Mike was a chill guy and he told us we needed to go try coffee from the coffee shop.
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The cafe is open.
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It's time to go get some coffee hopefully.
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Morning.
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How are you?
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Yeah, I'm Antonio.
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Great to meet you.
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Would I be able to order a coffee?
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A coffee I can do.
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I have a full-time service cookie.
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I'll do a hot latte, please.
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This little trading post had all sorts of awesome stuff, and then Lou showed us a picture of something they spotted on the same road Carlos and I were on yesterday.
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He actually charged at the truck.
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No way.
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So he was aggressive?
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Yes.
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Oh my goodness.
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I'm glad we didn't run into that.
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And then she showed us this old book with the history of chicken.
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And how long have you lived here?
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47 years.
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Wow.
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We found out that that chicken outside was actually built by some school students and transported here by trailer.
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Who founded chicken?
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Miners from back in the 1800s.
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They came here for gold.
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So it's been around that long?
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Yes.
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Lou was super sweet and made us a great cup coffee
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but we had more to see all right we're repping the
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chicken merch now baby what you got got myself a little
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chicken alaska gold camp jacket i got the vest let's go
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also got some coffees what's crazy is you could be anywhere in the world
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and there is tap to pay yeah there is crazy internet via starlink not expecting
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that and there's lattes
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so they're working it out here lou is super sweet we got some more of this town to explore
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so let's keep going we then headed to the town's main street
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because we still needed to try some food and learn more about the gold around here.
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Maybe even try to find some.
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That was some subtle foreshadowing.
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Luckily there was a restaurant called the Chicken Creek Cafe that was open.
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Knock knock.
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I don't really know why I said that when I walked in.
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Hey are you guys open?
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Uh, barely.
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That's totally fine.
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Are we okay to come in?
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Yeah, I know.
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Okay, sweet.
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How about breakfast sandwiches?
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Down for breakfast sandwiches, bro.
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That sounds incredible.
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What was your name?
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Max.
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Max.
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Antonio, great to meet you.
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Antonio and Carlos.
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I'll take free coffee.
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Oh yeah, I'll take coffee.
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Absolutely.
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Max had also just made fresh baked cookies and they were just sitting on the counter.
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And of course it would be rude if I didn't get one.
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So I got one and I ate it and it was incredible.
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Oh wow.
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While Matt makes us these delicious breakfast sandwiches, Let me catch you up on a goal I have.
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See, I have a dream of hitting 1 million subscribers, and since you all are always telling me that I look old, I made a deal with you.
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That if I hit 700,000 subscribers during the series, I'd shave the mustache.
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Well, you guys destroyed that goal, and my wife shaved my mustache on livestream, and this is how I look now, like a baby.
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Now, this is technically the last episode of the series, but I've decided to extend the subscriber incentive to the end of this month.
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Our next goal is 800K, where you guys will decide what color I dye my hair.
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You have till July 1st. My fate is in your hands.
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And a pack of those of the cigarettes.
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Great sandwich, Max.
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Thank you.
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And that's when we met the boys, Bill and Jim.
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We didn't know it then.
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These guys were going to play a big part in our story of Chicken Alaska.
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We found out they were local gold miners and hung out with them for a little bit.
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I'll be blessed.
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See you.
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Thanks again, Max.
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But as much as we wanted to stay, we still wanted to check out some of the other buildings on Main Street Like the Chicken Creek Saloon
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that it seemed a little too early for anybody to be hanging out in yet.
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Oh, it's cool.
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I guess this is the saloon here.
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These are all hats.
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Oh, there's probably like thousands.
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This is insane.
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I don't really even have words.
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This is crazy.
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That's all I can say.
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And after leaving the saloon, we came outside to find the boys waiting on us with an offer.
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These guys were so kind.
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They invited us to where they live and where they mine for gold.
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Alright, before we head out, a chicken, we met some friends.
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They're taking us, I guess, to their camp?
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I'm not sure where they're taking us.
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But, uh, we're going.
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Now I know what you're thinking, Tonio, you're following two complete strangers in one of the most
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remote towns in America to their camp where you don't even know where it is and you're completely just trusting them?
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Yes.
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And just like that, we had arrived at their base camp where they live.
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That's awesome. So cool.
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So, by my bus, is a fully self-contained converted school bus.
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Oh, sweet.
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It's got 900 gallons.
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That's awesome French fry oil.
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No way.
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So you convert French fry oil into power?
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Yep.
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Oh cool.
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I just go from Georgia to here.
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Solar power, battery, or Starlink.
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You turn on the core.
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Starlink plugs into this, and this all runs off the solar.
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Oh nice.
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Literally a furnace.
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This is the spot.
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Messy man camp.
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Got a shower in here.
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This thing holds 900 gallons of fuel so I can use it for a fuel storage.
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No way.
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It'll go from here to Georgia on a fuel tank of french fry oil.
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So it drives.
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Oh yeah, it drives.
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Yeah.
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Oh yeah, yeah.
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To run this whole camp, it costs about $300 in fuel.
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A month.
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No way.
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Home base whenever you're out here mining.
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This is home base.
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And then this is how we...
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Oh yeah, let's see this.
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How we process some stuff.
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Oh, look at that gold in there.
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Look how fine that is.
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Here's a, we ran a couple hours yesterday and we got about $2,000 worth of gold.
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Wow.
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In a couple hours.
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Then Jim gave Carlos and I a personal lesson on how to mine for gold.
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Your gold stays in a pan.
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You see that one piece right there?
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Mm-hmm.
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As you can see, Carlos is absolutely dialed in.
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Oh, see, this would be addicting.
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It's better than drugs.
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Jim was so generous and gave us our own bags that we could pan through that actually have gold in them.
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But there's still gold in it, so practice the craft.
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So this hovercraft goes in the river?
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Yeah, it flies!
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It could go on the road.
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Yeah, on the road, over rock.
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Hovercraft!
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Okay, so these guys told us they're gonna take us to the mine
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and show us where they mine for gold out here.
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They also gave us some gold potentially in here to pan through.
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I couldn't believe that not only had we learned about the gold around here, but we'd actually gotten some of our own.
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And after following them for a few miles down some crazy roads, we finally arrived at the mine.
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here we are at the office not a bad place come on let's take a walk
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what we're down right now is just about a foot above bedrock
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there is gold in that stuff
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so there's gold up there yes there's gold up there in
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those gravels there's no place i'd rather be what a cool
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job all right guys we are out here in near chicken Alaska with the boys we got Prince we got Yukon Bill, Tin Pan Jim and Carlos.
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My personal favorite thing about Alaska is the remoteness and the lack of people.
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It's not people-y.
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Alone.
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Yeah.
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Not lonely.
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Yeah.
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There's a difference.
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Big difference.
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That's what we've started to learn because we've gone to like lonely places
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but we realize there's a difference between being lonely and being alone.
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Come to Alaska just to explore.
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Yeah.
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A lot of people think camping is like
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like living homeless yeah it's living free yeah it's living free campaign gym
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so no people yeah being alone yeah not lonely yeah the lord is with me
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so i'm never alone speaking of that i have a gift for both of you
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that i wanted to surprise you with and it ties just into
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that one sec so we've been taking this journey and the message
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that we want people to know
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that they can feel lonely at times in their life but
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that lonely won't last because god is with them then there's There's people, there's relationships, and it's not about quantity, it's about quality.
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And we've been wearing these hats that say, lonely won't last.
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Amen!
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Amen!
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He's singing my tune, bro!
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He's singing my tune!
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You guys are reinforcing that message that it's not about where, it's about who.
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I got two more brothers I didn't even know did.
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Carlos and I didn't realize that even in the loneliest town in America, we'd find some long-lost brothers.
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Lord, bless them with sights they can only imagine.
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Trust them with safety that they can only feel.
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Lord, guide them in their walk of life and protect them.
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Lord, we ask this in your most humble and gracious name, Yeshua, Savior.
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Amen.
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Love you guys!
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Goodbye, chicken.
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Goodbye, chicken.
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It's been nice knowing you, but it's time for us to go home.
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Our journeys come to an end, but you should always remember that lonely won't last.
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Esta aula de conversação de nível B1 usa o vídeo “I Stayed in the Loneliest Town in America”. As palavras que mais se repetem: chicken, gold, town, coffee. Este vídeo tem 420 frases e 3830 palavras para praticar shadowing. A fala dura 21:56. O falante fala em ritmo natural, cerca de 175 palavras por minuto, próximo de uma conversa do dia a dia. 85% das palavras estão entre as 3.000 mais comuns do inglês; vale a pena estudar o restante antes de começar.
Vocabulário principal deste vídeo
As 15 palavras mais avançadas do vídeo, com pronúncia e significado:
| Palavra | Pronúncia | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| lonely adjetivo | /ˈloʊnli/ | solitário |
| cabin substantivo | /ˈkæbɪn/ | cabana |
| explore verbo | /ɪkˈsploɹ/ | explorar |
| latte substantivo | /ˈlɑ.teɪ/ | latte |
| subscriber substantivo | /səbˈskɹaɪbɚ/ | assinante, subscritor |
| amen | /(ˌ)ɑːˈmɛn/ | amém |
| freeze verbo | /ˈfɹiːz/ | gelar, congelar |
| plug substantivo | /plʌɡ/ | plugue |
| cruise substantivo | /kɹuz/ | cruzeiro |
| café substantivo | /ˌkæˈfeɪ/ | café, cafeteria |
| hovercraft substantivo | /ˈhɒv.ə.kɹɑːft/ | aerobarco, aerodeslizador |
| moustache substantivo | /ˈmʌstæʃ/ | bigode |
| ptarmigan substantivo | /ˈtɑːmɪɡən/ | lagópode, lagopo |
| reroute verbo | /ɹiˈɹut/ | cambiar o percurso |
| miner substantivo | /ˈmaɪnə(ɹ)/ | mineiro |
Phrasal verbs que você vai ouvir
| Palavra | Significado |
|---|---|
| check out verbo | verificar, sacar só |
| find out verbo | descobrir |
| figure out verbo | descobrir, deduzir |
| get off verbo | sair |
| pull off verbo | conseguir |
| turn out verbo | terminar |
Frases que vale a pena repetir
Frases curtas e completas do vídeo que você pode usar na conversa do dia a dia:
- Dude, how are you feeling?
- How do you feel right now?
- Give me this, I've been driving all day, alright?
- Let's go explore this town, shall we?
- They're taking us, I guess, to their camp?
Gramática neste vídeo
As estruturas que o falante mais usa, com as palavras exatas do vídeo:
| Estrutura | No vídeo |
|---|---|
| Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — uma ação que começou antes e continua | we've been driving · have been driving · I've been driving |
| Present perfect have/has + particípio passado — uma ação passada que ainda importa agora | We've traveled · we've reached · I've seen |
| Voz passiva be + particípio passado — o foco está no que acontece, não em quem faz | is called · wasn't even rehearsed · are designed |
| Orações relativas who / which + oração — informação extra sobre uma pessoa ou coisa | Drive, which is · canes, which is · time, which was |
Pronúncia para ficar de olho
O falante usa 109 contrações e formas reduzidas, como I'm, we're, we've. Diga-as na forma curta, do jeito que você ouve.
- Os sons de “sh” e “zh”: moustache /ˈmʌstæʃ/, shave /ˈʃeɪ̯v/, backslash /ˈbækˌslæʃ/, foreshadow /fɔːˈʃædəʊ/, gracious /ˈɡɹeɪʃəs/
- Palavras longas — acerte a sílaba tônica: aluminum /əˈlu.mɪ.nəm/, confirmation /ˌkɑn.fəɹˈmeɪ.ʃən/, technically /ˈtɛk.nɪˌkəl.i/
Sons difíceis para falantes de português:
- Consoante final — sem acrescentar um “i” depois: plug /plʌɡ/, hovercraft /ˈhɒv.ə.kɹɑːft/, reroute /ɹiˈɹut/, lamp /ˈlæ̝mp/, cigarette /ˈsɪɡəɹɛt/
- /l/ final — a língua toca o céu da boca, não vira “u”: gravel /ˈɡɹævəl/, capsule /ˈkæps(ə)l/, chill /tʃɪl/, drizzle /ˈdɹɪzəl/, snuggle /ˈsnʌ.ɡəl/
- /h/ — um sopro suave, diferente do “r”: hovercraft /ˈhɒv.ə.kɹɑːft/, rehearse /ɹɪˈhɝs/, heater /ˈhitɚ/, humble /ˈhʌmbəl/
Como praticar com este vídeo
- Ouça o vídeo inteiro uma vez sem falar e anote as palavras que você não conhece.
- Comece na velocidade 0,75×, faça shadowing frase por frase e volte à velocidade normal quando ficar fácil.
- Grave a sua voz e compare com o original, prestando atenção a palavras como lonely, cabin, explore.
O que é a Técnica de Shadowing?
Shadowing é uma técnica de aprendizado de idiomas com base científica, originalmente desenvolvida para o treinamento de intérpretes profissionais. O método é simples, mas poderoso: você ouve áudio em inglês nativo e repete imediatamente em voz alta — como uma sombra seguindo o falante com 1-2 segundos de atraso. Pesquisas mostram melhora significativa na precisão da pronúncia, entonação, ritmo, sons conectados, compreensão auditiva e fluência na fala.