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I like to travel
a lot. And I was in Alaska a couple of
years ago.
And I went to
see Mount McKinley. Mount McKinley is
like the cream of the crop in Alaska,
largest mountain in all of North
America.
And you don't just take a taxi to Mount
McKinley.
You got to take a 4-hour drive on
pothole-infested
streets. [music] And then you got to
take a 3-hour bus from the entrance of
Denali National Park to see the the
mountain.
I'm on this tour this bus. The typical
tourists are on this bus, you know what
I mean? There's
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>> the old retired couple in the matching
yellow hats. There's the family from
London. There's the honeymooners taking
way too many selfies. There's the
Chinese family. The regular tourists.
Then we get there, we spend an hour, do
a little hike,
take some pictures. We come back on the
bus. But this time,
packed.
We picked up hikers and campers who are
out there in the wilderness.
And they're coming back, they're
hitching a ride back.
And I was amazed.
Alaska is not Central Park.
There are creatures out there.
There are a gazillion brown bears all
over [music] Alaska.
And brown bears are not black bears, you
know, the cute little things that you
see in the Catskills rummaging through
your camp's garbage cans to get some
Mike and Ikes.
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>> Brown bears are the size of cars, they
have claws the size of kitchen knives,
and they're not looking for Mike and
Ikes, they're looking for you. So I
I'm on the bus, and a camper dude, he
sits right next to me. The guy smells
like he just completed two consecutive
3-day empties. He has pine needles in
his beard.
He's eating with his hands canned
sardines.
I turn to him and I say, "Hey, nice to
see you."
"Why do you camp out?
You're not afraid of the bears?
He looks at me and he smiles.
And he says,
I don't camp out there
despite the bears.
I camp out there because of that. What,
you want me to camp in some local park
with mowed lawn and public restrooms
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>> and a playground? That's for wimps. I
camp out here because this is how you
camp for real.
And it hit me.
Hashem could have put us straight into
Gan Eden.
This whole world could have been
unnecessary.
But he didn't.
Because that's not real life.
Real life is struggle and it's doubt and
it's anxiety and it's saying, Hashem,
did I do enough? And it's confusion and
I'm not sure and I had a whole year and
I did I grow? I had a whole long list of
bad things, but where are the good
things? I'm not sure.
That's real life.
