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far away, rough around the edges places
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All right spyros Us rival tv again Coming at you
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a well here we go Far away rough around the
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edges Places What does that mean Well paragraph three cruising
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down there We're last years Many have produced but it
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just bribe You should live in games and challenger martin
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probability fan in nature And it's fried me And now
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they're major networks like pbs Then came the discovery These
- 00:27
shows feature one or two people who are filmed in
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faraway rough around the edges places as they struggled to
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find food shelter and water with extremely limited supplies All
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right well the answer here uh you know it's not
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good as is So it was a if you've ever
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seen any of these wilderness survival shows which we would
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i recommend before embarking on a week long camping trip
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you know that they put people in places so remote
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that looks as though no human has ever been there
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before That's what the author is trying to describe here
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but the description as written is wordy and awkwardly phrased
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Far off works but difficult as in be there doesn't
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really capture the author's intentions Hard places as indeed is
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Also too vague And when you're lonely out there for
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weeks down there one remote and inhospitable like sea is
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exactly the description that the author is going for So
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that's it That's the answer you seek and the phrasing
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in vocabulary than you No match in the style of
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the passage So it should read These shows feature one
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or two people who are filmed in remote and inhospitable
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places as they struggle to find food and you together 00:01:40.479 --> [endTime] companionship or whatever it is they're looking for
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