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ever wondered what it takes to master

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the world's most unique

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professions from navigating the holes of

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luxury as America's first hotel conage

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to training in an elite Butler

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Academy these jobs are anything but

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ordinary this is the only place in San

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Francisco you can see bison this is the

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best spot to view the Golden Gate

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bridge this is one of the oldest gay

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bars in the city

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cheers but it all starts here at the

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concierge desk of the Fairmont San

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Francisco I'm Tom Wolf and I'm America's

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first

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concierge I was very lucky because my

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parents loved to go out so I was

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constantly seeing the the world of

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hospitality world of the restaurants the

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world of sophistication and that's kind

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of where the seed was planted shall we

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say my first hotel job was working in

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Washington DC and I then went to London

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and the general manager asked me have

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you got a morning suit luckily I knew

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what a morning suit was and I said of

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course Mr schwenter I do my next Port of

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Call would be Paris I managed to get a

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job at a very luxurious hotel right on

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the shis and I I learned many lessons I

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made my way back to the United States

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where I found myself in San

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Francisco I started as the coners at the

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Fairmont in

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1974 the Fairmont Hotel occupies an

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entire Square block the main building

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opened in 1907 one year to the day after

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the great fire if these walls could

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whisper what stories they would

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tell a secret door that could be used

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for a discrete exit the tongar room was

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once the Fairmont swimming pool if you

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can think of somebody important they

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were here whether they were from the

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world of

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Hollywood or the world of politics

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pretty much every president has stayed

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here at one time or another and we had

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the first person to break the color

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barrier pain in the Venetian room where

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an entertainer of color would be able to

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stay at the same place where they

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performed the Fairmont philosophy has

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always been the best kind of guest you

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can hope for is a repeat

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guest when I'm out and about walking to

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this very day I'm still exploring and I

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find these little streets that I haven't

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been down or I find a shop that I've not

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been in and I take the time to go in and

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say hello and introduce myself it's a

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constant learning experience and the

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minute you stop learning well you might

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as well stop

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working a professional Butler is

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somebody who is loyal flexible discreet

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hardworking honest but most important it

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is a person who has the ability to put

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somebody else's wishes before your own

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that is what makes this profession so

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very very

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difficult at the age of 21 I became a

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butler nowadays I am chairman of the

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international Butler

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Academy the international Butler Academy

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is located in the beautiful Village of

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simple velt in the Netherlands we have

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about 135 rooms 80,000 feet completely

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dedicated to the training of

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buffers our students live here in our

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building they come uh literally from

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every country in the

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world age from 18 to

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68 minutes students learn about

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housekeeping house management Estate

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Management regular things like even

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suitcase packing silver shining shining

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shoes the list is

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enormous there is an incredible amount

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of training to be done in 10

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weeks discipline here at the

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international B Academy is very very

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important in order to get a job done you

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need

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discipline I think in order to be

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successful you need discipline and

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discipline here at school is something

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we Embrace and not something that we are

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afraid of always payen you here at

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school we always joke about what

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employers want they need a clean toilet

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uh they want a warm bed and I want a hot

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meal and those three things are most

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important for everyone you go right you

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go

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left my wife and I we have our own

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butler I'm very fortunate I've had a a

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private Butler now for the past 17 years

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and this person is very very important

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to

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me being a butler can certainly be a a

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wonderful career simply because if you

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are responsible for the well-being of

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the family for their happiness that is

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obviously very very very very

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important mazes are one of the most

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fascinating things almost everybody as

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soon as they can crawl they're always

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wanting to find out what's hidden what's

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out of

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sight my name's Adrian fiser I live in

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Dorset in England and I create mazes and

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labyrinths all over the world

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well I spent the first few years of my

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career in

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accountancy there came a moment when I'd

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created a maze in my father's garden and

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then I started building one and two more

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and so on and then I suddenly realized

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this was going to be far more fulfilling

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if I spent my life creating mazes this

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is the site of the place This is 40 m in

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diameter and The Mazes going

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here over the years I've created mazes

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in some 40 countries and I guess I've

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built over 700 full-size mazes in the

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landscape I think a maze design is a

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very esoteric art you sketch out ideas

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and develop ideas on paper and drawings

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but one of the exciting things is amaz

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is a network now a maze is a special

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kind of network where I decide there's

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only one start point I decide where the

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Finish is and I make sure that every

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single bit of it can be as confusing or

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as easy as I

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wish I'm trying to make it as ingenious

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and tricky as possible but in the end

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I'm also an Entertainer I like to leave

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clues that help you solve it and you

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feel so good about yourselves when you

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have beaten the maze

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designer like a good movie you get to

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the end and you still you don't want it

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to

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stop I'm appealing to some Basic

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Instinct in us all that want to be

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entertained and

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explore and amaz is an ideal way of

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doing that its purpose is totally at to

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one side of norm normal sensible

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practical things in life but gives so

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much pleasure to so many

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millions cotton candy who knew sugar and

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air could taste so sweet well a guy

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named James Morrison an amateur inventor

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whose occupation and taste buds didn't

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exactly

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align he was a dentist and during his

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lifetime James even became the president

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of the Tennessee d Association don't

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forget to floss but he was also a

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confectionary Enthusiast with a passion

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for culinary advancement he paired with

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John C waron an old friend and fellow

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confectioner together the two designed

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and co- patented what they called the

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electronic candy machine the device

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rapidly spun and melted sugar through

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small holes until it was Fluffy and

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nearly 70% air they called the new tree

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fairy floss they introduced their

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product at the 1904 World's Fair selling

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it in small wooden boxes for 25 cents

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each that's about $6 today fairy floss

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was a huge success in 6 months they sold

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over 68,000 boxes grasing in today's

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money around

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$440,000 but despite the success of the

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sugar spun business Morrison returned to

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his day job as a dentist so next time

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the dentist tells you you're eating too

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many sugary treats well blame

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him awward