Disney’s Animal Kingdom Is NOT My Favorite Theme Park - Doing Things I Never Do & Getting Rained On
Disney's Animal Kingdom Nov 2023
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welcome everyone Adam the woo here as
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the recording of this it is Sunday
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November 26th
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2023 I am heading to a place that I
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don't really go to often I would say my
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least visited theme park of the 4 wdw
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Parks is Animal Kingdom today I'm going
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to pop over there ride some rides see
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some holiday
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decor and just see where the day leads
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I'm inviting you to join
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me
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and all truthfulness I need to start
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really need to start doing more at
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Animal Kingdom I need to start going
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there more and learning more about the
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place I would say I go
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there 10 20% of the time in comparison
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to the other places it be 90% less
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something like that nonetheless I've
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heading there now join me shall you this
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is still under construction over here
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not really sure what's going on with
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this but yeah
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they are doing the farmer flea and Art
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Market in celebration on the other side
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of the celebration
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hotel last night was pretty intense for
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the opening night of Christmas so did
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not go to the Art Market Today just
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popped in real quick and got a piping
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hot caffeinated beverage going to my
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car and head heading to Animal
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Kingdom I cannot talk today as much as I
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want it to be neither one of these this
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1931 is my vehicle nor this Mr
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Towes holiday Decor on the front vehicle
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is my but I would definitely drive that
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thing around town oh heck yes I would
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weekend traffic at 100
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p.m. back up on I4
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westbound as always oh my gosh there's a
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turtle right here on the
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road Turtle get out of the
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road
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here he was hissing at me trying to claw
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me a little bit cuz he didn't know what
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I was doing but got him over there not
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sure which way he going but it's a
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pretty I don't say it's a busy off- rant
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but this is where you kind of turn off
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well you see this car going by so if he
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would have been right there on the road
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somebody
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good luck
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Turtle over here used to be the original
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entrance one of the original two
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entrances now there's only one entrance
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in the Hollywood Studios back when it
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was MGM Studios the road veered off it
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went right underneath there and now
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they've just put all this foliage up to
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disguise
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it that Turtle had some sharp little
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hands it's trying to get
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me all right Animal Kingdom time not a
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whole heck of a a lot of people pulling
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up to the parking Gates here just me and
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another car parked over here at
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butterfly
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119 parking lot doesn't look too
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terribly busy we check the wait times
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I'm going to think it's probably going
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to be a little mellower than Magic
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Kingdom and Epcot are and all
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truthfulness this is a much better
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entering and exiting experience than
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Magic Kingdom you don't have to go to
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TTC you just pull right here to the
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front you walk a couple hundred yards
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and you're in the park and you have a
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bus going on Park closed at 7:00 tonight
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take a look at dinosaur 15minute wait
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for dinosaur 15minute wait for
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Expedition Everest let's see what the
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Safari is looking like 25 not too bad
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pretty much the only parts that are busy
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are over in the Avatar area but because
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I need to get on Dino and go get that
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dyo because there's heavy rumors that's
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going to be going away I need to get on
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that thing today and Everest currently
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79° right now looks like it might rain a
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little bit but doesn't look look like a
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heavy chance of precipitation 30% kind
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of playing it by see what happens play
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it by here and upon heading in they have
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all they have the not only the Christmas
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tree up in the very very front also Sol
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May the 100 Years of Wonder but also the
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the holiday Decor when you're leading in
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to scan your annual pass and look over
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here you got this little uh got the
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creature over there it's like was that a
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pig with tus warthog think might be a
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warthog like over
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done might come a day when the dino
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Institute is no more and this trash can
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will be a collectible wonder if they
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smell the small trash cans in the gift
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shop of this like they do with some of
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the other
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Parks now I know I'm not exiting through
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the gift shop I'm entering through here
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but just kind of popped in here real
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quick cuz I love this whole area all
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kind of set up through here this whole
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area is kind of an interesting feel cuz
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it has that Roadside America Style mixed
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with prehistoric creatures it really is
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going to be s a sad day and a shame to
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see this go when all this is erased from
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existence if you look up here you got
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like the little like track up top there
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he got dinos everywhere and it's
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something that you see you know like
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like typical like textbook Americana
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when it comes to Classic dinos
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everywhere Dino right up here you got a
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whole dinosaur Village up top here you
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got some dino bones let me zoom in on
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that yeah take a look right up there you
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have a bunch of pterodactyls flying
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around right there brosaurus right there
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T-Rex over there yes it's fast it's a
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blast and it's in the past it will be in
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the past very soon this says the
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Tyrannosaurus Rex was kind of a bird
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brain it says it right there he had kind
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of like a bird brain skull is a mold
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this is the Rex brain that they found
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very interesting because he had sensory
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foundation for flight also the we time
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out front said 25 minutes as opposed to
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15 which showed on the app but 25 still
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not too terribly bad I don't mind
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waiting and to be completely honest I
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don't know if there's been any official
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announcement if this is closing or not
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but trust me the rumor mill is very very
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very strong and if and when that day
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does arrive I hope they actually give a
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real closing date so a bunch of people
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can including myself can show up and
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ride on the last day it'll be quite the
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vibe closing days always are it be a I'm
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sure there'll be a ton of us here to go
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get that Dino let go get that Dino going
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into the orientation room I wonder
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what's going to happen to CLA hustable
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if this thing goes away well technically
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it's full of shw play oh yes the dino
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Institute welcomes
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me I mean obviously I've always looked
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at this attraction and it's the same
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kind of ride setup as Indiana Jones at
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Disneyland I wouldn't mind getting Indie
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truthfully but I'll miss Dina think a
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lot of us
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will kind of wonder if half the reason
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they want to get rid of it is just a
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little too terrifying for people Alien
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Encounter counter used to be the scarest
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thing on Walt Disney World property but
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I think from for my vote I think it is
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probably the dinosaur attraction right
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now pretty dang
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scary all right 10 seconds happening
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right now going in time travel
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time
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in okay now let's go get that Dino
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computer no that's not our Dino warning
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meteor
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shower I love this
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try look at that he's like ingesting
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that thing just like fully on
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taking it
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down
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Raptor
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identify
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recognize in seconds 90 seconds
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impact go
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go go go go my God this is so rough in
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the back seat oh my
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Lord oh up get ready whe drive now car
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taus that's it AO
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Mission get them out now get this
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sounding
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here impact bra yourself this is it
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oh they're not going to make it they're
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not going to make
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it we made it mission accomplished we
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made it you made it holy cow I hope when
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they do this they make it a little less
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rough cuz that rearranged my freaking
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spine in the back seat holy cow that
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back seat throws you around like a rag
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doll
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woo man I love it though I didn't think
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I was going to make it I'm not going to
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make it I'm not going to make it I made
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it yeah scariest ride on property I
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think I even put that above Expedition
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Everest used to be Alien Encounter later
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Stitch is Great Escape but now it's
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definitely 100% this one yeah I think
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Extinction is the right word if this
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thing goes away we're going to be like
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this Goose looking prehistoric creature
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here extinct erased from existence this
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looks like it's like buck buck beak it
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Buck Beak from Harry Potter maybe I'm
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getting the name wrong it kind of looks
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like kind of looks like that bird and
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obviously if if it's a big if if they
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redo this they'll probably get rid of
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that that big TSH right
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there oh dang I missed Kevin Kevin's oh
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Kevin's turn around to give me a little
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the last look see you later Kevin oh
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nice got a little reaction from Kevin I
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love it yeah this whole area back here
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is definitely a VI I think a lot of
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people don't understand what it was
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supposed to be it's kind of like a
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quirky like Roadside Attraction fair in
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fact you can even see there are themed
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parking spots all through here and where
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the Triceratop spin used to be that they
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got rid of a long time ago there's like
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parking spots like just be pulling in
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like you're going to a Roadside
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Attraction and there's all parking spots
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over there too see which I think is kind
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of neat but I don't really know if it
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fits into how things are now and if
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people really even understand the whole
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the whole vibe of it once they got rid
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of Triceratop spin it kind of pretty
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much was sealed that it was just not
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going to be around any any longer I'm
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going to go underneath the dinosaur and
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head over to Expedition Everest yeah you
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don't say you don't say they got one of
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the holiday pontoons coming well not a
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pontoon but one of the holiday boats
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coming over here with the drummers and
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the musicians kind of going through here
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play playing some holiday favorites on
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the
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drums I was kind of hoping to see Santa
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on one of these I've been noticing that
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Santa's been out and about on these
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floating vessels here but no no sign of
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Santa on there oh yes going to walk
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towards the streams of Expedition
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Everest only a 15-minute waight which is
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pretty much a walk- on don't mind if I
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do a couple years ago on the 15th
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anniversary of this attraction I rode
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this 15 times within a few hours I won't
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be doing that today I don't think I'll
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ever do that again that was a mistake
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yeah take a look at this whopping 15
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minutes for standby it does not get much
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better than that to be honest 15 minutes
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I mean that's just a straight walk on
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you don't even really need lightning
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light this might even be faster than
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lightning light walking through the yeti
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Museum and looking all the yeti arti
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artifacts learning a lot about different
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yetis imagine snoozing in this tent in
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the Himalayas and all of a sudden a Yeti
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just kind of like ravages the tent all
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right I'm on RAD
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two also there is a single rider for
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this I didn't realize till I got here
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but it doesn't really matter it was a
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walk-
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on I put my stuff in
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that bag right there the wallet and keys
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and everything that way it's all in one
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little plastic
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baggie
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Ride I really hope the track's not
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out every time I ride this thing the
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track's
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out oh what the heck he's at it
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again track is
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out look at a bunch of wasps over going
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backwards holy Lord God oh
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no oh why does that feel like you go
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upside down
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oh oh
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insane there he
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is there's that stinking disco
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Yeti disco Yeti why is he tearing up the
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track all the
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there's a nice t-shirt here Yeti Yeti or
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not here I come that I like that I think
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these might be new too I don't think
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I've ever seen that look how terrifying
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disco Yeti is right there oh there's the
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man himself Santa Claus look at that
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there's Santa right here over to an he
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Dan last night he was at downtown
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celebration lighting the tree up and
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today he's vacationing here at Animal
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Kingdom to the otter G
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up someone told me that there was a an
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otter in Lake ryanard at Celebration the
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other day but I couldn't find couldn't
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find the otter but there should be some
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otter in here somewhere ah and Otter has
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appeared over here it's also starting to
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rain out there too so I'm kind of glad
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I'm like enclosed over here almost like
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the otter is like doing something with
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its hands like washing its hands sorts
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right there wish he kind of turn around
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so you get a better angle but very
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camera shot now he's standing up like a
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rearing up there so there's one otter in
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there I got to see it not the back side
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of water it's the back side of an
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otter there you go okay that's a pretty
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good view there of the otter right up
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here on the corner of the wall kind of
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zooming in submerging itself washing
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itself in the in the water
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here you can see the Raindrop that's
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coming down out there starting to
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sprinkle
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I think I'm going to do something I have
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not done in a couple decades it's tough
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to be a bug is only a 10minute waight I
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remember that being kind kind of scared
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too when I was last time I saw it I say
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when I was younger it was like 20 years
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ago so I wasn't like a wasn't a young or
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anything but I remember there was like a
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grasshopper in there it was kind of
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terrifying and they also would like kind
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of jab your back with the they had like
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bugs but it is called tough to be a bug
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so it makes sense I think I'm going to
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go over there and do that the tra
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we try to do some at least one or two
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things I don't normally do here into the
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underbelly oh there's like an arar right
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there into the underbelly of the tree of
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life going to be going to the catacombs
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of the Tree of Life take a look at this
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look directly through the root system of
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the tree of life so like hundreds of
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animals and carved in this so you got
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the elephant there I can photograph it
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cuz it does have its trunk on even
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though trunks on I screw that Jungle
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Cruise joke up but you know get that
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there was like a parade of elephants
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going through here oh what is this look
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oh look at this there's a like some
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Pelicans right there Manny look at the
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pelican fly
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Pelican oh here you go baboons up top
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right there yeah handiwork of Joe Ro
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there's also some hidden animals in the
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volcano and other hidden gems in the
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volcano at aani my mom and I stayed
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there which was pretty cool the dung
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Brothers there are two brothers called
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the dung Brothers a dynamic dooo duo
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that's right come on the termite at the
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termite Ator man my Arnold come on
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that's right the termite at come on it's
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tough to be a bug that's right come on
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do it I'm a little rusty on my Arnolds
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but I wasn't expecting to go full Arnold
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right then got some antlers up here you
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got some deer this is a great q line I
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start doing this more often just so I
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can see the freaking Q look at this so
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freaking good got to grab some 3D
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glasses didn't real realized it was a 3D
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show I am going to have the eyes of an
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insect tough to be a bug and I'm going
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to discover how tough it really is to be
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a we have a pretty pretty difficult life
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this right here is called dung and I
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featuring the hit song Hello dung lovers
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without dung eating insects the Earth
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would soon be piled with human with
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human and animal excrement these almost
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kind of look like the regular glasses I
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wear they kind of sit crooked like the
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normal pair that I wear look underneath
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like underneath the underbelly
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underneath I look like a I look like a
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bug right here or a raver of some sort
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like look like I'm going to a ra the
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most memorable role in dung and I is the
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dung ball bounced off the stage and
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nearly brought down the house this isn't
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this isn't like a big ball of twine it's
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a big ball of dung that's uh that's
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manure or poop or uh excrement or the
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number two yeah if you're taking a
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number two that that size you probably
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should see a doctor if you're a human
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but if you're a bug I guess it's
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perfectly fine oh it's a hard knock life
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for a bug tail As Old As Time Bea in the
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bees beehive of activity and a
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cockro this is so
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good ah why do I always sleep on this
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attraction Little Shop of
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Hoppers Little Shop of
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Hoppers a steak bug Named Desire a steak
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bug
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Named Desire and webside story I like
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the cricket and Bug sounds through here
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I'm heading in last heading into the
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theater I do not know what to expect I
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don't think I've ever been in here I saw
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this at DCA years ago but I've never
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seen I you know what I don't know maybe
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I did back in the late '90s I saw this
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at DCA once maybe I did maybe I did see
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it here you know what take that back I
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did see it here but it was in probably
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the late '90s early 2000s where should I
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sit where's the best seat to
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look up on the roof all those insects
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are taken over in
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here hello everyone my name is and i'
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like to thank you for joining us
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our and special be viewers if for any
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reason you need to the center the show
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please the door on your
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left member will be happy to help you
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as member he kind asked there no
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on all right that was freaking awesome
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oh my gosh it was so dang good I could
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have swore there was like an animatronic
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of the villain from Bugs land or from
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bugs life but I didn't see it I thought
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maybe he was up there there but yeah I
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didn't see him but I I took a couple
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quick photos I can show but I couldn't
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film a video I got to deposit deposit my
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bug eyes in the bin outside the theater
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they just they just there are some
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pretty uh spiffy glasses though very
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buggy man that was that was really good
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I don't remember any of that maybe I you
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know what maybe I've never seen it
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before yeah I like the flick animatronic
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up there in the roof and then this these
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came down and like dangled from the
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ceiling these black widow spiders
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it was really good and they had like a
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that was the second attraction at Disney
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that you can get farted on there's
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figment who like Poots on you not the
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the spider does it another character
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does but I think they use the same Aroma
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the same smell yeah so if you want to
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get pooted on he can just show up to
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Walt Disney World either Epcot or animal
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kingdom and you can get a little uh you
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can get a little poo stench in the face
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I don't know any other I don't know too
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many other theme parks that do that that
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give you a little little poop from the
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booty that is going to be a new thing
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for the rotation for me here at Animal
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Kingdom I need to start finding more
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things that I could do when I come out
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here there's a bat up there too got a
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big fruit bat and a horse I really like
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tough to be a bug I mean obviously it's
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been around for a couple decades or more
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but I really like it I'm kind of
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disappointed that I haven't been doing
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it on a semi-regular
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basis the owl right there too yeah
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there's the owl and then there is the
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bat right there be careful bat I don't
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know if Aussie Osborne's ever visited
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Animal Kingdom but if so you might be in
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trouble and a beautiful waterfall right
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here too I never knew this was here I
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don't know what it is about D or AK I
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mean I always call it MK for Magic
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Kingdom AK for Animal Kingdom some
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people say d AK for Disney Animal
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Kingdom but it's just like I guess maybe
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because I didn't have that much
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Nostalgia growing up with it in the late
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7s early ' 80s which was the formidable
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years of me and this place didn't get
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built for 25 26 years ago I think this
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is the yeah 20 I think it's the 25th
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anniversary of Animal Kingdom so I
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didn't really like it wasn't really
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coming here a lot so there's a lot not a
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lot of core memories like a lot of other
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people have but I want to start making
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some core memories here you know a
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passholder so I really need to be
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starting to like utilize this park more
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oh goodness gracious it is coming down
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everyone's heading for shelter getting
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out of the elements I'm just walking
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along here in the rain without an
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umbrella don't mind me I'm just walking
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in the rain without an umbrella yeah got
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to put the wet floor stance up because
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it is coming down out there and
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everyone's kind of like hiding in here
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into the gift shop get out of the
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elements oh evidently Bug's Life is also
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25 years old yeah the rain forecast not
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looking really good 90 5% for this hour
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maybe I should probably start heading
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out oh goodness it is really nasty out
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it is precipitating like nobody's
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business through here I did not bring a
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poncho or an umbrella I guess I could
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have brought an umbrella but I got like
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six umbrellas in the back well probably
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like four umbrellas in the back of my
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car Mo exaggerated I got like at least
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four the back of the car I just don't
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like carrying an umbrella I guess I
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probably should have brought an umbrella
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to that lift pickup so Uber's not
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allowed oh they probably are I had hoped
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to get a special be holiday item a
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Savory treat but there really wasn't a
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whole heck of a lot of savory treats in
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there it's mostly all desserts for the
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holidays that animal came I could
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explore a little more but try to find
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something that was edible that's not
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necessarily a holiday treat but think
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I'm going to get out of here it's nasty
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passing peacock
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now I am like way up here on the far end
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I could have parked a little closer down
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that way obviously this is kind of
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unfilled up a little bit since I parked
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earlier but I always like to park
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sometimes I do this at Studios too I go
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like a little farther out but on the
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path that way I always know if I just
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keep walking straight my car will be
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right up there I don't know it works in
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my own
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mind all right heading out of
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here let's get out of here
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all right a little time has pass been
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back home in celebration for a few hours
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went back outside to do the outro and
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still has been raining this whole time
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you can see the precipitation here in
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Lake Reinhardt got the Christmas events
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going on which I covered in great detail
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last night a lot less people out here
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tonight because it is very very rainy so
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there's people out with their umbrellas
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but definitely nothing like it was the
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insanity of last night well thanks for
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watching just had a nice day at Animal
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Kingdom popped over because the weight
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times weren't too bad rode a few rides
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couple rides that I'm familiar with but
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haven't been on in probably about a year
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I think it's probably been about a year
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maybe even more since I've been in an
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animal kingdom so I'm glad I went on
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those short way times and I did the the
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bugs attraction tough to be a bug which
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I don't know if I've ever did I think I
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did it one time in the late '90s maybe
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early
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2000s and I'm glad I did it again it's
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probably been at least two decades since
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I did that and I did it it is coming
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down even harder now that I just try to
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started talking I'll see you in the next
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video I'm going to go inside the Vlog is
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over