Patriot Day At Disneyland - Walt Disney Animatronic & Plaza Inn / Honoring America With Flag Retreat
Disneyland 2025
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Welcome everyone. Adam the Woo here as a
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recording of this. It is Thursday the
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11th of September 2025.
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I just took a ride share Uber over here.
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Got dropped off at the Disneyland Hotel.
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Going to walk through Downtown Disney.
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Going to head into the park into
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Disneyland, do a variety of things. At
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4:00, 4:15 they are doing the flag
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retreat ceremony which I would really
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like to see. also would like to check
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out the Walt animatronic. I've only seen
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it once, the first day it opened on the
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opening day of that attraction, which is
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in Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln. The
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Walt animatronic is in there. Saw it on
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July 17th. I have not seen it since. And
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I feel like I need to watch it another
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time.
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Wasn't overly impressed the first time.
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wasn't unimpressed, but was just kind
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of, you know, my thoughts were kind of
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like right right in the mid-grade. But I
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feel like I need to give it another
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another viewing and just see what else I
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can find inside the park. Maybe get a
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meal, maybe get a snack, check out some
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merchandise, maybe do an attraction,
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maybe do a show, maybe do a ride,
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see where the see where the day leads.
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I'm inviting you to join me. It's good
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to have you here.
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Shall you? Like pretty much anyone else
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that remembers that day, I recall where
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I was very vividly
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waking up
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and before I even turned the TV on,
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ended up calling the girl I was dating
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at that time and she told me to turn the
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TV on. something was happening in New
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York City and turn the TV on and
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the rest is history. It is amazing how
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quickly time goes by and the fact that
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that was 24 years ago.
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All right, heading in. Heading into the
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parks
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into Downtown Disney.
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This over here they're doing some
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construction on. Usually you can go
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through the checkpoints here, but they
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have this sealed off and you got to go
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around to the other one around this
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direction.
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Pop stop by Starbucks, get a coffee
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first. Yes, the soothing sounds
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inside the Starbucks. There's like a
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jackhammer in here or something
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with the sunglass on.
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Sound is transcending over into the
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mobile order pick Starbucks. Coffee
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achieved. I can't tell what they wrote
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here on the side of it. Can't make out
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what that says, but they wrote a little
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a little something. All right, got to
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head over to Walter Ridge Magic Kingdom.
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Entering the park around 1:20 p.m.
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Celebrate happy.
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This is the 70th slogan. You got Mickey
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here in the front. The topiary Mickey. I
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think he's kind of in his Halloween
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outfit. He's got the little the little
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uh mask on his eyes there. I actually
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renewed my pass two days ago. So, I am
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now an annual passholder another year.
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It was that time of year again. I think
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two days ago is when I renewed my annual
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pass. So, say hello to 365 more days of
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I think I got the Inspire key. I think
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it's the Inspire key. Pretty sure it's
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the Inspire Key. There are no passes now
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that include 365. Even the top tier pass
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still the last two weeks of the year
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they're they're blacked out even with
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the top tier now unlike Disney World
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which is a 365. Fun fact Jay is here.
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Tiki J.
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>> I'm here.
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>> Down to see Walt.
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>> Always down to Seaw Walt.
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>> All right.
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>> That's how I'm going to start every trip
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from now on. Come in here.
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>> Yeah.
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>> Straight.
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>> Okay.
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>> Maybe to the bathroom.
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>> And then the Walt
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>> and then the train.
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>> How do you I mean, of course. Circle
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tour. Yeah, we do the we do Walt the
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train and then uh let's see where it
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leads after that. I like that. Let's go
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see Wall get plus it'll get us out of
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the sun till it sets.
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>> That's what I'm talking about.
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>> Yeah. Leave today and Jay also leaves
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today and we both are going to enter the
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world of yesterday tomorrow and fantasy.
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>> Bye today.
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>> Bye.
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>> Should we ride Mr. Toad at some point?
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>> That was me. That was a yes. That that
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answers our uh our question. All right,
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heading in. This is a much different
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experience
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>> than it was when I was here when I was
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here July 17th. Hardly anybody in here
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right now, which is nice.
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I love this. This was used. This is part
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of the Jungle Cruise Crocodile part of
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the Disney 70th. And then you got Jose
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right here. The tiki room. Hello, Jose.
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Hello, Jose.
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>> Oh, hello down there. and wheelchair
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accessible. I'm
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>> going to finish up my coffee before
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sitting down. Coffee
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>> and drink and drinks are allowed in
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here, but not allowed inside the theater
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is Abraham Lincoln. Walt has taken over
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the theater from great moments of Mr.
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Lincoln. I think for the first year this
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attraction's open some Pirates of the
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Caribbean here. We got Small Worlds
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animatronics over there as well sitting
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in [clears throat] the back
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in the front like I did on opening day.
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Although the quality of these recordings
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vary, we hope you read the public uh
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appreciate and accept what I've done all
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these years. That that is a great
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reward.
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>> You know, I was stopped one day when a
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little boy asked, "Do you draw Mickey
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Mouse?"
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>> My second viewing of the Walt
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animatronic, and I got to say, I think I
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think I liked it the second time better
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than the first time now that I kind of
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got the the first impression out of out
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of the system. Kind of interesting,
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though. They basically took the one
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man's dream show at [music] MGM Studios
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and they just overdubbed it with Iger's
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voice. That's the one weird thing about
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it. The pre-show before the Walt
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animatronic gets up and says he's The
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Walt animatronic is is is pretty good.
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Just the pre-show is a little weird if
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you're used to watching the one at
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Hollywood Studios. But other than that,
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still pretty good. Take the train now.
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So evidently this means there are two
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trains on the track.
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>> There's three. There's one here.
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>> One on Main Street that's lit up.
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>> None at Tomorrowland. There's one at
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Toontown and there's one at Nolan's.
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>> Yep.
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>> Right over there. That's pretty neat how
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they have it lit up right here. Does it
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when it does it go around the track?
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Does it show it moving?
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>> No, I've never noticed that part.
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>> Interesting.
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It's like a train ride.
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It's kind of interesting difference
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between here and Disney World. Disney
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World, [music] you'd be looking over
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the lake, Seven Seas Lagoon, I should
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say. Here you're looking over the or
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you're looking over the esplanade out
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there.
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Pulling into the station. We missed that
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train. The line was so long. So now
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we're waiting for the next one.
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>> Oh, there it is. Pulling into the
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station now.
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>> Looks like we're going to actually have
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the [music] forward facing one here on
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the e. Oh, look. There's someone sitting
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up there in the uh the front seat.
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>> Pulling in the New Orleans Square. We're
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not getting off that. We're doing a
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grand circle now. It's kind of hard to
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hear the telegraph cable office Walt
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speech tapping over there, but it is uh
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it is doing the opening day speech to
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Morse. I think Morse code is the correct
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terminology on that little mechanism
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right down there. Is it Morse code, Jay?
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Yes, Morse code. The telegraph.
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>> I don't know who Morse was, but his
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code.
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>> I think it really was someone named
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Morse.
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>> Johnny Morse.
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>> My favorite part of the jury around
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rivers. Around every bend there's
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natural beauty as far as the eye can
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see.
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There is the revered. We got
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>> a really good little rock here to hide
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Galaxy's Edge on the other side.
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Nature's wonderland in a matter of days
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rather than the months that used to take
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place.
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the cus of Tomorrowland. So just over
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this way is
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Plaza in Chicken. I had chicken at Knots
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the other day and I'm now I'm going to
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have Plaza Plaza and Chicken right over
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this little hedge. 70 years of
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Disneyland. 60 years of dining and
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elegance. 60 years the Plaza N is
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celebrating its anniversary.
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Ready for some chicken. Wait, that's not
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right. That's not right. Wait, Plaza
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Plaza was 70, right?
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>> This is a 10-year-old sign. But I But I
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said it. I thought something ain't right
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here.
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>> This must be a 10-year-old. It's a
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10-year-old sign.
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Maybe
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he should
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>> As I was saying it, I'm thinking it
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doesn't seem right here.
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>> Yeah, closet would have been opening
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day.
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>> Why am I showing an empty tray?
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>> The student won't be empty.
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>> Right there. I never noticed the just
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the initials pi
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or magnum was ever in here.
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Getting some chicken here. $21.99. You
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get couple pieces of chicken, mashed
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potatoes, gravy,
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green beans. You can also offer the pot
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roast and the salmon. And now I'm going
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with the chicken.
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Going the full on chicken. There's the
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salmon right there. There's the pot
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roast right there. There's the chicken.
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I'm going to guess we're probably going
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to rig out a new batch for us. All
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right.
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I think we might get the freshest
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chicken of the moment.
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Look at that. We're going to get the
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fresh batch.
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We came here with the
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>> fresh batch. [laughter] Fresh batch.
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See what you did there.
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>> $21.99.
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Oh.
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Make sure she says tricky with that
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chicken on the plate right there.
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>> No tongue foolery over here.
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>> You want the fresh batch? That's right.
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Look at that. That's beautiful.
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>> That's a thing of beauty right there.
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You want chicken? Yeah, we're doing a
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chicken two chicken plates. You're the
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best. Thank you.
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You getting the gravy on yours?
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>> I'm getting chicken breast and double
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mash.
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>> You're double mashing it.
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>> I'm going to do I'll do normal mash.
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>> You know what? Give me I'll do double
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mash, too. Give me the double m I'll do
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double mash it up.
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>> I didn't realize you could do all the
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cart mash.
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Talk me into it, Joe.
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It's amazing. Biscuit.
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Thank you.
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>> Best theme park chicken in my opinion
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that there is. I don't know about this
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double mash though. I'll let uh Jay get
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me over with the peer pressure side of
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it.
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Oh, you It's not allocart. They just
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don't give you the green beans. What is
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it?
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>> Oh, I was thinking I was going to get
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>> double that and green beans. Yeah, I
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thought it was all a card thing. All
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right,
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I should have gone with my first
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instinct.
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So, it's not all cart. You can just
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substitute. That's the word. It's all
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good. Just can't correct it again. In
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fact,
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>> you can get all cart on top of there.
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>> This is getting heavy now.
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This is a working my finger muscles
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holding this. Look at this. We got
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onslaught of potatoes and chicken and
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green beans right here. Very very fresh
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chicken. Very very
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nice. I don't know what's happened
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underneath the bottom of my chicken.
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Look at that. It's been a
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>> Wow. Little chunk out of it there.
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>> Someone checked that.
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I got a little Look at this. I got a
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little little leg. Did you get a leg? No
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legs. Just two breasts.
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>> Oh, okay. You went with the all white.
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>> Okay. I got the leg, I got the thigh,
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and I got the breast.
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>> Now, are you doing what chicken was
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better?
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>> I mean, I already know this is better.
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Oh,
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>> I mean, Knots chicken dinner is like a
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close second, but it does it pales in
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comparison to this. Even though I love
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Mrs. Knox chicken dinner, highly
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recommend it. If you're over at Knots,
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do it. And if you're here, do Plaza.
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This is my number one number one number
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one theme park chicken dinner I've ever
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had. We're inside the Disney Anna store.
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Take a look at this. They have the
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figurine that they have the animatronic
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version here. Walt Disney figurine here.
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They also have quite a few other little
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things inside the Disney store. But
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yeah, this I hadn't seen this before.
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They also have the pop figure of Walt on
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the fire truck there right down Main
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Street USA. All right, they're taking
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the omnibus around back. They're getting
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ready to do the flag retreat ceremony in
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about 10 minutes right over here in the
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front hub. The flags are half mass
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today.
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Good afternoon everyone. On this Patriot
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Day and National Day of Service and
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Remembrance, the Disneyland Band is
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proud to invite you to join our march
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down Main Street, USA as together we
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celebrate America.
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Heat.
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>> The lowering of the flags is a tradition
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steeped in reverence and reflection
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dating back to Abraham Lincoln's
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presidency. Today, the Disneyland Resort
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Security Honor Detail [clears throat] is
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honored to follow in that tradition and
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lower the flags for the evening until
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the rising of the new dawn. Let us
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observe the retiring of the colors.
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We are proud to salute all veterans and
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all who currently serve in the United
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States Armed Forces. To those of you who
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have joined us today, on behalf of the
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Disneyland Resort, we sincerely thank
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you for your honorable service to
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America.
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And now, as we observe and commemorate
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this day, we join the rest of America in
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remembering the courageous and the
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fallen of September 11th, 2001.
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Please join us in a moment of silence to
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reflect and to remember.
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Life, liberty, and the pursuit of
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happiness. [music]
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>> right. Got to polish off the Got to
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polish off the night
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with a little uh Cheers.
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>> Cheers.
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>> Looking good.
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>> Double mint.
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>> Double mint. And what'd you get?
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Strawberry and cookie dough.
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>> What'd you get, Kevin?
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>> We got chocolate over here. I've already
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ate a scoop.
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>> You already just downed the whole scoop.
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>> There goes
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the Monteray. I think going to head out
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now. Heading out on my way back over the
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parking structure now. Jay's going to
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give me a ride back to my hotel.
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Call it a day.
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street art.
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>> I remember when they built that parking
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structure.
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>> They're going to build another one
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>> across the street on Harbor.
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>> We're just talking how you used to be
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able to park over here. This is cast
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member parking now, I think, but it used
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to be Downtown Disney parking. And if
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you showed up at 8:00 a.m. and park, you
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can show up at like 7:45. Yeah.
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>> Rope drop at 8. And if you got back to
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your car by 11, it was threeh hour free
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parking. So you could park here, walk
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through Downtown Disney, crush a bunch
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of rides, leave at 10:45, get back to
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your car at 11. We could go to Shakys
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>> at 11:00 and pay nothing. Well, we have
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annual passholders anyway, so you But
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still, you'd be way closer than parking
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way over there.
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>> So close.
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>> In and out. Nobody got hurt.
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>> And now
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>> park here, get on the Montreal.
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>> Was right there. So close. Oh, what a
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time to be alive.
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>> What a time. What year was that?
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>> Two 10 years ago. 2015.
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>> That's it.
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>> Things have changed. And that's going to
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do it for today. Thanks for watching.
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I'll see you in the Oh, tram going by.
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Tra going by down there. Well, part of
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the tram. Let me back up. You kind of
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see it a little bit more. Tram going by.
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Thanks for watching. I'll see you in the
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next video. The vlog is over.