Goodbye To Jungle Cruise Trader Sam - Disney World Removed Him / People Mover Testing & Train Update
Magic Kingdom April 2021 Updates
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welcome everyone adam the woo here
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appears to be that there is some roofing
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going on over there
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as well as some here's some other
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construction devices that are taking
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place
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market street right here celebration
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florida as of the recording of this it
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is
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tuesday april 6th
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and i just received news saw some rumors
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that trader sam from the jungle cruise
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has been removed now there were no
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reservations you know i have to utilize
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my magic band once i get to the parks
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for
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mk so what i did to kind of bypass that
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is utilize the park hopping option right
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now it's about 11 a.m but at 2
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i will be able to sign into magic
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kingdom because
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i procured well i'm going to get a
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piping hot caffeinated beverage a little
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bit later
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but a reservation for hollywood studios
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so i'm going to scan in with my magic
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band there
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and then you know take all the
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transportation devices over to magic
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kingdom
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and see what's going on with the jungle
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cruise they have said that the
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construction
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the new overlay of what's going to
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happen for that attraction
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it will not close down it's going to be
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a step-by-step thing so pretty exciting
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i'm inviting you to join me for this
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update shall we
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we all knew this day what happened i
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knew this day would come
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disney never said they were going to
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remove traitor sam
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going not under the archway but on this
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road next to the archway
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the pirates of the caribbean redhead
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scene a few years ago went through some
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drastic changes splash mountain will be
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up next
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and currently as of this moment
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jungle cruise is on the chopping block
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once again the only reason i'm at
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studios is so i could tap my magic band
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in
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and then park hop to magic kingdom at
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2pm it's currently
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11 30. you see spaceship earth over
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there
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and i've decided to to bring my cap
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as well because it's a little sunny
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today and i need that i might get a
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coffee
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in studios before i can't take the
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skyliner to magic kingdom i'm gonna end
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up driving my own car back over there
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shortly one of those helicopter tours
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going by i do love being a pass holder
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that's how you can get the the park
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hopping aspect without
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paying for a day ticket and adding on
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the park hopping and i just renewed my
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ap
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so it's good for another year i got a
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whole 12 more months of this
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not complaining i'm even kind of
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surprised i got a reservation to get in
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here i tried for about an hour at any of
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the four parks
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and it worked this was the only one that
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popped up for a quick moment
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so i grabbed it and it worked
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it's always nice and quiet in here
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during these times usually there's
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music blaring but now that this is a
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relaxation station
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nice and quiet and peaceful
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in here
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oh that's hot as far as ap tier goes
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you can see the grayed out area means
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there are none left
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as stated i'm surprised i got studios
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i kept trying all the available parks
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and none of them were available
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for about an hour this morning and then
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magically
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popped up and because i can do the park
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hopping
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that that's the way i'm doing it it is
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noon right now
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so i have two hours it's gonna take
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probably an hour even with taking the
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ferry boat and everything over there and
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then
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to drive over there and if the park
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hopping was blocked out
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it would not say the 2pm it would just
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say not available
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so should be able to park hop and go
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over to jungle cruise
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took a walk down to the indiana jones
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stunt spectacular section which is also
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being utilized for
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a relaxation station the show is not
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happening but
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you can get a good view at all the props
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and the bleachers in here last time i
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was in here
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you could not see all this the section
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over there has been moved
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and you can see this entire section
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which i have not seen in
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quite a while pretty neat as i sit here
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reading this off the disney parks
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site and just kind of show some of the
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new magic there
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you can see that kind of looks like
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what's already there but they're going
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to be adding some new characters
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as well and it looks like the the boat
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itself is going to have some
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chimpanzees on it in the future not
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today but
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soon it is now just about 12 30 gonna
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start making my way
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over to my car and then from there over
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to the transportation devices to get to
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magic kingdom
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here at echo lake yeah this is their
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version disney's hollywood studios
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version
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of la's echo lake true story as i leave
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this parking area you can really see
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that they are sticking to the 35
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capacity because the lot is very very
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expansive
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and only about a third of the way
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full and still no reservation so another
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question i have is
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when the heck are they going to raise
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the percentage of those they're letting
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in here from 35 to maybe 50
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and have more reservation spots for the
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parks
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because it's very difficult to get them
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even though there's a lot of parking
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spots
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here also side note over here
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is going to be the new star wars hotel
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right over there as i drive over to mk
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you can see it pretty neat currently
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12 40 p.m 40 minutes after
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noon and there is hardly anyone
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going into the parking section i have an
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hour and 20 minutes before i can go in
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the gates of
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magic kingdom however i got time
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now keep in mind same thing goes for
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this park
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see the trams which are not running or
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parked way over there
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this entire lot when it's at a hundred
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percent
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it's completely full and there are no
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reservations
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35 percent as well for this park
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and it's not just this section but even
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way
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up here there's only a few cars
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maybe soon things are progressing
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quickly
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and i would imagine when that day
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appears
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that will be when the epcot loop
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monorail out of ttc
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will start to rear its head once again
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i can remember where i parked because i
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just follow this this
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beam in to ttc transportation ticket
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center
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now the monorail you see off in the
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distance over there that is the
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resort loop and magic kingdom loop this
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beam
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is epcot loop
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and i'm walking on the tram route which
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right now there's no trams
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running so can walk the tram route and
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speaking of tram route this is the
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tram circle which was created prior
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well to the closures you see the monroe
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going over there goes
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the monorail but when everything goes
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back to usual
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the trams will circle around that new
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path i have opted not to take the
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monorail nor
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the fairy boat because i do have a
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little time so i'm gonna walk
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through the poly first and do the loop
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over well half loop
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over to the park entrance i know this is
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a long-winded way to get to today's
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subject matter but it's the only way of
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doing this this is the only option to
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get in
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so that's what's happening as of this
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moment the outdoor section
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here of the the bar is not open
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now will this name change as well now
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that he has been removed
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from the attraction i don't think so but
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you know
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i've been wrong before i really do hope
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that is not the case
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i stated i don't think it will be but
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stranger things have happened
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the grog grotto taking the walking path
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from here and just kind of stretch my
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legs a bit
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and you can see the castle over there in
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the distance also as of about a half
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hour ago at about 1
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15 p.m it's about 1 40 so i'll be able
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to walk in the gate
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at mk in about 20 minutes at the 2pm
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park hopping
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but just a few moments ago as the
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recording of this disneyland
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has announced a little more
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specifications
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on ticket sales and when reservations
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get in the park
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will be published and in reality i do
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not
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have an answer yet if i'm going more on
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that in another episode
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and the only reason i'm really
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mentioning it is just to document
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for posterity the announcement and the
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occasion
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i have exactly 10 minutes
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to get over to the gate ten minutes to
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two
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this is a long process just to go on
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jungle cruise to not
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see traitor sam i almost took one of the
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boats from
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grand californian over you could see it
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arriving there
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almost looks similar to a jungle cruise
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boat doesn't it
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but it was taking a while so i just
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decided to walk instead but very similar
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to
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a jungle cruise boat over there that
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takes you over to
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the theme park and once i'm in the gate
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and in the park and get back to
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adventureland it looks like it's going
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to be a 45 minute wait
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according to the app before i get
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on the cruise yeah look at that
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beautiful
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transportation device pulling into the
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station got into line at
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2 10 p.m and it says 50-minute wait
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so it might be three o'clock before i
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get on the first one i'd like to do this
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more than once but
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we'll see what happens now i'm fairly
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certain that this congregation of folks
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is not here because
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they want to see what's happening to the
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attraction that's why i'm here
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i would imagine most of them probably
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don't even realize that trader sam has
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been removed
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i'm also curious to see what else they
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got rid of if anything besides sam is
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gone now they said they're not going to
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close this down for
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the overlay and for refurbishment
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they're going to do it in a stair-step
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process so on a daily basis things could
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change
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like today they are now saying there's
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going to be a little bit of a delay for
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cleaning procedures as soon as we
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possibly
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can i've been waiting about an hour so i
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want to go on this more than once but
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i've waited about an hour so far but i'm
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almost on
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i'm almost on also up here i never
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realized that there
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now trader sam is usually just around
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that bin they drop the guests off
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and the empty boat pulls up and then
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loads here with other guests
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that you please keep your face mask
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and this says there's an opportunity for
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immediate advancement
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at our amazon river base recent events
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have created a number of openings
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what is surely our most exciting
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i also wonder if they're going to have
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new jokes or if they're even going to
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acknowledge the empty spot where
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trader sam used to stand for all those
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years so
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please make sure
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very very soon but they're stating
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they're going to do a little cleaning
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procedures here
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this right here is wompa wanda
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i don't think that's the one i'm getting
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on i think i'm gonna be on the next boat
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all right
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now
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that is right we will be loading the
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boats and you will be going into the
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jungle cruise
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it's been about a 20 minute delay what
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they did is they sprayed down
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all the boats and they had them all
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every one of them
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go around the entire loop without any
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guests
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so it has been what time is it right now
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let me look at the
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it is now 3 12. i got in line at 2 10
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and if you do not laugh at my jokes
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you're swimming instructor
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we're not in 365 days a year
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it's always every other day we're coming
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up with some of our famous butterflies
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these butterflies can't have a winged
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fan anywhere from 12 inches
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all the way to a whopping one there's a
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duck looking for something in the water
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the rulers of the jungle
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yeah they are some true monarchs aren't
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they now over here around the corner
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will be inspiration falls monarchs
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monarch butterflies
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if you take a look at it long enough it
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because that's how it works here we're
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around the congo river in africa we'll
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see just how far we can go if you've
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never seen the jungle before
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there it is yep still kept the jungle
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jungle book
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yeah something must have scared them off
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i don't know what could have scared but
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nothing
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well if you're wearing anything yellow
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please don't make any sounds like a
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banana they do find that appealing
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i guess the upside here is i couldn't
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get that tape over there to turn this
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morning but it does look like they got
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it to turn over
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yeah they must have used the monkey
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right or something else kind of seems as
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business as usual when it comes to the
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joke so the jokes have not changed
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i'm curious to get to the end to see if
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trader sam's still there
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or not or if it's just a strong rumor
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do you know how we know that they're
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african elephants
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african elephants from africa
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you must have biology because fun fact
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it is because we are in africa
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yeah that's how you know that they're
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african elephants over here is a
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sandstone rock formation some people do
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take it for granted
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but as these lines up here are showing
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us not everyone's going to make it back
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to their herds
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oh my gosh are you guys seeing this
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right now are you saying what i'm trying
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to say through the classic this is the
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craziest thing that you have ever seen
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have you ever seen so many rocks in one
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place at one time
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hundreds of thousands of likes on that
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beach rocky
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and this is just a once in a lifetime
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experience like i'm absolutely
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transcending
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wow i don't know how anything's ever
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going to live up to that well
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i guess the only way to move on from
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rocks is to talk about plants because i
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do happen to be a plant expert
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so i'm going to take some time now to
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put on a few of my favorites for y'all
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that one that one
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yeah that's it any questions
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oh you do wake up to the waterfall then
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i'll ask you buddy so
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here is schweitzer falls we're often
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asked we're
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safe for a famous explorer navigation
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company dr
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albert
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yeah it's okay we'll go over it later so
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i am often asked observatory how did you
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land your job yeah the jungle cruise
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well
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it's plain to see i took a crash course
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yeah my career never really took off the
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way that i thought it would and i'm kind
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of just swinging it
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you know what i won't bore y'all anymore
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that it's a talent a bad story my
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parents
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are really proud yeah of my brother he's
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an engineer
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and it does do his job upon a dangerous
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taste
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of my pool well let's take this ball
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raise your hand if you want to keep on
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going
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all right well y'all can go in ahead i'm
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going gonna stay right here oh
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it's okay they did six six goals last
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week but only five of them are mine we
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should be totally fine
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territory which is a dangerous place to
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be headed
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oh but it's okay let's get dancing in a
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circle anyone know why you're doing that
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that's the real question will this
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section be the next to go
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i would if i was a betting man i'd say
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because they are smaller than the
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african elephant now they have following
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years don't squirt
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this guys up here clearly if you like to
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try and fireball still have to watch out
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for that but he's going back down we
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yeah i guess he didn't reload that time
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some people do you think it's water
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coming out of their noses but
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it's not oh no yeah she'll get a dry
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humor for you there if i don't see
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i know i don't know what i don't see
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trader saying
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oh my goodness look at this over here
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the tree at the bark
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yeah that's a dog biscuit what the heck
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look at that
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he's gone
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usually he's right over there on the
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other side of that little that little
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hill oh you see the pathway where he
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walked away down this dock so here's the
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device i heard my 18th birthday which
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you know was just two short days ago
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your free ride is over
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no more traitor sam it's official at
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walt disney world
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he's gone hey you would just walk right
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over that hill he would be right over
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and save there i can see me
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thank you for choosing jungle navigation
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company for your travel needs
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you're welcome yeah and based on it
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being another hour that was going to be
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the only ride through i'm doing for
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today but it was good i got to see
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everything i needed to see
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confirmed now this is rather interesting
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this is the
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esc escalator but the the walking the
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moving platform here
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for the people mover it is quite
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operational
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now the people mover has been tested in
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recent months
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they keep pushing back the opening date
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but they have not had
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the moving walkway ever moving like this
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and once again
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even though there are no guests on it
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you can see it kind of cruising around
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tomorrowland in every facet as it goes
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around the other attractions
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and to and fro the people mover is
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being tested you know just a little
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throw in since i'm doing an update video
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might as well show the people mover in
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all its glory this could be
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this could be at any time as well but
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what caught my eye or should i say my
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ear
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is the fact that this squeaky walkway
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is formulated you can see it going down
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now the other
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side still has the please wait here
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stickers
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but the so the ascension is not moving
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but the d-sension
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is moving and as i kind of point over
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there you will see
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one last moment of it going by over near
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space mountain that's very very exciting
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is it and here's another one going by
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right up there yeah
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people mover i am ready to ride you in
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all
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your new updated glory and they'll
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probably have a new spiel on there as
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well probably won't be the old spiel
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i never want to guess i never even want
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to assume that that means it's going to
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be
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rearing its head in the next day or so
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but man that's a good sign i did see a
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cast member up there on that platform
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as well so it's testing underneath the
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rockets and cast members up there and
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the moving walkways are formulating also
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walked over to the extended queue of
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barnstormer and check this out over near
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the tron construction
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there are pieces of well there are the
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railroad
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tracks have been placed right down here
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i did not notice those
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last time i was over in this area so we
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got tron up there and the railroad
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little pylons and everything and the
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tracks have been
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placed back here that could be a good
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sign that things are starting to
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formulate over in this area as well
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man i missed the railroad and now
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exiting out on the admiral joe
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fowler pulling away from the dock
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and there is a family of little ducks
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well the the little ducks are behind the
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mama duck as it goes across there
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and see them kind of swimming here along
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the edge of the seven seas
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and then you pan up there's that
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monorail just right there oh yeah
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that's going to do it for today as i
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look at another one of those boats that
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looks eerily similar
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to the jungle cruise boats as it just
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about to steer
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close to in front of the castle over
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oh yeah jungle cruise you're going
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through some changes
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and that's okay i'll see you in the next
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video the vlog
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is over oh yeah i forgot to show earlier
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when i was over at the polynesian resort
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in the gift shop i was walking through
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there i picked up these two pens
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purchased them
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we got the grotto trader sam's grotto
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and
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world famous jungle cruise pins
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i'm sure they'll continue selling these
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but you just never know so
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went ahead and purchased them