The Peoplemover is Finally Reopening - Magic Kingdom Soft Open Hopes / Space Mountain & Rocket Ride
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today's adventure begins on friday april
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23 2021 it's about 6 15 p.m
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i'm heading over to magic kingdom
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because i heard well not a rumor but a
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confirmation that the people mover and
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tomorrowland will be opening this
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weekend
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and since this weekend starts
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tomorrow as a recording of this is
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friday evening i'm hoping for a soft
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opening
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going in and considering this attraction
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has been closed for well don't quote me
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on this but probably over a year it's a
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pretty big deal it's been closed since
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the reopenings
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back in july and since it's two hours
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and 50 minutes 50 minutes before park
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close
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there's no one here at the parking
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stations you just pull right through
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there is a turkey right here
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as i'm pulling into ttc parking
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right here on the side
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of this little grassy hill
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see you later turkey
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yeah i'm gonna go see if the people
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movers open
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okay
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see you later turkey now keep in mind
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and i must keep in mind there is no
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guarantee that this attraction is going
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to be
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quite operational
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the weekend could mean sunday
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could mean saturday it could mean a
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friday night and if it could be is
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tomorrow saturday
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then the soft open will be the day
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before so just crossing my fingers
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this is gonna happen
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and if it doesn't
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at least i tried
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inviting you
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to join me i love the people mover
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i'm not the only one
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join me shall you
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my hair's doing a funny thing
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monorail going by can i go through these
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tents and head in see the castle way
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over there i am taking the ferry but a
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lot of people are leaving
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i am heading in
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towards the ferryboat richard f irvine
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all the fairy boats have different names
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now i've always heard
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that
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the time frame
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across the seven seas lagoon on the
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ferry boat now do not take into account
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for the the queue and the line of those
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those that are all lined up to get on
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said transportation devices but once you
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are on the ferry boat or on the monorail
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this is what i've always heard my entire
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life
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but it's about the same distance
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time-wise
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so i always choose to take the ferryboat
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as opposed to the monorail i know i love
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the monorail i also love the ferryboat
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i've always heard that i never confirmed
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it saying goodbye to the ttc
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i would say ttc stands for
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transportation and ticket center but
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it's not tatc it's ttc the and
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must be silent
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in fact another ferry boat is pulling in
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to the transportation ticket center
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a lot of guests are leaving i am
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arriving however
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you get that view of the castle over
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there there's a really good angle there
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between those two beams
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here on the boat itself
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and a monorail going by look at that
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oh this is good not only a monorail but
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going parallel to the monorail
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is one of the boats
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look at that
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it doesn't work out much better than
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that as a photo opportunity pulling up
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to the dock
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and once i go in through main street i'm
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going to walk over that way you can see
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space mountain well space mountain i
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always like to point out the the rope
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hidden mickey
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hidden mickey on the rope that's walking
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onto back onto dry land you can see at
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this hour 7 pm we got mickey and minnie
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and donald up there the train station
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waving goodbye to those that are leaving
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but there's still two hours left before
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close so heading down walking right in
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the middle of main street usa from here
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you can see there is
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no there are no vehicles going by
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except for
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the rockets kind of spinning around so
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i'm in line for the raceway see if i can
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drive around with some of the race cars
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and get a little a little view around
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the perimeter of the people mover let's
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see what's happening still got a couple
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hours foreclosed so
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still hoping it'll happen and since i'm
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over in tomorrowland and will be on
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autopia east some refer to it as we'll
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be able to get a a view driving by tron
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the tron construction it's gonna be a
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lot of tomorrowland
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items peppered in but as you can see you
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do not see that people mover over there
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going by i thought at least would be
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testing
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it at least would be testing right still
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a possibility and the gentleman that
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does not wear matching shirts
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michael k
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is that true
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what do you think the odds of the people
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move are going tonight are if you were a
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betting man
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slim to nuts slim to nine come on i need
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a better percentage than that uh
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ten
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percent all right ten percent ten
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percent
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look at that thing up there
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just
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it's almost saying it's almost time
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it's almost time
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also that that ship there on the side
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the
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the drink
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ship can't remember the name of it but
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that was used as fly the navigator the
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1980s film and they repainted it put a
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tailwind tail
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spin on it
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and now it's used here in tomorrowland
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and away we go number 77 that's a good
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number
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looks like they've repurposed the
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steering wheel here
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as well
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oh yeah see they're just giving us a
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little tease right there
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yeah a little
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a little booby history here some
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compliance
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paul reubens pee-wee herman voiced that
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spaceship and fly the navigator i always
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like to mention that
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yeah no people mover i thought for sure
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you hear the music almost you can hear
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the music yeah well not really but also
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so the real question is is it going to
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have a new spiel
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because stitch's great escape is gone
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that's right it's gonna have a new spiel
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you know i wouldn't be surprised
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oh come on people mover
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we need you we've been patient
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we were just discussing how long it's
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been closed it's been closed at least
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since the early july re-opening but i
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think it was closed even a few months
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before that but i think it's been over a
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solid gear
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okay you got the gas
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i got the wheel
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up you were just kind of
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are we running out of fuel here we're
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running around running out of fuel right
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in the tunnel
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no
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have they announced a date for tron yet
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uh no but i'm hoping that it's soon you
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can actually see them there's a big
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amount of construction here and the uh
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the tarp for the actual coaster itself
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is hanging all over what year 22 or 23.
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uh i'm hoping for 22. that is a thing of
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beauty right there oh yeah you can see
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the tarp over it
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so that's the right track inside that
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dough right
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does it start inside or outside
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which one does it start inside or
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outside
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and then it blasts out right
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yeah really did assume
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that that would be at least testing
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okay we're zipping by everyone go go go
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let's take it home
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go go go give it some gas we got this
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go go don't let it off we got to pass 46
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and 50.
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oh someone oh we'll squeal it out there
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peel it out
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go
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this person's too busy getting a selfie
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we got this they're distracted
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you just turned in i just wanted to get
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a view of people over this turned into a
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competition
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oh come on we just got to get that car
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right there
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can we get past this car there's one
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more to go go go go put the pedal to the
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metal
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no we got this number 17
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left in the dust eat our dust 17.
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that's how it's done oh my god good good
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we just passed like half a dozen
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vehicles we're the champion
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see the rockets over there i think it
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may be going up on the rocket since it
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is directly above the attraction
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that the subject matter and that is in
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question is
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but this is just very stagnant
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sitting there that will be that this
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weekend at some point
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these will be moving and accessible to
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guests
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as of now as of this very moment no soft
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but i still still have hooks and from
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another angle another ride vehicle just
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sitting there gonna head up
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this gantry lift up to the astro orbiter
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and as much fun as i'm gonna have going
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up in these rockets i'd really like to
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go up in rocket tower plaza's plaza
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station up that up that little lift to
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the people mover now stepped into otis
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with a capacity of 2 600 pounds going up
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the elevator which i've heard people
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refer to this as the gantry lift
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you ever heard it called the gantry lift
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never i know the gantry lift is also on
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guardians at dca
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the gantry lift my hands don't scan
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the gantry lift the mechanism is working
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now i have pulled this all the way up
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and now going skye over there of the
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castle look at that very very nice
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oh yeah no people moving
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come on people mover oh
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oh
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this is going down now i'm steering it
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with my foot
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check it out way over there by the
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contemporary from up on this platform
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you see the monorail going by
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and yeah definitely the
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the ride vehicles there
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just got done going on the rockets i
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love these things you get a very good
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view
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from way up here very good view indeed
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going back down otis now
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going back down to the ground level
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still showing this very familiar sign we
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have seen for the past you know nine or
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ten months or so dang had my hopes up
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but it doesn't look like it's going to
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happen walked over to the castle now
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looking back down main street usa at
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this hour about an hour till close it's
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8 p.m right now have not given up yet on
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the fact that people mover might happen
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i know it's definitely percentage going
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way down by looking at the castle and
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going to go over to starbucks get a
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piping hot caffeinated beverage and then
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walk back over and check tomorrowland
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out right before close which isn't too
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far off now i think i'm gonna go with a
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hazelnut latte
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michael k has used a an evil word what
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was the word that you use that you
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wanted to
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decap you're going to go with decaf come
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on
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decaf i mean it is 8 pm
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that's probably why
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that does that is not in my vocabulary
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sir were you doing a doctor evil
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maybe you're doing a doctor do it again
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one million decafs
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just gotta wait here on my green dot
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he's still ordering over there he is
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he's filming itself while he orders
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now it's weird when you see someone else
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do it i mean i do it all the time but
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when you see someone else do it from a
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distance
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it's kind of unusual
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right
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i caught you in the act of vlogging yeah
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i thought it looked kind of it was very
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awkward but then i realized i do it too
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so it's kind of like
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i can't i can't criticize because i do
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the same thing right but you have a g7x
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you have the the gargantuan limbs
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that's ready
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my piping hot caffeinated beverage
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all ready
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thank you the castle has been
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wazzowski'd by that pole right there
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it's been without the monsters
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does not look like it is moving dang
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well
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i tried i really tried and when i say i
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tried i really did nothing except show
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up and look i really i guess the word i
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tried really doesn't go too far because
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i didn't really do too much at all
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except show up in all right looks to be
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pretty close to a walk-on first space
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mountain
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oh yeah
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it is happening we're in the alpha track
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the other way was the omega track when i
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was younger i learned the greek alphabet
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i probably don't remember it now it was
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alpha beta gamma delta epsilon zeta a
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theta kappa lambda mu nu pi
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ci omega i think i missed it it's pretty
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good
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all right i'm in the second row
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michael's in the front here we go
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galactic
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energy
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here it goes here we go oh no did them
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hats are there
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it's not making the noise very quiet
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probably a lot louder through here
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so as of friday the weekend that they
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stated the people mover would be
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happening
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it did not soft open
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but i've always figured
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you just gotta you gotta attempt
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to see if that will happen because if it
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had soft open
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i would have been very happy i'm still
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very happy quite a bit through the
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things i think we're gonna walk over to
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the contemporary
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and then take
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the monorail from contemporary over to
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ttc back so
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let's go right down the middle of main
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street usa
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and exit out right down right down the
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center
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underneath the train station and out
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to the walking platform
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ah magic kingdom a thing of beauty
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going past the bus depot there's donald
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on the side of that bus
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this one is not overlaid
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with a wrap
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but donald
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donald this
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and we get the monorail
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cruising by right there very very nice
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as it goes
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can see
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you know space mountain they're off in
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the distance and there's where the
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monorails go in for the evening that's
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that track that goes around the back
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side not the back side of water but the
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back side
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of space mountain walking over to the
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contemporary
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and even from way over here you can see
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the castle and the top of astro orbiter
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and look there in the middle you can see
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part of the people mover track even from
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way over here outside the park heading
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over right overhead
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i love saying that there's going to be
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quite a few monorail
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angles as like
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continue walking into here and then move
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look at the moon up
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top to the moon up there
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going up the escalator
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second floor
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up to the second floor and then we're
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gonna go to the fourth floor
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and now out on the balcony here you can
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see another monorail going over there
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and you can see the castle and space
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mountain off in the distance which i
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always like this beautiful angle and yet
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another one i'm kind of walking over to
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this angle to see if i can get a view
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can always get a good perspective from
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here
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out here on this this balcony or the
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lanai
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i don't like to discuss business on the
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lanai they do like to pay attention to
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monorail i'm having a little late night
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snack
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they are preparing my order at the
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contempo
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contempo cafe
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which is not wanting to focus there goes
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there it is the contempo cafe you can
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see all the the construction they're
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doing on the rooms up there on this side
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theme parks side rooms and the
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very famous mary blair mural here
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what time is it right now
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9 44 and i'm getting a tricky sandwich
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and we have about 15 minutes to get our
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mobile order
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and get on the monorail because the
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monorail stops running at 10.
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are we going to make this
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is it gonna happen uh i've got a pretty
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good track record for
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beating the clock
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and right now
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one's pulling into the station monorail
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green
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monorail
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pulling into the station
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now this is a moment
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this is a moment oh that's not what i
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wanted i messed up
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see i'm already messing up i'm not used
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to doing this
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there it goes water
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okay there's a little bit of the
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blueness in there
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give us a little flavor
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this is a historic moment you can you
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can pour your own drink now
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you pour your own drink again
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they have not had this this way for a
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long time
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got my turkey sandwich in here did you
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get a turkey sandwich also i sure did we
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got double turkey sandwiches we got
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double waters you went to seltzer water
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i went with water with a little bit of
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blue
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and in the elevator this is also otis
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and that oh look perfect timing except
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that's not the one we're getting on
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we're getting on this one right here
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still perfect timing though still
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perfect timing all right
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going in look it might be the last ones
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to board on this
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yeah i'm gonna sit over here at 18.
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we're the only ones in here
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michael's over on section 17.
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from here you can't really see the
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five-legged goat it's on the other side
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of that
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there we go closing the doors
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good evening ladies and gentlemen those
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of you just joining us
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i'm excited to try this
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a historic occasion
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being able to pour your own drink
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the walt disney world
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things are progressing quickly
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five legged goats up there somewhere
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well it's hard to see him but he's up
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there
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see you later magic kingdom
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people mover did not soft open but
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that's fine we still had a heck of a
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good time
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got a little area over here next to the
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monorail station platform a little
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well-lit area to
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see that this is what we're dealing with
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turkey sandwich
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which has been said to to eat it when
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it's warm
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so i'm going in and a little warmth
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there you can kind of see what's in
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there you got some bacon lettuce tomato
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and
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cheese
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on some wheat bread of some sort and
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some fries
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the turkey sandwich from the contempo
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cafe
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let's see if this is all it's cracked up
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to be see if your suggestion was correct
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and when it comes to like keeping a law
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of distancing i think i'm following the
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guidelines
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you're way over there
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this is another you definitely you're
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definitely could be classified as a
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foodie a disney disney world foodie
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thank you thank you
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we got this whole area
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man that's awesome
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and with that
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and uh goodbye to heavy metal mickey
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calling it an evening
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that's going to do it for today
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i i i say heavy metal because he's made
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out of aluminum which is a metal
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i think he's aluminum
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nonetheless
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vlog
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is over
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one last thing this is the parking lot
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after close see what time it is right
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now
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i ate that sandwich for a while it's 10
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30.
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park closed
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at nine
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sat at ttc for a while chatting it up
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having a nice late night snack
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that's it
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i bet these trams
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kind of lonely sitting out here not
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being used