Walking From Disney’s Hollywood Studios To EPCOT - Park Hopping On Foot at Disney World Summer 2022
Park Hopping on Foot at WDW
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today's adventure brings me begins i
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should say downtown celebration 5 p.m
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on tuesday
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july 26 2022
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a very overcast rainy afternoon
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you can see not a whole lot of people
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sitting out here
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in these chairs but i would be making my
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way
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from lake riohart here
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with the celebration hotel off in the
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distance and not really a lot of people
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walking
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around the lake either i'm gonna be
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doing something i have never done before
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welcome everyone adam the woo here park
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hopping is something you can do pretty
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easily
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at disneyland resort strolling across
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the esplanade a very short little walk
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less than 100 yards or so
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but here at florida in florida at walt
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disney world you kind of need
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transportation either a car like one
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that just went by a monorail a boat
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it's not a tram
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i am going to walk
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i am going to attempt
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to walk
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from one park to another join me
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in the ring
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hollywood studios to epcot and epcot
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back to hollywood studios on foot
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shall you now in all honesty this might
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not seem like that big of a deal and the
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reason for that
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is because it's not that big of a deal
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really isn't anything too super
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spectacular but as stated it's something
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i have never done and i think there's a
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lot of people out there who've also
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never done this
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and i feel like stretching the legs
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doing a little walking doing something
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different
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so i am
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that's what i'm going to do oh wow look
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at i-4 westbound i mean it's kind of how
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it always is but it's a little slower
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and more of a standstill than normal
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that's even possible
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of course off in the distance
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sure the rain does not help with the
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slowdown mickey
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howard
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oh
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in fact here on world drive it is kind
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of a rare sight to see the traffic
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backed up here into the turn lane this
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is one of the on ramps to get on i-4
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westbound
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good thing for me personally i'm going
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straight
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downward drive
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now the reservation i made is for
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studios so gonna scan in here go in the
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park maybe get a piping hot caffeinated
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beverage and then take the walk over to
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epcot center just gotta show my path and
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there's always been bus transportation
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and then the skyliner
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came into existence a few years ago i'm
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not going to take either one of those
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that's a speed hump for speed bump
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i'm not going to take either one of
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those
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in fact they created a whole new
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little bus depot over here not going to
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utilize that gonna walk it the tram
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route still no trams on the tram route
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you can just walk right down it wait for
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those trams to come back this is kind of
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an interesting design of these cones
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to kind of make this little angle
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instead of going all the way across in
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fact there's a cast member down there
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moving the cones around
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into this sort of design
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possibly so people could just walk
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across right here that's the other thing
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i can think of now if i were to take the
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skyliner over to epcot i would scan into
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my magic band over there go over to the
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skyliner station
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and then go across it doesn't it's not
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like a straight angle
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over to epcot in fact the skyliner goes
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way over that
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direction to another area and then kind
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of it's a little bit out of the way even
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though it moves very efficiently and
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quick
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it's going to be more of a direct route
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by walking it because i'm going to take
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a little shortcut
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directly that direction the way the
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camera is pointed i'm curious to see how
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quick i can get over there i love the
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attitude of the cast members
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both the ones over there clapping and
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dancing getting everyone to sing
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rainy day sing-along over there i love
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it
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gotta love the cast members at disney
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does not look like i'm going to have too
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many people in the weight behind to get
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in line to go through the checkpoint to
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get in also i'm trying to think of my
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decision now do i want joffrey's or
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starbucks all right i have made it in
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the gates of the former mgm studios now
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called hollywood studios all right hot
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hazelnut latte got it over here at
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joffrey's on this kind of this little
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corner over here by one man's dream and
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now making my way back out doing the
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walk now there is a friendship boat you
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could take over to epcot but i'm not
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going to be getting on a boat either
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also i was kind of noticing that you are
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hazelnut okay this is hazel that's not
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how i said my name and now bypassing the
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bus depot over here you got the
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hollywood tower off on the distance and
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i am going to continue down this pathway
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see where it leads and it is 6 15.
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doesn't really make a lot of sense to
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give the time because i'm probably not
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going to walk in a direct route but it's
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6 15. look you see that
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the tower over there also take a look at
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this
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wildlife
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oh we got a little snack there
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got a little snack
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it's like a secret tunnel under the
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thoroughfare
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it's like a makeshift waterfall
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an unintentional waterfall going down
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the side of the concrete there
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it's like the swan and dolphin so yeah
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this isn't going to be too far of a walk
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at all
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and the reality of it is really not
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going to be that far
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cannot do this
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from epcot to magic kingdom
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that is a hike
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or animal kingdom to any of the parks
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that would be a long walk aha
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all right i know exactly where i'm at
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right now that was very a very quick
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very quick commute past the bus station
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to this turning point that's i mean it's
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only like a few hundred yards
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so this is not a drop off or pick off
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air pickup area for the skyliner that is
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the turnaround and if you were to follow
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that where the camera's pointed straight
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ahead is riviera
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and then that continues to epcot the
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backside of world showcase
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the sign says the boardwalk
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one day i'm going to say it swan and
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dolphin
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maybe even soon i'd like to say a swan
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and often i've never stayed there
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a very wet tennis court right there with
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the skyliner
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going by off in the distance
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a lot of these resorts i still haven't
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stayed up
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here comes another friendship boat
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and got some guide arrows here letting
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you know which way to go
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walking away from hollywood studios and
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now heading towards
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the boardwalk i'm having some serious
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flashbacks from 30 years ago me like a
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younger me my friends and i would come
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out here we'd park like a little bit
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off-site and walk around all the resorts
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and i'm talking like midnight two in the
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morning
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just because we didn't have anything
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else better to do
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yeah this what this kind of reminded me
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of oh wow and if i just take a quick
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little turn i could see well i could see
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down this way
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let me see if it comes into the frame
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here but off in the distance you have to
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look very very closely but i can see
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journey to imagination pavilion over
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there just kind of peeking up over the
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tree line you see it right there in the
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middle the top of the pyramid that's the
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dvc lounge yeah it's been a while since
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i was around you see the friendship boat
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is making the rounds over it also looks
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like the lighthouse is under a little
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bit of construction now the boardwalk i
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will be having a dvc say at the
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boardwalk at some point i don't know
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nothing no nothing in the immediate
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future but at some point and the name of
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this pier is promenade pier i just saw
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the sign there's also a pirate ship way
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over there too like a sunken pirate ship
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theming you can kind of sort of see it
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when i zoom in so you got the pirate
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ship theming and then over here in the
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middle of the screen is that lighthouse
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that's doing a little they're doing a
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little construction on and if you follow
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around the pirate ship there's this
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gazebo and just past the gazebo is the
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bridge to the backside of world showcase
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at epcot gosh there's still so much here
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on walt disney world property that i
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need to cover what's going on with
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boardwalk bakery is boardwalk bakery
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closed yeah they have it all like they
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have it all kind of stanchioned off
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looks like boardwalk bakery is under a
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little bit of a construction update oh
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interesting fam the fan now it's been a
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heck of a long time since i've been out
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here so my memory is a little bit rusty
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but i believe over here used to be some
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sort of like a sports place like an espn
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zone or something now it's just sitting
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empty it's not being utilized
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at all but i'm like oh look at this look
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how the double the friendship boats are
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both spinning around oh i think the
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stork wants me to if you want me to
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follow you stork or some sort of a bird
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it's a stork like foul stork like bird
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this little gazebo you want to show this
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gazebo off stork like bird also it is 6
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43 right now granted i stopped a lot did
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some filming and kind of took my own
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sweet time yeah 6 43 if anyone's kind of
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following along with when i left till
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when i arrived and fun fact there is a
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road that goes directly underneath me
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here so there's a road that goes
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underneath here goes underneath the
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water here and then that way there is a
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road you can kind of sort of hear the
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traffic barely there is some theme music
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playing in the background the skyliner
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noise but yeah there's traffic going
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right underneath us and to be completely
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honest this was not a bad walk at all
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very enjoyable in the grand scheme of
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things would do again all right so i am
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technically in fact that right over here
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is the world showcase lagoon that leads
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over to ratatouille over there i think i
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don't think i'm even gonna go any
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farther and i've spent a lot of time at
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epcot recently i think i'm just gonna
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head back out and maybe i'm not even
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gonna take the skyliner back i think i'm
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just gonna kind of walk around walk my
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way back over to studios but i wanted to
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show the distance and that it is doable
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to walk from one part to another at walt
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disney world accomplished you know it's
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interesting how everything standing in a
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certain spot things can just kind of
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come back to you i'm also reminded from
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back in the day
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kind of around the same time frame when
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i come out here walk around at night
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but i learned a little trick
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where i mean it probably still still
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happens but
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now i'm able to go in the park but back
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before i was able to even purchase a
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ticket or go inside
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every once a while like people in my my
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dad and father's church that worked at
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disney would sign us in that's how able
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we were able to go we first moved here
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in the early 90s
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but on days we could not go you know it
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was only maybe once he once or twice a
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year we would get in there on other
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nights i've learned a little secret if
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you stood on this bridge right up here
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you could see
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the fireworks show at epcot which is
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just right over there that is the
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entrance under backside of world
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showcase and i would imagine a lot of
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the resort guests probably still
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stand up there to this day but i had
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forgotten about that until i was
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standing right in this spot because then
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and currently you do not need a ticket
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to be standing where i'm at anyone can
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stand right here and walk around
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in this area you do not need an
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admission ticket to the parks
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a lot of friendship boats go through
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this area
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a lot more than i had recalled
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love it
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there's a big fountain over there too
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huge fountain i'm gonna walk you know
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what i was gonna cross this bridge they
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walk over there real quick see that
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fountain very interesting they don't
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call it friendship boats they designate
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it a water taxi i've never heard it
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referred to as that
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they call it a water taxi not a
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friendship boat huh
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this is quite an effervescent flow of
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water
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i always like to focus on transportation
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devices
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whether it be you know small town cross
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country trains
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whether it be boats like this is going
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to go oh it's going to go directly
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underneath me whether it be skyliners
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where whether it be monorails
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just something about them
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nice that one is on its way let me go
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over here and get it as it kind of dips
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underneath oh we're going to get the
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crossing
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of the boats
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the water taxis i'm going to call them
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friendship most is what they're called
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see friendship six right there
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on the back of it so there's at least
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six of them
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in this area there's a lot more than
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that
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i'm gonna follow run parallel to that
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walk back over to
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i almost said mgm but hollywood studios
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now
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i'm just going to hold it here for a
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second
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shaving a haircut
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no i think it was just a normal like
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bell ring
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that works
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got a little bellage
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i got a little bellage
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see if i get a wavage
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got a little wavage
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do not go near the water there's gators
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and snakes in the area that sign says
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there if you look closely sometimes you
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can see these little resort markers
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these survey markers down here
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it's got the globe with the ears on it
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wdw
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a little survey logo
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and walt disney notice how the words
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walt disney are in cursive and world is
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just in regular font
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that's walt's signature
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that's how i've always interpreted it
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that helicopter is getting a really good
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view of studios
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i want to do one of those copter tours
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at one time
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at some point
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but helicopters i don't know like planes
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are batted up but copters
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you can see the tower over there so that
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helicopter went right over studios or at
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least really close i love this
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under the dark corridor under the bridge
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i think chili peppers wrote about that
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is this sign that lets everyone know
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it is okay to go this way
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underneath here
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under the bridge
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like clockwork orange moment through
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here
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hi hi hi there
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i love you can hear the traffic going
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overboard
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i'm standing here waiting for another
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one of these boats to go by
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the rumbling of the cars going overhead
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and the trucks and the buses
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and the soothing sounds
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of a vehicle made only for water
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going by
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can i get a little honkage
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i think i could probably get a little
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honkage
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they're going to give me a little
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hockage
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i'm waiting for a little hockage
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they're going gonna give me a little
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hawk
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they're gonna give me a bell
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they're gonna look they're just not
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gonna acknowledge that i'm standing here
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fail there is another one approaching
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though
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right there
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will they acknowledge that i'm here
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that's the question
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that is the real question
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maybe possibly
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maybe it's too dark under that bridge i
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don't realize
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that i'm underneath there
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and this so cool studios is right here
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and on the way in i played it's placed a
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mobile order for some food over here at
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abc commissary and i just got the alert
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it's already ready and this is what
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we're dealing with with the fish tacos
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rice beans i really like to fish tacos
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here and ask for a complimentary water
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cup so i got to go over to the fountain
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and get my own get my own water they
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give me like a kind of a small cup but i
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got the fish tacos i always like to fish
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tacos from the abc commissary really
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good it's pretty amazing to me that the
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50th anniversary celebration is
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almost coming to an end october 1st will
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be one full year since before the 50th
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but i think they're going i think it
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goes 18 months i think it would go
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through the holidays and into early next
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year but it'll be here before
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really before
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you know you know it time just flies so
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quickly
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i got to get some 50th merch at some
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point not today but you know right
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before they
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take it off the sale sky looks pretty
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beautiful and just like at epcot the
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trams still are not running at hollywood
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studios they are at animal kingdom and
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they are at
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magic kingdom but not here so there will
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come a point when
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we'll be able to traverse
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by foot down there
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yeah i walked over there
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i walked past the skyliner and all the
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way over to epcot and back
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i should check how many i should check
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how many steps it was i'll check my
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health app and
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and show it
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and i got a little little snack from abc
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commas here i'll see the next video the
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vlog
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is over it's looking like i did 12 481
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steps from studios to epcot and back
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give or take
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usually i'll walk more but i stayed
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inside most of that because it was
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really hot
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that's that's approximately how many
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steps it would be to go round trip from
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studios to epcot and back and not really
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do too much in the parks also real quick
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like look at the sunset over there