Universal Studios Hollywood Front Of The Line Pass On Very Busy Day- Platinum AP Perks & Veggie Food
Universal Studios Hollywood June 2023
Transcript
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today's adventure begins as the
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recording of this Wednesday
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oh
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I just saw the Water World plane go off
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over there
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Wednesday June the 14th 2023
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I'm checking out of my hotel here at the
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Hilton
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Universal City
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looking down upon Universal Studios
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Hollywood
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heading to San Diego later tonight but
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first
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gotta parking gonna pop in
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the park look closely you see the fire
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dive
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there he goes
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I have been in this hotel room for two
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weeks really love staying here
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today I'm gonna head down and do an
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after three
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front of the line premium pass I have
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the premium pass and after three you
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don't have to wait in line so that's
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going to be today's episode
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and then when traffic
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starts to
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get a little bit better
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kind of hazy over there really hazy day
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after traffic starts to get a little bit
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better
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heading southbound then I will go to San
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Diego
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gonna have the little
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the climactic into the water world area
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over here this is a good way to start it
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I'm pretty tired also got a late
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checkout 2 p.m checkout
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here at the Hilton it was an extra 75
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dollars worth it
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because I had a long day yesterday I
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drove to Oakland
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went to a game and back in the same day
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getting a late start today so thankful
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for a late checkout
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caffeine is needed
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because if not
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this is how I feel
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standing here in the parking structure
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at the hotel I've been staying at for
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the last 14 13 14 days give or take a
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day
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Hollywood Hills right there
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as stated
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at some point later gonna head
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southbound that direction to San Diego
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it's two o'clock right now I really do
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not want to battle traffic
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and I'm not in a rush to get down there
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so I'm gonna pop in Universal Studios
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I'm inviting you
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as I see how this hole after three front
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of the line Premiere pass Works had the
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premiere pass for a while well I don't
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think I've ever utilized or featured
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the fact
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that you could walk on the rides if you
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are an AP top tier at the premium
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biggest Premiere or premium
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maybe the upper gold one of those
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after three you don't have to wait in
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the locks join me I need coffee I'm a
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little exhausted after yesterday but I'm
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plugging along
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shall you this is not goodbye
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Transformer
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it is not goodbye Marilyn it is not
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goodbye Simpsons we're going down the
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hill and over to the regular parking
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structure I was told that after six
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can't park at the hotel parking anymore
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for the parking that I paid for there
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and just because I might still be in the
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park till after six I think I'm gonna go
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to the regular parking lot which is
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included in my pass that's a big tall
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Hill there
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you can kind of see up the top of the
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hill probably doesn't translate to
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camera very well but it's a steep hill
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in fact they have a shuttle that takes
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you up there yeah team members
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yeah it feels weird to be in this
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parking structure
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Jurassic parking three out
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for the 3L of it the thrill of it
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that was a bad joke Daphne's here also
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like this just for the three element
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yeah
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just for the three element now at some
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point coffee is definitely on have you
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had a coffee yet you want to get a
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coffee
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let's get a coffee somewhere kind of
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interesting I have not seen the globe
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spinning and why was the last time you
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saw the Globes it's been a while right
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all right Alfred Hitchcock would be
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proud good luck just like Lincoln
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Frankenstein is trying to take a selfie
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there trying to trying to get the selfie
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going right there so Frankie this is the
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only merchandise with water world on it
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oh yeah right there it has the what's it
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what do they call that the atoll
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right here inside Starbucks where there
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are artistic renderings of coffee beans
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right inside here this is a very big
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Starbucks all right update on this you
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are here you were there mug there is
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waterwork look there's the seaplane
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the seaplanes on here too oh that's so
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cool my seaplane I actually when I was
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up in the hotel I was checking out of
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the hotel I got the angle of the sea
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plane yeah now this is at an artistic
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rendering form I do have one of these
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but I don't know I I can't remember if
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this is the one I had they had like
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three or four different versions of this
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oh those are like trailers for like
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stars I was like why are there trucks I
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was like oh those are like the studios
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and then the like costume trailers I
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didn't even notice that I have a little
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stairs going in there King Kong there
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too construction update they have
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removed the what was that place called
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it was production production Central
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sign but the special effects show
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building still there we got our coffee
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cheers well you got a tea
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so we're gonna go on the studio tour
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because we have to finish our beverages
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first and you're allowed to bring drinks
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on there and we'll be able to just walk
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right on this because this is part of
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the express pass after three if you have
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the Platinum Paso cheers to platinum
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designated right here by this line
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there's the other line over there we're
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supposed to be about 45 minutes this is
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a walk-on nice the other night we had a
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nighttime tram tour today daytime we
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were sitting in the back now we're
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sitting in the front car
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say goodbye to everybody bye everybody
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bye everybody oh
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see apparently what do I gathered you
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here today I'm gonna take a woman this
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is your production officers
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movies and television shows the sunset
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you see on our back lot they look like
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real buildings but they are not they're
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what we call facades this is the ball
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spreads inside the buildings it's gonna
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be around stone neighborhood coming up
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on you right you'd be amazing
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small town known as Cornell Square
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featured in dozens upon dozens of
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Productions but only one production made
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this area famous and that was Back to
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the Future it's like Michael J fox
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Christopher Lloyd and Leah Thompson this
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is interesting you know what it's only
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raining on half of the camera up here I
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guess you could call that a 50 50 chance
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of rain
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as you know Southern California we're
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getting a lot of rain lately I was in
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mudslide slash lights and mass hysteria
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it's a clothesline up there like now
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he's rocking back and forth mumbling
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something about Salma Hayek and Jennifer
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Lopez
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that water looks wet you guys the third
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part don't worry about unless you're
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sitting in a blue seat
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sit back like I said I woke up back to
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assist you
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we were noticing this the other day
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there's like netting here right now one
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thing we can think of is that maybe
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stuff falls from the Harry Potter area
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up here as we're exiting out from the
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tram section it was a good Tram Tour
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that guy was really good we've had the
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last couple tram tours I've been on the
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guides have been both been really really
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good the nighttime Tram Tour we did uh
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like last week and this one both really
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good guides
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what's the Roaring sounds probably
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Jurassic yes the dinosaurs down there
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we're looking over the Overlook here
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says 80 foot drop off whatever you do
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don't look down so basically the premier
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pass is good for everything you can walk
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on anything after three with the
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exception of Mario Kart that is not part
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of it and take a look over there you can
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see the the pet show is just all the
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stadium is all Rubble now off in the
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distance
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so everything after three and you can
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only go on them one time you can only go
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on the attractions one time the rides
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one time so you can't go on over and
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over and over and over and over but you
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get one per day really bright out here
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did you bring your sunglasses oh yeah
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I kind of think like it you can buy I
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think like if you buy a front of the
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line pass it's like a hundred dollars a
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day right it can get up to like two
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hundred dollars 199 that includes the
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ticket no no just the add-on really yeah
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it's gonna be super expensive so really
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if you're gonna get an annual pass kind
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of makes sense to just uh upgrade to the
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the full one and you get an hhn ticket
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yeah yeah horny chicken That's so
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exciting
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so hhn ticket
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front of the line after three and no
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blackout days at all whether some of the
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other passes or the other two or
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something that's cool yeah scanning it
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over at the studio tour was cool if
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that's like official just walk into
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and Universal house so if you haven't
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talked here at Universal no blackout
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days where Disneyland now even the top
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tier Disneyland there's like is there
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like three weeks of black down days or
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something yeah all right I can't see
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over how loud the dinosaurs are I just
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don't think I've ever heard them that
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loud before passing the Mulan Rouge
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they're heading over to pets
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The Secret Life of pets not the public
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life of pets The Secret Life
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this is one food area I don't think I've
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ever eaten now now I have seen the
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Minions that do the twinkie that's
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coming out they do the minion head the
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sweet delicious sweets treat they had
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years ago but I've never actually seen
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that they have mac and cheese Bowl they
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have pork Ramen they have loaded nachos
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I usually have my go-to's here but I
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need to at some point I need to try to
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eat inside the minions Cafe also they're
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already starting to build over here for
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Horror Nights they got the normal Q over
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here and then you gotta Express over
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here so it looks like not too many
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people in line for the express sometimes
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this is all full if this is showing a
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normal wait time of 75 minutes but with
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the past should be a little quicker but
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it's still taking a little bit there's a
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lot of people in the express line quite
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a few people in the express line so slow
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going all right just talked to a team
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member she said come back a little bit
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later and the express will be a little
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faster later in the evening so we are
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going to head down to the lower lot
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possibly get some food at some point too
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yeah so speaking of hhn get a little
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update down here so there's usually an
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hhn maze here there's another hhn maze
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we were trying to see if there was an
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hhn maze in the in Jurassic World
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parking here not parking over the queue
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but there's not this time I haven't
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built anything over there and no HSN
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mazes on the lower lot anymore which is
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I kind of wish that would bring that
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back but there is an hhm base here
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though
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and I haven't really kept on I can save
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spoiler free so I'm not even sure what
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mazel's gonna be do you know
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you don't know I'm not
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pretty busy today so that line there I
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think might be the standby so we're
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gonna do the mummy
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that's the mummy standby
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three massive escalators what's down
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there oh yeah it goes all the way back
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there it's pretty cool it's a busy at
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Universal lately and the mummy has free
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lockers while you
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oversized lockers oh no oversized Locker
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has additional fee applies standard
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Locker does not need
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any sort of
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extra fee
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this is a high-speed roller coaster ride
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that includes sudden dramatically
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celebrations climbing tilting dropping
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backwards motion so the regular
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the entry is over here oh single Rider
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is closed then you also have the
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expression
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it's also Despicable Me
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with Express there's a little bit of a
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weight even for Express
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what happens when you touch this book
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okay
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I didn't know if that book was going to
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do does that book do something
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I never tested
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you gotta be like a Harry Potter book
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that does the like biting
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the monster what were you saying
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they keep it under wraps keep it under
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wraps
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very well done look at this regular shoe
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this is a weekday I know this is wild
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was it Wednesday yeah it's Wednesday
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right now it's a recording of it
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yeah this Line's so lengthy look what
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happened to this gentleman over here
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he's turned into a ghost
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I was in here waiting a long time
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and it's badly for you he wasn't
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hydrated while waiting can interpret
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some of these hieroglyphics right here
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so here's a bird that looks like a
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hamburger maybe that's a couple of fries
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it's an owl
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right there here's someone throwing a
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javelin see anything on there that you
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recognize a banana peel you don't want
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to slip on that very slippery Road
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number three
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remember when they had the soul counter
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they used to have the soul counter but
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they got rid of the souls no more souls
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were being counted anymore
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they lost count of the souls
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all the souls belong to me
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now our souls belong to him
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oh here's one of the beetles that comes
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out at the uh may not John Ringo Paul
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but one of the The Beatles that comes
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out the bugs that comes out during there
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if you have a regular ticket you can an
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upgrade well that says you can go to a
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silver annual pass but this says that
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you can upgrade after four to express
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but if you already have the certain pass
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after three you already have an
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automatic upgrade
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we want it
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she's starting to get just
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about that time for one of her larger
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feedings
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good girl hope I'm not the lawyer
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so red is her favorite color
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will kind of make sure that she stays
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good girl that's her favorite color
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easy red is Blue's favorite color
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everybody's wondering why red is her
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favorite color I will remind you she is
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a carnivore and red is the color of the
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inside
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everyone's favorite favorite color she
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only eats
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okay yesterday girl okay I can see her
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she's seizure she might be getting a
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little peckish but she is starting to
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play she's getting just a little antsy
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in the fancy there we want to make sure
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that we are keeping an eye on her
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behavior that text can we get
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containment on standby please
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you guys are doing fabulous we just want
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to be careful about our son movement
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she's just getting a little close
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good girl
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this is all perfectly normal
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perfectly normal it was just asserting
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herself you can see
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that she is showing us where her
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boundaries are
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this is what we call a dominance display
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easy
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that means that she is trying to call
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her sisters
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oh my gosh that was awesome
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I don't need to call them they don't
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need to come hang out okay from here
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after that riveting moment with a
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prehistoric creature we're gonna walk
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this direction and
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even though sometimes it reaches
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capacity for Super Nintendo World
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Nintendo Land if you have the the pass
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you know if you have the non-blackout
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pass you can go in at any any time you
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want you could go into Super Nintendo
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World now keep in mind you cannot go on
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Mario Kart it's the only one of the
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rides that you do not get access to
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because it's such a new ride and then
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you know it's like a two or three hour
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wait sometimes so that is not one of the
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perks yet but I'm sure at some point it
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will be but at any time you want to just
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walk through and even if it's at
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capacity they will allow you if you have
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the uh the premium of the the the pass
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to go to the Walker out it's pretty good
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but you can just always just kind of
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casually walk through Nintendo you could
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be a Super Mario Brother it looks like
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Transformers is a 60 minute wait regular
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standby see how Express is coming to
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guess
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Express is probably a little quicker
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than that but see what happens it's time
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to roll out
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the alarm will sound if these glasses
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are removed from the nest facility
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right now Road number three going into
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Row three is time to roll out
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all right recruits that means us we are
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the recruits
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go go go go we gotta protect the
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All-Star
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we got the whole road to ourselves on
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the mummy we had the whole room
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all right recruits I almost forgot how
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rough the ride was and one thing it's
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good though I like the Practical effects
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on the screen it's kind of a nice
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mixture we can ride with Evac
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anytime now from here gonna go back past
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Jurassic back up the very very large
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escalator we're gonna go to three
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Broomsticks
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and get a give us some food there's
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something to eat we're gonna do
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Toadstool but Toadstool was all booked
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up stepping in to Hogs me
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over inside three broomsticks I was
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noticing something the other day when I
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was here I didn't get it the other day
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but today I might get it the asparagus
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vegetable platter is 13.99 over here uh
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minted peas sauteed cabbage roasted
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tomatoes and grilled asparagus I might
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try that get something a little bit what
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are you gonna get
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the Classic Fish and Chips if you said
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they used to have uh some like some
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digital like effects in here like some
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Shadows yeah
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no more househelves anymore up here we
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used to have the households back when uh
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just land first open the house elves
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must have retired and with any of the
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aps they have here there's a 15 discount
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on merchandise and food that includes
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whatever tier of AP annual pass and this
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is what we're dealing with so this is
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pretty interesting this is a made to
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order asparagus so it took a little
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while but they said oh they make it they
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heat it up all fresh and prepare it all
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right here so I've never actually
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realized they had an asparagus veggie
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platter here as well and you went with
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the full-on fish and chips yeah Classic
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this looks like sauerkraut on here
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because it's like it looks like a mess
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load of sauerkraut or maybe it's yeah I
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think that's sauerkraut oh you're doing
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oh it's cabbage it's thick
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sauerkraut it's cabbage though isn't it
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a different kind of like fermented yeah
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fermented cabbage and now on to
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Forbidden Journey so stand by 80 minutes
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so I guess it is kind of busy today for
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standby is 80 minutes see what it looks
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like inside yeah I love when you go to
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way you get to go through all the
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portrait area where they're all talking
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to you a little bit different than the
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standby our houses are next to each
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other
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all right cutting through here now more
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portraits
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wow it is busy in here yeah I gotta say
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definitely having the quick Express is
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nice there's the Sorting Hat I am
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Ravenclaw we learned that a few years
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ago oh Lord open up the dragon I think
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it is
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they were an overload of Dementors in
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there I mean it was like eight so many
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87 Dementors I actually kept my eyes
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open on the ride this time full time
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it's pretty dang scary oh my gosh I'd
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hold the mentor scene way more than I
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ever remember I think it's just like I
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don't know they just like we have 83
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Dementors let's just put them in this
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attraction all in the one room all in
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the one room and now heading out of the
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Hollywood Hills
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the other parking structure over there
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parking structures everywhere and just
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zipping along the five freeway now
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Southbound
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Nightfall is rear to 10. been making the
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commute down to San Diego
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stopped off here at a
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lurking In the Shadows over here
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the parking area
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and a little more lights on at this rest
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stop
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about I don't know 45 minutes from my
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hotel
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right in San Diego we'll be spending it
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sit next series of days a few days or
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more
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these chip machines and snack machines
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are not incarcerated they are not
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surrounded by bars like some are
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I've never really seen like a makeshift
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flea market
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out here this guy's like selling some
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jerseys and what's it called
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garage sale over here like a bunch of
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hats
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memorabilia
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stretching the legs heading
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Southward
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it's a nice day
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it said ice cream on the other side of
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ice cream on this side so I came over
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this side
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it's just a temptation
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that is non-existent
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no ice cream left
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didn't ended up getting didn't end up
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getting on
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secret life of pets
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for some reason even though it was the
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did have the express line
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the line was really long for Express so
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skipped out on that one do it another
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time
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Beauty about having an annual pass
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anywhere and you go opposite enough you
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don't have to get everything done in one
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no one picnicking out here
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weather's been so nice look to the
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weather in Florida today where I live in
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Celebration
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it's like mid to high 90s
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it was like mid 60s today here in SoCal
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love it
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I was gonna do it for today
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from about an hour man 45 minutes
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but a bug just went by
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to my hotel in San Diego where we'll be
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over the next series of days thanks for
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watching
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see in the next video the Vlog