Staying Calm Before Disneyland Madness Begins In Anaheim - Shakey’s Pizza Parlor / Joes Italian Ice
Anaheim July 2025
Transcript
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Welcome everyone. Adam the Woo here. As
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the recording of this, it is Wednesday,
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July 16th, 2025. I'm starting off the
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video here in my room at the Disneyland
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Hotel overlooking the pool, hot tub. I
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am going to pop probably into
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Disneyland, maybe Disney, maybe DCA,
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Disney California Adventure, and also do
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some other things. cuz I don't want to
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go too hard and heavy at Walt's original
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Magic Kingdom because as I'm filming
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this, tomorrow will be all day at
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Disneyland because it is the official
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day 70 years ago. Tomorrow, not today,
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that the theme park opened. The greatest
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amusement park, the inspiration for so
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many others opened its doors. So that's
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why I'm here. So today's kind of just a
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little mellower day before the hubbhub,
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the hoot nannies, and the hullaloo
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really begin. Let's just see what I can
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get into. I'm inviting you to join me.
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It's good to have you here, shall you?
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Nice view out there and everyone
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enjoying the day. Probably not going to
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be as hot out there as it was when I
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left Florida
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yesterday. Imagine the temperature would
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be a little bit better. It's around 1.
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Well, it's 1:23 right now. 1:23 p.m.
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Heading down. All right. Popping over
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here in the gift shop. Got this Trader
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Sam's.
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Jay, is this like the is the Enchant
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Tiki Bar? That's the one here, right?
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The Florida one's called something else.
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The
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>> one here is Enchantiki Bar. The one in
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Florida is Grog Grotto.
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>> Okay, gotcha. So, I might have to get
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this as a little souvenir.
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>> You're going to have to get that for
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sure.
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>> Think we might pop in there at some
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point over the next day or
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>> Good chance. Okay. All right. Chances
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are I got a special I got a special
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thing I brought.
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>> Okay.
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>> When we get there,
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>> I'm not going to show who you are yet.
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See if people can figure it out.
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>> They'll never know.
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>> They'll never figure it out.
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>> No idea.
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>> This is neat, too. Look at the little
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squid tentacle.
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>> Love it.
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>> It's kind of like the Oh, you don't like
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the ringer?
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>> I don't like
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>> I kind of like it, but I don't know if
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it it fit. Ringers look better on me
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when I was 170 lbs and scrawny. 6' 3",
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170 lb. Not so much when I am uh not
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thin. Right.
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>> The ringers I think look better on on on
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when you're thin.
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>> Get this.
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>> What is that?
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>> Oh, the kind of retroy style. You should
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get this, Jack.
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>> I should get that. I would rock that.
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>> Is that your size? Goodness.
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>> Was
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pink if this is not good. This I have a
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have a problem with buying these mug.
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Usually I get the kind of Starbucks you
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are here. You were you were there mugs,
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but this is very similar in size to
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those. Has a little hidden Mickey on the
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bottom. The Vas at Disney Hotel T.
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>> You say it via or villas. Do you say it
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via or villas?
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>> Villas.
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>> It's probably really the pron. You're
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probably saying it right. It's probably
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supposed to be vas
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>> via the via.
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>> It's fancy. That's French.
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>> And you could you could turn this into a
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via and put flowers in it.
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>> You totally could.
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>> Via vase.
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>> Fancy.
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>> All right. This is uh going nowhere.
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>> Hey, how you doing? Going to make the
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short walking commute over to Disneyland
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DCA and maybe even go off property.
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Jay's here.
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>> You mean DCJ? Is that what we're saying
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to Tiki J?
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>> Tiki J. Sure. Are they celebrating your
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birthday coming up in August?
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>> Uh the 70th.
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>> Is that what it is?
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>> I'm getting there, man. I'm getting
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there.
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>> It's getting darn close.
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>> You're not far behind.
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>> I am not far behind.
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>> You're not far behind me.
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>> Yeah. Sad state.
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>> Let's uh let's have a pre70th
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anniversary at Disneyland day. Tomorrow
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the insanity begins. Today is just we'll
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just roll with the punches today.
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>> Yeah. So, let's roll.
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>> Let's go. Tiki J or DCJ
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and myself and who who knows whoever who
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knows what the rest of they will leave.
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>> Who knows?
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>> The one thing is definitely on my agenda
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first and foremost is do a little mobile
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order from Starbucks over on I almost
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said Disney Village, but that was in
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that's in Paris. Right. There's some new
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merchandise over here, too, as well. I
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like this one, which is the $1 admit
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one, but this one just came out and it
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has the date, which is tomorrow. This
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isn't today, but tomorrow. And these are
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probably going to sell fast. So, I like
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this one, too. Check this out. This just
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came out as well. Haunted Mansion
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Disneyland Resort. I might get that one,
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too. I'll get this one and that one.
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This is pretty good, too. Check out
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Hattie. There he goes from his head and
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then he goes over into the box. That's
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great. And has Disneyland Resort on. I'm
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not going to get it. Just going to get
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these two for now. All right. I kind of
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like this. But also, check out the
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Disneyland 70th Crocs with their own not
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only their own Jibus, but they're also
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you got your own little pin on there.
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as well. And I don't I don't know if I
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if I have this or not. I might have
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actually bought this when I was out here
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in May. I don't think I'm going to get
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it cuz I think I might I think I might
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have purchased it and just forgot to
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forgot to bring it.
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What are you looking at?
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>> The Adventureland thing they tore down.
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They don't have that anymore.
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>> Oh yeah,
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>> Adventure Land.
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>> All right. I don't know. I mean, it's
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it's not swaying because it's haunted.
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It's swaying cuz I just touched it, but
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then I wanted to to film it. There is a
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ornament key right here. I think I might
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get that, too. They didn't have that
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last time. my first little small haul of
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the day. So, tomorrow I don't really
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want to buy anything. I don't want to
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carry stuff around. So, today's kind of
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the day for it. But take a look at this.
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You got the nine the the nine old men,
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Walt's nine old men up here behind the
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the register counter, which is like
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which is pretty nice that they have they
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have that acknowledged here in the
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emporium or world not emporium, world of
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Disney. Let's check out this Earl. This
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is not a double-decker Earl like Paris
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had. Yeah. The slogan for the
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festivities is celebrate happy. This
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started I think back in May. I think May
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was the kickoff. They think it goes for
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like a year, year and a half, but
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tomorrow again is the official day. It's
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just hard to believe it's been 10 years
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since the 60th. It's been 10 years since
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I first moved to California and to
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Orange and was here for that day and I'm
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going to be here tomorrow. Also, we're
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inside the Disney Anna store. They have
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some Walt Disneyland stuff. They also
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have the pop figure over here. It's a
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little too warm to wear this, but they
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do have the exact coordinates of an in
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Anaheim of Disneyland right there. This
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actually says 1955 70th. This is the
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70th anniversary plaque for a cool $150
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right here. Ah, here is the official
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Magic Key stuff. 70th. And this is the
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back of the ringer. You were saying you
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don't like the ringer stuff, but this is
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kind of neat. I kind of wish I was on
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Look, I was there.
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>> I was there. Should I get one of these?
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>> Yes. I'm going to buy one of these just
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to have it. Just just just to have it.
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>> Are you going to wear it?
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>> Not tomorrow. It cost to get in 1955.
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Look at this. From December of 55.0 50s.
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Oh, there's a Walt autograph for 24
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grand. 20 $24,000.
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>> That's a That's a little much. It's a
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piece of change right there.
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>> It's a little much. I have this pen. I'm
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going to get it now. That way I don't
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have to be doing any merchandise
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shopping tomorrow or at least not a lot.
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Right over here. This Magic Key
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Disneyland pen to put with my Mickey's
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right there. Do not have that one. I saw
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this. I'm going to get this too cuz it's
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only a limited edition of 1,350.
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And I figure by tomorrow these are
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probably not tomorrow but soon these
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will probably be gone. It's a limited
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edition coin. Now on the certificate it
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does not have the number, but the cast
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member was telling me on the bottom
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portion of the coin. I'll show it later
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when I get to the room. It'll have a one
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out of 1,350
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on it. Thought about maybe going on the
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Matterhorn. Kind of save a lot of the
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old school attractions. Not for today
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obviously
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a lot of original opening day stuff and
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stuff that was around Walt's era
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but I was thinking if the Matter Horn
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was open could pop on that but Matter
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Horn's down. Speaking of anniversaries
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not only Disneyland celebrating their
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70th but 30 years prior to that Walt and
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Lillian were married. They just
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celebrated their 100th anniversary and
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right inside the Golden Horseshoe I
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think they have something set up for
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that event.
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>> Yes. This is very cool. There's like
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photos of Walt up there back in the day.
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Photos of Walt in here. Here's a
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recreation of their wedding cake which
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they had in here right there. Look at
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that. Look at those two crazy kids.
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There's Walt and Lillian on the standing
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in front of the main street vehicle with
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the castle behind them. And here's a
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recreation of the cake and the plates
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all in the same exact spot as this photo
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was taken at right here next to the
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front of the stage. That is wild to
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think about right there. That's not part
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of the 70th obviously, but part of the
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hundth, if you will. This is a historic
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place that was here back in. We're in
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Frontier Land Trading Post. They have a
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few pins as well, including this one
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right here, which is kind of behind like
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a little dusty uh screen there that
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opens up. And you got Walt. I think I'm
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going to go ahead and purchase this.
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They also have all these 55s. You got
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the train, you got Autotopia. None of
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these I'm going to ride today, but
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tomorrow, spoiler alert, I might end up
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getting them. Yeah. So, it's the whole
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board and the pin
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>> together.
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>> Look at that. That's an entire pin
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trading board right there. And it comes
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with a Tinkerbell pin.
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>> Look at that. Maybe that's like
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separate. It kind of like pops out like
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3D style. That's pretty neat. Again, no
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real game plan today, but looks like
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Star Tours is also under construction
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and reaper. So, we'll not be going on
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Star Tours. Hop inside the DVC lounge.
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Star View station they call it right
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over here which used to be the launch
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bay. Remember 10 years ago during 2015
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the launch bay lay down. If you move
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this they used to used to have the Star
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Wars scrawl.
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>> Scrawl.
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>> The scrawl.
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>> Yeah. That's what I always called it.
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>> But now launch bay is not really used
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for a whole heck of a lot of anything
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except for upstairs. They have the DVC
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lounge. Show the little haul I got so
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far. The you or I was there shirt. The
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front says I was there. Has Mickey.
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There's the date stamp there. And I got
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the date stamp for tomorrow here at Main
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Street and all the the lands there.
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Adventure Land, Tomorrowland, Fantasy
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Land. I also got the mansion shirt. I
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got the key over here. I got the 55 with
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Walt inside there. I also got this as
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well. And out of the 1,355,
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it looks like my pin is number 1,00
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something. 1. Oh, yeah. Right here.
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1,1,110
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is the one I got right there. 1,110.
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And there's the inside of the Walt pin
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there. So, you kind of just kind of
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close it up. Got the 55 there. I also
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ended up getting these e ticket well all
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the ticket breaths here. This is like
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kind of neat. Has the old the old ticket
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the old ticket book here, which is kind
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of neat to have as well. So, I'll put
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this back on the card and it'll make it
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back home with me to celebration at some
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point. It's kind of neat. All right.
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Just wandering through the emporium now
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before we head back. Drop the stuff off
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back at the hotel room and then going to
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end up taking the Tiki J mobile and go
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over to go over to Shaky's Pizza, get
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some uh get some some Shaki pizza
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action. I want to show all the 70 stuff.
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I'm going to do my best not to try and
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buy any merchandise tomorrow. I want it
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to be all about the the vibe and the
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attractions and not carrying around bags
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of stuff.
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Oh, that's neat. Nice little uh little
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photo booth there. A little photo book
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there. I uh I got this. Actually, I got
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this back uh when the celebration
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started a couple months ago when I was
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out here. Here's a little hand
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sanitizer.
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It makes a Look at this. It makes the
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bubbles come out of here in a Mickey
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shape right over there. What's that?
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It's kind of neat. Anything on the back?
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>> Nope. Ah, there goes the 70th celebrate.
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Happy Monteray.
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Back underneath the sorcerer's cap,
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put our stuff. Evidently, there is a new
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lounge, a new restaurant lounge at the
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top of the Disneyland Hotel up on the
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Frontier Tower, which I believe is this
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one, which is the original Disneyland
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Hotel and then they expanded over the
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time. But
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we're still going to go to Shakys, but
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kind of curious to see if there's any
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way you get up there and get a a nice
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little view up there. I stand corrected.
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This is not the Frontier Tower. This is
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the adventure tower and that is where
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the new club is. It used to be called
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something else. Now it's called the
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highkey club. Faces the other side. You
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can see the fireworks from all that.
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It's part of the concierge room. But
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evidently DVC members do not have access
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to that. I think we're going to take a
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dip in the pool a little bit later on
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this evening after we're full of uh
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pasta and pizza, which is probably not
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the best thing to do before swimming,
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but
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>> got to wait 30 minutes.
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>> Got to wait 30 minutes. Is that what
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they say?
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>> That's the rules.
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>> Is that really Is that a true thing?
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>> Yeah. I haven't been up on this roof
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probably since August or September of
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last year for D23 and my 50th birthday
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September. I did the run Disney thing. I
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was here a lot in August of September of
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last year. In fact, my car my rental car
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broke down up here and they had it
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there's a whole mess them tied to tow it
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from up here back to the rental car
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place. Ah, memories. Yes, this is an
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Anaheim staple.
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Shakys. This is a place Jay and I have
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been to. How many times you think we've
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eaten here?
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>> 152 times.
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>> Okay. 152. I was going to say 50.
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>> Close.
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>> This might be the first time that we're
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going. Not during what's it called?
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Brunch of munch.
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>> Bunch of lunch.
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>> Place established in 1954, a year before
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Disney.
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>> I think Walt ate here.
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>> I think he did with Mr. Shaky. Mr. Shaky
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looks like a Walt character.
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>> Yeah, Mr. Shaky is kind of Waltish.
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He also was kind of interesting too if
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it's been a year since we ate here, but
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they have a Walt Disney autograph in
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here as well. I always claim the
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legitimacy of I don't know if it's a
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real Walt Disney autograph, but yeah,
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we're going to go inside Shakys, get
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some uh some pizza pie, pizza pie, and
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maybe some uh other things.
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So, as it turns out, even though they do
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not have the chicken, fried chicken and
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the pizza on the buffet and the mashed
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potatoes and gravy like they have during
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the lunch hour at dinner, they still do
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have the regular salad bar. So, we ended
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up getting a couple different things. We
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got the Mojo potatoes, a large mojo
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potatoes. We also got the meat lovers or
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the meat overload pie, pizza pie. So, we
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got that and then we also got a one trip
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to the salad salad bar. It was a lot of
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food. Definitely not was not able to eat
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all of it. Had to get a to-go box on the
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way out, but always good to have
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shakies. I think I definitely prefer
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having the buffet, which is the the
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lunchtime buffet. I guess you get a
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little more options and it's a little
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less expensive just to do that and get
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to that than order all the stuff that we
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did. But never disappoints. Shaky's
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right across the street from Disneyland.
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1027 Harbor.
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>> Could be Harbor.
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>> Yeah. 027 Harbor
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right there. Shakys. And we got our
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pizza parlor
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established 1954. The People's Pizza
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parlor. That's like a tongue twister.
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The People's Pizza parlor. Shakys, 1964.
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When I was young, I always thought a a
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parlor was something evil, you know,
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like you're going into a parlor, like a
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den of thieves, like a
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a parlor,
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like a house house of illreute. And then
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I realized later, no, it's just a pizza
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place.
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>> Just a happy good time.
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>> Yeah.
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>> It's like a funeral parlor,
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>> right?
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>> That's not a good place. Unless you have
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pizza there.
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>> That's true. Then funeral parlor plus
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pizza equals equals fun.
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>> Try it.
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>> That's true.
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>> You never know.
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>> Well,
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>> not all you can eat. That would just be
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weird.
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>> That would be weird. It just has to be
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like Yeah. Buy order the pie like this.
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Take home whatever. Well, depends on
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where you at. Where you're at in the
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funeral, right?
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>> Yeah. Yeah.
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>> All right. Over to Joe's Italian Eyes.
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>> Oo.
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>> Want to do Joe's?
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>> Let's do it.
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>> When's the last time you went to Joe's?
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>> It's been a few years. Let's go.
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>> Let's go. I'm ready. Right. I made the
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commute not too far. Still on Harbor
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Boulevard over to Joe's
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Italian Ice. One of my favorite frozen
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ice stands. There's a bunch of different
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ones all across the US. Not all frozen
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ice. Some of them are
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Philadelphia water ice.
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>> Have you been any of those?
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>> Yes, you have.
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>> I've been to a bunch of different ones.
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>> Joe's?
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>> No, no, no. I mean like different types
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of frozen drinks. Oh, there's a bunch of
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Joe's around there.
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>> I think there's only two Joe's and
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they're both in SoCal. This is the only
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one I've been to. This is my Joe's. The
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Anaheim Joe's.
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This place is awesome. You going to get
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a Joe Latte or just stand? Joe Latte is
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when they have the like ice cream in it.
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>> What flavor though? Right.
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>> Tons of flavors. Yeah. You got They put
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in the bottom of it. They put like a
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sherbety ice cream. Then they pour the
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Italian ice and then they top it off
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with a little swirl on the top. It's
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called the Joe latte.
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All about that life.
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>> I don't know what I'm going to get. I'll
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decide when I get up there.
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Highly recommend this place. Highly
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recommend.
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>> Do you have a go-to?
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Not really. Sometimes the No, I don't
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have a go-to. I don't know what I was
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thinking. I don't have a go-to. I don't
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remember what I got now. What did I get?
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Regular. I got
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>> strawberry.
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>> I got strawberry. You got wild cherry.
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>> Wild cherry in the wilderness.
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>> There you go. They kind of look the
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same. Cheers.
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>> Cheers.
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>> They look the same. Strawberry and wild
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cherry. I guess they're kind of We're
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both uh berry-ish.
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>> Very good.
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Like all the little decals here. Oh,
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look. There's Arnold right there.
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There's the Terminator right there on
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the Ferrari. I'll be back. Here's the
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bee right there. There's some Montreals
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up top. There's a Disneyland hotel
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pulling some scooters there.
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They got the big wheel frontwheel bike.
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And they got a little sunbur perfect
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sunburst behind me there. The Little
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Joe's. It's a pre-D Disneyland
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anniversary day. Even though we went to
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Disneyland, we really didn't do much at
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Disneyland. Didn't do much, but we did a
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lot.
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>> We soaked it in.
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>> A lot of soaking.
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>> Soaked it up.
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Think this might be the thumbnail.
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Maybe.
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>> Maybe or maybe not.
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>> Maybe.
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>> Or not.
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>> I'm pretty full from that pizza.
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>> Are you?
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>> I feel just right.
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>> Back up at the top of the Disneyland
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Hotel
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roof. The structure.
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over at the hotel now. I like this
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mural. I never noticed this before. You
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got like is this all supposed to be like
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Autotopia down there? The train down
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below over here. You got the Mark Twain
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river boat right down there. So, could
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be the Jungle Cruise right over there.
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Small World Star Wars up here. Montreal.
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Yeah, it's pretty neat. The castle
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Tinkerbell right up there. Pretty cool.
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Pretty neat. Pool down over in this
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area. We're going to hit the pool and
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then the hot tub over in the corner.
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Going to hit that up in a little bit.
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And we're staying right over there. All
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right. I think we're going to hop down
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to the pool. We'll go ahead and end the
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video here and then enjoy the pool and
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hot tub. Tomorrow's going to be a pretty
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wild day, so just got to soak the bones
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in the hot tub
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and uh have a good good evening. Went to
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Joe's, went to Shakys, bought some 70th
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anniversary Disneyland merch, went to
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the DVC lounge, walked around, soaked in
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Anaheim, and now we're about to soak in
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the pool down there at the DVC Tower.
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Thanks for watching. I'll see you in the
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next video. The vlog is over.