My Return to Favorite Rides at Fully Opened Knott’s Berry Farm Theme Park After Over A Year & Half
Knott's Berry Farm Rides July 2021
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welcome back to the fun
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knott's berry farm in buena park is open
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welcome everyone added me the woo here
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as i emerged from the shadows
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emerging is a good kind of metaphor for
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this because this will be
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my first time back at any theme park
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where rides and attractions are open
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since
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the closing of the state of california
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well over a year ago
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year and a half ago now there have been
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some food festivals and whatnot when i
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was here before
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late into last year but besides that
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i have not been on an attraction a ride
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anything current time 9 30
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knotsbury farm opens at 10 a.m i have a
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season pass
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that i purchased a few months ago i'm
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gonna utilize it now for the first time
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i am wearing an appropriate
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t-shirt i'm going to go on the log ride
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and the mine train attraction
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and maybe a couple other things those
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are those are two of my favorites and of
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course wander around ghost town
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inviting you to join me naz is back
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and i haven't i have this
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shielded from the elements mostly just
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the sun
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shall you should also preface this by
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first theme park back
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in southern california since the
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shutdowns and what you heard when you
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saw the ride vehicle going by
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was a little testing a half hour before
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opening it is wednesday
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july 7th 2021
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now before the re-openings you know back
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in 2019
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you would never see a line of cars like
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this
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pulling into park usually
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on a weekday at opening there would be
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no one here
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things have changed oh what is this
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coming through this is like a little
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parade
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a little cart with some it's not a
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parade but it kind of looks like a
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oh for real though
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on a wednesday as a recording of this
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look at
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the demand to go in here
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you can walk directly under ghost rider
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be neat if they were still testing it
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but they probably already did their
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couple test runs before the park opens
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at 10.
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this is also well technically it's the
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101st
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anniversary of knotts but they're
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celebrating the 100th anniversary
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because the park was closed
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all of last year well it appears as if
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up there's someone dropping in i guess
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there are guests on the coaster already
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even though it's only technically 9 35
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and check it out all the reservations
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are filled up says knox berry farm
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unavailable reservations required for
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park admittance
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but i got one when i did gates are open
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9 40. so
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20 minutes before 10 they're open on the
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way in
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as first thing i see is the old
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prospector here under the 100th
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anniversary sign
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the old prospector with us a very
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impressive beard
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give it a little wave and as i continue
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past the old prospect i gotta
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kind of look at the train yeah the train
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is definitely a staple of knots
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they're gonna go completely past here
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and over to the log ride it doesn't look
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to be too long of a line so far and the
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logs are already being loaded up a
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couple minutes before
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before opening at 10. oh yeah you could
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say this is the other backside of water
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you know you think of jungle cruise but
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there's also the knock
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back side of water and at this time of
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the day this early in the morning they
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only have
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one side of the logs operating i might
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actually get my own log
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it says please remain seated and hold on
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to the handrail
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and there is a lot of standing water
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down here where my feet is so
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this is going to be very interesting i
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got my own log
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you know just like the call a little
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call back it's a vlog and a log
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now i would be wearing this i put this
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on but then i realized there is
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no one else in this log but me so i
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decided yep yes
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remove them yeah i feel like i'm going
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to get really soaked
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the amount of water that is down below
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here flourishing around
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where my feet are it's not going to end
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well for me it's not my feet are going
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to be
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my socks are going to be very very wet
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okay
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just bring back memories no my god
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oh please oh
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oh there's a guy dangling over here oh
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he's like dangling down into the mine
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oh yeah this is so good i love the
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theming through here
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i'm so excited to be back on this it's
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this and the
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mine train are my two favorites out here
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at knox and now heading directly into
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what they call
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the hootenanny going straight up and i
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love how many animatronics there are
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all through here yeah look at this guy
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up here he's trying to warn me
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and this guy over here is trying to warn
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me too what is there a long drop
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is there a long drop fellas no
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no fire in the hole
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oh my gosh
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oh a little bit a little bit wet a
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little more i wearing that wearing the
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log ride shirt
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oh it's very very appropriate i just my
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feet are soaked
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a good way to start it off a good
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welcome back to knots if you will a
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little splash down on the log right i
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also forgot they added music all through
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there which was never there before
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but you know it's been so long i forgot
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that they added the the music kind of
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all through the entire attraction
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which is a little different because i've
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written it so many times without the
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soundtrack now there's a soundtrack
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pretty neat though but different than
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what what i
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had thought i was used to next up calico
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mine company no one in line
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and part of the reason for that is some
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of these attractions are not
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super super popular first thing everyone
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heads right to the coasters
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which is understandable i'm not really a
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big poster guy
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i like dark rides i like animatronics
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you know stuff like that would i be
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going across this very
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treacherous looking bridge oh it's
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happening trains pulling into
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the station that's my train
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boarding the train please remain seated
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many a minor has gone unstuck into the
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ground and such a goal won't
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be blasted by a salmon seed
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world-famous caligo mining glory hall
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inside of one of the richest gold
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strikes in all of reported history
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these lagoons and rivers run through all
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these underground caves
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i hear so you can find some blind fish
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swimming down
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we're on the ascension now going
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straight up
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everybody
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we shed a little light on the subject it
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is so beautiful in this little area
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through here through the catacombs
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stalactites stalagmites
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oh i love this guy look at this guy he
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is on a mission right there
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i love his lap
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oh yeah look at this down here it has
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been
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a long time since i've seen these fellas
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this guy's on a ladder over here
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the way it's always creeping and growing
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i'm not sure it's gonna stay standing
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much longer
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ah stop that train upset the charges
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it's too late wait what
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well g folks if you made it out of there
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just in time
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please stay seated until the train comes
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to a complete stop
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hope the screen has stopped i'll be
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right around to unlock your door for you
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all i need you to do is lift up on the
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little wooden seat right there by the
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door
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and i'll be right around to unlock your
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door for you please don't jump out of
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the train i'll be right around to unlock
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your door all i need you to do is lift
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up on the little onesie without a doubt
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that is my favorite attracted ride here
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at knots and
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probably dare i say one of my top five
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dark rides well top ten
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let's say top five or ten dark rides at
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any theme park including
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you know disneyland walt disney world
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there is so many animatronics
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this gives disneyland's pirates of the
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caribbean a run for its money when it
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comes to the amount of animatronics
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they've never added them all up and
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never does the math on it
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but i would say there's probably at
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least as many if not more
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animatronics in the calico mine company
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mine train
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attraction there are and anywhere any
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theme park
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that i've ever seen i just love it so
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much definitely putting it on record my
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favorite
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favorite attraction out here calico
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mineco what can i say i'm more of a
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theming theme park
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kind of guy but well
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i do love me some jaguar though and this
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is themed pretty well i don't like
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extreme coasters
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but i do enjoy some jaguar even though
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i'm pretty tall
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and uh and big for the attraction i'm
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gonna do it anyway kind of kind of
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squeeze into the seat
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just to show how small these seats are
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i'm taking up two seats
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so this lap bar whoa whoa a good
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destination
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very bad
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loser
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it doesn't go upside down i mean doing a
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full 360.
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jaguar yeah i love this one too it's so
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old school
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it's like one of the few koshers i'll do
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here because it's just like so old
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school
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you give it you give this a fist bump
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right there come in with the fist bump
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back i don't want to leave
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i don't want to leave this one hanging
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fist bump now that one over there
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i mean i would do it i've done it before
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but it kind of throws my equilibrium off
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quite a bit
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not super into it and there's also this
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this drop
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one over here yeah let's see this goes
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all the way to the top and then it drops
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in
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it's kind of like you know hollywood
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tower studios or guardians at
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dca this one looks this one's open to
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the elements so i think it'd be a little
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more horrifying
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if i wait here long enough i see it go
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in as this kind of goes back
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back across and it loops around
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okay yeah there was the noise it's
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getting ready to drop in there it goes
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yeah i'm good on that one i'm good oh it
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bounces back up
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just like guardians does and tower does
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i never knew that
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interesting
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that's pretty fun over there too it's
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almost like a fair
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the fair version gets snoopy up top
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spinning around
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oh i hear the train
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that's a fun one too but you're not
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allowed to film
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i always like to keep these off because
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there's other people in front sometimes
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behind me
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and it just you know salivating
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in over 140 years
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we've got the coast rider going by kind
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of similar to
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goofy's sky school in a lot of ways
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oh you can see that someone's about to
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drop in right here
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wait for it comes the drop in drop it
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there it goes you see another train over
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here too
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this rio grande rio grande southern
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one of the other up there blowing the
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train whistle the denver and rio
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grande western
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and the galloping goose
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or sometimes they'll run the gallop and
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goose around as well instead of the
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train the full-size train
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you can see the reflection there in the
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window this is where they store the
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train for the evening
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going beside the log ride i don't know
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what that alarm is
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i wonder if sad eye is in there
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how's it going saturday it's been a lot
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it's true it's been a long time since
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i've seen you well ain't it
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no goodness thanks what do you think
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about all the rides being back open
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well i i understand that's a pretty nice
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thing it brings a lot more folk around
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and more folk means more people stopping
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by adventure with me
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do you would you rather have them visit
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or do you want them to bring you
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something to help you escape
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well you know the latter is always nice
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i'll always appreciate folks just coming
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to visit but if they can bring by a you
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know
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a car we said something about it you
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said something about a ladder you want
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me to bring you a ladder oh the
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matter i don't know what that i could
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but i could use a ladder for right now
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okay you said the ladder oh the ladder
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of the two oh the ladder of the two okay
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now if you were to escape what would be
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the first uh first ride you'd go
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right to well i wouldn't go no ride i'd
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go straight over to the saloon and have
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me a sassaborough an ice called
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sarsaparilla
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absolutely all right well it's good to
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see you saturday
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good to see you again thank you for
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stopping in and all
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right i'll be around these parts a lot
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more now i just got i got an annual pass
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how about that now yeah come on by any
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old time
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i will sat on you if you have yourself
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an extra stick of dynamite you know just
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might bring it on by and drop it off
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with me here
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i'm going to start a campaign all right
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free ship free sat eye joe
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there you go that's the dashing ticket
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right there
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it's going to work i'm going to do like
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a petition i think those usually these
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usually have a little
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bit of headway so you know there you go
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see yeah all right sad
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eye i'll see you soon myself except i
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don't mind right you don't know how to
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write
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you know how to read i could no no no no
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you could do what make my x on the
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computer oh where the like x marks the
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spot
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yeah all right you could just you know
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what you could just like shed a tear and
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just like do a little spot
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that's a good idea that's a good idea
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good idea yeah that would work real good
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i reckon
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and i like the fact you don't need the
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bandana around your nose and mouth
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anymore you can now you put that down
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around your neck
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you know i asked the sheriff way back
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when you know and he finally said no
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don't do that no more it was therefore
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said joe no nobody wants to get close
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enough to you the matter
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progress i see you sad eye
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all right bye-bye see you buddy ah good
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old sad
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eye still in jail and as the crowds head
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in i'm heading out says hurry back soon
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ghost town founded in 1885 well just
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fictionally but knotts has been around
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for 100 years 100 years celebration
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technically
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101. i was here about an hour and a half
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and now everyone's heading in
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i've already done quite a four or four
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different things and i'm had going
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against the i'm swimming upstream here
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heading out
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got what i needed to get done but i'll
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be back now have an annual pass season
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will pass i guess they call it
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so i'll be back many many times looking
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at the crowd out here stretching down
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past the gift shop
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i am glad i got here early because it is
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very
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very lengthy and the bear is over there
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even though he's still wearing a facial
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covering as
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is the sasquatch still surprising to me
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how many people are lined up here on
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a wednesday morning so keep in mind
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getting here early always
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beneficial because the line stretches
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all the way past mrs notch chicken
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dinner
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stretches along here in fact it double
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back doubles back from the parking lot
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down there
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stretches all the way up double backs
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almost all the way to the knots
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hotel just to get in through the
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checkpoint
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to get into the park yeah early bird
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gets the knots worm
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yeah this is really really something
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else if you really look at it stretches
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here
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and then goes all the way down up there
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goes
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those ghost rider going by look at it
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goes all the way down with some
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little double and triple backs down
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there whoo
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that is something i don't think i've
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ever seen that and i've seen it for
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events but i've never seen it
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on a weekday before noon and i just you
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know i just showed up early thinking
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that you know
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i could save a little bit of time i
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saved a lot of time
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i hadn't got here now i'd have been i've
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been in line at least an
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hour or more and that's not even
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including the wait times for the rides
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inside
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an hour or more just to just to get
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through the checkpoints
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all right noted that's going to do it
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for today
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and accomplished quite a few attractions
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as stated good to get here early i'm
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back
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socal theme parks and i'm excited i'll
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see the next video the vlog
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is over