Lakeside Amusement Park In Denver is Legendary - Eating At The Cow & Ghost Town Wild West Museum
Lakeside Amusement Park Summer 2023
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welcome everyone Adam the woo here as a
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recording of this it is Wednesday July
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26th
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20123 I am in Pueblo Colorado for a very
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short time frame I've been here just
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about a week a little shy of a week I
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have done a lot of stuff within an hour
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or two of peblo but now I am departing
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checking out of the hotel leaving the
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neighborhood that has a horse in a
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tree taking my parents to the airport
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they are flying home to Florida I am
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staying in this area a little while
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longer not too much longer but I'm not
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leaving today going to be up towards
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Denver I'm inviting you to join me as I
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walk around Pueblo show a couple little
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things here real quick and then make the
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commute
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Northbound to Denver proper I'm inviting
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you to join
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me pay no attention to the horse in the
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tree I need to get some new glasses
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shall you check this place out analog
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which is a record store next to Solar
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Roast coffee coffee finy Records books
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and collectibles so I'm going to get
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myself a piping hot caffein beverage
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here in
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peblo at this place look at this there's
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like a neon with a little little coffee
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brewing all right acquired one Solar
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Roast coffee evidently they use solar
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power in some fashion to create the
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coffee either to maybe grind up the
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beans or power something in
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there electrically
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equipped here at Granada Apartment and
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on the opposite side of that building
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check out that
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sweet Coca-Cola mural up
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there that's one of the better old timey
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Coca-Cola murals I've seen all right
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Central Plaza it's been
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fun but it's time for me to roll on have
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made a about an hour commute up to
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Colorado Springs now you see the
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mountains off in the distance you also
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see this truck with a little snow plow
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on the front arrived at a ghost town
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Museum about halfway between Pueblo and
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the Denver International Airport all
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right this gift shop you exit and enter
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through the gift shop Welcome to the
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Real West beware of well just beware
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there's the
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Horseshoe right over there oh
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wow look at this and then who's this
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John Wayne so does look like a it looks
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like a yeah it's a mannequin of John
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Wayne it doesn't say it's John Wayne it
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looks like came from like an old wax
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museum right here John Wayne is a reward
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Wells Fargo reward all right heading in
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now to the wild west museum is that Lone
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Ranger yeah yeah Clayton Mo sure is all
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right first impression this is already
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way more awesome than I thought it was
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going to
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be Pikes Peak bugle the stoter baker
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carriages the General
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Store John King merchandise company this
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is called a cutter this uh sleigh here
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was used to deliver groceries in
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Leadville in the summer Wheels were
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substituted for the snow
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Runners so this really is an old ghost
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town I was just expecting to walk in
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here and just be like normal walls they
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have the old buildings and everything
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even the old jail over
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there look at this pretty cool would you
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ever thought it was like look like this
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imagine this this is incredible and
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right between these two buildings is the
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jail right next to JB Shanahan who was
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the Carpenter and Builder I don't know
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which one of these gentlemen is JB s ey
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sad ey are you in here guy Sadi ey in
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it's not sad ey did anything wrong in my
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life actually the sheriff is the crook
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the sheriff's the up in here yeah the
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only difference between him and me is
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that he's got a gun and I don't
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okay what's your
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name there's a buddy back in bua Park
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California named s he's incarcerated too
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for the wrong reason so he
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says so you didn't do it huh you're
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innocent that's the only part I'll give
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you regards to Sadi ey Sadi is a little
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more lively than you are though I must
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say Sadi is like sitting up and
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talkative you're like you're just
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slumbering in there of course you need
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muscle that is so cool look at this
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that's only part of
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blacksmithing your head wasn't a twoed
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decoration use it down here learn how
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tools should be used figure out how the
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this place is way better than I thought
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it was going to be for example popping
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my head in the bank now this guy's
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weighing out some gold this lovely lady
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over here on looking as well 1907 Sears
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motoro two cylinder and then over here
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in the corner take a look at this
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Buffalo the American
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nice what is this lift for the answer
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what is
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this lift for
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answer lift for the answer bull blinders
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I thought this was something else I
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totally thought that was something
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else kinky all right a little time has
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gone by dropped my parents off at the
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airport they're off back to Florida and
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now I'm closer into Denver property look
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at these old Motel signs Driftwood Motel
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it almost looks like a Storm's about to
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be rolling in here in Denver
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there no longer in Pueblo just a little
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bottleneck well gridlock you could say
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downtown Denver off on the Horizon
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freeway is going slow
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going I'm getting where I need to be
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little Skyline at Denver off in the
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distance right I made it over now to to
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the town of
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Morrison Red Rocks amp theater is up the
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ways a bit going to get some food over
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here at the
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Cow it's highly recommended the cow and
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eery and there's not only a cow up on
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the top here there's also a cow painted
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Blue Cow right here on the side take a
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look at this there's the cow and they
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don't have a soup of the day they have
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soup of the moment white bean chicken
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chili soup no coffee no smile like that
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they have something something called ler
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here lunch and dinner they have cow
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Specialties called something called
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Dave's mother clucker right there which
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I don't know how then on the other side
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they have soups and salads and they
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haven't ever seen something called a
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brussels sprout salad all right je what
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are they I'm also meeting up with some
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friends here Jim Denver Jim is with me
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explain what this is uh deep fried
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mushrooms yes this is like the special
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here is the at the Cow this is like this
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one of their uh those are huge look at
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that they just take a
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anything can be fried I learned that
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from fair food
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problem dripping there what kind of
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sauce is that like the cow Secret Sauce
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this is the white bean chili chicken the
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soup of the moment and then this is kind
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of look like a cob but it's just like a
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mish mash of all different kind of stuff
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and I got a cider Ranch yeah the place
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is pretty dang good salad look at the
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Cow right here the cow the eery is
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driving driving a car I don't think I've
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ever seen a cow driving a car before
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what river is
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this you know what river this is I
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don't let's make something up this is
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the Red Rocks River Red Rocks River I
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like it how about this little H hammock
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over here oh yeah look at
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that cozy that would be nice this is the
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last part of civilization you see before
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getting up to Red Rocks we're not going
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up there tonight because they're having
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another concert we can't get up there
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unless we want to go to the concert
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which we're not
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we are going to go to amusement park
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where are we going what amusement park
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Lake Lakeside Amusement Lakeside one of
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the oldest amusement parks in this area
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I think it said it was 1908 that it
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opened up all right that's it right over
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there the amusement park Lakeside
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because it's on the side of a lake
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however we got to go past it to find the
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exit to go back to it right here off the
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freeway Millennium Falcon
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a miniature
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Denver that's pretty cool yeah you can
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see it off the freeway they just welded
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it up there yeah all on top of the let's
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good with the sun gleaming next to
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it a falcon there that's cool
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not too far
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from the amusement
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park this is only open from 7 to 10:
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tonight look at this it's old sign here
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old Pepsi sign Lakeside Speedway
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oh cool does not appear as if the
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coaster is running however and as
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excited I was about the ferris
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wheel this place is
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great all the screams and yells some fun
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some of Horror
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right here along the walkway heading in
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the sights and sounds and smells of a
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carnival that goes all year Well at
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least a few nights a week this one being
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one of them Lakeside Amusement Park
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classic he this is an elephant relaxing
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on a tree truck
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all
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right park entry not valid on Rise but
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to get in $5 a person five bucks five
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bucks we where else can you go for $5
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and get in Subway well you can do that
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my goodness look at this thing it's like
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a tilter whirl but a different type of
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tilter whirl look it's like sweet in
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these way out it's like an extended
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rectangular view til to world as it
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spins around like that never seen
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anything like that before it's called
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the whip whh i p p the whip this place
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is
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awesome now the feris wheel is not
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working major ride
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coupons at Ferris wheel as it states
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right here kind of hidden in the
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darkness check out the
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hurricane look at this old structure
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here our
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Deco
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structure
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wow that's beautiful I am just blown
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away but how cool this place is I wish
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this stuff was all
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open look at that right goes upside down
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almost like two shoes side by side
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it's like Old Fair attraction style but
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not at a fair you don't even see these
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anymore these rides are so old and good
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need to figure out where to buy tickets
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however can't buy tickets there can't
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buy tickets there because both of these
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are not
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working but I'm glad that they're still
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standing because the both of these
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structures are amazing the world's most
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exciting ride the Roundup defies gravity
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space
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sensation when you first said that again
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you almost sounded like Macho Man oh do
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Macho Man oh yeah light bulb was on yeah
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I can imagine seeing the thing there's
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the matter
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horn look at that there's the matter
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horn over there actually says matter
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horn look at this wizard right here
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you're supposed to utilize this and go
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up the side or the wizard well give you
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some magical powers this is inside the
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arcade old ski right here look at this
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that bee down there Hungry Hungry Hippos
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down here place is just absolutely
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unbelievable with the old these relics
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here all along what year did you say
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this place originally opened 1908 it
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opened in '08 I mean some of this stuff
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looks like it's maybe 50s and
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60s like yeah I don't know like some of
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this stuff I mean this wasn't obviously
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here in '08 like you know this this
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style Art Deco style and everything
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but I don't I don't think I've ever seen
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another place this equal that has this
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many antiques that are still working got
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the snack bar over
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there and this is probably a main
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entrance and exit at one point the
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staircase here who knows what we all
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that was used for I think the tower was
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the entrance the tower was the entrance
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came downstairs here's the Cyclone which
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does not look to be working
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old old roller coaster
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roller coaster Landmark American coaster
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enthusiasts recognize the Cyclone is a
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ace roller coaster Landmark reserve for
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historical significance Art Deco station
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agriculture theater Marquee entrance
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however it's not
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open not open yeah look at
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that that's look at her
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hair there's the TR no repeat
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rides
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smoking
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prohibited there's the ride
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cars man I love a good wooden roller
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coaster I would ride this if it was
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running there's another Ferris wheel
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that's like Star ride the star
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ride
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wow the star rides like a ferris wheel
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it looks like a star
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I am in heaven right now this is the
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best thing ever this whole place I mean
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I wish it was in a little better shape
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and working
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unbelievable the old neon like the
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sports
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cars another type of Ferris wheel that
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look like a little it almost looks like
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a zipper and then look at this RVE oh
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yeah look at
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this
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oh some of the little Rockets are
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missing whoa that goes really
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high that like make look makes Dumbo
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look like Amateur
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hour good Lord that's
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terrifying
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wow look at it he's hanging
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on it's called the
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satellite right there the
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satellite that is a thing of beauty
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right there and they also have their own
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version of autopia down
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here who's going to win he must be 53 in
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or taller to ride the wild chipmunk and
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they're named after the Chipmunks
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example this up here this rocket ship is
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named after Simon this one right here is
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Alvin going by and that's
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Theodore so there's three of them that
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go at one time it's
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amazing it's named after the chipm look
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at this coming around
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this is like an older dated version
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chipmunk version of goofy Sky
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School what's the last time you saw a
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Doritos vending machine I never have and
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they don't work it doesn't work M&M's
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machine I think I've ever seen a
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Doritos machine before yeah I keep
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saying Ferris wheel cuz I wanted by the
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ferris wheel but I will look at this
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creepy Humpty Dumpty over here it's
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moving so you got the goat right there
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you got the pink bunny that goes up oh
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yeah and it goes down I don't think the
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organ's working but that's fine we're on
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the
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fair we're do it this is the first first
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time we ever been on a Margo round again
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almost said Fair time for
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me this is a Crystal Palace Labyrinth
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Labyrinth Crystal Palace which is a like
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a mirror maze of
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sorts Labyrinth Crystal
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Palace right there
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all lit up I don't want to hear
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those look at the side over here too it
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states it as well all the classic Neon
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a grand Circle
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Tour are we technically in
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Denver are we technically in
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Denver yes I think we probably are
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Denver Lakewood a grand circle tour
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around Denver SL
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Lakewood
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Lakeside Park am us a park going all the
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way around the
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lake we're up close to AR we all kind of
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please keep all arms legs and hands
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inside the vehicle at all times
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sir they don't make that rule here you
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just do whatever you
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want right here
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yep that's how far the train goes from
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the park and the
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traffic going by right over there
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there's a church
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why is that Road close a head sign
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facing that way the drop tower is all
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lit up
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now there's a buddy rabbit little baby
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little baby
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I'm going to be
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purple you jump behind me grab this blue
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one grab the blue one there all right
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I'm getting inside this rocket ship you
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got the blue one I got the purple one I
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got blue blue you got blue I got purple
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okay it's starting and you use this to
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lift it up oh wow this moves fast this
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actually moves kind of fast holy
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goodness gracious this is fast as heck
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way faster than Dumbo way faster than
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the rockets and Tomorrowland twice as
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fast as Tomorrowland rocket going up
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going
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up I'm going up I'm going up I got this
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thing going all the way
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up this thing is making some noises I'm
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all the way at the top I love this oh
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I'm getting busy though getting a little
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little on the Disney side let me try
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arm oh wow holy snap this is terrifying
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oh my gosh does this thing stru
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sound this is actually really
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frightening hey
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oh I see you down
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there it's fun but kind of
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scary making some noises some gutal
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noises
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hey what are you doing down
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there you're way up there holy now
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you're up top what is these
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noises oh
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my oh
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oh is that it this thing like propels
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you over to the side especially the
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heavy you are like me just shoves you
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right up against the side like that
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that was something
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else
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P that's way more intense than
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Disneyland's version take Disneyland's
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version and multiply it times
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4 goes so high
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they've decided to go on the matter horn
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you to see him coming around right here
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right there I got myself a blue
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raspberry Slurpee I haven't had a
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slurpie since free the free slurpie day
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it's like 6 weeks ago I figure what the
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heck I'll get one I'm at like a an
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amusement park might as well get myself
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a Slurpee and you can see this is all
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all lit up love the old
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neon boats and that's going to do it for
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today had a full day went to the ghost
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town Museum the wild west
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Museum started in Pueblo ending outside
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of
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Park I'll see you the next video of the
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Vlog
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it's over