A Busy Christmas Eve In EPCOT World Showcase & After Dark Celebration Florida Holiday Decorations
Christmas Eve at EPCOT
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welcome everyone Adam the woo here as
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the recording of This is Tuesday
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December 24th making it Christmas Eve
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2024 one more day until
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Christmas rears its head even though
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it's Christmas season Christmas day as
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I'm filming this is tomorrow Christmas
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Eve but a cruise down and get a coffee
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piping High caffeinated beverage and I
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think throughout the course of the day
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at some point going to pop over maybe go
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to Epcot and see some of the festival
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the holiday stuff and then come back
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here and see where the day leads I'm
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inviting you to join me shall you I
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guess that would make it Christmas Eve
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December 24 of 24 24 of 2024 24 of
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24 when I thought about it in my brain
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it sounded like it would have made sense
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when I said it out loud but didn't
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really make a whole heck of a lot of
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sense you get the idea relatable
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iions like the church up here is doing
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their Christmas Eve service daytime
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service it's only about 2:30 right
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now it's hectic through
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here peppermint latte is on the agenda
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first and foremost get that caffeine
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flowing hard to believe
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tomorrow's
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Christmas the New Year's is only a week
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after that it's wild oh by the way I
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just started following people on
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Instagram I've had Instagram a few years
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never followed anyone on excited this
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morning you know what me start following
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some people that I know so that number
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will
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grow over time classic car alert and my
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Instagram is Adam the woo atw I need to
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start using it more I'm going to start
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using my Instagram more Adam the woo woo
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atw currently at 226 it is
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70° Sun set's about 5:30 it's going to
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be about 67° then and then dip down to
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low 60s after that got a parking spot
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here for mini Marge I think I'm going
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have to give my glorified golf cart a
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little wash at some point but right here
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where the electric vehicle parking is
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right there looks just
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like Miss mini Marge also plenty of
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parking spaces down here at the moment
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later on tonight it will not be like
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this when they do this fake snow and all
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that got the holiday Decor the Christmas
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cups peppermint mocha latte no whipped
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cream
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cheers I don't even know why I got back
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in the glorified golf cart and drove
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over here I could have just walked over
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here cuz I forgot to show the tree and
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all that so I'm going to walk back over
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parked in a different spot I'm kind of
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leaning towards one day I don't know
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anytime soon but one day I'd like to get
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something like this like a
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vesa just something I could just take
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over to the Parks Drive locally I can't
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I can't
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take mini Marge out onto some roads so
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there's certain roads I'm not allowed to
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take it on and if I don't want to take
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my vehicle this would be kind of nice if
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I had something like that to take over
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to the Disney parks or just you know on
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192 or a little farther than the radius
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that I can now get in the
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cart not an immediate thing but maybe
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next maybe it's some point in 2025 not
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on the immediate agenda but it's just
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one of those things that's always in the
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back of my mind getting a scooter ass
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type of thing like that H Maybe not
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maybe it's all just maybe I won't it's
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officially I was stating this the other
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day it has officially been a year since
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I moved out of the apartment that was
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right over there on the right hand side
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down there I can Overlook where the
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snope fell and like kind of looking down
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upon the ice SK the plastic fake ice
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skating R you can see the tree lighting
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each night and this will be as
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officially on new New Year's Eve I think
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it was like a day before New Year's Eve
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I turned my the keys into my apartment
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and I officially was 100% in the house I
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have now but yeah it was a some good TI
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being down here seeing the crowd see
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everybody happy seeing the snowfall and
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all that and I'm still pretty pretty
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dang close I can just cruise up here
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anytime I want got a little manger
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scene they got their golf cart all done
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up look at that they're like all
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decorated
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up maybe I should have put a little
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little more Christmas decor on mine
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Halloween time I drove around with a
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skeleton in the passenger
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seat W there's some good little
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Christmas decor over here you got the
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manger sing got some vintage blow molds
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got a
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little reindeer little
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Frosty couple Cris kingles like that a
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nice mixture of
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Lights other sorted paraphernalia and of
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course
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Inflatables it's been a good year for me
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next year is going to be a little bit
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different got some goals next year I'll
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talk about that at a later time but yeah
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there was a movie filmed here a few
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years ago all around celebration it was
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called a Christmas Ken I watched it last
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year during the holiday it's pretty good
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but it does feature a lot of Celebration
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areas including the spot right here
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featured in that film
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it's a Christmas movie it's kind of a
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modern day take on an old classic but
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it's all filmed in celebration like
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about celebration is every little area
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is kind of a different type of
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architecture with the homes and how they
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are either condos apartments Town Homes
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houses etc etc this little kind of
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section here reminds me of something you
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see like in New York or something with
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the
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Grinch also they're tearing up the
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sidewalk
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right
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here completely uprooting the
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sidewalk at at
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this over here in this neighborhood got
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Olaf over there holding a little drop of
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snow Little
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Snowflake curious if I could see a
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Christmas Eve
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Gator out here on this lake lake
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Reinhardt is right over there through
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the woods this is a different Lake I
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don't know if this one even has a name
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but there might be a gator in it let's
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take a peek got a little
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squirrel
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there are you on Santa's good list or
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naughty list
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squirrel what about
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you your friend's too busy just rooting
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around in the ground looking for food
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are you on Santa's good list or naughty
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list what is this
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squirrel you expecting Santa
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tonight you seem very excited for
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Christmas I like
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it you're up there now
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hi hi
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cutie I didn't see a gator today but did
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see a couple squirrels also I'm kind of
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looking forward of the holidays to be
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over once they're over won't be as much
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Temptation pretty much after my birthday
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on August 10th it did really good with
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losing some weight getting fit and it
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kind of gone off the rails after that
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and then once the Halloween Halloween
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season started traveling started
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Christmas season
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Hawaii all the events man Temptation not
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a good thing during the holiday so I'm
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looking forward to the holidays going
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away and getting back on a seminormal
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eating and
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somewhat routine workout schedule see
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what happens after Christmas and end of
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the New Year all right made it over to
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Epcot going to head in the park now
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momentarily got a tram about to come by
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got the Orange County Sheriff officer
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right there hoping to get a Montreal
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view but not going to get a monreal but
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I am going to get a slow moving Walt
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Disney World courtesy tram going by
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really the only main thing I really want
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to film while in here is maybe one the
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storytellers I'd like to see if any of
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the storytellers are still out in world
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showcase for festival the holidays and
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or or both like to go on living with the
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land for the glimmering green houses on
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Christmas Eve so that's kind of the
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that's the
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goal all right nice here you go here we
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go
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all right another monreal going by going
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to go back to World Showcase about 10
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minutes from now over in the UK Father
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Christmas is going to be given a little
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Spiel so I haven't caught him this
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Festival holiday so going to head back
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there I'm back over here in the UK PIV
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and I remember these from last year this
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these are the New Year's Eve like party
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section over here they have these set up
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where they're going to have the silent
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like party section through here I came
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out here last New Year's Eve I will
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never ever go to New Year's Eve at fepc
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again I know some people liked it for me
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it really wasn't wasn't my thing but
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that's what this is over in this
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area I'm not sure where I'm going to be
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on New Year's Eve but won't be at
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up thank you thank you thank you very
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much much appreciated much appreciated
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welcome welcome welcome hey hey to all
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those gathered around the streets of
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this Fair Village greetings allow me to
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introduce myself I am known by many
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names there are some that call me Santa
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Claus but here in the United Kingdom I
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am Father Christmas and I bid you all
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welcome We Gather this evening to toll
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the devil's n one toll for every year
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since the birth of
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Christ let me see where was I ah yes
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65
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66
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67 oh
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hello my friends if someone would be so
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kind as to tell me what year this might
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be 2024 2 of course of course many
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thanks many thanks
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2024
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really oh de 2 that
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means that means I must ring this
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blessed Bell
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1,957 more times Well everyone get
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comfortable it looks like we're going to
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be here for quite some
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time no no no no no we shall return to
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that a bit later on at any rate I have
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been around for many many years bringing
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holiday joy to Good Children across the
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land I have received letters from many
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of you this year from people like you my
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friends and you back there my friends
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hello hello hello hello and you you
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certainly are expecting an awful lot
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this year aren't you my friend ever the
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Optimist at any rate the Christmas carol
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that I was singing Just then as well as
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many other Christmas traditions that we
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celebrate today originated right here in
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the United Kingdom indeed it is not
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uncommon to find groups of carolers much
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like yourselves gathered on a street
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corner much like this one here and
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singing songs of the
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Season songs of the even that gives me
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an idea you you you're my young a little
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maze but you can't walk around the maze
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like always kind of reminds me of the
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shiny you can't go back there right now
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need to shake this jingly Bell hoping to
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see Pierre no well but he was he's
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already done for the evening so I don't
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know how many more storytellers is going
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to be but at least I got to see Father
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Christmas the last couple times I've
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been out here I've missed Father
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Christmas so glad I got to see him on
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Christmas over here in Japan there's a
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Storyteller also keep over here in Japan
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story here
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also listen my disciples I believe that
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the body is in poor health then the
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spirit will also be weak thus Dharma
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developed the system of exercise to keep
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the mind and body healthy and to deal
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with the Bandit so this unique style of
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exercise and defense troubled all the
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way to Japan so when I was in Alani we
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had a view looking down at the River and
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the pools and the hot tubs and
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everything we had a really good view of
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the koi pond in fact I even did A Fish
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Feeding of the koi fish and now here's
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some koi over here in I can't feed these
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there's no fish there's no feeding of
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these I mean I guess you probably could
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but it's frowned upon to to give them
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theme park I don't know if they want any
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popcorn or anything like that but yeah
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there's a pretty good amount of koi in
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here as well a nice little beautiful
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waterfall over there here at the Japan
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Pavilion Sun is setting nightfall's
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about to rear it head looks like a lot
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of people are lining up now for
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the Christmas Eve festivities they're
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going to have the candlelight
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processional this is the line I'm not
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sure who the guest narrator is
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but yeah looked I believe it's Edward
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James almost I'm not sure who that is
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but that's who's doing the the candl
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light processional this evening and it
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looks like it's pretty full so not going
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to be watching it but the line pretty
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long so is going to continue just just a
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walk your world showcase Sunset looks
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pretty magical there across the Lagoon
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there the world showcase Lagoon over off
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in the distance very very beautiful the
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Swan and Dolphin off in the distance
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Swan and Dolphin Hotel is over there you
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also see where the candlelight
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processional is and you see the sun
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setting as the sun goes down there is
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incredibly busy out here I don't really
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know why I thought it wouldn't be but
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there is a lot of people through here
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usually world okay I mean I guess at
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night it's always kind of busy but seems
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a little extra
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busy this time of the
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night a world showcase probably future
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world is probably a little more mow well
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used to be called future world now it's
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called something else but a look here
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across the Lagoon
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I made it over into the land Pavilion
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and now we're going to go on living with
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the land it looks not too bad it says
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it's like a 20 minute weight but that
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looks like a walk- on that looks more
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like a 5 minute weight there's like no
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one in that line for glimmering green
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houses all lit up for the holidays and
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because it's really dark outside now
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should show up pretty good with the
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lights on go down the escalator here
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heading down yes says 20 I'm going to
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guess it's way less than 20 at least
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half of what 20 is so that says 20 there
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but that is a that's definitely not a 20
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minute weight not at
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all all right heading towards the
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glimmering green
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houses pass the
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storm now that it's night time
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outside my eyes are adjusted to the
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darkness
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one of those living systems is you got
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the waterfall there a
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butterfly maybe that's a
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fire effects back on over there they
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replaced that a few months
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ago who of the mighty
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Buffalo of all the we're heading into
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the glimmering green houses through the
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first little tunnel of lights right here
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now I will say going through the
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glimmering green houses definitely looks
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a lot better when your eyes are adjusted
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to the nighttime you kind of go through
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and you see all the lights illuminated
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as you're going through down on the land
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boat ride I remember back in the day
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when you used to have a cast member at
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the front of the boat and they would
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give the Spiel as you went through they
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got rid of that was probably 10 years
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ago maybe even longer than that but way
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back in the day early 2000s even like
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late '90s early 2000s they still had the
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gas member when you would go through
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there now they just have the automated
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Spiel which has been adjusted
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considerably for the glimmering green
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houses portion of it I always think a
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buy when I go through there but I don't
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know if poly Shore or Steven Baldwin
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have ever been on the living with the
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lamb but if they did they would probably
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be have a little throw back in a little
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nod and thought process to of how it was
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back when they were filming biodome they
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obviously they didn't film biodome at
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Epcot but that's what I think of when
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I'm through here and we end up heading
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across and look like they're doing a
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little show on spaceship earth a little
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light up show you know from what I had
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heard the lights around the new section
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over here in the little gardens cration
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Gardens area wasn't working for a long
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time but walking by there it looks like
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the gardens are working again and now
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I'm over in connections Cafe where they
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have these which are just like roller
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pins it's like a very interesting
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artwork there's like these like roller
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pins right here look like you would be
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like uh taking like a cookie sheet
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making a cookie sheet right through here
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over by where the water fountains are
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right over there and then all the
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artwork that's up there on the wall I
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always like this little area here this
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used to be uh not Mouse gears but it was
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temporary Mouse gears when Mouse gears
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was being uh being changed and now it's
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a connections Cafe I believe it's called
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when all this reopened how was such a
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huge deal and now you just kind of used
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to it but it definitely is spacious a
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little walkway that leads out that way
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to spaceship earth thinking about maybe
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doing spaceship earth before heading out
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there's the pyramage right there doing
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world traveling starting next year and I
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don't really have a game plan on all the
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months but at some point
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in my travels from now till the end of
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time until until I'm my time on Earth is
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through I like to go to the pyramids at
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at one point it would be kind of fun to
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ride a camel in front of the pyramids I
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know it's a very touristy thing to do
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but yeah take my money I want to ride a
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camel in front of the
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pyramids just a bucketless yeah
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spaceship earth all illuminated there
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and to go up in this geodesic sphere
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this wonderful Dark Ride excited about
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doing this on the way out right here a
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little spaceship earth action before
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departing Epcot Center all illuminated
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and it does look like a pretty Short
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Line looks like a walk- on which is good
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to always have a walk- on there goes
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another
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monre off in the distance looking away
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from spaceship earth right over there
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and it looks as if there's no one in
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line so I'm just walking straight in to
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spaceship how easy it was to learn your
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ab
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thank these guys they invented
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it over here with a little story telling
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time right over here by Rome burning I
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can almost smell the Rome burning
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telling some story maybe I'll listen to
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learn some things from this wise
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Storyteller nice look at
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this walk back to my car but looks like
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they're having harmonious I think it's
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called harmonious now I lose track of
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all the nighttime spectaculars the fire
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work spectacular across the Lagoon is
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happening you see it
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glimmering over there not from the green
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houses but behind spaceship
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earth that's pretty dang
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cool right I got stuck on there for like
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5 minutes not that long and then it
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continued to go so it wasn't wasn't a
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major issue I didn't get
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Evac still waiting for the day when I
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get Eva off of spaceship earth that'll
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be a day long remembered I would love to
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be at the top
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and then walk down past the animatronics
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my luck though I'd be walked down past
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the part towards the back end that
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doesn't have the animatronics but either
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way one day never happened in all the
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years I've been going here though
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perfect
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timing got the tram going
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by that
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direction and then if you just follow
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the tram along I thought I parked on the
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other side but I actually parked right
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over there but you follow the tram along
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and right above kind of obscured by that
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light should be able to see the mon rail
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now coming into oh wait a second might
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get the tram and fireworks and monreal
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in the same
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frame look at
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that okay the fireworks didn't happen
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but
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nonetheless got the tram oh there's
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fireworks
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Perfect Look at that that's beautiful I
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don't know why spaceship person up now
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spaceship person lit
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up that's how it's done right
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there beautiful so I think it was
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yesterday the day before I went by here
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when it was daytime and I said I was
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going to come back by this house at
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night and see what it looks like at
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night and it does not disappoint
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everything all illuminated the
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inflatable grinches up top you got
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Mickey Minnie Donald up there you got
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the little octopus the squid you got the
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little seahorse right there and then you
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got all the Star Wars stuff over there
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naughtier nice right up top even got the
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little toy soldiers heading over to even
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the Inflatables even the 3PO inflatable
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the R2 the trooper the atat all
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illuminated as well they got the lights
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all in the appropriate places to make
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everything all
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visible neat right over here by the golf
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course there's
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Manda
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there he's grou
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and there's big old inflatable
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Santa right there I drove by here the
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other day when it was daytime and
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everything wasn't all lit up so it's
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neat seeing all this at night got the
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Grinch there the train peanuts
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train Christmas
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trees
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snowman got a lot of lights over here
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too on the Santa house a lot of Santa in
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this
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yard Mansion
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style and then as you just go down the
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way and turn over
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here there
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is couple more yards here which I
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haven't seen at night either so we're
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going to walk up to there and see what
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these yards have in St at night or in
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store I should say like about both these
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yards during Halloween they go all out
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then they put away all their stuff and
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then for Christmas they put a whole
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other set of decorations out just for
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Christmas I can't even imagine the
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storage they have a lot of the places
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here in town just go all out with
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Halloween and Christmas this must have a
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lot of garage space to store all the
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stuff for example this yard is all full
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on Cemetery and skeletons and ghouls
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creatures of the night during Halloween
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and then there like joyous colors and
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Christmas decor during December even
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here on Christmas
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Eve there's another one I wanted to see
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at night as well it's like the grizwald
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es type yard got the Grinch over there
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you got Mickey got Olaf got the Grinch
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up there and the tree dangling from the
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branch there with his candy cane you got
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a little Dapper Mickey behind the
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regular Santa Mickey
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got some TV with the
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Clark hanging the lights right there BR
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is going to throw oh no he's I thought
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maybe he's going to throw a snowball out
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maybe actually he's got an onion like
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he's going to be Chow Down on that
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onion all right and that's going to do
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it for
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Eve see you in the next video the
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