How I Spent My 48th Birthday - Getting Older & Why I Feel A Little OFF On This Day But Go Out Anyway
My 48th Birthday
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welcome everyone out of the woo here
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as the recording of this it is just a
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few minutes
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prior to noon
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on my birthday
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my 48th
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birthday
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august 10th
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2022
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in 1974
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i was born
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notice how i just put my sunglasses on
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after i walked out of the sun
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probably take these back off
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i'm inviting you today
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to tag along
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or i can better say it to join me
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shall you as
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i spend my birthday doing
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a couple things i want to do and not
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even having a real game plan
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other than going to magic kingdom i kind
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of have a
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i don't want to call it something i do
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every year because i don't do it every
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year
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but very very often of course obviously
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the parks were closed in 2020 at
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disneyland so i wasn't able to do this
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is ride dumbo
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might sound kind of unusual strange and
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almost pointless to some but i have a
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tradition that's the word i'm thinking
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of a tradition
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to go on dumbo the flying elephant at a
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disney park on my birthday it hasn't
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happened every year but it's something i
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try to adhere to
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it just makes me feel good and while i'm
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there
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i am going to also best remove them and
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i have
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quite the big cap on to protect myself
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from the sun rays
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also wearing an appropriate t-shirt i
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got this at a thrift store the other day
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i'm lost
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which way
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to over the hill now over the hill
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usually applies to the age of 40 or the
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age of 50.
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i am two years from being 50.
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it just seems like only yesterday
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that i turned 40 and what
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that was a
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that kind of hit me hard for about one
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day and then the next day i was
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perfectly fine now to be completely
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honest and open about the way i feel on
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my birthday they're both not just my
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birthday there are two days where i
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really feel very distant
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from everyone
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and everything other than you know close
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friends and family members and those two
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days are new year's eve
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you know the last day of every year i
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always get a little feel a little
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strange
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and just kind of feel like being by
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myself now i forced myself to go out and
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do stuff to to kind of beat that feeling
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and not feel that way and the other day
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is my birthday but in all reality
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my first intuition is to just curl up
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on a couch
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curl up
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in a bed
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or go
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stare at a wall
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and be alone with my thoughts on this
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day but i'm not going to do that but
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just to be completely open and honest
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that is that's the vibe i'm always i'm
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always feeling
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on my birthday just i just never feel
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perfectly
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at ease and normal if that makes any
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sense i always try to pinpoint why
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exactly i feel this way on this
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particular day and new year's maybe
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because you're going into another year
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both age-wise with myself
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and you know into a new year got to make
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changes got to make promises to yourself
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you know resolutions things like that
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which never hold
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hold strong but i think for me it is
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more of
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nostalgia i'm a very nostalgic person in
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fact i feel like
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it's almost like a
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not a burden but it's something that's
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always on my mind i'm always looking
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more towards the past
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in the future which is very i don't know
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if that's always the most positive way
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to look at things i think you have to
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have a good balance which i try to try
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to achieve but my mindset the way it
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works is
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to always remember
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past
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the good times
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bad times i've had some not so good
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times on former birthdays maybe that
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kind of goes into
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end of that as well
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so who knows that could be
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could be what that is it definitely is
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not
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has nothing to do with knowing that i am
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closer to the end
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than i was at the beginning i don't
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think the age number has really anything
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to do with it
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the only one that kind of hit me for a
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moment was like i said my 40th birthday
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but when i woke up the next day
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i was totally fine and when i wake up
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tomorrow
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now obviously this video will be
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uploaded
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because i filmed during the day edit at
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night upload the next day
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so as i'm filming this and recording
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this it is my birthday august 10th but
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tomorrow when i wake up on august 11th i
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won't even have these thoughts of these
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these feelings
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talking about feelings and obviously
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it's not going to stop me from doing
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things getting out and doing stuff
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never has and never will
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but i figured i would just mention that
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it's just the those are the only two
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times that i do not have 110
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even though 100 as high as you can go
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it's a figure speech 110
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a go get em attitude
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to get out there just go go go go go go
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go go go
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it's like the only time i'm kind of just
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like oh just
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just don't do that
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but today i am
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i'm getting up getting out i'm getting
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out and doing it i just love this area
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such a nice vibe through here
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this is right over near savannah square
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savannah court
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peaceful moments
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peaceful thoughts
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48 years old where does the time go
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i had lunch with my dad yesterday
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he couldn't meet up with me today
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so yesterday he invited me to lunch we
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went to chewie's which i love chewie's
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said where do you want to go let's go to
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chewie's which is the one on highway 192
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not the one on i drive that i usually go
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to
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on many occasions
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i love some chewies we had some burritos
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and i can recall when my dad
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when i turned 18
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which would have been 30 years ago today
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gave me
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a thing that he created
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basically giving his thoughts and some
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photos that he had taken to me over the
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years scrolling up
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saying that he could not believe that
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i had just turned 18.
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a very heartfelt thing for my father and
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to think that that was 30 years ago
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so it was good to meet with him
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and be with him yesterday celebrate my
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birthday the day before my mom is out of
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town she's in texas visiting a friend
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i got a call from her this morning and
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it definitely put a smile on my face
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and
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made me feel really good
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all right anyway
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go have some fun
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pop into magikana and it's pretty
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obvious i'm probably gonna eat and
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consume a few things today that i
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probably shouldn't but you know what
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it's my birthday
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i'm doing it and looking at i-4
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westbound going pretty smoothly
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i'm not going westbound on interstate 4
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going over it
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i always love showing that mickey power
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pole
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you know what i should have today is a
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mickey ball i'm gonna get a mickey bar i
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haven't had a mickey bard forever
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i'm gonna get a mickey bar i'm not gonna
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stay in there too long either
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i'm just going to go in have some fun
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and then
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go back home later and have some time to
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myself and just to kind of
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tag on to what i was saying earlier i
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really didn't feel like doing much today
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like i didn't even plan on doing this i
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woke up this morning said you know what
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see if there's a reservation available
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and there was for magic kingdom in fact
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i skipped yesterday from filming i
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started to film an episode yesterday in
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the late afternoon after my dad and i
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had lunch and
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hung out for a bit i decided you know
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what
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i just scrapped all that
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i figured heck it today
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i'll go out and film and also enjoy my
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birthday i have to remember i'm in scar
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four two four
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and i'm gonna opt out of not taking the
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tram
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i'm not gonna take the tram i'm just
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gonna walk parallel to where the tram is
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i also brought an umbrella
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just in case it rains and also extra
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shielding from the sun and my new magic
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band plus
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at the age of 21 i got my tongue pierced
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wore a tongue ring every day
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until this morning i woke up and you
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know i said
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it's time for a change
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obviously i'm not going to wear that the
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rest of my life
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and i figured now was a good day as any
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so
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it feels kind of weird
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feels kind of strange not having not
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having that in there since the age of 21
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until
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48.
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took it out
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hey
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goes
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the monorail
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so what is that 27 years
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of wearing something
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and then not having it on anymore my
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math is correct
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that's a lot of years it is pretty
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toasty today it's in the low 90s low to
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mid 90s but there is a breeze you can
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see the mickey flag waving there in the
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breeze and the two d's on either side of
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it
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double d's that's right heavy metal
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mickey you might be sad to know that i
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no longer have a piece of metal in my
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mouth
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you're still holding down the fort
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though right now do i take the monorail
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over from ttc or do i take the boat i
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think i'm going to go i took the
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monorail the other day i'm going to take
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the boat in fact i can see one
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approaching over there also a little
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hack i always have is to get coffee at
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ttc joffrey's i like it before you go
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through the guests you know before you
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scan your magic band
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and at epcot but also here at ttc it's
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hardly ever a line get it before you go
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in the park went with hazelnut latte
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this time changing it up i like the fact
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that you can see the castle over there
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across the seven seas lagoon and it
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looks like it's gonna be the admiral joe
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fowler this time across seven seas
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lagoon
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admiral joe and we're getting the
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criss-crossing of the boats as they go
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by very very nice up and there's the
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castle off in the distance you can
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faintly see it over there oh that worked
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out well monorail going in front of the
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train station and the castle oh man
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another one going by just catching lots
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of monorails today and i was just
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talking about dumbo a little bit earlier
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and here is the poster for dumbo the
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famous flying element he's famous now
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last year on this day i was living out
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in anaheim still and i went to a double
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header
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baseball game at angel stadium
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kind of hoping there'd be a raise home
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game but they are away today
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so not only not just a one header
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last year a double header not even one
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game today would have been kind of neat
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to hit magic kingdom in the morning
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drive out the tropicana field to tampa
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go to a raised game tonight but maybe
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one year i'll do that that'd be kind of
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neat to do two of my favorite things in
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one day like that maybe now directly
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next to the tomorrowland speedway
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is kind of the gateway over to
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dumbo the flying elephant which is over
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dumbo the flying elephant which is you
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know a tradition i haven't done it every
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single time on my birthday but i have
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done it many many birthdays where i have
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circled around in the sky
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on dumbo there aren't many flying
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elephants in the world i can only think
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of one that i really well there probably
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are there probably is more than one but
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dumbo the flying elephant probably the
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most famous
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and a birthday
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kind of sort of every year tradition
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sometimes you know there was there was
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times when like when i wasn't able to
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get over to the parks or the parks were
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closed or
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just just didn't work out but i would
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say
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three out of five times uh maybe more
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like six
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well six out of ten would be three out
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of five
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seven out of ten times
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i probably should have looked it up
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beforehand but i've done it a lot of
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times it's kind of a tradition i always
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feel like i'm gonna slide off the side
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here
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as well kind of gives me that vibe like
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you gotta slide off going around and
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around and around
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feels like i'm flying up here too it's a
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birthday flight a birthday flight yeah
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i just kind of lost my hat there
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yeah
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and that's it now everyone's up to the
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same version now it's going down down
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down
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like a 90-second birthday flight it only
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lasts about a minute
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and i have acquired a mickey premium ice
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cream bar with the 50th emblem on it
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from a little stand over in frontierland
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and it just so happens that the
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riverboat
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is now boarding so i'm gonna
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go on top of with the
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with the mansion off in the distance
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it's gonna go on the liberty bell and
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consume
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this vanilla ice cream bar
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with flavored with other natural flavors
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but also chocolatey coating
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it's been a long time
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since i had a mickey bar i also got a
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smart water too hopefully it'll make me
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a little more intelligent to my back
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pocket
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very warm out here though so it might
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melt
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middle of summer with the mickey bar
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probably not the best idea
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that was delicious but i had to consume
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it so quickly i didn't have time to
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savor it started melting immediately
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even before i took it out of the packet
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gotta wash my hands too my hands are
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sticky
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ah mansion it's hard to believe
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halloween season here at the parks
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is about to rear its head now you used
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to be able to choose whichever seat you
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could say i want to sit in the front or
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the back of the ride vehicle from big
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thunder mountain railroad train
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the railroad but then they stopped doing
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that for a while but i think i'm going
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to ask today if i can sit in the very
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back seat and the theming of this is a
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runaway mine train i know guardians of
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the galaxy and then like aerosmith on
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oh they're all waving
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harris smith on rock and roller coaster
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half tunes if this one had a tune i
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would think soul aside would be a
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perfect fit
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right
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and all i had to do was ask for row 15.
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there are 15 roads to sit in the very
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back and i've got the back seat
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i just had to wait for the cycle of the
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train in front of me to go and wait one
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turn now i'm getting on
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back row
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i have taken my hat off
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because as this field says
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i should
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oh wow it's not lit up like it usually
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lit up usually lit up way more than that
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down there
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definitely got to say if i had to choose
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a top one or two or three attractions
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anywhere
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on the disney park property it would be
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big thunder mountain not sure which one
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i like better this one or anaheim that's
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a toughy that's definitely a toughy but
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top top tier attraction right here
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there's some bubbles going by there's
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some bubbles got some bubbles going by
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nice
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oh
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now i was gonna walk not take the
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monorail or
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the ferry boat back over to ttc i was
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going to walk the path going over to
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grand floridian
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and then over to the polly
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but there was a boat departing
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so i hopped on board
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now i'm heading over to a little
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shortcut
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to grand floridian before heading
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and i'll get off here and walk over
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yeah that worked out pretty well well i
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took about a minute or two
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all right now i gotta walk to the polly
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and then ttc all right i just placed a
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mobile order
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over my captain cooks at the polly
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walt's chili and a little chicken stir
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fry
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so i'm gonna start heading over that way
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and it should work out perfectly as soon
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as i walk up should be prepared i think
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i timed it just
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right how beautiful is this tree with a
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flower blooms up top there it comes with
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zesta crackers and this is walt's chili
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must only be one size i guess walt
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didn't have like a huge appetite because
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his chili is like i was expecting like a
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big bowl of chili it's like a little
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tiny chili thankfully i got the chicken
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over here that has the the noodles and
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all that little stir-fry yeah a little
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walt's chili and almost back over at ttc
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now i took that little secret path
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through the woods
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well it's not really such a secret it's
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right over there any guests
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can walk through from the poly
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over a transportation ticket center at
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the monorail going by and i'm going to
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walk back to my car hey you know what
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it's like the trams right here might as
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well jump on the tram
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it's like no one else on it and it's
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going to the villain lot which i think
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that's where i parked if not
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i'll find my car from
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wherever they wherever they drop me off
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i am parked in scar
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should be classified as a villain
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i'm trapping on a piece of ice right now
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cheers to my
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it's been a good day now i'm going to go
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home
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rest
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enjoy the rest of the evening
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who knows without someone else
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today
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no real plan but in the video once i get
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back to my car here hold on next trap's
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coming up i need to get out of there out
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of their way
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going on board sit back hold on tight
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driver you are clear
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all right that's going to do it for
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from my birthday
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48 years old or is it 48 years young see
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the next video the vlog
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is over
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oh yeah these are the pins i traded for
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today i got figments
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little wings there and i also got this
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dinosaur pen which i think is from
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dinosaur the ride
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at animal kingdom and when i walk
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through
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the grand floridian they were giving out
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these dvc pins that i guess just came
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out
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they asked if i was part of dvc i showed
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my dvc stuff and they said here's a free
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pin that just came out
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so i got these three pins today traded
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for these two and was given this one