Big Changes Coming To Disney As Bob Iger Returns - Chapek Is Fired So I Went To A BUSY Magic Kingdom
Magic Kingdom Nov 2022
Transcript
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today's adventure begins by looking at
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I-4 Westbound
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not going very smoothly
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Mickey power pole off in the distance
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seems to be
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a little happier and maybe I can even
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see a smile being emitted by the Mickey
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power pole
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because as a recording of this it is
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Monday November 21st 2022 the first
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official day with Bob Iger back at the
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helm
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of the Disney Corporation and I am
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heading to Magic Kingdom it's a good day
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Bob chapek is out
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Bobby c as I like to refer to him as and
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Iger is in granted
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supposedly only for the next two years
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coming out of retirement
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and back behind the wheel
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see what happens recently whenever
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people would ask me about the parks and
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Disney in general just the whole Disney
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vibe I would always say this is not
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their finest Hour they've had better
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times they'd always say that they're you
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know there will be a light
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it did not say at the end of the tunnel
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but just I guess the best way to say it
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is recently has not been
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their finest moments but I feel like
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with this change bringing Iger back
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things could get a whole lot better
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TTC Magic Kingdom parking lot this place
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has not been as magical as it could be
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and I am really hoping crossing my
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fingers cross your fingers big the foot
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the things are starting to tide
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could be turning back to how it should
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be welcome everyone Adam the woo here I
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am parked in Peter Pan 217 Peter Pan
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217. I have offices I'm not too far from
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the front of TTC just to walk it
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I'm inviting you
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to join me today
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oh it's a beautiful day
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shall you
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this tram just dropped some guests off
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and are taking a few most people are
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heading in including myself
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not out of the park there is a change
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a Bruin
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doesn't necessarily mean that it's going
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to happen overnight nor do I think it's
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going to be anything super dramatic
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but the wheels are in motion
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a shifting of sorts he consensus on
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Bobby seized and you're a CEO
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probably not the best he's not going to
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be looked upon down the road as you know
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the best one
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steering the company in the correct
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direction in fact I think it may be the
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shortest time frame of anyone in that
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position do I think there's going to be
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a dramatic difference because Iger is in
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there I'm not sure I really do not know
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completely he's only going to be in two
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years
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according to what I was reading and then
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after that so it was basically a new
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Direction a new shifting of sorts not
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necessarily that he is going to revamp
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and re-change everything
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we're heading in the right direction
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which is pretty good now we're never met
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the guy chapek probably a really nice
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guy
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but as far as job description goes
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really was not meant to be where he is
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where I think Eiger has a better sense
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of that I did meet Iger once we got a
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star tours at Disneyland a few years ago
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boy it is really windy today take a look
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at the flags up there it'd be really
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nice if Jeannie plus went away or at
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least
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put into a better usage it was you know
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a little more streamlined use of Genie
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plus it'll also be really nice of the
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park reservations went away those would
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be the two that would be kind of nice
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from this Changing of the Guard and the
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constant money grabs that have really
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kind of popped up in the last year or so
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it'd be kind of nice to not have those
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and
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just take those down a notch
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and it'd be nice to not be on my phone
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all the time
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not to have to make plans on the phone
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jump on Genie plus and then go back
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change things if you're gonna have a
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money grab
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at least can I do one what does it
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involve my phone
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one or the other not both
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just get rid of one of them right heavy
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metal Mickey directly ahead Joffrey's
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underneath there I've never aligned at
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Joffrey's before you actually go in the
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park so I'm gonna get myself a coffee
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right over there it's a little hack I
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got once you get in the park on Main
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Street Starbucks out of control over
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here in control accomplished got myself
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a coffee and now heading on to the ferry
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boat across general or the yeah the
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ferry boat General Joe Potter
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anywhere else
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I also do understand the concept that
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this company and this place exists to
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make money also exists to make people
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happy and I feel like Walt kind of
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embraced that I even say until recently
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well that was pretty much ever since
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2000 Parts reopened in 2020 everything
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has kind of gone off the rails in a lot
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of ways you know Waltz started the
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company with you know to put dreams out
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there and make people feel good and
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people to have memories and share with
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their family and whatnot but also to
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make money it is a business even the
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Frank Wells and Michael Eisner guys I'm
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a big on Michael Eisner I really like
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that era of Disney in fact I'd probably
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say he is my favorite other than Walt
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but with him and Frank Wells as the
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combo really packed quite a punch as far
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as the feels in this place and the vibe
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in this place and yes people will pay
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and like I said it is a business and
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people will pay a size self-included
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they will spend hard-earned money to
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enjoy themselves but I feel like lately
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it's just gotten so confusing with the
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add-ons and all the nickel and diming
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and all that man speaking of nickels and
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dimes there's a lot of nickels and dimes
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down there
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that's pretty much what I hope changes I
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kind of hope it can kind of go back to
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that vibe
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so to reiterate streamline not
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necessarily get rid of it streamline the
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way Genie plus Works make it a little
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more feasible not be on the phones as
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much and possibly get rid of the
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reservation system
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that would be the two things I would
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kind of see a immediate impact also take
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everything I'm saying with a grain of
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salt because the parks are busy look at
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this jungle cruise is a hundred minutes
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on a Monday 75 minutes for pirates so
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people are coming here even with
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everything that I just stated even
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without the things starting to change
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yet yeah it's busy it was pretty good
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with the Breeze going through here see
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that wind this thing the trees up here
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past the Golden Oak Outpost
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to be a McDonald's fry stand back in the
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day just take a look at the sheer amount
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of people that are walking through
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Frontier land like that it's like not
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even a whole heck of a lot of Elbow Room
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in frontierland it is busy today oh yeah
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that's the other word I was looking for
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lightning
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which is basically Disney plus lightning
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line that's kind of the new Fast Pass
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I kind of was like walking bristly over
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to get on the Liberty Bell but they put
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the Rope up just as I walked up so I
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missed it by like 30 seconds onboarding
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mapper Jake the other Voyage around the
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rivers of America okay I'm really kind
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of amazed on how busy it is in here for
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a weekday I mean granted it's kind of
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not necessarily an extended weekend but
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sometimes a Monday is like a secondary
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Sunday because some people will extend
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their own weekend out but he has a lot
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of people here I don't even know exactly
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how many attractions if any I'm gonna
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get on today but I would definitely try
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to be the People Mover and Big Thunder
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Mountain Railroad if I can oh goodness
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check out Peter Pan's flight clock in it
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at 105 minutes 45 for a small world and
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15 for
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feel hard magic and while I'm looking at
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it the Mine Train is 130 minutes I
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stopped inside the Haunted Mansion gift
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shop Memento Mori I believe it's called
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and they have some items up here we got
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the hitchhiking ghost up here we got
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Madame the Yoda over here we got the
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singing busts we got the bride or take a
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look at this I fancy myself as a very
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very very amateur chess player I like to
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play chess I know how to play I know the
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moves I'm not very good at all but this
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this is pretty neat a light up chess set
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right here Haunted Mansion style check
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that out oh got some bubbles going by
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there adding to the ambian might be kind
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of tough to see oh does that airplane
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just went by too if some bubble just
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went by Cinderella Castle there and on
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this bridge looking over past the little
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waterfall over there is Tomorrowland
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which I'm gonna head up and around
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cosmic rays and go that way to go around
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this building and get on the People
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Mover it's not my I think it's like a 15
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minute wait so I'll do the people River
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because everything is pretty long line
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today
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check out the people remember I was kind
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of like waiting here for one to go by
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I guess it's running I think one went by
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oh there it goes there goes one right
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now people move are going back
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I love the people it's like one of those
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things that almost every time I'm here I
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have to do the people mover
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the thing I was thinking of too you
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figure you had Walt and Roy Walt was the
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Visionary Roy handled a lot of the
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business sense and then like I said I
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loved Eisner and Frank Wells and Eisner
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was kind of the Visionary the dreamer
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where Frank Wells kept him grounded on
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the business aspect and told him no
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Michael you're making some wrong
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decisions there really isn't anything
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like that now though Josh tomorrow will
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he end up being Tigers new right hand
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man well that kind of be a good combo I
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don't know wow the line for Space
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Mountain
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stretches all the way back over here
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gosh even people mover has a really long
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line maybe I'll pass on that maybe today
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will just be a walking around kind of
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day maybe not an attraction though even
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Tomorrowland Speedway has quite the line
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today for one reason or another at this
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moment this little Corridor here that
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goes by the wishing well the Cinderella
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Wishing Well only a couple people in
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this little area oh hey Mickey and
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Minnie are over there at the castle
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there do a little show in front of the
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castle over there with all the cavalcade
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and cast a character maybe that's why
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there's no word over here on this side
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over near the wishing well walking back
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through Fantasyland now got Rapunzel
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Tower up there I remember Rapunzel's
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tower used to be where the Skyliner was
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oh goodness that's Skyliner I'm thinking
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I'm thinking the the I'm thinking the
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the new Transportation device the
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skyline of the sky buckets the station
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used to be right over here where the
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Rapunzel restrooms are and it just hit
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me all of a sudden I realized why it's
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so busy it is Thanksgiving week
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Thanksgiving is Thursday and this is the
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Thanksgiving we see people have this
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week a lot of people have taken this
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week off of work and what not to come
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down here with their families every line
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is really lengthy it's very busy here
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all the mountains well both the
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mountains on this side of the park over
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in frontierland Big Thunder and splash
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are more than 80 minute wait time for
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each of those Yeah so basically no rides
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or attractions will be happening today I
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think actually going to head out it's
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pretty there's quite a few people here
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this is just more of a walking around
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the park type of guy on the way out was
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able to catch the parade the answer the
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call I don't know exactly what it's
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called but it's the magic is calling is
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what it is basically what it is when you
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get the the dancers going down Main
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Street USA and around the front hub and
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then Mickey and Minnie and Pluto and the
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whole Caster care characters also they
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seemed a little more excited today than
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usual probably they're pretty much
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always excited but today they're they're
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very very excited
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and also getting the crossing of two
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different monorails one going to and
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from the Transportation Ticket Center
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and I am going to walk along this
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pathway
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and follow that monorail well more or
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less probably pass a few by the time it
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takes me to walk around from here over
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to Grand Floridian over to poly and then
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back over into TTC right now I'm just
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kind of sitting here I rested my legs
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enjoy it enjoying the day it will be it
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really interesting to see how all this
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plays out
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with chapek
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no longer the head
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the head of the company
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and it's also interesting because you
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know there's a lot of speculation on if
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you know everyone has their opinions on
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Iger whether he was the one that kind of
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got shape back into the situation he is
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in and if jpac was kind of the scapegoat
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in a lot of ways you just never really
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know how that works out for me I think
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the most exciting thing I don't really
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know the ins and outs of all that
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obviously I'm just a spectator from
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you know onlookers perspective
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also a shareholder's perspective which
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worked out pretty well in my favor since
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yesterday
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but I'm just glad there's going to be
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like a Changing of the Guard for me I
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think that is the first turn we'll see
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what happens after you know after the
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next 24 months and then beyond one
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thing's for sure though in the last 24
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hours things have really gotten shaken
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up in the company and you can kind of
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feel the vibe in the park whether it be
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the guests ap's annual pass holders
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Disney Community cast members as well
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there is a vibe in there not anything
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that really like would jump out
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you know right in your cutting your face
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but there's definitely a vibe in there a
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little bit of a of a weight off of those
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shoulders I think it was a collective
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gasp of like ah that happened that's how
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I felt last night and I think I speak
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for quite a few others I don't want to
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put words in everyone's mouth but I feel
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like I speak for quite a few people when
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it comes to that cinnamon
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is there a Monroe coming up
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I don't really like showing an empty
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monorail beam oh I just did I showed an
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empty monorail Bay
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fail I and I would guess probably a lot
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of others would be paying very close
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attention over the next series of days
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weeks months as I stated 24 months and
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the next d23 whenever they haven't
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announced when that will be is prob oh
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that hawked the little hawkish look at
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the bottom rail pilot is stoked
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the soap opera I am here for it
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look at that you know that Meme of
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Michael Jackson eating the popcorn from
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Thriller
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I think that's the whole Disney
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Community right now
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just a nice stroll
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passing Grand Floridian here got the
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peach monorail going by
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from here gonna walk over to poly and
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then back to my car TTC it's a nice day
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it has gotten where the weather's really
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nice now I think now that the sun is
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kind of behind the clouds and it's
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overcast again
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it's kind of it's not cool it's not as
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cool and crisp and rainy like it was
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yesterday but it feels really nice and I
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think I will take the tram back over to
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my car
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going over to Peter Pan
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throw your head and watch a step
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on the exit
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15 miles an hour
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yeah
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troubles on your way just find a parking
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gas cover or a computer and just like
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that back to my row
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pam217.
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I always look at this like hump of
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soil up here and I wonder if that was
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gonna be where a Skyliner was originally
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gonna or maybe gonna go what will the
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future hold no one really knows I don't
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know no one knows everything's
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speculation and hearsay thoughts
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opinions you know what they say opinions
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are like
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I have one everyone has one look at
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those storm clouds I think I'm leaving
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probably at just the right time
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and as busy as it was in the park there
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still is some empty parking out here
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so maybe the reservation system
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what do I do maybe the reservation
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system
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does limit the amount of people in there
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and not just count heads
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I had to switch the reservation system
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was not a thing anymore
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look at those clouds back over downtown
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celebration now we've got the road
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closed signage there they have the cones
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set up there and they have the tree I
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showed a little bit this last night but
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I kind of put the little end tag on my
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video my thoughts of when everything
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kind of went down today just talking a
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little bit more about what I mentioned
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last night the road is closed off they
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got the tree over there and I believe
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the snoke will be taking place here
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maybe this weekend don't quote me on
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that but very very soon it's not
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happening tonight but the snope which is
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basically snow made of snow will be
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falling down on Market Street right here
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soon enough and there is an ice skating
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rink which is really not made of real
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ice it's made of like a hard plastic
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rubbery thing but it kind of imitates
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that you can get some skates over here
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and you could skate along
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there as well
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so yeah that's pretty much it Iger is
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back for two years
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and chapek
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has been released from his duties
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unbeknownst to him it's kind of
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interesting
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because I was reading some stuff this is
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all just at this very moment so by the
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time this is uploaded
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you know in the morning I always film
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day of and then edit at night upload the
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next morning
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a lot some other new developments might
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happen but from what I'm hearing they
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had got a hold of you know this is just
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kind of what I'm reading online
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that that Bob Iger was alerted you know
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five or six days a week before
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and chapac was not even told that he was
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going to be fired until right before the
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announcement to the world was released
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now on a personal level I never met
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Bobby C Bob chapek
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but I kind of feel for the guy obviously
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he was cast into a position he worked
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his way up to that he's not you know him
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being released he's got definitely
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probably got a pretty good severance
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package so financially he's probably
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doing just fine but eventually hopefully
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he's not
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on the internet right now hopefully he's
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staying offline and not seeing what is
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out there because the you know
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it could be pretty interesting what
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people's opinions are and toss and so
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far so on a personal level it probably
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is you know feeling this a little bit
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not knowing that he did not set out
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to do what he thought he was going to do
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he probably had some High Hopes some
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accomplishments in mind he just was not
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the right man for the job is Bob Iger
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going to be the right man for the job
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I think no one is arguing that
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know that fact
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but also
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after two years after 24 months if tiger
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decides to leave maybe he'll tell you
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out he might be in it for the long haul
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but as of right now it's just for two
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years and because they did not have a
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replacement in my opinion they did not
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have a replacement for chapek and
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because things got so bad they needed
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someone to step in there they made an
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offer to Tiger he decided to come out of
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retirement and that is where the company
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is now what it needs this like I said
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this is a turning point just a pinnacle
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of like flipping a switch which needed
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to be changed
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so what will happen is you know a year
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or so
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Mr Iger will have to fix the problems
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that have been developed
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some of them he started on his own and
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just handed off to Bobby say but he will
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have to fix the problems over a year and
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then the next year will basically be
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training someone getting someone ready
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to take over his position who will that
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person be your guess is as good as mine
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I have some ideas but time will tell
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nonetheless thanks for watching I'll see
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you in the next video the Vlog
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is in fact and the chapek era
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is in fact
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sorry big guy over