Why I Just Renewed My Disney World Annual Pass - Thoughts On Genie Plus & Reservation Block Outs
Renewed my WDW Annual Pass
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welcome everyone
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out of the woo here
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that's the recording of this it is tg
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all right i don't want to spill the
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coffee
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onto my earlobe it is a friday
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as a recording of this march
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25th 2022
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it's a good day
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starting here at the world's tiniest
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waterfall
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here at water park
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celebration florida
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water street merges down that way let's
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just take these off while we have these
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merges
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with
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water street market street and water
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street there's two ducks there looking
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over their youthful
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trying a new coffee place today by the
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name of fortuna bakery on market street
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that's what this is
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also i will be renewing my disney world
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annual pass today it expires on the 31st
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of this month which is about six days
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seven days give or take a day about a
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week from now and since i already have
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one and i'm grandfathered into the
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availability of purchasing why the
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disney corporation
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has not made it available for those who
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do not have one
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to get one
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confuses me also
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lightning lane genie plus confuses me
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also why is there a reservation system
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in place when there really is no park
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capacity anymore
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confuses me you can see i'm very a very
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confused
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individual this area reminds me a lot of
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venice
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beach as i flip the screen back down so
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i can see what i'm showing
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venice beach california
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you know that scene where johnny depp
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is looking over the venice canals
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eating a burger i think he was at
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nightmare on elm street gives me the
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nightmare vibes
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it's gonna be a casual day a fun day
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i'm inviting you
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to join me
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shall you
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oh
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that's good now i know what you're
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thinking big the foot why would i renew
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my ap
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when i'm going on a
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10 week road trip in about two weeks
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leaving mid-april gonna be gone till
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june
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well i'll tell you why and the main
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reason being when i am home you know i'm
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not not home all year but i am for short
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stints
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at a time
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i will like i do like to go to the park
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sometimes to film sometimes not to film
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sometimes to pop in
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on the last hour or two and just have a
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a day to myself just walking around the
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park also i'm not going to the parks
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today even though i'm going into the
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archway i have to go to disney springs
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to renew this a one day ticket to the
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parks right now last time i checked is
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anywhere between
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100 and 150 dollars
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so it kind of makes sense to pay a
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thousand dollars to renew i should go
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like seven times and it's paid for for
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some reason i always park on the top of
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the orange structure i don't know why
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the orange structure always draws me in
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and you can see at this time of day
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not a lot of people have parked up here
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it's a little afternoon
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like 1205 at the moment
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first one's here
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first one's here in fact the balloon
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doesn't even look like it's up in the
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air now there's a balloon over there
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that goes sky high and there's also what
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looks like a balloon which is
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planet hollywood
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right over there
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one of them goes up in the air
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the other one
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doesn't you have to go down to level two
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though to the entrance to the walkway to
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go into springs
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yeah pretty much my justification is why
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not just go ahead and pay
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a thousand dollar renewal
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than purchasing a bunch of day tickets
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and this is good for a complete year so
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this would be good until
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this march or march of
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2023
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kind of out of sight out of mind once
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you got it
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you got it and not everyone has the
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ability because they are not selling
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annual passes
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because i already have one heck it
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i'm doing it that's my job that's my
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justification now if they were on sale
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to everyone i would probably wait for it
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to expire this i'm also showing this
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because they're probably going to take
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this one away and give you another one
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when i go to guest services
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but if they were on sale i would just
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let this expire
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be gone on my lengthy
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two or three month road trip however how
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long it ends up being and then buy
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another one but because they're not on
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sale
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renewal is really the only option to
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keep it also i think you can do this
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online but i'm more of a come down here
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and get it done kind of guy in person
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now we ended up taking about 20 minute
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wait give or take there were a few
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guests in front of me but i went ahead
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and put my name down and they called me
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at the ticket center and once that 20
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minutes was up
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i was assisted by a cast member
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who ended up renewing my pass for me out
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of price twelve hundred and sixty-five
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dollars i believe was the total cost and
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i'm saying this while i look at the
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gator who is
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not too shocked by the price
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there's one thing i do need to tell you
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gator
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that price does include water parks
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which i did not have last year
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didn't add that on last year i just had
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the regular ap 365 days a year now
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granted
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are you a sleep gator
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or crocodile
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are you are you listing i don't know if
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they're alligator oh they're okay the
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gators away okay you approve you approve
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of the annual pass that i now have it
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was an additional 465 but during peak
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season 150
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you agree
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is 150 sometimes for a one day ticket so
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it just makes sense doesn't it yes
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and
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once my current
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contract ends at the end of the month on
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the end of this month i believe march
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31st
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starting on april i'm not fooling you
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because starting on april 1st i'll be
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able to go to the water parks i probably
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won't go to the water parks often but it
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was only an additional hundred dollars
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so that ended up being the 1200 and
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change and i'm glad i recorded
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the last ap
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gator here in front of rainforest
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because they have given me a new one
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that has the 50th anniversary gold
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mickey on it and it says
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pass holder right there so that's pretty
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dang awesome i am now once again
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extended my annual pass
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here at the florida at wdw the disney
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parks here on the east coast
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for another year
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until
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april
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of 2023 i'm a pass holder
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won't be going all the time gonna be
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doing some road trips as stated
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but i am now a pass holder
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extended pass holder and i wish he would
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go on sale
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for those that i know friends that i
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have that really want to get an annual
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pass
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hopefully at some point
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annual passes will go back on sale you
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think they might
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they might and if they don't at least
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i am grateful
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to have gotten an ap for another year it
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just makes sense mathematically
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crunching numbers does it not
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does it not
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all right you're you're shaking no
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no i think it does i think you just
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shook your head no
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does your head even shake yes
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i don't think it does and while i'm at
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spring stopping off in world of
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disney kind of wondering though you see
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a lot of these original mickey shirts a
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sweatshirt here this original mickey is
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there an is there an unoriginal mickey i
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mean i would have assumed that mickey
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i mean mickey mouse is pretty original
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but is there a shirt that says that was
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kind of a bad joke but
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a lot of this oh this original mickey
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merchandise started to make its way
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under the shelves and this little
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backpack right here
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has mickey on the front of it almost
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like in he's being carried in tow
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onto the back of the backpack and
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there's even some new merchandise in
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here too i like this big bad wolf
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t-shirt right here that's pretty cool
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right and danny702 who just dropped her
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glasses
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is here eddie as well and you guys are
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you guys are leaving
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central florida and moving back to vegas
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very very soon
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it's it's a little bittersweet
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what's the approximate time frame before
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you guys leave
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like a week and a half or so
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are you excited eddie to go back to
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vegas yeah
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i'm super stoked um i'm gonna be really
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happy to get away from you
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no more humidity yeah that'll be nice
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i'm gonna miss you guys
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you guys are inviting me to vegas
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open invitation i might have to come to
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vegas i've been wanting to go to vegas
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for a while and this just kind of seals
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the deal so you know there's other
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things to do except doing the casinos
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i'm not much of a gambler and drink you
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know i don't drink
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you have to show me what you have to
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show me the ropes in vegas
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and your channel used to focus on vegas
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stuff before you moved here so you got
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it
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702 and eddie 702.
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oh yeah so here's the purple wall over
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at magic kingdom there's now a lounge
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fly of the purple wall and i think this
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is a cookie jar but look at the size
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this is my hand compared to the size of
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the spaceship earth cookie jar yeah
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every time i see this i want to buy it
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but i don't really know if i have a need
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for an oversized spaceship or a cookie
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jar but
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maybe some of the 50th merchandise is
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pretty cool too it's a little too warm
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in florida to wear something of this
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magnitude you know
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weather-wise it's kind of hot here but
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it's pretty cool with the 50th world's
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most magical celebration got the castle
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on the back
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as well and i most likely in my future
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i will probably own this at some point
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so so that's a little bit of weight to
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lose but i want to try to get event at
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some point before the 50th celebration
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is over get this t-shirt this dapper
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mickey a little silhouette down here on
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the floor
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this is like a little kind of being
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projected onto the floor here
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these are pretty neat too i like the
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color that i wear a lot of shirts this
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color the blue the aqua blue you got the
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aqua blue and the dark blue there and
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these almost look like happy meals
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and they are kind of well not the same
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company obviously it's not mickey d's
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but yeah this has a little taffy in it
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and you got pigment right there one of
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my favorite characters here i think
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figma doesn't always get enough love but
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i love your figment now seeing the
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joffrey's 50th anniversary blend reminds
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me i got some the other day i got some
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k-cups the other day
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from joffrey's i need to get some as
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well i don't see any k-cups in this oh
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right here here's the k-cups i'm going
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to purchase some of these this is a good
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reminder because i was talking earlier
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about how i needed some of the 50th
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anniversary k-cups again to restock for
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my
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my celebration home my little keurig
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so i'm going to go ahead and
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purchase 12 little k-cup pods
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yeah we'll pipe a little at-home piping
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hot caffeinated beverage
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back on top of the parking structure
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orange structure roof now
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looking across through these cross beams
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quite a gusty wind looking at spaceship
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earth over there i don't know if i'm
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going to be going to too many more park
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days
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before i depart on my road trip in about
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two weeks give or take a day
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approximately two weeks
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a lengthy road trip around the us
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but i might i originally had planned on
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going to may the 4th either
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here at wdw galaxy's edge about 2 east
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or possibly even may the 4th for star
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wars day
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battle west so either batu west or bath
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two east www or disneyland
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i'm most likely that's not gonna happen
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i'll probably be on the road during that
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time period that was my original plan so
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i might try to wedge in
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a galaxy's edge visit before i departed
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my road trip
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other than that i can't think of any
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other days i'll be going at the theme
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parks before i depart
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ah spaceship earth
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way over there i have at least one tampa
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bay ray spring training game lined up in
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the very near future
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as well as
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a raise
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regular season game at tropicana field
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in the very near future
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as well before departing and then after
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both of those are accomplished
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i'm gonna hit the road
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i'm pretty dang excited about hitting
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the road
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i'm ready i was out for a while
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beginning of the year now i'm back to
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kind of rejuvenate recoup my senses
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and then hit the road again
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by the way back in 91 maybe 92 don't
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quote me on the year i attended the
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grand opening of planet hollywood right
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down there
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that was way before this parking
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structure
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was even built and way before i was
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doing videos imagine if i had a camera
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that night
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but i didn't i just enjoyed it seeing it
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with my own eyes it was quite the
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festivities
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and it was a completely different vibe
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different color they had a big dragon
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out there
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that was kind of spinning around at the
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gift shop a bunch of hand prints on the
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side of the wall
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yeah
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a lot changed since those days one thing
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that should be noted about the ap though
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even though it is for 365 days no
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blackouts whatsoever
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that's really not a hundred percent
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accurate because they still have the
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reservation system in
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and sometimes it's really tough to even
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get a reservation
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so the odds of getting 365 days
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are pretty tough right now until they
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drop the reservation system
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especially on the weekends and spring
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break
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it's kind of tough
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so to be nice one day this applies to
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disneyland too
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when the reservation system is gone then
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a true annual pass is back to being a
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full 365 annual pass what you're paying
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for
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just my two cents pretty much what has
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been happening since my last road trip
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through the course of me being home now
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here in central florida is what's going
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to happen when i am not on the road
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now late last year i believe october of
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last year i made the statement that i
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would not be covering any disney
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theme parks at all and after i gave it a
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little thought i mentioned this about a
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week ago i did a video talking about
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finding a proper balance and after i did
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that two-month road trip at the
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beginning
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of this year january and february i
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realized that that really didn't make a
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whole
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lot of sense considering i am an annual
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pass holder even before
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i rejuvenated it for another year
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but also just being that close living in
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celebration
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but i am adhering to my own
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thought process of
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really trying to keep it in a as
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an equal balance based on
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other adventures that i go on
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and i feel like i've i've kind of
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embraced that
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right now i believe i'm at five theme
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parks so far in 2022
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might have one more
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before the end
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of either this month or before i hit the
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road in mid april and then after that
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not any for quite some time
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maybe go to disneyland i still have an
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annual pass out there that's good for a
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few more months
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if i end up out there that's a possible
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but i'm trying to keep it'd be kind of
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nice
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to keep it around a dozen
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give or take
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disney theme park
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videos throughout the entire year if i
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could keep it to 12
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i feel like that's an average it's a
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healthy amount that's one per month
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documented not counting dvc and stuff i
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feel like that's a pretty healthy thing
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also peppering in road trips back roads
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filming locations things like that
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yeah really
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it really weighed on me heavily back in
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october of last year the inundation
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of those documenting the theme parks
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myself included and i just really needed
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to step away from that and to kind of
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recoup and regain
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and rebuild up the magic inside and i
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feel it kind of has even though i did go
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quite a few times in the last couple
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weeks like i said a total of five times
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since
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since new year's and a few of those were
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that we're just in the last couple of
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weeks
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i feel like that's kind of run its
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course as well i would like to go in
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galaxy's edge as stated one more time
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before
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hitting the road but after that
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i think i i think i've got my fill for a
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little bit and
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to reiterate the reason i ended up
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getting my annual pass
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re-upping and renewing my annual passes
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because they're not on sale
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at all you cannot buy one so if i was to
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let it expire
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i think you have four weeks after the
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expiration date which was on the 31st i
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would not be able to purchase another
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one and knowing me when i am back here
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visiting family for christmas
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and that time period or even maybe even
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the halloween times i am going to i
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would regret not having an annual pass
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so i got that
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when it comes to
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i almost said disney floss not disney
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plus when it comes to genie plus and
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lightning lane
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tried it out a couple times at epcot in
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studios
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me personally
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i don't really see the value in it it's
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kind of confusing
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half the time you can't even get on the
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attractions you want to get on
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i kind of feel like the price point
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granted i am just a single person and
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not buying for a whole family but i feel
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like the price point is almost so
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minimal that everyone does it
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that it bogs the lines down
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i can't be the only one feeling that way
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and maybe it it may be a miss for me to
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even say that because
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i do not have you know i'm not a family
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of eight
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of eight family members so for me
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to say you know fifteen dollars is
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a pretty decent deal but when you're
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adding in eight and nine people it seems
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that could be
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a totally different ball game however
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but if you can't get on the rides you
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can't get on the attractions
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what's really the point in paying
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it's very confusing as well as the
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reservation system does not seem to be a
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capacity at the parks yet
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very difficult like this weekend for
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example and last weekend it's almost
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impossible to get a reservation you have
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to keep trying it to keep hitting
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refresh
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even for ticket holders you should just
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be for annual pass holders the first
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ones that kind of like hit a tier where
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they were not available but now even
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ticket holders are having a hard time
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even if you were to buy a ticket you
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can't buy a ticket on certain days
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because it has reached
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they're not even saying a capacity
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nonetheless i am now an annual pass
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holder
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for another year i am happy about it
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i've said so much yet i've said so
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little this was basically just an
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announcement video to let you
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know that i am now
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for 12 more months well 13 more 12 more
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months
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a wdw pass holder will i renew
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whatever the wacky name they have is for
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the annual pass out in
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california probably not because i don't
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live there anymore probably just buying
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day tickets makes a lot more sense but
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i'll cross that bridge when it gets here
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thanks for listening
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i'll see you the next video i got my
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k-cups in here
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i really appreciate you watching i
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really do oh yeah and to end on a very
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positive note
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i really like the new
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annual passover cards right there this
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is for posterity
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documenting
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mickey
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i have the gold mickey it'd be great if
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they would have the gold what if they
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had a gold figment one they had a gold
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figment one
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that would be pretty cool if it was
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figment
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oh i just got a nat in my eye