My Emotional Return To Disneyland - First Time Back Inside SoCal Disney Theme Park in Over 500 Days
My First Time Back To Disneyland after 515 Days
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welcome everyone adam the move here
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with natalie
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first time back not only for myself but
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for you in
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a long time well over a year for me 515
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days
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almost 900 days for you it's been
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a long time it was early february
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i was here with my friend cody we left
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we did a road trip went across country
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it went to mardi gras and then right
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after that
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arrived in florida for the opening
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mickey mini runaway early
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2020 the world kind of changed
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everything closed and since then i've
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been busy doing other stuff
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and now i'm back 515 days
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fun fact you and i met here at the train
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station
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oh my gosh a little over five years ago
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it's almost been about well about the
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five year anniversary not to the day but
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give or take so we we should we have a
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lot of memory we should
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we have a lot of memories here as well
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combined and together so we thought heck
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it'd be a good idea if we
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arrived together disneyland
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is happening
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i'm not going to show the whole day
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obviously certain things i want to see
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with my own eyes
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but i am going to show certain
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attractions
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certain reactions things like that and
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food
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and a lot of food i i really yeah it's
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really kind of hitting me now they're
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about to go
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in i know it's so weird this is what
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they did
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wow okay inviting you to join me and now
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the first day back at disneyland
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for me 515 dice it's early february
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2020.
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it was like 900 and something i probably
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had for you it was a lot
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yeah former annual pass holders so we
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were in here a lot
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i was in here a whole heck of a lot
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so it's been unusual not not being in
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here so i'm getting in there
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join me shall you historic occasion
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pulling through we are now in
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we're inside
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at 1007. and look who's on this side of
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the train station greeting us mickey
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minnie
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pluto and chip and dale right up there
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is where natalie and i met like five
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years ago up on that little
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balcony up there and the reveal of the
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castle off in the distance
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oh yeah going through the dinosaur bows
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okay they just hold us to be wearing
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hats or glasses
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or maybe gears you best remove them
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i forgot it's completely opposite on
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this side
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wow
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oh
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hey right over there look now like you
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said
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oh there we go let's get the goat we'll
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get the goat let's look at the goat
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good to see you again
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without a doubt the one i wanted
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the one i wanted to come back to that
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was you have to it for me it's
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big thunder mountain railroad is always
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a good welcome back
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getting a little behind the scenes here
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is they filled it up with water
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and the tinder seat there which right
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now you can't sit in the tender seat but
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i have before many years ago
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during normal times they actually like
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to sit in the tender yeah the tender i
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did that a few years ago
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wow and what you get on the ferry boat
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for some reason the ferry boat's down at
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the moment
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oh yeah
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looks as if they're still fighting over
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all this time those dinos are still up
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there fighting
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making a quick stop here overlooking the
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esplanade and the entrances at the train
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we are doing the grand circle tour gonna
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head over to new orleans for the
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full tour but i'm remembering back to
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when i was sitting down there on that
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planet for
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countless times going to downtown disney
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and i would look up this way
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and think gosh are the park ever going
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to open is a train ever going to happen
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and now i'm looking back down at that
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area that i never
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i really didn't know when it would
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happen and thinking gosh it happened
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the park's open and now that's just a
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part of the past
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oh yes a delicious mint julep now the
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mint julep bar outside in
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new orleans square had a mobile order
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and it was about a half hour away
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but if you go inside the restaurant here
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you can just do a walk-up and there was
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no one getting any food so i got the
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a quick little mint julep and you ended
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up getting a sweet tea or unsweet tea
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i just like that there's like the castle
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and the matterhorn on the cup and
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everything it sure is
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you see uh you see your outfit and you
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can see me
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sipping on you tried it you did not you
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i try to sip and i let you have a sip
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and you did not like it so
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continue with your unsweetened tea
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and i will have another cheers cheers it
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up
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cheers and high fives all around lots of
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high fives and cheers tonight
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and to go along with this we're going to
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get a couple of chimichangas they also
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have
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corn on the cob down there as the big
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thunder train
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goes by and galaxy's edge right over
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there
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oh there's a couple of well a couple
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there are three ducks
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hello how's it going three ducks over in
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the water that are swimming around
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there's a couple other ducks that are
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not swimming
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oh you know what the ducks are coming
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over this way because they smell
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you want
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you have to get past the crunchy part
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first and then get down in the middle
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where it's softer
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they have all the beans and stuff is
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that a mustache
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yes my secret identity oh i won't tell
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them
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give them the mustache oh interesting vm
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is for mustache
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yes look no i'm there
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everyone
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where's mary well you know nanny's work
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is never done
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you know the wind has taken her off to
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take care of some wonderful children
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today okay
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how are you doing it's good this is my
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first day back at disneyland in 515 days
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welcome back thank you
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it's been a long time it's been a long
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time harold
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but i'm half all the yeti
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man i forgot how rough this was oh yeah
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now i have looked at the wheel on the
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back side of of the boat around the
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rivers in florida
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a multitude multiple dozens of times
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over the last year so there's big
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thunder over there also the the sailing
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ship columbia
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is going around the rivers as well
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that's where they're pulling that
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passenger boarding
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little staircase over there but it is
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good to be back getting a little view
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over there
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mansion which i'll be going on a little
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bit later and
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nolan's square oh splash mountain i saw
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a log just dropping in
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oh dang that beaver still gnawing away
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at the wood down there
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up getting a view of the train going off
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over there on the perimeter and galaxy's
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edge behind it over here you can see
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some remnants of
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mine train through nature's wonderland
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that still exists but pretty good we get
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the
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the train going by gaston's up on the
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tavern
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ready good books lately gaston well i
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did see a good picture book the other
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day
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i was kind of hoping to see lefou around
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today well i sent him out into the town
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earlier and he hasn't come back he's
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probably busy
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telling everyone how i am all right i'll
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keep an eye out for him
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i will there's also right there hey elsa
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you like elsa a lot right
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35 minute wait for the haunted mansion
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quite a different facade
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to what is over at magic kingdom walt
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disney world they also just did snow
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white's enchanted wish they changed it
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from
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snow white scary adventures i didn't
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film on it i just kind of wanted to kind
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of experience it without the camera in
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hand
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and i might do this with mansion too
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i'll probably walk up to the forefront
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but once i get on the ride i might not
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i'm trying to not to film every single
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attraction i go on today and just kind
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of
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kind of do half and half and here
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tiana's on there what
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is on there tiana where oh she sure is
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oh my gosh
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tiana's on there on the front dang she
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wasn't on our uh riverboat adventure
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around the mark twain
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you were just saying it'd be neat when
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tiana comes back on the on the riverboat
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the mark twain
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and she's up there there she is what is
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this over here next to the tree
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in front of andy
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here in adventureland how are you my
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friend am i spoiling the fact
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wait are you spencer from best life or
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are you patrick
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patrick i jumped into the soul of
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spencer to
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communicate with you adam because i've
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missed you so you're back adam i'm back
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so am i talking to spencer am i talking
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to patrick this is patrick patrick what
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do you feel how do you feel about me
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being back in here after 515 years
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beside myself my friend i'm right beside
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a pot of gold and
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i am just so happy to see you right
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beside yourself because yourself is in
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that tree
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oh but i'm channeling through this human
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being that is so gracious to me
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i'm such a fighting lad thank you why is
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spencer covering his mouth like that
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has the has the has has that has that
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whole bit run its course yet
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katie i feel like it should have i'm
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done with it
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it seems like everything is back to how
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it used to be
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can you imagine that there was a time
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when
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there was no one on the rivers can you
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imagine
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i feel like i'm in the twilight zone you
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are i feel like i'm in the twilight zone
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even though
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i'm actually i'm technically in star
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wars sorry i'm technically in star wars
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land
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does anyone ever call it black spy or
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outpost they
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rarely you see it on t-shirts and stuff
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but yeah i don't i talk about those
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structures being
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spires but i never they're very
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inspiring oh
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like what you did there how's it going
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chewie i made it back
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i'm back excellent they do not have a
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piping hot caffeinated beverage here in
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docking bay 7. no they do not
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so i have to go with what was the mascot
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for cocoa puffs
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right there we got coca-cola and sprite
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that neat
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no no no not on jungle cruise
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even though this is the back side of
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water
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i'm in line for the battery side of
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wait i don't think you're supposed to be
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holding that flag
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oh that's true oh yeah you can see tiana
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right there on the on the front of the
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mark twain going by
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we have arrived at cafe orleans
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spencer has a non-alcoholic beverage
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this is
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what is this pomegranate lemonade
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pomegranate i did the same thing
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pomegranate lemonade yeah look at that
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three cheese
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that's the steve urkel special right
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in like less than five minutes yeah five
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well maybe less than ten minutes
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very quiet
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this is kind of the go-to that everybody
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gets here is the monte cristo
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yeah oh wow
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no what is that right there this is the
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bone no no no the fruit the vegetable
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oh carrots and brussels sprouts brussels
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sprouts they have a little tomato over
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here where they call that a
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garnish a little garlic you have a
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garnish too i do look at that
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it's in a little wait that's not a
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tomato i can't have my way just
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garnishing
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no i think it's i think it's a fruit
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i'm pretty sure he might be the only
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person that gets that reference
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i can't have my wages oh yeah yeah it's
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not a tomato i thought so
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okay i can't have my way just garnish it
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what does that mean
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that is like that's a lot it's a
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plethora of cheese
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right there it looks so good i like how
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you're just going in like
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full on like an ant full-on animal oh
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yeah over there
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oh yeah you're just going in you're just
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chowing down very civilized over here
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you're cutting it with a fork and spoon
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sorry if you missed it though it doesn't
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sound like you did
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and
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recently updated jungle cruise lots of
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new stuff the sacred indian elephant
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bathing
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no one does the paperwork right right
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okay that's how we like
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somebody thought we were giving some
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submarine voyages by the look for this
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that is at least twenty thousand and
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examinations
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i'm sure it's not gonna get much worse
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than that
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okay
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oh i'm sorry i have no idea where that
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light works
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here's the new trader stamps gift shop
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up getting together oh
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thank you so much thank you so so much
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i'm in line for roger rabbit cartoon
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spin
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i'm in the queue and they're showing how
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the dip is made
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if you're a tune you want to stay away
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from the dip
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all right going in we ever figured out
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what the cat's name was
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all right we're on row number two we got
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lenny
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we got two rows of winning
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all right that's it please exit to the
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left
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from one dark ride to another now on to
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mr toad's wild ride
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i don't want to we're going over going
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straight through off the train still
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here
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think we might have made it though did
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we make it oh there he is west coast
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pigment about to get on a pirate ship
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and go fly through the air on peter
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pan's flight
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and away
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oh yeah so very great angle here of the
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castle
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man this is like you know it's like i'm
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so used to the cinderella castle in
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florida which is a lot bigger about
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twice the size of this there's something
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very quaint and majestic
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about sleeping beauty castle nice little
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view there of the train going by
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we got the cars down there and over on
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harbor we have a siren
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so a random siren going by you can
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barely hear autopia
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under the shroud of nightfall you're
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driving
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you're behind the wheel go go
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oh that's right this is not mr toad this
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is natalie's wild ride
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stay on luckily there's this beam in the
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middle i'm not gas or not doesn't
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smell as if they have the same amount of
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fuel
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as the others they're not as strong as
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like as poached fume-wise
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yeah it's like the smell stronger in the
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queue than it is once you're out here
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yeah oh geez real smooth and quieter a
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lot quieter
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and i think the thing that's cool about
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this over here in anaheim
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is you go off roads they're gonna do a
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little off-roading
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i mean we're gonna stay in between we're
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going to stay on the beam but okay
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oh a little off-roading there the ice is
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snowy
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we can't see anything i can't do this
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stay on the beam it is very dark
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oh zipping through tomorrowland
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straight ahead see if we can catch up
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with them
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give it some gas captain
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oh i just dropped my umbrella oh no an
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eventful autopia
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yeah your necklace broke it's just brown
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if all of them when it's scattered all
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around
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i've lost my umbrella it fell over the
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side
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and she broke her necklace it's
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shattered everywhere
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now that is quite a sight with the
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matterhorn you can also see the
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little moon beside it
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what do they call it when it's like a
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half moon like that a crescent moon
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yeah crescent moon over there the other
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that is beautiful such a cool vibe going
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through here through tomorrowland going
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back to main street getting ready for
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some fireworks
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and what better way to end first day
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back
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at disneyland with then with some
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fireworks mickey's mixed magic
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not a bad view you see the matterhorn
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and the castle
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and not only that but also down main
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street usa
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with the projections upon storefronts
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and during different scenes a little
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little mist
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a little snow etc and that's going to do
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it for today
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after over 500 days return back to
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disneyland
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i s walt's original magic kingdom
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i'll see the next video the vlog is over