How I Spent July 4th Outside Disneyland on Harbor Blvd - Holiday Treats & Hot Dogs / Free Fireworks
4th of July 2021
Transcript
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welcome everyone out of the woo here
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crossing the street with dylan theme
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park obsession today is the 4th of july
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2021. neither you nor i
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have a reservation to get into
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disneyland so i had an idea
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and you said that sounds good we're
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gonna walk down harbor
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and see if we can maybe if the wind does
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if the wind does not
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get too strong watch the fireworks at
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disneyland fireworks
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a little after nine o'clock tonight from
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not inside the park
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yeah and before that go over to joe's
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italian ice
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get myself a nice delicious treat it's a
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nice tasty treat
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i have not been back here since i
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returned from florida let's probably get
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out the road
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that might be good right over there
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joe's
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italian ice and there really is no real
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rhyme or reason to what i'm doing today
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other than celebrating
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independence day july 4th 2021
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and there are some special treats inside
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downtown disney
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maybe just kind of peruse around it's
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about 5 15 now so we got
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about four hours till the fireworks i
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think the fireworks are going to happen
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with this little breeze
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it it's a possibility it doesn't look
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too windy if it was just a little gusty
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you'd see this
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palm tree leaves blowing a little more
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now they're starting to go a little a
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little more intense
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and listen to that you hear that in the
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distance
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that is not the enjoyment of guests
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chowing down on a joe's italian ice
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you can kind of hear that from here yeah
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oh listen listen that was a good one
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fireworks
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oh i'm excited yeah it's happening
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inviting you to join me dylan theme park
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obsession and who knows who else
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even though everyone else we know is
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probably inside the park
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i am inviting you to join me starting
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off at
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joe's italian ice run harbor
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it's a harbor boulevard vlog
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shall you all in patriotic fashion for
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the day
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i got the flag waving in the breeze they
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got the they were cones
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welcome to joe's now this is a place i
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frequent pretty often
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since i've been in florida for the past
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few months i have not been here since
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the beginning
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of the year probably in late january was
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the last time
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i was here the line's not too terribly
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long at the moment so temperature is
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only 81 degrees and not as humid as what
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i've been used to in florida
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but even at that this is melting very
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very quickly
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we did end up procuring a seat over here
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all the way in the corner in the shade
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so that's pretty nice because
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some of the other seats like that seats
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in the sun and over there
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is in the sun oh and there's a copter
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going over
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top there helicopter
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i'm like resisting trying to do an
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arnold impression right now
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that's right come on come on i'm down
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here maybe i shouldn't have gotten a
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large
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no we got to get lunch this is yours we
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did get the large
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yeah but this is your first gelati back
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you have to do the large back
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that is amazing look it's all scrolled
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around there with all the
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colors it's cool how it's like layered
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like that
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somebody needs to you can set up some
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right behind us over our heads maybe i
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can photoshop them in there no
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just to give an example of the kind of
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swirl that's going on there it almost
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looks like
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a flag look at that it looks like a flag
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that's waving down in there
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a wave of taste wave flavor a wave of
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flame
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tasty flavor my thing is you can't get
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ready unless you have
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tasty treats and this one's pretty darn
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good
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oh god i'm getting brain freeze oh yeah
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wait wait wait wait wait
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wait wait wait i don't like how this
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thing keeps asking me how much i weigh
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oh that's not very nice they always do
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that
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wait wait wait maybe he's talking to you
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maybe i don't know where the scale is
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going to go up here and then we're going
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to go that direction
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and go head over trying to find
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ourselves a hot dog i'm going to go down
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catella
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into what's it called garden walk garden
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arrive now at anaheim garden walk and
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there is a johnny rockets here which i
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believe will have a hot dog for the
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fourth
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well that's kind of a bummer i i thought
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i looked online they said that this
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location was
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open till later in the afternoon evening
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but it doesn't appear
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if it's been open at all there goes the
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cash shuttle
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check that out
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right down disney way that's the name of
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this road disney way
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over here next to the garden walk check
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out this llama
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we got some animals right out here
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there's a llama
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there is a miniature horse a zebra
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next to the horse there's a horse there
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and then there's a zebra
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and another llama that is trying to have
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a staring contest
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i don't know who's going to win the
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staring contest llama but i think you
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might be the winner
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on that one any ideas where we could get
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a hot dog on 4th of july um
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on harbor boulevard i'm not entirely
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sure
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i mean downtown disney might have some
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options i know there's the corn dog
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place at downtown disney is it corn dog
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fourth of julyish
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like a hot standard hot dog a standard
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hot dog would be a traditional classic
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what about denny's i don't have hot dogs
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at denny's i don't know
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mcdonald's mcdonald's is open that's a
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burger they don't have hot dogs at
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mcdonald's
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but you know what they do have right
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here on disney way they have the world's
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smallest
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elephant look at that
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this elephant is tinier than that
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baby deer and then harbor is just right
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over there so we'll continue over to
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harbor
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is that okay with you giraffe
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now i just want to point out over here
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at the anaheim hotel
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from what i recall used to be twenty
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dollars to park it's now
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35 to park at the anaheim hotel
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if you don't want to park over at mickey
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and friends which is on the opposite
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side
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you can look at the former tower up
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there now guardians of the galaxy
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maybe this is just for today or maybe
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this is just in general because a lot of
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the secret is out
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a lot of people know to come over here
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and park and then you can walk in the
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harbor side instead of taking the long
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walk
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down the former tram tour the trams are
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not running and i did mention does
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denny's have hot dogs
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well they are they are themed for the
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day
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they got the red white blue balloons
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i could i could just go check the menu
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not seeing a hot dog
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they have a grand slam breakfast they
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have a
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they have a plate licking chicken fried
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chicken
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that's what it's called and they have a
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sirloin steak but i don't see any
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any hot dogs i don't even really see a
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fourth of july special meal
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maybe you have to go into ashland i
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really want a hot dog to that gas
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station
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ninja gas station dog oh god
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you don't like the idea of a gas station
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dog i don't know the gas station dog
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might come up to
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come back to hawaii yes yeah later okay
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we're heading back down harbor
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passing walt star over here to the
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7-eleven
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on the corner of catalyst we're
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backtracking just a little bit
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i'm getting myself a hot dog first time
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for everything
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yeah first never have had one i've never
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had a hot dog from like a convenience
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store
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nav station you're going with the big
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bite the big
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bite and i go on with the big bite also
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i put a little mustard on mine i put a
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little
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onion and i got the dog down in there
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with a bun
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happy fourth of july
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that's actually not bad for a buck
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i really can't i don't have a lot of
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room to complain because it's only a
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dollar
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i mean i've had some pretty bad
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disneyland hot dogs
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this one's actually not bad at all
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7-eleven dog
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that's a healthy dog there's a lot going
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on there yeah
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glad i didn't get more than one it's a
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lot of dog yeah it's quite a bit of food
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and so surprisingly
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for a buck you'd expect it to be a lot
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smaller but
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you can now celebrate your first
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convenience store hot dogs right here on
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yeah happy fourth of july quite a bit of
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traffic
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build up through here stretching around
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disneyland drive
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all the way down trying to get into
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see how they're all kind of the cones
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set up and everything
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but you can see it stretches way down
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there we're trying to get in
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it's currently two hours until the
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fireworks but imagine most of these cars
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are pulling in here trying to
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to get a spot at the esplanade
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it's kind of magic hour right now yeah
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so yeah it's quite a bit of a backup
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usually don't see a backup around this
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down at 7 30 p.m like this
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everyone's wanting to park here but i
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want to see those fireworks they all
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have the same idea
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we all get the same idea definitely
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noticing that the parking lot over here
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at simba
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is very very full i'm also curious over
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in the corner
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if the galaxy's edge van is still kind
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of tucked away over there
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now it's very well hidden but i found it
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it's kind of tucked away between all the
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other vehicles
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there it is look at this still here
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the falcon on the side here yes
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excellent i love the license plate
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go to disneyland
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i will be in about a week i'll be going
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in the parks today i'm just going to
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wander through downtown disney and then
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go back over to harbor and watch the
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fireworks from there
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either that or the esplanade like a lot
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of others just stopped off inside
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starbucks and got a coffee to go along
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with a couple of sprinkles cupcakes
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that we're going to consume here
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sprinkles cupcakes which kind of
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sprinkles did we get
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we got the patriotic uh red velvet
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patriotic
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red velvet we should have got four of
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these yeah we just magic journeys is
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over here
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did you hear the fireworks that just
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went off yeah that was like a sample
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are you guys going to go in the
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esplanade also
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yeah it's like the best thing ever here
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during fourth of july disneyland
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really throws some great fireworks
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let's dive right in yeah so what's
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underneath the sprinkles
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well sprinkles is the name yeah what's
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underneath the sprinkles that are on
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these cups i believe it's just a
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buttercream frosting and then it's just
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a normal red velvet cupcake but because
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it has a
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red white and blue sprinkles it's
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patriotic that's really good
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it's really good oh my god i'm a huge
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fan of the red velvet but
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after a little patriotic flare in there
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gotta have coffee with it i gotta have
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the coffee
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which i ended up getting sorry i got the
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arm shot in there
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got the white mocha this is too much
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though should have been like half the
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size
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i mean too much sprinkles and cupcakes
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get out of here getting out of here adam
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you never say that in my presence
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there's never enough sprinkles cupcakes
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we had a hot dog
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and we had a sprinkle of cupcake yeah
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pepper with a little patriotism
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madeline madelines okay give me the
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magic journey's exclusive
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did you have one chocolate i did she
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shared one with me okay
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which is good because i was a little
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hungry
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and i got a little bit of uh madeline in
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me now you're ready for some fireworks
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it's gonna happen
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i love the refreshers right i just got a
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brown sugar shaking espresso with
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oatmeal
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nice it's too fancy i wanted the
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hazelnut latte but all they had was the
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vanilla
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oh i like vanilla it's good enough
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cheers my friend let's do it cheers
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cheers
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cheers happy fourth of july dylan
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where's yours let's cheer us cheers with
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us and
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two well we should do on the count of
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four because it's fourth of july one
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two three four cheers
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happy four
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i am going to predict that everyone is
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now heading to the esplanade it's 40
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minutes until firework time yeah just
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look how many people are over here this
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is something
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else i don't know if i've ever seen the
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espionage
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this filled up after you guys ever
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recall seeing the esplanade this full
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ever
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the closest thing was when we were
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waiting in line for rising resistance
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that's true but it still wasn't this
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filled up it wasn't like this yeah that
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was just kind of over there
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and i think i was saying it has to do
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with because there's no annual pass
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holder so everyone's just kind of here
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to watch them for free
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yeah and you guys didn't have
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reservations tonight either so
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you're kind of following what everybody
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else is like
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to see the fireworks this is the first
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time he's actually sitting here from the
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esplanade i don't think i've ever
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watched him from the esplanade either
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have you if i did i don't remember
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making new memories and this is crazy
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over in that neighborhood over there
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they are just like going to town
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over there there was a big one over
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there wow there it is
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if you didn't already have a spot in
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here you would have a tough time finding
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one even along the perimeter
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you can see this is just elbow to elbow
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going over here as well pretty much
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elbow to elbow
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my original intention was to go over
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back onto harbor and then walk over
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where the five meets and kind of get it
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behind the scenes but
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this is kind of a whole event so i think
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i'm just going to stay put right here
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it looks like someone over here is
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trying to start the wave
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of look they're starting i see it
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they're trying to start the wave over
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there
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you think we could start the way from
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back here people in front of us would
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see it happening yeah reverse wave
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it's impossible no one
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else is doing it let's see it needs to
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start in the front
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it needs to start in the front and make
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it to the back what'd you say
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the crickets are so loud all right let's
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try it again ready
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one two three
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wow they're even louder now that went
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well ah there it is
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the first firework first official
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fireworks back
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at the disneyland resort of this year
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before they kind like a couple nights
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ago as a test right yeah
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this is officially the first night and i
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like all the the search lights there the
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little like lights kind of flickering
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too
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this is actually a pretty good view oh
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we're getting some ooze and oz here
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oh a lot of us
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okay i think there's going to be a
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holiday tag on the end of that too
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that was the original it was the
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original grand finale but i think
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there's going to be something else
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added on to it i think everyone is
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thinking it's over but i think there's
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going to be something else i think
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there's going to be something over it's
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not over
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it's not over don't do it
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the fourth of july tag
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this is awesome
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nice
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wow
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wow here we go
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esplanade is now starting to clear out
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just a little bit there were a lot
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of people in the esplanade that was uh
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that was something else yeah that kind
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of felt normal we weren't inside the
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park but we were out enjoying it with
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everyone
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right here what kind of felt like main
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street first fireworks show
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at disneyland official fireworks show
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even though they tested it a couple
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nights ago
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disneyland fireworks are back and i
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still have not been
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inside the park since i've been
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in a year and a half i have not been
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inside there in almost a year
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a year and a half almost miguel's just
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he's making a beeline for that trash can
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right there
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i've never seen someone go to throw
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trash away that quickly yeah
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you know what because you've been
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holding that the whole time i don't
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litter
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that's right yeah i don't even chew gum
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at disneyland because
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they don't sell it here
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oh dang the exit out here to harbor is
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something else too look at this
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we're all being we're all being funneled
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let's see before
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well in the last year or so when
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downtown disney would just open you'd
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have this area kind of used but now the
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buses are back to go over to the
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the other lot off site so everyone's
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kind of being bottlenecked and funneled
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through this entrance tent well this is
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something else there's people trying to
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come in over here i don't know why i
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guess the park's open one more
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hour but there are people trying to come
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in they got them all kind of like
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stationed off here and then everyone
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else is trying to exit so everyone's
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waiting to come in
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even though everyone even though
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everyone is leaving
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we'll be able to walk out over here i've
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never been able to walk out over here
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before yeah let's do that because look
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how bottleneck that is over there
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this is going to like take you through
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an exit that usually a guest cannot walk
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through but they've opened it up because
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the crowd level's so intense
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yeah this is there's a lot of people
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going in and out right now and it makes
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sense because the
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it's all really by yeah i keep using the
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word bottleneck but it's all kind of
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just kind of crammed in over there
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trying to lead out
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towards harbor right there you can see
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the thanks for visiting harbor sign
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and that shuttle is trying to get
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through there where there's so many
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people
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but we're going to be kind of kind of
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funneled through that section over there
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past
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the 19 sign yeah check this out
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going this way
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i almost wonder if it would be better to
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cross the street up here at the light
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to go over there and go over there oh
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people are entering this way oh wow i've
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never seen this as an entrance or an
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exit before ever
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you have to go over there normally look
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they even have a little tower set up
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makeshift tower set up they're expecting
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this
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they were expecting this uh this mad
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house all the fireworks there is
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definitely a haze it's almost like fog
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but it's from the it's probably just
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look at look at this crossing over
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harbor oh my goodness what the heck
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that people are in the middle of the
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road holy
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look at this even traffic cannot even
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get across
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look at that
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wow i've never seen that that was
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that is i've never seen that
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i am predicting that everyone's just
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going to engulf this
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this suv everyone's going across
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look at you know i think i think that's
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going to do it for today from the 4th of
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july
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that is going to do it the engulfing of
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a vehicle right on the corner of east
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shuttle area
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and harbor boulevard happy 4th of july
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independence day fireworks are back
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disneyland resort
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and i still i still have not been in the
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park be about another i don't know
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another week or so
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maybe less than a week i'll go back in
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there but i would imagine seeing it from
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the esplanade
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look at this amazing
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oh how things have progressed
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so cool i just i like seeing crowds
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something something about it is
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refreshing something about it is very
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refreshing now we got the cast shuttle
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turning in
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traffic is all backed up it's good to
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see harbor back like this again
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wow i'll see you in the next video the
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vlog
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is over oh this guy's sprinting
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sprinting across
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look at this this is uh look at the
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backup way over there can you see it
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okay sprinting doing some running here
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got the cast shuttle trying to get
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through this car is kind of blocked
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wow i mean the bus drivers are probably
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like holy cow what is happening
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well maybe not they might not be
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thinking that but so walt starr is like
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right over there everyone's passing wall
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star they probably don't even realize
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if they're passing by walt disney star
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as they continue on down
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and they've almost this whole line of
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people they might be going to get a hot
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dog at that 7-eleven down there at the
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very end that's where the 7-eleven is
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yep that's exactly where they're going
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getting that dollar hot dog they got
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that they want that hot dog