The End of Disneyland Annual Passes - Goodbye To AP Program / What’s Next & My Passholder Thoughts
Disneyland Ends its Annual Passholder Program
Transcript
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welcome everyone
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adam the woo here today's adventure is
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more
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of an update more of a
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breaking story if you will
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annual passes for the west coast
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disney park disneyland dca
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after decades have been erased
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from existence as of about
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two hours ago give or take as of the
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recording of this
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i should probably look up today as of
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the the technical
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this january 14th thursday
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january 14 2021
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disneyland has made the announcement
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that no longer annual pass holders the
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program
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will be happening effective
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not effective immediately but the
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announcement is
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is immediate i'm on the corner here of
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disney way
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and i thought it would be appropriate
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just to walk by
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which i swing by here occasionally
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walt disney has a star that used to be
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at the entrance the front entrance of
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the harbor entrance to disneyland which
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is right over there
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and probably four five six months ago
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they moved it
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which i am i am highly in approval of to
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here
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to a better spot they removed it from
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the sidewalk out of the ground they put
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it kind of escalated here there
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there are other notable
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notable folk here along here as well all
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responsible for great achievements
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here in orange county california
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i became an annual pass holder for the
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first time at walt disney world
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back in the year 2000 and i have since
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done that
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every year with the exception of a
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little lull where i wasn't
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i didn't go there it was a whole long
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story as well for a year and a half well
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two and a half two years
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three months i was not i was not and
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then i go there but with the exception
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of that time frame
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i have been an ap out there
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as well as starting here in
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2014 possibly 2015
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i became an annual pass holder to walt's
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original
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magic kingdom and i've never looked back
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i love being an ap
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coast to coast started about two years
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later so i have been a coast to coast
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annual pass holder which means i can go
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to the parks here
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in anaheim as well as all the parks
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in central florida out there as well
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all perks of paying for and having that
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coast-to-coast
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passport just rolling along
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gonna go up here to the drop-off point
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where
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there is no monorail for now and to the
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harbor entrance
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signage where for nearly six plus years
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of having that
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that little pass holder card
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i would either go to the the opposite
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side to the parking structure or
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take a ride share vehicle over here and
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get dropped off on this side and walk
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through these gates which you can still
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do that to go into downtown disney even
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though
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you cannot eat food in there you cannot
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drink in there you have to get it to go
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but the theme parks here are still not
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open
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in the grand scheme of things i myself
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as well as you might be asking
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what is the major difference i mean what
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would be
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why would it be that big of a deal
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to have this take place
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well the reason is it is
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the community of annual passholders
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those who
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are always in there those that you see
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at rope drop
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every morning or in the afternoon or at
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the fireworks shows or
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in the queues for lines is a real thing
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out here
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not that it's not that it is not a real
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thing in florida but here it is on a
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a much larger scale than the east coast
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big time and i believe that is why
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they have made their decision
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for now to to not utilize those
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once which it has not been stated once
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the parks reopened
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and can walk through here tickets
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will have to be purchased whether they
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be one day
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extended days most likely not park
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hopping over from
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disneyland to dca
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but everyone will have to purchase
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purchase day tickets instead of just
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pulling out the card and showing at the
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gate and walking in
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whenever they so choose for a long time
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with
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the rumored reopenings when you know
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florida reopened back in july i had
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a heck of a time it was almost like a
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winning the lottery
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to get in within the first week let's
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just say even the first month
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getting that reservation to go into the
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florida park
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hello the wdw parks it was very
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difficult and it still continues
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at certain parts especially hollywood
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studios if there is a food festival in
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epcot
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you know certain days christmas new
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year's
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etc even magic kingdom fills up
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here the size is about half
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as far as square footage of the parks
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out there
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and there are dare i say 10 times
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i i heard a long time ago that they were
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one and a half
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million aps just residing
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in california not elsewhere
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you take a million people who are
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longing to get inside
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of here and you make reservations ex
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available those are going to fill up
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very quickly
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especially with a limited
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capacity meaning could be when it starts
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off 15
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20 30 even if it got to 50
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it does not hold a million and a half
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guests
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who are longing for the disneyland magic
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this i am certain well my glasses are
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foggy i know the glasses are fogging up
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because i don't have these on correctly
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with this underneath
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but i am certain that really weighed on
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their minds to make this decision and
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for one i think it is a correct decision
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until everything kind of pans out this
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is the premier
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passport that i have paid for for about
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half a decade now
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give or take well not quite but pretty
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close four maybe five years
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non-stop i have had this in my
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possession
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there is no renewal fee you have to pay
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in full
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every year and there's there's a little
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bit more of an asterisk i should put on
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that
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as well when it came when it comes to
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this the perks of that card i was just
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holding
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was supposed to expire back in april
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of 2020 last year i can hear a chopper
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going by
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might see it momentarily as i kind of oh
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there it is up there see it can you see
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it through the foliage up there
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a little chopper going over the top
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could be a news copter perhaps getting a
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little
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scoop on this story this is big this is
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big news
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for sure so what happened was it was
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extended because the anaheim park
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since it has not opened and i have paid
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for the coast to coast
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they kept extending it through now as
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of this moment my coast to coast pass
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even though i will not be able to use it
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is still good for the disney world parks
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until february 8th so i have a few weeks
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and then i have to figure out what in
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the heck am i going to do
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because it is most likely that that is
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that is shrouded there in the shadows
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as the sun is peaking up peeking
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downward
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over the backside of guardians i got to
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figure out
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what i'm going to do if i'm going to be
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able i know i can't renew here i can't
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buy an ap here
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but will i be able to renew out there
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i guess i'll just have to call guest
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services get all that dialed in as time
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goes on the closer it gets up to
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february 8th or february 9th
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can't recall exactly that is not of the
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utmost
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importance i i pretty much have decided
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that once that happens and i cannot get
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an ap
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i will just have to buy one day two day
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three day tickets a week tickets
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do all that type of i had to figure all
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that out in order to go which is going
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to taper back on how many times
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i go into the parks obviously and a lot
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of
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why the decision to move here's walt
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well walt star
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it's a little homage to him a lot of why
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i originally moved out here
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i love movie history i love hollywood i
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love the scenic i love
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the weather but let's just be honest
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disneyland was a major reason why i
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moved back to
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the oc to orange county being this close
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being able to ride a bike
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it was a it was a major a major plus
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when it came to that and that's not
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going to exist which has a lot to do
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i am out of focus i'm going to try to
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see if i can do this i'm going no hands
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hold on there we go
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a lot of what is taking place you know
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with the closures
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not necessarily with the ap so much but
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that kind of just like the icing on the
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cake
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as far as me being with within close
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proximity within a few miles
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being able to take a very lengthy either
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walk or a short uber or
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you know a lift or any of the ride share
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vehicles or hop on the bike
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and get down here when the parks quote
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unquote
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possibly would have reopened which as i
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don't even think that's even going to
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happen until probably
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at least summer i mean i'm even going to
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say maybe even fall
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let's say october and then the odds of
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us even getting in if those aps were not
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reversed
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it would be a mad house rush to try to
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get reservations
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there would be a lot of disappointed
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people and guests
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there would be there would be a lot of
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almost animosity between some
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how come you got in how come i didn't
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get in we all have the same tier path
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it is in the best interest for what
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disney did to
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make this decision and i wholeheartedly
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think that
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as time goes on they will work in
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another type of element
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to bring that back on a limited scale
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but the first
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the first priority is to get the parks
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open now florida does not have the same
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issue as far as capacity limits they are
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doing a modified capacity but the parks
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are way
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larger as far as square footage you know
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being able to walk around
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and how many people can get in there and
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the
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i cannot reiterate there is something
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about socal
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ap life that is real and this is a big
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blow to a lot of people a lot of people
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are really feeling this
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and i get it me being a pass holder for
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five plus years
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out here and in florida for nearly a
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decade
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i understand the ap life it is a it is a
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it is a is a wonderful thing it is it is
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a is a real
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thing it can't really can't really
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translate to someone who doesn't it only
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goes as a
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you know once a year as a tourist going
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for one time
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only going on the rides not really
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experiencing and seeing the
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the nuances and the nooks and crannies
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that those who go you know
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four and five times a week sometimes it
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sounds utterly crazy
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but in 2015 when i lived by the orange
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right by the orange circle
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i would i would come up here 2015 was
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one of the best years when it came to
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me as a disney aficionado learning the
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history of walton the park
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and the creation of this and the feeling
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of a
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smaller version of what i was used to
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growing up in florida
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and i was up here maybe anywhere from
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three to five times a week i did a lot
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of content i did a lot of videos where i
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didn't even
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film but i think that just backfired
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that automobile
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it's gonna be it's a it's different it's
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gonna be different not having
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not been an ap here i'm here for it
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it's everything's a challenge we got to
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push forward and make the best of it
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i'm going to go out on a well i was
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going to say i'm going to go out on a
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whim but i think the
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i think the appropriate terminology is
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go out on the limb but i'm going to
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on a whim i am going to state that even
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with these announcements
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about the aps going away even for ticket
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holders with all of us trying to buy
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tickets guests trying to buy tickets
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even let's say summer or fall the parks
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here at anaheim reopen
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it is still going to be really difficult
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to get a reservation
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just completely getting rid of all aps
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it is still
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going to be a heck of a time and a
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challenge
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to even get in the parks more than a
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couple times in a month
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i'm just going to make that statement
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now it is a real
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it is very people are passionate out
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here still so much around here that has
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also not
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reopened some of these hotels like the
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alpine end
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at the sun's starting to set over there
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they're rolling around to what used to
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be a former entrance over here which the
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signage is still there
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and that's so cool look at the sun
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glistening off of those letters
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there well it was until i went out of
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frame
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suppose i can hold on this is a as a
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souvenir
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for posterity you know something i can
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remember the
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remember the good times look forward to
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the future holds no doubt there will
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something will rear its head similar to
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what existed in the past
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to this
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the premier passport felt good having
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this
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felt really good i know in the grand
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scheme of things
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you might be thinking to yourself in
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fact i even think why is this so
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important
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why who cares
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and i can understand that but the
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reality is
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no one should ever be shunned or told
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that what they enjoy
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doing anyone
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is unimportant if it makes you happy
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especially in these times
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last year into this year
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everyone needs a little bit of an escape
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so that's that is why i feel it is
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might not be important to some but what
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might not be important
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to some and to you and to others is
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to someone else i am not into certain
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things
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other people are not into subject
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matters
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what they are interested in and where
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they spend their time what they read
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about what they
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devote a good portion of their their
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free moments to
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is something that i can't really
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comprehend but if it makes
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if they're a song if it makes you happy
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it can't be that bad i don't know i
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think it's a song
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if it's not it needs to be
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might not know yet he made it i got the
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news
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even though it's really kind of
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everywhere this is really
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really came out kiddo just popped up
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wanted to do this video about it and i
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did
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