Knotts Berry Farm Log Ride 50th Anniversary - NEW Animatronics / Limited Edition Merchandise & MORE
A visit to Knotts Berry Farm for the 50th anniversary of the Timber Mountain Log Ride . For the occasion they added two new animatronics and a few other special things .
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welcome everyone Adam but the whoo here
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this adventure brings us to point apart
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California Knott's Berry Farm half a
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century ago today marks that historic
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event when the log ride first reared its
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head 50 years ago it's time to celebrate
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I'm gonna get in there I'm inviting you
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to join me
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50 years today it's hard to believe
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yeah I apologize for recording when
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you're not we're not really fully decent
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but fair enough
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there it is first splashdown is
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happening at the entry gates I was given
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this it's a button you can see
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celebrating the occasion right there and
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in all its glory
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I wear this proudly special merchandise
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people are already lining up for it it's
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gonna come back to that and go ahead and
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jump on a log right up here
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they have this little placard right
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there 1969 to night
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2019 car almost misspoke out of
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excitement you see quite a few people
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are
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just Bank right above
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the water
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here here
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brand-new seating arrangements oh yeah
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much better remain seated and hold on to
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the railing we're going in
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we just witness a brand new animatronic
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there are two of them what I was
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focusing on was the first of the new duo
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just got to keep an eye out for number
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two
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oh there he is
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into the cave I do believe I remember
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there's a drop here
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seems to be a lot more music happening
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in here than I remember
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dynomite oh yeah you can see how good it
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got me look at this I'm squinting right
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there the water is just splashing my
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face so you get the pin with the photo
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yeah where'd you guys think you guys go
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on it
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thumbs up if you liked it I loved it I
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seen you in line so we hung back I
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wanted to give you this this is the map
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they would have given us at the front
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gate exactly fifty years ago
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Ono Piatt replicas of them yeah or you
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painstakingly found the type of paper
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and everything adults three bucks handy
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that went ahead and picked it up as a
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memento a souvenir if you will by
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flipping it over you could see a fun
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fact John Wayne was the first to take
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the inaugural ride back on July 11th of
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that year moved away from the photo
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stand and now gonna see what they have
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at this particular booth this cute
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little puppy looking very very cuddly a
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game of some sort you can see there's
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little little marbles down in there that
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kind of flip around you have to try to
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get them and insert the midnight
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in the hole this right here is an
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ornament and then there's a magnet and
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then this I was like a coin collectible
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coin a close-up of the the t-shirts
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and they're just like the pen there's a
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poster version right up there you can
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get and some little water holders
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well and $20 even some hats I think of
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all of them this is probably my favorite
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you see that old miner there with his
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trusty best friend it even has the
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insignia down there documenting the the
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occasion if that's that's really
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something I like that one
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right there at the bottom of the
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splashdown you like the new animatronics
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did you notice both of them
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you were you were looking and saying I'm
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gonna find the new animatronics I saw
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two of them there's one when you first
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go in and then there was like the
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hitch-hiker guy right when you came out
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of the dark carrying his lunch in the
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sack
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right more banter and more music a lot
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more music than before it's like a whole
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party of that the lines are getting
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longer much much longer very popular a
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recreation of the banner you can find
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inside the attraction and some some
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little photo ops here also you can get a
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picture with this right there you can
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document the document the occasion I
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think I'm gonna do that does it look
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like I'm on it
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oh yeah perfect my hair look it's
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exciting to see this many people lined
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up for such a classic attraction so cool
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all those people up there dropping
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probably a little nauseous
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looking at this old guide map is pretty
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fascinating it wasn't called timber
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Mountain back in those days just the
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very basic calico log ride plain and
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simple
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special commemorative edition booklet
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that has a photo essay of the history
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itself
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you see Walter not there on the creation
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oh that's a that's a deer there's John
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Wayne there in the stagecoach and
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getting on a on a helicopter oh look at
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that
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that's the opening commencement and
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there is Cordelia breaking open a bottle
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of boysenberry juice on the front of one
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of the logs and a right where the
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splashdown takes place they used to have
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a little competition where you'd get on
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a piece of wood and kind of twirl trying
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to throw your opponent off a competition
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into the water this is basically right
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here is where where the guests splashed
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down actually more over this direction
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but this is in the same little pond
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original cost 2.5 million the length 300
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feet of the mountain range the height 75
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feet that's the drop three levels length
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of ride four minutes it seems much
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longer than that and over 100 types of
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foliage present oh wow they still have a
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fiberglass version they're in the water
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to represent a little throwback call
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back to those old days it's up to 90
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minutes now Wow an hour and a half
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plenty of streams have taken place right
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here in this area over those 50 years
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going up through it picking a cactus or
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cacti whatever the pluralization of that
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is do you see a bunny rabbit they're
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hanging around do you see the bunny
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rabbit I'll zoom in and give you a
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little bit a little bit better
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perspective
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hanging around on the top of that stump
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even in the daylight hours this Lantern
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is burning bright so Jeff tell gotta who
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did the artwork he had signed this he
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had some really cool stuff though by
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looking at he could definitely tell it's
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his handiwork and you got a text message
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by posting on social media tag Knott's
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Berry Farm and then you got there gold
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free gifts here's the animated version
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there's the real version plummeting
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downward oh yeah that's a good one you
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got one as well am I the only one that
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doesn't get one of these freebies yeah
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what the heck man I'm glad you got one
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cuz you're here like all the time you
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were the first you were the first one in
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line yeah you were the first how many
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people were behind you lined up that
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we're staring at you and jealousy I
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don't know because the line was
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stretched all the way down to the games
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that's a long way what was your thoughts
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what was your thoughts on it oh it was
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great the new additions and the
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hitch-hiker being back that was
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phenomenal you liked the hitch-hiker
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yeah it was literally right over near
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where we are now and because things
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happen and so they had to take them out
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and now he's back yeah he's back just
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like hatbox ghost is back yeah the
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Disneyland
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we got the hitchhiker here at knott's
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yeah you see a counter for on here is
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the hitchhiker on here
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maybe I don't see him no I don't see him
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maybe you know what he's probably tucked
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away back in here tasty very this was
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for you log ride Cheers
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happy 50th
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drinka the log ride just celebrated 50
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years did you ever get to ride that
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thing I never been on about here a lot
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of people heard that a lot of folks in
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there look a lot like me if you're right
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during the long ride just tell him hey
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Joe's in jail and you might be talking
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to my mom ah dang I already did that and
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I forgot to I forgot to do that oh well
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you know what there's nothing against
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the law says you can't ride it again
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except for the sheriff's making up rules
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as he goes along so be careful of the
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sheriff be well if you want to go on
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it's an hour and a half wait though sad
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I waited in here for longer than that
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just offered a vote how long have you
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been in car incarcerated well I got to
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tell you that the teacher gave up when I
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was a little youngster going to
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elementary school the teacher she wanted
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to get married and have babies so she
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left before she ever taught me and my
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classmates out account so I don't really
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know so if you escaped what would be the
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first thing you do would you head right
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over to the Calico log ride no I go get
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some fun okay I like that I've been
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talking about pommel cake for so long
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and I want to go have some kind addendum
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can you recommend a flavor
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boysenberry boysenberry oh of course
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that's what they do here knots well yeah
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yeah but I didn't know some people
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prefer strawberries so I just wanted to
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get a recommendation
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here's an idea get the funnel cake
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lather with some boysenberry goodness
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and get yourself on the log and then do
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that plummet down that side of that hill
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while you're eating the pole boys have
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you know how to party I do it's my
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middle name yeah don't make me start
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ruling I might warp all right I'm gonna
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go fine I'm gonna go find something to
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break you out as far as you know all
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right I'll be back maybe I'll be back
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sometime sad I see you sad eye right
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here in this window is some of the old
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paraphernalia
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from back in the olden days really like
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this one this T's got the horse and
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carriage stagecoach got the train and
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then of course the subject matter right
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there in the middle and a cowboy saying
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hello 1969 still still moving right
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along
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the size of this map along the wall is
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impressive most impressive and take a
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peak just above the esta village there
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it is in all its glory
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don't dip into didn't Jim Jim John yeah
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got one down fast get your hands up oh
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my goodness there's two on the flume at
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the same time I've never seen that in
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real in real life that's gonna do it for
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