My Thoughts On Future Of Disney Company & Confusion About DVC Ownership / Rethinking Stock Market
Disney Talk
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welcome
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everyone Adam the woo here as the
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recording of this Tuesday March 12th
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20124 it is a beautiful day I'm out for
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a little bit of a stroll today I'm going
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to head to Disney Springs I'm going into
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the Shadows right
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now Shadow esque area through this
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little pathway I'm going to head to
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Disney Springs today after I get done
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with a little walk hit the tread bar
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earlier think today was day five on my
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treadmill if you want to follow along
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with my
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treadmill
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walks my Instagram I post a little
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Instagram stories Adam the woo a2w on
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Instagram but today after I get done
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with this little stroll through the
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woods oh it's
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dark going to go to Disney Springs I'm
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going to renew my annual pass my wdw
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annual pass needs to be renewed before
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the end of the month so I'm going to
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take care of that today there's a
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squirrel over there
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hopefully not a bear I don't think
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there's any bear there might be bears in
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celebration there's a bear at Magic
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Kingdom what 6 months ago I loved all
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the I loved all the the memes of the
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bear on
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Tron could be Bears here it's time to
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renew my annual pass I'm going to do
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that now I know I can do it on the app I
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can do it online but I want to go check
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out the new DVC preview Center which is
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in the same area of Springs I keep feel
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like someone's walking up on me and also
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I am pretty excited I've had my doubts
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when it comes to the Walt Disney Company
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over the last couple years had some
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stocks sold some stock had some sock
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stock and
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socks which I'm wearing sold some
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stocks but I bought some more stock
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today now that I have purchased a home
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need to start putting money in other
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areas as well look to the future and I'm
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pretty confident and I'm pretty I feel
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good about the Disney
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Corporation is there someone behind me
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man I keep think I keep looking back
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there like someone's walking up I think
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I just might have a little little
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blemish on the screen there nonetheless
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doing a little Walkin talk now then I'm
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going to be driving over to
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Springs check out the new DVC
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Center get some coffee I can use some
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coffee a little tired from the treadmill
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doing good on the weight loss doing good
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on the weight loss looking forward to
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that run Disney event September got a
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long way to go what 6 months to the Run
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Disney and I'm doing this fitx 50 I
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digress join me going back into the
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Shadows shall you now I've gone up and
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down when it comes to the whole stock
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thing when it comes to Disney
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stock but I always feel good being a
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shareholder in the company a DVC owner
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Disney Vacation Club owner so I own real
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estate on properties not only here
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Disney World but out at Disneyland also
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Hilton Head South Carolina buau Beach
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Florida and
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Alani have a few home resorts couple of
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the ones I mentioned not my home resorts
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I'm just saying that I could book at any
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of those said places so I like I like to
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start getting Disney stock again so I
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could have some property and I could
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have a share in the company granted tiny
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share and I might be the odd man out
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with this Theory but I feel I don't want
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to say the company is on the men and
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they're making a lot of great decisions
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cuz they still have they're still not
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what they were at one time but every
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company has es and flows and I feel like
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some of the recent murmurings rumors and
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or announcements here say could lead to
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better things at least in the Parks
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which is which is kind of my thing
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haven't done the cruises yet hopefully
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next year start doing some Cruise Line
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stuff and maybe I'll be a cruise guy
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because I never thought I'd be a Disney
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Vacation Club guy I always thought I'd
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just be a Parks guy and movie guy but
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I've kind of got into the vacation club
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thing I feel like next year cruising is
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going to be a big thing which I think
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you can use DVC points for those too I
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have a lot of DVC points I didn't go all
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in I didn't put a whole
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lot got about eight shares got
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today eight shares but I feel like it's
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going to go up and maybe every few
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months or or so I'll buy another share
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or two and I don't just want to do
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completely down the Disney stock Rabbit
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Hole think I might look into some other
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stuff but with me I only want to I only
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want to invest in stuff that I that I'm
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into and utilize
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so you know if I'm really passionate
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about
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something that's the kind of stuff I
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wanted I don't want to just buy stocks I
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don't even know what they are if that
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makes sense I will pretty much always be
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an annual passholder unless something
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really dramatically changes
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to Disney
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World pass I currently have that expires
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at the end of the month going to renew
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it before the end of the month is the
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incred pass with photo
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downloads which is an the photo
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downloads is an extra $100 a year but my
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opinion well well worth it hey I just
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had to look up my Disneyland annual pass
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or whatever the heck they call it now I
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have the Inspire key out there that does
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not need to be renewed till September
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now I used to have the coast to coast
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annual pass and it was like 2,000 less
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than $2,000 around $2,000 had that for
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years up until the parks closed boy I'm
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really shattered out right now but the
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parks where the car closed in 2020 they
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did away with the coast Coast pass and
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because I have a house here now and I'm
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going to be here for many years still
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going to travel again obviously
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but do not ever see the fact that I
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won't be an AP here at
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wdw Disneyland I can't say I don't know
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there might come a day where I don't
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have a Disneyland annual pass I might
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not go out there as much you know in the
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future even though over the next series
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of years I
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am also the coast to coast pass was like
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2 Grand and I come remember people going
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that's just so much money why would you
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pay that but now I think this one of us
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new is like 1,400 and the one out of
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Disneyland's like what $1,500 that's
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like $1,000 is more than what I used to
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pay for the coast to coast
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pass and the price of Park tickets now
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like for example a one day Park ticket
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here during peak season is like $200 a
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day for one park and that's not even
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throwing in the the the park hopper
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option that's just one park so you do
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the math on that it really makes sense
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to do a $1,400 no
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blackout annual pass if you're going to
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go you know that's like only seven or
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eight days buying tickets and I'm going
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to go way more than 7 8 days in a year
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like I could probably knock that out in
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a week oh this is interesting this used
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to be the uphill escalator and that used
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to be The Descent now they've changed
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what was the uphill to the downhill and
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what was the uphill to or was the
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downhill to the uphill it's the little
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things you notice they just for years it
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was the other way around now I'm very
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very confused my equilibrium is all
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thrown off you can see the balloon
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Rising there up above the Starbucks logo
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I never realized there was a Starbucks
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logo over here on this side
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also I just maybe I'll maybe I'll get a
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one stock of Starbucks maybe I should
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buy one share of Starbucks stock I drink
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a lot of Starbucks that would that would
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fit into my equation so this is
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technically known as the Starbucks West
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Side got Rapunzel's castle there and
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that must be the snuggly duckling right
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there at mobile
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order c yeah this is a really nice one
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one thing I wish the celebration
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Starbucks would do is bring back seating
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they had a seating area but they didn't
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have the room for storage so they they
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ended up removing the little seating
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area so now the only seating area is
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outside they do have seats but it's
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outside not inside oh they even have a
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reserve in here I didn't realize they
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had a reserve section over here which is
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a certain certain type of coffee you can
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get at other Starbucks and I got my
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Pikes Place with a little bit of cream
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and a little bit of sugar look there's
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some coffee beans right down there
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little coffee bean action there a nice
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little couch here and the balloon
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launches right over there and this tree
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stump I'm going to sit right here I
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think I'm going to look up man I just
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got the Disney stock but I think maybe
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I'll see what Starbucks is maybe I'll
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get one share just for the heck of it
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just so I have a just so I have an
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ownership in the in a pretty good
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percentage of the coffee I drank yeah
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that's what it is right now
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9244 let me see what dis is today I'm
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going to I'm going to get one stock of
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those why not feeling impulsive and
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there is Walt Disney Company stock I
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think it's even gone up a little bit
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since I ended up purchasing this morning
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did you know the Starbucks green roof
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and living walls are fed with compost
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made from coffee grounds no I did not
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yeah so evidently right over here in
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front of House of Blues also you see the
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balloon up here the old NBA experience
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building right here is going to be torn
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down soon and it really didn't last long
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it used to be Disney Quest kind of be
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neat if they brought back Disney Quest I
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guess there is an open bar restaurant
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here still too but I think this building
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here say maybe it's been announced is
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going away I really enjoy just walking
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around with a cup of coffee in my hand
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doesn't even have to be anything super
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purposeful but just nice to have a
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coffee whether it be at Springs whether
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it be at the parks it's just nice to
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stroll around with a piping hot CA
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beverage and this thing is definitely
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warm yeah so I am officially now the
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proud owner of a non Disney stock that's
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the first non- Disney stock I've ever
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purchased in my life I got one share of
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Starbucks I don't know if I'm going to
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go in heavy on that or if I'll keep
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buying anymore but at least I have one
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share so every time I drink a coffee I
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can go hey I own this place all right I
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have officially renewed my annual pass
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inside the it's actually located right
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next to the Orange County Sheriff's
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Office which is kind of interesting that
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you go in I waited in line again I can
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done this online and the total cost was
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$33.98 with the 15% discount for renewal
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that includes the photo pass and now I'm
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walking over into the new DVC area which
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they're supposed to end up having more
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DVC objects as time goes on but yeah
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pretty neat there's like a globe in here
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and everything we could stay magical
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year after year right there big old
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Globe right here right here in the
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center they have a
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Riviera scale model which is one of my
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home resorts right there they're really
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pushing the the Riviera for good reason
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it's a great great Resort and got Mickey
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over there and look out the window you
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got the globe not the globe but you got
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looks like a globe that's the balloon
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top that's that's the globe they're
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spherical yeah it's always good to see
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Mickey in here too it's a pretty good
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size Mickey this is probably like a 4T
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tall Mickey you know they have poutine
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at Springs right over there a poutine
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shop I'm not going to get poutine I'm
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going to go inside World of Disney now
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oh that's a nice piece of artwork right
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there look at the rail going right
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through the Contemporary very nice with
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St Patty's coming up they have a St
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Patty shirt all right I've kind of been
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eyeballing the play in the Park series
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that they have and I decided to go ahead
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and get this little Aloha Hawaiian style
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shirt the let's call it a collared shirt
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right here and this is a size large so I
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might not be able to wear it for a few
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weeks so I drop a little bit more weight
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but I really like this right here and I
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couldn't figure out what it was made out
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of so I asked the cast member do you
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think this will shrink in the dryer they
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said you're probably better off uh if
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you're going to just do that just like
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like dry it out of the dryer just kind
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of like hang drying so anyway you see me
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wearing this it's a size large and it
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means I've lost some weight I just saw
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something online that this little this
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little birdie here from Runaway Railway
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is going to be getting its own popcorn
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bucket very soon I haven't gone down
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also I still need to see wish I haven't
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seen wish yet I've heard mixed reviews
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but I want to watch it it's not on
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Disney plush yet you still got it's not
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on for some reason it's not included in
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Disney plus yet not I don't know why I'm
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showing that I should be showing this CU
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this is from wish also not really a big
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spirit jersey guy but I really do like
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this so this is the back of the
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characters and then this is the front of
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the characters right now I'm kind of in
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my Aloha Hawaiian shirt era the colllege
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shirt era but maybe one day I'll have a
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maybe I'll get that into the spirit
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jerseys how great are these novelty
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socks of figment right there he's even
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got the little
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horns and Stitch Has the tongue add
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another collar shirt to the collection I
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don't have enough of them I have a lot
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of t-shirts but I don't have a lot of
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collar shirts I look over here and see
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the Mickey right there with the little
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watering pots and all this is on the the
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far end over this by the far end of
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Springs over inside the co-op they have
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got rid of the orange bird display and
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now Stitch like I said stitch is taking
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over Springs Stitch attacks snacks he
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does I guess he likes Pizza evidently
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yes I know I'm over here Gator I'm over
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here off to the side it's kind of hard
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to see in the haze I know the haze a
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little missing us from the water there
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but yeah I'm over here oh you're just
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you're uh you're yelling at someone else
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okay long as you're not yelling at me
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that's
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fine I was I don't know I just love this
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I love this animatronic Gator so good
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not a real gator in case anyone was
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wondering big Gator though this is like
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probably what maybe a 9t 8 footer 7t 6
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footer what size Gator are you I know
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you're not a crocodile I said I said it
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right you're a gator crocodiles have a
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much pointier nose
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all right see you later
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gator see you later
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alligator I didn't say after while
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crocodile come on file this one under
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things I've never noticed before there's
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a fountain over here next to the T-Rex
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restaurant well T-Rex is over there the
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theming of it there's a fountain right
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here with horse heads and Birds on it
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never realized there was a fountain
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right here kind of have a hankering to
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go talk to my DVC rep who is located at
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the Riviera Resort instead of driving
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over there I might take the bus I'll
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have a little a little bus action here
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right there I'm looking for bus number
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12 here at the WW transportation bus
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directory I kind of curious to see if I
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can do some stuff with my DVC points I'm
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looking for Corral number 12 that's a
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good view there that's a good angle I've
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never actually stood from this spot to
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see both the spherical Globe esque you
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got plet Hollywood you got the Coca-Cola
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Store and you got the
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balloon so this is G gate 10 that goes
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to the
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boardwalk you got gate 21 over there
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goes to Fort Wilderness
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Resort pretty good variety of different
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ones and number
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12 Disney's Riviera Resort which fun
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fact was the first the very
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first DVC points I got I have a few home
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resorts once I started getting them kind
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of like tattoos once you start getting
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you get one home Resort before you know
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it you got a bunch oh look at this going
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to see the balloon go
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behind planted Hollywood there that's
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kind of interesting so basically what
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I'm thinking is so before I ended up
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purchasing a house in
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celebration I bought quite a few points
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for Walt Disney World Resorts which is
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great you can use them at
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any any any of their Resorts any of the
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cross the Country Resorts that as well
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but the the only difference with a home
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Resort is you have an 11mon booking
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window as opposed to a 7mon booking
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window so you have four extra months
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when you have a home Resort so that's
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why people get a home
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Resort it's almost it's almost it's
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almost behind there I'm just wait for it
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to kind of sink
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there and the two home resorts that I am
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happiest to have now are elani cuz it's
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in Hawaii and the Disneyland Resort
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Resort which is in Anaheim the it's the
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Disneyland you know just outside
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Disneyland and the reason for that is
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because I could have an 11mon booking
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window versus booking ones here that I
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live a mile
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from hindsight is 2020 wasn't cons I
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mean I don't say it's impulsive me
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purchasing a house here but I didn't
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think about that a couple years ago when
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I bought the DVC point so curious to see
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if there's anything anything I can do
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while I'm waiting for the bus got a
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minivan driving by because it has the
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mini polka dots there on the side it's
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not really a van it's more like a I
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don't know extended car like a
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Expedition or that beig but there was a
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rumor that when the earful tower was
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removed from Hollywood Studios formerly
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the MGM Studios that they were going to
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move it over here that never happened it
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probably ended up in a junkyard
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somewhere but at least there's this one
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which is not the earful tower but I wish
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it was there's the Riviera
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one
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there goes Mickey going to the Grand
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Meridian got
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Moana coming
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around so basically I want to see I mean
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if if I can't there's no big deal but if
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I could somehow take my Riviera
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points and my grand faridian points I
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think I have 15 at Riviera and 100 at
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Grand
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Floridian and put the those towards a
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different toward those towards aani or
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the Disneyland Resort that would be
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awesome and if it is not doable no big
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deal the only thing it changes is that 7
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to 10 month booking
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window I have gum in my mouth too I have
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gum in my
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yeah I really love this Resort only time
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I ever stayed here I stayed in one of
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the tower rooms up here it was pretty
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neat cuz from the tower room you could
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see into Epcot and that was back when it
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was harmonious was still happening for
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the nighttime show but luckily I had a
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higher up one here because you had a
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lower one these rooms are pretty small
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here they're just basically a pull down
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uh pull down style bed out of the wall
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so if you're going to get one of these
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try to request a higher one up so you
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can see the nighttime spectacular Epcot
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and Epcot it's right over there yeah
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this is a great Resort but if you have
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to twist my arm to give up the points
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here and have them transferred to aani
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or ant or Disneyland hotel again it's
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it's pretty much the same thing the only
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difference would be that 7 to 10 month
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booking window but sometimes that's
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pretty beneficial all right worked out
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had some answer some questions answered
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and going to pursue a few options now so
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obviously I got a couple minutes until
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here at gate 4 or Terminal 4 for Animal
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Kingdom Blizzard Beach Typhoon Lagoon
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and Disney Springs which I think the
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next one is going to be in a few moments
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let's see next bus 427 that's not right
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it says 427 but it's
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536
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huh Epcot Studios you could use a
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Skyliner next bus 4
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27 it's 536 current temperature 79° so
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that's going to get down to
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75 yeah I had some questions answered
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now there is no immediate buyback Point
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program now I do have I have 100 points
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at Grand Floridian so I've just
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discovered that there are no more points
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for sale like if you wanted to buy in
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for Grand flid and DVC there aren't
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anymore so evidently I'm getting in
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under the cusp of those selling out was
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a good idea there are still points
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available I have 150 points at
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Riviera
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and points out at uh Disney Land as well
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and also I have four home resorts which
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I think is too many home resorts again
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looking back on the decisions that I
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made before buying the house doesn't
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really make a lot of a sense to have I
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kind of want to have the Riviera still
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but having the 100 points at Grand
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Floridian I could prob probably do
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without so going to figure out what to
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do with those but there is no immediate
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buyback plan with Disney Vacation Club
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you can't just go in and say Hey I want
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to take these points sell them back
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releases as best as I can understand and
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then put those towards another Resort
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but there are
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options that I'm going to I'm going to
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try to try to figure out over the next
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series over time frame maybe not the
21:26
next series of days but over over over a
21:29
time frame and just see what I can come
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up with or not or maybe they'll just
21:33
keep it the same I do love the Riviera
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and I like grand grand fidan
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also but yeah
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hindsight looking
21:49
back kind of wish I would have taken
21:49
those 100 points for GR Floridian and
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put them towards the Disneyland new
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Disneyland DVC
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Tower is this me yep greetings from the
22:06
Springs an extended
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minivan beautiful perfect timing perfect
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timing worked out pretty well pretty
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well perfect timing got down to the bus
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stop talked a little bit to the camera
22:20
and then the bus aride things you learn
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on a bus Goofy's original name was dippy
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dog
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and the first words Mickey and mouse
22:33
spoke were hot dog in the 1929
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cartoon hot
23:10
one thing I love about Walt Disney World
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is how much Transportation there is
23:13
buses boats mon rails Skyliner
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walking I'm sure there's another one I'm
23:20
not thinking of a lot of Transportation
23:23
devices or you can take your own
23:26
vehicle there's that option
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awesome hello
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balloon hello
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bus hello water Tower that's not the
23:59
year full tower from former MGM Studios
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later Hollywood
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Studios but it's still hello bus hello
24:08
another bus hello a third bus and a
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fourth bus still a glorious water tower
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back over to the parking
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structure heading home a successful day
24:20
renewed my AP asked some questions about
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DVC and
24:26
purchased St
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well a
24:30
shirt oh yeah I also bought some stocks
24:33
and I'm going to probably buy more but I
24:36
want to try to diversify if that's the
24:38
correct
24:39
terminology I am going to buy some more
24:41
Disney stocks but and I also choose some
24:44
others even some other investment
24:47
opportunities as time goes on it's
24:49
really dark in
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here the
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bowels the Disney Springs parking
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structure yeah
24:59
back in the stock market
25:02
game I'm also probably not going to buy
25:04
any more DVC points I've already got
25:06
enough but I am going to I'm going to
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look into
25:11
possibly figuring some things out yeah I
25:14
didn't get any food at Springs or
25:16
Riviera decided to get my dinner here
25:18
Sun's kind of setting behind the
25:20
backside of this
25:26
Publix last night I got a salad from
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here and I got some cottage cheese and I
25:27
might do duplicate that tonight maybe
25:31
find another little impulse p in here
25:33
but trying to eat healthy I love those
25:35
Publix all right that's going to do it
25:37
for today I'll see you in the next video
25:38
the Vlog is over all right I got a vat
25:41
2% cottage cheese low fat a little
25:44
artichoke and spinach hummus I got a few
25:47
things to eat it with at home and then I
25:48
got this chef salad that's my meal got a
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love the Publix