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CHOC Walk in the Park Media Event | June 17, 2025
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wow
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wow that was very
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I I need my crutch here wow oh my gosh
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you guys are excited hello
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[Music]
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who's happy to be here
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in the happiest place on earth yes so we
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are super excited to have you all back
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um this is my first time in this
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beautiful space here at the Disneyland
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Resort in Downtown Disney so we're super
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excited to be here with our friends at
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Parkside hosting us tonight and to spend
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this night with all of you um as you
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know we have a really special fundraiser
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the most unique pediatric walk in the
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nation coming up on Sunday August the 3
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here at the Disneyland Resort
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um I just want to take a few moments if
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you don't already know me my name is
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Zach Abrams here
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the introductions um I've been at Chalk
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almost 20 years let's hear present
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and um it's been some of the best years
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of my life i'm so excited and I've had
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the opportunity to work and be part of
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the chalk block in the park community
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presented by the Disneyland Resort for
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all these years it's a very special
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special special experience it's more
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than just a walk it really is the coming
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together of our entire community and our
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friends at the Disneyland Resort really
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created that with us so we have
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something that's so unique it's so
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different and our our connection in in
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history that goes back to Walt and why
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we have such an incredible children's
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hospital that uh you know I hope you
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never have to go there but if you are
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inside you'll see all the love that we
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receive from our friends at the resort
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it really does make it a happy healthy
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healing space and I know Bill might
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share a little bit more about that too
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and if you don't know this is our 2025
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Chalkwalk ambassador Bill
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Thank you
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hi everyone i'm Belle and I am just so
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delighted to be here tonight as the 2025
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Chalkwalk Ambassador
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and oh my gosh Chalkwalk is just my
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favorite day of the year i just cannot
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wait for you all to experience it if you
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haven't it is incredible and I rang the
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bell on the fifth floor in September
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when I finished cancer treatment at
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Chalk
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and it signified that I completed my
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year'sl long cancer treatment and I'm
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here tonight because I want to hear as
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many bells ring as possible throughout
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Shock representing that a child's
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treatment has come to a successful
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conclusion but we can only hear more
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ringing bells if we have your help in
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fundraising and donations through
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Chalkwalk now to tell us how you can
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generate awareness of Chalkwalk this
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week and satisfy your sweet tooth at the
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same time I'll throw it back to Zach
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thank you Bill so we've got some
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exciting things coming up including
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Chalkwalk of the Park on Sunday August
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the 3rd presented by the Disneyland
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Resort um you can register create a team
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and fund raise at www.chalkwalk.org
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so we're excited about that and then we
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have something very special coming up
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this Friday so our friends at
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Chick-fil-A this will be I think our
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13th or 14th year i have to go back and
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double check but we have Sweets Day so
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this is a really awesome uh fundraiser
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for Chops for our Orange County
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locations Chick-fil-A but 100% of the
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proceeds from all the cookies and
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brownies uh come back to Chop so if you
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can help get us help us get the word out
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uh promote let folks know we have lots
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of tools and a great video that our
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friend here created so we really want to
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have get the get the word out um eat as
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many cookies and brownies as we can uh
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this Friday i know my brother's got that
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taken care of friday June 20th
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and everybody in the link that I sent
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you there's a link to a folder with all
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the Chick-fil-A stuff in it there are no
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free cookies in it
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and they really are good um just to give
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you a little bit of history with our
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friends at Chick-fil-A I actually met um
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the very first operator and owner here
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in Orange County so uh going back to
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when they first opened the first
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location here um they've always been
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involved at Chalk and supported Chalk
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and we have a lot of grateful family
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members and that's how that connection
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came to us and became part of our
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Chalkwalk family
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who doesn't like the cookies and
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brownies right yeah they're so good oh
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my gosh but doesn't that just sound
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great it's so much fun and to have Chalk
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and Disney and Chick-fil-A involved is
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just the best and now as an inspiring
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influencer I was just so happy to meet
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so many of you at the last event um and
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if I didn't get to meet you hi but so
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before I go any further I just want to
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give all of you a massive shout out to
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this influencer community
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you guys are all so inspiring and I just
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love seeing your work and what you do
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and I know many of you have actually
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supported Shockwalk for more than a
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decade which is amazing
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so since we're a nonprofit entity your
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help in annually spreading the word
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about Shockwalk in the park is very
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vital to its success and fundraising
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efforts i just can't thank you all
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enough for your support your work with
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Today Group PR ensures that as many
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people as possible know how to support
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ChalkWalk or be involved with it now
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Zach's going to tell us how you can
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generate even more awareness of
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Chalkwalk through an incredible offer
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for Chalkwalk participants
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thank you Bill so again I want to call
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out our friends at the Disneyland Resort
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because their support hosting this
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amazing fundraiser for us gives us this
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opportunity to raise close to now $46
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million for children
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so please let's give a big warm another
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round of applause for our friends at
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Disneyland
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um we're excited to celebrate Happy this
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year celebrating Disneyland's 70th
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anniversary and so um you'll see some
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similarities in our excitement in our
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theme of color how many of you own that
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[Laughter]
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it's pretty awesome it's very happy so
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we have lots of great prices and
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incentives for your friends and your
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followers um one is our uh $375
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fundraising Disneyland Resort uh
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chalkwalk park package and that actually
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includes uh I think it's a park hopper
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for the day of the walk which is on
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Sunday August the 3rd so in addition to
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that you also get the awesome medallion
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and pin and t-shirt which you see right
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there on the screen very colorful i time
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that yeah so this is the t-shirt and
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it's designed by our friend Jeff Gino so
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we're excited to have his support and
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with the design um and then there's some
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special timelines with this it's really
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important that um there is a deadline
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because we have to distribute those
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tickets and get all of those materials
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to everybody so um if you're new to
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Chalkwalk Chalkwalk Check-in is its own
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fun exciting magic and that's when
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everybody comes turns in their funds and
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then picks up all of the great swag and
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things that we have and obviously those
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great Disneyland Resort parkers so that
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is July 25th is the deadline for that we
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have information online at
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chalkblock.org with all the details and
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um those tickets are valid only for
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Sunday August 3rd so it's really
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important to include those details and
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to make sure folks get there to chalk
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check in and pick up their park hoppers
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we only have 2,000 of them so it's first
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come first serve the first folks that
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reach that that that level so um it's
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really important to get that information
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out there and share that it's a great
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way to come and enjoy the park after you
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walk through the Disneyland Resort and
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experience all the magic and then I want
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to say I think we're going to send it
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back to you oh wait do I have more i do
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have more huh okay i think you're right
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i think I covered everything actually
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now I'd like to welcome you yes so well
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come on up
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thank you Pat thank you Val you know I'm
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so excited to be here with all of you
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this morning this afternoon oh my gosh
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it's been a long day for me sorry
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but I'm really excited to be here with
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all of you on behalf of you know all
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your friends at Disneyland and our cast
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members um we're so excited to be
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participating with you um really soon in
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the Chalkwalk in the park here and as
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Zach was mentioning as you all may know
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this relationship goes back to Walt
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himself he was one of the ones that kind
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of helped establish Chalk here as one of
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the first regional hospitals for
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children in this area and ever since
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then this relationship has become family
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ever ever since Walt started that I know
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in the past our presidents have been on
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the boards of Chalk and it's been just a
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great community to be a part of and I
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know over the past 33 years Disneyland
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Resort has helped raise over $46 million
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for Chalk
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and as the sun rises on August 3rd we're
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going to be really really excited that
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you're all going to be able to join us
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to walk in the park and those 3.1 miles
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for that 5K um that's going to go
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through Disneyland Park Disneyland
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Resort as well as Disney California
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Adventure Park right and you guys are
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going to be one of the few that are
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going to be able to get into the park
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before it's open who gets to walk
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through the castle around the castle
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without without anyone here right
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now one of the highlights of Disneyland
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being a part of this is a relationship
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with our Magic Key holders who just last
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um Chalkwalk were able to bring 320
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participants and together they raised
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$80,000 and to this date have raised
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almost a million dollars for Chalk
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now I know a lot of you may have
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followers who are magic key holders so
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if they have not yet joined the team we
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encourage them to visit let me give you
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the site real quick so that we can get
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the right site it is
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chalkwalk.org/discomagic
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keyholders that way they can sign up and
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you know there's always incentives for
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our magic keyh holders this is a little
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preview of what those magic key holders
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will be receiving to chalk and Magic Key
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co-branded water bottle so that they can
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take with them around that walk and
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we're just really excited that we're
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going to be here tonight with you all
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and we're going to be enjoying this time
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together as friends as families to
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support this amazing cause at Chalk so
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with that thank you Zach thank you Bill
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and I can't wait to see you all on
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August 3rd
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thank you and like Royal said the
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morning of the walk you see things that
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you don't usually get to see at actual
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regular Disney days like incredible
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character experiences one of my
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favorites last year was seeing the
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floats for Magic Happens Parade
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backstage it was so cool and me and my
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mom were fangirling it was awesome but
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that little things like that that mean
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the most that you see on Chalkwalk so
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thank you again we cannot wait to
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celebrate happy with you and all of our
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friends at the Disneyland Resort to add
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more magic to our evening please welcome
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a gentleman who will give our event a
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little Disney artistic twist you know
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him as an author a historian has anyone
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seen Behind the Attraction on Disney
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Plus
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it's a really good entertaining show um
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and of course the head of today group PR
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who has been helping raise awareness for
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Chalk since 2012
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please welcome our friend Tim Odin
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every single day
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[Applause]
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okay would you rather listen to me or
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the martini shaker
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okay so Bill I need you and Zach over
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here cuz you're going to help me out
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with something okay so has everybody
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seen this artwork here okay this is from
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the Disney fine art portfolio and you've
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all seen artwork like this if you've
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been to Wonderound here at the
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Disneyland Resort or the Disney shop or
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u off the page at Disney California
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Adventure and we thought it'd be kind of
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fun since we don't have many Disney
12:43
experts in the audience we thought we'd
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try and stump you but it's not just
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Disney trivia it's chalk trivia as well
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so who's game
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[Applause]
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zach we've run out of time i think we're
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going to have to skip this
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you don't sound very enthusiastic about
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this
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oh how quickly you turn all right so the
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way we're going to do this is the first
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hand I see up and I'm blind in one eye
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so give me a break uh the first hand I
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see up I'll call on that and if you get
13:21
the answer wrong we'll move on okay got
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it sound good okay
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come on i'm about to ask the first
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question lean in lean in
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okay here we go which of the following
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is not an opening day attraction at
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Disneyland when it opened on July 17th
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1955
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is it Wait till I finish all the options
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i saw the death of the
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Was it Jungle Cruise not an opening day
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attraction was it Rocket to the Moon not
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an opening day attraction was it the
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Disneyland Railroad not an opening day
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attraction or was it Mr toad's Wild Ride
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which one was not an opening day
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attraction over here in the blue
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wrong
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reuben the moon
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you're right
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no no no hold it no no no no go back go
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back go back
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he's stood there like a dummy like did I
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win all right ready Ruben you won
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everybody
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now we know how to do this right okay
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second question here we go on what date
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did the very first chalkw walk occur in
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1990
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was it August 10th 1990 April 1 1990
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get it april 1
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may 15th 1990 or November 10th right
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here november 10th you win
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ruben out bounced you he now bounced you
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okay we're going to save the wall one
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for last
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okay which classic Disneyland attraction
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has never permanently been replicated at
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any other Disney park
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is it It's a Small World Alice and
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Wonderland Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki
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Room or the Main Street Cinema
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mike alice in Wonderland
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do we have ringers here
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one
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okay this one will be hard because it's
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a chalk question ready
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are you guys ready okay
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in what year did Chalk become Chalk's In
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what year did Chalkwalk become Chalk's
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first ever milliondoll event was it 1990
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2004 2005 or 2019 which is it way back
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there in the red
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nope
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all right one more right here 1990 nope
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process of elimination people okay okay
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i'm going to read it again 1990 2004
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2005 2019
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way back there in the corner
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2004 is correct
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[Applause]
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oh now hold on come up here come here
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you have to show everybody what you want
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[Applause]
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okay all right i'm afraid to ask another
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Disneyland question because we're so
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good at it hopefully this is Hopefully
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this was Yeah the wrong crowd
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where in Disneyland Resort can you find
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a window dedicated to Walt Disney is it
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Buista Street Main Street USA New
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Orleans Square or Mickey's Toontown i
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did yeah no just I don't Wait a minute
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come here a minute come here
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turn around not that way
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i do not choose magic
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what all right where's the window it's
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in Mickey's suit
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who invited him all right you won
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[Applause]
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sure
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he made me nervous all that bouncing
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all right our last question you ready
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who wants Who oh we have three you want
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to do three okay choco Bear and a
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Powerline pin who wants a power line pin
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all right let's see here uh
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throw that against me let's see um let's
18:20
see here let's see uh
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okay who can name the three hosts of
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opening day at Disneyland
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i'll give you a clue one was Ronald
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Reagan one was TV personality Art Link
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Letter and there was a third one who was
18:38
a TV personality of the 1950s
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oh so you thought you were so smart
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didn't
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No come on show hands
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come on anybody right here
18:53
he was there but wrong you're close
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though yes penny penny stop looking at
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Gmail
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who is it bob Cummings bob Cummings is
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correct
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[Applause]
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all right ready this is scaring me okay
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uh
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let's see here got to think of another
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one cuz I didn't count on this um in
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what year did The Abominable Snowman
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debut at Disneyland was it 1970
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1975
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1978
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or 1980
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right back there 1975 nope
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right back here
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was that nope
19:51
1978 how'd you figure that out yes yes
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you win
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this is the final finale this is the
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grand finale
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who wants Walt on the lily
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okay you ready okay lean in come on lean
20:13
in children's Hospital of Orange County
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opened in 1964
20:19
what classic Walt Disney film also
20:21
premiered in 1964 is it The Sword and
20:25
the Stone Mary Poppins the Jungle Book
20:28
or The Many Adventures of Winnie the
20:29
Pooh mary Poppins mary Poppins is
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correct
20:35
good job
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[Applause]
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now here's something really cool this is
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kind of neat so just for you influencers
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any influencers here
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we have another little game for you
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so between now and uh Friday June 20th
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we have four sets of two pop copper
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tickets to give away
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so whoever sends in the most screenshots
21:09
and it will be reviewed by committee so
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no no cheating whoever sends in the most
21:14
screenshots will win those Park Hopper
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tickets sound good
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what's that
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your posts of course
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oh now the light bulb goes off there we
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go
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[Music]
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not No jill asked if she can just keep
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sending in the same picture over and
21:35
over and over
21:40
that sound good yeah so so if you post
21:43
anything between now and then send me a
21:46
picture of it and we will figure out who
21:48
has sent in the most post most pictures
21:52
and you'll win all right sound good
21:57
okay well Zach uh I think it's time for
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you to wrap up this little clamp so
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there you go thank you Tim and round of
22:05
applause for Terra
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[Applause]
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okay there we go and
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so once again I just want to
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get working I think yeah there we go you
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having fun
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you enjoying awesome food and drink here
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at this incredible restaurant absolutely
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well we want to thank everybody we want
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to thank Tim and Michael for those
22:36
incredible donations um congratulations
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to all the winners tonight
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um before we wrap up I want to uh remind
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everyone of a few important dates um I
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also want to stress and reiterate all
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the awesome support that we receive from
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our friends at the end
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make sure you share about the Magic Keys
22:59
team and the prizes if you any of your
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friends your followers haven't joined
23:03
the team if you want to join your team
23:05
or bells there and they are magic key
23:07
holders obviously you want to join the
23:09
magic key holders win those great prizes
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um also remember we have a special chalk
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walk day package this year that folks
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can fund raise $375
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and then get a park hopper ticket for
23:22
the day of the chalk walk so it's a
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whole day of happy in the park presented
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by the Disneyland Resort so that's
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really important and there's an
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important date that goes along with that
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we need to get all their funds in and by
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uh July 25th and there's only 2,000 of
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those spots so it's really important
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they can uh match funds through their
23:44
company or businesses obviously uh do a
23:47
Facebook fundraiser online as well as um
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do other fundraisers make sure to call
23:52
reach out to our friends here at Chalk
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we're happy to help coach them um and
23:57
give them other ideas and then also
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please please please remind everyone
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about Sweet Day presented by Chick-fil-A
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that is this Friday on June 20th it's a
24:08
great opportunity to enjoy some food
24:09
some sweets bring Who's going to sweets
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day
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can you bring it to work oh yeah who
24:18
wants Chick-fil-A at work who wants to
24:20
Who wants to bring Chick-fil-A to
24:21
everyone you can bring it to anyone who
24:23
doesn't want cookies and brownies
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and on Thursday since you guys had this
24:29
idea of taking the cookies to work I
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know somebody at KTLA who'll be taking
24:34
the cookies to work on Thursday that
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would be Henry D carlo henry is a
24:39
preview of cookies and if you're up at
24:41
6:30 on Thursday cuz I know you all will
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be
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all right
24:48
you'll see Henry and the cookies and the
24:50
brownies on KTLA right yes absolutely
24:54
absolutely so tune in our friends from
24:56
Kate LA and make sure you watch Henry
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he's the only weather person I trust
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and then of course I want to also thank
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our friends from Chalkwalk team our 225
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Chalkwalk Ambassador Bell
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[Music]
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and a couple of friends on our team that
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helped make the h the magic happen
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ashley is hiding back there yeah ashley
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and Emily yeah emily
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and our friend Bethany yeah Bethany and
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she likes to do collabs as well she
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helps us with our our our social media
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and then also Tim
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and we have a new member of our chalk
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family and that's Ronnie back there who
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just joined
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and then touch oh yeah so there are a
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couple hashtags that you can use with
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any of your fundraising posts or
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actually the day of the walk um so
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hashtag chalk #chalkwalk is the main one
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for all your social media posts i use
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those and yeah cheers to everyone which
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is so much fun and uh maybe tag Parkside
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tag Parkside yeah tag truck foundation
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everything and um let's see what else we
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have i think we're going to just I think
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that's it thank you all so much for
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coming and allowing me to be here and
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it's been so much fun so I can't wait to
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see you all at Shockwalk bright and
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All the
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