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Introducing Photoniks!
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Jun 29, 2025
Check out the first teaser minisode of Photoniks! This is a new joint podcast between Daps Magic and Sent From Disneyland that looks at Disney history through the lens of photography! We hope you enjoy! Don't miss Daps Magic's official weekly YouTube show Geeks Corner here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAF91C7183BAB676B Visit Daps Magic: https://dapsmagic.com Join Our Patreon Community: https://patreon.com/dapsmagic Daps Magic was created by a very special group of Disney Fans who had a dream for a place on the internet where people young and old could share their love of Walt Disney and his legacies in a safe and fun atmosphere.
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photo X
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photox
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welcome to Photoics i'm Mr daps i'm
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Clocky and this is our teaser trailer
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preview
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you get to see the first picture
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whatever you're going to call it none
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episode i'm excited how about you Clocky
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i'm very excited so tell tell about what
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we're going to do with this yeah so I
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think the goal of this is I've got this
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incredible collection of old Disneyland
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photos you and I you know history of of
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clocky and daps would look at old maps
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together and now we're going to look at
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old photos together and that will be
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interesting some of these I haven't Are
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we ever going to look at photos of a map
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we will i we will get to that I'm sure
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okay i don't see why not the when when
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we get to a photo group that we have the
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year on we should definitely look at a
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map to say "Oh this this photo was here
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this photo was here." That would be
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great for a website but this is the
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trailer episode
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exactly so uh should we do a brief
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demonstration of what exactly we're
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going to do yeah let's go we've got two
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photos here from Disneyland here's the
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first one uh so I This is one of my
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favorite photos i've made I've actually
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made a postcard of this photo it's of
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Sleeping Beauty Castle in black and
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white you can see guests walking across
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a drawbridge you can see one of the
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things that you can always tell how old
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a photo is is you don't see the
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Disneyland or the Disney crest above the
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the opening so we know this is pre66 or
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pre68 so we're looking at an older photo
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my other favorite photo or part of this
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image is that picture spot in the upper
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leftand corner it's still Kodak right
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because switch to It switches for a
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little bit doesn't it yeah later on in
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the history yeah
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Polaroid I think had it at one point i
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think Fuji may have had it but initially
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Kodak
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uh just a brief question for you if
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you've ever shot with um traditional
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film did you have a specific type of
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film that you liked that was always my
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grandparents thing so any of the old I
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have I would have to find out what they
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because I do have a lot of images and
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I'm sure this will come up with both of
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us of old photos of Disneyland that are
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our vacation photos this is not my
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vacation photo and yeah I'll have to ask
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my grandmother what she what they used
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to film with i can remember one
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grandparent family used Kodak and the
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other grandparent family used Fuji i can
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I can guarantee you Kodak that I can
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guarantee you one there there you go
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there we What kind of camera that that
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is up for debate oh Canon Nikon whatever
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yeah
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i have an Olympus over here too it's
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probably 40 50 years old so I think I
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think the other great detail on this on
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on top of the photo spot is the lack of
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ivy on the castle as we will probably
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see this through episodes of how much
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ivy was allowed to grow on the castle at
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any given time and the other is the tree
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growth too so in the right hand corner
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there's the tree and the foliage down in
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front because it seems to me back then
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it was a little bit more
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I don't want to say wild but it was a
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little bit more uh allowed to grow yes
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you found the tree through the forest
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versus sometimes in Disney's history it
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is very perfect like it is it's trimmed
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it's sculpted whatever you want to call
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it and um I think that's a very cool
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thing to note also Um
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for sure anything else about this
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i think one thing we should note about
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the uh the picture spot sign is that
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partially inspired our logo for photo
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necks most definitely they don't make
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the photo guy like they used to now it's
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just that shield well he'd also have to
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be holding a a phone out in front of him
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instead of a camera up to his his eye
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right oh man here's another question
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that I haven't actually thought about
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till just now the the window over the
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bridge and so right there in the middle
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of the castle was that a opening day uh
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um stained glass or was it just solid
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older photos of the castle opening day
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actually you know what and that's why
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it's convenient to be here this This is
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where we're going to be a little bit
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nerdy and go off the rails sometime
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probably my fault
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the other thing that will be fun to
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watch as we go through some of these
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older pictures is the different styles
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that people are uh wearing to the parks
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whether they're suits or um dresses or
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when do shorts start showing up really
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beyond little kids
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right you can you can see a lady in a
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hat sitting on one of the little aloves
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of the drawbridge
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a big hat which is awesome i don't see a
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trilly in this picture unfortunately
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so looking at an opening day photo of
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the castle I don't see any stained glass
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i just see window so this this is
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probably pretty early on i would say
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this is somewhere
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what I also don't see is
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you definitely don't see a line or I
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don't see the skyway buckets necessarily
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i don't know at this angle you would
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have seen it but you would have seen
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Tinkerbell's line for sure you would
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think yeah so this is probably pre-59 i
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That's where my instinct is going too
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i wonder if there would be a way to tell
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with the font for picture spot or
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something like that if they because I
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feel like those kind of things got
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updated every time you painted them
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right it' be it'd be curious if somebody
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had a book of like picture spot uh
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pictures that they could tell us like oh
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that was 1956 because it has this or
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whatever yeah it or has the or the Kodak
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logo would have changed yeah yeah that
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too
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all right
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should we move on next actually one
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other thing I noticed about this photo
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that we can start tracking a bit because
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we still have this is the shadow
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so of what time what time of day this
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was taken too because you can see the
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shadows on the top of the castle as well
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as on the side there well and now that
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you're mentioning that I do see some ivy
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growing up on the left right on that
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some ivy not much there's a So it's it's
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a young Ivy so I'm betting it's the
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first couple of years right all right
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perfect next photo is the wrong way this
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way preview for the next episode all
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right this one is in full color straight
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on in the castle a little bit tilted but
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you wouldn't have been able to notice
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that when you were taking the photo but
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we do have the crest so we're we're
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talking past 68 now and then like you
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just mentioned about outfits so we see
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shorts over here on the right
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well the lady wearing the uh Yeah the
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pants on the left yeah the left or
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wearing I don't even know what that's
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called
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uh and then of and then of course the
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two ladies that are kind of the focal
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point of this photo which are they are
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in full dresses ready to be out on the
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town about the same shadows a bit and
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then the their their shoes wearing nice
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shoes even the kid in the blue i feel
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like we should also be tracking the uh
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the ground there that that kind of
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reddish cement um because that might
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actually give a clue a little bit
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right and easier to tell in color isn't
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it fascinating too how much ivy's on the
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right side of the castle versus the left
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right well that would and that would be
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part of they that side would get the
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morning sun
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whereas the left side of the castle is
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going to get the afternoon heat and
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probably burn off a little bit more yeah
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I was going to say I bet it gets burned
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like crazy uh it looks like the windows
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are still the same
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right
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you can see if you look closely you can
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see King Arthur's carousel all the way
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through
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so what's interesting about this too is
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after thinking about the last picture
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we're not seeing the sky buckets here
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either so I'm thinking they were they
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were blocked by the castle
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um and and there'll probably be some
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picture down the line where we're just
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like "Oh there we go there's our
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answer."
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The other thing we can start looking at
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everyone's hot topic and you can see it
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on the left over here the kid in the
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stroller or the other stroller next to
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the girl in the red shorts oh yeah so
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strollers through the years
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and keep our eyes out for a pram like
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that's like the gold that's the gold
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shot
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pram or the other you know the other
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classics that everyone loves the paper
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hats i haven't seen a paper hat recently
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but it's also interesting you're seeing
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sneakers in this too it looks like and I
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I don't know that you would have seen
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that in the early years
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which we know this right you got the guy
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on the left is wearing loafers of some
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sort mhm
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but yeah lots of flats lots of Yeah I
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think they learned their lesson looks
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like it could be summer with these
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shorts and short and well and no sleeves
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too actually that would be another
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fashion choice for Well and I'm also
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looking at the guy with the blue shirt
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that's the slim shirt with the It looks
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like it has a pretty big collar maybe on
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the right the short sleeve shirt and uh
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and then like looks like he might be
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carrying a hipster jacket or something
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which also kind of dates things I feel
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like a little bit more I don't know what
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do you think early7s uh I don't think I
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don't think the h is that too far that
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may be too far i bet this is 60s
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how late in the 60s
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68 69 no sooner than Yeah yeah i I got
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thrown a little bit into the 70s because
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of the blue and the orange I think of
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the uh Right the the
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flags in the front yeah the banner
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colors yeah that's a better word which
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it's an interesting choice of banner
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colors because you've got green white
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black orange
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or yellow maybe you call it another
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orange in the back purple and yellow red
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and white and then blue and that yellow
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orange color right
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huh whereas now it would be whereas now
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it'd be like okay what color is
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currently the theme of the n of the 70th
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anniversary or what is the color of
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Pixar Fest right or I think it's also
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interesting to note that this is the
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classic or at least what I would call it
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the classic paint job for the castle
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like it's it's kind of the when I think
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historically of Sleeping Beauty Castle
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this is the look I think of before it
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got the vibrant pop the pale blue and
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the kind of pink
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mhm
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the the We're going for some sense of of
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realism and not too fantasy but it's
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also a fantasy land castle
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cool cool so if you like this or if you
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have ideas for how we can make this
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better let us know because we're going
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to have real episodes of this coming out
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very soon where we go into real photos
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that uh come from real people's cameras
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that were on real film and uh we will
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have real commentary as it comes from
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our brain so uh make sure to subscribe
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to Photoics wherever you're watching or
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listening to this right now and uh we
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will have more of these and I feel like
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we'll figure this out in the future we
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will also have a point in time where if
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you have old pictures you can send them
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to us or you can scan them and send them
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to us so uh keep your ears open for that
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is there anything else we want to say in
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this teaser trailer that's not really
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anything no I think that that's plenty
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it's 12 minutes we may need to cut it
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down
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yeah we'll let him play with it 12
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minutes not bad yeah exactly all right
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thanks for listening we'll see you at
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the real first episode very soon
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