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0:03
Allan tell me about stolen Kingdom which
0:06
is playing at the slam dance Film
0:09
Festival yeah so uh look this this this
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uh movie came at the right time with me
0:15
just getting back from my vacation at
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Walt Disney World um this is uh this is
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the story of these adventurers these
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fans who uh decide to uh to make the the
0:27
Disney Magic they've experienced all
0:28
their lives and and take it to the iCal
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next step and for some it was jumping
0:32
off rides and getting pictures with the
0:35
animatronics uh
0:37
for others it was getting on uh sneaking
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onto a roller coaster late at night and
0:43
climbing climbing Mount Everest at
0:45
Expedition Everest and looking for the
0:48
uh the yeti at the end um and for others
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it was about making money uh about uh
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stealing things a cast member stealing
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uh you know ride manuals here and there
0:58
uh and then just that Obsession going
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further and further and trying to steal
1:00
the bigger and better items culminating
1:03
in the theft of the audio animatronic
1:06
character Buzzy from Cranium command at
1:09
Epcot at the wonders of Life showcase
1:12
which I miss dearly so uh so this uh
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this documentary basically documents uh
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the people who have been kind of on the
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Forefront of uh sneaking behind the
1:21
scenes at Disney uh and uh and their
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adventures and their
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exploits this documentary is epic it's
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uh in it's it's partly an archival
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documentary and it uses footage shot by
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Disney
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fans who did things like they stayed
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overnight in the park eluded eluded
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security to go into rides that weren't
1:49
functioning they did things like they
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got off the ride when they weren't
1:55
supposed to and went exploring and you
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see through the the you know footage
2:01
that was shot over God it's got to be
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back like 20 years ago 20 plus years ago
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yeah where where
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they like camcorder footage like it's
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incredible what they discovered and they
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would they would steal little things
2:20
here and there and sell them on the
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black market auction Market of Disney uh
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you can you can actually go and bid on
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things like like old rides or benches or
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things that have been at Disney World or
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Disneyland they throw that stuff away so
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these are Disney fans that went too far
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and in a way it's like the Oceans 11 of
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of Disney World where this um this
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character is
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stolen and then sold he just went
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missing now the ride was not functioning
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it was a retired attraction yeah but oh
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my God this dock it's riveting it's
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riveting and they interview fans they
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interview there's some people who refuse
3:09
to be interviewed or the doc and we're
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gonna talk to the filmmaker Joshua
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Bailey so look for the interview but my
3:17
God I was blown away by this doc the
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dedication to do this was incredible and
3:24
we'll talk to the filmmaker uh shortly
3:26
but wow this is honestly this is the
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best doc I've seen this year and I don't
3:32
see and this will cause controversy it's
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it's not available to the
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public it's only premiered at slam Dan
3:41
but holy cow amazing Allan your your
3:44
comments and review if I'm not mistaken
3:46
it might be on the slam dance channel uh
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because is still going on subscribe to
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the to the slam dance uh app yeah I
3:57
think it's $10 I think it's 10 you can
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watch it now only for like the next 10
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days so limited time anyways I don't
4:06
want to get into a plug but Allan I love
4:08
the dock best dock I've seen this year
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and it everything I loved it's so
4:13
fastpac we'll we'll watch the trailer
4:16
later I want to show the trailer yeah
4:18
but holy cow this was amazing I can't
4:20
wait to talk to you Jos yeah I mean this
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this held a lot in Nostalgia for me
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because uh one of the two rides that
4:27
were kind of featured in this actually
4:28
three rides or attractions that featured
4:31
in this was uh Horizons over at Epcot I
4:34
loved Horizons and I rode that thing
4:36
many times back in the day uh Cranium
4:38
command a stupid stupid show but you
4:41
know you had this animatronic hangover
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you and that's the one that got stolen
4:44
the little Buzzy there and then
4:46
Discovery Island which uh which I
4:49
actually learned photography learned
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professional photography on Discovery
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Island because I attended Disney adult
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fantasy camp and uh they gave me a bag
4:58
full of cameras lenses and film and took
5:01
me to Discovery Island and taught me how
5:03
to shoot nature photography there um and
5:07
to see them on display here uh is
5:09
incredible because it's it's like boy I
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I could have done that I could have done
5:13
these things and and then it it hearkens
5:15
back to a time when YouTube wasn't
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exactly a thing uh you know we could
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camcorders uh no no one was filming
5:24
anything on their phone in this one uh
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and um and then the the it that uh
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Disney didn't have cameras everywhere in
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fact they had cameras barely anywhere
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and the fact that these guys would go on
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Horizon uh they would jump off halfway
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through uh they would explore for about
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an hour uh getting pictures getting
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photos and then jump back on the ride
5:47
and get off and no one knew a thing what
5:50
what they were doing and and all the
5:52
evidence that all these guys had against
5:55
them were when they finally posted it on
5:57
uh on the web or on YouTube or something
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you know they they essentially every one
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of them turned themselves in because
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Disney had no idea what was going on to
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me that's the most fascinating and just
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the fact that there are fans who could
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just outsmart Disney like this um yeah
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and the fact that this was done you know
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with camcorders not not I not phone
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footage done at a time when security was
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not so tight they didn't have cameras
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everywhere that a a a a Disney fan could
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just stay in the Park after it closed
6:29
and go exploring do like it's like cave
6:33
diving but in like attractions it's a
6:37
like the fact that this it took like
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this long for this stuff to come out and
6:41
apparently there are whole YouTube
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channels I don't know how many are up
6:45
anymore that have a lot of this footage
6:48
yeah let me let me address this because
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okay so I saw the film uh just after you
6:53
saw it and thought it was amazing so I'm
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telling my wife yesterday about this
6:57
movie and go oh I saw this amazing
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documentary about Disney and people who
7:01
snuck behind and my wife starts she
7:03
interrupts me and says oh yeah I I see
7:06
people on YouTube do that all the time
7:08
and she mentions people like Aaron the
7:10
woo and other I'm those people are in
7:13
this documentary my wife had been
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watching these guys videos forever for
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years and I didn't even know it know it
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until now so in terms of you know these
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guys got in trouble a long time ago but
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uh yeah there you know we we did that
7:28
story about Disney adults uh this is
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this is this is Disney Adultism at its
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finest this is the extreme Disney adults
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that they will put themselves one put
7:42
their lives in danger you see in in some
7:44
of the footage it's kind of scary a guy
7:47
climbed up one of the rides and saw the
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what do they call that the the like the
7:52
Wampa like creature what's that oh the
7:54
it was the yeti from ex the yeti climbed
7:58
up that Ro roller coaster like not in a
8:02
ride like just climbing so you see this
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footage it's incredibly dangerous yeah
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so uh I mean I love this doc can't wait
8:12
to talk to Josh yeah and uh strong
8:15
recommendation the best doc I've seen
8:17
this year yes it's early in the year but
8:20
um we are I'm not going to forget this
8:22
one when it comes to award this you know
8:24
it's not this will not win Oscars for
8:27
various reasons in a way some could
8:29
argue you and we'll talk to Josh does it
8:31
encourage people to do this I don't know
8:34
but I think the doc is very responsible
8:37
but um what a fantastic movie Allan
8:40
final thoughts we go to comments yeah
8:43
you know you talked about the danger I
8:44
think more people were afraid that they
8:46
would get banned from Disney for life
8:48
and many of them did um and uh it
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documentary also shows that one of them
8:53
who I think it was Aaron the woo or
8:54
something like that it
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was yeah he uh he didn't participate ate
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because he just got back into Disney's
9:01
good graces they unbanned him and so he
9:04
didn't want to I'm pretty sure he didn't
9:06
want to get get caught up in it or get
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rebn some people yeah some people refuse
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to be interviewed for the doc but um
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strong recommend Allan what do you think
9:16
yeah very much so uh just the stories
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alone uh you know definitely recommend
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