Spooky Empire 2022 Halloween Event at Orange County Convention Center / Floridas Biggest Horror Con
Spooky Empire 2022 Horror Convention
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today's adventure begins by looking me
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looking in this
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bended mirror here at the parking
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structure on International Drive near
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the Orange County Convention Center as a
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recording of this Saturday October 22nd
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2000.
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22 wearing an appropriate t-shirt
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Knee Deep
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Waist Deep
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torso High into the Halloween season
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which means Spooky Empire one of the
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premiere and largest
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Halloween events when it comes to
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conventions in Central Florida it's been
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going on for years sometimes it will be
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down at the Wyndham a couple miles that
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way and sometimes the bigger version in
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October
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is that the Orange County Convention
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Center I'm inviting you to join me it
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started yesterday I didn't go yesterday
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it was also tomorrow it's the whole
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weekend but today as a recording of this
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it is a Saturday edition which usually
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has the most cosplay which I love
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join me shall you now if memory serves
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me correct obviously a lot of this
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wasn't documented on video back then but
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first time I ever went to this
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particular event
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was down when it was over at the Wyndham
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back in 2008 it has grown considerably
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since those days
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now it's here at the convention center
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and the structure I parked at
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pretty close in proximity to
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the West Concourse
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welcome
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to this show
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Spooky Empire
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2022 October Edition out front of this
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Fountain here in the little Lagoon is a
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manatee
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yeah
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all right and then and walking in
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already there's got will call over here
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you got VIP quite a few people here
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about it and with this towering pumpkin
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stand
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welcome to the show
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Spooky Empire and thankfully there was a
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coffee stand I have a piping caution
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piping caution hot caffeinated
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beverage and I'm being greeted by a
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clown over there
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a witch doctor
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I mean unless you made it Irish then hey
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let's party
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hello there
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goodness
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oh oh wow look at this clowns
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watch out
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oh my gosh because you can lose an eye
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out don't be scared that startled
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me pretty good you're too big to be
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scared
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holy cow that was awesome that was
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awesome
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would you like to feel my intestines
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feel your intestines yes would you like
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to feel it from the inside oh maybe
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later
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I guess here
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the cosplay I like it things but I also
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like all the different merchandise
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stands here I'll check it out a little
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they live up there
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a little kiwi mashup oh this is pretty
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neat a little Spooky Empire mixed with
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cbgb's mash up here address 666.
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is the celebrity room where you know
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certain celebrities Ken fory from Dawn
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of the Dead this guy that played bub in
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Day of the Dead where all the
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celebrities are signing autographs and
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stuff and of course a lot of great
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cosplay here and out of that room into
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an entire other area which would be the
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main hall you see Frankenstein's monster
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I like to call him Frankie the
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Frankenstein Frankenstein's monster but
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I refer to him as Frankie but the area
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over here is the tattoo section so
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you've got tattoo Fest and then you have
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row after row after row after row
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of vendors oh there's a there's a
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English Monster walking right there and
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over here are some is some of the
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official merchandise with the date
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stamped t-shirt up there and it looks
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like this one here has been been edited
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just a little bit and this is the guide
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map for today not the guide map but the
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guidebook which is probably
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kind of show a little bit of this too
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this is the adventure oh we got ghost
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face over here and next to ghost-faced a
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Skeleton version of Bucky the beaver
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I didn't know you both were friends
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Ghostface have you tried the beaver
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nuggets
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you have that's it let's just die for
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that's always my go-to all right good to
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see you both have fun at spooky and
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speaking of
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skeletons this one's open for right I
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don't want to I don't want to step in
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there that is not something I want to be
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stepping into this is at the creature
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Cosmetics Booth I'm just kind of briefly
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looking through some of the celebrities
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that are going to be here I'm not real
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big on getting a lot of autographs from
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a lot of people I do have a Dawn of the
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Dead poster I do have a Back to the
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Future poster but I'm trying to complete
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that's kind of those are kind of the
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exceptions but this would have been one
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today that I would have loved to have
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got Danny Lloyd which is all grown up
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now but I probably would have wanted to
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meet him but he ended up not being here
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so he ended up kind of bailing on the
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whole event which kind of stinks but
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yeah that'd have been awesome to be
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Danny Lloyd right there
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come and play with us Danny forever yeah
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check out this Chuck Norris Chuck Norris
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is my homeboy with the beard right next
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to Michael Jackson right over here
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that's pretty good comes with the self
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it comes with a beard right attached to
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it you can't beat that this beach is
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pretty nice like a bunch of shadow boxes
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but it looks like VHS so you got the
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cannon here for alligator two but take a
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look it's not a VHS it's just like a
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shadow box it's a little Charles Bronson
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here 10 to midnight these are awesome
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and this is the man himself Petey from
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Spooky Empire what's going on how many
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years have you been doing this this is
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19 years man and most of those years
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you've been sporting the Yankees cap
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definitely yeah trademark yeah
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definitely have you been following been
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following the playoffs right now yeah to
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do better than my race so yeah a big
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Rays fan but yeah so 19 years you've
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been doing this first year I was here
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was a 2008. which you had the Dawn of
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the Dead kind of reunion over there 2008
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at the window yeah
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awesome man well good to see you
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definitely for land we're nightmares oh
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check it out House on Haunted Hill so
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when I lived in Orange County originally
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back in 2015 2016 had a house near the
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orange circle and I had this on my wall
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in the horror hallway that is a callback
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that is a serious throwback there's
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Chucky over there some pillows up there
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you can rest your head on Beetlejuice
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okay I'm with it you're a celebrity now
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Rick yes I am now you obviously I've
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known you for years and years and yes
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kind of you started 13x the masks here
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but now you're known as selfie guy
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you're wearing an appropriate selfie
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King Tea are you selfie guy selfie guy
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in the movie but I'm doing a documentary
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right now okay I wish you're gonna be in
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his team in a sec I'm gonna be in your
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movie yeah you know what I love this
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thing now we like I look thinner like
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Tampa Jay holds it down here and I'm
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like come on bro you know he's like this
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and we all look you know it gains 20
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pounds this is how you do it Tampa Jay
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this is how we do it right here the meta
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song
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yeah because for not watching it all
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right I'll watch your scene yeah I have
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to watch the whole thing I will legally
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send you the clip all right so you'll
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see him yeah so you can meet you and buy
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a mask yes or you could see you as will
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you take a selfie with anyone that comes
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up here I assure for fifty dollars I
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will do anything on this game yes of
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course
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um terrifier was made for 250 000 and
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right now we're at 3.6 million dollars
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wow it's blowing up wow it's blowing up
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Howard Stern talked about us the other
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day oh my God it's non-stop I'm just
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looking through the masks here oh
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there's a jaw it looks like jaws has
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sank his teeth into this one right here
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but this is from the movie um
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spoiler alert the eyeball but it's all
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good is that so that's a vomit bag
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because people have been vomiting during
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the movie it's actually they're vomiting
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from watching my acting in the movie oh
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and one of my favorite local haunts at
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Old Town more to Manor is also here
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all right thank you I'll see you later
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you're welcome
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oh check it out it's Frankenstein's
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monster touching Frankie
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got some skulls down here and other
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assorted Panic house over there there's
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oceans and whatnot and one of those one
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of those giant yard skeletons right
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there wearing a spooky cat shirt now
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over here is a famous monsters of film
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land Booth I like some of these t-shirts
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especially this one over here that kind
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of looks like 3DS
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over there that's kind of neat it's like
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a ringer style oh is this a Jackalope no
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it's not a Jackalope but just like a
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it's like an evil squirrel of some sort
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of some good Texas Chainsaw was up
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there's a lot of good just like a whole
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Texas Chainsaw Booth over here there's
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some stranger things down here not only
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board games but take a look at this
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light bright over here very red truck
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yeah check out these items here the
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Sonic the Hedgehog this is like a
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blanket of some sort or maybe like a
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throw towel pretty cool you got Michael
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you got Freddy down there you got
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Pinhead some of the different pins
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not necessarily pin head but different
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pins
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all right
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equivalent what not even a little Darth
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Vader up there what's the name of your
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company
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what is it one shot was shot
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oh there it is okay
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nice very cool
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look at this Vader I am your melting
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father all right now here's the full the
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full deal wash shop House of Horrors got
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Reagan up there we've got Nosferatu Jack
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Torrance Leatherface Pennywise it's like
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cool cassica even Ash evil dead right
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down there as well pretty cool work and
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over here at Crescent creepers
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we've got Creature from the Black Lagoon
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as well some of the outfits that are
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through here yeah I always like these
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too
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Sid Hague over here got apartment
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I always like this Roger from Romero's
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Dawn down there oh look at this it's a
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script Tommy Lee Wallace here from
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season the wish Halloween 3. a lot of
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different masks in here silver Shamrock
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Mass all three of them have Halloween
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three up there it's called The Creature
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Workshop over here a lot of Halloween
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stuff course Haddonfield items as well
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you know Conjuring and space
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space ninja Savers that's what it is
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right space ninja Sabers so what's some
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of the new what some of the new ones
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that you got
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what's the newest character saber you
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got it oh we got a whole bunch of new
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ones we got some new anakins in okay we
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have six Kenobi variant Savers now six
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there yes yeah we got some variants of
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the of the loot graphics and then the
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reforged one yeah we got an Inquisitor
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saber in this one's a really nice one I
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like this one
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even got like a folding race staff too
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charged with USBC oh you have a head
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there Michael you have oh my goodness
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thanks Michael
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he's ahead of the game oh
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killer clown here very very nice
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thank you very on stage here
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they have a rough tile
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what is this oh it's a it's a crocodile
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yeah so we have the only melanistic
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African slenders now as well
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and a lot of people ask like if it's by
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if they already thought she would be
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bigger but these guys live a very long
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time hello Michael
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um
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it's generally between
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40 and 60. you're just not interested in
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the reptiles at all you're more
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interested in approaching me with a
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weapon
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like to call he's 110 years old thank
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you Michael
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I really do like this wing of the
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convention center over here this is the
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food court section over in this area
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Joe over here
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that's Stay Puft
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all right here's Christine right here
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and we got a little skeleton driving the
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car as well
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you got the little miniature 58 Plymouth
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miniature down in there too
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it was awesome
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windows are not I think in the movie you
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couldn't really see inside too much this
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is great
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I think this might be the only car that
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I've seen here it's the only movie car
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obviously probably not screen used but
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definitely a nice Recreation here The
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Carpenter's Christine foreign
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just kind of curious where this lead
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says more Spooky Empire fun this way up
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the escalator yeah so there's a whole
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upper level up here at the stage down
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there with the reptiles and all that of
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course Stay Puft down there hello
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how are you oh it's lovely to see you
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here it's lovely to see you as well
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alive
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you left me I thank you for that for
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leaving me alive
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so this is a book called mice
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all right are you a mouse oh no the
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magical friends are oh all right yes
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they show me the past president future
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what is the future hold for me Mouse oh
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well this is pestilence and oh
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dear is that so well the question says
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that you will walk around and videotape
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people oh strange things all right
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pestilence nose knows me well she does
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yes all right pestilence can I give
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pestilence a little fist pump a little a
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knuckle little knuckle bump good girl
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good to see you Pastor Woods all right
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I'll see you later thank you nice
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talking to you thanks for thanks for
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letting me live
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with this skeleton got the guide map
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here the skeleton's got the guide map
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wanting to know like exactly how to find
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its way around the convention center
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good luck skeleton
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there's an upper level a lot of people
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don't know this is up a level up here
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most people are down the lower level
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hopefully you make it down there
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skeleton now heading back down
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to the lower level
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could have taken the elevator to the
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side has about taking the escalator okay
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is this is this the unhappy meal
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oh
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what is that
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that's a hand burger oh very interesting
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thank you oh check out art the clown
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over here he has some sort of bone saw
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there that's that's not going to end
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well with that I got a bone saw
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oh you're a little practicing there oh
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look at these clouds
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oh hello there I don't know what were
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you asking I'm looking for the virgins
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for my familiar Guillermo
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all right I have not I have not seen
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anything keep me posted though
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all right we'll check back in with me
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later if you find any there is a monkey
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with a birthday cap on right there hello
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monkey
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is it your birthday
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oh wow oh what oh yeah all right that
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monkey doesn't like you
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I like that oh a little a little fist
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bump I like it a little fist bump for
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Tampa Jay there right so you tried to
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attack me but you fist bump temperature
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is it on your shirt there spill a little
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something on your shirt or is that oh is
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that from your mouth or your teeth you
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bit something you ate something all
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right
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all right carry on monkey happy Birthday
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happy Birthday monkey what the heck a
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double fist Bob can I get a fist bump
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oh come on monkey
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all right looking through the crowds
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Jason Voorhees hello Jason
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I got Leatherface over here oh the
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chainsaw really works
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let's do some carving up later
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oh what the I'm over here near these
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bubbles
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got an Annabelle look at this none the
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bubbles add to the effect creepy nut do
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you think the bubbles kind of add to the
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horrifying effect behind us yeah I think
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so I think so I can't decide which one
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of you is the creepiest it's a okay fair
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enough I don't know I think it's a it's
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a three-way tie there pretty awesome as
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always did a few laps around went
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through the celebrity room went through
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the video getting the autographs or
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anything went to the vendor room did
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pretty good at pretty good at curbing my
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desire to purchase a lot of things but
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it's good to see a lot of the familiar
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vendors that are in here each and every
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year but also go to this one another
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Central Florida and Florida
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convictions for that matter but Spooky
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Empire always such a good time and this
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one as well it's been a while I've been
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in the convention center the last couple
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of them have been at the Wyndham I
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believe
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it's an assortment of ducks over here
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ducks
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hello
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oh that one just went in the water
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will they all follow
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nope just the two I ended up parking in
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the structure over here this public
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parking is thirty dollars for the entire
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day which is a little pricey but there's
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always park again every time I've been
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to this event at this venue there's
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always plenty of spots in here I ended
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up parking up on the Up on the Roof
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pretty good view on the roof too of all
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the stuff around I drive I'm gonna take
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the stairs get some steps in then I
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walked around a lot of the convention
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but on the top floor take the stairs up
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until instead of the elevator
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get a little workout for The Shins and
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the
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legs oh The Shins really don't get to
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work out with the legs
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get a workout
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parked way up here on the roof plenty of
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parking on the roof other levels were
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full with the roof put 20 spots and from
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here you can see exactly
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the Convention Center Hall there I guess
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The West Wing
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over there of where Spooky Empire was
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and the past has been at different other
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wings but this year it's right over
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there you can look through this little
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almost like a window of sorts
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over here you can see icon Orlando which
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is the big ferris wheel and then over
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there that's the upside down Ripley's
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building
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as well Point Orlando right in here
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having memories of FAO Schwartz he used
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to be in there back in the 90s it's been
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long gone though then downtown it's over
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there past the golf driving range you
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can kind of see it there in the middle
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of the screen directly off on the
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horizon
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through the golf netting that's all set
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up
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and as I just kind of pan over this
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direction
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you can see the big ferris wheel
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right there in the middle now it's
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the angle of it you really can't see the
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sides of it it's just
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you know it's like a flat pancake turned
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on its side there
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and now back over into celebration
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passing this 1931 vehicle here
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31 Ford
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also celebrating the Halloween season
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by having a pumpkin in the back
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as well
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something in the water I thought it was
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a gator but the more I look at it I
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think it's a turtle
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I think it's a turtle in fact it might
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be two turtles
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there's one Turtle swimming there and
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then another one
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right over there
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kind of submerged
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it almost looks like there might be a
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little rain on the
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not so distant future there as a
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celebration Hotel oh do they take the
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Bohemian lettering down they did
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check it out okay this used to be the
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celebration Bohemian Hotel
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they have removed the other lettering so
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I guess now must be a must be a new
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owner they are doing their Oktoberfest
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down here this weekend as well in
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downtown celebration they are doing an
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Oktoberfest last night they had a band I
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think today is the band warming up too
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yeah last night it was it was hopping
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down here last night quite a beehive of
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activity I'm sure it will be again
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tonight now take a look over here they
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got the horse-drawn carriage out for
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later on you do you can take a little
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horse-drawn carriage ride or if you so
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choose the celebration train is ready to
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roll now this one approaching is like
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something you'd see out of Cinderella
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it's a strike of midnight right
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Four Strong Carriage here about to pull
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in and go to it there it goes just
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turning it I think this horse is making
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I got a hot dog over there hello horse
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this this horse just made eye contact
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with me completely made eye contact with
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me which is awesome
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I've never seen this many horses look at
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this here comes another horse-drawn
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carriage but this is more like a hayride
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style so as the horses are turning in
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here this is almost like a traditional
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hayride style buggy here but there's no
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hay in it though it's just benches three
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horse strong carriages up there blowing
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the horn here celebration Express going
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through the intersection
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the name of these horses are Cagney and
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Lacy all right there's another one
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approaching over here that's the fourth
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horse-drawn carriage the train just went
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off that way another horse-drawn
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carriage got Cagney Lacy here then you
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got two others over there
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sometimes it's fun to attempt to try to
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find shapes faces
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Silhouettes and clouds cumulonimbus
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clouds
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see a couple things in there nothing
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super noticeable though
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except some rain formulating there on
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the bottom portion it might be a little
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storm later but that's gonna do it for
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today
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I'll see the next video
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