Blobfest 2018 - Bizarre Festival / Playing Chess With Grim Reaper / 60th Anniversary of The Blob
A visit to Blob Fest 2018 in Phoenixville Pennsylvania celebrating the 30th anniversary of the classic film The Blob . My first time experiencing the unusual street fair and fun . Checked out all the window displays , browsed the vendors and lots of other wacky surprises .
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is that supposed to spell out take care
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it's a railroad bridge with a clearance
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of 10 foot 4 inches maybe they just want
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everyone to realize if you have a very
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tall vehicle there might be an issue
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that's the only thing I can figure out
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that estas take care but it's missing
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some letters on the end maybe
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welcome everyone adam is the woo here
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coming to you from Phoenixville
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Pennsylvania spent some time in town
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yesterday doing the filming locations of
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a 1958 horror film classic The Blob even
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ran out of the historic colonial theater
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but today is when the event really goes
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into full swing a street fair known as
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flop fest
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2018 edition I'm excited join me shall
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you it's open to the public and
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absolutely free however I was given this
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just in case there's something extra
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special that I might need it for Bridge
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Street has been completely closed off
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here at the corner of Main they even
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have a banner and placed right at the
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threshold of where it begins
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a couple classic cars what makes these
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extra special is that they were used in
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the film itself including this one which
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was seen quite a few times throughout
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the movie a 19 I think there might be
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ghosts out here as well I didn't even
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touch that valued it felt it was
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actually the wind but I like to pretend
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that it was a ghost when Steve McQueen
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is talking to the townfolk outside the
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grocery store this was the fire truck
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that was used that's pretty freaking
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cool here's a view upward from the
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bottom of the hill down the main drag
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you could even say that the streamers
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are properly festooned
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across the road a few plush animals this
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looks like it's almost looks like maybe
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the foot Sasquatch Squatch cause he said
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oh okay sad Squatch
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oh yeah turn that frown upside down I
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got the happy Yeti to kind of offset
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them the happy Eddie I like that is this
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that's obviously a mermaid that mermaid
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and the Sailor
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that's my Bigfoot this is my favorite
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one the Mothman oh yeah the Mothman so
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what's the difference being a sasquatch
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and a Bigfoot they're all related
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they're cousins they're all honest
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they're all in the same family some of
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the creepy items upon this table there's
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a bucket of bones there's a zombie all
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kind of horrible things here
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pee-wee Herman this is where the souls
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of the children rest I don't know if I
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want to take that onus I don't even know
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if that's available for purchase and
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eating plants for $35 there's quite a
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cornucopia of them oh my goodness
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slightly frightening and of course that
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always reminds me of Little Shop of
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Horrors some Margery to actions
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happening around here they're going fast
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there's only one left it can be Steve
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McQueen clean with that soap right there
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I have to tell you I don't know if you
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know this but there's something on your
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shoulder
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yeah I know but I have blog be gone oh
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okay well that's the solution yeah so
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it's not dropping it in cold
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temperatures it's this yes
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it's non-toxic how does that work does
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it I just fry it I need to if it gets
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out of hand
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all right I need to find some of that
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yeah say it says non-toxic unless you're
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a blob oh I miss that it's the details
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that I miss now guaranteed the cold
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lobster selfie time throw it up there
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all right it is it is so they they said
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it was going to be safe for me to show
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up out here this is my first time well
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it's certainly seat for feet
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what about not for me well we'll see
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about that the CEO and board of
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directors kind of extramarital
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activities for now you should be are you
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holding a sickle
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what is it it's called a side
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I'm about to sigh the Sun a sigh of non
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relief I call that a sickle where I'm
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from now a sickle is that the little one
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dirty but they both doing a lot of
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damage they can yes you've properly had
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alright I'm gonna go now this has gotten
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on very awkward see you later Kristin
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see you later mr. Reaper Thea
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faintly seen behind the store display
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window are some human heads that have
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been consumed their torsos have been
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consumed what what is coming out of your
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sis's the beer belly Beast the beer
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belly Beast yeah I'm not familiar with
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that I love the way the town embraces
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the theming all of the businesses are
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jumping on board even this blow-up duck
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getting in the mood I've been seeing
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quite a few people wearing tinfoil hats
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he's wearing tin foil around his Beach
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the program they're handing out
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signifies that cake is now on the menu
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no longer human flesh maybe in its old
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age it has a different taste palate
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this is a cool idea a duck part there in
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the fountain there
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you take one of these Nets you reach
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here to get yourself a toy duck the
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chunk of bone sticking out of it at
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least this I think that's a chunk of
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bone like some sort of puppeteer piece
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that is made up of dismembered hands and
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legs and feet I am Ben and this is my
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robot monster he's very excited to be
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here today and he absolutely does not
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want to eliminate the human race
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whatsoever
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so he's a he's not evil so it's possible
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to be a robot and a monster and not be
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filled with with evil you know it's just
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kind of like he's given like the weird
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nod like he doesn't even know the answer
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himself I mean it's kind of a weird
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existential question you were gonna have
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the name robot monster and like what do
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you do with that I have to ask him are
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you good or evil
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they kind of thinking about that alright
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I'll get back to him later inside the
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new addition to the theater near the
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snack bar on these strings above
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everyone's heads our tinfoil hats look
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at all those it's probably like three or
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four dozen just dangling there in the
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air the one on the far left resembles a
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pizza anyway you're gonna wear something
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on your head a pizza is definitely a
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good option what's very gooey talk about
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how much is left inside there two
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gallons of the crop the industrial
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silicones and it's inside the original
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bat it came back and also a couple other
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props like this which was used as a
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forced perspective for that shot they
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placed a little bit of goo right in
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front of that photo and this appears to
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be a piece of the wood door or wood
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floor at least I think that's what that
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is where it used out inside the cooler
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at the grocery store okay and there's
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another shot there photo of it creeping
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and crawling across the floor yeah you
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just put a little teeny piece there and
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it makes it look as look as if it's
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coming out the real door now there's
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something you don't see every day
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Elvis mashed with Frankenstein
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I like that one this is clever also
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straight out of toilet paper little
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Spaceballs throwback don't mess with
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Pizza the Hutt or he'll order out for
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you
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is composing some poetry is for hire
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he's a poet for hire wasn't expecting to
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see you guys out here but you enjoy blob
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Fest as well very nice cool all the way
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from Chicago
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yeah they make quite the quite to
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commute man please kick Rob explains
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after 8:00 loss to the Philadelphia
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Eagles that cowboy Blessed fruit ally in
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the area they're called quarterbacks in
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to go for help and rough read into town
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and ran into our mascot the blob he took
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a big ol chunk out again and he'd like
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the Eagles champ and I don't want that
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because we're club best
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I'd like to spell out the blob here we
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go ready B oh my god I need Scooby
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Snacks I'm kind of hungry
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- parched
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all right rather buzz
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I picked up a whole bunch of blobfish
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merchandise muff is the t-shirt is the
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coloring book is the lunch box never
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mind
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pick up your face merchandise with you
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oh you have the money down in the
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newspaper here it's a nice nice touch at
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this booth are a couple gentlemen who
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worked on the film guy on the left is
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the son of the director he has a few
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artifacts and some memorabilia
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the pictures then describe what this is
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my dance notes and everything I loud so
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that's that's
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you won't find that anywhere that Norway
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buying this type here because this is
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the autographed copy the picture of the
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blob
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can't wear these for too long because
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it'll get a little bit nauseous but I
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picked up a pair of 3d glasses that you
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can see on the side they have the
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documentation of the event you start to
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definitely start to give a little
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disoriented wearing them outside in the
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sunlight it's a little warm but that
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states to take a photo I think I might I
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think I might take a photo video
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Walker
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a little mobile vendor oh it's not some
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pretzels here nice warm pretzels being
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distributed on that shopping cart watch
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out it's coming through coming through
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in reality though this is just a magnet
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that I purchased it's kind of it's going
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to be take up a lot of space on my
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refrigerator well well well look who
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decided to rear its ugly head this is
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the first appearance of the creature
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itself protruding up above the colonial
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theater marquee and if the size of that
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thing
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it's like heading straight up to the sky
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the horror a party favor is happening
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right there a party favor is being
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emitted happy 60th birthday
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get yourself a blob Arita have picked up
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this map of all the merchants who have
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window displays properly themed i'ma
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walk around see if I could find some of
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them it crawls the creeps it eats you
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alive run don't walk you could probably
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see it a little better from this angle
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there it is it took me a moment to find
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it until I looked up and check that out
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right there on the banister of the porch
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it's looming this one has all sort of
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skulls creepy dolls in it
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and some oh yeah there's like a it's
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like a baby inside a toilet I know what
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the significance of that is but it's
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horrifying
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this states its home of the original
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cupcake eat it before it eats you
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this one consists of a little paint on
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the window you can see through it but
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just barely
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whoa what's going on here this this
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dinosaur has seen better days it's a
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dinosaur skeleton it got its arm it got
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his arm stay to here it's always the
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farmers fault are you a farmer we got
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the balloons and full force and this
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mirror has been completely overtaken
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don't look into having me here this one
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was a little bit of a tough a it took me
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a moment to find it but right over here
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if you look closely there there's a doll
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that's being being completely mauled if
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I look closely it's lie almost like a
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hidden easter egg here at this toy store
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doesn't jump out at you but it will get
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rest assured line up your nose with the
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divider in the center relax your eyes
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and the image should merge the longer
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you look the more you will notice the
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effect it's what that states
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I don't know if it transcends to vidya
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but it does work when you're here in
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human form I was able to meet up with
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james rolfe the Angry Video Game Nerd
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hang out for just a short while I filmed
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a little bit of our conversation well
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I've been here a few times they did the
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blob town video with the location tour
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and
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you know I always try to make an effort
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to come by here every now and then to
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show my daughters
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blobfish to say you know you were here
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yeah they have some of the vehicles from
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the film how many years have you been to
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this event on and off I started coming
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here like 2008-2009
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somewhere around there yeah nice well
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great to meet you finally finally meet
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I loved your Planet of the Apes video
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and your psycho house did a detailed
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psycho house of how the weird
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discrepancies about maybe possibly it's
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not the original psycho house at
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Universal Studios Hollywood well cool
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good to meet you have a great day
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enjoy blob fest the farthest window
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display from the festivities is about a
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mile away place called bad chicken
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photography and I met the lady that owns
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the place
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and she said you have to go check out my
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window so that's what I'm doing bad
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chicken photography and there's the bad
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chicken spraying down spraying it down
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good go bad chicken go it is a heck of a
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long way off the beaten path so to say
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to get over there from from everything
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else that's happening my legs are the
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legs are tired but they're getting
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stronger soon if I have to do another
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run out of a theater
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I'll have the stamina of Steve McQueen
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or something here at the carriage house
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looks as if they've gone with the
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creature themed as well you got the
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obvious down there but then there is a
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signed photograph of The Creature from
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the Black Lagoon the glare is very
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strong on this one you can see he's
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stating this town is in danger now
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several people have already been killed
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even the Chamber of Commerce getting in
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on the act they pretty much have the
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entire cast documented here the police
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officer the doctor even the old man
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another vehicle has appeared this teeny
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tiny antique car I don't even know if I
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could fit it up and not really sure
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what's going on here there's some sort
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of figurative dance of some sort even
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the guy in the window is doing the same
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what what exactly am I missing and
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there's someone with a saxophone what
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very creative here at the smoke shop
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because of the age it has a walker that
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is that is cool and nice touch with the
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fire extinguisher over there in the
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corner nicely done wearing a sash there
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so 60 looks good on me certainly does
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know up there I didn't even see that at
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first if there's drawing of the colonial
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theater mission accomplished I hit each
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and every one of these mission
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accomplished I fancy myself as an
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amateur chess player but I have never
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gone up against an opponent like this
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before
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it's a very intense offense a lot of
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thinking is happening
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do I have to get my soul up now or will
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you let me slide I said it's usually
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frowned upon that type of thing you are
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free to go
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thank you sir let's just shake on it
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well played sir
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that's gonna do it for today from the
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19th annual blob fest in Phoenixville
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Pennsylvania going strong getting bigger
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each and every year so I'm told this is
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the first occasion that I have been sure
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to this neck of the woods for this
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particular event and I must say it was a
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oh my good are you gonna take that home
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with you you think that's wise what
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happens when you sleep what's gonna
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what's this thing gonna do to you why
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you slumber is it moving on its own or
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you moving it with your hands
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you're not you're not moving it it lives
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be careful with that thing all right
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promise me you're gonna be safe lock it
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in a box
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gee thanks