Dragon Con 2023 Kick Off With DCW Wresting - Badge Pickup & Ribbon Trading / Eating Overpriced Sushi
Dragon Con 2023 Opening Day
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today's adventure brings me to downtown
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Atlanta I am back
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my 10th year I will be attending Dragon
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Con as a recording of this Thursday
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August 31st
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2023 it would have been my 11th year
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2020 it did not happen so this is my
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decade anniversary
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of my favorite convention
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now there will be a few days and lots of
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different activities that will be taking
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place this I would say would be one of
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the more mellow days picking up the
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badge a little Dragon Con wrestling
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later in the evening surveying the app
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and just seeing what the schedule is
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going to be like during the duration of
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my weekend welcome everyone Adam the woo
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here first attended in 2013 14 15 16 17
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18 19 20 didn't happen 21 22 and 23.
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double the five that makes 10 my 10th
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year I'm inviting you to join me shall
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you staying really close to Centennial
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Park
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they have the Olympics symbol down below
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here on the water I'm gonna walk over to
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the registration hotel which I believe
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has changed names
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I'll check this out this is my DragonCon
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2023 headquarters right here I never
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knew the Circle K was the headquarters
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to remember that you know they might
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have won me over with that sign out
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front because getting coffee when you're
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at the host hotels which is like a block
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or two from where I am
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pretty intense
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so this might be a good go-to there's no
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one in here all right it begins a guy
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with the trombone is kind of kicking it
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off I guess if you will right over there
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on the corner all right it's now called
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the Portland
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or yeah
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all right the excitement is in the air
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the line stretches over there
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all right I just checked
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it is noon right now 1209 a.m I'm
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getting my badge walking through this
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little food court area here at the newly
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named Hotel
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vanilla and it is a little warm in here
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I've been waiting in line probably I
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would say 40 minutes
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A lot of people have fans
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the other fan would have been a good
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call instead of instead of coffee now
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they do have a paper guide map
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thank you you're welcome we've got a
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couple different programs here to grab
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one of each of these they are two
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different books so I just usually will
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use the app it's a lot easier than
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carrying around the big book but it's
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kind of neat so they still have the
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physical copies all right let's see if
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there's a merchandise line anywhere oh
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right over here just me I don't think
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you know I do like how they have
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different merchandise each year yeah
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honestly because I am wearing my
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throwback
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virtual here from 2020 that didn't
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happen that's the only year I wasn't
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here since 2013. all right I thought the
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line was really short for merchandise
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however this is the line for merchandise
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I might get
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I might get some of the merch a little
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later in the weekend I am now official
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into your number 10 for me dragon Cod
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got the lanyard I am wearing the one
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year since I've been going here that did
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not happen the Dragon Con goes virtual
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which was the the year that it didn't
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happen
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let the games begin this is when
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downtown
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one thing I really like is the app
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itself where you can go on and go to
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events it'll show
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so starting at nine it's one now so it
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gives you exactly when you're at so this
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is for today which is Thursday and you
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can just scroll through here so I have
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the opening ceremony highlighted for my
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myself and I've also got a little later
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the Dragon Con wrestling so I'm just
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going to kind of pan through each day
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and you can
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use your finger and tell you let's say I
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wanted to watch this so you want to be a
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puppeteer I'm not going to go to that
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one but yeah you just put that in and it
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dumps it right into your schedule but
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happening right now over at the Hyatt is
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the Loyal Order of the ribbon Meetup
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discussion and Q a go get some rivets
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it's a big thing here
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was it with the line the lamentation of
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the women
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that's right come on do it
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driven before
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before the lamentation of the women
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should pick up badge today do a few
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things
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look at all look at all of this okay
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check-in day so interesting when you go
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somewhere for a decade every year
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you really feel like you're home for
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just that weekend
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how's it going why
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fun program
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oh I can't pass
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all right thank you thank you again I
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appreciate that thank you very much
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oh no I'm gonna snap into a slim jim you
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got the slim jim there too Macho Man
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right here that's what that's how the
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Macho Man does it all right one two
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three counters you know what I had
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earlier what do you have a cup of coffee
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coffee with a cup of coffee who had
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cream it's great with the crop
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watch because the cream always Rises
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through
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I love it
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now I am in an area I have never been in
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before which is kind of unusual right
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down here in the international tower
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look at all the ribbons that are there
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on her uh
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what do you call that cake all right
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heading into International Ballroom
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North where the Royal order of the
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ribbon Meetup is going the Loyal Order
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of the ribbon
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meetups
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basically it's a big trading session
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everyone has ribbons and they are
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trading them for other people sometimes
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tickets are both they give you rivets
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yeah I ended up was given this Guardians
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of the Galaxy
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epcoters what do they call us
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Epcot Tyrion
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okay this thing isn't even gotten into
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full swing yet of these free full swing
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and I've already got I've already got
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some good ones I gotta start picking and
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choosing more than I add on to this I
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don't want this thing to be dragging on
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the ground I got some good ones though
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that ribbon is better than my ribbon
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please go ahead
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thank you
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you don't like Pluto no you're not into
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Pluto
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what did Pluto do to you Mickey that
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scarred you
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so dramatically you hate him so you look
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you're taking a bite out of there with
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the with the teeth there oh it's a
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voodoo doll
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it's a voodoo doll also wow you got some
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uh some some inner hostility Mickey
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good to see you though you too good to
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see you buddy
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also it should be noted that today being
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one of the milder days the vendor room
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is not open today nor is the celebrity
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autograph room oh it looks like it's
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this trooper's day off over here
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stay off enjoy your day off trooper and
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fancy meeting these two in the Lord what
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is it the loyal
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the ribbon Loyal Order of the ribbon
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ribbons outrageous yeah Tampa Jay Chris
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the girl I am documenting your first
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ribbons so far
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pun intended and Mystery Science Theater
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thank you I like having that yeah
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thank you so much so those are little
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tiny pickles yeah okay
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I like pickles
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appreciate it this is like a teeny tiny
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ribbon a pickle look at that is it dill
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or is it sweet it's every pickle is Dill
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there's no such thing in my mind as
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sweet pickles that's disgusting I made
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this is a good one here found it that's
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true everybody does ask where Waldo is
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where's Waldo but no one no one asks how
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is Waldo how are you well we know where
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you are I mean you're pretty obviously
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right here but now now we know how
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you're doing Housewives
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oh you're looking at me now I thought
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you were talking to the
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what have I done I'm gonna call you out
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what have I done tell me what I've done
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he's actually moving hey dude can I get
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a selfie with you
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let that guy go
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let him out of here
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huh
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that's up
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I think
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ing It Off Friends James must get back
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to NASA the definition of the
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International Space Station
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Max and then received oh right there
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that's uh they're double jointed there a
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little some calisthenics
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I don't understand
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on behalf the Guardians of the DragonCon
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universe as well as our hotels guests
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vendors volunteers restaurants Airline
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Airlines cabbies Uber drivers residents
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of Atlanta and countless others we thank
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you all each and every one of you
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that's just to make sure we have more
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room to get around in more space but
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this reduced attendance additional back
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checks are badge the checks are in place
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to keep Hotel space three-door fans
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foreign we've also expanded spaces where
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badges are required so
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I know you've all seen the movie take a
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lesson from Lilo Dallas and always have
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your multi-pass on you yet first timers
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are holding there's a big learned you
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guys are ready to ask I don't have mine
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kick them out
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laughs
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I said they've turned on him so quick I
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feel like it's appropriate to start off
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the first meal here at DragonCon with
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Yami Yami Sushi a sushi bar that you
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pretty much have to sell a kidney to a
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Ford
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but it's worth it it's tradition right
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yeah it's tradition
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for Price sushi but you know what When
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in Rome it's worth 100 bucks winning
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it's not well almost I guess pretty
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accurately that I was going to spend
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forty dollars
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38.52 I also got this Dasani because I
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needed my fill of salt
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a conglomeration of sushi noodles wow
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you did it right I just got it she went
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live yeah
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take it that's probably a good hack
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though because adding the seaweed salad
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and noodles and the potatoes weighed it
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down yeah it should have just gone
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straight Sushi
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next time
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oh we got miniature FedEx John Shrine
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down here look he's wanted right up
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there on the side
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right here in this normal spot it's
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miniature
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yeah he is like that's the Teeny tiniest
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John FedEx John he's back but he's
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miniaturized that's been shrunken the
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shrine has begun them why does someone
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finally won it's basically just a big
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pile of garbage let's just be honest I
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think that's where people let's call it
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a shrine garbage yeah there you go
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Amazon Prime Suspect not his original
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point of Ascension oh his original point
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of Ascension is on the other side where
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the FedEx box is back over in the Hilton
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now
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the dinosaurs rolling through here
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it's a parade of inflatable cosplayers
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so
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the munchkins come in
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and you are going to start singing
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following Road okay
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close
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um
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you call that red ball
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my electric parts
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man those burgers are amazing
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I'll go I'm I'm planning on going and I
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don't need a line
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oh sorry
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man I love Billy West
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I love Futurama so much
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fish tough for jellyfish
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out of nowhere Connecticut
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foreign
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versus my boys
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half of this company
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if I win your punk ass is gone
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oh
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you take your shoes
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we had to start so late and look at you
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we all are still here
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it's next year I ain't losing we're just
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trying to understand
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all right
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wrestling
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and that's gonna do it for today from
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downtown Atlanta the first day the
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Thursday
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the kickoff of Dragon Con 2023 I'll see
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you in the next video thanks for
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watching
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the Vlog is
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over