My Final Day at Dragon Con 2021 - Modified Parade Takes Over Downtown / Last Look at Cosplay & MORE
Dragon Con 2021 Saturday Parade and Convention
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welcome everyone adam
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the woo here as a recording of the
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saturday september 4th
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9 30 a.m 2021
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it's not every day but you can stand in
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a completely
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empty thoroughfare in atlanta georgia
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no one noah no traffic no cars no
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automobiles
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are driving through here
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because today's adventure
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will begin
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at the dragoncon 2021 parade
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an annual event well it did not take
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place last year for obvious reasons
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but the city fills up with spectators
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not only those who have their lanyard
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and badge from the event but also those
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who are peppering in
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residents
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tourists alike however
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they stated you have to have one of
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these in order to watch the parade no
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idea how they're going to regulate that
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in any way
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who knows if that is the truth i will
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find out and i'm also going to dive back
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into the convention
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also the vendor room
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i will be doing a lot
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it is my last and final day
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here at this convention 2021 dragon con
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saturday edition i'm inviting you to
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join me
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wearing an appropriate
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t-shirt my third
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dragon con t-shirt and my third day of
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dragon [\h__\h] three different ones
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they kind of look similar but they're
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different
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in their own way join me
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shall you oh check it out
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they were cones
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yeah truthfully how would they even know
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or check all the badges to see if anyone
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from the businesses residents
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even those staying at the hotels that
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are not part of the con
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have their lanyard
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i don't think that's possible but if
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they are then man
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that's a difficult task but i will say
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these streets and sidewalks are clearly
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less packed and busy than in the past
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usually there are at least 10 to 15
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times
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as many people crammed through here
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so i guess it is the case i guess that
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is the reality
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oh check it out it's the macho man
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dolores great brother the macho
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mandalorian with the babe with the power
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get a little crowd hype over here
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it's about to begin
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currently 9 45 it starts at 10
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but it's a little bit of ways down the
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road so by the time it passes by here
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it'll be a few minutes after 10. so i'm
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just going to roll around
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for a walk around
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probably just going to go up and down
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the parade route without a doubt there
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are noticeably
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less people here noticeably i have never
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been all the years
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showing up since 2013
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skipping last year
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because it did not happen seeing the
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sidewalks anywhere near
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this empty there's usually no elbow room
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no leg room no no room at all you can't
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even see the sidewalk today
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it's a little modified and different for
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example usually all up in here
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standing room only people up on the
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ledge
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all along also up on the little
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balconies over there
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up in the rooms all the way down through
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here
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what i'm going to kind of do is
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get in the thick of things this seems to
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be the busiest area people are so i'm
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going to kind of get over here where the
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excitement will be
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imagine imaginary ping pong
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there is no ping pong
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that was a home run
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that's the pre-parade
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all right looks as if it is officially
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about to begin
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the parade is
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coming up the road directly behind me
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there it is
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the banner
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signifying the start of the parade right
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there
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nice oh there is a winged creature
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of some sort right over there
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godzilla coming through oh pizza playing
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a truck
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nice godzilla i recognize this guy
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six flags guy
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oh yeah
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i was able to drive this one year greg's
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driving it this year got the whole crew
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with them over here
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look at this
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go braves
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i guess you're in atlanta that makes
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sense
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oh check it out there's the kernel the
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burger king
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and
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two kernels
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there's two kernels right there
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and the grand marshal this year is louis
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gossett jr right there yeah lewis
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gossett jr is the grand marshal right
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there on the back of that car oh this is
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great galaxy quest right there
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and beetlejuice
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yeah take a look at that outfit wow
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oh here come the ghouls of netherworld
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all the creatures of the night out
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during the day
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oh goodness
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oh goodness there's like an alarm going
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off or something how could there oh i
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hear a chainsaw oh
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there's some chainsaws up here and a
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defended mickey mouse of some sort right
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there rolling through
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very loud like a stick
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there's woman chainsaw guy
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even the chainsaw guy needs to need to
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hydrate himself
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in a little bottle of water
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all right he's all refreshed he's wetted
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his whistles the chainsaw
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watch out there's state pump in the back
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in the back chasing oh there's slimer
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running around
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okay now we're getting into the super
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heroes here
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right over there we got the red ranger
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we got spiderman
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superman got some dc in there
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batman
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batman was just on the bathroom making a
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call who knows who he was calling maybe
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city hall batman
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nice old school batman
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captain america
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hello
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that is cool
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this guy's been chat with hot babes all
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day online
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a gentleman with some swords there he's
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balancing a sword on his head
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right there he's got a balancing act
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going on his noggin right there i don't
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know what's gonna happen that cannot be
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safe
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it has to be very dangerous i don't know
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if there's gonna be a trick involved or
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just gonna stay that way the whole time
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but to find out
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okay this is just a
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thought balancing
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he was gonna like juggle the three of
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them but now it just has the one kind of
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teetering there
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there goes ozzy running down the middle
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of the street
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all right here comes 300
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there's only about 17 of them but we can
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pretend there's 300.
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careful
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no one charge them
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don't charge hold back stay back
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okay that worked out well
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that's how i feel before coffee too i
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get it
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it is early oh goodness
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is it a jellyfish
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is that a jellyfish
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it's a jellyfish
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and gene wilder willy wonka rolling
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through here
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it's cute was it cuban pete and willy
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wonka
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nice good day sir i said good day sir
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oh this is awesome it's the speed racer
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car speed racer automobile rolling
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through here too number five yeah go
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speed race don't go too fast though not
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allowed to speed through here but you
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can go speed racer go oh got a couple a
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couple pacman going through up throwing
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something out pac-man throwing a little
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something out there to the crowd guy
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coming through on the skateboard here
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right there no one is picking up what's
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up someone's picking up
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there's a periodic table chant going on
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through here periodic table champ
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something something that is not too
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common but it's happening here this
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moment and superhero running back and
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nearing the back of the line we got a
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little star trek crew
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going through here as well i'm just kind
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of kind of walking down the parade route
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oh there's a klingon in the back back
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there at the very back swinging around
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something that cannot be yeah cannot be
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said and for one reason or another he's
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away from the pack the rest of your
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group's way down there i own everything
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this area is mine
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the klingon empire is playing
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got a ways to go another example of
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crowd levels they have all this kind of
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taped off not to go in front of this big
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building because usually these stairs
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are completely filled with people
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i still encourage you to show up for
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this parade because it is
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amazing and i would imagine next year in
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the following years it will be back up
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to its normal attendance
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but this is this is it's almost like
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being in the twilight zone in a way
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this is my eighth year would have been
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my ninth but last year did not happen
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and every year it is just
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madness and mayhem through here on the
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sidewalks
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not today
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spray's still good though
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a lot of good people want good costumes
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oh yeah check it out we got a little bit
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of little some star wars rolling through
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there oh yeah and now usually at the
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very back of the parade a little little
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little star wars character the trooper
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there giving me the salute going through
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oh check it out this oh there's moth
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gideon over here i'm off gideon moth
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nope
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not you moth gideon you have the dark
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saber
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that that doesn't belong to you moth
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it does all right now you'll you'll find
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out later moth you'll find out later
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that's not yours
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oh this is so dang cool
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right down here we get low down as it
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goes past a little droid this is the
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droid i'm looking for right there go go
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go go go oh yeah gotta love oh look at
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this this trooper here oh that's no
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that's archer that's our jumper you can
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hear this for a minute a lot of
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mandalorians rolling through here as
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well quite a few different other of the
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mandalorians different types
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of mandalorians as well over here we've
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got grogu
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and then another mandu baby yodalis and
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one of my personal favorites when the
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the horde of jawas roll through here
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with their crawler going down the street
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not in the sand but not in the desert
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but they are on the the concrete and the
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streets of atlanta yeah the jawas are
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out here in droves and one of the themes
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of this year's dragoncon 2021 is closed
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for cleaning a lot of stuff is closed
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for cleaning at different times of the
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day just for sanitation reasons and they
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put that on the side
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of the of their vehicle as it goes
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through there very creative i like it
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keep it up with the times oh yeah a
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little futurama rolling through here
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futurama going through what is that oh
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careful with that careful with that
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weapon right there there's bender you do
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not want to bite his shiny you know what
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stay away from his shiny you know what
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oh
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hello evil santa
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oh check it out there's fry over there
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fry getting a selfie
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oh zach is that brand again
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right there zap
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how's it going
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thank you so much to come out and see a
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parade about me
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nice hey you know that flag
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for god's sakes wave it a little bit
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it's a quote it's a quote from the show
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there you go and just like that i am
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walking along the tail end of the parade
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that's it it's over from this head let's
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keep following it up though but yeah i
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reached the end one thing i like to do
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each year after the after the parade is
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over is get kind of in the the heart of
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where the thick of everything is and
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just stroll along
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down here where the
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where all the crowds are just kind of
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show
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just kind of show how everyone's
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strolling through this is not part of
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the parade
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this is this is the after parade
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stroll
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just to show the crowd levels and it did
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get a little a little more thick up
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but not i would say if i had to guess i
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would say probably one-fifth
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of the normal downtown crowd because
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the convention stated and put out press
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releases in the news even alerted
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everyone
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that you had to have a badge to watch
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so that probably deterred a lot from
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from showing up
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nonetheless still an awesome experience
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highly recommend the dragoncon parade it
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is something to witness and behold and i
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did not film all of it obviously i edit
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a lot
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you know can't show the whole parade
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i showed some highlights some of my
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favorite stuff
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hello there
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oh here we go greatest american hero is
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it isn't it celebrating an anniversary
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40th 40th anniversary make me feel old
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well happy anniversary thank you
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greatest american hero believe it or not
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you're walking on air that's the song
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right that's it are you walking on air
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all right continue on carry on
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pretty happy to have been able to
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experience this modified version
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of the parade because as time goes on
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and things get back to their usual
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selves it will be
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i would not be able to get that close
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again right on the right on the edge of
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the sidewalk because there will be
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multiple thousands more people here
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trust me this wing beast is witnessing
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the removing of the stanchions
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yup the removing of the stanchions here
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as they're putting these stanchions
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back up on there well i guess these
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would be stanchions those would just be
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the fencing
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from that as well so these are the
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these are them
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as more ghostbusters roll through oh
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she has grogu down there
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all right i am now back inside with the
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driver of the blues brothers mobile
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correct here are you wearing a dragon
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sound shirt dragon sound what was it
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like driving in the driving the blues
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brothers car in the parade it was
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slightly terrifying because lauren
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scared me it's exploring dead what'd you
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do
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i told him that trying to drive the
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thing around the corner is kind of like
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trying to hurt cattle using the force
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well you were the you were in the back
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right oh this time you were in the back
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tampa j you were in the in the not good
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you were in the passenger seat first
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time shotgun last year or the last time
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we were in the blues mobile it was in
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the back you were wailing on that siren
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man you got a little siren you got a
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little siren happening i sure did well
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you did it though it was fun would you
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did you notice a difference in the crowd
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this year yeah it was quite a bit
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smaller but uh you know i did my best to
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kind of
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get everybody killing i just well you
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had jay on the siren yeah
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that's hammering it man now i've been
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i've been in the in the car before and
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the siren is much quieter inside than it
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is on street level on street level
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it is a legit
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alarm siren
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just just just keep that in mind for
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next time
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exploring's on the siren next year i'm
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driving you're driving next year less is
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more i'm driving i will not be in the
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car next year there if you're behind the
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wheel i will not what i won't be in
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there again gonna grab a bite to eat
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here at gus's world famous fried chicken
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oh yeah i've been here before it's
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pretty dang good oh yeah this is what
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we're dealing with we got a three piece
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a slice of bread potato salad and i went
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with a little okra
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as well greg what'd you get i got
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chicken you got the chicken tenders yeah
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you got chicken
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because you're at a chicken place gus's
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chicken
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what did you get
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three breasts but i'm missing one you're
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missing you're missing the third over
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there extra brush what'd you get down
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there jeff three piece dark generators
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all right i got to say that is really
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that was really good a little spicy
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though got a little kick to it i made it
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over to the americas mart building now
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to the vendor room three floors of
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vendors gonna start off on the first
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floor and then take the escalators up to
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two and three and
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check out from some wares that are for
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sale i'm kind of one i'm the type of
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person that thinks you can never have
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too many t-shirts even though i have too
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many t-shirts i kind of like some of the
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ones that are over here so let's see if
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they have them in my size and maybe get
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a couple
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you can never have too many t-shirts
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right
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that is true if you're not around then
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then jay and i tend to become the
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t-shirt guys you can never have too many
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t-shirts right oh a children of the corn
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shirt i've been to that town yeah i've
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stood there and yelled out the outlander
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yeah
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and i like that you look vaguely
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surprised for a second when he said sort
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of like that
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oh you got a manhattan shirt it's the
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coffee oh it's the online exclusive of
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the copy of the ring this is the 1980
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tour yeah
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which one which tour shirt do you have
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on uh is this van halen two i think i
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think that's the symbol from two i might
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be probably okay i just wanted to talk
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about children of the corn and now you
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guys are talking about rock history
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those things flew off the shelf i got a
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small lift that's it you don't have it
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you don't have any big guy sizes
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uh i do in
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the halloween back there
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so they have
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this is actually on the back he said
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it's an in-store exclusive this is the
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back of it the front of it has the the
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slash the freddie slash marks on it they
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only have it in small so sad trombone
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moment
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i can't tell you if i've ever seen a
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delta force ii
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t-shirt now obviously i've seen rambo
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t-shirts but not a delta force
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shirt
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that's a deep cut and not only a
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predator shirt
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but two
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six million dollar man shirts one there
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and one there
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remember his name remember the character
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name steve austin that's right before
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the wrestler
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before stone cold
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there was the real steve austin oh check
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it out it's wayne campbell and garth
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algar wayne's world
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extreme close-up
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i ended up going back inside
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the marriott
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a little bit ago right now the sun is
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the sun is starting to kind of set down
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over this large
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line crowd here going into the twisted
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tunes
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panel which is pretty neat i actually
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saw the twisted tunes do
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do a little
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rendition
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in orlando while back in another
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convention so i figured why not why not
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go into another
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another episode yeah that sun is
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pretty bright and this line is pretty
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lengthy as it stretches outside yep
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definitely a few people in this line
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just a few people in this life
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factory with eric hartland
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the second course is
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build up a
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i said good day
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you don't get
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one and with that it is really
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it is really happening here so much it
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is yeah it is a real beehive of activity
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here on this saturday night my last
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night here at dragon con
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like three days thursday friday and
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saturday it is
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busy that's gonna do it for today
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i'll see you the next video the vlog is
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over oh biff
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alternate biff what do you got right
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here the sports almanac yeah
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put your million bucks ucla was it 19 to
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17. right you can do this the easy way
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the hard way
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watching bait like a tree
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and get out of here
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always a little hot hat