Monsterpalooza 2023 At Pasadena Convention Center - Huge Horror Makeup & Cosplay Event in California
Monsterpalooza 2023
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welcome everyone and the Wu here as a
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recording of this it is Saturday June
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the 3rd
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2023. I'm in the parking structure of
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the hotel I am staying at in Hollywood
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but I am heading over to Pasadena today
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to go to a horror convention called
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Monster palooza an event that I have
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been to several times in the past but
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it's been a while the last couple years
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I did not attend this year 2023
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is going to be an exciting
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very packed very busy Pasadena
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horrifying day
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join
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Shelley from one parking lot to another
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and now arrived in Pasadena
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slippery floor level three of this
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parking structure
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and right around the corner
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corner of Green Street right down that
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way screwed by the trees is the Pasadena
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Convention Center and met up with first
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friend of the day Daphne from the Daphne
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show is here wearing an appropriate
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outfit explain to me who your cosplaying
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as as Grace from Ready or Not Ready or
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not that's the one where they all
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implode at the end no spoiler alert yeah
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were they playing hide and seek hide and
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seek yeah very nice and you're gonna be
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filming today too for your channel yeah
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yeah last time we were at monster blues
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at the same time was 2019.
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I think that was the last time I was
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here
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yeah well last time I was I mean
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obviously I was in Pasadena but the last
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time I was at monster Palooza
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and up here it was a massive line so I
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think it's gonna be a busy day maybe it
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even sold out I got here early enough I
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think the event starts at 11. got here
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early enough to where there was parking
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I
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forgot to look to see how much the
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parking was but
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that's probably it won't be that bad for
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the Pasadena Convention Center which is
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right next to this building the
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auditorium the City of Pasadena where
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Michael Jackson first did the moonwalk
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I'm already starting to see some cosplay
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or so Michael Jackson moonwalk here and
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monster Palooza
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right over here now they are selling
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tickets at the door in fact all the
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pre-sale tickets are no longer available
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you have to get them out the door ooh is
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this a punk rocker from Return To Living
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Dead I think it is I think it might be
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like a Return of the Living death hello
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there very nice got our tickets online I
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got tickets about a month or two ago so
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I have the QR code just gotta go to I
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guess would be the will call
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I have not been in here in a long time
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it's good to be back
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all right I stand corrected this is the
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line to purchase tickets obviously last
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night it started on a Friday and
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tomorrow's Sunday is recording us this
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Saturday which is usually the busiest
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day there are quite a few lines there's
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a line that stretches that way
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there's a little doggie and then there's
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also a line that goes that direction
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around the corner
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and there is a hit all right here is
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will call which means that you've
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already purchased a ticket and the line
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for will call
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stretches starting here all the way down
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this one
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okay that's enough
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oh I see a clown up here oh and I also
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see Ash
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look at this Cloud right here around the
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corner from outer space
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now this just goes on
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and on
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how many people oh my gosh how far back
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does this go this goes a long way back
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Ash is following it
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all right this place
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it's definitely a beehive of activity
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this is like strap wraps it's not straps
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but wraps around here and then triple
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backs quadruple backs
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eight time backs all the way over here
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holy cow
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look at this
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I mean it was a long line just to this
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point I don't think I've ever seen any
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year that was this busy
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well
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you want to wait in this liners get
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coffee until it kind of dissipates a
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little bit you should get coffee yeah
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let's just wave in we can wait without
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waiting in line and then go and win the
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line kind of dwindles down yeah all
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right there are people in line handing
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out the wristbands evidently this band
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it has The Wristband on there maybe
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they're I don't know if they're
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performing or not but I'd be crazy
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they're on the wristband
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so we're gonna get coffee and then get
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back in line yeah there is a Starbucks
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right here we're thinking oh look at
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leather place has a kitchen it's a
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kitchen utensil here
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so our move is to go across the street
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to a shopping center with restaurants
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and whatnot and see if there's coffee
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over there
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not waiting that massive Starbucks line
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and our assumption was correct there's
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also a Starbucks right over here too
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take a look
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Colorado Boulevard coffee initiated I
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think maybe those guys are looking for
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coffee too right there look like they're
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on a mission what'd you get I got a
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black
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grab with a tea
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and I got that we got caffeine of two
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different Persuasions
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and this is only like a five minute wait
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so I think our hack worked out well to
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not go to the Starbucks that's next to
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the line and the door should be opening
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soon
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Beethoven
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and the doors have opened I'm just
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discovering that both these lines are
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exactly the same so we're going to get
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in this line This is the prepaid
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wristband Line This is the buy-in ticket
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line over here we're gonna get in this
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line how long you've been waiting in
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line Jason oh you're getting you're very
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angry you'll be in there soon you'll be
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in there soon Jason stay patient health
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hello wow what's up buddy how's it going
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okay now I'm confused it looks like this
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wraps around here goes past
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this building
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a lot of people okay
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oh wait we got cold get away okay we're
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going back over to the first Starbucks
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which have the long line and we're just
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gonna wait right here until the line
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dissipates and then get in the line sit
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in the shade
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good plan
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okay we opted to get it from the table
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and now we're following this clown in
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the line all right we're in putting up
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the merch in here
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the first full-time bump into the Grim
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life Collective happy Halloween from
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monsterpalooza yeah I didn't even know
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you guys were gonna be here today sneaky
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sneaky we were up in Seattle when we
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came down because
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we're here
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it turned into this gorgeously grotesque
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hat I was so beautiful yesterday it was
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disgusting all right you do a video of
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it oh yeah all right I'll be on the
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lookout oh so that's drool from
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yesterday I was drooling a lot and I had
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these um mouth tablets in all right
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the mouth drool tablets were a mouth
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effects all right sounds good
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definitely a lot of people
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right there
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you got a row of celebrities there well
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there's a demogorgon right there and
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this is the main entrance you got a
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museum vendors and signers Scooby-Doo
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and down that way a lot more celebrities
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all right going in the convention for
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exhibit hall it has been a while since
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I've been in this big room
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years that is a really good ET it's got
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it's got the finger
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ouch
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Leatherface
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I love Leatherface it's not the same
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leather face I saw there's a lot of
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Leatherface it's good this mask look at
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this rat map
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raw head Rex zombie
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that's a lot of very detailed Jason
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masks over here Skeletor imagineer Rick
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imagine a ring
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what's going on
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clowns
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we've had its skeleton The Duchess
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the Hitchcock would be proud
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we ran up thought you might like this oh
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very nice
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they got a little uh you got a little
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baby here yeah
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everything here is available for
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purchase if you want
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food bags
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all right
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goodness gracious
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okay that's bizarre just talking about
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Cobra yesterday Cobra earlier and now
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there's a cobra pillowcase or something
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well maybe not a pillow case but some
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sort of cloth I had also The Shining
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check out Beavis and Butthead up there
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Rob Zombie Style and one thing about
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this convention is they do makeup this
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looks like I think this is supposed to
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be William Wallace look at that and then
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here's the rest of the Braveheart crew
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right over there look at that it's there
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Island oh this guy on the far right it's
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my Island all right we got Marty and Doc
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over here
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am I designated a cool person
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thank you
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it's your shirt
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this is perfect for fresh baked because
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you guys both like Haunted Mansion you
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like The Haunted Mansion right oh yeah
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it's all right yeah it's all right
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he's coming to Walt Disney World soon
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and one of the big things about this
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convention are makeup effects are a lot
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of people getting their makeup done
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throughout the course of the day this is
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an example right here
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it's right there
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Michael and Ghostface here teaming up
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oh they're very friendly with each other
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this is very clever the best little
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horror house there's Audrey 2 right here
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so you made this absolutely yeah I want
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to miss one of my favorites I worked
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there when I was young and oh really
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keep the Spooky Box going I love it is
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this for sale or just for display I do
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them for sale times of the year that are
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spooky around Halloween
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mostly I bring an upper display
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because like I know that that's what
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brought me over yeah
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looks like he's seen a ghost take a look
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over here at these ghoulish creatures
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oh what are those use your brains
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it's like three feet taller than I am
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there's a gorilla right here they're
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hugging gorilla
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Lucid Studios is the name of this place
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all right from Donnie Darko we got Frank
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the bunny here just walking around
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surveying the landscape a lot of Cosplay
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a lot of stationary stuff looks like
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aliens the original Sigourney Weaver one
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episode Predator over here come on in
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here come on do it do it now
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oh wow oh I think that bunny is from
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Twilight Zone The Movie if I remember
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right
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on the rabbit out of the Hat saying the
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makeup effects happening everywhere oh
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it's even better
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here's Johnny
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hello Michael oh that's not Michael
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that's up
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all right this is pretty dang awesome
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check it out the Watson Mansion goes
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here oh cool here we go this is a little
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bit better you can kind of see it from
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the distance all four of them there yeah
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quite an assortment of goodies through
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there's like a mer woman over there look
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out here in this chair
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a lot of clowns out here clowns welcome
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there we go we got Freddy over here
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hello Freddy thank you there is grogu
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right there hello grogu over here hello
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grogu I like how grogu has Mando there
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holding Manta I love it thank you all
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right this is awesome this is Freddie
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and the TV side
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now maybe one of the freaking coolest
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things I've ever seen
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well done I love it
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man that is awesome how freaking cool is
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that
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thank you all right step inside the
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museum now check it out there's
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Sylvester Stallone here here is the car
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from Cobra right there with the awesome
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50 right down below the original
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grenades were those silly stunt foam
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rubbers
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oh I know don't touch those this is the
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outfits alone what was the screen used
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outfit I'm gonna blow up this shopping
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center go ahead I don't shop here
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who is this
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we got the crew here everyone's here
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even Sean's here I'm here I can't I have
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to be here I have to be though you guys
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chose to be here you're on the clock
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yeah you're actually being paid to be
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here I am we're paying to be here you're
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hoping to get paid from being here oh
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here comes the Honda Mansion ghost over
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here too
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it's going inside the
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Moon here
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pretty cool it's over in Ballroom B and
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there really was quite a quite a bit of
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stuff in there I showed the I showed the
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the car from Cobra and the stream used
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items from Cobra but there's just a lot
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of other stuff in here just really
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really good uh decor and props and
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whatnot all kind of scattered through
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the ballroom through the museum area
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which is one of the cool things about
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monsterpalooza that kind of separates
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them from other things they always have
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like a museum I think one year a few
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years ago they had a haunted mansion
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area no haunted mansion stuff there's
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some Haunted Mansion cosplay but
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definitely a lot of a lot of horror
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stuff kind of wedged into the
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monsterpalooza museum always uh always
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something you definitely want to do when
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you're when you're here at this event oh
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wow there's a lot of the Freddy TVs here
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today it's a different one
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but this is like three times the evil
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all right there's a whole other vendor
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room over here there's a secondary other
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bedroom a huge vendor room on this side
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too there's a lot of monstrous Tiki mugs
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right over here too look at these
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let's go again more makeup effects that
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are happening right over here all right
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King Kong you gotta teach me the trick
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on climbing the Empire State Building
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hey what's the trick
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oh oh okay
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there you go
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I'm gonna remember that one good to see
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you
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the wedding dress
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good to see you let's see it Krampus
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here hello Krampus oh what's going on
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back there that's not good
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ah good at home all right looks like
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they've been waving around in the swamps
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a little bit telling secrets to each
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other hello
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thank you all right here's some Blast
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from the Past cool dude
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or something yeah and wet movie one is
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also here
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what are the odds I know right I haven't
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seen you guys in like a decade I don't
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know I mean it's been a long time yeah
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you're traveling the world I have that
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I'm a traveling man
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the movie you ever miss it
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no no I never liked the RV I like I like
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the van more okay remember the woodio
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yeah years ago
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so wet movie never went to the end
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your official stuffed animals yeah yeah
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yeah
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what happens in the room yeah yeah
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there's just a lot of weight loss
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charting on the video there is I
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remember you wrote down the weight
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number fluctuate yeah all the time yeah
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someone has a problem
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back there Jason's wedge back there
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hello Jason
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all right that's trippy
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Mission Impossible
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this is very confusing here's ready
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here's ready
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hi watch your YouTube channel oh you you
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do all right
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you know what I like I want to say
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It's Showtime it's showtime
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nice to see you I'm the longest
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surviving I mean living resident from
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Franklin to sign this is my friend
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Michael I've seen him before that's
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where we met it's nice to meet you he's
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nice who's this who's Debbie Debbie
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yeah she was the last surviving object
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next to the psychic twins Lisa Ledesma
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oh she still has flowers
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okay have fun today
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I ran into the one and only Scott Howard
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Teen Wolf here you got the Walkman
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you're rocking down here and it works
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and it works what kind of tunes you
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listen to on there the score
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very nice yeah you pulled that one out
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the last second
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excellent
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good to see you Teen Wolf can I get a
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picture yeah oh Teen Wolf wants a photo
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with me you got the style shirt on
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excellent I love it dude I watch your
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flying videos oh I think this might be
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one of the finished makeup products here
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watch out you got Krampus behind you he
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almost startled her again Krampus I
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almost startled her
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you can have a smoothie demons are
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allowed smoothie are you taking it yeah
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holy cow is the woman from the bathtub
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oh that is creepy
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he has a twisted Workshop
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oh it's the Blue Fairy
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we're seeing double over here double
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Beetlejuice
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at this shop we got a lot of Beetlejuice
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stuff kind of scattered through here in
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fact this one's busting through the VHS
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copy there as well check out Freddy's
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yeah look at this I love I love the
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Obscure you know it doesn't have the
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title on it just
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I'm your boyfriend now Nancy
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all right I ended up getting a t-shirt
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here at the monsters or good Booth this
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is the one I got from Monster Squad here
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but they have quite a few different ones
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The Ramones one too
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the cereal one
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thanks man
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I end up getting the hamasha squad one I
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knew I had to buy something I had to buy
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something here it even has the Monster
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Squad font but the name of the company
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is monsters are good
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monsters oh
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what's going on over here there's like a
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gorilla with a
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banana
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a banana
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the banana there I hope no hopefully no
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one slips on that hopefully no one slips
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on the banana
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you can shake a stick out there's like a
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lizard man up there there's like a
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couple of clowns there's like a
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Sasquatch of some sort
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should assortment oh here's an alien
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that's one of the
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Last of Us
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get so much else hello there how's the
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return of oh
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showing the chest off there
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creepy fan club here very nice good to
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see you
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it is now six o'clock
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and they just made the announcement that
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the convention for the evening
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is close enough all the vendors are
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packing up their stuff putting their
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things away
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time to start heading out you have to go
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home you can't stay here the door's
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closing that's it you don't have to go
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home but you can't stay here thank you
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that's it oh it's very tall
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thank you all right it's the American
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werewolf and long johns
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thanks American werewolf and long johns
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are those cozy they're cozy right very
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cozy nice looking good in America
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all right that's gonna do it for today
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from monsterpalooza 2023. did you have
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fun I had a lot of fun this was the best
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cosplay year I think I've ever been
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really yeah there are so many more I
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think I've ever seen we had a lot of
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people recognize
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yeah all right that's gonna do it for
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today
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losing 2023 it's a weekend thing but the
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only day I was here Saturday oh that you
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was here with Saturday as a recording of
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this
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they got my horror on I got my t-shirt
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which I haven't put on yet got like a
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large I don't know if I could squeeze
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into this yet but maybe
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overtime try it again
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we'll get a smaller t-shirt and that
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encourages you to maybe drop a couple of
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them yeah all right I'll see you in the
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next video check out the Daphne show on
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YouTube yeah yeah the Vlog is over