Free Play Florida 2022 Retro Video Game & Pinball Convention - The King Of Kong / ET 40th Birthday
Free Play Florida 2022
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welcome everyone
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out of the woo here as a recording of
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This November 18th a Friday TGIF
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2022.
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wearing a Repo Man shirt I don't know if
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it's appropriate
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but it is a Repo Man shirt I've owned
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this shirt for over a year
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and dare I say might be the first time I
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have ever sported it
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but I found it in my closet and I said
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heck it I'm wearing this free pay
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Florida is free play Florida have
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trouble saying the L there
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free play Florida it's going on a video
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convention video game convention arcades
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pinball
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Etc I have never attended due to me
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hardly ever being in Central Florida in
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November usually I was in SoCal but now
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that I am full time living here even
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though I travel probably three quarters
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of the year half a year or more
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but because I am not in California at
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this time let's just put it that way I
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am able to be here at this for the first
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time I don't know what to expect I've
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stayed spoiler free
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and I'm heading in I'm inviting you
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yes you to join me
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shall you directly across from Savannah
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Square I always drew a blank on what it
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was called one of my favorite spots to
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kind of relax sit contemplate do some
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thinking here on the corner of Long
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Meadow and mulberry
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is a turkey that wants the world to know
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don't forget about Thanksgiving
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Christmas season is here
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but that one day of Thanksgiving
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it's a it's soon to be here turkey are
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you ready
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you don't look stoked now this event
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goes on not only today but through the
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entire weekend so not only today the
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Friday but it also goes Saturday and
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Sunday today will be the day I'm I'm
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heading there
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but just to kind of show
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what exact is fly across the moon and
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across the game reverse
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step back in time when friends gather
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together for games a pizza speculated
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about alligators in the sewer and went
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home when the street lights came on the
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Expo features hundreds of arcade games
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arcade cabinets pinball machines
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consoles and retro games and celebrity
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guests and competitive gamers
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so that's kind of a brief overview of
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what I have in store
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going on head over there now I made it
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to my destination a place called caribbe
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Royale
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it's a little cart going by over there
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pretty expansive property I didn't
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realize all this was back in here I
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passed this place many many times all
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right I'm guessing that this is the line
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to get it I think doors are just about
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to open now you're in the Caribbean
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Ballroom all right the first room I'm
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stumbling on is the pinball tournament
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which goes on all weekend you guys want
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to be in the video all right we have two
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gentlemen here that are good friends of
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mine we have Greg's game room and we
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have the one and only exploring Ryan
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who's doing a little
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Lauren some sport yeah
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all right so give me a little info give
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me explore give me a little give me a
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little a little synopsis of what's
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Happening here this weekend all right
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this is free play Florida this is
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Florida's largest arcade pinball uh show
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uh this year especially with pinball oh
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yeah we got some games too there's some
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arcade games some arcade games one thing
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you definitely want to check out is the
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pre-war pinball stuff absolutely
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yes make pinball machines out of wood
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and it's a little bit of a trivia
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question here who am I 1930 actor these
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date back to 1932 Bally's first pinball
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machine
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Ballyhoo right over here the Smashing
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success 16.50 one of the things that
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aren't there the flippers there's no
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flipperless yeah
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that's where tilt came from all right
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give it a try basically just on how how
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much oh there it goes you got it in the
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return out the return Outlaws now up
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here I recognize Clint Eastwood up here
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the Clint Eastwood Every Which Way but
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Loose up top here over in this area here
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is Astro City by Sega right here and of
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course there are some vendors in here
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check out all the little miniature E.T
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figures right there for two dollars each
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oh I've played the cooking games
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NES that's my problem
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check this out over here Castle Mania
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you know Castlevania but it says Castle
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Mania and look at this He-Man ET over
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here you got He-Man ET with the finger
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pointed out oh I don't know what they're
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setting up over here but that's pretty
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cool yeah I could definitely detecting a
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theme with all the with all the
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extraterrestrials out here a lot of
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retro ETS and of course Hulk Hogan also
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like Pac-Man I mean I haven't played
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Miss Pac-Man in a long time maybe I'll
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maybe I'll jump on this Miss Pac-Man
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again yeah it has been a while since I
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played Miss Pac-Man I mean I played
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Pac-Man a bunch but I can't tell you
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last time I played biscuit that cherry
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go after these ghosts go go now here's
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something I haven't thought about in a
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long time the game genie unlock the
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power of your favorite video games with
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the game genie yeah you can see just
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what some of them are worth in the Box
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it was like Super Mario 2s 100 bucks
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99.95 and I also love Atari as well I
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think Missile Command for Atari probably
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my favorite Atari game this booth over
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here total nuclear Annihilation they
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have a bunch of different t-shirts over
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here check it out Camp Crystal Lake
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staff pinball tournaments look at
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Trident oh that looks awesome I think I
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need to play some Trident right here
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take a look at this trident by a company
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named Stern
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all right I am now playing kings of
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Steel
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sounds like they're doing the opening
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ceremony we're going to be doing a lot
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of street fighters so as you guys are
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walking Gladiators
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X-Files
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Last Action Hero Water World okay this
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has my name on it and water will pass my
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name on it I like Waterworld I mean I
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love the stunt show Universal Hollywood
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but I really like Water World the movie
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as well maybe I might be the only one I
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don't think I've ever played the pinball
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before Royal Rumble over there Batman
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this one I've never heard of take a look
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at this
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that's not Mel Gibson this is like a
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knockoff help gets in here possibly I
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don't know
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I'll see Danny Glover on there either
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I'm just assuming that was kind of like
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a knockoff it is a little brisk out here
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so I would imagine that's probably why
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no one's in the pool
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how many years has the event happened
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here at this size always been here
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I believe it may have taken place before
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I was here uh one other hotel but at
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least the last five years all right
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they're just strolling around a little
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bit more check out this foliage like a
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flamingo or maybe it's just like a I
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don't know it's maybe not a flamingo
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it's a what it's a heron okay yeah it's
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a heron I know I never noticed you had
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the kick bright made out of vinyl record
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covers right you cut the pick right pins
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and buttons vintage and I like that hot
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dog baseball hot dog Jersey up there
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there you go so you got the NES the
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Nintendo Donkey Kong Mario juggling a
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bunch of pills
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I kind of need I kind of feel like I
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need this pen to wear to certain things
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putting the fu in fun
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this was called Wipeout fun house next
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to that Batman is hook take a look look
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over there Dustin Hoffman and Robin
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Williams though oh wow
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next to America's Most Haunted The
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Shadow knows now I knew if I was gonna
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see one person next to a mold Aroma or
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now called this was called a mold of
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Matic machine it would be Jacob the
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carpetbagger I think out of all my
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friends you are probably the most
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die-hard Motorama guy I know just hang
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out here enjoying the smell and you're
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not affiliated with this you were just
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Affiliated this yes you just wanted to
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purchase this one but for some reason
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you said you put I was having some
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difficulties yeah there's a coin slot so
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I just I just started putting money in
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it and then nothing happened nothing
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happened
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interesting so what would this be you're
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in Boulder that's the Pacific uh Pacific
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Science Center I believe that's in
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Seattle
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okay you smell it
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burning rubbery smell yeah it's a
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melting plastic is a very distinct smell
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yeah how many bowlaramas do you have oh
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I don't know in a hundred hundreds
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hundreds
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okay excellent one day maybe it's a
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bucket list for you to own a machine oh
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I'd love to these things are not cheap
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they're not I'm sure yeah tens of tens
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of thousands of dollars chump change
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Jacob chump change I don't know if you
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noticed this Adam this one here was uh
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this little Disneyland is that
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Disneyland yeah they had them at
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Disneyland at one point wow okay this
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would have been I knew it was Disney but
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I didn't realize the dated back that far
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to create a gargan Gargantua yeah I
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don't know who Gargantua is I guess
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that's him he's a gorilla of some sort
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yeah he's a gorilla Gargantua the
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gorilla and I guess maybe that's where
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he was just played but he's escaped one
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Gargantua has escaped Chinese Theater oh
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wow yeah on Hollywood Boulevard see see
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it form before your eyes just in seconds
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be over here we go on the top of this
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yeah that would be the glass the plaque
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for that right here well hopefully later
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we can come back over it's very
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permeating smell I can smell it now
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check this out there is an Empire
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Strikes Back NES game and of course a
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Star Wars Qbert and whatnot I didn't
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notice this last time I was over here
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but this place called Echo base which I
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guess is based out of Orlando look at
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this there is a South of the Border
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spoof shirt Echo base Orlando this is
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just like South of the Border looks like
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Jacob is battling Mario full on here I
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Florida free play Expo is officially
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heating up
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hey everybody
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nice to have you here tonight beautiful
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hot night in Orlando it's 26 degrees in
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Chicago
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friend Warren Davis The Mastermind
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behind humor and myself Tim Kittrell aka
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Mr Boom Shakalaka NBA Jam NFL Blitz
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Twilight Zone revention Mars much
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pinball game blah blah blah we're gonna
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do a panel in the panel roast Jacob join
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us for some fun that's at seven o'clock
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and uh we are going to party all night
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long like it's 1993. where's the panel
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room Angel we have four
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voice over artists
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and are going to read some of your
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favorite scripts and find your favorite
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scripts accept the worst scripts
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but making them a sound really really
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good
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that is going to happen at seven o'clock
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right down there really close you're
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going to want to be there there's some
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audience participation
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these guys are laughing right now I'm
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assuming my fly is down
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that guy's looking at me kind of funny
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so that could be good or bad
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his own artwork stop by see Mr George
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flow come over
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he had a room for pandemonium and then
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when the whole evening is done prep it
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up we have one hell of an after party
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coming up
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in fact we have uh two things one there
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is going to be I love all the different
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if there's an old speaking spell here I
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like this area 50 fun not Area 51 area
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50 fun so basically a lot of the way
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these arcade games work is a lot of
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personal collectors are the ones who
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provide a lot of the stuff it's gonna be
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pretty awesome but I think for right now
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I'm gonna do something a little
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ridiculous we're now going to walk over
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to the panel room
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which is down here
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it gets down here kind of tucked away
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from everything oh it's in here
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I think it's in here
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's the panel though
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if you get out there and see the brown
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box so you really worked like that
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something yeah
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all right let's add a little bit of
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applause
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weddington's Adventures called Roadshow
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yeah unless they're a lot of fun
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football games and then NFL Blitz NBA
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Jam MLB MLB slugfest and NHL hits
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including some video games that have not
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made it to the shows yet I'm also in my
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spare time the voice for several local
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hunts because uh apparently when I talk
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I agree about kids recently all right so
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uh random page here is what we're going
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to do to begin with imagine more snacks
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that you can imagine
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imagine horse snacks that you can
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imagine imagine more snacks than you can
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imagine imagine that imagine that
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imagine imagine all the sex oh one more
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thing I was just trying my match and
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wash snacks than I could imagine and I
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have a problem I have to start thank you
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for help me
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it's AMPM it's the place is open 24
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hours
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what is it
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brookies a man
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okay
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and depression for something that cannot
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present you cannot be realized
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the highest reality
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this is like a closer view here at this
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little Contraption here from E.T with
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the fork the saw blade we got the hanger
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here you got the speaking spell I think
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they have one of these in the queue line
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at Universal Florida for E.T course
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Universal Hollywood has gotten rid of
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the E.T attraction but in Florida I
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think this is like one at the Florida
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queue they have this in the
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in the queue line then again I spent a
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lot of times I've been in Universal
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Florida so I don't know if it's still
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there
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you're good on ET in Florida I was on 18
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days ago did you see this in the ride
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yeah I think that's still there in the
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in the queue line okay
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pretty good Recreation that's a little
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walkie-talkie looking at some more of
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the merchandise here this is a pretty
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neat retro looking Godzilla mask
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kind of like the super seven adult
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license licensed adult-sized mask and
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then Dino Riders RoboCop too and of
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course Castle Grayskull over here this
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is all part of echo base
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having a cosplay oh yes and you have the
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contest I haven't seen a lot of
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cosplayers here but maybe you know maybe
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tomorrow Saturday is usually more of a
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Cosplay Day I think just looking at some
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more of the pinball here there's a Indy
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500 game
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jungle princess here
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X-Files Kings of Steel hyperball there's
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a little booth called pinball Eternal
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look at this little demon here oh and
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here's some little miniature pinball
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games right there a little miniature
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pinball machines
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foreign
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either side kind of like waist level
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this is an asteroid game over here this
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is a combination it's like let's go
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bowling centipede Missile Command and
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millipede kind of a combo and this one
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called what is called Legal
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show this the brown box
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at the ground box was a seven prototype
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built by Ralph H Byer between 66 and 68
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and this is the one license released in
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72 is the Odyssey the world's first home
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video game console right here here it is
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the first I just think it's a
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left-handed player over here the right
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hand player over here
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oh I didn't notice this until I was way
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over here there is a UFO over there
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above area 50 fun
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Flying Saucer I would say probably the
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ratio is three to one pinball maybe four
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to one pinball over the arcade games but
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a lot of arcade as well but definitely a
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lot more pinball which I really like 10
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ball I think I'd probably more into the
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Retro pinball that I am the full size
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arcade games I mean I like NES and Atari
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obviously and I like some stand-up
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arcade games but I also really love
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it's a duel
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it's a duel what are you doing oh no
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what are you doing I've been in the
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corner playing Gallagher this whole time
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Galaga what did you guys get here you're
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wearing an appropriate t-shirt wait wait
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a second what dude Konami Code I think
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it's down down down down left up up down
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down left right left right b a select
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start or select start select start is if
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you do a two player up up down down left
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right left right b a start here
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up up down down left right left right b
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a b a select start
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close up up down down left right left
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right ba the left side this is what you
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said
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I think I must have been a ba yeah yeah
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a lot of behavior you play a lot of uh
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Contra Mantra yeah
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I owe you oh God you have the best shirt
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what'd you say You're Gonna Contour
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that's a good one hello how many VIPs do
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we have out here tonight oh I think I
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think Jay really is challenging the king
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of Kong to a King Kong challenge yeah
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yeah we're doing this
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I think I'm about to witness of History
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right here
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all right we're playing for a penny a
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point and I asked him if he took
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American Express so
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just got hustled I think you just got
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hustled all right all right this is a
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for real right yeah
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74.
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no 79 okay
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I could
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play
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this is what happens when you make a bet
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that you should not have done right now
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you owe me 111. she just call it a day
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you just pay him
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right where do I sign up
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swipe the credit card
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okay oh Lord
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play ketchup
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you just got hustled okay here we go
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zero
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you're making bank tonight
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that's it hey up all right I got
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American Express
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you can either see me now or later you
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can meet with some Rocco don't
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Collective okay thank you Bill yeah
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I've used it by the best
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that took like two seconds
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I don't know what what just happened
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this is crazy never do that again did he
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let you off at the bet he I let him win
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how much would he own how much would you
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have owe him if he wasn't a nice guy
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about 115 yeah yeah thankfully he was
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did he just say all all stats are clear
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he could have took me to the bank yeah
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yeah he's pretty good no he's the best
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he's the king of Kong Billy Mitchell
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that was quite an otter I got beat by
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the best yeah
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right there on that machine
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everybody have a good dog all right
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there's something happening down here
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what are you taking me to Greg this is
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the 40th anniversary of ET basically a
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birthday party of the movie so now he
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would use a cell phone he went to phone
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her phone home yeah E.T cell phones how
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oh look this has moved over here now the
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He-Man look it even has the 40 even has
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the 40 balloon right there there is a
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Reese's Pieces cake right here and then
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there's Elliot on the bike and some
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cookies happy birthday to E.T and the
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Speak and Spell the flower is not
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wilting the flower is perfectly healthy
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I really like the Reese's cake here look
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at these little cookies
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look at that right there that's awesome
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this is a full-on
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full-on birthday party for you too and
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it says right here after many a year I
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am still
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right here there's the game over here
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and there's the two disc two discs set
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up there that's the one that has the
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weird CGI the weird cgi-e-t that no one
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liked it I didn't like it's got both
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it's got both of them yeah that is that
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thing needs to just be burned pretty
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wild a birthday cake foreign
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because there's no scientist or FBI
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agent chasing you around
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that's the hack game three you got the
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Hat on you play an E.T game three
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gotta sign the birthday card for et
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I figured all the side of the card
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you know
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lean to one side so let's see yeah
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it's starting to come to fruition here
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that's awesome
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it's like a little souvenir
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look how happy each he looks I am like
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I'm the nervous wreck
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you're doing the hard work
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it's just sitting there I've never float
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on a bicycle before so that's the first
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time I've ever flown on a bicycle so it
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kind of works out it's better better to
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fly on one than to crash on one that's
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true all right and that's gonna do it
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for today
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a picture with ET
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right there
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free pay Florida was a lot of fun played
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a lot of pinball played a few arcades
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saw the king of Kong
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and celebrated et's 40th birthday or
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anniversary even though I think E.T is a
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lot older than 40 because in the movie
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he was ancient I don't even know how old
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each he really is what does anyone
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really know I'll see in the next video
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the Vlog it's cool and crisp out here I
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could probably be wearing a jacket
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feels good
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the Vlog
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is over