An Aggravating Day At Punk Rock Bowling - Dumb Rules & Wasted Money - Fremont Street Las Vegas
Punk Rock Bowling Las Vegas 2023
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welcome everyone out of the woo here as
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a recording of this it is Monday May 29
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2020. we I am in Las Vegas attending the
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festivities of an event called Punk Rock
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Bowling it's been going on all weekend
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but I did not get until late yesterday
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afternoon in fact I went to one of the
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concerts last night didn't bring my
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camera saw the band rancid that I really
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like great show but I figured today heck
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it I would grab
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the camera and showcase what this event
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is about it is winding down it went out
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throughout the course of the weekend
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but I'm gonna see what I can see and I'm
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inviting you to join me also take a look
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over here
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off in the distance the stratosphere
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I parked right here at the Fremont
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Street Experience where they have
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slotszilla Slots of Fun lots of fun
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I have a little bit of a punk rock
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background in fact I'll show some of the
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places I played in Vegas when I was in a
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band
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it's gonna be a fun day and I have no
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real game plan so let's just see what
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happens join me
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yeah shall you now I've been to Vegas a
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few times I'm definitely not an expert
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by any means but I do know a little bit
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of the kind of the layout of the land
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downtown would be considered the Fremont
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District Fremont is kind of one of my
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favorites because it has that you know a
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lot of the strip has been changed so
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many times but Fremont is definitely a
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vibe
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now back in the day Fremont did not have
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this like Zip Line colorful light
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display over here but now it's like
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completely arched over with this item oh
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take a look up there there's some zip
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liners going by and then at the Western
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Village is an Old Prospector over there
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on the over there on the corner this
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says the casino District Fremont
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Eastchester Market
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sit on it
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sit on epoxy I always like all the neon
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obviously it's daytime so the neon's not
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on but there's this Cowboy right there
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on the horse got the martini glass
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Service as Fremont East district and I
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am going to Walk This Way
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and go to a pool party all right so I'm
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gonna start here at this escalator and
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go up the escalator to what says the
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pool deck here at the Grand where
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evidently there is something going on at
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the pool fans are playing
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while you're in the pool all right I
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guess I'm going the right way to the
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Grand Tower actually I don't really know
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where I'm going all right I'm gonna
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guess this is the right place these
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Citrus grand pool deck so what I thought
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it was was that little crosswalk over
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there car at all in all looks like I was
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between the two bands so they have bands
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playing but there are uh you know
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they're setting up and breaking down so
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nothing's really happened out here at
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the moment but there's still plenty
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going on in Vegas for this event
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particularly but everyone's just kind of
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like waiting in the pool a lot of
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colored hair a lot of mohawks a lot of
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tattoos just a kind of a Cool vibe for
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the punk rock Community it's been going
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on for I think I think maybe the 27th
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year I believe this is today so Monday
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main stage Monday May 29th this is all
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the bands that are playing today and
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then also this is the of course the main
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the main logo here and evidently it was
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just an early morning pool party it
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ended at 1 pm at 2 52 now gosh I haven't
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heard of sloppy seconds in years I've
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been listening to them in the 90s but
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anyway they were still together and from
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here you see the sign ever says welcome
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to downtown Las Vegas Vegas which is
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basically Fremont Street gonna pass the
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martini glass and just kind of walk the
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walk this egg I like all the outward
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artwork not outwork out artwork out here
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and the song having trouble talking
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probably should get a coffee at some
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point but all the Vegas signs and all
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that also there is I think this is
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downtown
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Billiards up here I think I played a
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show here right next to the El Cortez
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right over here at Backstage Bar in
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Billiards I was in a band called
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Guttermouth for a while we played a lot
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of shows in Vegas one of them I remember
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very well playing in right inside the
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backstage bars and Village and looks
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bars and bar and billiards look like
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tonight they're having a show
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as well dog party and weekend I always
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like looking at all these murals so
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so you got the strip and then you got
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downtown there's paintings through here
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there's a cat playing a jazz instrument
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over here and of course one thing you
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can see from all of Vegas
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the stratosphere
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one second I always like to stop off at
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kind of a nice Landmark is over here
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next to this heart is a big insect
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praying mantis praying or praying
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praying mantis because it looks like
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he's praying it illuminates fire in the
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evening out right here outside of
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Container Park and take a look at this
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oversized metal bug this is I think this
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is actually bigger than the Coco mantis
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in Kokomo Indiana I think this is well
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you know what you might be about the
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same size I must say this is probably
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about 20 percent bigger than the cocoa
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mantis except the cocoa mantis in
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Indiana does not have a truck this is
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like loaded on the back of this vehicle
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right here this praying mantis is it
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praying or praying I always say praying
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mantis but it could be praying it could
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be because it's praying but it's got the
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eyes and it has a Contraption I believe
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after Nightfall this thing will light up
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and breathe fire
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yeah don't breathe fire on me mantis the
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Mantis and there's this very unique
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sphere here as well it's very windy
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today very windy maybe that's why the
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fire effects are turned off well I could
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feel it you can see the wind going
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through the trees there the wind blowing
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the trees
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Fremont I think of the I think of the
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the Vegas man
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and just underneath the Mantis this
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heart has a lot of little handwritten
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notes and things and locks and lockets
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and people that put I love you and and
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whatnot all kind of scattered around it
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here so there's a lot of meaning here to
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all the lockets that are next in front
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of the Mantis itself it's a very
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disappointed gentlemen I gave her my
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heart and she left me for
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and over here is another mural oh
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peanuts
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on the side life is a shorty shouldn't
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be so rough
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free parking at the El Cortez
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but right down here at the end of this
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block is where the main concert and Main
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pucker bowling Festival is taking place
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saw a few good bands last night
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uh face to face they were really good
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damn they were really good of course
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tonight I'm probably not going to stay
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for dropkicks I've seen them probably a
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dozen times in my life many years ago
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when I was in a band we opened up for
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these guys it's kind of cool that
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they're playing their entire they're in
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tight their entire self-titled course
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institutionalized and other Classics the
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bass player of Metallica I believe used
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to play in that band and also was in
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infectious grooves which is a side
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project of this guy you know last night
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this place was busy
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this was this was like a real beehive of
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activity of course it was a little later
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in the day last night on a Sunday which
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was last night this is a Monday as a
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recording of this a little mellower
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five
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the first night that religion was here
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and me first and giving him is an
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Interrupters fear
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that would have been cool but I wasn't
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here for that one all right I went
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through the little checkpoint and they
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said I was not allowed in with the
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camera that I had it's considered video
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equipment and is against the rules of
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that video nothing says punk rock by not
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allowing in a Canon D Canon g7x Mark II
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that's as small as a cell phone and has
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the same video quality as a cell phone
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that I'm holding right here I explained
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that this is video equipment and they
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said uh yeah well we're just I don't
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think we can let you in without
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ah whatever
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I could go put it back in the car but I
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kind of don't care at this point once
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something kind of like gets in my head
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and I'm just like yeah what's the point
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I went last night saw the band I really
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wanted to see it was awesome
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but will not be going in I'm not going
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to put my camera back in the car I spent
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90 on the ticket about an hour ago it
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was 90 for the Sunday
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and I said I could have got a media
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badge if I would have you know ahead of
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time if I was media but I really don't
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like doing the whole media thing I just
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I don't know I'm really kind of
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anti-being
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uh having like special perks I like just
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paying for the events I want to support
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and go into so pay ninety dollars like
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yesterday didn't film and then today I
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figured you know I go back I showcase
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some of the vendors
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and whatnot just wanted to kind of show
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the the vibe inside there and and help
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show some of the vendors that were on
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site some of the products they had and
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some of their organizations and whatnot
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but I'm not gonna do it now I'm not
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going in because they were not allow
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I can have a cell phone but I cannot
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have I mean I'm gonna record on the cell
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phone and show you exactly what I was
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walking in my uh said no dslrs this
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isn't a DSLR but this evidently this is
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called this is considered camera
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equipment of some sort I guess it is a
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camera but yeah I don't know it's just
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weird a place that people are probably
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sneaking in booze
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drugs
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and who knows whatever else I'm not
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allowed to take in a little tiny camera
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I don't know I'm pretty pretty freaking
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annoyed by it honestly so I'm just kind
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of over I'm just gonna get out of here
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this is my intense
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camera equipment
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smaller than my cell phone oh well yeah
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it actually technically is smaller than
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my cell phone and newer cell phones have
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the same quality as this and probably
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better to be honest but
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and then this this is probably the
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giveaway
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this little culprit here this little
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manfrotto
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and they were just like oh pull over
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yeah you can't have that in here hold on
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we're gonna talk we're gonna make sure
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that's allowed
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and then I came back and go you got you
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can't have that you can't bring any of
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that in
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follow the rules
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go back and go away to use my camera but
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kind of once I made up my mind with
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things
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I'm just kind of once I make a decision
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I'm just kind of over it so I'll kind of
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take this day to just enjoy other stuff
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around Las Vegas
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and save myself going in there and
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that's probably the one and done I
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figured I'd never been to this one
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before so I'll come to some point come
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to Punk Rock Bowling but today was not
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the today was not that day glad Cloud
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last night it worked out and I was able
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to see rancid also fun fact well not fun
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fact last night when rants had played no
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issue with rancid you know they put on a
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great show three or four songs under
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their set the barricade broke I was up
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near the front and there was like a 40
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minute delay I didn't think the show was
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going to even continue and all the
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workers from the festival were out there
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trying to fix that fix the barricade
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it was kind of an interesting
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interesting scenario it's a little bit
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of fiasco
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that took place so
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two for two on the negative aspects
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about that what they say strike three
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not that they need me in there or
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anything like that evidently they don't
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want me in there but
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all right Vegas time
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so I will not get the opportunity today
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to purchase overpriced T-shirts from
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bands that should be selling them for
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half the price or buying Waters at a you
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know an exorbitant over inflation to
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stay hydrated will not be able to do any
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of that
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and it's interesting too now that I'm
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kind of on a rant how the ticket prices
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affect ninety dollars to see punk bands
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I don't really get like bent out of
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shape and upset over too many things but
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one thing when it comes to cameras and
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being allowed to film and not film and
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what you can have sometimes it's just
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complete absolute nonsense
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you try to explain it and they're just
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like huh
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so yeah I'm pretty I'm pretty irked
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overall the same kind of thing happened
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at a coarse field at a Rockies game once
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where you know because I was wearing a
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raised cap and I was from out of town
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the same thing happened with the
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manfrotto and the Usher was just very
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very mean and kind of disgruntled to me
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it was kind of a the same kind of thing
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but they just don't they don't listen to
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reason at all and just try to even
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understand what you're saying it's just
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like nope
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move along and again I can put
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everything back in the car and just film
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up my camera which is technically
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according to that this is filming camera
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equipment this is a camera
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and did not understand places in general
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that you cannot take a small handheld
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point-and-shoot camera Which films the
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same quality as that is smaller than
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this
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it's just such a weird era that we live
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in where people do not understand the
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difference that this everyone is filming
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on these everyone everyone that's
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walking in over there is going to be
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filming something for social media on
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camera
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equipment
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just so it's just yeah bothers me and
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again I can also just take this back to
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the car and what I'm filming on which
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again is the Canon
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Mark VII or the Canon g7x Mark II if I
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didn't have this on there it might not
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have drawn attention to it but the thing
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is if I go back to the camera that I'm
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filming on now without this they will
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see me and go oh wait you still got that
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camera equipment on you
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even though I don't have this but if I
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would have gone in without this
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originally with what I am filming on
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going back to my parking garage here too
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because I'm just gonna head back to my
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hotel relax the rest of the day I'll
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stand out in the scorching Heat
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it's been you know a couple hundred
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dollars on merchandise
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at the festival that I was going to go
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into because it is frowned upon to bring
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something like this in to the festival
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where there's no telling what else is
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floating around in there
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you tell I'm pretty happy about this
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right
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I've been told I can't film something
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makes me happier
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so here's the question
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you film on a camera
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your phone is a camera
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so if you go in
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how is anything going to be filmed in
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there so should if anything that is
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found
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on the web
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it's being that's filmed
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it means everybody snuck in their camera
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tag
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ah this whole thing just puts a bad
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taste in my my mouth of even being here
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not that I even love Vegas to begin with
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but sorry the certain certain things
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certain reasons I want to come here
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but yeah I just don't even want I don't
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know I was supposed to be here for a few
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days but now I don't even care
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I'll think about it the rest of the day
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but yeah I don't know sometimes certain
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things just kind of kind of throw you
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off
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this threw me off again
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all right while I'm thinking and just
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kind of you know rambling a little bit
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when did punk rock you know for me when
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I started getting into it it was all
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about being inexpensive
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you know playing shows for people at a
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smaller price in fact when I was at a
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I was in a band called TNT from Florida
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if we if we ended up charging more than
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ten dollars for a shirt we wouldn't have
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heard
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we wouldn't have heard the end of it
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but when did so it just seems as if once
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bands get popular no matter what genre
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they are
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it's just like some exorbitant price tag
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on all of it I understand ninety dollars
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to get into a festival that makes total
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sense because you have to have the staff
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on hand to tell you you can't bring in
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professional camera equipment even
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though it's just a small little thing
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that's the size of a cell phone it feels
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the same quality so you have to have
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that and you have to have you know you
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got to have security and all that so I
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get that but why do the bands themselves
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have to charge so much 35 40 50 60 for a
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t-shirt well for a hoodie hoodie
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35 dollars for a t-shirt forty dollars
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for forty dollars for a t-shirt
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food for thought oh so I would be
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crossing over here at the at Fremont as
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well once the legislie gives me the
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light I don't know it just seems like
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the things that I fell and love about
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the genre with kind of go out the window
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in this day and age just I think Gene
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Simmons did an interview once with uh
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Henry Rollins from Black Flag and he was
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talking about Henry ball is saying how
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he's different than kiss and how that
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genre was different and the the morals
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and what they're kind of going for was
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different than than what kiss is going
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for
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and Gene Simmons response I'm just
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paraphrasing but Gene simmer's response
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was
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once you sell a t-shirt once you put
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your name on a T-shirt and sell it
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your kiss
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and I just that that kind of just popped
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in my head thinking of
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I don't know just the event that just
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kind of transpired and honestly that
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it's it's pretty obvious everything's
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about money these days
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sing about Anarchy
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how to allow these in
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these are good
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underage drinking drug use who knows
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whatever else is going on behind the
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scenes
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no little man frodos though
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none of those
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it's considered professional grade
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camera equipment right there
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so rebellious let's Punk is f
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so last night I was at the show watching
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rancid amazing band great band but I
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filmed some clips on this you know
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professional grade camera equipment that
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everyone's allowed to bring in right
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here this the cell phone I'm going to
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share some clips from last night when
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the barricade broke and everyone had to
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wait around for 45 minutes while the
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Fiasco them trying to fix it granted I
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will give them this they did fix the
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barricade
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but middle of the rancid song they shut
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it down came out waving their arms oh
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whoa the barricades broke everyone
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stepped back step back so many people
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there the barricade was not correctly
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set up took like 45 minutes to get it
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all ready to go so you know waiting an
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hour
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in between bands for rancid up along the
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front which I don't mind doing waiting
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for the band I really want to see and
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then after waiting Ransom played two or
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three songs and then I honestly I didn't
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even think they were even going to get
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it fixed and come back but this is just
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footage of them
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trying to get it all fixed there's a lot
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of confusion
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so just yeah so I filmed all this on
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something that was allowed in
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professional grade camera equipment so
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what does it matter
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anyway this footage that I'm putting up
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from last night was something on my cell
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phone no different than the footage on
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the little tiny camera that I would have
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brought in there you go
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I wasn't going to put it up there it is
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one last little foot though so then
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that's going to do it for today I try to
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do my best with being a uh a normal
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person and showing these videos from a
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normal
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normal State of Mind no punited almost
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you know another state of mind normal
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point of view
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I no longer haven't for many years do
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any sort of media credentials I don't
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want to do media they said that oh if
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you had gone through the media Outlets
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you would get you would be you would be
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allowed to bring that in but the fact is
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if I would have unscrewed the little
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manfrotto tripod that I showed on the
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dash it NADA brought that in
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it just hit the camera
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to my fanny pack there would have been
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never had been an issue whatsoever so it
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was the correlation it was my own fault
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in some ways that I had the two attached
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because it maybe draws attention but be
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trying to explain it they wanted no
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explanation whatever it was just cut and
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dry you can't bring that in whatsoever
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even though I unscrewed it I said if you
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haven't brought this in without this on
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there but they wouldn't even have said
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anything and I'm sure there's countless
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people who've got who went in with a
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camera similar to the small one that I
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am filming on at the moment but I've
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always tried to go with the whole no
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media aspect of it another thing is like
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the hot Seasons you know sometimes they
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will not let you film at certain haunted
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houses because you don't have media
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credentials but I don't want to do the
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media because I want to I want to
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support places that I have interest in
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like what I wanted to go to today and
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you know the haunts and things like that
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I don't want a free ride I want to be
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able to pay but I want to be treated as
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the media people are how are they any
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different than anyone else even though I
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could be
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that
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it just seems like normal people are the
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ones that kind of get crapped on just
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say it
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but that's it for today I'll see you in
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the next video I'm not happy
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and I probably probably trans into this
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and you very rarely will see me do a
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rant like this but it's just escalating
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certain events throughout the course of
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the year like this that happen not
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particularly this one but you know with
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hot stuff and I've been to baseball
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games like that too where they just do
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not comprehend the aspect if I just
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unscrew this little thing it's a normal
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thing if I'd have brought this in a bit
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of the fanny pack you wouldn't even
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noticed it
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see the next video thanks for watching
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the Vlog
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fist up to the normal Folk up with the
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normies
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we gotta unite right
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the block
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over