Deep Into The Weirdness of Dragon Con 2021 - Downtown Atlanta Cosplay Crowds / Free Food & Shatner
Dragon Con 2021 Friday
Transcript
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today's adventure begins as i have just
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walked down from my room at the westin
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peachtree center one of the five host
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hotels for
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dragon con 2021
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as a recording of this it is friday
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september 3rd
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2021 about 10
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15 a.m and judging by
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the line that is over there
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this thing is in full
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swing i believe this is for the vendor
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room
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oh yeah
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it's happening you little trees oh hello
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bob ross good to see you
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painting anything awesome today
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oh yeah here take this
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you may need it yeah
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oh yeah i'm blocking the entire damn
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microwave here that's what we do ladies
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and gentlemen
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make sure to get back here it's so much
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your mandolf you've ever seen
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i love the slim jim that thing is that's
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it that's
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the power
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take this you may need it oh thank you
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oh yes on you brother thank you macho
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man off absolutely
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now i gotta go find a hobbit
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welcome everyone adam the woo here step
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back outside just simply so i could take
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off facial covering while i do the intro
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you do have to have these while inside
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these are required
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indoors i figured let's see my i have to
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face
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before the day begins also coffee is
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required
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and i'm going to try to change things up
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a little bit usually when i am here i
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focus
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solely on cosplay i put a lot of steps
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in walking around and that will be no
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exception however i'm going to pepper in
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a few other things a few other
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experiences
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like panels
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and whatnot and just try to get
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a little deeper experience at dragoncon
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than what i've had in the past and maybe
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even save some steps on my on my legs
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walking up the stairs when i flew in a
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couple days ago the marta station
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train
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escalator was down
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let me tell you
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i'm still feeling it that thing
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is
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tall
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nonetheless
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it's about to happen
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friday edition of dragon top 2021
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inviting you to join me
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shall you oh no it's johnny lawrence
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here from cobra tie i never know what
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side you're on if you're a good guy
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you're a bad guy the show kind of
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confused me in a lot of ways but also i
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feel for you where before i was always
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afraid of you
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sorry
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sorry i got distracted johnny sorry i
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got distracted
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one thing i really like to utilize is
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the app you see is 1052 i have it set
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for
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friday the third and you can go all the
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way up back you know earlier in the day
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3 p.m 2 p.m but i wanted to show one of
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one of the events
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i'm gonna be going to at four
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you see right up
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here i have it highlighted right here
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here we go at 4 00 p.m
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in the hyatt centennial
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is a william shatner captain kirk panel
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right there boy that is are those
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are those platoons
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it's all flowers
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it took me about probably 20 minutes or
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so waiting in line to get a little
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piping hot caffeinated beverage
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it's over here in the marriott and the
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marriott's not the only one that has a
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long line
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for a coffee i kind of ventured around
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to find one with a shorter line by the
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way i'm watching this gentleman play
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chess
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with the jawa and the draw is pretty
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good he moves very very quickly
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he's rethinking his strategy there i see
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the sign right there play chess
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with the jawa
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this gentleman does not know oh he's
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changed his his
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strategy a little bit majawa
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making the move oh yeah and a lot of
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people are showing up in their cosplay
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one thing i think there's going to be a
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lot of loki's around you see over there
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a couple loki's walking by as stated
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right here you got the the alligator
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with the luffy helmet on the hand there
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around the neck now i believe this is
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a mandalorian panel over here
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for a mando panel yeah i believe this is
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the right spot right here
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and it says right over also you can use
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the app but you can also kind of look at
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the board here where it says 11 30. it
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lasts an hour i might not stay in there
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the whole time but
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yeah check it out it looks as if there
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are no seats
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it's not a big room but it's a full room
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i like everything up over on the walls
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over here oh yeah and there's also
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and not everyone
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could get in this panel full
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okay yeah it was warm in that room so
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carrying on oh goodness
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you all right
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yes the cosplay is starting to appear
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now a lot of cosplayers are coming out
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oh yeah here we go
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as i was saying gonna be a lot of loki
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here loki is definitely the costume of
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2021 convention series especially
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oh goodness what's he doing with the
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bunny rabbit there a little bunny around
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there's now three minutes until noon 11
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57 there's a few people congregating
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over here to get into the celebrity room
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which i'm gonna guess the celebrity room
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here on this friday opens at noon
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so i think i might walk around in there
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and just see what's going on and fancy
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meeting a few friends over here
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exploring ryan
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got greg from greg's game room
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adventures by george all right and of
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course tampa j is back as well
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you gentlemen flew in this morning
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technically very early very very early
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but you made it you did you made it here
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all night you got here yesterday and i
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got here the night before but now we're
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all here yes
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now
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by coffee
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and determination dragon cone baby
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coffee and determination yes can i say
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real quick yes
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usually
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the carpet bagger would be with us he's
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not here no ladies was going to be here
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this year he's not here
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so in their stead
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we're just going to have to you know
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be like six or seven
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people okay they don't call this the
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celebrity room they call this the walk
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of fame
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that's what they're referring to it as
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and
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fill in all the all the available space
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about to head in they open from time to
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time so don't stand right against them
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otherwise you may get clobbered go ahead
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and throw it in the bag this floor area
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let's see i'm on tv yes you are
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go ahead and fill it in fill it in pull
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it in okay so these are the doors here
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right over here he's referring to okay
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that's pretty awesome hello there
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i also just realized that
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there's a little kind of almost like a
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little dragon con secret up here on the
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next level by the way i walked over here
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because the
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walk of fame does open until one so a
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little time so meandering around here
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inside the hyatt and i didn't think they
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were going to open up the little
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little con room up top
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for the snacks and whatnot but they're
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open i'm gonna go up there
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there you go
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con suite you got a spoon a fork
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and a knife all you can do is just
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stroll over into this door and all this
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is complimentary as long as you have a
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badge for the convention i think i'm
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gonna end up getting one of these little
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little sandwiches here they also have
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they also have hot dogs in here and you
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can get a small if you come back later
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on for dinner we're gonna have pulled
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pork oh soup's going on there
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now it's definitely very difficult to
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find seating however but you have you
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kind of worked it out
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and everyone stopped getting up but yeah
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you might need some help getting up yeah
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you're trying to get to the floor all
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day anyways you're opting to stand and
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then over here this might not be the
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wisest place
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to put our sandwiches you got a dog
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there yeah dog got it i just had to put
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it there it just looked so nice that's
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kind of a nice angle though it is a
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little a little hyatt martini glass
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thing there in the elevator no like
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don't do that no no no that's a bad call
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get a very good angle of shirtless loki
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down there
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a lot of loki's i didn't even ask but
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i'm guessing this is ham or turkey it
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looks like turkey and cheese
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yeah it really is amazing how many
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loki's there are oh
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look at these astronauts walking through
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here
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it's filling up come play with us danny
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forever
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and ever that's jack torrance down there
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with the shining twins
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i didn't realize they were so friendly
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to each other
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he's got an axe
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up now the twins have an axe what are
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you doing that is dangerous
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you need to find a very long hallway
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weird
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and ever
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all right here comes one another
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another alligator lope with a loki
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helmet on
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oh no you know i was gonna say if i had
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a quarter i'd say there you go lady
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there's a quarter but i'm i'm all out
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i'm all out of change
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it's all about spreading awareness okay
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our history and our heritage okay that's
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good i know that clock tower was
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stripped 30 years ago
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no you need to save it and preserve it
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mayor wilson wants to change it
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here we go lady here's a quarter oh
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there you go oh there you go i like that
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yeah good job mayor goldie wilson is
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sponsoring an initiative to replace that
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clock
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spread awareness everybody needs to be
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aware thank you thank you you see my mom
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around don't tell her i'm here she
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thinks i went camping with the guys
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okay we're getting ready to have an
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action action moment here oh it's an
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action moment
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this is pretty cool it's a little mashup
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of mandalorian
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and the rockets here
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loki are you holding luke's return of
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the jedi lightsaber
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what is it it's mine oh it's yours
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you've taken it from luke all right it
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is now 1pm and the walk of fame is now
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opening they have it all kind of
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stancioned off here you have to go over
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to the imperial ballroom this gentleman
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that works here said for the overflow so
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i gotta head over to the imperial
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ballroom and then maybe you could go in
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and this is the overflow this is the
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imperial ballroom overflow for the walk
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of fame a lot of people want to get in
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there oh my goodness over there is that
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rowdy roddy from they live walking
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looking maybe he's looking for some
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bubble gum okay it's now moving heading
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over into the room the celebrity
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walk the frame
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you're gonna have to room that off there
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when i get in right yeah before you get
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in okay i'll turn it off at the door
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my time inside the walk of fame was very
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very short just kind of meandered around
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this is the layout
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they're very very strict on filming
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which is understandable because there
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are
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there are some famous folk in there
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here's the list of who is here
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at the moment kind of scrolling down and
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across
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why are you pointing out that particular
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person
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she's got a lot of letters in her name
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that's the list oh hello wolf
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oh did you break away from the chain did
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you break your chain you did
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did you where'd you escape from
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oh it's a secret all right wolf your
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secret's safe with me
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see you wolf get out of here it is about
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halfway over but there is story time
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with uncle george
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hey i'm gonna go in there
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all over again
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and eventually
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ladies and gentlemen for your dining and
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dancing pleasure
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please don don't let me fall on the tape
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the kelly rip up walk
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and as i recall she's doing something
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youthful and kicky even though she's 84
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freaking years old
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she's doing something kitty like work on
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the phone
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i'm definitely having a hard time
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deciding figuring out which is the
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restricted area no one is supposed to
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enter because everyone is over here
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everyone is going that direction
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everyone is entering every area so what
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does this apply to all right it is
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definitely filling up now it is
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definitely
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filling up and another loki alligator
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there and yes yet another there are a
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lot hello all right this is more like it
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starting to get that that old school
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drag dragon con feel to it once again
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yes definitely this is definitely more
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like it now now now it feels like the
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convention is on oh here's an
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interesting mashup
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well
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oh i see it's a mashup
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it's a loki mashup because you're
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wearing math shirts
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i like that where do the balloons come
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into play
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oh up
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okay excellent
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all right there's a lot going on here
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it's a little it's a full deployment huh
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i like it okay gotcha cool thanks guys i
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made it over to the food court gonna get
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myself another coffee
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yeah i'm just gonna stay caffeinated
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here at caribou
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coffee i like that they have a dragon
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here freaking a piping hot beverage
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as well
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oh over there in the line
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it looks like there is another one of
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the alligator
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loki's boy that guy's tall walking
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that's a
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tall guy going by there
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oh there's mrs claus and kris kringle
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himself santa claus has arrived a little
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bit early here at the first of september
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but
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yeah oh kringle's over there i'd say
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they better get his order correct he's
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holding some sort of a
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blade okay
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completely made out of coors light
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bottles cans
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so you're deluring
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oh the mandalori say it again the candle
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the candelorian
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totally recyclable too
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i like it
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thank you
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the can delorean look at skeletor over
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yes that's awesome look at skeletor
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that's so good that's a facehugger there
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very very dangerous
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best of luck with that
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what's that i gotta live with it you
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gotta live with it
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all right awesome thank you oh yeah
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there we go ready
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wow
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nice
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yeah there's a lot going on here
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lydia teets over here on the side oh we
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got deadpool bob ross here walking by as
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yeah this is awesome
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you look awesome
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where do you get your shoes oh you got
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the side doing a little panhandling here
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empire fell had to sell armor please
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help very cute
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you should still got the helmet though
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at least oh we got a little actual
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action going on over here
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it's going down right here he's got a
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fishing pole there
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something on the line
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oh
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luke is using the force
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get it
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oh you're fast very fast go for it greg
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it's all you
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oh oh oh oh close close
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up close
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too fast too fast
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too fast oh there's bugs bunny
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little bugs
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that's cool
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going down the escalator hello bugs oh
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and of course can't forget the the
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leia's here
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there's a little mandalorian
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helmet there
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down here on one of the lower levels is
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a art show and bizarre and fancy meeting
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crazy joe down here yeah
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what's that i never can keep up with the
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name of your is it mega podtastic now
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mega pod test it used to be called
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something else back in the day it used
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to be called mega podzilla until i got a
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cease and desist from touhou okay so
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you're not you're now you're mega
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podtastic yes and you're back at
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dragoncon you were here in 2018.
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yeah this is my fourth year were you
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here in 19
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no i missed 19. skip 19. i was here 19.
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you were i missed 18. it's it's
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confusing yeah especially with missing
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last year it's tough
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it's tough to know how many years
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i've been here every year since 13 but i
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skipped last year so it threw me off a
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little bit and i bumped into jeff
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goldblum here looking around you finding
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any good art jeff oh yeah yeah yeah
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wonderful wonderful art around here some
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wonderful exhibits uh i i do like the
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crafty though uh jeff goldblum uh
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another thing i used to go by as a ian
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malcolm i am a catfisher yeah
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okay okay so don't call you jeff anymore
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no no not jeff this is ian malcolm uh
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love uh love dinosaurs even though i had
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a
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very uh rough encounter with one hurting
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my leg a little bit but uh it's just
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much better now you know you know walk
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on it
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he's kind of kind of healing back up now
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yes yeah doing it there right holding
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absolutely
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all right now i'm gonna get in line for
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the hyatt centennial two and three
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ballroom the william shatner
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panel which starts in a half hour
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cute is queuing up
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right over this way so we gotta walk
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down this hallway all and find the end
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of the line which i think is going to be
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very very very leaky all right here it
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is the line stretches all the way
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outdoors
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and down the side of the building yeah
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this is going to be a lot of people in
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that ballroom it looks as if found it
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here it kind of wraps around and here's
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the ending right up here and this is the
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end of the line
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oh no it goes off it keeps going on
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right up against the sidewalk okay found
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the end of the line yeah this is it it's
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convoluted and weird but this is where
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it's at all right
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and you can also see the little hamster
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tunnels up top that everybody walking
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through above the host hotels i'm gonna
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zoom out you'll be able to see the the
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shatner line
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going back pulling back there
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and the way it works is it goes up from
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here goes up there turns around
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and then goes completely up that hill
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all the way one city block and then
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kind of goes into the hotel around that
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way there's a lot of people
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all right it's moving now
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heading up
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12 minutes till 4. we got 12 minutes to
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get in and seated
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okay i have a little bit of people
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watching
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the cue going through here
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almost in
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almost in the centennial ballroom over
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going in oh there's a teddy bear right
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there
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there's a teddy bear
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and as you know
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in five days
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star trek will be
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55 years old
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the beginning
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of the reason why all of you are here
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but the captain himself and king of the
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seven seas by the way
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mr
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williams
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but i said i could have committed
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anybody
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i'm wearing dark glasses for the mask so
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anybody could
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up appearance sure they know that you
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are comfortable
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best piece of advice when you're sitting
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down
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all right it's now time for another
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dragon con tradition
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yummy yummy japanese sushi and seafood
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restaurant which is a buffet style
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oh yeah it's time all right do we want
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to play some bets on what this cost this
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this meal right here cost from yummy
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yummy
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i also got i should also add in i also
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got this was a 20 ounce mountain dew we
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could actually just go around here
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with tampa jay what do you think
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let's let's let's do it let's do a let's
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do within a dollar what do you think
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this costs
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you had to guess
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13.99 you're go you're lowballing it
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i've done this before okay so i'm gonna
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go with uh 21. 21 anybody else have any
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guesses
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i can't guess because i saw
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twenty 28
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including twenty eight dollars including
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two yours is what i thought yours looked
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lighter mine was twenty two how much was
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yours greg seventeen with the drink mine
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was seventeen as well which means yours
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was seventeen yeah and you went with uh
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you went with hamburgers from dairy
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queen so um
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chew your food slowly
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oh that's awesome looks like michael
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myers has brought his own hedge with him
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he's brought his own hedge
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you brought your own head oh there we go
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right there oh there we go there we go
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his own hedge
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right there okay where'd michael go
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where's michael if you say oh there he
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is there's michael all right michael i
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feel like i'm in pasadena right now in
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south pasadena
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up nope all right yeah i feel just like
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holy cow look how filled up the
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elevators are right there there's a lot
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of people crammed in those elevators oh
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yeah dragon con is back baby
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is this doc brown yes doc
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what year is it oh goodness i don't know
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what's going on what is going on through
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here there's a bunch of troopers walking
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through
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there's like a parade of troopers here
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through here
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like this kid this could this could be
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very big
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it's a nice data lake
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it's classic
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i don't know where they're heading but i
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feel like i should follow thank you for
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your service
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oh look at that
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you don't see that every day a bunch of
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bunch of troopers going down an
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escalator there goes an inflatable chick
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whoop up he heard someone saying
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something turned around inflatable
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chicken
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goodbye inflatable chicken
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okay take a look at i'm going up the
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escalator behind mr clean
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someone's cosplaying this mr mr clean
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how's it going
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keeping everything keeping everything
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tidy
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oh goodness there is a whole
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conglomeration of dinosaurs over here oh
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goodness this is good look at this he's
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riding on top of the diner it's a
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dinosaur
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top of the dinosaur
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as well nice
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very nice
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this one's dancing over here oh goodness
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they are going after this
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this gentleman right here i don't know
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what just happened but he's like trapped
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in between all the dinos right there i
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don't know if i should should attempt to
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go through there too but i don't want to
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step on the dinosaur's tail i'm going to
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try to go through
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through the middle through here maybe i
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don't know if i should though i don't
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know if i should go through here
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the dinosaurs are leaving
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where are they going
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they're heading out
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all the dinos are now
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departing
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oh they're all going that way it's like
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a parade of dinos
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it's a parade of dinos
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and over hit the tail end
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this guy right in the dinah down here on
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this level there seems to be a little
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like
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little hawaiian theme going on a little
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luau
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of sorts over in here yeah it's a
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full-on party down here on this level
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all right i gotta know how many
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hamburglars have you stolen today i'll
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go scream you were framed by ronald
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all right
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i won't tell anyone that ronald is the
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true hamburglar
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and that's gonna do it for today from
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downtown atlanta
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looking out my hotel room window
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i'll see you in the next video the vlog