Spooky Empire Orlando Opening Day - Spring 2021 Horror Convention - Friday Cosplay / Vendors & MORE
Spooky Empire Orlando Spring 2021 Friday
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wearing an appropriate t-shirt
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of the frightening persuasion
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welcome everyone adam the woo here
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today's adventure brings me to the
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window hotel
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resort establishment on the corner sand
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lake road
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and international drive this
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hotel right here has been the site of
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spooky empire for many many years first
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started attending
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back when it was referred to as scream
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fest
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and they had to change their name for a
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variety of reasons
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and it has been spooky empire ever since
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they do
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two events per year usually referred to
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this
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as mayhem don't know if this year due to
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the current circumstances if they're
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calling in that and this is the
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recording of this it is friday april
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30th
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2021 the cusp of may
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goes all weekend i am here on friday
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to enjoy the festivities the sights
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sounds and the smells
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providing you the joy and yes i did
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bring
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an umbrella
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it gets a little toasty hey oh that sod
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dang i almost made the hey joe join me
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chalia you see a few people already
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starting to line up with the entrance
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being here now don't quote me on this in
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all my years i don't recall on a friday
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as a recording of this
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did not open at 1 pm usually it's later
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in the evening around 4
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and then on saturday and sunday open all
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weekend
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you know early hours maybe that's why
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there's not a lot of people here quite
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yet
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there goes a golf cart one good thing
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about this location is there
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is plenty of free parking tucked away
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around the back
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you can see the the icon orlando the big
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ferris wheel over there which is where i
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have opted to
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return to my vehicle and sit here for
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about 10 minutes and utilize the air
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conditioner
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it feels pretty good doesn't it big the
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foot i'm gonna head back over there and
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check on the line in a minute it's it's
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it's about ready to open the door's
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about ready to open in about
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15 minutes while walking back noticing
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these bumper stickers here
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yeah and no one but no one's honking no
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one's honking i didn't hear anyone any
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honking and the reason these this can
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take place is because they have
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regulations like
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you know you have to support this as
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well which i'm about to dawn and
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is that the right phrase i'm going to
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put it on
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and then heading into the line okay
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about 10 minutes to one up seeing some
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familiar faces
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i am regular admission not vip you can
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faintly see here in chalk it says
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regular
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check-in and we do have the distancing
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there and if you were to go up this way
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this is the way down the stairs with the
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arrow and that's the way
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and you can see the chalk over here it
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says vip all right all checked in here
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we got the little set up here and i have
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my weekend i don't know if i'll be here
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the whole weekend but i'm
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definitely here today i gotta go i gotta
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go back outside until
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about eight more minutes till the door's
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open got about two minutes
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well three minutes i must have missed
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the memo i did not bring my
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universal studios monsters sure is
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tomorrow
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wob day is tomorrow i'm wearing a blob
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shirt i don't even know if you can see
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it because the sun is like
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there you go there you go that's a
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little bit better
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you guys match that yeah we called each
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other do you ever remember this
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opening at 1 pm on a friday before no oh
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look
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you're vip i wouldn't vip tampa j should
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i mention can i give any spoilers about
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what today is
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yeah go ahead this is also tampa jay's
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birthday
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he is 21 years old today tampa
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all right it is now it is now 1pm we are
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one of the first
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dozen to walk through the doors at
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spooky empire
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spring edition 2021.
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and you got to follow some of these here
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you know if you're not feeling well
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please go home
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oh even uh even frankie i know his name
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is you know
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frankenstein monster but i always call
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him frankie he's also has the guideline
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oh he's also he's wearing
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gloves as well maybe this is just this
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joyous fingers look
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and then over here you have a little
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photo out here
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got it i still have my umbrella i'm not
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going to open it up in here like that's
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bad luck
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already starting off with some vendors
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here we got freddy krueger
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leather face soap oh there's a chucky
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soap down here
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yeah oh it smells really good through
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this area
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might be voorhees that maybe upside down
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voorhees over here that has that
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beautiful scent
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oh my gosh look at that
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this doll has a bunch of like little
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cactus like prickly's
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on it and this one up here i don't know
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what's going on with the face there
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it's a booth called deviant doll these
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are some very very
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deviant dolls oh my goodness got a
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tinfoil cap on
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over here oh there's a little bit of a
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hatchet and the invisible man
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right there the invisible doll there's a
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tiki booth as well
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you look and look at this little tiki
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kind of like leading you in
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there's a prehistoric creature a pirate
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over here
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and here here's a tiki tiki head as well
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and it wouldn't be horror themed tiki
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without a shrunken
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head right up here oh some of these
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items are pretty good it's called the
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shrunken
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monkey and they have tiki mugs as well
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look at this hattie over here this is
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awesome that is a good hat box
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and as is par for the course anything
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with a lot of michael myers mass draws
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quite a crowd
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oh dang and even the original shatner
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mask that michael myers mask was
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modeled after over there on the end
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check that out now they do not have
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paper scheduled also do not touch the
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t-shirts you have to ask for help
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they have the mobile qr code
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for the schedule that is happening i
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think these are some previous years
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thank you spooky shirts yeah see i was
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uh i knew what i was
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i knew it was called mayhem at some
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point some of the previous ones
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were called mayhem and then right up
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here this one says you can't stop
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spooky empire oh there's spaceship earth
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on there look at that yeah
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right there in the middle there's
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there's uh there's disney world right
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there in the middle that's
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interesting man that's uh that's another
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tempting item
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that's a good what that's pretty cool
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look at this
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very interesting the grim reaper is up
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there
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above spaceship earth and i could put a
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piping hot
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caffeinated beverage in one of those i
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think that's a starbucks
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spoof there stickers magnets
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shop smart don't shop that's smart but
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shops
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stays six feet apart
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all right going in yeah enjoy i like the
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shirt
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thank you all right it's happening
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place called image motor productions
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there is a demogorgon right here and
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i think that's bruce the shark over
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there and a gingerbread man that someone
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has not been
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too kind with lots of good artists out
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here who have put some of their
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artwork on merchandise as well as
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shown here this booth beast wreck stuff
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there is a burping wolfie
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up there off the end and there's a
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belching frank
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i like the belching crank and also a
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bunch of stickers down here
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always can get some some rare items
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just showing kind of here oh there's
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weird science down here
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all right four your fifth one's free
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in particular i can tell you within a
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matter of seconds you happen to have
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that on blu-ray
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i don't just dvd that's a tough one to
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find
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one you got chopping ball that's a good
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one and blue right
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i already got that one the one
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that's the same ring oh ramy did that
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really
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i don't think i've ever seen it the late
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80s i think it was 86 or 87.
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there's a lot of great vincent price
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shirts through here oh there we go
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little ash
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right up there is that never more
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there's vincent there too oh there you
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go looking very very stylish
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i like the outfit and i like the the cap
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as well
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yeah very nice oh here's another another
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boost with a lot of
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rare films i always try to go with the
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blu-rays i don't buy too many dvds
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unless it hasn't been released on on
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blu-ray
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and down this direction are even more
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some of these are really tough to find
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like they even have
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the howard stern show complete all the
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channel 9 howard stern shows hey dude
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the complete series frank knight 2 on
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blu-ray that's a
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yeah that's a that's a rarity right
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there to have
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to have that tampa j has found a kirk
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here
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you think about purchasing that i don't
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know man i could
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it's look 1979 it's from star trek
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pretty good
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the original that would be the original
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film star track to motion picture yep
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pre-wrathicon and pre-search for spock
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he doesn't even know they need to search
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for spock or that khan
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is going to have some serious serious
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rap not yet
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he has no idea
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for some reason when i see this up top
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i just remember like years and years ago
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there was that commercial
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you made it out of camp crystal lake and
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you're ready to party
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you're ready to party oh i really like
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this team down here yes
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teamwork you know what that team is
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awesome this is a little scott howard
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action going on here teen wolf
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ride of frankenstein i think he might be
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giving getting ready to give you a
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little bit of that birthday present
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you've been wanting jay it's the
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flashing gremlins that's true
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oh this is called the scary train oh
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you're gonna break it
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oh what happened what just happened
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there oh i'm guessing you are
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giggles you are giggles and i have
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now got a pin here and a sticker got
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some free vaccines
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how's it going any a lot of takers
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out here no no i want no one wants to
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utilize that syringe
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when was the last time that syringe was
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cleaned wait has it been cleaned at all
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yes or no
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no cleanliness of the syringe that might
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help
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with giving out the vaccines just saying
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there might be a little bit of a
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pushback
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you're going to give yourself the
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vaccine all right
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i got it at the darwin and wallace a
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nature
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and fossil store there is a goose right
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and a red fox and over here is
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taxidermy of a caracal am i reading that
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right it says rare
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carrot carrot there's a monkey up there
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there are some
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bones there's lots of items here in this
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glass case that
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oh i don't even know and there's a
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warthog well i think there's even some
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shrunken heads
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and a piranha there's a piranha
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right up there here at 13x studios booth
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there is a hogan mass that i actually
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have actually possessed this
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that got a few a few years ago they have
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quite an assortment of
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of hockey masks not just voorhees but
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other
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no other themed other themed i also have
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this t-shirt
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which t-shirt as well they also have all
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the different
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different voorhees oh even this look at
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this this is a non-traditional
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vorhees thank you as well
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you have another you have how many 13x
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shirts do you have
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i have many you have many what's the new
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item that you have for this event
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what what is here that i should that i
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should either show off or purchase
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corey taylor masks okay now what is this
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give me the back story slipknot
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from slipknot yeah he's going to be here
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his perfect first time here
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the singer from slipknot is going to be
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here today he was also in stone sour
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yes or is stone sour yes so you could
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purchase this for 30
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yes throughout the weekend and have him
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sign it yes all right
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yeah i think every time i see his booth
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it just gets
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it just gets larger and larger just a
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larger assortment
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of these how's it going i hunt for blood
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oh wow i see you have some on your lips
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it's a fresh mark i think she took a
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bite out of me earlier
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she took a bite out of you yeah so
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are you supposed to take a bite out of
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crime and are you the crime dog
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no no i think she calls this crime
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i worry his face now oh god
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all right i suffered but now i hunt i'm
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not for the very thing that's right
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you have the whole story the whole
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backstory figured out i sure do
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he's very descriptive i sure do this
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will tell you a little bit about me
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oh you did i just met a character from a
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book
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the little the little dog that laughed
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are you laughing inside right now my
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name is isaac
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it's hebrew for he who laughs
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and all i do is laugh maniacally
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path of destruction can i hear the
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maniacal laugh
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i don't like that at all okay you stay
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there i'm gonna back away just stay
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right there
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no no stay right there don't move and
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look who has arrived
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jacob the carpetbagger also wearing an
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appropriate
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t-shirt the moth man you've never been
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to spooky empire before that's my first
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time so what brought you out here what
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brought you to spooky
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uh it looked cool right exactly
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i've been going to this for like 15
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years yeah give or take a year
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finally it's a good time you're gonna
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see some some horrifying things
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like that guy wearing some kind of snake
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oh and speaking of slipknot i believe
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that this
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is one of the slipknot members or at
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least someone dressed as
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how's it going oh looks like jacob saw
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the krampus before i did
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hello krampus spreading some holiday
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cheer a little early are you
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a little early the krampus
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is being photographed from all angles
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the krampus didn't realize that he was
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going to be
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shown in everyone's social media
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and and youtube videos today
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now is a plural of krampus a cramped eye
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i think it's krampuses yeah definitely
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definitely
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getting a little busier currently
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people are starting to show up at first
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i thought that was burt and ernie but
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it's not it's walt and jesse
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now my first guess would be american
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psycho
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damn correct and you have you have the
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blood halfway down the face
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just like christian bale did so yeah i
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did my research nice touch on that i
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re-watched the movie i got it in the
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hotel room and the real question is
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do you like huey lewis in the news
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oh oh my gosh michael
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you are a little aggressive there sir
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not only do you have your own mask on
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but you also are wearing a shirt
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that also has your face on it all the
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way around and you have one of those pop
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figures
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there as well no one will not know who
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you are
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you are in full and you have a business
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card
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yeah that's it right there in case
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someone does not recognize you
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you have it on the card as well now that
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is very interesting that is the rear end
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of an animal and you can see what they
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have titled it there
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i was trying to just look at the coffee
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which i thought was clever
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bigger boat new england blend witch's
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brew
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but i was distracted and i'm not looking
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at
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the the coffee here i was distracted by
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these how's it going
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i'm the terror that hates all the cows
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oh all right we got freddy krueger
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here oh my gosh you're uh
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and you're next to one of the members of
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slipknot as well
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all right are you haunting his dreams
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you looking for john connor i think he
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was in the arcade with his friend
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over that one
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now you not only have the the hockey
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mask you have a hockey jersey
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you're kind of like one-upping it with
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it i got two i picked this one instead
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and you have your last name on your back
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there there you go and the 13
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because friday 13th and today's friday
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this friday so it kind of works out
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oh yeah nailed it looks as if ash has
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showed up
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with his chainsaw there and we even have
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the book of the dead down here
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very nice been doing any shopping today
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just got here very excited about the
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break three days
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all right have fun remember shop smart
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did you realize when you walked in three
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seconds ago that you were going to have
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three cameras pointed at you immediately
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upon walking up
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i worked really hard up here comes
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another camera
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four now walk back out to my car to put
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my
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umbrella away and look who's over parked
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next to me
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this cast of characters as well
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seems as if a lot more people have now
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arrived i believe at 4 00 p.m which is
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about
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15 minutes from right now the
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autographed celebrity room
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opens up so everyone's lined up out
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there and
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through here to get their stuff signed
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now we're in here they got some really
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good stuff they got danny devito
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we got the candy man we got john candy
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right up there
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this is pretty good check this out this
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is uh they live right
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oh a fanny devito fanny pack fanny
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davita nice right here at cryptic
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closet they even have the zombified
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golden girls pens
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not only does he not get any respect but
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he also has eyes that are
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oozing out pennywise the clown hello
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pennywise
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i don't like i don't like that you know
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who i am
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it's pity wise i don't want to float
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those balloons are floating
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but i don't want to float and i like the
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fact that pennywise is also supporting
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others in the community by having a uh
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by having a voorhees
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purse there nice all right continue
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floating i'm not gonna float two though
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i'm not gonna float too oh there we go
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lady jason
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right here out from crystal lake
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thank you
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looks like weird al has made it hello
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weirdo
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excellent good to see you weirdo
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if that's not weird al i'm gonna feel
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really really weird hello there
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we've just been we've been wandering
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around today that's not good
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could this be who i think it is it is
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the nature boy let me help you in the
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figure four
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he is into it i look good
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did i look good you look good
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we should have a woo
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i don't know who was i mean
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by god we are in orlando and baby we're
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looking good
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he has arrived leatherface in the flesh
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you could say very very nice can you do
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the spin around
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can you do the spin the famous end of
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the movie spin there we go watch out
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watch out excellent that's actually
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excellent that was great man thank you
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four minute or ten minutes after four i
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should say
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she's following me around 11 minutes
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after four
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the room for the autographs not open yet
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i think the nature was following me
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everyone is waiting very patiently
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for their turn to go into
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the celebrity room
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let's see how far the line the celebrity
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room
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stretches over to yeah all the way down
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this way
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pretty lengthy we got the grudge coming
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through here
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moving very creepily as well so
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oh watch out
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there's michael and what's up hello
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oh we got the predator coming through oh
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watch out
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come on predator come on come on i'm
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here come on
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come on i'm here kill me come on do it
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do it now
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i was going any thank you very good very
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good predator very good
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take take a curtsy take a bow go get a
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sick the predator gets let ahead of
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everyone better
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that's the key look at jason just
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standing over here
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very creepily going follow up
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oh watch out watch out he does not like
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your videos
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well he is on a rampage here what is
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going on
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there's a twisted system oh hello there
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whoa ghost face that's a good pose did
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you see ghost face walk by
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yes i did he's right there he's still
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there he hears us talking about him
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very scary there's a priest coming in
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come in
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hello there i know you're usually here
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on saturday
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i decided to show up on a friday today
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yes now are you gonna bless me or curse
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me
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you're blessing me so it's not an evil
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curse
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okay well thank you i consider myself
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lucky to be blessed
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by you sir
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oh good fortunes at first i thought you
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were going to like cast like an evil
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spell on us
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you could have everything you wanted to
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follow the unbelief
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follow the unholy what unholy father
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okay i'll do that as far as you know
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she's um she's here at spooky for uh
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for tomorrow she's going to be my best
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so if you're taking the day off tomorrow
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rick yeah she's going to work
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there was a cancellation though richard
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dreyfus
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richard was gonna be here
24:02
there are quite a few celebrities three
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of the girls from
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rob zombies halloween are over there the
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predator still in there
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got michael baine from terminator as
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well
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barry boswick over there alec vincent
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tom sizemore if you want to get some
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tidy whities here for 50 bucks
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gary boswick will sign them customly to
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anyone that's awesome for 50 dollars
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even the predators wishing the the actor
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from chucky
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a happy birthday
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but it's jay's also birthday too didn't
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realize this till now but it is the 40th
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anniversary
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of friday part two 40th anniversary is
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today the 40th anniversary
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today is the 40th anniversary of friday
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the 13th
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part two oh oh i didn't expect jar jar
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to show up
25:04
favorite star wars character that's your
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favorite
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your favorite star wars character jacob
25:10
my favorite good to see you jar jar
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now here's something really cool the
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actor from
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from part two friday the 13th with the
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cosplayer from friday the 13th
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that's for posterity right there
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the universe does not know how to wrap
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its head around
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i feel like that could have ended badly
25:43
they both have very heavy
25:45
weapons like they're both
25:48
wielding full-on weapons and now out of
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the
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celebrity room there is quite a bit of a
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line
25:55
for those who are getting the photo ops
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in that room you see the backdrop over
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yeah everybody likes to get some photos
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with the celebs
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now i'm standing at the back of the line
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for the photographs
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i'm not getting a photograph i'm just
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standing here to give the perspective of
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how long it is
26:11
to get into that room stepped into
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another booth with
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a lot of patches we got bella lugosi up
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top
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ghostbusters over here got the sorting
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hat
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right up here oh there's geppetto also
26:26
even some
26:27
some heavy horror themed here a little
26:29
dawn of the dead
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camp crystal lake jason lives
26:34
among many many others and some pens
26:37
over there as well i don't like the
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garbage pail kids but it's the horrible
26:42
kids
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over here you got a leather face
26:47
you got your scissor hands looks like
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everything is
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kind of winding down i think i'm gonna
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start
26:55
making my way out
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that's gonna do it for today from the
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windham
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in orlando corner of sand lake and
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international drive
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spooky empire 2021
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spring edition