Spooky Empire Halloween Convention In Orlando - HUGE October 2023 Event / Cosplay & Vendor Overload
Spooky Empire 2023 October
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welcome everyone Adam the woo here as
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the recording of this it is Saturday
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October 28th
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2023 the Halloween countdown is upon us
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in just few days All Hallows Eve will be
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rearing its head and I am
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heading what's
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that very appropriate
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Hitchcock would be proud
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of heading to Spooky Empire today who
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are celebrating their 20th anniversary
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of one of the
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biggest Halloween conventions horror
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conventions in Central Florida 20 years
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two decades it's been going on that Crow
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flew off but another Crow is up there so
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I'll be departing Market Street here in
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Celebration Florida and heading over to
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International Drive where Saturday the
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second day I started yesterday I didn't
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go yesterday though but I'm going today
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and Saturday is huge usually the biggest
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and best day when it comes to
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cosplay people watching and excitement
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vendors Etc join
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me shall you and I have opted to go into
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the Fortuna Bakery to get my pumpkin
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spice latte that they are making right
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over there they have fall drinks they
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have cold drinks but they also will make
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it toasty got to wonder if cool would
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like a sip of this delicious coffee just
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floating around right there in Lake
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ryanard enjoying the morning and I had a
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sip of this I got to say it's okay it's
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not the best out of this week that I've
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been doing the pumpkin spice lattes it
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wouldn't definitely not be at the top of
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the list but it's all
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right I think Starbucks and Wawa I had
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Wawa yesterday had Starbucks at the
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beginning of this I think this is day
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seven that I've been doing these those
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are the my two favorites as far as the
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pumpkin swice pers persuasion goes
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I'm having trouble talking I got to keep
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consuming more caffeine got that little
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bit of a traffic bottleneck here where
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the crossroads was supposed to be
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putting on the onof exit ramp the road
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ranger up here as well it'll clear up
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though on my on my commute ended up
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parking in the structure at Point
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Orlando called the point which is just a
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couple blocks from where the convention
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is taking place cuz I feel like the
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struct parking structure near the
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convention is going to be pretty filled
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up so I don't mind walking a couple
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blocks and make it a little bit easier
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welcome to the
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point also this is interesting there is
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a ride share pickup spot over here not
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only for the Orlando attractions but
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also to go all the way over to Tampa Bay
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to Bush
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Gardens that's a long Hall this kind of
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symbolizes a
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tornado which is not the reason that
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this house is upside down but kind of
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use your imagination it's
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pretend that it is why it's up on its
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side distance-wise from where I parked
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to the convention this year it is being
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held at the high re Hyatt Regency which
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is right down there a short little
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walk I think I made the right choice
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parking where I did because this is the
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parking a block away and you can see it
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is really
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really backed up just a little hack for
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future future years that they have it
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here
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do not park at this
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spot park at the
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point ooh some Halloween decor here a
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little pumpkin action look at this it's
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the nun got jigsaw down here got a
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hockey mask
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bhe and then looping around you got
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cocoa over here you got a Coca-Cola
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pumpkin you got a big hamburger pumpkin
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as I'm looking at the pumpkins met up I
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just saw you guys last night last night
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Dawn we actually just followed you on in
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like did you park in that big mess of
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the parking there we tried we actually
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Uber did you that's smart we parked over
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at the West in Uber okay smart I parked
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at the point the point yeah it's a hack
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I'll try that it's a block away I'll try
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that you startled me though you had the
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mask on yeah I came up to you I
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surprised you what did you say I said
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hey man pretty pretty pumpkins huh you
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started laughing I think it took you I
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could have just filmed it but it's
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easier for us to explain what happened
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and not actually oh Chris behind you
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heads up watch out look at this look at
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this is terrifying right there it's got
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a little candy in the mouth Laffy Taffy
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yeah he's shaking his Laffy Taffy in his
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M oh the
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Nerds this kind of reminds me what they
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do at Disney with the pumpkins you know
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how they do all the Disney pumpkins yeah
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at the resorts yeah exactly this is this
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heii I think it's supposed to be heii
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right or is it no it looks like yeah
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definitely looks like a look at this how
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pumpkin pie is really made what the heck
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oh wow it's out of the it's he poops out
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the there's another Jason right
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head's up there he's going he's lunging
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forward bhe is not supposed to talk Tamp
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I know I that's how you know I'm not the
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real yeah he's the he's the real he's
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the real Jason no not at all h on
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where's your pumpkin where's your
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pumpkin I left it at home dang what is
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your catchphrase for the hot season it's
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Creature Feature time on his on that's
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right I thought it was on
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today's creature he doesn't Okay so many
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it again let me try it for today's
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Creature Feature yes we're going to walk
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through a haunted house do you have a
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catchphrase I don't have a catchphrase
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yet you said something about just
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talking about something it's orange
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something don't you say like it's orange
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time oh I think that's Code Orange C
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orange no that's 100% it's orange time
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that's every time that's it it's Code
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Orange look I'm orange because of this
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light but that's right isn't that your
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you say it's orange time it's C it's
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like morphin time it's orang it's Code
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Orange Orange time are you guys sad that
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Halloween is almost over in like a few
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days oh yeah a little
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bit I'm ready you ready for it to end
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it's let's just end it let's end it
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today oh check out this big inflatable
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Frankenstein's monster I refer to him as
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Frankie or Frankenstein I think any of
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though those are not frowned upon well
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some people like to call him
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Frankenstein's monster either way he's
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an inflatable big inflatable that's a
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pretty good graphics here for the 20
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take a look at this 2003 it started
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2023 makes 20 years all right this says
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welcome to the show and that'll Archway
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leading in it looks really really busy
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and this is just the foyer leading into
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the main show you see they have the
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merchandise down there with the spooky
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booth and then uh you go into that main
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area over there to go into the actual
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con yeah I kind of like this bird's eyee
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perspective here of the little main area
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well the foury year before you lead in
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so right through there that is the belly
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of the Beast if you so so if you so
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choose to call it I purchased my ticket
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online the will call hours for purchase
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tickets here on this day are 10 to 7 now
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it is a little later in the day I didn't
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want to get here right when it opened
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because I made that mistake before it is
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a complete mad
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house thank you it is now
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111111 and here it is the 20th
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anniversary booklet a little souvenir
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right here as well that is quite the
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slogan the ultimate Halloween weekend
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chills and thrills the greatest show
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be at the booth they have a lot of
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different flyers and posters from
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previous years all the different
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eras of spooky got a Willy Wonka version
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over there I need to buy a a purchase a
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bag see if they have like a bag as well
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I want to got to little give this here
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and I'm going to end up purchasing some
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things so I want to get something to
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carry stuff and also a lot of look at
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that there's like a South of the Border
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SPO right there as well like that
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leather face nice got this shirt here
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this are the 20th how many years have
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you been working spooky uh Last 5 Years
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so 5 years I think my first year was 08
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I think it was the first it used to be
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called scream Fest remember it was
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called Screamfest back in the day 2 for
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months yeah a long time ago got Freddy
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there celebrating the 20th ooh I like
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that that's prettyy cool right I'm might
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actually have to get
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that I think this and this was
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50 maybe you get the maybe you get the
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employee discount though I don't know
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well like we get like volunteer shirts
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on like ours are really cool this year
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the 20 an but I like that yeah that's
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pretty cool I like the Freddy on there
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oh the Orlando Predator has arrived look
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at this that's right come on yes All
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right you got the Thanksgiving Chelsea
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is here also you got the Thanksgiving
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this movie The free one you get the free
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one free this kind of reminds me of the
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Thanksgiving version of like what
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violent night was last year remember
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violent night kind of kind of has that
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Vibe oh Michael's up top he's looming
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down there Michael
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Myers he's like staring into myself oh
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he's doing the head
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twist oh did he get you he got you
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Michael there's another Michael up top
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there looking down at you right there
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look he's staring at you oh it's the the
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meeting of the Michaels okay have made
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it into the
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main Ballroom the main vendor room too
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late too late if you
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will all right we got part two Jason
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here you got the Pitchfork what are you
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doing with that Pitchfork today anything
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dangerous or uh probably stab a couple
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people oh wow okay P up aggression from
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other okay have fun have fun with that
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good to see
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pumpkins there's three go oh there's
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another ghost face behind you there's
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four now we got to get little ghost face
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in there can Little Ghost Face get in
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there get in there over there we got a
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we got five ghost face now it's a family
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of ghost
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face
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awesome it's say Pala like a month ago I
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ended up purchasing this movie The
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Pumpkin
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Man and I really enjoyed it I bought the
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Blu-ray and I watchh I even wash it with
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the commentary on it and the Pumpkin Man
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just so happens to be here right it's
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the Pumpkin Man
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himself it's kbus right yes I remember
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you from my dreams yeah I watch my
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dreams I watched your
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movie you saw me watching the movie yeah
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I was watching you the whole
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time can I get a photo with you now that
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all right let me get a photo with
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you
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all right give me your channel name
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again I'm beyond the theme park my name
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is Robert and I do convention videos and
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I also do Disney Vlogs too so check me
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out it's beond the theme park all one
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word beyond the theme park and you just
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hit 2500 subscribers I did
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congratulations man always good to see
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you behind oh who's behind
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me kerbis stay out of my
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dreams have you ever met Freddy Krueger
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before you
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have him I don't like him
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either he's done some bad things
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everyone idolizes that guy but his
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backstory
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what we did a mask for Give Kids the
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World the last one we did it went
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$575 we're going to do another one it's
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going to be October 30th and ends on
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Halloween just go to my Facebook page
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you'll see the links and um I actually
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got a little something whipped up for
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Black Friday we're going to sign charity
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forg good World J chis girl Adam world
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of M myself all right sounds good thank
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you guys everyone it means so this mass
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is going to be going up for auction for
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charity we're all going to sign it
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sounds good check out his Facebook yes
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what is your Facebook um just go to 13x
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Studios Instagram and then you'll see my
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name 13x Studios Instagram to the
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Facebook they can find it they'll figure
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it out okay so this is going to be the
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Christmas Black Friday one Black Friday
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and this is going to be the last of the
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of the the fall Mass over there so
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definitely check it out he's going to
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have other people sign it too so it's
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all for charity so check it out
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Sylvester and Tweety what have you done
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to them I told them no more swallowing
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Tweety oh
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wow that is so good thank you all right
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here's the photo of me and kerbis I I'm
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tall I'm 6'3 he is like he like got to
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be like 7 and 1/2 ft tall he's the
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pumpkin he's the Pumpkin Man
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not to be confused with the Pumpkin King
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Jack Skellington all right over here at
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peculiar pumpkin I was noticing this
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scream shirt oh that's kind of neat to
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my human eye you see the lettering but
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on video you see ghost face looking
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through the camera that is wild but to
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the human eye it looks like it said well
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first I thought it said hello Disney but
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it's hello Sydney but it kind of looks
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like yeah that's interesting looks
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really to the human eye you don't see
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the ghost face in there but on video you
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do that is really what if I back up
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yeah I wasn't too far off because it
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also does have some Mickey stuff booty U
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and then a universal was a universal
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yeah really cool wa did you mess with
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the bull and got the
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horns wow there's a good check that's
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terrifying $50 for that Chucky there
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look at that and then over here you have
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the original one of the original zombies
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from Night of Living Dead right there a
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the Mr Toad Soul the Fig's cool though
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you got the figment up there you got Mr
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Toad that one's he's got the McNuggets
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over here Carnival of crafted creatures
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you can check me out online Etsy and
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Instagram Carnival of crafted creatures
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you get so you ship any of this St you
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deliver all the stuff if someone wants
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to buy it online I ship pretty far from
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where I if any of this stuff is
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something that kind of tickles your
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fancy like the Slime over eating a hot
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dog it is deliverable except for Mr tow
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Mr Toad's already sold but I do like
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that hat box up there I also like the
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vampire McNugget for a rabbit yeah R oh
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I like that I was not expecting to see
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Ernest P warl here today Pat trolls and
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milk do you have any trolls or milk no
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oh m m how do they pronounce it I always
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erest Scared Stupid always confused me
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on how to pronounce milk I I don't know
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usually I just try to make the trolls
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drink it also have you seen my friend
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Vern burn are you in there burn burn oh
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you again is this who I think it is who
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do you think it is
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Adam it's me what oh my God it's the rud
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kid psycho Kitty kill him what that is
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he there's not a mean vote in that cat's
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body oh you don't know him do you out of
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bro I don't it's my cat what do you
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think he's going to do run from you no
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are you holding him hostage ah you
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wish you hes what you'll do I hate to
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say this but it's good to see you Freddy
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it is good to see you Mr how you been
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doing good I'm glad you didn't fist bump
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me with that hand I can there you go CL
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is our waterproof image loss ofish keep
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resisted find four that you like Okay
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match any four stand like this comes
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with it yeah what's the name of your
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company my wife is the artist her name
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is Angel at laera our company is Ewa
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cats.com Ewa cats Ewa cats Ewa cats okay
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Ewa cats okay you guys all look amazing
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are you Nacho Libre of course all right
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good to see you Nach show what's the
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call he always
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does
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n oh there's Chucky there you're just
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strolling Chucky around there yeah he's
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on house arrest oh he is okay you're on
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house arrest Chucky y got the knife
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there all right now
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into the celebrity room oh there's
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Peewee hello Peewee don't wear it out
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don't wear oh you got the Texas sign oh
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no that's
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awesome I love it you know I saw you at
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Dragon Con yeah I know I was there
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you're making the rounds good to see you
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Mar the parade is
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PeeWee good to see you
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Peewee oh and uh one last thing
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yes this is crap rock cocaine it's in
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glamorous it's not cool it's not funny
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wow that's a deep cut all right another
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Freddy here this this is very creative
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though I like this so Freddy's got his
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claws up there and then you got the you
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got the puppet strings very nice it's
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been a couple years since I saw you but
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you always do like some really cool
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cosplay I love it are you going to meet
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Heather is that here you're in line to
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see over
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here Jason can you can you give me a
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hand Jason or maybe an arm or something
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like that got the wrist on oh you got
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the wrist who' you take who'd you rip
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that off from did you rip that off
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oh someone over there was it one of the
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celebrities okay I won't ask which one
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though we'll keep that a secret me let
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me get a little fist bump here a little
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fist bump there nice A little hand bump
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I'll give you a real give you a fist
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bump here and then I'll give you a
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little shake the
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hand hello there I feel like I bumped
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into you before in the past I think does
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my face look familiar cuz your face
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definitely Rings a
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bow
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oh it's a sword it's like a little sword
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it's like a pirate sword thank
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you I appreciate it good to see you
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thank I'm going to put it in the bag is
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this mine thank you good to see you
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again there's a panda bear in this area
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here this is some of the lines to meet I
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believe Robert England play Freddy crw
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uger and elv well Cassandra is here long
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lines two and three and 4 hour wait for
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some of them told all right I ended up
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on my way over I passed a few other
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little items but I was trying to go find
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a place to get some snacks mostly just
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beverages but the lines even for those
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were were pretty long waited about about
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20 minutes in a line just to get a
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Tropicana little orange juice here and a
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water stay hydrated get a little vitamin
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C in the system still got my sword that
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the Clown me just kind of resting the
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feet for a moment and then kind of hit
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back down oh goodness cheaper creep oh
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and it's the none that's terrifying
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Nightmare on Elm Street car look at this
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Freddy here with the nightmare car
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that's pretty cool all right I want to
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introduce the one and only Tom delin of
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the monster Museum in Vegas who had my
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good friends Jacob the carpet bger and
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Justin scard were in this movie right
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yeah they were uh Justin opens the movie
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and Jak up kind of closes the movie all
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right I haven't seen it yet but I'm
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going to watch it so no spoilers but
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there there's a lot of other cameos from
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horror celebrities and then a bunch of
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new blood that uh it's a fun movie man
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John mazari the uh the composer from
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killer clowns from outer space that are
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SC oh that's awesome yeah so a lot of
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horror I just like the fact that you
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worked on poultrygeist that is amazing
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yeah the troma film that was uh like 20
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years ago and if you're ever in Vegas
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cuz proba about 20 minutes outside Vegas
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right yeah about 20 minutes off the
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strip yeah Off the Strip you go to Tom
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Devin's monster Museum highly
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recommended I've been there another a
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video he makes Indie movies
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also he
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does as well there I heard I heard
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yeah I'll see you again I hope
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not you
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can't Mike are you going to buy that PO
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the pin set it's a cool cool $800 yeah
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there you go this I pretty much threw
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that in I would do I would do this in a
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heartbeat but I cannot which is why I
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didn't get it when screen P you
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originally released what all is it just
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it's the vinyl you have uh when they
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origin P yeah pin set posters that went
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with it it's like if you're going to get
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all the Halloween this is it I do have
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the vinyl I do have the Halloween 3
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vinyl they
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released this is more in my price range
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the good guy burnt the burnt Good Guy
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doll I can do 125 on and there was only
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a th000 on too I believe this is the
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line to meet one of the celebrities but
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up top here take a look at
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this is that
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Jason where's that Michael I can't tell
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from here Michael it's
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Myers it is
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Michael oh so
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whoever whoever is signing here has
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stopped has said no so everyone that's
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waiting in this line is not going to get
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their autograph
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signed that is a major bummer I wonder
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if that that
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was I love it
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wow he having too much really thank you
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for dude Tom Devin you have changed you
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have morphed into Chris from aimless
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Adventure yeah what movies were you in
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of Tom of Tom uh Tom and I did Evil bong
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777 evil bong 77
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as in high school I know what it is of
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today or whatever that word what's the
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other one Ouiji Ouiji yeah yeah we e e d
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j i e s yeah both uh full moon
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Productions special retro edition of
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Ouiji hallowed what's hallowed
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night it's almost Halloween night again
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M it is full though look at that who
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creators of killer clown with killer
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clown
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cosplay y all look
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amazing thank
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you all right I ended up purchasing a
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couple more Blu-rays Fred ol and Ray the
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director producer made these talk he was
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actually a really nice guy $15 each of
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$30 for both of these I never realized
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this movie was ever made that has
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Priscilla Barnes from thre company play
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Terry and Threes Company I love Threes
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Company I love the Terry years so I
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ended up buying both he was like telling
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me some stories about you know some of
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the movies and Priscilla and all that
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all right I decided to go back over and
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actually get him to sign it I didn't
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even think about it when he said hey can
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you sign it he said yeah I'll go ahead
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and sign it so he made it out here for
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Adam sign it right there on the bottom
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pretty good cast on the the chainsaw
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movie too in fact
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L Quigley is in it from Return Of Living
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Dead and Gunner Hansen who played
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Leatherface in the original Texas
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oh that is
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awesome animatronic puppet he's coming
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towards you here comes he wants to know
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if you got a plate you want to play a
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game play any games those eyes are
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terrifying I'm not going to
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lie they're locked my soul okay I was I
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was moving out of the way for
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you it's like it's like me when TMZ
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comes out it's the meeting of the
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franchises right here it's the meeting
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of the
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franchises exclusive this is terrifier 4
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terrifier 4
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exclusive it's going viral breaking
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news say it get live say it yeah
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jigsaw
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yeah start all right back home now I'm
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going to show the haul that I got so I
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got three different
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Blu-rays right here I got the little
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souvenir program I got
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the
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little Satchel little tote bag if you
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will I got the hello Sydney the 20 years
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of Spooky
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Empire and I also got a here to stay
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Tampa Bay
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Rays Tampa J and Chris the girl gave me
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this when they went to one of the last
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games I was out of town and they ended
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up picking this up for me because the
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rays are now going to be in Florida for
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the next 30 years they're here to say
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which is pretty exciting they're going
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to build a new stadium over the next few
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years so that's exciting a good time at
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Spooky Empire 2023 October Edition 20th
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anniversary of the Florida Central
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Florida
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Halloween convention I'll see you the
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