My First Time At FanX Salt Lake City Comic Convention & WWE Friday Night Smackdown in Downtown SLC
FanX Salt Lake City 2022
Transcript
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and today's adventure brings me to fanx
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here in Salt Lake City Utah as showed
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here with the banner we're going to be
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walking across the street as this bus
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goes by that says route on detour
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and as the buses
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if the bus is on a detour the Salt
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Palace across the way is where this
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convention is taking place my first time
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ever at it welcome everyone Adam the
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move here has a recording of this Friday
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23 2022 I've never been to this
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particular convention ever
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existence now I'm here
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my sister's here also hi and Ryan's here
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have you guys ever been to this
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convention before no we haven't first
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time we've never been to any convention
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in Salt Lake City and Ryan has never
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seen a cosplayer in real life it's
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happening
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it's happening it's crazy I'm inviting
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you to join me all right let's get in
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there shall you and this is the
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registration line quite a beehive of
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activity stretching all the way down
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this road here
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yes I had been on a convention kick
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lately there's a night right there
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which are Dragon Con with the d23 and
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now
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Phoenix now fancy meeting you here oh my
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gosh Adam what is going on Provost park
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pass in the well you're not really in
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the house not in the house yeah but I
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just told Adam something just happened
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that's gonna change my life forever yes
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I was just introducing William Shatner
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on stage name dropper name dropper
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and I told a joke yes and and afterwards
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William Shatner is like
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that's not too bad Chris and the joke
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that I told I said that Tom Cruise is
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coming out of the brand new movie it's
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all about cooking it's called A Few Good
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Men use but
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um
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you can't handle the food
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this is awesome Captain Crunch look at
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that right there that looks delicious
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wait a minute thank you so if I had a
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knife
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serial killer all right excellent we got
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Monty Python here going through
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okay this says nice cosplay fanx
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it's a light ride 2022. oh hello there
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hello
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oh
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check out the Darth Maul walking back
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all right now this is pretty dang
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awesome check it out it's Oscar the
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Grouch here in this garbage can it says
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scram that is amazing oh go ahead go in
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It's Gonna Pop back out no you're still
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in there good to see you and take a look
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it's physic from Princess Bride Andre
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the Giant seems as if there are multiple
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entrances this is one of the entrances
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where you have to go through a little
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checkpoint and also check wristbands and
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whatnot and then you end up heading down
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this way to the bottom level and then to
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the convention center area all right
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Michael has arrived
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hello Michael
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I'm coming in close there Michael coming
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in close all right have a fun con
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thanks Michael kind of up here on the
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second level looking down here you see
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the convention you can see the
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convention sails for vendor room and
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celebrity room is all down here so you
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can kind of see you know down below here
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we've got some costumes and whatnot as
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well people strolling along this area
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and you see Stay Puft Marshmallow Man
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over in the distance
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900 things you're gonna buy already I've
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gotten pretty good at night goodbye
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you're oh you're gonna window shopping
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big window shopping we're looking in the
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windows here all right heading down now
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okay that one's not working so we're
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gonna go down
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the active one to the floor
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to the floor we go there's a little area
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up there that you can kind of view down
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they have these bleacher seatings over
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here but take a look at the size of this
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convention center kind of looking down
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just going to basically go up and down
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all the different rows and just see
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see what I can see we have this place
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this place is huge all right of course
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over at the Ghostbusters booth now had
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to get a little bit better view here
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Stay Puft look at this
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Spider-Man over there as well oh here's
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Slimer you got the Ecto and then you got
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Slimer here as well look over there you
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know fun fact when I was younger I used
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to have one of these Michael Jordan I
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actually had two or three of them this
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is when I lived in Niceville Florida in
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the mid 80s I had a couple of these
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cards and I stapled them to my door
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frame of my wall who knows what these
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cars would be worth this is where 3 500
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but this was in better condition 10
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grand yeah who knew what cars would be
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worth back then I used to have this when
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we lived in Niceville and I I had two or
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three of these and I stapled them to my
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door frame of the wall yep 10 grand
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right there a cool 10K right on the wall
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in Niceville yeah I got an assortment of
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books over here got the well yeah
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definitely the get the Necronomicon here
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from Evil Dead but also the sports
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Almanac right over here so you could
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place a few bets Back to the Future two
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there what is that this is the
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rockinomic Run that's the rocket
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namicron
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oh look the philosophy of time travel
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interesting oh they're tablet cases oh
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oh you put your tablet in there people
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still use tablets
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I guess they do even The Princess Bride
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book that Peter Falk reads to Fred
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Savage in the movie Hocus Pocus book
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which always kind of reminds me of the
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the book from Harry Potter that the
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Harry Potter was like a little Furrier
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and a little more angry but I don't see
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the Harry Potter one anywhere in here
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I'm also wearing a Harry Potter shirt
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today
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wearing an appropriate t-shirt now for
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anyone that forgot to dress up or didn't
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have any of these costumes they do
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sellers Jabba right up there see some
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Myers up there as well I see this goat
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head creature see Sonic over here see
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Kruger up there horse head Gollum up top
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oh look at this speaking of Harry Potter
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right here
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Dobby is a free elf yeah I got the chest
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burster right here from Alien as well
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that kind of it's like made out of cloth
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though you can like cuddle up with this
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in bed each night oh look at that is
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that Beetlejuice right there is that the
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Joker for 200 if we can get a Beauty and
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the Beast how many times have we watched
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Beauty and the Beast growing up I can't
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even count I know we know Every Word by
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heart yeah we've got to memorize that a
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little mermaid we had on all the time I
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know I've probably seen Beauty the Beast
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like a couple hundred times probably
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200. I got some cardboard cutouts up
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here of course got Princess Leia for
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turning the Jedi got Amanda but then he
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also got William Shatner Captain Kirk
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looks like you know I know he's not he's
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holding something that doesn't look like
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a cell phone but how ahead of the times
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this was just like he's sending a text
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message up there that looks like it's
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just send a little text
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bones and
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bones and Spock now here is a tank
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rolling through there's a full-on tank
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rolling through the fire this is awesome
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there's Sally and Jack right there hello
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Jack that is awesome
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there's a parade coming through it's
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like a parade of sorts hello walking
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through here
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whoa this is like a whole parade it is a
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fight I said I was saying a joke only as
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a parade but it really is a parade I
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love furries through here
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hello all right okay I found the
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official fanx Salt Lake Comic convention
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merchandise check out camp Salt Lake
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summer 1980 over here a little throwback
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stuff a little and a vintage goodness
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some of the kind of
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other designs as well kind of scattered
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through here yeah quite a few different
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t-shirts look at that one over here it
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says nerds like the clerks clerks logo
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they even have socks down here and pins
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there's a UFO okay this is awesome off
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here
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Ratatouille and then Kermit right there
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very cool awesome thank you
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what was that okay got it got it got it
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got it dialed in yes there's definitely
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a lot of great cosplay here it's a Mario
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actually over here got the plant popping
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out the side there awesome thank you
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it's a very vintage items over here
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check out some of these metal lunch
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boxes like pigs in space even Mr Merlin
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down there that's a deep cut and go
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Scott animal there as well and the
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Muppets and then Zorro over here even
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the Osmonds and Dr Doolittle
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yeah well everything you can heart
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desire check out over here we're all
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standing in front of job of the Hut
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we're salacious it's salacious out I
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don't see something it may be around
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there's Merlin over there that's Star
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Trek next Generation as well and over
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into celebrity road now which seems to
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have a lot of people in here yeah
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there's a lot of celebrities over in
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Celebrity row and not just celebrities a
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lot of people over here that want to
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meet said celebrities in Celebrity row I
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don't know why I'm saying that so many
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times at this very large group of people
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over here are waiting to meet people
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from stranger things but then the cue
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goes over here too so in case you're
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wondering how popular stranger things is
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this is the answer and just to show some
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of the prices let's say you wanted to
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meet William Sam from Cobra Kai which I
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really do love Cobra Kai autographed 60
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selfie 60. or you do the combo a cool
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Hyundai and you get the photo with them
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and a signature yeah it's not cheap but
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you know if it's someone you want to
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meet it's kind of worth it because where
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else would you meet them and then over
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in that corner you got Kevin Smith
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shatter Fred Spiner just goes on and on
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and on I bet Shatner at Dragon Con which
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is pretty awesome now this is kind of
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interesting some of the celebrities are
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in an area where you could see them but
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Carrie L was her Princess Bride and Saul
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and Robin had been in Tights he's in a
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little concealed area over there
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where no one can see him
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without payment and some do that and
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some don't and obviously there's like an
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extended cue for a lot of them I wonder
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if Shatner is nope Shatner's got a
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little enclosure over there too
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hand and the boob sticks who are here to
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meet obviously you're in the celebrity
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area who does Ash want to meet I met Ken
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hotter you make Kane hotter yeah Jason
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Voorhees from part six right now part
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seven and on awesome okay I found I was
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incorrect Shatner is not behind the
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closed doors it is Kevin Smith that's
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over there in that little tucked away
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area Kevin Smith met him a couple times
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Jason Muse right next show but Jason
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uses it now right now Baymax going down
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the escalator
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going down to the exhibit hall Baymax he
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almost looked over here
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a pretty good little bird's eye from up
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here too
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every time I see an escalator I think of
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the man with one red shoe with Tom Hanks
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I see a Marty McFly in there
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there's a lot of people here a lot of
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people here
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and over here on this staircase is the
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official area for cosplay meetups you
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see the sign right here and we're
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supposed to be having a cobra Kai one
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here in a few minutes but I don't really
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see anybody dressed up from Cobra Kai
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but maybe someone will show all right
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stepping outside for a moment by the way
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I didn't see the Cobra Kai cosplay so
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maybe I was in the wrong spot looked at
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the app and said they were going to do
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it at a certain time
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I didn't see anybody dressed up as Cobra
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cop but outside there's a bunch of food
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trucks out there with quite a few people
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kind of all down the sidewalk stretch it
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out into the street one on the street
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but at the sidewalk
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please windmills and looking back the
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other way too food trucks over on this
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side as well out here on the sidewalk
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both directions and right here in front
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of
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the convention center
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known as the salt palaces all these
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sides right here it says you are here
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it's a nice little photo op standing in
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front of this very unique you are here
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at fanx
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that's some pretty good t-shirts over
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here we got Goonies Beetlejuice
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let's say uh Jason Voorhees there oh the
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Jason lives right there okay they're on
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display over here on the wall Back to
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the Future Orlando Cal risos a sweet E.T
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down there of course Cobra Kai right up
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there got Zelda over in the corner
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d and d d has become kind of like a
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Resurgence
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lately is you know it was always kind of
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popular I think stranger things probably
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helped bring that back up to
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mainstream yeah looking back the other
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way of kind of where I was standing up
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on that upper law Through the Windows
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that's up there
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all right he's arrived Sith jar jar is
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see you sis jar jar
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stay out of trouble all right stay out
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of trouble
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man this t-shirt move uh out of Mage
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Industries I don't think I've ever seen
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a cold Shack
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before but check it out right there on
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the far right corner and of course some
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Suspiria sure it's all different colors
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of demons Rocky Horror as well and then
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even a Scatman Crothers down here at the
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bottom corner and a repo manager
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oh my goodness the emperor thank you all
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right this is interesting check out Mr
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Rogers right here Mr Rogers you don't
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look how I remember you look very very
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Star Wars the best Mr Rogers nice at the
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car to get on the tie and everything oh
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oh maybe you took a shoes my goodness
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check out the demogorgon right here
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demogorgon towering over everyone oh
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what that is awesome oh it's dripping
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dripping stripping Evil all right this
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is awesome the Killer Clown right here
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it's going to get the pie as well and
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the cotton candy
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hot candy got an acid pie awesome thank
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you
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believe it
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are you the finished product what's that
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are you the finished product right here
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yes it needs to do a little bit more on
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my chin but a little bit more on the
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chin all right
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to my happy little accident all right
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okay all right happy little accident all
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right thank you so much
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the meeting of the
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episode
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okay I think over here we got a reviewer
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of Maverick
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oh wow all right Jason doesn't like Tom
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Cruise thanks Jason robot rolling
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through robot rolling through yeah
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truthfully this is rather horrifying
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seeing this in person
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and there's a bunch of glasses over here
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like literally are made out of glasses
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check a look up here we got the Disney
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logo here as well we got the castle
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beautiful Tower Animal Kingdom spaceship
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earth of course the Magic Kingdom there
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in the middle hello there hey there how
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are you I'm good are you having fun at
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fanx I am it's my first time here well
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this is my first time here too all right
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I go back home to Sesame Street and tell
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my old button hurt how wonderful it is
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here tell him I said hi all right okay
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see you already
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oh this escalator over here on this side
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isn't working so this isn't working
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let's go on the one that works
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all right going up and out I'm gonna
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grab a bite to eat
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outside and find something local get
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some food
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and back out on I'll say street level
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back out on the street view looking
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across see everybody's inside definitely
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very busy in there especially for a
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Friday
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as many people as are in there I can't
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even imagine what the Saturday this
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doesn't even go on through Sunday there
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is no event on Sunday it's a Salt Lake
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City not a lot happens on Sunday
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including this convention
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or you know stuff happens on Sundays but
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not as much as you would see in other
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cities so the convention only runs
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Thursday which was yesterday Friday
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there's another bus the Utah Transit
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Authority and then tomorrow not sure if
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I'll be out here tomorrow or not but I
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was here today and it was a fun time
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definitely a Big Grid kind of you know
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the just huge Convention Center so you
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just go down each and every aisle
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countless amount of vendors countless
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amount of aisles and a very good
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celebrity list did get any autographs my
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sister actually met Jody Benson who
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played The Little Mermaid what's your
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favorite movie so she ended up getting a
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picture with her meeting her and getting
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an autograph so she's pretty happy about
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that which is pretty awesome and I
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talked to Anthony Michael Hall who
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played Rusty
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Professor griswolded vacation talked
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about my filming location video I did
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years and years and years ago when
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Edward Scissorhands and things like that
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anyway
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that's it for me today from inside the
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Salt Palace for families oh look
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really just means to look both ways
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that's why it has the air up both ways
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just waited across the street to go back
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to the car where I parked the car
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we're gonna find some food around here
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and I'm going to a wrestling event later
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which I don't know if I could film at
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but going to
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WWE Smackdown are you gonna grab a bite
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to eat here Gourmet nachos a place
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called Nacho Daddy
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right inside here Gourmet nachos is a
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big sign here and there's a little
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smaller neon sign over there there's
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like a little I don't know what that is
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like a piece of nacho cheese with
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sombrero on Nacho Daddy this is a good
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thing is we could stay in the same spot
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where we park because the where the WWE
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Smackdown is taking place is right next
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to
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fanax Convention Center so we're just
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going to be in here for a little bit get
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a snack or two and then head over for a
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little wrestling I've never been to a
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WWE event I've been a lot of Indie
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wrestling but never
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never WWE so should we should be pretty
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fun okay this is awesome got Jim Varney
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here from Earnest Goes to Camp Ernest P
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Worrell In the Flesh with Camp kick a
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key shirt on
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nice I love it thank you so much yeah
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walking back out of the nachos place
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saw a cosplayer pretty awesome
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and over there is the convention center
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we're gonna go past this on the other
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side of this building
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is where Smackdown is happening all
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right I got a little turned around going
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back through oh there's a Sanderson
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sisters or one of the Sanderson sisters
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there goes Spider-Man cruising by I'm
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gonna boost it for it
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venturina
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5 45 p.m it begins soon very soon all
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right this is pretty cool this is where
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the Utah Jazz play as well the shops
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open close but yeah and ready to head
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out I gotta be honest
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my sister's husband he is into wrestling
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so Ryan was like let's go to a wrestling
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match I've never been to one before so
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here's the merch I don't even know what
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to expect I haven't followed WWE in a
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long
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foreign
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help me out who am I looking at I'm not
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familiar with the new wrestlers front
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ones Roman Reigns he's a champion
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Lashley to his on his right or left okay
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our Melanie I don't know who that is
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Bianca Bellaire and then Drew McIntyre
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they're all going to be here tonight
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okay cool
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thank you
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sitting over in Jay
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heading in I've never been to this Arena
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before
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take a look at this holy cow oh yeah
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this is nice
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yes
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I haven't been to basketball arena
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probably since the magic back when
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Shaquille O'Neal was you know first and
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second year in the 90s to the magic I
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haven't been in a basketball arena I
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haven't been to a pro match I've been to
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a Tijuana for wrestling independent
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wrestling and of course Dragon Con
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wrestling every year which is pretty
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wild and which has some WrestleMania
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events four or five years ago
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WrestleMania weekend when it was in
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Orlando but never to actual WrestleMania
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or WWE event
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you're so nice
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he's got a chair
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all right that was fun
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I kind of I kind of feel maybe because I
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was sitting a little bit higher up even
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though we had pretty good seats
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really all the matches except for the
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final match really were kind of
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lackluster in comparison some of the
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Indie wrestling that I've been to I went
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to some Luke's door stuff down in
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Tijuana a few years ago I go to I
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believe it's called Dragon Con that's
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DCW every year at DragonCon there's just
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pretty crazy and then like I said I went
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to one WrestleMania weekend four or five
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years ago it was kind of some indie
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wrestling not associated with WWE but
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the last match was good but the other
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ones I kind of feel like I'd rather go
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to an indie match but I will say the
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very last match was kind of on the edge
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of my seat with who was going to win and
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I you know kept going back and forth a
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lot of two cows things like that I don't
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know a whole heck of a lot of wrestling
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other than the fact that it is enjoyable
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to watch and this was a lot of fun and
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also fanx Salt Lake City has their
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Comic-Con it was fun
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thanks for watching I'll see you in the
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next video
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the Vlog that's how I feel man but it's
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not like me going get me a job in that
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world Dave Klein who is the you know
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shop clerk small rats Chasing Amy later
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on clerks too
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um he's become the Mandalorian DP he was
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supposed to shoot clerks three and then
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one day he called me and goes Kev they
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just offered me Mandalorian season two
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done
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I think the reason that they're not
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nobody else is at the mic is because
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I've done is that is that it I see the
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clocks at 0.00 am I meant to finish
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I'm sure somebody in charge will tell me
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something
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I'm about to talk we have to shut the
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building down for the evening so before
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we go I just want to ask you if you guys
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enjoyed yourself a fan X stuff so far
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get back it up for coming out and get
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that gonna come and check out clerks
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three for the ones that did thank you so
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much kids actually Kevin we want to ask
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you are you enjoying your time here at
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FedEx thank you for welcoming me and my
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friends kids everybody
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out
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if you guys want to get a photo op or an
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autograph on Kevin Smith you look right
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here on the screen there's a QR code
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take out your phone aim it right there
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you are very thin he can still hear you
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one more time
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the curtains are very thin oh yeah I'll
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walk back over for a quick little late
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night panel Kevin Smith panel over at
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the convention since the WWE thing was
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right next door
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now 8 15.
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done for the day