My Last Dragon Con - Ending The Decade Old Tradition & Final Day At Atlanta Convention / Moving On
Dragon Con 2023
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today's adventure begins as the
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helicopter goes over has a recording of
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this Sunday September 3rd 2023
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from my hotel here in downtown Atlanta
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looking downward upon Centennial Olympic
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Park
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and the skyline
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of Atlanta
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off in the distance
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pretty good view from up here and a nice
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pool last night took a little dip in the
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pool and relaxed after a lot of walking
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from Dragon Con weekend
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which is coming to an end
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my last day
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of the con welcome everyone Adam
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the woo here and I am here to announce
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this is the 10th year that I've been at
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Dragon Con the anniversary of UL I
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started in 2013 have gone every year
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since it would have been year 11 but in
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2020 the convention did not happen and I
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am going to be breaking the streak of 10
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years and this will be my last year in a
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row
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DragonCon I will not be returning next
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year and I'm not sure how often I will
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be coming back
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to the convention it is a huge part of
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my life for the last decade love all
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things Dragon Con but sometimes you have
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to put things behind you move on and
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give yourself other avenues to look
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forward to on Labor Day weekend and I
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kind of feel after 10 years
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it's time
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it's time to to just break the streak
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so I'm gonna have some fun today meet up
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with some friends who are still here in
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town for their last day of 2023's
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DragonCon and we're just gonna have a
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good time
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join me
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shall you got to thinking about this
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yesterday so for a decade let me go on
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this convention and I have filmed you
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know usually I'll be here for almost a
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week I'll be here for the good series of
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days at least three or four days each
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time sometimes up to five or six days
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and I'll do at least three sometimes
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four videos
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look at that look at this the five
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circles here are really emulating a lot
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of water
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so there's like 30 at least 30 good
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solid Dragon Con videos that I put up
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on my channel over the years
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a lot of good memories one place that
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always comes in handy is my 2023 Dragon
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Con headquarters where I picked up
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piping hot caffeinated beverage met up
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with these gentlemen who were here good
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morning coffee for everyone you gotta
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you got a Coca-Cola win in Atlanta
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based out of Atlanta look at your shirt
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right here you got the throwback on
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those don't even exist anymore join me
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shall you
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it's a double intro I did it earlier but
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now you just did it again got another
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one it's a twofer nice that's a terrible
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impression well you know like if you're
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gonna do a terrible impression at least
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do it with a guy yeah it originated it
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from around this is true all right real
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quick like we stopped over here at the
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photo op area so we want to get a couple
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photos one with George takai
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he's 118 dollars
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and Sean asked him what you think is on
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the next one here it's 123 dollars so
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we're gonna come back we're gonna get
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those we're gonna come back we're gonna
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get a group photo with those two guys
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win in row
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now getting in a line which I'm guessing
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is probably going to be about an hour
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wait for the vendor room we don't have
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to be back over to our photo
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appointments until 1 30. one's at 1 30
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and one is at two so we got some time
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now into the catacombs this thing is
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winding all around
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the catacombs of dragon Cod into the
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vendor room
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out of the Catacombs and back in the
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regular line
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this took us the entire time we've been
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here to finally get in building each day
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we think we're gonna get in here but
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today it's happening it's happening
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I had my doubts throughout the weekend
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but it's happened been to room
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they have rolled out the red carpet for
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us well to a point and then you go up
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the world's shortest escalator look at
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this let's see how long it takes on this
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one one thousand two one thousand three
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one thousand four one thousand five one
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thousand that's it
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world's shortest escalator achieved a
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lot of t-shirt boosts in the vendor room
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look at this Dragon doing a little
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reading right there let's see paw and
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Order over here thank you
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for care of the demo Court democorgy not
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the demographic of the demo Corgi
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so this artist over here has the bride
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up top but take a look at grogu Pinhead
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right here look at this Rogue Pinhead I
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like that so this store here has some
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very unique items including a phasic
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Princess Bride Andre the Giant figure
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eight I Am The Brute Squad that's pretty
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dang good that's pretty good this one's
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got some good figures you got a rocket
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cheer over here you got a Pee-Wee got a
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Steve Irwin right up top there are some
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good posters lots of nostalgia all
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through here I figures Ultra Savers but
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you'll notice they do not have any
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characters actual names
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on them so this one here which is very
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familiar is just called vinegar
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notice how there's no actual names on
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them it's just they're very vague like
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the chosen onesie yeah
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butcher savior Exile Grand Master this
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one's Deuce is around us I mean that's
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pretty close Raven
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all right
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Luke Return of the Jedi saber which
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looks eerily similar to this one right
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here
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this one in fact ignite the green
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who'd you say the deceived was received
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I think is just sort of close to an
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Anakin but obviously a little bit more
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gold built into it
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all right good good t-shirts over here a
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Multiverse t-shirts a lot of Harry
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Potter stuff which is cool check out
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this Griffin doors shirt right there
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with Harry on it but asking for some
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Ravenclaw mashup they don't have any
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Ravenclaw
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that is awesome
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where's the door sir and then there's a
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more door right here check out Vader all
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right you got a horse coming through
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coming through that horse coming through
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for two thousand dollars two grand you
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can get purchase this baboon
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right here the official Dragon Con
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tie-dye
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which are right down here
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Logan Oh that's fine you already have
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like five or six Dragon Contours and I'm
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kind of tempted to get this year's this
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is a historic 10th year and final year
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breaking the street
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some pretty good signs in here just kind
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of like check it out Spaceballs the
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Pizza Peel Pizza the Hutt these are
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actual Pizza what do you call these they
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look like paddles but they're basically
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like pizza pizza wooden trays that you
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would put the pizza on out of the oven
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I'm drawing a drawing a blank on what
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they would be called
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The Scorch designs that's that's the
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name of the place I like these also
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especially this one right up here
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connecting the zapper to the NES control
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deck
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got a Middle Earth Map we got a hobbit
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map got a Jurassic map and The Last
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Unicorn tapestry is located right here
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the reason I know that's the last one it
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says it right on the side 200. you
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unicorn around a fountain and there's
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like an antelope and a deer oh a mummy
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replica here 299 also hocus poor don't
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put that on there
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never know what'll happen
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Sports Almanac right there I can't lose
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a lot of the shirts they hear are very
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very very very
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creative playing Han up there is good to
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a place called hair brain all right I
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don't know over at The Classy geek what
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would you call what would you call these
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exactly are these are light boxes
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they're stained glasses light boxes and
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we have some Enterprise here
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Freddy down here
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lots of other designs as well you make
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all this yourself I do oh that's the
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dragon that's the Marriott carpet right
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there very nice
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this booth looks familiar always like
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this booth that has the Recreations the
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different movie props
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let me make sure you can use
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it away on your desk or something you
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can use for cosplay
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Etc just lots of different different
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items Fortress Crystal layer always
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draws my attention in a lot of Star Trek
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Lord of the Rings
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it's not a bad deal shining crop photo
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15 Recreation photo there fifteen
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dollars it's not bad
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The Exorcist here
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the Lamentations of the women
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here has come out everything
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old era pennant style trick-or-treat 92
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Golden Girls they have a few t-shirts
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but a lot of different pennants which is
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pretty neat
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so here's what I ended up getting this
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is an Atari coaster that I'll put in the
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game room looks pretty nice is that in
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Greg's game room it's gonna go into
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Greg's gamer you were the only one of
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the three of us that's been a dime
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inside the vendor room I didn't buy
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anything this is only 10 bucks bottle of
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water I did buy a bottle of water
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correct I was gonna buy the DragonCon
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shirt but they didn't have my size they
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were all sold out yeah it wasn't messing
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up potato very nice
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Atari Atari for life
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if you like Atari better than NES that's
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where I got started so you know I have
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to pay homage to the company that uh
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yeah they got me going back you have the
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Atari oh yeah right there I got yeah I
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got my Atari lanyard yeah haunted house
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button sorry button Epcot pin yeah more
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Atari stuff so they don't call you
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Greg's game room for nothing all right
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accomplished the vendor room and now
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gonna head up
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to the photo ops I don't know what all
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these people did in here to get
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incarcerated but just a bunch of people
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crammed in this room why
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why are they all cramped in there
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they're like incarcerated in there I
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don't know it's like a I'm not sure
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what's going on there
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umbrellas and parasols we're trying to
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cut over this way and go that way
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you're good
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we're going over here and after we check
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out the Harry Potter and Star Trek photo
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and what's up what's happening we're
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gonna go back in here and get our photos
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with the two celebs we pay for
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we have the nicest vegetation
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just a bush
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just a brush
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oh my gosh
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pretty good congregation
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Star Trek folks trekkies are all here
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I'm gonna be doing a photo op
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very very shortly we have to rush over
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to the allotted time slot
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for the photos that we gotta take
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should be able to catch it a little bit
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so before having to run back over to the
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Marriott
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oh
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yeah
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red shirts are safe
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both Harry Potter and Star Trek were
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happening at the same time so Potter's
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happening up there trying to catch them
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both at the same time
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now
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all right next up that's our big group
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shot thank you next up what we're gonna
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start doing is breaking in the house his
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student teacher Etc
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near out you may hear a very Horsemen
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got the Death Eaters up there oh he who
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shall not be named first up there as
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well okay I've returned back now to this
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area for our epic photo op I'm just
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assuming
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because it says enter here and we're
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supposed to go this way maybe
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I'm not really sure I think takai is our
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first photo op
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here he is the line for epic photos
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starts here all right there's a little
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information board right here
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who else if you get a signature for
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we're only doing two Sean Aston George
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takeout
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it is a very interesting thing this
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setup so you go into these like tarped
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boots these little secret Areas very
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quick like five seconds so you should
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just go in we're going to be going in to
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C and getting our photo and then after
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that we'll get to see the finished
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product we're over here on Road number
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11.
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we've already got the photo ready so we
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asked Brad
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also to get in the in the picture
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I'll kind of flatten it out and I can
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look a little a little bit better okay I
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bought two five dollar sleeve protectors
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that I got there so this is going to be
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for Sean Aspen when I get that so we
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ended up asking George's husband in the
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photo with us as well because I always
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listen to like George on Howard Stern
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and sometimes I'll have him on there too
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so it is he's always he's like his right
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hand man he's always like a kind of
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attached there right anywhere he go
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anywhere George goes he's with him I
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find it very interesting and slightly I
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don't know
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you have to pay people money like look
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over here kylo Ren is actually going to
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pay celebrities money to get an
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autograph you know it's just all part of
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the experience it's all part of the fun
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but it is it is a little weird I gotta
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get completely honest and just like that
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in another line now I mean Sean Aston
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even art an R2 unit or R2D2 over there
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is one of meets us I think that's Adam
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Savage's line all right photo number two
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Sean Aston right there pretty cool Rudy
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Goonies stranger thing I mean just a ton
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of a ton of stuff so these are that's
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kind of cool
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they were at my friends like we get some
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celebrity photos
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and I'm gonna go walk up to the
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celebrity room now and just see who
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might be signing and yeah just enjoy the
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rest of it I think we're gonna go to
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Gus's Chicken as well
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and get some get some chicken it's kind
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of a tradition for us too here all right
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the next step is to try to get George's
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autograph on the photo I just got so
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we're gonna overflow line over here
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we've been waiting for about 45 minutes
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even after the photos was completed but
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his Booth is right over there but he has
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not arrived so we're just just kind of
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waiting here I want to say we're we're
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waiting Patron been waiting a while
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though everyone's been away all right he
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has arrived
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there's Brad
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and the Handler Andy Dick behind the
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counter there George has arrived so I'm
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gonna get him to sign the picture
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thank you
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yeah just whatever y'all think of you
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guys okay
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you see Brad it was actually the sequel
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oh well thank you Brad would you mind
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signing at you Brad that would be
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amazing thank you
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Adam but then Brad could sign it the
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worst anniversary present ever and I
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love you on Howard's turn both of you
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when you're on Stern
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yeah thank you Brad that would have been
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a great show thank you George appreciate
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it can we get a quick photo with you
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we're Brad Fanboy we're Brad Fanboys
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a couple years ago
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I thought I'm wearing a different
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shirts thank you man
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that was worth the 80 bucks I Was Born
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Ryan with the the quick photo here with
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Brad Brad takai takai
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pretty good and I had heard from one of
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the workers
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that his line is completely filled up so
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if you haven't already brought a
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pre-sale ticket then you can't no
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signature on this one sir it's all good
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though
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plus we gotta go we're in a rush we
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gotta go get food these guys got to go
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to the airport soon and there's Rex
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hello Rex good to see you hello
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I just met George takai yeah yeah he
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signed my poster over here
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yeah he's right he's right over there
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behind that that uh that little area
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over there George is over there yeah
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just pull back pull back the curtain
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yeah that's true
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I loved you on Star chores by the way
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see you DJ Rex all right heading to
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gushes Gus's
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Fried Chicken World Famous Fried Chicken
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this is kind of a staple of
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Dragon Con whenever we're here
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a tradition if you will
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I figured
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this I'm not gonna be
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here next year
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got to keep your Traditions going Gus's
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Fried Chicken it's been a good day it's
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been a good convention all around
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it's been fun the weather's been great
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too because it's fried chicken
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you gonna get some chicken
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oh yeah
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this is your spot you wanna get some
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chicken
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let's all get let's all get some chicken
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all right this is what we're dealing
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with they got the piece of bread
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underneath there I got the three piece I
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got the slaw I got the beans I got the
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fried okra red guy you got potato salad
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potato salad chicken tenders beans and a
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little honey mustard honey mustard and
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what'd you get Ryan uh supposed to be
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three Tenders in a wing but I seem to
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have picked up more more
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you got a piece of pie yeah this is the
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chocolate chess pie chocolate
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it's got a little spice to it
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and then
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we're now walking over to a park over
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here that's using the filming location I
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wanted to show here on the side of the
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Forsyth Walton building this old sign
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called Relic
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that thing all the old neon's gone
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definitely see the lettering still there
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and
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the logo there someone
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smoking a pipe
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on the pipe corner now I have not been
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in this park probably since 2016 maybe
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17. they had a Dragon Con from that year
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kickoff party over in here and I have
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not been back over here since then I do
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remember this little area it had the ATL
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and there's the fountain so which of the
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Marvel characters were in this little
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area little soul section well it was uh
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Iron Man and Spider-Man Iron Man
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Spiderman
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the name of that big big
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Cruiser guy I can't think of his name or
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his name I don't know his name but they
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were fighting here in this park yeah and
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you can see that fountain in some of the
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scenes that's pretty neat they filmed
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from Infinity War yeah
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kind of hard to match anything up out
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you were here when they were filming it
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right Greg I actually walked by and I
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saw the had a bunch of trucks over here
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on this corner and there's all these
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cables and stuff everywhere and lights
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and all this stuff and I just happened
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to ask the security guard who was
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standing there watch and uh I said so
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what movie are they filming here and
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he's like uh well I don't know the exact
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movie but here's the code name so I
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looked up the code name and I found it
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like 20 seconds it said Adventures
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Infinity War
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right behind there next to the Fountain
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there and there's another Fountain right
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over there would you park right over
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there all right Explorer and Ryan are
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now just called splorin but he is Ryan
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YouTube's own exploring heading out we
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got a train to catch and then you got a
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plane to catch
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just a little while longer but Greg's
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got to fly out a little bit I am here
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till in the morning this is site of
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Atlanta's first water system
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demonstration back in September of 1875
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right here in this very spot next to
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this Hydra
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pretty interesting that is a Furby right
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there hello Furby it's a Barbie Furby
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that is awesome are you FedEx John oh
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John
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I've been waiting all weekend to see
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FedEx John and now he's finally here
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except he's real it's a real life
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version
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also we got coffee from the food court
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um
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you'll be in the video okay I look
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forward to it all right FedEx Sean take
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care guys keep up keep the faith
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say goodbye to the droids
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goodbye droids
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it's been fun oh wow
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coming through
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coming through the belly of the Beast no
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bobble heads here that's cool I don't
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see anything quite like that their heads
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are shaking like bobble heads
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I've just spent a couple hundred dollars
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on celebrity photo ops did I make a bad
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decision absolutely I did I got mine for
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free I couldn't get yours for free what
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do you think about celebrities charging
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money for autographs whatever it takes
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for them to keep their habits up all
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right thanks old fart
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all right it's time for DC Superman
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oh man so good that's like so many Super
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Bowl there a lot of Batman
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Wonder Woman up top there
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I know
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come on it's great
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it's an evil Genie are you a good Genie
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or an evil Genie who knows you don't
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know who knows
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and I will be the last remaining yep
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from Greg's game room is now heading
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home heading back back to Florida
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that's true
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see you later see you later and that's
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gonna do it for today and from my
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10-year anniversary 10 years in a row
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would have been 11 but 2020 didn't
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happen but 10 solid years straight in
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downtown Atlanta for Dragon Con I am
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going to be skipping next year and
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possibly just after that we'll see what
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happens but this is my last Dragon Con
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for a while it's been fun I'll see you
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in the next video the Vlog is over