Central Florida Comic Con 2025 In Lakeland & Thunder Championship Wrestling / Eating At Freds Market
Central Florida Comic Con & TCW
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welcome everyone Adam the woo here as
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the recording of this Saturday January
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18th
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2025 I am going to head over to Lakeland
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today for the tail end the last couple
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hours of here on this Saturday Central
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Florida ComicCon which is at the RP
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funding Center formerly the Lakeland
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Civic Center and the last couple hours
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there will culminate into another event
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that is also transpiring in the arena of
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the same facility TC w
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wrestling Thunder championship wrestling
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I believe it's called I'm not really
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familiar with it but I do like
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independent wrestling Dragon Con every
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year they do the independent wrestling
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before that it's always kind of fun to
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go to a wrestling event so I figured
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I'll do two events in one today such for
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a ComiCon and a wrestling event I'm
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inviting you to join me and Rowdy Rody
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also is on my appropriate t-shirt
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join me and Rowdy
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Rody sh
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you that's good looking pretty smooth at
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the moment according to the GPS on my
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phone 35 miles to the RP funding Center
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36 minutes which means there's no
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traffic on I4
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westbound which is a rare
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occasion I'm not complaining not
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complaining at all Mickey powerp
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good to see
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you made it over pretty
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quickly a little over half
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hour current time
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325 got here a little later I think the
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event started at like 9:00
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a.m. at least the comic portion of it
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did pop
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culture
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event Central Florida
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Comic-Con but because I got here at this
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hour there was no parking charge usually
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like a $12 parking charge for these
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events there was no one at the parking
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stands
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feels pretty good outside but it's
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warmer than it feels like maybe because
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there's a nice little breeze even though
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these trees are not really showing the
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breeze very well but there is a little
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bit of a breeze it's currently
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74° here in Lakeland but it feels a
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little cooler than that at sunset at six
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just shy as 6 it's got to start dipping
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down a little under 70° feels great
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great I would imagine the wrestling
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event will be in this big building here
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which I mentioned this before is where I
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saw Nirvana on the in Udo tour just a
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few months before Kurt passed
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away in the arena there one thing's for
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sure they definitely have the AC on in
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here the AC is
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kicking in
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here here's the event streets of thunder
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TCW also called nerd Street
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wrestling all right here is the merch
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Booth got some Mickey ears on it these
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are the Florida R2 Builders
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here God Mick ears I got the Pokemon car
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I've been to this convention before I do
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not recall if it was last year or the
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year before but I se to remember the
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Pokémon car the Pikachu car is it
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Pikachu I'm not really up on my Pokemon
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but we got the Ghostbusters over
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here and ass at registration two
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different tickets I still have to buy my
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ticket to the wrestling but the
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wrestling is going to be behind curtain
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over there here's the penguin right here
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got the
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Batmobile the Batmobile here and then
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penguin Hello
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Penguin how are you hanging in there
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hanging in there okay trying to get
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ready to get my pledge to the White
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House
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if he can do it I can do it then okay
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you got to run next time I could get rid
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of him and run this time that's true
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okay coming up soon that's true got to
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make your move I think he'll do it you
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never know but it'll be some accident
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that happened
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somewhere your secret safe with me
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whatever the plan is hey that's why I
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wear gloves I never leave a trace of my
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evidence I like that you got a game plan
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penguin always think about it I'd be
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perfect I could have Harvey Den
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run the CIA and the FBI at the same time
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one paycheck for two personalities okay
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would you run under the penguin moniker
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or Oswald moniker Oswald you know
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penguin is a is a Regal bird too I mean
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my motto is vote for cobblepot and give
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America the
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bird miniature train action here but
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it's also a Lego set miniature train
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going around here
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and that many ghost have you guys seen
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today so far a lot a lot a lot really
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all this open space just lots of ghosts
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that can't be seen with the human eye on
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this one yeah he means trouble there
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have you seen the Pac-Man Ghosts no
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there's there's people dressed up as a
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Pac-Man ghosts okay it's pretty funny
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any in here that you've caught so far or
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you caught any so far we had an escape
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when our containment unit busted earlier
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there was a over here there there was a
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accident with a Mobility Scooter okay oh
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really
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yeah I just realized that this actor was
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also in Die
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Hard the actor about that play played
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that role is also in Die Hard he's one
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of the henchmen is he yes all right made
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it in should also point out that I do
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have my Saturday badge here looks like a
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little Power Ranger on it as well
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Central Central Florida comic convention
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Central Florida Comic Con Saturday this
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is the day I'm going to be here because
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coincided this with the wrestling event
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I could said you know what go do a
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wrestling event and get a check some pop
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culture vender stuff while I'm here so
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I'm here for the day there's
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Godzilla a Godzilla of some sort right
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there some Disney pens over here $3 each
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also noticing they have the popcorn
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bucket that was just released yesterday
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at Festival of the Arts at Epcot I
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haven't even been to Festival of the
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Arts yet the popcorn bucket is already
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here sold by vendors little figment
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right there I do got to get to Festival
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of the Arts at some point this is the
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one from last year I think here TR to
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imagination
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Pavilion these are interesting I don't
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know if these are like wrist straps
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luggage tags but you got like a Jack
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Skellington esque type of item here got
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like Jack Skellington in his little
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sleep attire you got Edward Scissor
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Hands right there there's
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Edward I've never seen anything quite
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like these I'm not really not even sure
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what they they are obviously that's
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Chucky right there from Child's Play got
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leather face right
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here a look at this one right here you
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got a little art the clown terrifier
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right here you got Sam from trick-or
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treat you got terrifier three there you
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got Slimer here at this uh create
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fantasy crafts Booth this is kind of
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neat too it's like a little
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shrimp shrimp of some sort very creative
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oh my gosh an art the clown snowman art
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the clown is just taking
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over oh what is oh look at this this is
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also from uh part three I believe
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speaking of Godzilla there's a lot of
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look at all these there's a King Kong
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over there
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too there's a lot of Godzillas in this
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one little
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area
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wow never seen so many Godzillas in one
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little section before right look at this
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one
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Godzilla and King Kong overload mostly
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Godzilla and some superheroes down here
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too Captain America
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Superman Wonder
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Woman look at this guy wonder what this
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is but it definitely is a Back to the
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Future Part Two Marty s homage of some
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sort except it's a green creature as
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well then you got Wednesday Adams over
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here you got more art you got moth man
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you got crew cougar you have all the
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horror icons scattered through here
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through this little this little booth
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here with lots of different got some jaw
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stuff up top there quite a bit of horror
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stuff here in here as well screen Queen
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you got the all the different funkos up
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here you got uh Frankie Stein there you
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got the Grabber right there
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from black
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phone as well you got a bunch of little
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pins through here you got some shorts
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the name of your company we're all mad
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here mad about plid oh mad about plaid
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reefs okay I see it there at the
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bottom this is like a Mary gr homage
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kind of thing here with Ghost Face very
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nice you got little Easter Bunny little
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Easter ghost face here also you got some
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Harry Potter all the different houses
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right down in here you got a Lord of the
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Rings very cool Crow a few retro toys
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through here a lot of Indie stuff look
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at all different
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Indies all along got the truck of the
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cargo truck here there's Maran right
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there for Raiders got Temple of Doom
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guy we we are not
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thirsty this is tempting I love Stitch
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and I love Elvis there's a Elvis Stitch
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plushy there but there's also a dancing
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Elvis stitch for $20 still celebrating
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the holidays there still have the Santa
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cap
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on ready for next year or just hold over
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from this holiday season yes to both all
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right fair enough good to see you have a
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good rest of your day thank
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you take care all
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right the rusters that are here check it
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out one of The
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Bushwhackers is here
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Luke Luke from The Bushwackers is here
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he has a t- shirt for 15 bucks I imagine
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he'll probably be in the wrestling event
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just
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guessing look at this what is this this
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that's Nikolai volov right there and
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Hacksaw Jim
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Dugen recognize a couple of them Nikolai
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volov right there Iron chic's partner
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and this is a hacksaw right there
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they're not here but Vader is now
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roaming the
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Halls
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here to the 50 First
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V it's interesting how you go to a lot
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of these comic conventions pop culture
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conventions always a lot of Disney
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always a lot of Harry Potter and always
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a lot of horer the skateboards here
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plastic Pizza look at this right here
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you got the slice of pie with the
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eyeball on there and the Little Squid
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guy and then the pizza head got pizza
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headed Punk right there continue pring
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around think I'm going to head off
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property and go over to Fred's and get a
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bite to eat so I'll be back momentarily
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well not momentarily after get a little
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food in my belly at Fred's a place I
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really love here in Lakeland it's only a
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couple miles from here I looked it up
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thought you know what I should go to
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Fred's while I'm here it's a little time
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frame between convention ending and the
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wrestling starting I love Freds highly
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recommend Fred's
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Buffet right I've arrived next to the
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hair
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Shanty looks like there's been a storm
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of sorts here got the Fred's logo here
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on the emblem the sign has been torn
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down there like a wind stiff wind hit it
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there slow food
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fast with a buddy Greg is here Game Room
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how are you we're going to see some
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wrestling later oh yeah oh yeah first
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but first we're going to get we're going
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to feed our bellies right starting off
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with a little uh little salad first over
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here and then I'll go with a little bit
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more than just lettuce and uh salad
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stuff but yeah they have they have
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everything in here and reasonably
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reasonably price in my op this is
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interesting I don't know if I've ever in
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my entire life seen I've heard this word
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but I don't know look at this they have
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rutabagas down here mashed potatoes
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gravy rutabagas lima beans Pento beans
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green beans all kind of beans mac and
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cheese and rudas what sure like it's
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definitely getting close to dinner time
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but they have grits they still have
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grits in here roasted vegetables even
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have Fried Green Tomatoes just good A
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little uh corn casserole right down
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there Fried Chicken as well yeah
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definitely southern food Southern
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Comfort wheat rolls down there got some
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baked chicken right here other other
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chicken got some look like some fish
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down in there some
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ribs man this place this place is
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awesome over at the arena the RP funding
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Center
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a full belly and now ready for some
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independent wrestling all right we got
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the lights on in here ready to
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rock hello about professional wrestling
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just like it always has
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been Rose Bruiser groy and new the
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butcher some of the most vient
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professional wrestlers in history Happ
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been in this building and you people
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still like violence in Lin
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man here it is three
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count that's
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it doing
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tonight the first time I resed in this
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ring Was 1980 for Florida championship
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I didn't expect him to get it back in
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the
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ring tiny to the
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face
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the oh that's awesome
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school one
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left one
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oh my
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gosh
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wow gone off the rails in
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here we about to see a teabagging
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so I know I mentioned this that Nirvana
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played here I found a photo online of
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the stage and what was behind the stage
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and it still matches up the stage is
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right there and if you take a look at
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this there's this little area up in the
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corner up the top of the stairs that
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number there says
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218 I would have been right down in the
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thick of it right there where the
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wrestling ring is looking back the other
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direction
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there is that little seating area and
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there's the
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218 right
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there pretty neat not a lot of photos
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from that that night but I found
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one all right I walked down to the floor
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just so I could get that angle there
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the world
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interesting I don't know if who ever
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seen a wrestling match where there's a
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tag
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team and then there's a woman fighting a
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man in a tag team
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match I will
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she tagged in her
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partner ony
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go
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w
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P the Royal for the first and a
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N Street c are you ready let's go Battle
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Royale with paraphernalia all right
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folks without further Ado are you guys
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ready for your
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M here we
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what oh man that look like Billy
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Island's got a hair dryer
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this is getting
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good oh he's off oh he's almost
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off
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on he's got a piece of the scaffold
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piece of the
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scaffolding tear this whole place apart
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eliminated one those chairs back there
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got
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te I need another one for my
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friend oh
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on get back
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up come onon get back
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up
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H holy
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that's it hard wire
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daddy
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oh hockey stick to the highy
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oh all right that's going to do it for
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today from blakeland the RP funding
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Center ended up being a pretty good
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night a
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little Central Florida ComicCon little
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Freds and some wrestling see you in the
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