Star Wars Overload At Dragon Con 2023 - Eating At Trader Vic’s Tiki Bar / Retro Arcade Free Play
Dragon Con 2023
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welcome everyone Adam the woo here as
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the recording of This TGIF it is Friday
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September 1st 2023. I am in downtown
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Atlanta I have
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my badge here with the appropriate
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ribbons on it
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Centennial Park you got the fountain
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behind me
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today is the first well yesterday with
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the kickoff of dragon Cod got
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registration completed saw a few things
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wrestling last night today it is in full
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swing vinder room opens today the
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celebrity Hall of Fame area hope it
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opens today and I'll just see what else
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I can do I'm excited about getting into
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the belly of the Beast if you will I'm
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inviting you to join me
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shall you have the Olympic rings here
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cosplayers ready to cross the street
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today I didn't show a lot of Cosplay
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yesterday I'm going to show quite a bit
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today of that as well
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already quite a few people out here to
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say the least and here comes the
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transportation device through town
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heading through the Atlanta Streetcar
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I'm gonna grab some coffee the 7-Eleven
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over here go go on the coffee here
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my dragon pot headquarters
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for 2023 was out of coffee
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at this particular moment so I gotta
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find coffee elsewhere I had a couple
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buddies just pulled up here in their car
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they have arrived
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starting off DragonCon 2023 Greg's game
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room and exploring Ryan over here how
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many miles this thing get to the gallon
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guys two all right the coffee line over
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here the Hilton Marketplace it's pretty
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lengthy everyone wants to talk man I got
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my name on the coffee there and take a
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look at this
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I do like baby girls hello beaker
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I see it
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that's awesome you were my video
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thumbnail several years ago oh this is
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awesome take a look at the rancor there
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and the rancors got the gamorian guard
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and it's grass oh you got the Cambodia
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guard don't eat that don't eat that
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guard
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there was a FedEx job miniature FedEx
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John here yesterday with a little Shrine
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to start it now there's just a Twix bar
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but they put a note here
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12 Commandments FedEx John
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all listed right here you got the googly
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eyes
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all right we got the Voorhees is here
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all barbied out
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very nice wow I've got some droids over
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in this area this is Allen right here
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and over here it's Chopper
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oh I recognize a jet pack is that The
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Rocketeer yeah that's The Rocketeer here
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and around this way areas so I got some
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Futurama here
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well this is kind of interesting The
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Headless Lounge is it here it's this
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place that in it monsters Muppets
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mascots and furries can kick back and
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take their heads off
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front of
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blowers fans and blowers interesting
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what are you laughing at I'm seeing
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something online a while back that this
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little sculpture here broke
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so update on the on the sculpture it
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fell like part of it broke off right
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here all right we just discovered that
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the celebrity room doesn't open till one
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it is noon right now so we are making
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our way to the vendor room this is the
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first day the vendor room
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it's been open ah there's a few people
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here
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there's just a couple people in the
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vendor line room good
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I was wondering why
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you're thinned out inside where all the
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cosplayers usually are because they're
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all over here waiting to go in the
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americasmart fender room building I
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think we're all leaning towards the idea
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of maybe popping back over here at a
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later time frame because I think it
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since it just opens I think everyone is
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really excited to get in there so I
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think we're gonna we might if I come
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back over here later we've stopped into
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the gaming area which is directly next
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door so this whole section and this kind
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of this empty area is the gaming area
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tabletop games you know kind of like DND
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and similar to those but look at this
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building here
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this is adjacent to the Maker's Mark
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where the vendor room is look at that
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Where it All Began well I don't know if
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it began in this room but it started as
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a gaming convention and it just branched
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into everything popcorn yeah that's
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where the name came from Dragon Con
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because it's it was a Convention of
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people playing Dungeons and Dragons
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games
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and uh that's what it looks like they're
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doing here they just dungeon con didn't
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sound
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that's a different convention that's
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yeah that's that's after hours that's
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DragonCon after dark
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we don't talk about that one that would
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be the Headless one we were talking
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about earlier got a nice little array of
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classic pinball machines over here
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even a Barcade in here called joystick
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Atlanta's blue soap retro arcade bar I
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guess they are the ones providing all
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the machines
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it's an old pinball over there too
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appears as if it is all free play so I
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got a little Miss Pac-Man going on here
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it's great centipede new Patrol Frogger
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they had a Barcade down the road last
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year but I think that's closed this year
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so maybe these are the same games let's
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move to a different spot
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centipede to come right straight down
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the middle you can just you don't even
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have to move all right mine's still
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pretty lengthy it's moving pretty
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quickly but we are gonna head now back
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up in the celebrity room is going to be
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nice action action
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oh you taught him everything he knows I
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think this is by the way this is a big
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moment this is the 100th hot dog that
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I've eaten on The Daily route so 100.
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oh it's star Shrek star I guess it right
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I did I guessed it and I got it right
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Star Trek very creative
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all right over here at the photo op area
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just trying to see what it costs to get
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a photo of different people
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so we majors
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82 for lead Majors they said I could not
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take a photo at his Booth so the only
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photos lead Majors will take Six Million
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Dollar Man and of course the Fall Guy 82
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over here at this little area but it's
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gonna interfere with something else
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that's happening it's at 7 p.m at 6 30
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to win the Big Star Wars
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photo the Hilton so I don't know also
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Chris the girl has arrived Tampa J is
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also a rock you know you can get a photo
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it's Million Dollar Man for only eighty
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two dollars
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except what was that Lee major yeah
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Scrooge they don't know what to say hey
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you got six million dollars yeah
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how much you think a six million dollar
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would man would be now in this day and
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age
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let me grab the inflate
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this might be a longer shot than you
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so I'm really gonna look it up come on
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Dragon Six Million Dollar Man was first
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and then Fall Guy Fall Guy was after six
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million dollars
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late 70s and then mid 80s was Paul guy
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let's say like 70s 78 let's just say 70.
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looking it up
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not that
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okay
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I in full effect I'm gonna take over
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here it's a honeydeuce a Wizarding World
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I've heard of you have a penny take a
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penny too I got the rocky board
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I need a ribbon take a ribbon my ribbon
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is
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run for us run
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he just keeps on running
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all right now
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here we
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go here we go oh my gosh once everyone
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get smaller
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why do we put ourselves through this
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every year coming to talk okay here's a
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problem right up passage because we're
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stupid I think we're somewhere in the
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30s going up and out
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47th floor
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oh it's warm up here closer to the Sun
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you guys want to take the stairs back
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down yeah yeah
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um right there yeah let's go all right
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here we go it's a short little short
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little walk down
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oh my gosh this is even worse look at
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this
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awesome and slightly horrifying at the
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same
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same time
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oh gosh
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that's kind of where we started the day
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down there
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she's running a little radio control car
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around well 47 floors down way over
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there Stone mountains
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that took months two years it was just
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there
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way over there Stone Mountain
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Scott Howard and Marty McFly that's
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awesome
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that's awesome I love a good Teen Wolf
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Teen Wolf the fact you gave me a Teen
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Wolf Char as long as it focuses there it
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goes thanks for the charm Team Wolf
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always good to see the Macho Mandalorian
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it's the end of the Empire we all have
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to get new jobs here
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the cream of the crop
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the whole thing for snapping into a
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slipping
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I like around the back you still got
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around
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there you go the Macho Man deloria
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thank you so much
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Comedy Club of Canada the timing was
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perfect
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it literally opened up the summer that I
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that I quit High School
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Peter Faulk it right now
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sorry to bother you said this is
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embarrassing but
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so I was 25 years old now God damn I
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broke a string what am I supposed to do
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now I was all whiny and nasally
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complained he did
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did you see the movie Rocky I said no I
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haven't seen it yet I've seen a network
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instead I was fired as hell and I'm not
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paying attention anymore
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is rare so even when he's calm he's just
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vocal straight and you know and they'll
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just be like oh
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my God
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thank you
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but this little red Little Red Riding
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Hood damn right it is cut his head off
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right he was terrorizing my Village I
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can't let that happen no we didn't know
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look at him his name was Frank Frank the
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wolf
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all right
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goodness gracious
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that is intense
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it's the best helmet
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one of the biggest cosplay meetups of
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the entire convention Star Wars is about
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to happen
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and there's a lot of folks from the
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French dressed as from the frame boy
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you're not wearing you're wearing it's
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our track shirt
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foreign
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are you sad because of the rancor is
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that in memory of the rank oh I got a
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little got a little boo-boo there
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wait wait for the dark side what the
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there's even a Marriott carpet Mando
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down there Mandalorian with the the old
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Marriott carpet design on him all right
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that's awesome in the middle there's the
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captain from the house here on the Star
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Wars Hotel soon to be closing
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that is good
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ER Vicks world famous Trader Vicks
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there's a few different ones but there
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is one here in Atlanta Georgia also
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never eaten in here I've been in here
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before but I've never eaten a meal
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inside Trader Vicks I do love the vibe
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of a good Tiki establishment though and
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that is this is this is the original
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Trader Vicks 1934 right there over on
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the wall that's pretty cool got the fire
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burning down down below take a look at
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this yeah this place is really cool okay
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so this is what you call a mocktail they
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have a no tie Mai Tai our classic
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original adaptation
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excuse me hey how's it going I'm riding
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you good doing good they have a curry
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eggplant for some reason that's kind of
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pulling me in there Thai Basil I really
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like coconut but I'm sure probably with
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the cooking it probably don't taste it
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as much zucchini onion bell pepper and
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Jasmine rice you can add chicken for
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nine dollars maybe I'll get the chicken
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curry eggplant without coconut I think
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that's what I might do oh there's a
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history crater pick okay so I should
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have read that yeah there's a little
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history thing over here the original Mai
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Tai in 1944 Trader Vic concocted a rum
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drink and served it to a guest who upon
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tasting it said My Thai Rika so there
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you go yeah but that was in San
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Francisco no we all have to thank
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explore and Ryan for making this
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reservation without him would not be in
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here we have been talking about this for
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how many years now he said maybe doing
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this we're finally doing it we're really
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doing it aren't we buddy we're really
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doing it Harry
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you see the design of the roof or the
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ceiling I should say
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it angles up with all the thatch and
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bamboo style
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pretty neat
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it's another canoe up there that is a
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non Mai Tai Mai Tai or a no no tie my
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top a non-tied my touch a non-alcoholic
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mocktail I don't even know what a mai
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tai is is anyone here at the table know
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what a mai tai really even is
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aware right my tie oh my God but what
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does the alcoholic version have in it
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what kind of what is the alcoholic
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version of a mai tai like what is it
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other than why the booze okay rock candy
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oh something called for eat okay orange
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but so it's everything without the ages
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all right this so This has not no rum
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and everything
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the non-alcoholic version of their most
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famous drink that Trader Vicks created
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correct
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Adam got the mocktail mai tai no alcohol
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oh that's good good
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would you recommend it I got the
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tropical fruit potty also no alcohol I
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was a drinker and this had alcohol in it
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we are a bunch of party animals sweet
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tea yes and mocktails yeah that's how
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you do dragon Cod that's how you do it
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that's how you know we're old yeah it's
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cauliflower
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Wings
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yeah if anyone wants to to share some of
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these go these are for the table and uh
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Chris what did you work I got it's tasty
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dude
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those are really good
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oven smoked ribs with the uh their fries
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their version of fries Greg oh this is
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the all-in fried rice with uh pork
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chicken and shrimp by the way Greg
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you're about to hit 10 000 subscribers
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right 200 to what 200 away yeah
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classic video games it's about to happen
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check your celebration that's a
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celebration Bowl celebration right curry
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chicken rice I put the rice in the curry
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chicken I got a little chunk of the
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chick oh there we go
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oh yeah it's got some curry in it got
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some kick to it that is good no it's not
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that bad all right a delicious meal now
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heading out
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I'm pretty neat there's the voodoo
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tumbler a drum mode and a little puffer
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fish all through here
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now we're gonna try to start calling it
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a night here very very shortly but it is
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really getting pretty crazy in the
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Marriott so basically doing the loop out
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over through the Marriott and then to
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the Hyatt and then got to go back to my
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hotel but it is just popping at this
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hour late night
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on a Friday
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lots of Cosplay lots of fun lots of
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goodness like a loss of Dragon Con in
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full effect to say the least
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and then also in the little hamster
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tubes the tunnels they go across above
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downtown Atlanta also
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definitely very full lots of
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awesome inflatable dinosaurs like more
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than I was expecting that are just heads
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and feet above all
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above all the other cosplayers oh no
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and that's gonna do it for today from
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downtown Atlanta I'll see you in the
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next video thanks for watching the Vlog
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