A Bizarre Friday On International Drive Orlando -Wawa Pumpkin Spice / Zombie Walk & Dawn Of The Dead
The Friday Before Halloween 2023
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today's
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adventure will end well it'll be later
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in the day I'm going to be seeing this
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Romero classic dare I say one of my top
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horror films ever Evil Dead Texas
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Chainsaw Dawn Romero probably the top
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three if I had to choose have this out
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of print Blu-ray which has a lot of
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really good special features on it as
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well I have seen this movie probably a
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hundred times
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and today I'm going to see it on the big
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screen a little bit
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later I also have a poster signed by a
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lot of the cast most of the cast pretty
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good little project I've been working on
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for the last gosh probably 10 15 years
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I've had this
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poster I'm going see it on the big
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screen today I'm pretty dang excited I
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have a little time before the first
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thing on the agenda which is at 3:00
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well the first designated timed
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agenda 3:00 p.m. there's going to be a
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zombie walk happening down International
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Drive and I figured that kind of ties in
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with seeing the movie just a little bit
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later so I'm going to be doing going to
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be doing that and then I'm also going to
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head over to Wawa and get a pumpkin
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spice latte from there still on the
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pumpkin spice kick up until Halloween
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the countdown to Halloween is in full
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swing you can see the
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goal is upon this thing is not wanting
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to move are you going to move by there
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it go hey I was getting thought maybe
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the thing was broken but it's working
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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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October 27th all Hallow's Eve is
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approaching very quickly I am wearing an
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appropriate t-shirt one of a couple that
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I have pertaining to this film something
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about this film just really resonates me
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with me me when it comes to the horror
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genre when it comes to not only the
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entire first of all I will say it is
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without a doubt the best zombie movie
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ever made there's not even a close
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second and I've seen it so many times
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that certain times when I have watched
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it I will put myself into the
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perspective and into the mindset of each
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of the main characters so I will watch
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it Through The Eyes of Roger Through The
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Eyes of Fly Boy
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Fran you know just kind of like when I'm
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watching it
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sometimes I'll watch it as a movie as a
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whole and other times I'll think what
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would it be like through this person's
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perspective I don't know just some it's
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just I think I've seen it so much that
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that I kind of look at different ways of
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of viewing it but I digress I go get
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some coffee try a different place as I
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st WWA also you'll notice on the poster
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that I was
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showing at the beginning that I saw I
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Met George Romero which was awesome and
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I got Fly Boy to sign in who I don't
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think
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the actor does not do con hasn't done
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conventions in a long time so it's been
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a work in progress for a heck of a long
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time I'm going to get going do a few
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things see where the day leads the
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viewing later is at 7:15 going to meet
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up with some friends there I'm inviting
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you to join me shall you exclusively at
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Regal this October 7:15 this evening as
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I'm filming this not rated and it is a
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2d not a 3D I think last year they
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released a 3D version of it I didn't go
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to it I'm not real big on 3D movies in
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the theater I might be I might be the
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one of the people one of the few people
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who don't enjoy that but I don't really
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like doing the whole 3D thing it just
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doesn't for me I don't know maybe it's
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just this doesn't doesn't work right for
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me but I'm I'm happy it's going to be
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the 2D original version not rated also a
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while back I shared a flight with Ken
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fory played Peter in the movie Big Joe
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Grizzly himself from Rob Zombies
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Halloween and a lot of other
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films and I I didn't I didn't bother him
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on the plane when we got off we were at
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the at the exit where the luggage is
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said hey I'm a big Dawn fan can I get a
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photo he said sure got a quick photo
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right here Trooper also it's celebrating
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is 45th anniversary very recently I saw
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the birds in the theater they did a
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re-release for the 60th anniversary and
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I'm really liking during this time of
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the year all of these classic horror
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films are coming back to the theaters
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you'll be able to see them on the big
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screen I think it's going to be the
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biggest cult Blockbuster Blockbuster of
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all time the Original Classic returns to
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theaters I need to get caffeinated made
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it over to a wah Wawa this is a very
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interesting in-out parking area or maybe
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they're planning a road to go over there
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to the toll
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road yeah I've definitely been getting
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my pumpkin spice fill lately and this is
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no exception I believe this is day six
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in a row of doing different pumpkin
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spice places and today is wah I'll see
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if I can remember what I said I started
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off with Starbucks then I did
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7-Eleven then I did Duncan then I did
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joffre then I did Crispy Cream and now
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they
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six W wa
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time pumpkin spice style piping hot
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caffeinated beverage which is just
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another weird way terminology of me
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saying a hot coffee it's basically I
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like they were all out of the regular
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coffee that was flavored to the pumpkin
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but they had cappuccino so I went with
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not a latte but a pumpkin spice
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cappuccino with the logo there Wah on
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the
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front scalding hot that's a step up from
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piping I had to put the little cardboard
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sleeve on there because that's
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warm
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it's really good that
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is that is pretty tank good I'm going to
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put this in the top three of the last
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few
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days top
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three I think Crispy Cream Starbucks and
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this are in the three of the six that
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I've had so
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far not regular coffee keep that in mind
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I think dunan is my favorite out of all
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the regular coffees but just when it
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comes to pumpkin spice All Right Moving
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On
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cheers warm you know now that I've had
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some time to savor this I think this is
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the number one out of the six that I've
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had this week granted this is a
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cappuccino which maybe it has a little
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more flavor than a latte I'm not an
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expert when it comes to lattes and
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cappuccinos I do like coffee but I I
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very rarely well this this season is the
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first time I kind of done these kind of
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things ended up parking over at The Icon
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Park icon Orlando where the great big
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wheel is which they are decorated for
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Halloween as well so I ended up parking
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over here I'm going to walk just a
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little bit shy of 1 mile to Point
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Orlando where they are doing the 300
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p.m. kick off for the zombie walk so I
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have little bit of time to walk down
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walk down there before that kind of
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begins those
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pous
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and take a stroll down International
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Drive I drive locals call it look at
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that pirate right
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there oh and a
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gator right over there it's a fake Gator
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but still Gator
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nonetheless no sign of the lobster
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Mobile in front of Boston Lobster Fe
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here sometimes they'll have the lobster
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mobiles but look over here I didn't
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realize there's a Spirit Halloween
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wonder if it's like a zombie M what if I
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could get like a zombie mask or zombie
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attire I could do maybe a quick little
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quick little fix up I don't know what
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this building used to be but right now
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it is a Spirit Halloween whatever it was
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was pretty cool pretty cool little front
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entrance Plaza to it yeah I'm going to
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pop in see what I can find through the
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halls and walls and corridors well
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highways a spirit at Halloween see if I
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can get something appropriate
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to the events that are transpiring so I
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I think I could probably find something
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that would be appropriate all right no
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go on anything in there was pretty
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picked over only thing zombie I saw was
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like a zombie baby but I feel like I
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didn't feel like getting that and
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walking around with that but they did
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have they have a few things but there
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was no like zombie mask or anything like
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that so opted out of anything from
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Spirit so I'm just going to head over to
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the walk happy
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the reason they're doing this walk is
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because the Spooky Empire kicks off
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today big Halloween convention they do
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every year I'm not going today I'm not
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going in the in the convention today per
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se but I am going to check out the
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zombies so basically two events the
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kickoff is spooky that I will not be
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going inside the convention center to
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see and also the scening of
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this the best zombie film ever made
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later on it's been a long long time
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since I dipped back into the nether
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regions of Point Orlando and I'm also
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noticing that there is a Regal theater
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there this one did not show up on the
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list with Dawn playing there so I ended
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up getting a ticket for the one in
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Winter Park okay this is definitely giv
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me some rville mall monroville mall
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Vibes which I've been to many times the
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filming
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locations just outside Pittsburgh and
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when I think of an escalator think of
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Romero and I think of all
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rats
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Point used to be called Point Orlando at
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the pub and inside the pub they are
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getting their makeup done by
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professional artists that are in there
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trying to like do up all the zombies and
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they're all going to be congregating in
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just a matter of a couple minutes just
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probably 2 or 3 minutes from right now
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they're all going to be kind of nestled
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here in front of the point and they're
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going to start making their way down
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International Drive towards where the
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vention sometimes the conven is being is
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held at the convention center sometimes
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at the high either way they're in the
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kind of the same direction where they're
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they're they're all going to start
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making their way down yeah the zombies
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are taking over Orlando for today you
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know here on here on this TGIF on this
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Friday and it's kind of interesting
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because you just never know what the
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onlookers the the the pedestrians and
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the people that are driving in their
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their vehicles are going to be thinking
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about all the zombies walking down the
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road
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can you tell me where the you tell me
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where the Zombie Walk is going to be
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right here oh wait a thank you there's
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two of you
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that's oh wow got him on the neck there
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something got you on the neck right
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here you got the Mickey ears on just
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getting back from the parks yep annual
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passholder I know what's going on here
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he's trying to light the F
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here zombies are making a little bit of
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a mess out here breaking bottles
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breaking glass you just cannot the
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zombies all bets are
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off 20 years can you believe
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it all right I got something different
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planned we're all going to go back
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inside so we're going to all come
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versing out of the doors and they're
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going to get that on video and then
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we're going to head over to the
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convention
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house everybody
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exactly all
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right ready is everybody in Zombies give
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me your best zombie face go one two
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three
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look all right I think now I'm going to
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head towards downtown to a place over on
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Colonial called Atomic hoor which was
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closed last time I went by there pretty
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good things about it so I'll stop off
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there first and then head over to win
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Park no skateboarding bicycle riding
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scooter riding rollerblading or ball
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playing but zombies are
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boy one thing for sure I'm getting some
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steps
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in parking over here and going all the
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way to the point and then back which
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kind of nice cuz I'm going be sitting in
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a theater for 2 hours later I think it's
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like an hour and 50 minute movie made it
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over pass down and onto pass downtown I
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should say and onto Colonial
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Drive wedged in between One-Stop
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cabinets and the smoke shop is
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atomic
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horror not only wedge between it on the
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signs of the sign out front but also
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wedge between the two
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businesses right there last time I came
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by here the only time I've ever come by
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here they were closed that day but they
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are open today these are their store
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hours Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
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Sunday they're open they're closed on
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Monday and Tuesday all right the first
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thing I'm seeing is a Jason Vorhees but
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look at this there's a bile from Basket
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Case what the heck they have a bile yeah
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look at all the little ghost face in
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here and all the stuff along the side of
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the wall how great is this like the ghie
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coming out of the coming out of the
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toilet there there's also like an entire
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Shrine to elv over here all the virra
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photos in there and plenty of tiis as
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well there just like even like a little
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little zombie tikis up it's like return
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that's like almost like return to the
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living dud Tiki well I guess technically
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they are Tiki mugs like they're Tiki mug
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and they got the the tiis over here as
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well the little TIY bar thiso this whole
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place is awesome yeah I even like the
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way they have the light going where it
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looks like the kind of like the water
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then you got the volcano erupting out
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there this is a great Jaws coffee mug I
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get Bru right there in coffee mug form
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and check out these Good Guy Chucky
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slippers right here look how look at
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those little slippers look there's
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Michael Myers busting out of the closet
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there then you got some Gremlins look at
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this Michael and then over in this
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corner is Ghost Face here here against
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the side of the door as well oh look at
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this they even had some John Carpenter
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they live pamphlets here and they got to
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put the glasses see the truth for
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yourself put on the glasses put on the
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glasses Halloween 3 I really like this
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you got Frankie and his bride up here
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sharing a sharing a drink in the little
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Tiki area which is kind of nice they
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just have an incredible selection of
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stuff in here oh look at this there is
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chud there's a chud down here coming up
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out of the ground stay
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hydrated there's a lot of good stuff in
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there but I have to return it another
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time definitely a cool really cool spot
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highly recommend if you're into the
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genre and you're in Orlando especially
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near downtown or even make the track
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over from the
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Theme Park area you a tourist come check
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this place out got some good stuff in
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there real a good selection of t-shirts
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too 4805 Colonial I believe is the
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address at least 4805 is written right
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there lurking in the shadows underneath
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the sign Hardon their
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dust doing a little work over here at
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the Winter Park Village where the Regal
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is but they are open definitely don't
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want any chuds crawling out of the
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Winter Park sewer
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system four zombies oh take a look at
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this what is this a werewolf
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werewolf they Wolf the castle got a big
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old skeleton right here and a Banshee
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screaming like
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banshees that would classify as a
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Banshee waiting on a few friends to
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arrive the weather's really nice out
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should be here shortly
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there's going to be a total of four of
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us they're going to be watching the
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movie on the big screen I've never seen
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it in a movie theater before here's a
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photo from 1978 when it played at the
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theater check out the James Bond
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mooner promotional thing above the
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Marquee there too when there's no more
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room in
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Hell classic truck
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alert are probably going to get some
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snacks in the movie but for a meal of
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the day haven't eaten yet so I'm going
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to get some crisp and green they have
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loaded this thing up
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and Bowl wait I'm distracted by this oh
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yeah I just took I forgot to tell I had
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that what was that bowl bow CH girl is
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here Tampa J is here what's going on
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everyone tonight is the night look at
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you with the Pittsburgh shirt on there
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yeah I actually bought this shirt in
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rville Mall okay the Living Dead Museum
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filmed it obviously have either one of
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you seen the movie on the big screen no
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no this is the first time yeah uh it was
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a buildon it's got tofu
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feta
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carrots something a zombie would be
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proud of I think so yeah zombie
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repellent I think honestly there's no
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meat on there so I don't know what think
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a zombie has ever ate
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tofu are there vegetarian zombies maybe
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if it was in someone's stomach Micah has
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arrived wearing a shirt I have not seen
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you ever wear the Halloween 4 shirt you
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know when you were walking up that
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almost from a distance looks like a
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Hidden Mickey but you got to be like way
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away I was like man well it depends on
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how the belly it'll stretch be hi that's
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the way they are you going to get some
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snacks in the theater too yes did you
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already eat we had salad oh yeah but I'm
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going to get probably nachos and oh no
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popcorn and big have you ever seen this
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movie on the big screen before no and
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when that season of stranger things I
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think it was season 3 the first episode
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spoiler they go and see this and they're
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all sitting in the I forgot about that
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do you remember that I do remember that
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I totally forgot that so cool I'm like I
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want to do that so we're doing that
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tonight so we're the we're we're the
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kids from stranger things they are yeah
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welcome to Hawkins in fact they're about
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our age now yeah I think so yeah yeah I
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love the neon in here all the Regals
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have a lot of
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neon oh yes one night only when there's
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no more room in Hell
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dead walk the earth they do not have the
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poster up though it just says Regal 7:15
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we got like how many minutes 3 minutes I
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think we got like 3 minutes the VHS dude
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I forgot I had it my back pocket he's
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taking that up to the the projector
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booth and that's what's going to be
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playing I'm launching this I got to get
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this
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picture theater to all right let's get
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in there here you got Tampa J here you
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got the shirt can I show your shirt yeah
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what's your name David Ortiz David nice
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to see you Instagram David of the Dead
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81 you follow me Tampa oh okay plug yeah
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we were in the Freddy line at the last
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spookie oh okay nice we'll see you in
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there have a good one that's it we just
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did
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it we watched Dawn of the Dead in the
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theater that's right I
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just we made it we did it we survived we
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did not get bitten and right here was
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that was the projector right there
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yeah I just
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realized I think there was like a scene
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or two I hadn't like I think there was
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like a different there was a bonus scene
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put in there yeah maybe
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two have to look that
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up there's three I know there's three
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different versions We saw one of the
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three versions I've seen all of them but
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I don't know which version that was but
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there was I think there was a couple
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things cut out too and then they added a
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couple things in but pretty awesome to
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see it on the big screen is weird each
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side of the theater even that side
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there's
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like little blocked off carpeted areas
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hope we survive this zombie apocalypse
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inside of
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here little pop morning and that's going
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to do it for
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today it was a good day see you in the
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