Downtown Atlanta - Riding On SkyView Ferris Wheel / Eating At The Varsity / Purple Fountains
Arrived in Atlanta Georgia for 2018 Dragon Con and before the it kicks off this year decided to ride the SkyView ferries wheel , Eat at The Varsity and do a variety of other non convention things before delving into the weekend activities .
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welcome everyone Adam the whoo here
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coming to you from downtown Atlanta
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little area behind these spells out ATL
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short for the city's name and I have
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arrived at DragonCon weekend
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and even though technically the
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convention does not start till tomorrow
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Jacob the carpetbagger out of the whoo
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even though the actual
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convention doesn't start till tomorrow
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there are some festivities taking place
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today
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take a good look as you will not see the
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floor of the Marriott which I refer to
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as the belly of the beast
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this empty the entire rest of the
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weekend and I give it that name because
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the inner workings look like a rib cage
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of some sort of creature and it goes way
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up there very sky-high
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I've noticed a lot of major metropolis
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areas have started to add Ferris wheels
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to their skyline Atlanta is no exception
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I've never been on that thing I think
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it's time not a bad view from up here
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we're pretty much near the top a few
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feet away from the highest point of this
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mechanism directly downtown
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not bad one thing I didn't notice from
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down there is that the fountain makes up
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the Olympic circles Daren tan tan tan
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tan tan tan tan tan tan I noticed on the
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warning signs those who are
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claustrophobic should not be anywhere
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you claustrophobic
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ah just a little a major what about
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Heights are you good with Heights just a
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little nothing major fear you're doing
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good nothing wrong with being in the
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casket in the sky yeah I'm kind of like
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it just put your feet up just enjoy the
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ride or at least enjoy the swaying of
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the bucket because it is now official we
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are at the tippy top of the wheel of
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excellence
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how we're moving well it's making some
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very creaky sounds it makes me want to
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sing wheel in the sky towards the sky
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keeps on turnin you know that yes giving
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a huge vote of confidence with all the
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wires down there just tucked away kind
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of swaying in the breeze there in the
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little nether regions of the nooks and
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crannies just like all those wires are
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just hanging out if we do get stranded
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however spider-man will come to the
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rescue
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that's his van right there what would
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you say the sketch factor ratio is on
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this one compared to other fair suppose
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you've done on this style of time Ferris
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wheel the highest sketch factor that I
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come across it's a little creaky area a
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little noisier than most yeah a little
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creepier little bumpier got some random
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wires just hanging out what was that
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to hear that
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any new brakes and all reality was
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perfectly safe but sometimes when you're
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way up there your mind can definitely
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play tricks on you might be difficult to
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see here in the shade but they have
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placed purple dye in the fountain in
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honor of Dragon Con that's pretty cool
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it's foaming up bubbling purple goodness
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normally it doesn't look like this this
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is a once a year occasion now I'm no
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expert on dye which makes me wonder how
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long will this last before returning is
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to its normal color ization and it
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reminds me of grape nehi
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or kool-aid probably doesn't taste as
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good though because not only is there
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water in here but probably some bodily
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fluids with some of the downtown Seoul
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certainly something you don't see every
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day
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a purple colored waterfall
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pretty neat-looking and keeping up with
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my tradition I can't come to this neck
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of the woods without grabbing a bite to
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eat from the varsity a veritable
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overload of chili goodness is about to
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happen and this is what we're dealing
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with
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look at that delectable gooey goodness
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lathering the hotdog and I also opted
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for a rather small hamburger which is
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good because I went for the double
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action I chose the onion rings and what
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do you got down here same thing a few
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french fries instead I don't know which
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one to choose first
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so I'm just gonna randomly grab the
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closest thing to my hand
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mmm
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and they have a special orange drink
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oh my goodness I don't know the
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ingredients that they put down inside
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that but that is it is a tasty beverage
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and while this is the slogan they are
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most known for I kind of like this one a
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little more it's very catchy and very
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very clever
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what is that but my own can varsity
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chilly oh they sell that you can take
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that the gift shop nice souvenir edible
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souvenir here behind this glass case are
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some of these celebrities who've eaten
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here in this caught my eye a mock-up of
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the famous Beatles album cover
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do you recognize all the cast of
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characters on there there's some
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presidents some comedians and even the
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king of rock and roll we're now walking
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back towards downtown just above the
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freeway traffic seems to be moving at a
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pretty decent pace however I feel as if
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someone is looming over my shoulder at
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the can I help you sir yeah
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information hey guys straight ahead that
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way just go over there all right thank
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you personal space he's like maybe take
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notes next time a few years ago the
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flooring was taken out of the Marriott
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and replaced with this carpet the old
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version has become something of a
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collector's item and I was lucky enough
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to be given a piece by a gentleman named
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Matt who sells the original carpet that
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he got from the floor when they ripped
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it up so I now have a piece of the
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original old school photographed on
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multiple times by cosplayers carpet from
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the mayor
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we have Michael Myers waiting
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for his next victim who will it be oh I
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think he's mean-mugging me staring me
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down
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that's gonna do it for today we will be
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back tomorrow for dragon God didn't show
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too much of the convention guys I'm
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gonna save that for the rest of the
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weekend good things come to those who
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wait that's true and those who subscribe
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and bring that notification about I'll
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see you in the next video