I Went To Busch Gardens Tampa Bay- Howl O Scream Halloween Event / Haunted Houses & Scare Zones 2025
Busch Gardens Howl O Scream
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Welcome everyone. Adam Zoo here. As the
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recording of this, it is Sunday, October
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12th, 2025. I am wearing a appropriate
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t-shirt, Frankenstein versus the Wolf
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Man, because I well, I'm not going to
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HHN, but I'm going to another haunt in
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Tampa at Busch Gardens Hall Scream. I've
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gone to the list the last couple of
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years and I'm going again tonight for
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the 2025 version of Busch Gardens Hall
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Scream and I'm inviting you to join me.
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Probably about an hour, hour and 15,
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hour and a half commute from here to
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there. Hopefully I westbound is kind and
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I'll get over there. I'll see some
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monsters.
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Maybe try a treat. Go through the mazes.
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I believe there are five houses and or
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mazes, some scare zones, possibly a
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show.
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The world is my oyster.
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Don't know how that really fits into a
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haunt, but I meant to say that
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everything there I could do if I so
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choose to. So, I'll see what I can get
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to. I'm inviting you to to join me.
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Warm,
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shall you?
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I made it directly across well on the
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back side of Busushch Gardens. Took me
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about an hour, hour and a half to get
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over here.
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And I stopped off here at Poinsettia
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Plaza
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because I have some memories from 20
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years ago,
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2003, 2004, 2005.
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Played here probably
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30 times in that time frame
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at the former Poinsettia Plaza. Well, I
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guess it still is called by that name.
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But the Pegasus Lounge is no longer
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located here. It has moved. I believe
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it's still open, but have not been to
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the newer location, even though it moved
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a long time ago. But I recall this place
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from
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my days back in a local band, the
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Central Florida area, TNT.
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First called 10 new Toes and then we
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changed the name to The New Threat.
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keeping the TNT
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and just changing the
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changing the words.
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But right there was the entrance to the
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Pegasus.
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A lot of memories here. They changed the
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front of the building quite a bit. And
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if memory serves correct, it's been
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obviously it's been two decades ago. You
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would go in here and the it would
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stretch along here. And the stage was
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set up right here. So the band loadin
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door was here
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and in there was where the door person
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would be.
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So it was one 0 08
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1 0 0 1 0.
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It's called the new lounge now. Tampa's
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hottest bar and lounge.
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Anyway, a little nostalgia was kind of
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washing over me as I was heading to
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Busushch Gardens.
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But many, many times got here early,
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loaded our stuff in, waiting for people
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to arrive. Sometimes they did, sometimes
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they didn't. Sometimes it was just us
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playing for a couple dozen folks and the
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bartenders, standing out here watching
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the roller coasters over at Busch
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Gardens.
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All right, on with the haunt. I'm
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heading in. Wow, the sign's still up
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there. Didn't notice that the first
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time. So, yeah, Pegasus moved out a long
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time ago, but they've left the sign up.
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That is a relic of the past. That's a
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little souvenir of punk rock and metal
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history here, the Tampa area.
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That's cool. I made it to the parking
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area. Just waiting to pay for parking.
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Looks like it's going to be a busy
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night. A little bit of a backup here at
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the
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the parking section.
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Looks like parking is
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35. Yeah, $35.
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Preferred parking 48. 35 bucks for
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standard parking for Hallow Scream Bush
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Gardens. All right. Technically, it was
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37.50 with the tax
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card only. Cash I do I I had 220s. I was
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trying to pay with cash, but card only.
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And everything inside is card only as
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well. So, just a heads up if you're
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coming. Make sure you bring a credit
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card, not not cash.
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It looks to me there's a tram stop right
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over there. People exiting the park that
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aren't going to the Halloween event and
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those that are boarding the tram for the
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Halloween event. Or you could just walk
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directly towards the entrance and the
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sunset. I think I'm going to walk. It's
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now 6:58. I left the 7-Eleven in
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Celebration at 5:00 p.m. Pretty much on
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the nose, give or take a minute. So, it
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took me 2 hours to drive over here and
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to park. I would say 30 minutes of that
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was just the parking. So, it took me an
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hour and a half to get here and then a
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half hour to get get through the parking
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turn styles. All right, decided to walk
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instead of taking the tram. Entering up
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to the front. If they had an opening
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ceremony at 7, I missed it by a few
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minutes, but heading in now. Hallow
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Scream
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2025.
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Also, there's going to be a lot of
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strobe lights, scary images, and
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flashing lights. So, if you're sensitive
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to that, just a heads up. Strobe light
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warning overload. Wristband
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accomplished. Hallow Scream. All right.
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First up is Circus Fear. Also, I
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purchased this for $99, which end up
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gives you front of the line. First, I
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thought this was a scare zone, but in
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fact, it is a haunted house maze. So,
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you got front of the line, fear pass,
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and entrance
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fear pass this way.
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>> This way. Oh, thank you.
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>> This right here.
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>> Okay, sounds good. Thank you so much.
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Clipped it. They put a little stamp on
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it
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kind of like a subway card. Originally,
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I wasn't going to get the front of the
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line, but after seeing the amount of
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cars parking, and I asked at the front,
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they said it probably be an hour wait
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for each house in each maze, just makes
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sense. It'd be hard to get them all done
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in one night without it. So, went ahead
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and did I think I could have bought the
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front of the line online for maybe $20
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less, but I was already here and they
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were selling them.
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Okay, here it is. Got the old classic
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truck here.
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There's definitely a serious theme at
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haunts when it comes to clowns.
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Every haunted house event has clowns and
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this is no exception.
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>> This is DH.
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>> Hello.
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>> Hi. Just wait. Do enjoy. Do enjoy. Don't
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worry, we haven't lost anyone yet.
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>> Three people yesterday.
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>> Okay.
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>> Still early though. It's very early.
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>> Nothing scary here.
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>> Nothing at all. Right.
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>> Nothing at all.
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>> Very nice.
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Got it.
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Oh,
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>> that was a trip. You got me. You got me.
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>> I told you. I told YOU I'D MAKE IT.
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>> I TOLD YOU I'd make it. I did.
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>> [laughter]
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>> Oh my god,
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Clown in a cage.
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In a cage there.
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Oh, [music]
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feel the traction.
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>> All right, that was pretty good. That
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was They had that last year. I was here
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last year, but I think it was a little
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bit better this year. They had more
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scare actors in there,
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>> more jump scares.
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I don't know.
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>> Hello. How's it going?
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>> All right. So, so far
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the front of the line definitely for
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that one was worth it. It's probably an
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hour late. So,
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all right. Over into Saw Grass Slaughter
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Legend of the Skunk Ape. I just saw a
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skunk ape yesterday at Gatorland. Maybe
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he's like over here now.
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>> Is he Is he around the skunk ape around?
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>> Yeah, he is.
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>> He is.
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>> Find you. You don't have to worry about
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finding him. He'll find you.
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>> He'll find me. Okay. He's going to find
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[music] me. Oh, there he is. The skunk
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ape. A very tall skunk ape. Look, he's
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like, you're taller than skunk.
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>> Goodness gracious. He found me.
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>> We're not lying. Skunk ape found me. Now
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he's going back in his little little
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hideout. There's more than one skunk
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ape. Look, there's another skunk a cape
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over here. There's multiple skunk apes
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over here at the skunk ape tour and
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campground. There's another skunk ape
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right here. There's multiple skunk
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capes. Oh, wait. Who's this guy?
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You all right, sir?
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>> Oh, there's an alligator right there.
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Please do not climb on the gator.
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>> Oh, hello.
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>> Uhhuh.
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>> Skunky duties high. Stay on the trail.
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Stay on the trail.
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>> Stay on the trail, mate. Skunk gapes can
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hear you and they could smell your s.
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>> I've already seen two of them.
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>> Did you get a picture with it?
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>> I saw I got a little video.
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>> Would you like a picture?
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>> I can get a picture.
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>> I can bind you up. He'll come out. Get a
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picture with it.
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>> I would love that. Thank you FOR YOUR
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KINDNESS.
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>> LET'S find the skunk.
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>> Let's document this for posterity here.
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>> What am I doing?
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>> What am I doing? I'm going to bind you.
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>> Oh, you're going to bind. No, no, no. I
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don't like that idea. Wait a second. You
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didn't tell me this.
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>> To have you sacrificed I'm good on the
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photo. I'm good on the photo. Thank you,
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though.
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>> Oh, the school game was coming.
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>> You tried to trick me. Thank you. Oh,
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he's right there.
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>> Too late. I'm so sad.
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>> That's okay. I don't need the photo.
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>> Just realized got to go back through to
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go over to a house and a maze that I
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missed. Come out of here.
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>> Got to backtrack.
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>> Oh, these are like some It's like a
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zombie area over here. The zombie right
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here just kind of cruising around. Watch
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my back.
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>> I forgot to feed them.
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>> Oh, you didn't feed them.
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>> They're off their leash.
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>> They're off the leash.
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>> Thank you for
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wait a second. All right. Now heading
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into Stranglewood
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Estates. Got my ticket. Second ticket
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punched here into Stranglewood. I really
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like the front facade of this. It's like
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an old I don't know. It's like an old
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estate. Like an old mansion almost with
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the fog coming through into the fog.
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Look up top there. Look up top there.
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Hello sir.
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>> [music]
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>> knocking on the photograph there.
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Here we go.
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Why are you taking away?
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>> Goodness gracious. It's dark and strobey
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in here.
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What are you looking at?
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>> There's some sort of greenhouse
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greenhouse or something.
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streaming.
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cool. [music]
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That's really cool.
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GOING BACK THROUGH.
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GOODNESS. There he is. There's the skunk
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tape right there. There he is right
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there up close.
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Back through to get over to another
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house. Got to backtrack a few times.
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Oh, they got one. There's a bunch of
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them, but they got one here in a cage
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right here. At least we're safe from
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this one. AT LEAST [screaming] THIS ONE
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can't get to me. There's no way you can
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get out of there, right?
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>> Hi, Coward. [laughter]
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>> Oh, look at chainsaw. Not so much the
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clown.
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>> All right, on to the fourth house.
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Heading over here to Shadows
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of Wonderland. Shadows in Wonderland.
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Shadows through and around Wonderland.
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It's like behind the mirror. behind the
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mirror right there. The big hand.
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The big hand right here. Supposed to
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reach out and grab me.
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>> Oh. Oh, it's just getting evil real
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quick
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through here. Oh, wow.
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What is that?
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>> That was cool. That was cool. All right,
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heading through a scare zone now called
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Ragnar's
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Wrath.
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The wrath of Ragnar.
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>> See what's happening over here. Do this
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little section.
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All right, into the fourth house. Well,
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fourth maze,
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I should say, of the five. Going into
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the fourth one.
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Not really sure what this is. More of
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like an alien type of maze. Oh, this is
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a crash a crashed spaceship
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right here.
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It's a crash spaceship into the side.
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Interesting.
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Oh, that's really cool. You go into the
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side
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of the spaceship. Look at that.
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Windy through here.
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Very windy.
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react to the reactor right now.
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Is this thing? Oh, wow.
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Wow.
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Okay,
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look at that. Goodness.
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That's cool. Oh, and here's more of the
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here's more of the wreckage over here.
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More of the wreckage there. All right,
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another scare zone time. Buckshot ridge.
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I heard some chainsaws. I hear SOME FOG.
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See some fog.
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I love a good chainsaw scare. It's
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almost like going through like a a
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Christmas tree farm of sorts or a tree
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farm.
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>> Oh wow. Be one of the guys that cut the
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trees out. Oh, here we go. Kind
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Or you can turn it off. That works too.
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Out of one scare zone to another. Now
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into breadcrumbs to nowhere. It's like a
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gingerbread house. This guy's like
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welcoming me in.
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>> Oh, this way. Thank you. Okay. Thank
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you.
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>> Yes. Thank you so much. Yeah,
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>> breadcrumbs to nowhere.
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>> I don't remember this one from last
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time.
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Any candy for me?
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>> No candy.
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>> You'll have to make two.
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>> Your time has come.
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YOU DON'T GET ANY FOOD.
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>> OKAY. Thank you.
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>> Is that real?
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>> I wanted some of that though. I was
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hungry.
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>> All right, guys. Okay.
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These are my yuckies. I made them for
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>> They're my yies.
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>> Your yuckies?
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>> My yies.
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Aren't
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>> you just the sweetest?
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>> I'm going to pass.
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>> All right. This is awesome. There is a
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moldama here and you can get a little
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Frankie
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>> souvenir here. All right. Don't
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>> makes it right here with the waxes going
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in there. It's going to heat it up and
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going to get a little Frankenstein's
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monster.
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That's pretty neat. I've seen a few of
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these around the park. I didn't realize
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it was specifically for the event. So, I
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can check out what the other ones were.
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The other ones are
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heating it up. It's molding it. It's
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crushing it together just like Dr.
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Frankenstein would have made the monster
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himself.
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And
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there he is. It's alive.
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It's alive.
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>> Beautiful. Oh, these are fully
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horrifying. Look, a topiary big bird
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right here. Topiary Big Bird. All right,
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over into Raven's Mill. Lambs to the
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Slaughter is the name of this one.
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All right, I now have my last of the
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five punched.
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So, $100 for the front of the line. So,
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basically, I don't know, $20 a
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Oh, someone's doing some calisthenics
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over here. Getting their crunches on.
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That's how I feel whenever I'm doing
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this, too.
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>> I like this one.
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Creepy.
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>> What the [\h__\h] WHAT IS
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IT?
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Oh, pisting on me. Oh, just slapped
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right on my arm. That's disgusting.
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I just got soaked.
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Oh, I just got drenched all down my arm
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from the meat grinder. That was awesome.
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All right, this is pretty cool. Look at
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the old crypt right here underneath
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there. Frankie loves the crypt.
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That's I thought I was done, but
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evidently there's another one called the
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pestilence over here. like a plague is
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taking over like a skeleton right there.
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A pestilence which I think is a scare
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zone but it's also like a like a maze as
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well. So you can classify it as boat I
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guess.
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Pestilence.
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>> He's got a shovel. You got a shovel
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right there.
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Like this. Oh my goodness. What happened
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right here?
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>> Seems like she's sick. I'm going to say
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this is probably not a man.
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That got me an officer. Cop car.
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I like that. Freaky. So, there's another
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moldama with a witch, and I put the $5
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in to get it, and it's it's kind of
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broken. It's like oozing down here, and
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so much of the bottom of the witch got
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stuck with the moldama, the the goooness
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in it. It's kind of stuck to the bottom.
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So, I thought maybe I could kind of
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shake this to get it off, but it's the
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witch is stuck down in there. So, I'm
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not going to be able to get the witch,
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but someone will get the moldama witch.
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But you can see what it looks like right
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there. But this this machine is there's
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no there's no team members around. But
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yeah, just stuck there in the tra
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please.
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We will be returning to all tra stops
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and service in all parking lots. On
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behalf of the world entertainment center
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you enjoyed your visit and hope to see
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you again very soon.
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And that's going to do it for today from
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Busch Gardens. How occasion.
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I'll see you in the next video. The vlog
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is over.