Interstate Shutdown On Way To Free Play Florida 2023- Retro Video Game & Pinball Convention Lakeland
Free Play Florida 2023
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welcome everyone Adam the woo here as
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the recording of This is Saturday
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November 18th 2023 I'm wearing I almost
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say it's an appropriate t-shirt but I am
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wearing a shirt the 80s classic Mac
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andme which is basically ET goes to
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Mickey D's and the only movie The only
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feature film where the real Ronald
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McDonald from the80s
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appeared starting off in just really
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went off on an early tangent there
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starting off here in Celebration Florida
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where they are putting up the Christmas
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decor preparing for the rest of the
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season the rest of November and into
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December I am heading to Lakeland to the
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RP funding Center formerly the Lakeland
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Civic Center place where I saw Nirvana
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back in 1993 on the inudo tour where
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free play Florida is celebrating their
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10th year I've only been once this be my
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second year and I believe this is a new
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location for them I'll find out more on
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that later play some video games see
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some stuff look at some retro goodness
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inviting you to join me oh yes shall you
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the last time I was at this event it was
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over off International Drive in 535 at a
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hotel last year this year it's over in
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Lakeland and I ended up getting a photo
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with ET the
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Extraterrestrial maybe I'll get knockoff
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ET today and get a macin me
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photo I'm going to be on the lookout for
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some macking me stuff
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highly doubtful there will be any though
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but if there is that'd be pretty awesome
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I'm going to get a coffee today no
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lattes I've been drinking way too many
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lattes kind of going off the rails
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lately I'm just going to get a regular
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coffee and hit the road I'm off it's
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beginning to look a lot like Fake
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Plastic ice skating rink endless ice is
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the name of the company they got down
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here yeah one thing about habits I I
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have sometimes I go really good I did a
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thin by Dragon Con thing lost pretty
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good amount of weight
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and then kind of everything went off the
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rails went to Hawaii been celebrating
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October season and now into November
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Christmas Is
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Here a tree here snope will be falling
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soon enough when I get over to Lakeland
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this probably take be about an hour 45
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minutes to an hour it'll be about
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70° 69
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70° gets up to 7475 around 1 now now the
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event will be inside it feels pretty
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comfortable outside but the event will
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be inside so I guess the weather really
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does not matter and this is like the
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first day in the last few days oh I
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think Cool's over there you can always
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tell with the congregation of people
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that are always standing over here if
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cool is out but this is the first day it
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has not been precipitating very
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heavily all that noise you're hearing
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are people construction update they're
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setting up for the season hello there
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cool good to see out
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here Turtle over there in the corner
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too little turtle
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friend moments with
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cool brought to you by Lake
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ryanard enjoy the peaceful moments with
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cool
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theator here in celeration
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Florida little Pikes Place here tiny bit
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of cream of sugar I went with a ventti a
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large I I think it's called a ventti I
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just always say give me the largest one
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I think it's called a vent I'm starting
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to get used to the Starbucks lingo but
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it's right over here on this corner see
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everybody pulled up running to get their
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coffee definitely going to be a nice
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day not bad not too bad I for westbound
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which is I'm going to be getting on
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that going
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west I had to Veer off of I4 because
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they're going from three lanes down to
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one lane so now I'm veered off and I'm
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going to be turning on to Dean still
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Road as a quote unquote shortcut but
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I've been sitting at the light to go to
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the shortcut for like 10
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minutes but I4 westbound pretty much at
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27 westwardly is pretty much like this
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but I think out I after I get off of 27
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and on a Dean still Road it'll clear up
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all right I went up and did a u-turn I
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got out of the lane I was in and tried
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to do a little hack go up turn around go
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up went up to the next light turned
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around going to cross over 27 because
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the light I was at was just a standstill
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so now I'm here getting ready to cross
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over 27 continue on the quote unquote
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shortcut is should be clearing up
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according to what I'm looking at I'm
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about a half a mile off of I4 Crossing
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back over 27 I've basically been at this
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intersection either on this side of the
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intersection or the other side of the
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intersection for a half
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hour H 20 25 minutes thinking I probably
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should have just rolled the dice and
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stayed on I4 with the two of the three
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lanes shut
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down I don't know shortcutting
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achieved even on this little Back Road
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getting back over to I4 is a mess but
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I'm going to probably wager that it's
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even worse on the interstate see
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eastbound is going smooth but check out
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westbound completely 100% shut
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down so celebration is that way series
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of Miles looking
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Eastward and those emergency vehicles up
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there have nothing to do with the
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construction all of the cars that are
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coming off the ramp there was a little
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shortcut that it routed me
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to thankfully I was able to look it up
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ahead of time cuz if not I would be down
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there just
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stuck on Interstate 4
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Westward there's no traffic on the
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freeway look at that what the heck is
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going
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on all right smooth sailing from here on
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in there just wanted to Showcase
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that all right just about over to the RP
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funding Center waiting here at this
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other light take a look at this big bird
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nest here in this tree could be an
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eagle's nest
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perhaps it's right here as you're going
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into downtown
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Lakeland that an eagle nest up there
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also there a pretty neat old building
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here looks like an old mechanic shop of
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sorts this is right next to the old
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Lakeland Civic Center now called the rp5
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in classic car over there in the
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distance I've talked about this before
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but I'm going to reiterate because
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seeing this brings back a lot of
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memories believe it was 93 I'm going to
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look up the exact date but basically I
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was going to see Nirvana and the
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Breeders that were playing here my car
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broke
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down 105 Mi outside of
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town and a officer of the law very kind
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guy took me and my friend dropped us
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drove us the extra 10 miles told him hey
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I really want to go see this band
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dropped us off right here look like
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there's quite a few people
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here all right got the t-shirts over
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here $20 for the T-shirt you displayed
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on the
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mannequin and I got my wristband here
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compliments of spor and Ryan I now have
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my my wristband here is one of the the
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how would you classify yourself as with
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the with the event itself you know it's
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funny uh every 20 minutes or so I change
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the classification but uh let's just say
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it's uh I am the Swiss army knife of uh
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one of the Swiss next a free play for
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like I'm seeing this morning so this is
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like the this is the contest this isn't
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just casual pin Ballers these are uh
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this is next next level Pros these are
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Pros basically it's a full-on tournament
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they got everywhere I got a little q
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line going there when they're waiting
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for their turn all this is next level
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pinball orer here that is a an
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incredible setup here with all the
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different cameras and
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microphones that way they are film that
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can get like some good footage of who is
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going to be the eight ball
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champ and this is the non comp
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competition pinball area all right
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Rick's game room is here also is
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explaining to me that star Castle was
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what this game is the Genesis of Ys
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Revenge Atari game oh yeah I remember
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Crystal Castles I love this I love it
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how you had like the look at this this
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brings back some serious me were there
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more games last year or more games this
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year think about the
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same my uh who are my role play games
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I'm definitely going to get down on some
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pinball today Alles is role playing
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games not the weird stuff lame jeie lame
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Genie so you're a rock band a punk band
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oh yeah we have hardcore metal hardcore
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metal punk band lame Genie I'll check
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you guys out oh there we go you got
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vinyl which one are you on
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here that's
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you okay all right o there's a classic
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Ghostbusters and an elra game right
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there this is dark very nice oh there's
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a Royal Rumble and an Anie that's right
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come on last Action Hero oh look at this
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classic Shack Attack was that when Shaq
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was look say no say no to drugs drugs
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are for losers it says it right on the
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on the side there yeah I think this is
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well I don't know it looks like more
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like Orlando Magic style right there
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definitely not Lakers sha classic 89
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Batman hook Street Fighter they're doing
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a little work on some of them and all
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this with the once you get admission in
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it's all free play that's why it's
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called
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free play because you don't have to put
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coins in it but check it out over here
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there are two mold theas over here that
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you can get mold oras $5 insert card or
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bills you got the magic souvenir maker
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here kind of looking around some of the
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stuff here for Genesis there T2 for
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oo I do not have a Sega Genesis setup
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anymore maybe at some point right now
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all I have is the NES but look at
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Altered Beast it's not working wait look
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who I ran into over here at the Playboy
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game all the way from Atlanta it's Jeff
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you made it all the way down to my
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stomping ground all the way down to
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Florida for 10 years I've gone to Dragon
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Con and you're always a staple there
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welcome to my territory thank you two
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years second year for me here you've
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been you were here last year last year
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on a
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Saturday did I did I see you you came on
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a Friday oh that's what it was today's a
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Saturday okay that makes sense these are
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basically little shadow boxes so you got
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The Great Movie Ride and the layout of
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How Great Movie Ride was Mr Toad's Wild
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Ride 20,000 Leagues so pretty much gone
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from wdw gone from wdw Gone From wdw but
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this is still at wdw oh that's awesome
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action Starts
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Here an that's right on down there come
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on man the avatar game is for sale for
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4,9
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$99 also the
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Wrestlemania also elra for five
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grand this one looks pretty awesome
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Trident right here never heard of this
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one but this is kind of like a retro
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style yeah it's a little Trident like
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King Triton
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style shark in
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there
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I want to own a pinball machine one day
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and they're doing a rock band
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competition up here as well the the
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video game rock band over into one of
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the panel rooms now where they're going
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to hand out the Walter day
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Awards
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please
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just as I said
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he's good
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job you know I'm incredibly humbled to
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be awarded this honor and uh you know
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I'm just some schug who loves a tar you
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know and I've been playing it since I
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was 8 years old and uh you know I just
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want to do my part to make sure that uh
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nobody forgets the name Atari or that
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nobody forgets the amount of work that
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it takes to make you know these video
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games and I really appreciate all the
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folks who um put all their Blood Sweat
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and Tears into creating something that
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is so memorable for us to to enjoy for
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all time so it's pretty cool to see Greg
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re recognize for all his contributions
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to the Video Game
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World all right Greg I got to
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congratulate you man I say you got a
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whole stack of them here yeah limited
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editions so how's it feel how's it feel
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having the award you know like I said
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it's it's very humbling I mean I'm just
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some guy who likes to play classic video
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games and uh I'm just trying to do my
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part to make sure that people don't
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forget about them like I was saying when
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you were up there afterwards I I showed
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the card I have two of these now I said
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if I have any if I need any info about
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video games I always always know who to
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call that's for sure yeah I'm the
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Man pretty awesome man you got a spot in
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the game room for that uh Yes actually
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yeah I put this in a frame you put it
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next to Shatner I that's a good idea put
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right next to you have Shatner hold in
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it oh take a look at the roof they have
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a little lights going on up there a
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little like dance party style up top oh
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a water game I do love some water world
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Kevin Cosner Dennis Hopper of course now
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Water World the stunt show Universal
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Studios Hollywood one of the best stunt
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shows there
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are smokers in the
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distance like some old McDonald's happy
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meal boxes over here but what kind of
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Drew Me In was this couch potato check
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it out it's like a full-size Couch
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Potato next to the Joker right over
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there oh this is from the M universe
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He-Man and all that Michael Jackson
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laser blasters 3D holographic stickers
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dang that's pretty dang awesome right
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look at that it's like doing the rainbow
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and Bartman on board oh that's cool
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Bartman Al a lot of good retro stuff K
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you're going to get the Ronald McDonald
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watch thinking about getting the Ronald
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McDonald that's pretty good oh it's
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still working W how is that still
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working can't be nah okay maybe it's
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just the angle of it looking at it
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that's cool do you remember this uh
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character's name uh Jeff this is one of
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the greatest boosts cash only but look
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at this there Ronald right there they
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got down
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here look at Chris re Superman Superman
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2 here's an old WWF huge oversized mug
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right here and Nikolai volov there the
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iron
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Chic and my sister used to have a lot of
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the My Little Pony she might still have
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you know now there's a whole uh whole
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bunch of people that called Bronies oh
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yeah you know what a bron is that's a a
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bro who's Into My Little Pony it's a
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very well 10 years ago was really
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popular I don't know if Bron still
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exists but thank you appreciate it yeah
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thank
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you volon
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tattoos Weir wow look at this two so you
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just find a lot of this stuff like
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thrift shopping and garage sailing yeah
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everything's garage sales and some
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thrifts remember when you could go to a
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thrift can I get you in the video Yeah
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remember when you used to go to thrift
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stores and actually find a lot of good
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stuff and it wasn't overpriced now it
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seems like there's so much online sales
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that it's hard to find as a bun of good
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stuff you got to dig a Little Deeper
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right you got some good stuff here
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though thank you appreciate
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that little tet oh in the boxes all
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right so over here where the mold matics
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are is it looks like it's working you
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can smell some of the moldamatic smells
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but here's like a whole vast collection
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of the mold matics from all over here
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you almost have like the Paul bunion
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down in there you got like the mummy
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yeah Sean has the kunami code on his arm
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up up down down left right left right VA
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start or if you're playing two-player
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select start the first time I've been on
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the daily wo in been years I haven't
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seen you pre 2020 been a while man it's
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been crazy what's your favorite kunami
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game if you had to choose one I don't
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know man Contra I guess Contra going
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with contra Josh is here as well filming
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for your retro video game channel that's
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right yes retro TV1 T the new one I
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almost didn't recognize you without the
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live streaming stick we had to have the
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gimbal up there
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MTI well you have a chance to be the
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lucky winner Mario is like running
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towards Big R which I cannot tell you
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how how uncomfortable I am um
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you can win go to the back talk to Jen
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J's going to tell you exactly how you
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can wield that multi into your living
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room after fre play FL this is not a
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drill this is not a trick this is not I
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don't think this is for the video game
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CRA this is a different something else
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is going on over
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here oh there's a center there's a
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buffet is that included with my
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wristband
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WR got a little some Star Wars items up
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here T2 mobile vehicle there's the the
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hulkster right there on a plastic lunch
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box just a lot of classic stuff all
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through here you got the turtles all
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right Robert you have something for me
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ad I'm going to see you again man yeah
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hey buddy Robbie retro Robbie retro with
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the Karate Kid shirt on what is this
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that you have for me all right so this
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is a vintage Walt Disney World this
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would been a shopping bag
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that's great yeah I thought maybe it's
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something you uh is this something from
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your own collection it was something
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that was given to me recently and I
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thought maybe it was something you would
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like to have I would love it thank
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you yeah man that's pretty sweet what
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year if I had to guess I would say maybe
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it's definitely wdw cuz you got the
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Montreal you got the riverbat so this is
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a little ND movie ride so it was after
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89 so MGM had already opened it okay I'm
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going to say this is 96 I'm going to say
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this is
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probably early early to mid 96 this I
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don't know I could be wrong on that so
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there notice there's no Animal Kingdom
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on here yet so it was after
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89 where the gangster scene was from a
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movie Ride miss that but there's no
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Animal Kingdom on here which opened in
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'98 at Robbie retro I know all the MCS
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voice Robert is a public speaker Bel up
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Robert
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funny lady you remember funny lady
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that's the
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one so or or I would also accept B
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Midler The
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Rose Lottery by B Midler did you know
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that that was filmed at Hollywood studos
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this weekend feels like we're going back
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in time feels like we turned back the
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clock a little bit feels a little bit
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like
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1985 I uh was just reading that on this
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week in 35 years ago The Land Before
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Time and olivar and Company opened on
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the same weekend W that's 35 years ago
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1988 on the same weekend Land Before
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Time an Oliver company opened on the
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same weekend a that weekend I was a
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pizza H getting The Land Before Time
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puppets or maybe I was at McDonald's
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getting the Oliver and Company Christmas
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ornaments maybe you were
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to what's
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that yeah Oliver and do yeah I Remember
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The Land Before Time puppets The Land
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Before Time they would talk like that a
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puppet yeah you still got them still
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have them yeah I'm in there great how
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cool Power Glove here I love that I love
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that look I always wanted a power glove
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I I never had one I had to you know use
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my friends and I think we did Duck Hunt
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I think we played duck hunt on but I
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wanted to be that cool guy in The Wizard
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what are these you brought
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these you brought these boxes yeah did
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Guys these are just given to me same
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people that gave me back man why do you
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have them stored underneath the stage
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like I like when you have your hat
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pulled down you kind of remind me of Jim
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Lindberg from
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Pennywise I think that's good what he
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was going for I remember this this issue
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oh my gosh remember that game is that
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your heart pumping you're so excited
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because oh it's no it's a video
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game did you see the guy walking around
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with the Power Glove no I did noty he's
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sitting right over there s right over
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there he's got
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I used to have one of those I don't know
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what happened to it but yeah like figure
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out what year this was from oh my gosh I
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deciphered it I have an idea based on a
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couple clues what year do you think that
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was you can open it up I'm going to say
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1986 85 wrong okay and I'll tell you why
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this is the clue there's the clue I'm
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going2 it's got to be 90 or 91 okay
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because well I said 96 I was thinking
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maybe for the 25th it could have been
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it's between 89 and '98 because there's
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something that's not on here what's not
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on there there is no Animal Kingdom on
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right so you're saying 91
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922 got the original logo you can tell
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though cuz I think with the 25th
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anniversary they had special bags for
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that and they had the cake no we would
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have a cake over Castle was 96 97 9697
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96 I have a photo in front of the castle
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I I talked to a guy the other day who's
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company actually helped make that
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Birthday Cake Castle really he's like
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yeah he was like a lot of people hated
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it but I was like you know it's an
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important part of Disney history I liked
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it now they sell the Retro shirts oh
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yeah and they had that app on the phone
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where you could take a picture in front
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of it right look at everyone's like
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enamored with the bag there I like it
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Greg what year do you think this bag was
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if you had to get looking at some Clues
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here um based on some Clues give me a 2
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or three year estimate
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86 man everyone's going 80s impressive
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is it much later than that oh Earle
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Tower so well if that if that if this
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came out the same year as Hollywood
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Studios that would be
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89 that's what this I say 96 they say 91
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92 is you're saying 89 you might be
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right this might be a late if this is a
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if this could be like the first edition
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of this bag with the uh that's true you
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might be right I think Greg might be the
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winner on this one I could look it up
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but I think I'll just wait and not look
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it up yeah Google uh lens yeah trust oh
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there's a Google Lens yeah you take a
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picture and it tells you all the
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information about what's picture you can
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hum into Google you can a song I always
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trust the internet yeah for sure that's
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pretty cool though yeah all right I
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focused on this way too long it's like
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literally 5 minutes of my episode and
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I'm not going to edit any of it out
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pretty cool though 80s trivia go for it
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with Robbie retro all right back to the
25:18
future too oh come on everyone everyone
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here knows that it's
25:23
89 it all right box office I can I say r
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come back for do at the time highest
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roing opening weekend ever it had like a
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40 plus opening weekend there we go but
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it would only go maybe 118 million 120
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million box office okay
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platoon
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ooh you're right I don't I don't know
25:44
the
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answer I went from easy one to one I say
25:49
did well must maybe close
25:52
to1 okay how about how about Ma and Ma
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and did not do well unfortunately I
25:57
don't even know what 10 million I think
25:58
it did under 10 million 91 92 no no ma
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was uh great 88 I think so 878 big big
26:07
top kwi i' it up uh 88 it didn't do so
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well maybe 20
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million we can pull those gr up Secret
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of My Success very
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well that was a big hit for Michael J 87
26:26
Gremlins to so it did okay 1990 summer
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90 and that's going to do it for today
26:41
from free play Florida 2023 the sky
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looks really beautiful here at the
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Lakeland Civic Center Now call the RP
26:49
funding Center it was a good day saw a
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lot of friends caught up with a few
26:54
folks saw some stuff did some things
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played some
26:59
pinball and enjoyed lak the sun soon to
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be setting you can see it just off there
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in the distance and nice little
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Sunburst so it'll be setting soon thanks
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for watching I'll see you in the next
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video the
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Vlog is over bonus
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footage oh
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I4 oh I4