Having A Diet Cheat Day at The Varsity Atlanta - Dragon Con Parade & Disney / Horror Cosplay Meet Up
Dragon Con 2023
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welcome everyone and it made the woo
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here as a recording of this Saturday
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September 2nd 2023
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Ferris wheel obscured by this tree right
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here in this Banner but now you can see
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it Transportation train
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pulling through town
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Saturday edition of
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Dragon Con
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when they have the Monumental parade
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and
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I believe there is a horror cosplay
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Meetup and a Disney cosplay Meetup and
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also probably will be popping into
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The Varsity for a meal and who knows
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what the heck else it is a Cavalcade of
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goodness and fun here I'm inviting you
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to join me
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shall you piping hot caffeinated
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beverage achieved from my
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DragonCon 2023 headquarters the Circle K
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yesterday they were out of coffee at the
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time well at least when I walked by
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today
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I also would like to check out the
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vendor room today because yesterday was
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not able to get in there so I went with
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that on my agenda too but the parade is
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about to begin in about 20 minutes this
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restaurant up top sells seats for a
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better View
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I think you get a pretty good view when
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you're just kind of like right here
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along the street as well I like to just
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wander the line
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thank you
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there's the witch right there
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one of my friends in The Blues Brothers
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Bluesmobile it looks like they're Back
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to the Future Deloreans and there's Jeff
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they're in the Six Flags guy on the bike
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oh I think the the main car here is
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Marty Croft an HR Puffin stuff
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yeah that's Marty Croft in the car there
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all right
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oh
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shocks in the passenger seat Marty's
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driving
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that's awesome oh check it out too
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Wayne's World Car
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oh nice got a couple of the monsters
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through here too that's awesome
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foreign
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it was just coming to America you know
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him as Joe the policeman from the what's
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going down episode of that's my mama
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well this area a little farther up the
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way here has a nice little crane
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camera they're getting the Star Trek
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cosplay walking through here truth
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justice in the American way
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the Man of Steel my favorite superhero
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love some Richard Donner Superman he's
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running though
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oh there's Megan
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Reagan
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oh terrifying another Leatherface
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here kind of head
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to the hotel so look at all these people
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watching from the hotel rooms
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all the way up
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out on the ledges watching the parade oh
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Abby normal happy normal thank you so
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much thank you Frankenstein I mean
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hearts and kidneys are Tinker Toys
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that's normal we are now walking group
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of us over to the varsity
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tradition if you will
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to get a varsity Burger
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possibly some onion rings fries and
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other menu items what do you have what
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do you have it's about a half mile three
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quarters of a mile walk
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got a whole Cavalcade of people all here
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we've arrived we're all walking to get
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some Chow
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I remember this from former years here
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there's tile work on the side of this
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church
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and down the way is the Fox Theater I
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love the old neon the old
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Marquee and neon
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up there that's on the corner of
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possibly on now but we're going the
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other one
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soothing sounds of sirens
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downtown Atlanta beautiful architecture
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of churches this is the All Saints
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right here
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oh we could have been at Scooters or
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bicycles we opted to walk oh yes thing
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of beauty
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The Varsity it also has a kind of an
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interesting sign there
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and a little overhang the
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protrusion off of the side there and you
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got all the different flags
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a lot of these buildings I think a lot
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of these are newer a lot of these like
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little condos and places have kind of
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sprung up
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is the Olympic torch is still standing
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there next to the freeway this big
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parking garage
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from the varsity as well
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they are a cashless restaurant I will
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not be drinking any
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colds I've stopped drinking soda but
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what will I have what will I have
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probably something that's completely not
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healthy but I've been doing pretty good
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weight loss wise I consider this a
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really horrible cheat day if you will
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these are the hours right here no shirt
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no shoes
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no dice I think it says no Shin no no
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Shin oh I'm good good
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learn and use the varsity lingo scoring
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Ryan hot dog or chili dog is a hot dog
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with chili and mustard ooh
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also they put there's no ketchup here
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oh this is a varsity oranges would that
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be considered a soda a varsity yeah I
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stopped drinking sodas I probably won't
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do that I don't want to I don't want to
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fall off the wagon or get on the wagon
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it's one of those does it get on or off
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the wagon no wagon there's a glorified
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steak you got the Hat it's too big for
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me though I mean it's too small my head
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is too big for this all right it won't
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fit
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that looks fine I'm gonna do a naked
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steak a frosted orange you know I'm
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gonna do two naked steaks no fries all
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right make you feel better I'm gonna
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wear one of those hats awesome look at
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my hair I got like the Superman yeah I
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think I need a picture let's get your
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hat right now
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since 1928 this has been happening two
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miles of hot dogs a ton of onions 2 500
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pounds of potatoes five thousand Fried
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Pies and 300 gallons of chili are made
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from scratch daily that is not total
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that is daily
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that's very interesting
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George Bush Senior right there Jimmy
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Carter over here Montel Williams the
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king and rock and roll Elvis probably
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did not eat here or if he did he didn't
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sign that oh there you go what do you
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have what do you have I'm gonna take the
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take this one right here pick a card any
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card Muhammad Ali was also here
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thank you sir
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the uh one of the original hosts of
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American Idol the other host from
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American Idol from the first season I
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don't know if he's ever eaten here
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it is Ryan yeah not scoring though
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I remember that guy
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this is frosted rice to some people they
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may have been his name but I got my hat
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I got my I can't see your face there you
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go there you go
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you can still do that it's just a
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part-time job I just flip Burgers
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because the Ferrari it's it's expensive
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chicken just back wax in the Ferrari
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actually you got your hat on
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backwards well this is on normal
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they also sell the cans of chili here I
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bought them before but won't be buying
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any extra chili today because I have no
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room carry it in the luggage a fun place
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to eat we also have one in akron's
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Georgia also maybe I could have t-shirt
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I couldn't get a t-shirt I like this and
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they're celebrating their 95th
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Anniversary
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it's a gift shop
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what do I have what will I have
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what do you have what do you have I'll
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do two doubles what do you I just work
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here part-time yeah part-time what do
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you have what do you have I'll have me a
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cheeseburger all right Jeff what do you
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have what do you have yeah I'm gonna go
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bacon double cheeseburger yeah fries and
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a brown Peach pack and a peach pie all
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right what do you have what do you have
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I actually know that I think I don't
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even know what I'm gonna have I gotta I
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think I'm about to have a cheat day well
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I mean you're allowed at least it's
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allowed
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I mean when you're in Atlanta and you
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come to The Varsity it's
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half you have to have Varsity
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it's hard for me to pay attention to
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what you're saying Magna Pi is over this
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shoulder what I don't work here
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what do you have
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I'm gonna have some food what are you
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gonna have what do you have I think I'll
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have the uh what do you have what do you
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have what do you have I'm having the two
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chili Burgers all right was that too
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close yeah I can't tell what this lives
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I can't tell how close I am
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all right you're an expert on the orange
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drink I stopped drinking soda would you
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consider that a non-soda I would
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consider it a nonsense so I can drink
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that according to you give me this
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non-soda fist Bop
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the orange drink according to Jeff is
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not a soda so I'm gonna have that in my
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cheat day oh man
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I think other people are going to have a
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different opinion I can already tell but
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I'm doing it don't worry nobody will
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Express what you can go for it it's the
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internet no one ever expresses opinions
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the internet's Dad don't worry about it
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oh you're right this is the soda
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fountain it's not in the soda fountain
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it's in the they have sweet tea
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you had sweet tea yesterday
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that's not a soda all right I did it
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what do I have I have the orange drink
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and I got onion rings we got six of us
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going to be sitting over at the our
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tables we've got a lot of food coming
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for all of us but I ended up getting the
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chili and cheese dog
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Burger down here onion rings and an
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apple pie Jeff and I are sharing a try
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yeah we got it you got it here we go all
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right they got room for us in here yeah
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squeeze in there Ryan we had the chili
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hamburgers
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yeah I forgot about that I didn't even
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think about it and then Jeff ordered one
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I was like
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oh yeah
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are we eaten here every year and we've
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all been here together I think we have
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just about yeah
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here the first time ever in 2013 this is
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my 10th anniversary of DragonCon and my
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10th I think my 10th time I've eaten The
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Varsity I think I've eaten here every
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year
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I just want to say you guys are awesome
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this is cool it's become one of the
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coolest Traditions
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that mustache needs to be a traditional
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Dragon I think I'm gonna oh yeah that's
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not carbonated no it's juice
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it's not real juice you like it a juice
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let's get this boring huh I've run its
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course eh
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you got Ryan I'm gonna give this to you
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to do the honors again
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onion rings
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the light is way better from there
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perfect
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nailed it
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I have finished my chili dog and I have
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finished my chili burger and I'm about
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to go into the app it's getting a little
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choked up there
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it sounded like I was gonna go into the
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app
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on my phone but no I'm going into the
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apple pie
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fresh apple pie from The Varsity
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right here two different body I have a
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peach pie and apple pie I'm just going
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with the apple pie you got the pizza
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that's what they're known for I'm going
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with the little one with the app
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my mom and dad used to eat here when
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they went to college oh yeah they went
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to Atlanta Christian College
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that's where they uh where they met so
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they didn't be here they ate here now
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I'm noticing Greg you're wearing an
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appropriate t-shirt you're wearing a
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Rydell High School shirt real hard
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because it's very similar to The Varsity
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right you can't be an athlete be an
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athletic supporter this place dates back
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to the era when they had pay phones
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right along here
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phones are all gone
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I think we're all in
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Greg Jeff hey guys get in here
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I don't really know why I'm doing this
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but we're doing it there we go
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how are you don't mind us we're just
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being goofy welcome back to the con now
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whenever I eat a meal like that I
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realize I shouldn't and that definitely
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will put me back on track with why don't
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eat that too often
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back to DragonCon that was good boys
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stepping over into a Disney themed photo
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event that's happening out here you got
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the jungle cruise Dragon Connie here
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very nice
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Skipper there now is that the back side
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of what the back side of water
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oh two h o two h o two H that's genius
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that's hilarious that's amazing Dragon
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juggle Cruise I'm glad you pointed that
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out I didn't even realize that's amazing
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very nice a lot of photographers that
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are here getting the photos right here
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if you can see her she can see you thank
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you
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this is almost as big as the Star Wars
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one yes not quite there was a few more
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over here Star Wars characters
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what if Merlin's gonna start dancing
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like he doesn't magic happens
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three four
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five
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fences with a couple if you want we'll
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do that photo then princess is alone
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he's got a lightsaber the only thing
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better than one dream finder in one
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figment are two dream finders and two
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figments I love it you know there is a
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little bit of wind out here Mr Banks you
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could probably fly that kite if you
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really wanted to uh very excited the
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flight kite let's just go fly a kite up
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to the atmosphere
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oh look at the witch does she have a
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poisoned Apple I think she might uh
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peasant Apple Deary survey says services
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Samurai Miss Piggy all right assistant
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we didn't get to it yesterday we're
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gonna Brave the vendor room
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behind stretches all the way around here
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and then down this direction but I kind
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of think that we go down to the end we
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might have to go around the building
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also
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an undertake all right
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was correct it does stretch all the way
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around the corner what the heck well the
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guy with the fish hat is waiting I guess
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I can wait too are you Fletch I am are
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you Irwin M Fletcher
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yeah very nice all right we have decided
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to get out of line because they go
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inside here and actually let me show
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this real quick we talked to some people
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in these lines and they were saying
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coming the other way we had already
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we've already been in line about 45
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minutes but they waited two hours to get
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to the point we were at coming back the
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other way so we would have another two
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hours and then they had another hour so
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it's probably like a three or four hour
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wait just to get in the vendor room so
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we have decided to just scrap that idea
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yeah this uh that was a little bit more
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of an undertaking than we thought it was
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going to be
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we all decided do we want to wait two
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and a half more hours to get in there
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let's just go to Circle K and get
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another coffee strange things over a
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foot you know
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do you know that this Circle K is the it
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is our Dragon Con 2023 headquarters oh
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right here right here it's the
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headquarters this is it wow
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they have coffee where we get our
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official I'm getting your photo in front
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of the headquarters headquarters
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what's over here you gotta go in this
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door
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it's so popular people are busting down
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the doors to get in here all right the
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Circle K was really really really busy
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so over here at the salad Sushi and
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Coffee Spot Caribou Coffee which is down
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there was really busy too but no wait
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for a little coffee here in the food
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court at a non-coffee place that had
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coffee need a little more caffeine not
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getting in the vendor room today too
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that was insane all right we're gonna go
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back over to the Hilton for the porter
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cosplay Meetup because we can't get into
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the room but I'm gonna take a little one
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of these hamster tubes that I don't
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think I've ever been in before
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right here on the side it's hard to see
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you can see it says someone has written
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the word bacon I also like to point out
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different changes I've noticed over a
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decade ago into Dragon Con in years past
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they would yell at you for sitting on
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those stairs over there and everyone's
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just sitting on the stairs and no one's
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yelling at them
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oh the times have changed all right from
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here and head over to the horror photo
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group photo and I must say there are a
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heck I'm a lot more group photos for the
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horror Meetup this year than there have
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been in past years just a incredible
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amount and some even kind of some deep
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Cuts some ones you don't normally see
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that are
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kind of all lined up on the on the steps
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up here yeah I've seen some some pretty
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kind of obscure what's a pretty common
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placements obviously but then some some
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rather obscure ones
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You Don't See
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a few hundred people dressed up in
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costumes and cosplay for the horror
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genre which I love because I love the
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horror genre it's kind of neat night to
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see nice to see that represented at
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DragonCon 2023. it's represented every
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year but it seems like this is the
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biggest conglomeration of people
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dressing up for the horror genre
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which kind of gets me in the Halloween
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mood because the haunt season is right
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around I mean literally right around the
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corner pretty much all seasons here all
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season is pretty much here this gets me
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in the middle yeah this is uh slightly
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horrifying right here
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all right kind of decided it's about
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time to start heading out stopping by
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the food court once again and I'm
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getting myself a vitamin water power c
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dragon food I figure it's an appropriate
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beverage to hydrate myself to because
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I'm a Dragon Con I'm having dragon fruit
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yeah you know yeah start walking back to
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the hotel got some steps in the last few
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days yeah today I've already walked 19
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000 steps all right Chris and Jay are
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leaving also we had a great time TJ's
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sandwiches Tampa Jason they're good I've
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never eaten them myself but I make a lot
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of money off of them no wow you got a
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little sucker oh you bought one it's
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kind of light but they're heading out
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you're welcome off to other places
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thanks man Your Dragon Con comes to an
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end till next time until next time safe
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travels
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I'll see you in the hot season coming up
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soon soon
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it's good enjoying a chili cheese dog
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and burger with you my friend
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um
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what is that exactly frosted orange
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frosted orange all right that's gonna do
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it for today from Olympic Park the big
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wheel
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but we are gonna the three of us are
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gonna be around here tomorrow and we
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gotta we gotta figure something that
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we're gonna do
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as well so maybe
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I don't know we'll figure it out there's
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lots of options everybody else is
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heading out we are sticking around one
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more day tune in then to find out I'll
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see you in the next video