My First Time at Mad Monster Party 2022 Horror Convention in Concord North Carolina - Cosplay & More
Mad Monster North Carolina 2022
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today's adventure brings me to the
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outskirts of charlotte north carolina
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to the concord
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convention center
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i'll be attending
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mad monster
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i had trouble pronouncing that mad
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monster
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2022
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i have never attended this particular
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convention
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so i'm excited
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as a recording of this friday
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february 18 2022. welcome
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everyone michael myers talking on a
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nightmare on elm street phone here
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welcome everyone adam the woo here and
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also
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this has been a fun week a little more
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than a week
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scott on tape and i have been kind of
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spending a lot of time yeah this is the
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last day of our excursion together you
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hear the crowd cheer in the background
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watch it
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yes we've been together for about 10
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days now we've had some filming we've
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had we've had some laughs we've tried
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some coffee i've deleted some footage a
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lot of footage um you're going back to
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florida i'm going to uh be going on
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things but big announcement yes i rented
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a house next to you in florida
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and you're driving me to phoenix
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you've never been to this conference
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okay anytime this is the day of first
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and sad endings yes my first convention
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i'm very excited
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i said we i said we should end this
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crescendo a horicon with a bang and i'm
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cosplaying bert
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join me
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shall you
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and the convention center section is
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adjacent to where the rooms are here at
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the embassy suites now i'm not staying
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here
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but it is adjacent and i don't think
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i've ever seen
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for the you know a convention like this
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where they put the
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the banners all along the side of all
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the vendors that are going to be here
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that's pretty neat that's a pretty neat
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idea
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look at the roof up here
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i've heard good things about mad monster
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expo mad monster party now technically
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it doesn't start till 6 pm it's 10
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minutes after five but there's already a
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line
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starting to formulate
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oh don't don't try to hide todd don't
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try to hide go on adventure
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not an adventure todd you're already
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running into you have quite you were
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dressed
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you were addressed to the nines is that
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always dressed in the red suit it's kind
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of my thing
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and
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uh i'm pleased to run into mr adam the
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woo i've been watching him for
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man it must have been your what nine ten
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years at this point have you ever been
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to mad monster before uh uh all ten
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years i've never been here so this is
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this is already quite a few people are
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it's a great convention run great the
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voters are very friendly and uh all the
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celebrities are always nice the vendors
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are awesome nice thrilled to see spooky
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squirrel stories is your book all right
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check it out good to meet you yeah there
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is quite a congregation of people here
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waiting for this to begin this is going
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to be a this is going to be a good time
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probably already at least 100 or more
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people in the lobby hey never know who's
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going to show up here you got your
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ticket
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your ticket ready
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okay good good to go i'll see you in
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there
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all right i got my wristband here mad
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monster today only i'm only here for the
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one day and look at the
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magnitude of this noggin right here
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look at this look at the eyes right
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there don't stare too deeply
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into the eyes with the banner above it
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there yeah it's kind of silhouetted out
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by the sun that is setting behind it
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through the window
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this this is i don't know so you see how
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big it is with the car going
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behind it there oh goodness this thing
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is moving this thing is called the
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phantom
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right there look at this it's got this
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little like lantern here this is the
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phantom and still got a few more minutes
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before the doors open i got my you
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heading to the convention
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all right i'll see you in there make
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sure you get your wristband i got mine
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george so i got 20 minutes you already
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got it all right
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still got about 20 more minutes oh here
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we go
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just don't ask me if i want to play a
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game please
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do you know my name
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you know my name
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i don't like that you know just don't
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just don't ask me to play a game please
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okay update there's now three minutes to
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six and look how long the lines already
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got my wristband you gotta get another
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line that stretches all the way down
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here yeah it is a real beehive of
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activity
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three minutes to six
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all right i've stepped into the main
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vendor up the first uh these gentlemen
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here walking by here this guy has some
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sort of and the first booth i see i've
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been looking at this i went to another
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convention a few months ago and they
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didn't have it
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but they now have
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new york ninja on blu-ray i think i'm
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gonna this will be my first purchase
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of the day yeah
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i've been looking for that for a while
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oh over here is i think this is grandpa
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from texas chainsaw right here and here
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we got a critters too this is tom devlin
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monster museum it has a he has a booth
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here now i still have not been to your
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place in vegas give me a little heads up
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on what you do so i'm tom devlin of tom
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devlin's monster museum and what we have
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is a walk-through attraction that is
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catering to providing history and
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education on practical makeup effects
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and monsters oh here we go
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coming around spaulding's coming around
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house of a thousand oh you got your
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sledgehammer down here yeah watch where
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you're pointing that sledgehammer
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careful
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don't run around the corner hit me in
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the head with that thing
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i love it oh
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you're going to chop me up and feed oh
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we got ghost face back here
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and this gentleman here's got a mat a
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gas mask on we're gonna do a little
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shopping over here at 13x we got rick
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over here
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i have never seen you in north carolina
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yeah man this is uh i've been coming
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here for three years mad monster it's
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one of my favorite shows and here is the
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merch table specifically for
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mad monster right over there you got all
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the the t-shirts and whatnot and posters
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along the wall
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as well maybe i have to get one of these
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before i leave so this is the show shirt
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this is the show sure the specific to
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each show we make an arm for that this
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does glow in the dark so is this
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specifically for this year this
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specifically for this show's first time
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it's available okay um yeah if we do
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have them left over after we hit arizona
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right now they're getting produced so
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you do one here and then one in arizona
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we do a show here um hi
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um we're doing a show here um this time
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of year weekend and then we do a show in
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arizona usually around fourth of july
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phoenix um and then
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and that is going to be the last weekend
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in august um so if you're looking for
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any
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kara halloween decorations that's a
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great time to
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this is this is specifically this is
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specifically for this brand new for this
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one yes and this madam monster that i'm
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wearing um that we have here oh my damn
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the damn monster nice yes okay i think
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i'll take i'll get this one okay what
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size and to carry all my stuff i got
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this ramones inspired
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bag as well i'm just gonna continue
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walking i've only made it down one aisle
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so far
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yeah there is there's still a lot oh
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he's waving me over there he's got the
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finger there
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saying oh hi
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pulling me into your
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horrifying tractor beam
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aren't you sir
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have you seen norman around anywhere
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mother have you seen norman this is not
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my mother this is this is norman's
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mother go and take a look down here
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we've got some gremlins
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we got some critters
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all along here and we also have
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leatherface
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up top some of this thing would make
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some very interesting house
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decor like imagine having this on your
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kitchen wall
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quite the conversation of course that
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they live
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and an assortment of other
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other heads along the side
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yeah quite a few people here pretty good
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pretty dang good turnout
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honestly
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we got a christmas krampus in here
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is it
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oh
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goodness i don't
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may have lost his calendar and with just
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like a lot of other conventions there
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are some celebrities here
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signing out autographs as well they got
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their booths all set up and tables all
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set up kind of scattered through
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the
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oh we have michael and ghostface
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partnering up teaming up you know you
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guys gotta got anything planned let's do
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some damage
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okay
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awesome thank you james cooter cooter
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okay i mistook you for someone else i
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thought maybe you were leatherface does
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the chainsaw work it does but you're not
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using it yeah okay so cooter you have
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some eyeballs here
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you got some got a necklace made of
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eyeballs and you have some over here on
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the arm you have
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some barbed wire all right
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all right cooter nice to meet you i give
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you a fist bump yeah all right now have
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you purchased whoa have you purchased
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anything good so far you're gonna take
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home like a little souvenir for the wall
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or anything like that
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not yet you know some people around here
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their limbs look kind of good
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my lips yeah
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all right all right cooter i'll see you
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later all right good to see you have a
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go this is a very decorative little
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little throw rug that you would have you
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know when you're on the couch you don't
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have to go to texas
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for a chainsaw pieces this is just like
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a little something you can put over you
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oh goodness that's awesome wow
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that's so cool
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this is pretty cool over here this
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t-shirt stands got a lot of really good
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stuff but check out this shop s smart
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bag
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that's good from from army of darkness
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love that all right stepped out into
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this hallway now there's a whole other
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corridor
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through here as well with a lot of
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vendors and boosts and
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ghosts
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oh it's just the grimm
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are you the grim reaper maybe
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just maybe maybe
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okay i haven't seen you before adam the
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woman the grim reaper knows who i am
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okay and have the sickle is that that's
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called a sickle right
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it's called a scythe right a scythe
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okay with a lantern there
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i'm a little uh discouraged that the
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grim reaper knows my name oh trust me i
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did all right well carry on grim reaper
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you might see another one roaming around
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somewhere oh and freddy has arrived
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freddie krueger is here straight from
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the boiler room freddie yes all right
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freddie well have fun out of the board
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stay out there as long as you can it is
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toasty down in that boiler room i've
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been there hello there
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oh he has bite to laugh there oh there's
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a clown holding a box and a cage with
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another clown and there is another
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sickle is that a bear on top of your
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head it is it's a bear head
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so what do you think about your first
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horror con there's a lot of people oddly
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dressed and then there's the cosplayer
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yeah
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oddly dressed people and then cosplayers
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everyone what is amazing
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it's ages like i don't know
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young to old yeah like six year olds
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right
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is it better than you thought it would
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be yeah awesome and seeing
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my childhood crush and ex-wife cheryl
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and fan over there oh right over here i
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don't know what's going on over here but
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this says eat a worm what do i have to
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do eat a worm and i get a prize yeah
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uh yeah i don't know sometimes it's real
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ones sometimes it's gummy worms but you
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don't really know until you pull it in
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chicken you really do have a piece of
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chicken it's really good is it tasty
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chicken it is tasty chicken
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all right
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i saw you earlier but i didn't realize
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you really had fried chicken
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get the fried chicken
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all right let's see jack torrance
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walking by over here and another reaper
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walking by another
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leather face and freddy there he's doing
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some shopping there's michael michael
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white might want a mask
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he's already got a mask but he could use
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another one you can never have too many
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guys tonight
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and another michael coming up i don't
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know who's the real michael he's got the
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walk people dies tonight
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oh how's it going man look at this clown
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over here yeah i don't know what's going
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i don't know what's going on over here
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but something's going on
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something's going on over there that's
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horrifying we got the hell razor box
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there nice i just went to the hellraiser
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three spots you know that was filmed in
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north carolina
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so just be careful with this thing
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because this thing is very dangerous
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you're a demon yeah
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you having fun
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so which one are you eyeballing which
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which one of these do you think you
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would make a nice souvenir
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from here
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right here this one down here absolutely
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oh okay yeah that would be uh that would
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be something you could just hang on your
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mantelpiece above your fireplace the
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outfit though give me i'm drawing a
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blank you have the red rum
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i'm trying to blank you got the got the
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machete
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you got the the robe
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why am i drawing a blank on this
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it's just something i threw together you
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sent me through together okay i thought
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maybe that was like a jedi voorhees
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yeah but it's just something he threw
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together right i thought i was my mind
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was playing tricks and i didn't i
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couldn't picture what it was i don't
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know but i thought he was about to eat
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your face off
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it didn't happen thankfully
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thankfully that had not happened but i
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can see your imagination
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where can it work it's working
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oh here's a whole whole crew of clowns
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walking through
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hello there
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it's like a parade
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of clowns through here yeah there's a
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definitely a lot of good cosplay
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this evening
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this gentleman right here has a license
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plate over his nether regions
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right there right over here see
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cheers
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and i'm just realizing these are screen
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used
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from
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full moon right you work with full moon
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blade the iron cross so you made these i
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made those yeah very cool this is from
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critters down here that is yeah that's
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not screen news though that's just my
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that's your artistic rendering
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i love it so did you make these these
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two these uh no those are from trick or
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treat studios but because i've done the
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last three puppet master movies i sell
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the yeah i sell those masks like crazy
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that's cool how far are you from vegas
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like if people are in vegas how far up
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is it from vegas
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off the street
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not far at all no one exit past
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henderson okay excellent and you can see
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grandpa an artistic rendering of grandpa
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from texas too texas chainsaw too
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do you have him in your museum sometimes
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yeah we have a full room of texas
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awesome and you did a movie called
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legend of the sasquatch sand squad sand
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squad i got a desert sasquatch i miss
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red it's hairless is it it looks like
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this
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oh that's right you got boyd coffin in
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there yeah you're like a he's got a
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little cameo a cameo from troma what
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exactly are you on the lookout for if
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you had to bite if you're gonna buy
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something
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oh some of these masks over here
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you know oh you're you're on the lookout
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are you for
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you're human not for
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you know grandpa's behind you grandpa's
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behind you right there
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yeah grandpa's over there say grandpa
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not interested in grandpa
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all right well carry on good to see you
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oh he's in a hurry there in a hurry okay
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you have some sort of a a knife
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a cleaver yeah my name is buford the
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butcher and i'm gonna chop you up and
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feed you to my family
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you're beaver the butcher beaufort the
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butcher beauford yeah
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beauford the butcher and you're gonna
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chop you're gonna chop me up invade you
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to my family
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do i have to agree on that or no you
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don't get a choice there's no waiver or
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anything there's no waiver for this you
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don't get a choice no choice at all you
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have the you have the bib on here
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there's like a cooking bib this is my
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apron the apron here yeah all right well
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i don't really want to agree to that but
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you're not getting a choice in the
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matter i'm not getting a choice in the
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matter
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okay all right well okay i'm just going
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to step away now is that okay yeah all
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nice talking to you
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good luck tonight
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finding others oh here's here's another
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jason
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crawled out of crystal lake for the
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i like that nice
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all right carry on jason
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can you do mine too
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awesome
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i've got the saw his family on there
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leather face there look at that
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that's awesome part three
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[\h__\h] that's sweet
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all right i think it's about time for me
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to start winding this down and heading
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out a fun evening
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here in concord outside charlotte north
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carolina get the crystal lake sign there
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there it is
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nice
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awesome thank you
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oh there we go good to see two last
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happy clowns or evil clowns
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evil clowns
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okay youtube i'm on
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i am on youtube sometimes
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i'm jacob the carpetbagger
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and look look you look me up
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oh and here's ready
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did you come out of the boiler room
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you did it's hot down there i know in
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the boiler room oh i like the laugh
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and speaking of
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you're gonna get a life-size stand-up of
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both of them together here i've already
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got my bag full of items that i
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purchased but oh
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from return oh ghost face over here
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relaxing
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just taking a day off testing the rest
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taking the rest of the evening off
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show me how you stack and that's gonna
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do it for
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today from mad monster friday edition
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from concord outside of
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what just happened i don't know but adam
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filmed me filming it's our last time
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feel me i want to be honest
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we are departing that's it i'm heading
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back to florida i'm heading down south
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to canada no wait i'm heading down south
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it's been a fun week 10 i lost track of
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how many a week 10 days 10 days 10 days
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what's the 10 days yeah but who's
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counting yeah but thank you adam for
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having me on the channel scott on tapers
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love you and uh yeah i'm going down
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south as well film more videos to canada
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now to canada down south decath the
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walk-off and also todd venture i'm going
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to east canada other side of charlotte
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check out his channel
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i thought you're going to canada nope
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why are you still standing here i got oh
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the dramatic walk-off i've got four more
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weeks down here in the south
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oh yeah you got a pretty mouth
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you got the vlog
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i got to show what's in here too but
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it'll be bonus footage the vlog
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is over oh as i'm
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heading back to the car todd just
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informed me from over there he says look
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at the chucky in the second from the top
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window
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how much
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is that chucky in the window
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and here's my merchandise haul if you
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will
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we like scary movies mad monster
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i got the sticker the tom duflin monster
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museum sticker i got the mad monster
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ramones spoof i guess the tall man from
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phantasm right there i also got a few
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blu-rays
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that i do not own yet some obscure
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titles and of course this i've been
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looking for so got some good items here
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a nice little evening
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hey mister my last night
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in north carolina
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okay are you on the youtube mister