SoCal Retro Gaming Expo 2019 - Free Play Arcade Overload / Video Game Convention / Cosplay and More
A visit to Pasadena California for the 2019 SoCal Retro Gaming Expo . A free play arcade event and convention with vendors , guests and plenty of photo ops .
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today's adventure brings us to the
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Pasadena Convention Center I need to go
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over here and get my ticket slash badge
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for the event I have been to this
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particular venue on a handful of times
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for different conventions this would not
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as big a sum but it is their fourth year
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and getting bigger with each and every
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one welcome everyone Adam the whoo here
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to the 2019 edition so Cal retro gaming
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expo I'm inviting you to join me shall
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you must head under this archway into
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exhibit hall B don't let the emptiness
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of the outdoors fool you once inside
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this place is big and there's a heck of
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a lot more people roaming around this is
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pretty neat there's an entire section of
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old televisions and gaming consoles that
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you can sit down and play to your
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heart's content
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everything from in television to the
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Atari 5200 whoa there he
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Mario Brothers on Atari check out that
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I spent many hours playing this in my
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younger years Sonic the Hedgehog that's
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a tiny television and a little VHS slot
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you don't see that too often in this day
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and age gotta love the photo opps here
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Mike Tyson's punch-out if I remember
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correctly the key was to block him for a
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minute to have 90 seconds after that it
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became normal but getting through that
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first 90 seconds
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living room set up here with the couch
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some board games of course videogames
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over there on the
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the wooden TV there's a heck of a
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lengthy line I'm kind of wondering what
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exactly all these people are waiting for
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it to the front of it find out there's
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the answer there for these pop figures
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they are going
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quite a few vendor booths lots of items
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for sale check out this television to
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console
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the dread-nots factor I keep saying one
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day I'm gonna end up purchasing one of
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these old these old kits under 35 bucks
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to relive some memories might be worth
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it oh dang check out the power pad down
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here
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and as relics as some of these seemed to
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be this definitely predates a lot of
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them Simon gosh I never could master
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that that I was pretty good at of it I
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wasn't it's never never quite a sign of
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master
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do as he says there's a scavenger hunt
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amidst and Danno here has found one of
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the boxes by finding out what do you get
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some kind of stuffed animal like a
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little Nintendo plushie you gonna trade
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that in for something because we'll find
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out when we get over there yeah
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250 bucks the robotic operating buddy
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known as Rob
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always wonder what it's like looking at
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a television from the opposite side this
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is the best way to find out with your
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head stuck up the middle of oh yeah this
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was probably my all-time favorite
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favorite game legendary wings tough to
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find only six bucks if I had a console I
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would probably purchase a two-player
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looking down type of experience - I love
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this thing legendary wings we detect Ken
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and here's a close-up of a Rob keep that
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little guy yes
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feel free to take it off screen and just
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battle with your battle with your hands
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against your friend
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this is a mobile vendor there's no booth
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just rolling around on this little part
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here is this who I think it is
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johnny-five from short circuit who's
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John he he says smiles in that special
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way
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I think that's how the song goes and
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look at that mr. Johnny Five he's got
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his weapon here on his shoulder
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whoa be careful though you have your
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tetanus shot you think stinky hurts
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maybe you seen Steve her out have you
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seen the gute obviously it's hard to
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pick which one is my favorite part 1 or
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part 2
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the gang scene in part 2 is pretty
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memorable but I don't know part one
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probably went over nonetheless they're
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both pretty pretty freakin amazing
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what's going on with this can here and
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then I get the pun it's a monster the
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monster can right thing that's about to
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chow down on someone's full of bite my
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finger oh those are sharp sharp teeth oh
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my goodness
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get energized by getting bit some sort
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of demonic Game Boy here look at this
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it's like
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no telling what's in here but if you
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have 50 bones get yourself a grab bag
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some retro toys as well that's right
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and then over here
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that's right brother that Hogan and
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Godzilla next to be way up there
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Godzilla looks as if these lost this
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right hand I'm going to attempt the
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world's largest controller Toonami code
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with my finger up down down left right
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left right B a start if a bag is not
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your forte for 39.99 you can get a
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mystery
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chest it's not just a grocery bag style
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brown bagging it it's an actual chest
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800 plus game is reviewed
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the guide 1985 to 1995 hardback style
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exclusive event merchandise is made on
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the spot with the screen printing
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machine
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inexpensive only $7 can't be that hello
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there okay Brooke give me all the
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lowdown of this convention and how long
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it's been going on and the details
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behind it all since 2016 and this is my
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second year actually landing the whole
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thing so there is three people that plan
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it like full-time and there's six people
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on the team and that's it so it's crazy
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like how it comes together and so I
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haven't got much sleep in the last like
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two hours but how many years you been to
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the fourth year correct is the biggest
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turnout so far last year midnight I woke
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up and I was like anyways it was
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something that I wanted to cry so tired
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it's been amazing I you know I love
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everyone here in the retro community
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here in Southern California but then
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also everyone is there a community on
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YouTube
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and I appreciate them so much for coming
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out I ask that's something that's always
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going to continue going for year to year
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next year we already have her like
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intercepts important due for next year
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and we are our keys next year and so I'm
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super excited about that yeah I love it
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so far thanks for talking to me over
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here at this booth there is an
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assortment of different figures
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everything from Freddy Krueger to Hulk
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to a Stay Puft Marshmallow Man here's a
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good one I nearly nearly forgot about
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ghosts and goblins high resolution
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graphics
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former store kiosk Pokemon Stadium he
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put here the car
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rated E for Everyone you'll see those
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too often and
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all right Mario tell us the secret how
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do you stay so fit mushrooms just jump
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up hit the boxes with your head and then
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eat the mushrooms that's the key all
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right I'm gonna do that definitely gonna
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do that in the future in these boxes and
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up on the side of this wall are larger
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versions of the video game cartridges if
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you want to hang them up in your home if
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you so choose one story back in the late
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80s I ended up purchasing this with my
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own money I'm owed a bunch of yards
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around the neighborhood saved up it's
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fascinating because you could fight just
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like they do in a real hockey oh yeah
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that definitely brings back some
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memories
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ultimate enters game I do remember
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like these
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I think you put the cartridge in the
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side here
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I remember stuff like this like back in
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high school I go with fluffy just get
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the pretty computer these I guess used
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to be video games now this photo op is
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moderately moderately frightening this
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one's a little bit more as my speed
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where I can try to pull the sword out of
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the stone oh it's not coming out why are
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you looking at me that way do you know
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the secret to pulling the sword out I
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bet you do
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I can see it I can see it deep in your
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eyes my step now which is a free
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playroom anything in here you just walk
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up to the arcade machine and start
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playing that's if you can find a nifty
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machine here's one Popeye time to eat
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some spinach down the ladder
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I can cut whoa cool
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I think I think we just died that's me
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right there that's here at home go to
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bed
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that's a like I'm trying to dart my neck
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out there and just like dragon Fang
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trying to like oh yeah fight fight fight
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and now I'm gonna like with my tail my
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tail with my
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making the object is to like not only
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God
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the moonwalk
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Michael Jackson oh my you remove Walker
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I'm noticing here in this room there are
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some some treats and snacks
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check these out they're like pac-man
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shapes and then here are some miss
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pac-man get the little bow there I don't
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know where these are from
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I don't know who made them but they are
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food and that was the other thing that
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was important because I needed some or I
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was going to pass out Cheers oh my gosh
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the tongue yeah that's amazing
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slightly terrifying yeah a little bit
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you could like startle someone in their
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sleep what kind of sneak that is there's
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like a flame on the tongue - oh that's
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awesome
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nice
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whoa it startled me who for one reason
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or another the front door of the
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auditorium city auditorium is opened
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step inside is a little music history
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it's a pretty epic music history took
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place right inside there and on this
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stage was the first time Michael Jackson
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performed the moonwalk right where this
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little lamp as illuminating is sitting
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during the end of an award show and
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history was made right here in Pasadena
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very dark in here it's pretty it's
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pretty decent I mean it goes down out of
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focus sometimes yeah you're getting a
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bill but I'm using him I'm filming wet
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movies camera yeah but this is really
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cool man this is real Michael Jackson
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doesn't walk right on this stage that's
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so rad pan over this way just a little
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bit these are made you can see the seats
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you can see a little bit of the yeah
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seats over there yeah but your camera's
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better in low light I wasn't planning on
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coming in here yeah we didn't know this
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was gonna happen
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yeah the doors just open we walked him
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mm-hmm that's awesome
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history was made right here yeah Michael
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Jackson
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did the moonwalk right on this very
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stage right
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I don't think I've ever seen someone
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play a shooting arcade gang this
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intensely before
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as mu under the next member of duck
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dynasty
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this board was going to be a licensed a
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Saturday Night Fever board and it didn't
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work out so so that supposed to be true
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disco
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so that supposed to be Travolta right
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like it would have been Travolta but
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they didn't get like just no fever okay
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we're now going to leave this
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destination and who knows where the rest
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of the evening will will take us maybe
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you know maybe a Red Lion tavern in
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Glendale to meet the Angry Video Game
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Nerd is that where we're going boogie
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that's where we should go does that
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where you want to go did you just think
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of that all of a sudden just thought of
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it all of a sudden also I thought of it
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when he invited us to come there let's
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do it that okay he's just safe okay it's
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closing this says under construction I'm
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gonna push the button wait it's leaving
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without us where do we Six Feet Under
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well this one over here is open but
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there's a cone should we chance it or
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should we wait on that I can be stuck in
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an elevator with you Adam for how long
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that fiver all night okay it's opening
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going up
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is this like a giant and unbeknownst to
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me under this bladder look at this what
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are like a smorgasbord mortgage board of
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sorts how are you going in Wiener
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schnitzel is that what that is I don't
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know try it some sort of haagen-dazs
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no no that's ice cream that's gonna do
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