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## Video: An Unbelievable Scene from the Consumer Electronics Show

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_Published 2013-01-08. Doug Aamoth has covered the gigantic Consumer Electronics Show for years. He's seen a lot of weird stuff. This is the weirdest thing yet._


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## Transcript

I don't know if I can tell this without getting upset, but, so, we're at the consumer electronics show in Las Vegas. It's Monday night. The show doesn't actually start officially until Tuesday, but Sunday and Monday are generally press days, so the the press shows up early and a bunch of the companies show up early. We see a bunch of the stuff before hand before the show floor can get little bit unwielding with 150, 000 people all roaming around. So tonight there wa an event didgital experience put on by a company called Pepcom. The consumer electronic companies show up in this big ballroom. At the MGM Grand there's free food, an open bar, stuff like that.

So I am in this big room, this big ball room and all of a sudden from the other side of the room, I can hear something, that sounds familiar, it's live, but its a song I have heard before. Why is it live? I just kind of hear like, my Adidas walked through concert doors and roamed all over colosseum floors and I'm like. Oh my God! It's Run DMC. And I think to myself, I got an email about this. Something about Jabra and new headphones and Run from Run DMC. So I hear this start and I'm like oh my God that's tonight. So I'm running, I'm pushing people out of the way, I got to get over there. I'm gonna start filming this because it, by the time I get there it's all the way on the other side.

It's going to be a mob. I could just, I gotta get, I gotta get a good spot. I finally get over there, there's nobody there. Nobody knows who the guy is. And to make matters worse, another guy, a guy that like works for the show, or works for the, someone shows up and tells him to turn it down. Run, from run dmc. The run in run dmc, this guy tells him to turn it down. And Run is like okay, yeah, sure buddy I'll turn it down. Guy leaves and Run as he should turns it up twice as loud. And he goes right to I'm the king of rock there is none. Higher. Sucker MCs should call me. Sire. To burn my kingdom.

You must use. Fire. I'm going nuts like yeah, Run. You have [ UNKNOWN ] I'll do it. And then people [ UNKNOWN ] start coming over. And turn, turn down this, and like turn down the speakers and turn them around! [ NOISE ] [ UNKNOWN ] can't hear anything! It's just done! And one and one and one says you know you know OK I'm done rapping. [ NOISE ] Done after like no songs and people telling him to turn it down. The king of rock there is none higher but please keep it down Run from Run DMC. Never seen anything like it, I mean, I, I've seen a lot of weird, crazy, unexplainable stuff happen at sea, yes.

But this takes the cake.

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