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Hey guys, I'm Alex Farnham

and you're watching Animalist News.

Back in August,
I took a trip down to Minnesota

to check out the internet 
Cat Video Film Festival

I get a chance to hang out 
with Lil Bub and her dude Mike

and to talk with some of the crazy
coolest cat fans out there!

So, let's take a look.

Meoww!

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Meooww!

I'm here with Amy

Amy, do you like cats?

I love cats.

I flew 2000 miles to be here

to share all these great cat videos

with thousands and thousands.
of my new friends.

What do you have to say
about this whole event?

I love the fact that Minnisoda
is the host for this.

I am proud of my State,
so much right now.

So I'm here with Vanessa.

Vanessa, you have a cat tattoo

Yes, I do have a cat tattoo on my chest.

And do do you call it a "cattoo"?

Occasionally, yeah, 
on some social media websites

I might throw out catto.

So, I thought you'd be smaller
in real life

You are Little Bub, right?

Hey guys, look who we found.

we have Mike and Little Bub here.

So, what do you guys
expect from tonight?

Oh, I don't know, I think
Bub's going to win an award.

I think there's going to be plenty 
of sensational cat videos.

I think that's what people
is expecting, right?

Right.

And just, you know,
it's a gathering of cat lovers,

lots of them, I think there's like 13,000.

Hey guys, I'm with Scott,

the producer and creator
of the Cat Video Festival.

So, how you're doing well?

What do you like about cats?

There's a lot of things and I think
in the Cat Video world

what I like about cats is I think
cats don't perform for the camera

and that's partly
what makes them special.

What do you want people
to take away from this Festival?

I hope that they take away
like a sense of community from this

and it's a way of like cat culture
coming together in the real world

which I don't think happens
as often as dog culture

and I think through this,
we found a way to do that

and I like to say is that
it isn't about cat videos

it's about watching cat videos together

and that's why we're doing this.

Things are getting crazy down here,

it's insane.

Meeow!

I'm so...

We are crazy cat people.

Look at our foods we have our foods to prove
it

These are our cats.

Hey, can I ask you some questions?

[No]

So, what do cats mean to you?

Everything. everything

Do you guys have a favorite cat video?

Anything with a grumpy cat.

I'm looking forward
to grumpy cat as well.

She has no idea if she is famous
like any of the cats here tonight

not at all she's completely oblivious she sleeps for most
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of it and her disposition I mean she's
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she's here on this stage in front of all
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these people and she seems pretty
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doesn't seem like she's going to do
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anything particularly grumpy what's the
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main message that you're trying to to
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spread with all of this bub sort of like
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an inspiration people always are like oh
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I feel bad for bub but you don't have to
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feel bad for bub she's awesome she's
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totally happy with who she is and so
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should everyone else did you want to ask
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ask bub a question yeah bub are you
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excited for
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tonight wow guys that was awesome I got
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to tell you I totally underestimated the
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cat fans out there I had no idea that
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many people were going to show up to
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this thing this the show was sold out it
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was 13,000 people and what you guys
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didn't see is that when they started
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showing the actual videos of the cats
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they they arranged all the cat videos
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into different sections like you know
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comedy and superheroes and all that
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stuff and it was crazy to hear 13,000
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people laughing at the same time so if
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you guys like cats you should go next
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year we'll keep you updated on when the
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next one's going to happen and trust me
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it's definitely worth it my question for
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you is what's your favorite cat video
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