'I didn't run for office on a heavy metal platform, ' he says.

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After signing a liability waiver, attendees are welcomed to pop a squat before resting their arms atop a cool, flat metal platform hidden beneath a curved sheath that looks like something you may expect to see in Dr. Frankenstein's lab, not a crowded corridor of the Los Angeles Convention Center.

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The cell is a small, windowless room painted a nondescript beige, with a gun-metal gray floor and concrete sleeping platform.

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