Kansas City Roadside Oddities & BBQ Nachos- Castle On The Vine & Sea Monster / Summer Road Trip 2023
Kansas City Summer 2023
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welcome everyone Adam the woo here
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as a recording of this it is Saturday
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July 15 2023
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I've gone to Kansas City standing on the
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corner of 12th Street and Vine
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which the sign
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that signifies that historic place from
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the song
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maybe one of the most famous songs about
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Kansas City
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1600 East wide and 1200 South 12th
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Street
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was the site
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of the plaza the Kansas City Plaza which
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is no longer here you can see it's just
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a park now
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but those
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words were immortalized in the song and
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covered by many many artists
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I'm inviting you
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today to join me as I go to a baseball
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game at one o'clock that was delayed
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yesterday because there was a tornado
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warning there was really bad weather
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they scrapped it they postponed it till
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today I was going to be heading out of
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this morning early but I'm here another
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day
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to watch the race wearing an appropriate
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hat take on the Kansas City Royals go
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into the game they're playing a double
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header probably only going to go to one
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just because of the delay the
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postponement wasn't planning on being
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here but we'll just see how the day goes
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but before that that will be way later
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in the episode because I want to do
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stuff around town before heading to the
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stadium and just see some stuff I've
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never seen before or haven't seen in a
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long time I'm inviting you to join me
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shall you very creative that the parking
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spaces here are piano keys
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kind of gives a little homage to the
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musical history and the song also some
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piano keys over here and the lyrics
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to that song
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right along here they got a crazy way of
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loving there
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and I'm gonna get me some
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I'm gonna be standing on the corner of
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12th Street
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and Vine
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with my Kansas City baby in a bottle of
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Kansas City wine there's the sign
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and this is what this place used to look
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like
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12th Street rag right there it's got
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some flies on there
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and this is the area before it was all
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demolished torn down
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and now it's just a park
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Kansas City Main Kansas City's main drag
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right here
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Commerce and pleasure strolled hand in
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hand Downs Trout Street 12th Street
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which sported a host of clubs saloons a
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music places taxi hall clubs and Grand
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theaters
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the song was written by Jerry Lieber
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and Mike Stoller saw in Kansas City put
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12th Street invite on the musical map
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pretty dang cool also notice the musical
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note here
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on the ground
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and the piano
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where the buildings used to sit
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this piano with more keys
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see if there's a little information here
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during the 70s 12th Street and Vine
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became a product of urban renewal
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the land clearance Redevelopment
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Authority leveled most the neighborhoods
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surrounding 12th and vines part of a
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city-wide rebuilding effort
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except nothing has been rebuilt
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on the spot well I guess over there
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there's some
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apartments and houses 2005 grand piano
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shaped Plaza celebrates the intersection
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the piano Monument base nestled in the
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heart of a treble clef the center of the
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park serve as a platform for a feature
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sculpture embodies of spirit of the
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street corner a few blocks away a few
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city blocks away
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is the Kansas City fire station number
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11 very unique architecture right here
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the station itself is the same sort of
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brick and rock well not brick but Rock
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that is next to the castle that sits
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adjacent to it
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as well as this row
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which was a department of some
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Street Department I'm reading the sign
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from here it was the former Street
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Department over there
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it's now been repurposed and fixed up
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into something else
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an 1890 fire chief George Hale
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authorized by the city to form host
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company number 11. first all black fire
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company
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in the area
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now it's a studio here
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2033 Vine here's a photo
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of what it looked like back then with
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the crew out front
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a castle I was referring to
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look at this thing this thing's
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beautiful
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it's got the tower out front
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all fenced up
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it says construction zone but I don't
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know if they're doing any construction
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in there
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Castle on the vine
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so it is being renovated and will
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eventually
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let's hope that happens
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I know there's other buildings
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in this area
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that say they're going to open up and
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they just never do so
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hopefully this is not fall to the same
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fate
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got the train going by there
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just missing the tail end of it
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oh I see some sculptures over here and a
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sea monster
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in this area about a mile from where I
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just was
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very interesting I see some animals I
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see a squirrel
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I see a bunny rabbit
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what else is over here
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okay
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this gentleman
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here that they're making different signs
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so this one's labeled M on the shirt
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the long beard and fashionable glasses
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this bunny has the e
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it's got to spell out something oh it
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says welcome
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spells out welcome people playing tennis
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over there
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I know that's actually pickleball which
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is kind of new version of tennis
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they're doing different sides
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that must be the L
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yeah L and this is the c
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that's the M the fingers down like that
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must be the E and adjacent to those is a
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Kansas City sea monster and a pirate
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ship right there too and this little
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this little area so you got the sea
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monster attacking the pirate ship you
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got the tail and you got those little
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unusual sculptures over there
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and a beautiful Church off in the
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distance
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it's kind of like the Loch Ness monster
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of Missouri
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look at this nice terrifying well not
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terrifying
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from a distance it'll look terrifying
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but when you get it kind of close it
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just seems like a a happy monster
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maybe not it's maybe not going after the
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the ship at all might just possibly be
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trying to make friends with those on the
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ship even though there is no one on said
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oh there is a bees nest a wasp nest up
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there this is a real beehive of activity
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right there look at that that is not
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good there it's like that's the real
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life honeycomb hideout
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that those are wasps I don't think those
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are even those might be bees look like
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wasps
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that is not good
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okay the seed monster must just be
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staring intently
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into this wasp nest or bees nest
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I don't want to get too close I don't
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get stuck it's an interesting building
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it's like a little lookout tower up
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there
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just waiting here at the light to get
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over to the next destination probably
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offices or something
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all right this is something you do not
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see every day a big airplane ramping off
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taking off into the heavens into the sky
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right here next to a coffee shop The
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Roastery air roasted coffee Don't Mind
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If I Do
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kind of getting some like Rocketeer
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vibes from this in a way
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I don't know why it just kind of
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reminded me that and I thought that this
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is anything modeled after the rocket
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Disney's Rocketeer but
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there is a freaking airplane taking off
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I'm gonna park right over here look at
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this
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that is how coffee makes you feel
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sometimes it is a good
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interpretation there or a good I'll call
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it a mascot
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but that is a full-size plane
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going up the side of this ramp kind of a
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newer building
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Isn't that cool
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see the propeller there you see the
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wheels
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I mean that's not some model playing or
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a recreation that's the real deal right
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I like this no truck sign there's a
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truck going right through here I like
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the style of the houses in Kansas City
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as well
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flying aircraft proceed with caution
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it's hot outside you deserve a kohlberg
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don't say that word it's like saying
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decaf just as bad
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piping hot Cafe
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you have some of their cold brew and
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cans they've got a Nitro version so this
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video I asked for just a regular coffee
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and they said everything's got a little
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flavoring this one has notes of
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tangerine and Peach I believe but they
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said you could barely taste it so I'm
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gonna see what happens
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caffeinating KC Kingdom
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I like that I already had a set but I'll
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have another one for the camera
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it's pretty good
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I don't know how I feel about the
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additional flavors in there it's not
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real potent it's a it's kind of mellow
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but I guess the best way to describe it
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is I'm uh I like less less
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artistic
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items in a coffee this seems like an
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artsy coffee I'd just rather have like a
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base a pretty basic coffee guy but it's
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pretty good put a little bit of a little
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cream and sugar in there just a little
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bit one packet of cream or one packet of
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sugar and a little bit of a little bit
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of cream
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but you can't really taste the other
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flavors too much but it's there
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it's noticeable but nothing like oh
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nothing overbearing
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this however
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is incredible
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caffeinating Casey Kingdom
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The Roastery cheers many years ago when
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I started my YouTube channel
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you know you always kind of remember the
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first 10 15 20 30 people who watch and
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comment on all the videos back before
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really anybody
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knew what I was doing
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that I hadn't really caught on to to
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where it is now you always remember
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those original supporters that would
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chime in and leave comments and
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you'd meet up with them when you were on
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the road and I had a good friend here
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Jason Craig
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had a channel called six six hell ride
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love Route 66 love rock and roll love
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Disney loved the history of Kansas City
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and a few times more than one occasion
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when I came through town we would get
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together hang out we would get lunch he
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would show me some stuff he was at a few
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of my videos
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and each time I would come through each
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year
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his health started to diminish
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and in 2014 nine years ago which is kind
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of hard for me to wrap my head around he
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passed away so I don't have my buddy to
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hang out with here in Kansas City but
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the reason I'm showing this
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this is the TWA rocket here which Walt
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recreated at Disneyland used to be well
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there is like a a version of it in
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modern day Tomorrowland at Disneyland
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but Jason Sixx Hill ride said you have
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to put this in your video and I have put
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this in a few videos since his passing
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one of the last conversations we had was
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to he uh he had seen the videos I had
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done at laughagram and at Union Station
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talking about Walt and Walt being here
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with the you know the precursor to the
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Disney Corporation and all that he said
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you failed to show the TWA Moon liner
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you should really let your viewers see
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that
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so every time I I see this rocket on the
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side of the building it reminds me of
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him
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and while I'm just talking about Walt
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I'm going to pass by this house here
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that when he was very young lived with
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his family as a classic car out front
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you can even see there's a little Mickey
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they have lived here at a very young age
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before heading over
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deeper into Missouri
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and then came back to open laughing
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ground but he lived here I believe at
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the age of nine
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for a very short while with his family
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there they got a little Mickey right
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there in the yard
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be pretty neat to live in the same house
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that Walt lived in
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I think the lady that lives here
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is used to people coming by there's a
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couple articles online that
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she says people stop by here all the
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time take photos
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okay I'm getting pretty close to the
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baseball stadium now first pitch is in
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an hour
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so I gotta start getting in there
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this is a neat little area
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it's like a suburb I guess you could
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call it KC
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some of these old businesses are now
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being utilized as homes
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for example right here where this
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truck's about to turn
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it was an old fire station right there
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where that foliage is covered looks like
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it was an old fire station number 26.
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there's a car out front and everything
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it's an old Diner up here
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it's like a van VA barracus would drive
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this is about a mile
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from the stadium
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looks like it could have been a bank at
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one time I'm on Stadium Drive and
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Bennington Crossing past that street ah
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it's like deja vu I feel like I was just
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here yesterday I was just here yesterday
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did the tour the game got postponed the
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game is happening today
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again this will be my 15th stadium that
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I've been to marking off the halfway
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point of all 30 current stadiums while
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rooting for the race I've been to half
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the stadiums in baseball
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up to this point
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pretty neat halfway there
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I will not accomplish my goal till the
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end of next year
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you know the way the schedule works out
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but kind of a fun thing to do now I'm
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not planning on eating anything but I
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have heard a lot of people recommend the
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the nachos over here at these Baby Ray's
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Gourmet sauces Barbecue Shack I don't
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know if I want to consume 1400 calories
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for the meal but
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I want to at least show what people have
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recommended it's right there in the
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middle and if I ended up getting that I
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would have to be the only thing I'm
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trying to watch what I eat 1400 calories
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would kind of be the limit is 16.55
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cents comes in a souvenir helmet cheesy
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corn brisket brisket matcha
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this doesn't say nachos as nachos cheesy
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corn brisket nacho
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I'll think about it but I'd rather I'd
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rather I don't want to have a win in
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Rome moment I'd rather just not get it
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it does look pretty appetizing let's see
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how the game pans out
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and Brandon's leading off it's really
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hot out here I don't know what these are
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get that sack quad
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five to one
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oh another Siri home run six to one all
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right ninth inning
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two miles two strikes
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have one race around oh Grace that's the
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way it's done Raceway
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that was the first game ending that made
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everyone leave so I went back to the car
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and got another ticket I'm gonna be
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sitting not behind Ray's dog I'm gonna
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be sitting kind of in the upper deck
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figured I'd get a little different
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experience sit up there maybe walk
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around a little bit you get a different
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view I figured since I'm already here
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might as well do a double header I don't
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think I've ever been to a raised double
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header they don't happen too often so
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I'm already in the area let's double
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header it up all right I gave into a
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little bit of not only temptation but
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also
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all temptation but I haven't eaten today
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and I didn't really eat anything
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yesterday I ate a little bit but just
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some snacky stuff this would be the
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first thing and I've been hitting the
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treadmill so
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1480 calories let's call it 1500
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calories I thought it's gonna be a
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little bigger than this but hopefully
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it's worth the
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marking down on the count and calorie
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app
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the 1500 calories but it's still not
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going to go over it so I'm gonna do it I
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am way up here
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get some steps even walking up to the
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top
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where I'm at
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behind me here
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served the souvenir got myself a little
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souvenir
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helmet the photo appeared as if it was
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going to be a full helmet not a full
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helmet but I'll be good that I'm not
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gonna eat
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a full helmet puller
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Kansas City barbecue and corn
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slaw BBQ
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nachos another assorted goodness put
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this in the cup doing the counting
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calories thing and honestly I was
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starting to get a little
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get a little hungry
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pretty good
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it's barbecue guy I'll eat it
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occasionally they have to be in the mood
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for it and I kind of started getting in
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the mood where I thought you know what
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Kansas City I don't even know how to
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match a dick this with my hand
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it's like a big healthy almost vinegar
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with my finger put it on look at that
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there's a big chunk of it there
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it's hot
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there we go
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finger
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say finger looking good I think that's a
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different different franchise
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the flavor of the meat is really well
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done
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it's like no joke I'm no BBQ connoisseur
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but this is good
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and good
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portions of meat too
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they don't like skimp on the meat even
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though most the nachos are like under
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the meat and they get soggy kind of wish
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there were more nachos that weren't
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soggy but yeah the meat makes up for it
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tasty I also like how the stadium has
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these oversized bottles of water 33
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ounces that you can buy onto the seventh
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half
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oh yeah
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Joshua with the double Here Comes Mandy
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Margot
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oh Joshua with the triple bringing in
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the RBI
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excellent job Josh excellent job very
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quiet in here there's only one out bases
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are loaded for the race they're up by
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one in the ninth
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Ramirez is up
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the first second and third with only one
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out
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boom
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that's gonna be a Sac fly bring another
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one in
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42 two strikes two balls two outs bottom
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of the night close it down PD close it
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down
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What A Catch game's over the race win
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the race win game number two and they
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win the series I am glad I stuck around
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and went to both games so there's a game
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tomorrow but the Rays have already won
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the series and it's not it's not too
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often they could see a team win a series
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in one day when it comes to baseball win
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two out of three in the first day
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because it was a doubleheader so pretty
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cool moment I'm glad we've got a show
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too I'm glad I came to both games not
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just the first one
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in route now to another hotel
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ways away
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and
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that's gonna do it
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for today
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thanks for watching I'll see in the next
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video of the Vlog