Explaining Some Things I Get Asked A Lot While On Scooter Tour of Small Hometown of St Cloud Florida
My History in St Cloud Florida
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today's adventure brings me to saint
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cloud florida peeking above that rusted
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out van there
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retro looking van is the saint cloud
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florida water tower
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my former home for many years
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my family moved here back in 91 so i'm
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gonna do a little hometown tour
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some memories
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reminisce a little bit
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as a recording of this thursday
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february 24th
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2022
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and as i'm making my way over to
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downtown to park and then take my
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scooter
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around
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passing by
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where i used to live with my family in
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fact my car my first car i ever had
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which was a 84 ford ltd i used to park
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right over here
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off to the side
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and my dad was the minister at this
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church it's now a different congregation
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but it used to be first christian church
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about a block away from downtown
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that was a little bit of a speed bump
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welcome everyone adam the woo here
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before getting on the scooter however
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i finished off this piping hot
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caffeinated beverage i got at the store
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on the way in
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it's very difficult to have the camera
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in one hand be on the scooter and the
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other hand is occupied by coffee
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this is about 24 25 miles from my
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current homestead celebration florida
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and the reason i am down here
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today is a little bit later and be
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visiting with my parents i have not seen
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them
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since i got back
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of my roof off my seven week road trip a
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few days ago so i'll be doing that a
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little bit later and i figured why in
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the area
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might as well show some of the the
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things i know a lot about i do a lot of
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small town stuff
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it's just small small town saint cloud
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i've showed it before years ago
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showing it again some new memories some
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things that kind of maybe jarred
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some thoughts in my mind
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join me
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shall you at one point there was a siren
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going by off in the distance at one
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point this used to be called the popcorn
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palace
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a two screen cinema here very little
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quaint community that has a movie
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theater i always like to show these
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movie theaters some apartments are used
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to be up top
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and one of the original hardware stores
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is down there on the end this place over
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here called fire p-h-y-r-e
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i remember a few christmases ago they
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had a they had a krampus photo op and
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the town
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completely lost its mind over it
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the town didn't want krampus i lived in
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a lot of places around central florida
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since originally in the early 90s when
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my family moved here
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once i got of age and was able to get my
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own apartments i started
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basically living in as many places you
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could fight too many to count
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one of them nev was not this place over
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here
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but i did consider i even looked at one
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of these apartments which kind of looks
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like now that i'm looking at it now
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present day
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it just basically looks like a beachside
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hotel even though it's about an hour
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from the beach this is the original fire
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department right here there are offices
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behind here i made the mistake a few
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years ago when i passed by here
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of kind of knocking on the wood to see
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what it was made of
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and someone that was inside came out
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came out and said what are you doing
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knocking on that
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so just keep that in mind if you ever
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don't knock on that the lakefront is
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about seven or eight blocks that way
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and there are a lot of murals here
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around town like the joyland beach
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pavilion back in 1929 you would be able
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to find this
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at the saint cloud lakefront
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no longer there probably a storm tore it
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down or developers
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this has been gone for a long time i
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don't even remember it back in when i
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first moved here
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it was torn down way before then
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ah here's a little information placard
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it was destroyed by fire in 1923 that a
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new was built but then in 35
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flames once again consumed
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the bathing pavilion and all of its
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contents
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and every time i've always seen this
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little
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kind of overlook here i always think of
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how if a 18 wheeler went off of highway
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192 and threw this back street it would
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tear this down
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in one monumental second but it has
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stood the test of times one of the
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original stores
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right over there
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right here in town now the town has
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grown considerably since
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the first residents moved here years ago
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it used to just be three streets
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starting on the one i'm at and then over
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to new york
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which is the next street over and then
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the one passed there was just basically
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three blocks but it's expanded a lot
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since then a portrait a painting i
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should say
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of the railroad saint cloud railroad
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depot the railroad tracks have been long
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removed however
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where they were if you're familiar with
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the area is down 10th street
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basically the town is on a grid of roads
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it kind of looks very
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blockish
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except for 10th street that runs at a
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kind of an unusual
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slanted
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motion if you look at
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you know like a satellite view of the
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roads running through
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the main saint cloud area
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but right over here
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was the the railroad depot so i am
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walking where the tracks
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would have been at one time
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and the tracks would have gone
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that way more or less
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kind of with that angle and connects
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over with 13th street which is highway
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192. i know it's very confusing if
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you're not from the area but
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might find it interesting if you look on
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a satellite view map or
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if you were a local resident
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that was new to the area
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this little bench down here the sugar
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belt railway
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built in 1889
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used to have make a return trip it would
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go to the turntable in narcosi
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which is about 10 miles away
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i have looked for the turntable i've
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heard it's in someone's backyard years
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and years ago i researched it
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i've never seen the turntable with my
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own eyes
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not 100 sure if it still exists if it
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does it's on private property
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as well as the city hall that is here
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new york street
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or new york ave used to run directly
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through this all the way up to the
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lakefront
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and then you know 20 years ago or so
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they built city hall so now you have to
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go over to the next road
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to go around it now here's a fun story
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there is
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this pay phone relic right here
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this pay phone this is a different pay
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phone but there was a pay phone here
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back in the 90s mid 90s that i would use
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this before cell phones
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and i would stand in this very spot
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and use the pay phone granted this
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skeleton shell is a new one new brand
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but it was right here and of course the
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current pay phone has been removed
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as well
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quite a few movies were filmed down here
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tv shows
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the super boy tv series
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utilized
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this little area through here there's
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one particular episode
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that they did down here and a few other
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things i'll talk about as i'm wondering
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the substation is always fascinating to
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me this little architecture
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right down here
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just like this brickwork
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or the rock work that's here
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pretty neat with a little and kind of
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peek through those holes there
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they've been doing quite a bit of
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construction on the saint cloud hotel
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which some say
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if you're into that sort of thing is
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haunted
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and then across the way is the original
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library
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later a thrift store
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but when i first came here in 91 it was
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the library it hasn't been the library
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for decades though
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before that i think it was a bank you
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always know how small towns get a lot of
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rumors started the rumor mill gets going
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people believe it after
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something has been repeated many times
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this people's bank was not robbed by
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john dillinger
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some say it was
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john dillinger never was here
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was never in that bank
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but you talk to some locals and they
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will swear by that fact
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this would be neat when this is finally
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finished this is one of the original
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buildings where the original residents
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the very select few original residents
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that were here
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lived
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back when they were waiting for their
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houses to be purchased and built
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someone is yelling at me there's a drive
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by
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the library former bank is now a metro
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wireless expert do not jump this fence
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or there could be repercussions here
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but i do want to peek my camera over
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because i really like this quote
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that has been up on the side of this
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wall for as long long as i can remember
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right there
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let me live in my house
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built by the side of the road and be a
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friend to man
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very nice
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this is what it originally looked like
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that's what it looked like back in the
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day and these are some of the original
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residents here
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in stc sync cloud for sure in fact
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i have a tattoo
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right here
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stc
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for saint cloud
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yep got some memories here oh this place
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will always kind of have a
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be a part of me the historic hunter arms
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hotel
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see the hotel sign up top there
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used in the
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classic
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hershey gordon lewis horror film 2000
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maniacs
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prominently in that film which you know
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that that movie went on to inspire
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a lot of other
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horror directors
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the godfather of gore they called
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hirscher gordon
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inside the hunter arms also there was a
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scene in the waterboy and superboy
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inside here as well and in the in front
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of here
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the waterboy scene is the party scene
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when the colonel sanders looking teacher
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comes back down the staircase with the
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black eyes
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and henry winkler's talking to the other
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the other players about you know the
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game they had just played they had one
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they were having the party and then he
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saw the two girls he said i see a lot of
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girls i see a lot of guys too and
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approaching the former big d's bar where
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my band
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played quite a few shows right in here
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it's now an antique store and next to
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big d's the former big d so imagine like
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a circle pit slam dancing right inside
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here my punk band
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played in there we always had a decent
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following locally but once we toured no
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one knew who we were but that's usually
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how it goes we were kind of like local
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heroes
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here in the area i say heroes
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draw like maybe 100 100 people give or
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take this used to be a tattoo place
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called i don't remember what it was
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called it was a tattoo place was here
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that we played
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inside of
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and no one has ever lived up there as
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far as i know but we actually played
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inside here as well i think there might
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even still be a hole in the wall where
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someone's knee went through it used to
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be a little deli there now a massage
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shop
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where i would get a sandwich every once
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in a while and this is where i spent
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many years in fact i've stated a lot of
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this before but it's been a while since
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i kind of looked back on saint cloud
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so some might not know this this is
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where i made the decision
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to quit the last
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job i ever had when i punched a clock
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and move into my van
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and i tested it out i lived in the the
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last three windows up here where my
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apartment there's two apartments across
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the top i would enter into this door
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and i decided you know what i'm going to
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give up my apartment take that money
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that i'm spending on rent
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and i'm just going to travel with it and
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start this youtube thing
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it worked out pretty well in hindsight
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it worked out pretty dang well i'm doing
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all right
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my van used to be parked right over here
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unless there was street cleaning and
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then i would park it over there in that
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community lot
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in the distance
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but my window my bedroom was that far
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far corner there and many times i sat
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right here on this very stoop
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and just enjoyed the evening i would get
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off work worked at a feed store about a
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mile away i would just sit right here
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had a key to this door
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go up the staircase
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fisherman in the fridge
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it's a deep cut if anyone knows it
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filmed all those right in here
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yep
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some good memories through here
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in fact there used to be a ladder that
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was going up to the roof up here
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the ladder has been removed but i was
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always worried someone's going to climb
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the ladder
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get on that roof and then break into my
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apartment so i put a
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no trespassing sign there and i put a no
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trespassing sign here
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those have been removed and finally the
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ladder has been removed so
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the new residents probably talked the
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landlord into finally getting rid of
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that ladder and around the front view
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those three windows and the two on the
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side
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that was where my television was and my
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couch and all that it was a little one
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bedroom
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there was a really nice lady that owned
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a coffee shop here
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it's no longer a coffee shop but i would
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go over here occasionally and also she
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was kind enough to leave
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the wi-fi on all night so i never had
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wi-fi i would just
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use the coffee shop's wi-fi because
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i was directly across from it
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that was a long time ago
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it's been 11 years at least since i've
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moved out here since i moved out of the
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spot and back when i lived down here
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the brickwork was not exposed like this
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is some of the original brickwork it was
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repaved over
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and a lot of the town folks said we want
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the original brick work back so this has
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only been done within the last 10 years
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where they've removed the overlay of the
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concrete now the brick is back all right
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finished my coffee got the scooter out
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haven't used this in a while since my
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road trip still got a little dirt on
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there probably should have wiped the
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dirt off where i put in the back of my
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car let the kick stand up
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and you do a little scooter tour around
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stc i also recall probably about five or
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six years ago
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there was a little bit of
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a little bit of hoopla they were gonna
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they were gonna build a skyscraper right
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here it was all of the newspapers i
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thought there's no way that's gonna
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happen
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and i said it's not gonna happen i put
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it out there
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that i did not think
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saint cloud florida would have a
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skyscraper this soon
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and it's you know
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with just based on the population and
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how many people are down here and i was
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i was correct the skyscraper
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five years or so later after they
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announced it still not there
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didn't happen ah yes morse market
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or is the locals and i called it moore's
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market
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but it's really spelled morse market
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this place is a rite of passage for
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anyone that lives in this town or lives
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in this town you know this place really
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well on the weekends
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this place is a beehive of activity
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everyone going in
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and getting their beverages in fact
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there's still a sticker down here
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for dna energy drink which i don't even
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know if they make that anymore you place
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that here because one of the guys in my
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band worked for that energy drink
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company
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so we would always you know put stickers
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and they would probably they probably
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even sold it in here at one point
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right here on this or i don't think
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there's orlando sentinels in this thing
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anymore
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interesting
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an old newspaper box
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moore's market is open though
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it is open for business now here's
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something i did not know until now now
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i've always known about handyman
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hardware
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but there's a new mural right here by
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this door
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that shows a little bit of the history
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also there's my shadow
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the only reason i'm showing that is
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because
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i don't want to show everyone driving by
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in their cars not every not every single
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person
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this used to be cobb cobble's garage
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now i never knew that i know a lot about
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from residing here for so long but i did
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not realize this was kabul's garage
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before it was handyman hardware
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a hardware store that has been around
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for as long as i can recall the building
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was built back in 1914
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50 by 100 foot structure was the longest
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single floor space in the city at that
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time the gas pump was on the edge of the
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road
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leaving your car on the road as you
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filled the tank what the heck
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that is pretty dang awesome
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i did not realize so there's the gas
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pump there on the other end
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established
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1914.
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pretty cool corner of massachusetts and
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10th this always makes me laugh too the
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street sign over there is proportionate
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for gravity's sake on either side
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but the one here on this corner
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big difference
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very lengthy to one side
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look how long this side is on this one
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i don't know why that's so funny and
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approaching this building which was also
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one of the original ones here in town
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used for a number of different things
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the upstairs was something different
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than the bottom stairs which was another
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general store
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i have a book
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that kind of gives the history of the
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town that's just kind of how i know some
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of it you will rarely see the gar
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memorial hall open
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it's never open
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i don't even know if i've ever seen it
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used
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but it is on the national register
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of historic places
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looks like a new sign so that might be
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oh
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i didn't realize that was going to like
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dip off the sidewalk there kind of
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surprised me
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but right there
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it is now on the national registry of
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historic places
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and even more brick over here see this
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is all brick
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within the last 10 years or so
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the brick has made an appearance again
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the original brick which is good and i'm
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back over to where i began the video
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getting a better look at this kind of
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rusted out relic here an econo line
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it's a nice van
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kind of reminds me of the van from
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texas chainsaw the first the 74.
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look at this though this is awesome
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there's a chevy truck
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another chevy el camino right there
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and almost a hot rod style
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over on the end not only well there's a
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blue hot rod
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over there but then also look at this
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rusted out
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relic right here this is awesome look at
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this
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this is cool
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raddus
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horriblus
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there's oh there's the there's bl's
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above there
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wow this is nice
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and then around the back look at these
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it almost looks like kind of like a
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turbo
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style looking style
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there's another
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another devil there
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evil clown
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all rusted out
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very vintage
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oh look at this
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right here on the wheel well
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and then where the front license plate
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goes is a
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there's a bat
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and a clown
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that is very low to the ground very low
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like maybe in only an inch or two
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probably an inch i would say
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from the ground
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lowrider if ever there was one and right
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here off the main thoroughfare highway
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192 also known as erlo bronson and 13th
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street
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is another sign that is proportionately
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awkward while discussing things that get
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talked about by locals and you never
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know if are true or not true
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this building was built from what i
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heard from a lot of friends and other
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locals
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by a
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lottery winner who was a
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cook
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and won the lottery so opened a place
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called juicy lucy's it's now a family
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dentistry
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it was only open for a short time six
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months maybe a year at most
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and that was in the late night mid to
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late 90s
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and the reason i really even bring that
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up or recall that
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is because during that time frame in the
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mid 90s
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i had some friends that were in a couple
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punk bands
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and one of the rare times that the saint
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cloud band shell which is now taped off
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for whatever reason
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was you oh it's wet paint
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was utilized very rarely maybe two or
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three times
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in my memory and recollection have i
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ever seen anything happening here at the
21:05
band shell
21:06
but back in the mid 90s
21:09
there was a punk show here
21:11
in fact i was right in here throwing my
21:13
very skinny weight around back then i
21:15
was skin and bones
21:16
now i'm
21:18
definitely the opposite of that
21:22
slam dancing right in this area and all
21:24
of us kept going over to juicy lucy's to
21:27
get free waters and they ran out of cups
21:29
they were not happy that their cups
21:32
were gone
21:34
you know no one had any money
21:36
but free water is always good so
21:39
here is a better late than never thank
21:42
you
21:43
to juicy lucy's for keeping us hydrated
21:46
right over kept walking over there in
21:47
between bands
21:49
see if i can find a photo from that day
21:50
and thankfully i still have it on my
21:52
phone right here now notice the
21:55
erected plaque down there
21:57
and this scrawny
21:59
skinny
22:01
jean wearing fellow is me
22:04
in the mid 90s
22:06
throwing my skinny weight around
22:12
and side note over here
22:12
this is king wuveen
22:14
if you know you know right over here in
22:16
the corner rocking out on the guitar
22:18
good friend of mine
22:19
since those days
22:22
well i don't i refer to him by his real
22:24
name but a lot of people call him
22:26
king woovia
22:29
good buddy of mine stood right here on
22:31
this stage and that was before i even
22:33
picked up the bass guitar and attempted
22:35
to play it i used that term loosely
22:37
because i was never very good even when
22:38
i was in a band i could do i would i
22:41
could hold my own but
22:43
definitely not a musician by most
22:44
people's standards but that was before
22:46
that was even a twinkle in my eye
22:49
approaching me purchasing a musical
22:51
instrument
22:52
and doing the whole band thing sometimes
22:54
i do miss touring
22:56
being in a band i don't know if it's
22:58
something i would do
22:59
full time down the road
23:02
but i think about it strapping back on
23:04
the guitar starting another band
23:07
bringing another band back
23:09
joining former bands who knows
23:12
but it
23:13
this i'm just thinking out loud but it
23:15
does get in my head sometimes
23:17
i do miss playing little little dive
23:19
bars and just touring you never know
23:22
what the future holds but stuff like
23:24
this always kind of kind of misses
23:26
missed the scene
23:28
missed the punk scene a little bit
23:29
built in 1952
23:32
was probably the wildest event that ever
23:34
took place here in fact
23:36
we were stage diving off of this
23:38
it was probably only maybe 200 people
23:40
total scattered throughout the entire
23:43
premises
23:44
so we had to basically jump up on stage
23:46
and say come to the front get to the
23:49
front and a bunch of us would go to the
23:50
front and then we would leap off if i
23:52
staged over now
23:54
i would snap someone's neck with my body
23:56
weight
23:57
i'm not going to do that
24:03
i'm kind of curious as
24:03
that image
24:04
that image i don't know what just sounds
24:06
but
24:08
is this paint wet or is the sign been
24:10
here a while i'm not going to test out
24:11
that theory
24:13
you don't want me stage diving in this
24:15
day and age i'm
24:16
way heavier than i used to be i used to
24:19
be thin
24:20
i just got to reminiscing and thinking
24:22
and recalling
24:24
somewhere out there
24:25
there is a video
24:27
of this day
24:29
i don't know where it is it doesn't
24:30
belong to me somewhere there is a video
24:33
ah yes
24:34
sipping dip
24:36
another st cloud staple
24:39
used to be like a 7-eleven at one time
24:41
but i've always noted a sip and dip it's
24:43
kind of interesting but i worked at two
24:45
places within this series of blocks
24:47
one in the late 90s mid to late 90s i
24:50
worked at a cabinet shop
24:51
which has since closed
24:53
but right inside there i would take
24:54
pieces of wood and cut them and put them
24:57
together into drawers and whatnot now a
24:59
boat boat shot i got laid off because i
25:01
was not very good
25:03
at doing
25:04
anything that when it goes to making
25:06
cabinets
25:07
and then years later the last job i ever
25:09
worked
25:10
you know or punch the clock i should say
25:13
is right down here
25:14
and it was a farm and ranch supply
25:16
stores not the same owners anymore in
25:18
fact totally different name
25:20
even though it is a currently a feed
25:22
store
25:24
the one i worked out
25:27
closed and then another one took over so
25:29
just the building remains used to store
25:31
the round bales right over there where
25:32
that truck is parked and those bay doors
25:34
would be open and you load people's hay
25:36
in the back this is not the back side of
25:38
water this is the back side of the feed
25:40
store i worked out spent over five years
25:42
full time
25:43
here at this place
25:44
now back over close to where my
25:46
apartment was just a couple blocks away
25:48
bonnie lee's chicken some delicious
25:50
chicken
25:52
if you're ever in the mood for that and
25:53
then this area but this laundromat here
25:55
because i did not have a washer and
25:56
dryer at my place
25:58
i would go in there about once a week
26:00
and do my laundry stand out front just
26:02
like that person standing up front just
26:04
waiting for the laundry to be done also
26:06
next to it was a pizza place called
26:07
touch of basil
26:09
still there we could get an inexpensive
26:11
slice
26:12
but nine times out of ten
26:14
what i would usually do for food
26:18
would be frequent
26:20
to save a lot
26:27
i was on a very strict budget
26:30
i would go in and buy dollar
26:32
pizzas
26:37
pot pies
26:37
loaves of bread
26:39
right inside that place and then i would
26:41
walk over
26:42
but basically i would drive home from
26:45
work
26:47
at the feed store take a shower
26:52
and then i'd walk back over to save a
26:52
lot get a couple days worth of food go
26:54
back and watch a dvd watch a movie
26:58
go to sleep get back up the next day
27:00
go back to work and i've pretty much
27:02
been on that same routine
27:04
since i quit working for someone i'm
27:07
gonna try to go down this dip there we
27:08
did it
27:10
more or less i wake up about the same
27:12
time
27:13
about 6 30 7 a.m every day there are
27:15
exceptions but anyone that knows me
27:16
personally
27:17
knows i am a pretty strict schedule as
27:21
far as when i go to bed at night usually
27:23
around midnight
27:24
and then wake up around 6 30 in the
27:26
morning and
27:27
try to do most of what i'm doing
27:30
you know for this if you want to call it
27:32
a job this work
27:33
that i am doing making videos i try to
27:36
make it as close to even though it's
27:37
very enjoyable i try to make it job-like
27:40
even though i'm working for myself
27:42
and i've kept that schedule since in
27:44
august 9th
27:45
2011 is the last time i worked at that
27:48
feed store
27:49
and i've kind of kept the same same kind
27:51
of hours not bankers hours was never a
27:53
banker but you get the idea
27:55
i just kind of treat what i do like a
27:58
like a job
28:02
but i'm way more motivated to work for
28:02
myself
28:03
way more motivated not making someone
28:05
else money there you go a little mural
28:07
there saint cloud florida mural right on
28:09
the side of this building that's
28:11
relatively new as well
28:14
i don't know what that racket is
28:17
time for a little more information i get
28:19
asked this pretty often i would say one
28:21
of the top two or three questions i've
28:23
always asked
28:24
is what
28:26
does adam the woo mean what in the heck
28:28
is an is a woo
28:30
is there a meaning behind
28:32
the woo
28:34
the answer
28:35
i have discussed this before but it has
28:37
been many years ago i went into detail
28:39
of this so i think it is time to
28:40
reiterate it
28:42
this is a walmart this is a walmart
28:43
super center over here which
28:45
back in my retail working days in the
28:48
i was part of a skeleton crew if you
28:51
will about 20 people who were hired to
28:54
open this now that
28:56
20 people went to about 40 people 50
28:59
people 60 people
29:02
maybe even more than that as a week or
29:04
two went by but initially i was one of
29:06
the first ones to walk into
29:08
what is now the saint cloud
29:10
walmart super center the original
29:12
walmart which was not a super center was
29:14
across the street over there where
29:16
a thrift store is and a tractor supply
29:21
and back in those days mid 90s
29:24
my girlfriend i had at the time we lived
29:25
at simpson ridge apartments up in
29:27
kissimmee
29:29
right on simpson road
29:30
and just out of boredom
29:33
at work one day
29:35
in the
29:36
not craft section but in the office
29:38
section
29:39
there was
29:40
a stamp pad set
29:42
for return mail if you're familiar with
29:45
snail mail you would put a return
29:47
address on there
29:49
by the way this is the lynx bus stop and
29:51
i'm pointing that out because there are
29:53
two
29:54
right over there there are two bus stops
29:56
the one on the far end is where i was
29:57
sitting when i came up with the name
29:59
the woo the way a stand pad set worked
30:03
was basically you would take these
30:04
little tweezers
30:05
and you would pull out rubber letters
30:08
and place them in what would
30:10
be the return address stamp
30:14
you could create whatever you wanted
30:16
it could be adam
30:17
the tree
30:19
adam the leave in fact i came up with a
30:22
lot of names similar to that probably
30:25
about 20 different names as i waited for
30:28
the bus the lynx bus to pull up right
30:31
and i just was just bored
30:34
waiting for the bus to get home down 192
30:36
to simpson road the lynx busted that
30:38
dropped off right there and i came up
30:40
with adam that we thought that's pretty
30:41
funny because i would write bands
30:45
you know i would i would get on their
30:47
mailing list you would go to but of
30:48
course before email you get all you go
30:49
to concerts you know local shows and
30:52
bands would have by the way speaking of
30:54
blink i was on a blink 182 mailing list
30:57
and i used to have i wish i still had it
31:00
a postcard
31:02
from blink
31:03
saying that they were being sued by
31:05
another group overseas group different
31:08
type of music and they had to add in
31:10
a name it couldn't be called blink
31:12
anymore i used to have that i wish i
31:13
still had it was like a handwritten hand
31:15
printed thing that is
31:17
no longer i don't know where that is
31:19
but i digress so you go to these mailing
31:21
lists
31:23
and i never wanted to like just put you
31:24
know
31:26
i didn't want to hand write it on there
31:27
so i thought let me have a nickname no
31:29
one ever gave me a nickname
31:31
growing up so i created my own nickname
31:34
that means
31:35
absolutely nothing
31:37
the woo means
31:39
nothing there is no meaning
31:41
there is a link spot right there
31:43
it's one of these very ones that i was
31:45
waiting for
31:46
it pulls into here and then goes over
31:49
to where i just was right back there so
31:51
the woo means nothing it crea i created
31:53
it in the
31:54
mid 90s the girlfriend i had at the time
31:57
we lived together she goes what do you
31:58
what is a stamp pad set and what is the
32:01
woo
32:01
i said i don't know what it is but one
32:03
day that name
32:05
will
32:05
i don't know if it'll have a meeting but
32:07
one day that that name will be
32:09
synonymous with me
32:11
for whatever reason and i thought it was
32:13
going to be through ebay because i used
32:14
to sell on ebay and my username on ebay
32:16
was adam the woo then when youtube
32:19
started i just used that username
32:21
uploaded videos of my past bands
32:24
family home videos me my mom and dad
32:27
sister things like that
32:28
all of which
32:29
has been erased
32:31
from existence i have gotten those off
32:33
of the channels when the channel started
32:34
to gain momentum i didn't want all my
32:36
personal stuff that i thought no one was
32:38
going to see i just originally used the
32:40
channel to email family and say oh look
32:43
here's the family reunion from years
32:44
back do you want to see
32:46
this footage
32:47
but as the channel kind of grew and i
32:49
started to realize that you could put
32:51
content out there i already had the name
32:53
adam the woo that originated right over
32:56
here on a stamp pad set
32:59
they probably don't even make those
33:00
stamp pad sets anymore if they did
33:02
i should buy another one
33:04
come up with another one
33:06
oh that is quite the noise
33:09
so these very benches which have new
33:11
advertisements on them obviously
33:13
is where i created the name a pretty
33:15
uneventful and anticlimactic meaning i'm
33:18
sure you thought there was something
33:19
way more intense and there was a purpose
33:23
but with most of the things i do there
33:25
is no purpose
33:26
at all
33:33
as my shadow goes by it was on one of
33:33
these very benches could have been that
33:35
one
33:36
could have been that one right here in
33:37
front of
33:38
the saint cloud walmart that i worked at
33:40
one of the many retail jobs that i had
33:44
over the course of my life
33:47
that's the answer
33:49
i'll see you in the next video thanks
33:50
for watching i'm gonna go spend some
33:52
time with my parents and have some
33:52
family time
33:54
i'll see you in the next video the vlog
33:56
is thanks so much for watching i i
33:58
really appreciate it
34:00
i really do
34:02
the vlog
34:04
is over what the heck is a woo
34:07
ah
34:08
i don't honestly don't even know
34:11
also gaston mentions the woo when he's
34:13
talking about belle maybe that was in
34:15
the back of my head even though
34:17
subconsciously
34:19
because he was gonna
34:21
and make belle his wife
34:26
i guess you could you could say it's
34:26
that
34:27
or maybe a whoo
34:29
adam
34:33
has nothing to do with the professional
34:33
wrestler
34:34
the nature boy ric flair that always
34:36
says that a lot of people say think that
34:38
too okay
34:39
i've said so much yet i've said so
34:44
i've said this a couple times but this
34:46
this is the real outro the vlog
34:49
is over