Exploring Florida Backroads Thru Small Towns - Unusual Roadside Stops & Thrift Store Shopping
Florida Small Towns
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today's adventure take me onto the
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Florida back roads as the recording of
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this
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Monday February 19th
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2024 I felt like just going
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off well out of the populated areas I'll
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go into some towns that have a few
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people in them but no no
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metropolises or big bustling
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tourism today
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just Florida back roads real Florida
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goodness and
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cows there's cows out there there some
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Bulls welcome everyone Adam the woo here
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I just felt like he just felt like
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running I just felt like
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running I just felt like driving felt
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like getting in my car cruising
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around the closest place I am near is
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Rock Ridge Rock
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Ridge like Harvey Corman I think that
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was Blazing Saddles as a rock Ridge but
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I'm going to be heading over to some
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other areas that I have not ever
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documented and been through that I can
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recall about an hour outside of
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Homestead in celebration starting about
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an hour 45 minutes to an
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hour the just around the general area
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where I live there's not really a whole
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heck of a lot of old Florida you got to
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venture out and then back so this is the
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starting point
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cows right there got my glass take my
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glasses off so I can see the
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cows file this one under
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peaceful small town back
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roads they're a little camera shy these
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cows I'm invited inviting you to join
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me unlike these cows which are going the
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other way shall you definitely needed a
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day like this needed a day just go out
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and do this kind of thing haven't done a
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lot of this lately also in P
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County the garbage can stated it I might
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venture out of P County I live in Oola
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County and Orlando's in Orange County
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but then there's P counties this is
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going to be a pulk county day even
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though I might pop into other counties
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too but it'll probably all be
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pulk probably not a relation to James
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K or maybe it maybe there is just to
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show where I am I am in the green swamp
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near the East tract Rock Ridge that's
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the where I'm at my plan is to venture
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over this way just a bit and I kind of
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want to go around Dade City in that
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section planton Dade City stuff in that
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area kind of in that General vicinity
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and to see what else I could find but I
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found a very unique little little church
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here right here off the road like the
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sounds of all the birds and
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animals the green swamp SW Little Flock
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Church meets every Sunday at 11:00
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a.m. this little
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house there's Jesus with
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the the lamb there Shepherd of men and
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of
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sheep they got their little area around
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the back probably for their Fellowship
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dinners and their G togethers that
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little
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shed the one street light or the one
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lamp here for the parking lot I love
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this so peaceful this canopy of trees
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through
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here very beautiful little tire swing
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over here to the side right there off
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the
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Branch does it get much better than
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that you can kind of see it yeah tire
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swing right
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there I did hop on a little busier Road
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my way over to Dade City but I found
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this the gates are open not going to
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walk up in the yard there's something
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very very
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unusual over here a R of some sort what
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the heck is
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can't tell if it's a private residence
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or a business of some sort it's kind of
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overgrown right
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here like some little survey markers
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even some local workers
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out
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very windy out here
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sort all right looks like it might have
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been an attraction at one point cuz over
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here is like a gazebo and around the
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back is like a dragon tail
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I don't see any signs here saying stay
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off the property
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but I'm not going to go up in there
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check out this gazebo it's kind of seen
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better
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days and it looks like there's a dragon
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oh there's a whole Dragon back
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there very busy Road next to
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me
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there's the dragon head and the dragon
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tail something over there
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too that was on the corner of Highway 35
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and old d City
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Road there's a citrus Center one of
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these lost well not lost but kind of
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Forgotten Citrus City uh Citrus Center
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monuments there's another one of these
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in Davenport that I've shown before but
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I've never gotten all the way over here
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this is the corner of Pasco County and P
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County so I getting ready to cross over
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into
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Pasco I've never shown this one before I
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think there's like three or four of
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these left but I've never gotten Far
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Over over here never never shown this
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one before so that's pretty
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cool the one over near Davenport
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intercession City I should say is
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misspelled say misspelled citers this
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one spelled correctly all right big the
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foot crossing over into Pasco
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now let's do it in the hills of Pasco
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County Dade City look like to be the old
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train station now the Heritage
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Museum
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see where the new tracks are but you got
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the old tracks right here still
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standing runs to the side of the train
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station curious to see if this place is
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open and go walk up to the front and see
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see if there's anyone inside H maybe not
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it's all fenced
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off they do have a downtown area off of
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this busy
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thoroughfare Pasco County Courthouse I
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see a sign over there this must be the
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county
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seat the Atlanta Coast Atlantic Coast
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Line Depot built in 1912 to replace an
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earlier frame structure located a qu
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mile north of here this Depot was the
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first site in Pasco County to place on
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the national Reg
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of historic places the uh adjacent track
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is on the site the first rail line to
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reach state city in
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1887 is brisk out it feels really nice
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where's the entrance
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at located at
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1426 14206 Highway
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98 the butterfly there and they are not
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open fact it's all fited off dat City
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heritage Museum main entrance look like
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doing a little Construction Construction
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update so no go on the museum but pretty
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neat to see this whole Depot this kind
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of seems like it's the main road through
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town Anderson Court Reporting old
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building right
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there it's like a split
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Road leading to
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downtown kind like a strip mall almost
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like these buildings some classic
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architecture over there at that now
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Boost Mobile
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store not up on all my AR archit
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architecture but I do like that style
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that kind of retro style see the water
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tower over there there is a Bravo
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Supermarket and a coin laundry and what
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caught my attention was this thrif
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thrift store called a helping Rock
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thrift store you always like these small
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town thrift stores the non-corporate
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ones as you find some really good deals
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Co laundry open 24 hours check it out
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they have video gam says they have video
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games right there on the side what if
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they have what if they actually do have
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video games in
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here I just talked to the owner he says
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he no longer has video games in there he
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was asking what what the heck I was
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doing kind just explained I like to
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check out small towns said I saw the
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video game sign he goes no I don't have
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video games
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anymore there's a parade presidential
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parade presidential Day parade happening
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downtown and there is a county fair so
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the county fair here starts says the
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parade starts and then it ends at the
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fair I'm not going to be going to the
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fair but I check out the thrift store
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over here see what I can find get
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assortment of stuff in this thrift store
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big section of books right here got some
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appliances shoes there were some
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Blu-rays and DVDs on the way in there's
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even some CDs over here a little uh cart
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really good prices too $5 for this and
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this little like intake T shelf here
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only $10 quite a few ooh maybe I should
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get this for for a t the Titanic guy
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really a great selection these are like
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too deep back in there so this is like
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they're like double stack there's like a
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ton of VHS in here yeah I ended up go
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ahead and grabbing this right here you
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ever whenever you see Titanic you got to
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you got a snag a copy maybe I'll mail it
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mail it over you got Great Outdoors you
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got firew Walker I think that was a
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cannon film
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fir Walker right
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there a lot of really good VHS in here
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for those I mean I don't I don't collect
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VHS anymore I don't need to go back down
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that rabbit hole but I know a lot of
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people do haunted honeymoon right there
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the Jean Wilder movie I believe jeene
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Wilder was in
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that look at all the there's a huge
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selection here history of the world oh
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my gosh macking me on
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VHS what the
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heck a Bird on a Wire I was just
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recently watching in that bir on a wire
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right
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there ever after Drew Barry more yeah I
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had to get I went ahead and got the Mac
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in me figured just to have that cuz I
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love that film a lot of lot of great
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vinyl too through here a lot of Records
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pretty good selection of uh
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of of uh media what do they call
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physical media that's the word I'm
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looking for and a lot of D lot of
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bravehearts right there speaking of Bird
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on a Wire and mil Gibson a lot of Brave
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heart the double oh look even the double
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mad mad mad mad world oh this got the
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Suzanne Summers breakthrough book right
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there of course Suzanne passed away very
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very recently Al Michaels I remember him
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though I think he probably still announc
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still announces but down here this is
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like an appropriate book Because as I'm
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recording this it is President
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Day an American Heritage book of
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presidents and other famous
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Americans all right I got my two items
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some pretty good deals in here
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everything's really
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inexpensive it's a nice
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setter I only spent $2 I ended up
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getting the Xbox 360 Disneyland game I
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don't have an Xbox 360 went ahead and
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got that I got the curse of the Blair
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Witch VHS Mack and me and the Titanic so
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four vhs's were a buck and then the
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video game was a dollar $2 plus tax for
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this bag of stuff got to love smalltown
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thrift shopping St John's Missionary
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Baptist
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Church pretty cool looking building
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running parallel through the little Main
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Street because they have a road blocked
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off for the little small town
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presidential parade
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today going on little parallel to Main
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Street or to their main
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track a little coffee here at Circle K
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oped for the hazel nut
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blend
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accomplished over here on the corner of
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21st Street in Coleman free
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estimates best deal in
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town got a muffler man right here with
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the wrench in intact I think I passed by
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this a few years ago this this all the
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Mufflerman after a while kind of start
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to run together but yeah there's a
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muffler man here not all the Muffler Man
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are carrying Mufflers this one in fact
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has a wrench right next to the this is
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the name of this place is the big
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mechanic Complete Automotive and muffler
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place the reason they're called Muffler
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mans is because the way the hands are
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holding it back in the day they would be
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holding Mufflers but sometimes you'll
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see them you know this way one has a
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wrench sometimes they'll have an axe
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sometimes it'll be holding a rocket if
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you're on Route 66 and things like that
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but there's an active Muffler Man here
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just on the outskirts of date
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City pretty cool I always like to see
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these roadside Giants you could call
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them that's right next to where I got
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coffee back they have the logo he
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doesn't have a beard in the logo though
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but he's holding a wrench
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there all right moving on see if I can
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find some smaller towns we say I
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classify this as it's a small town but
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it's not a tiny
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town and it's technically a city even
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though it's like 8,000 people so a city
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doesn't necessarily mean it's a huge
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Place yeah the citrus trees are
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definitely out of season right now with
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this being
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over near Zephyr Hills now it's a little
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bit of a backup on that that light took
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me a while to cross over the
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street this frog is promoting some
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recycling as is this
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dog also wants you to
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recycle met a produce stop thought you
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know I could probably get some stuff for
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the air
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fryer
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I've been on a zucchini and squash kick
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in the air fryer lately this place is
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called
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Shannon's Farm Fresh Produce also
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grateful that it's not raining today the
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last 2 days it's been downpouring so
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nice it's not raining today oh yeah I
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got actually see don't know if it's a
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it's definitely a squash up
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there could be a pickle but it could
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also be a zucchini got some
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plants fruits veggies honey honeydew
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melons
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cantaloupes ruby red grapefruits
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potatoes maybe I get some potatoes oh
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look at these little
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bag celery some
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eggplants green onions ooh brussel
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sprouts
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stap
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peas
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cabbage organic rainbow carrots oh look
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at these pickled red bead eggs Jake and
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Amos I'll grab a
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cart
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candied jalapenos
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oo how those
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are dill brussel sprouts that's
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different I do love pickled okra I do
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have some salad stuff at my house but I
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don't have any dressing so maybe I get
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some of this videlia onion and cucumber
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Dill
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dressing I got some spinach and some
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iceberg
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lettuce good looking Tomatoes right
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there beef steak
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tomatoes
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$4.99 all right now we're getting out of
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the stuff I really like for the air
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fryer broccoli I really like taking the
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zucchinis and the squash slice them up
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throw a little oil on them and a little
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flavoring throw them in the air fryer
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for a while so I'm going to get a couple
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pounds of these and a couple pounds of
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those I realize now they got ochre over
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here for 349 a pound so I'm going to get
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a little bit of okra and I think I'm
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going to try some of the Brussels scrs
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too for those in the the same the oil
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and the and the flavoring shake it all
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up put it in the air fryer my air fryer
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kick lately all right zuc IIs potatoes
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squash
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okra and Brussels
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sprouts nice got all those products and
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I also got a beef stick and a
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little little was that a bear a little
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piece of little treat little candy honey
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well most like candy it's honey it's a
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honey on a stick so I got that too and I
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got some stuff for dinner tonight for
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the air fryer a few miles down the way
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is the very tiny community of Crystal
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Springs saying that with a question cuz
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I'm pretty sure that's what the sign
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said it's little gas station
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here no trees
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pins keep out no trees
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pins
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no
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trees pass no trees
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pass this tree right here shall not pass
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no trees
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pass this is the Community
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Hall over here oh and there's the fire
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station over there in the distance on
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every second Tuesday the crystal Springs
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Community Association meets they have
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one of these little libraries just give
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a book take a book The Little Free
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Library take a book share a
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story take a book share a
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book every second
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Tuesday I have to wonder do you think
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they really meet every second Tuesday or
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is that just like an old
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sign there are a few residents here in
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this little area there's the backside
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there that gas
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station former convenience
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store a lot of trucks going through
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here boting station Precinct 16 Crystal
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Springs Community Hall here on Partridge
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Boulevard Crystal Springs Crystal
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Springs Florida a little food
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pantry for people
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that need some food drop some off
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this is a water it was a water Filling
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Station oh it still is look at
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works do not leave trash turn water off
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when not filling containers River to
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deposit
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coins where do you deposit the coins oh
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right there
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y'all
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know this is an honor
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System you all
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know help us keep our water privileged
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we use the honor
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System you're supposed to pay right here
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oh there's a little slot right there
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look at
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that it's pretty cool right you got the
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trash over here you got the reserve for
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water customers only and you got the
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little coin system that's cool you got
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like your water and
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everything this Train's not moving but
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because I'm moving it's kind of hard to
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tell if it's not but it's sitting still
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I'm pulling through the area of Midway
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Florida there's a First Baptist Church
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here known as an unincorporated area
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with the church of Midway little road
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work up to here got a little some
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workers in the road slow
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down whatever this
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was it's no longer
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active see all the foliage growing up
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side might be hard to make out on camera
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there Sergeant Farm
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arms can't go on this
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property but check out the bell tower
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well Bell not a tower but a bell in a an
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elevated
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Vines
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and being
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watched
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and
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being
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dog this trash can and this closed gate
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is obscuring anyone from getting on the
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property and all the signage
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obviously entire property Sergeant
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Farms the old silos back
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there I got to say this guard dog should
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be commended doing its job job to the
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fullest
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extent back on I4
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now kind of an extreme backup nearing
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Highway 27 got to love it made it back
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into celebration that was a it was a
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pretty good 30 to 45 minute delay back
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up there I4 East and
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Westbound certain areas starting to
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starting to notice it getting a little
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more congested made it at home just
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showcasing the few things I got today my
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haul my food
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haul
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the dressing
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vhs's video game I do not have a Xbox
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360 but if I ever get one be kind of
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neat to play
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Titanic just some collectible stuff
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haven't seen this in a while
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I don't have a VHS player but I just
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been haven't
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seen the uh the copy of this I should
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say I have this on blue ray but this is
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most likely definitely worth more than
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the 25 cents I paid for it
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four cuz there's two in here so two
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three four for a buck can't beat that
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well thanks for watching I'll see you in
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