Showing Up For My Jury Duty Summons - Osceola County Courthouse Forgotten History Downtown Kissimmee
Arriving for my Jury Duty Summons
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welcome everyone adam the woo here this
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oh this is toasty this is a i have
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procured
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a piping hot caffeinated beverage which
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they do not put the cardboard around
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well over here from cornerstone cafe
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it's where i got the coffee today
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do not put the cardboard wrapping around
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it the cardboard wrapping is
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part of the cup itself you might be
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wondering why i'm wearing a collared
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shirt
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long sleeve even though it's rolled up
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because the humidity of central florida
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is slightly intense even though it is
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just spring it's not even summer yet you
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can start to feel the warmth
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i have a 1 pm jury duty
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summons that i must attend for osceola
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county gonna head to
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this county's courthouse even though
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orange county is just a very short
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distance just right around the corner
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i'm right on the cusp so i'm going to go
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into downtown kissimmee
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and just kind of give you a step by step
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of my day
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you should probably see how many miles
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that is i'm inviting you to join me
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kind of hot in these rhinos shall you
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all right it's looking like 11 miles 27
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minutes 11 miles i think most of that is
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just
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getting out of celebration some refer to
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it as the bubble it's kind of tucked
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away in here
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once they get out of the main
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thoroughfares it moves a lot quicker you
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are summoned
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to appear to jury service at the date
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time and location shown on the reverse
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side
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failure to comply as directed can result
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in a fine
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and slash or contempt of court chapter
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40 of the florida statute says please
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park
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off of west bryant street in the parking
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garage
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all right heading over speaking of
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juries
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the jury's still out on whether or not
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there really is
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water up in that tower or not
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some say no yep it's true big the foot
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i've never served on one before oh you
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have
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oh involving someone named patterson
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that
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filmed you without your permission going
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down 192 passing by
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that empty lot there used to be xanadu
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home of the future back in the day
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now it's gone in case you're wondering
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that's not a real tree
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it's a cell phone tower that's a pirate
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ship over there
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passing a pirate ship former pizza hut
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alert
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former pizza hut alert turned off of
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highway 192 onto orange blossom trail
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also known as main street
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going right downtown kissimmee
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downtown kissimmee we've opened safely
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free parking i believe that's what
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that's supposed to say i think the wind
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has kind of scattered the letters around
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this is not the parking structure they
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suggested to park at it's about a block
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away
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but i find this one a little more kind
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of quaint
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here in this area and speaking of
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opening i'm gonna open
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this umbrella let's get out of the shade
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and over
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into the sun as i walk over to the
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courthouse
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showed this before in the past always
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worth a revisit
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rita's general store this mural has been
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here for many many years
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angela's fine apparel oh looking very
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dapper sir going through here oh look at
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that that's a nice little hat
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right there this kind of reminds me it
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looks like chevy chase
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circa 1983
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to 85 just an estimated
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time frame of that it is not modeled
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after clark griswold however
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yeah this is the toho square parking lot
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about a block or so from the one that
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was on the paper
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said i could park out i'm just taking a
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little stroll got some time
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i can cut through here this building
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burned down
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a decade ago or so
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and then recently they put a mural of an
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owl
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right over here on this wall rather
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fantastic
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and another mural on this wall
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it's like a robotic cowboy and horse
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almost kind of steam punkish in a way
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look down here you can see the
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former foundation the tile work of what
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once was
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back in the early 90s i would say 1991
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when i first started driving an
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automobile got my license
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17 year old me
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this illusions establishment was
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what was it it was a pawn shop or maybe
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this was the pawn shop
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this is going back 25 oh gosh 30 years
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ago now
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right up here is the parking structure
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that they recommended to park out corner
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of emmett
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and orlando fascinating this is emmett
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street
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also turns into highway we're not
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highway 192
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does not turn into this you turn off of
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highway 192 which
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eventually becomes emmett also main
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street also orange blossom trail
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and also broadway if you look back down
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this way
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you will see street signs historic
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downtown saying broadway and also orange
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blossom trail
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and also emmett
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it's very confusing
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that's a bed and breakfast or at least
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it used to be don't know if i've ever
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seen
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gates without any partitions on either
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side there's
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there's nothing on either side stopping
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anyone from walking around usually there
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will be like a concrete
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concrete pillars on either side
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that might be a first i've never seen
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something like that almost to the
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can always tell when you start seeing
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the attorney's
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signs when there's a courthouse there
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will be attorneys nearby
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in the general vicinity
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that you can hire
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one courthouse square
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the new courthouse would be just around
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this building
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which is where it's supposed to report
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to
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the original courthouse still remains
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that is right over here going to take a
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look
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showcase off this for for a moment
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the original osceola county courthouse
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still stands over there is the newer one
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where all the proceedings take place and
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the admin osceola county
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administration's office
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is right here this is relatively new as
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stated earlier i
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have not ever been called to a jury now
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i have gotten many a summons
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probably i don't know six or seven or
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eight over my lifetime
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only one time maybe twice let's say
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twice
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one that i am certain of twice i have
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slept since then so i forgot forgotten
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but there was another time
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that i was released earlier in the day
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and then one time that was a lengthy
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day that i sat in this very courthouse
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till about
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4 or 5 p.m and they said you can go
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so i did i've never been inside
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a courtroom on a jury or in a courtroom
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being tried
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for anything like that now i have been
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in you know museums
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that are courtrooms have been in small
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town courtrooms that let you in just to
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film videos and whatnot
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which brings me to another point didn't
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really know how to go about this episode
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it kind of put out the feelers a little
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bit and just discussing it with others
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came to the conclusion that you can
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mention that you do get a summons
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you don't want to show all the specifics
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that's why i kind of marked them out on
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the
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on the piece of paper but you can't talk
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about it you just cannot talk about the
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specifics and once the judge
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if you're called you know any
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information any specifics or any kind of
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details he gives you you have to abide
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by
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but doing this and just mentioning it
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that's fine i also want to point out how
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the legal system
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and how due process and all that works
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a lot differently than it did a hundred
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years ago
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because in this very spot i have to i'm
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to match it up but in
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believe it's in this very spot 100 years
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ago
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was the last public trying
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and punishment for someone who was
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convicted
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and they were i don't say they were not
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only sentenced
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but an event took place right here
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and there are some interviews there are
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some writings there are some newspaper
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transcripts
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of locals in the area who at some of the
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homes
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witnessed this happening right here next
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to the staircase his name was eddie
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broome
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january of 1912 was when this
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took place and there's yet another
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another one there you see the windows
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here and the drainage pipe that is there
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the water pipe those windows are still
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there now the camera
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was placed up on the staircase and they
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built
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the device to to provide the punishment
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on this side of the staircase so the
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photographer would have been up on
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probably an older version of that
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staircase it's probably been redone and
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re-bricked
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but facing towards me and this water
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pipe would have been more over there
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but in the photograph those two windows
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i'll walk around
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and show how the angle was
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and that was the last time that happened
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here in kissimmee florida
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at the courthouse that sort of
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punishment
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oh you know what i can probably i'm
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gonna walk up here
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eddie broom 1912
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right about here
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would be would be that angle
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there you go a little history right here
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osceola county courthouse history
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that's come a long way since
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you know the public was invited to to
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look in on stuff like this
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109 years ago is my math right on that
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all right going back down the stairs and
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over to the new courthouse
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there's some birds chirping out here it
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is a beautiful day when i think about
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films that depict the legal process when
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it comes to classics
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i always think of 12 angry men one of my
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favorites and to kill a mockingbird a
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true classic
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there are some newer ones you can't
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handle the truth
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which strike that from your memory that
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the whole jack nicholson impression i
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just did was a complete
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failure now behind me over here is the
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entrance now they do
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have some different procedures and
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regulations
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moderately different than in the past
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obviously
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as is required i have this
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which you go through and you have to go
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through the the metal detector there's
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quite a bit of a line looks like they're
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only letting
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a certain amount of people in very
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slowly you know searching
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making sure that everything is good to
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go now
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here is well i don't call it a conundrum
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i could get excited about this
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but i honestly would have liked to see
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how jury duty takes place how it happens
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you can either go on the website or call
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a phone number
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i just chose to go on the website still
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had about another hour before it was
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time for me to check in
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and because i did that i had a
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higher number i guess maybe there's one
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through a thousand i had the the
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upper number of that which some would
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say
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is easier to be excused during don't
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know the whole
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details of that maybe it's because too
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many people already showed up
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or maybe the case that i could have been
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on
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has been postponed or cancelled
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nonetheless
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i am done with my jury duty completed
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without even stepping foot inside
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of there i don't know how to feel about
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that because i kind of wanted to
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i kind of wanted to do it i've never
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done it now i am no expert
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on the way the system works but i've
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heard
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that it's just about every year so in a
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year from now
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in a year from now i could get another
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one of these papers
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and have my chance to do this or maybe
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the type of job description i have
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they might not be into that i'd probably
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get dismissed anyway but a year from now
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maybe don't quote me on any of this
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all i know is as of today i will not be
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going
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inside this courthouse and getting
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called for jury duty
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if i would have there would have been
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this you know whoop
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public when very windy the health
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message here
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that everything is abided by there are
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all the instructions
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if you do not have internet access it is
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very windy
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you get the idea you kind of get the
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idea oh there are also reasons
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for excusal or
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deferment which are posted here i didn't
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even try to get out of it
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i didn't try to get out of i just i was
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kind of kind of wanting to do it in a
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way i don't know if i want to serve on a
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long
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trial but i would like to at least get
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called and then dismissed
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that's never even happened i've just sat
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in the waiting room before years ago
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but never oh there's also
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some juror compensation
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i remember polly shore teaching me a
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little bit about that
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back in the day one of those movies
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speaking of movies i guess i forgot to
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mention that
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along with the two classics all right
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that's done
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did it did it osceola county
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very easy i just stepped on a stick
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a little anti-climactic in my in my
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brain feeling this is a little
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anti-climactic
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you know trying to document this however
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if it had happened
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if something had happened and i did get
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called
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there would be no climactic because i
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wouldn't be able to mention it
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so the fact that nothing happened is
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more climactic than if something did
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happen
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which is usually not how things work
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especially these videos
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very confusing almost like the street
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obt
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emmett broadway plus you have main
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all the same road that this building is
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located on
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as the bus goes by the links
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transportation
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ah for quite a while many many years
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back in the mid 90s didn't have a car
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had a car where i started driving
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1991. then i didn't have a car for a
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while
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i take that links bus all over the place
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bringing back some memories
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the kissimmee connector this is link 57
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one thing i've always wondered how do
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they even know
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you received this how do they know this
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got to one's
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mailbox is it because you call
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and say i got it because i think they
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tell you to call
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when you get this or how does that work
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how do they know
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this showed up to your mailbox
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i guess if you film yourself talking
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about it that's one way
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adam
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that's gonna do it for today
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i'll see you in the next video the vlog
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from downtown kissimmee
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is over
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oh check it out right up there in that
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corner