Unusual Roadside Stops & Personal Stories (Some Good and Some Bad) Thru Mid Florida A1A Beach Towns
Florida A1A Beach Towns
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welcome everyone adam the woo here
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today's adventure begins here at the
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miracle chapel on highway 192.
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i'm going to be heading over to the
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coastline and going along
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well some of the the smaller beach
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communities
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just seeing what i can find just gonna
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peruse around
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the florida coast or the the far
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far east coast of florida just
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hit a few particular towns inviting you
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to join me
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yeah this place has seen better days
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how's it going
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a lot of cows right there next to this
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fence line
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what's happening just watching the
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traffic go by out here and the
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kind of sort of in the middle of nowhere
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florida
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yeah i'm heading over to the beach i'm
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not gonna yeah i'm not gonna take a dip
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in the beach or you know i'm not gonna
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swim
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i'm just gonna check out some of the
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small communities
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along the coast that's all right
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you all want to go too i don't know if
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there's any there's not enough room for
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you all in my car
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you gonna start a stampede no don't do
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don't do that all right i'll see you
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later
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see you later cows
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back on the road continued a little
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further down the road
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here at camp holly airboat
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rides i'm noticing this they have not
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only have gift certificates
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but look at this side if stupid could
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fly
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you'd be a jet are they referring to me
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that's not very nice located in historic
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downtown melbourne on the corner of new
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haven
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and oak street figured i'd stop off here
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and reminisce a little bit from 1995
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by punk rock days where i go to a lot of
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shows
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i saw blink 182 right over there on that
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very corner
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and this is link 182 before travis
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parker was the drummer
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scott raynor was was in the band at that
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time
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it was the chessire cat tour
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dude ranch had not even came out yet and
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they played next to the tattoo studio
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and that barbecue restaurant has a place
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called
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the tangled rose and the tangled rose
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was
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i believe it was a coffee shop and the
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coffee shop is long gone and now it's
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just a
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it's a place that has some merchandise
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for sale a little little gift shop
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if you will but i have fond memories of
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that i saw blink 182
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and unwritten law in fact i had a blink
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cassette before
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they became 182 and they used to give
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out a mailing list you would go to shows
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and write down your mailing address
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and they would send you information
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prior to the internet and email
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and i used to have a card that stated
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hey there is a techno group
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that is taking us to court so we have to
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add
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the 182 because there was another group
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by the name of
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blink that is neither here nor there
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they only played a few songs
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inside that little establishment i
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believe someone was crowd surfing
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and broke their leg so two songs then
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show ended and i do recall tom delong
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and myself and a couple friends sitting
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underneath that little awning which is
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now the barbecue place it was like kind
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of an abandoned place next to the coffee
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shop
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and he was talking about how they played
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some shows overseas and they had sold
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one thousand dollars
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worth of merchandise and he was very
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excited about that and thinking of their
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popularity now
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he probably wouldn't be so excited about
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only selling a thousand dollars worth of
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merchandise
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in sold out stadium shows anyway
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it's just kind of a long-winded little
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memory i have
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right over there the tangled rose
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yeah it brings back some memories just
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in this parking lot waiting for the show
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to begin
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and afterwards
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pretty cool going over the bridge now
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over the bay
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heading towards the ocean just a couple
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miles away to the shore
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go pelicans go go pelicans go
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a flock of pelicans this was the
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location
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same address 980
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of the groove tube in in the atlantic
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you can feel the the breeze coming off
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the water
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just across the road here is is the
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shoreline
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in fact you can see some of the condos
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over there as well
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i saw sublime here
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in front well in this parking lot
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the front of the building has changed
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quite a bit
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but this was a surf shop and not just a
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surf shop
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it was titled the groove tube and they
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had music
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even prior to cds i bought a lot of
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cassettes here in fact they had one of
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the best selections
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in central florida for punk rock ska
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and the likes of that and i would drive
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all the way over from saint cloud
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sometimes i go up to orlando
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but sometimes i head over to the
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coastline to the groove tube
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and get cassette tapes i bought a lot of
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stuff on dr strange records fat records
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similar to that and i picked up a band
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by the name of sublime
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on cassette tape right inside
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these doors and you know about a year
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later well maybe even less than a year
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they played a show here that you can be
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found online
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called a day in the sun and you'll
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notice
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if you ever watch that the address
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980 is the same
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even though they've added these glass
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windows there were
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pillars here and brad and the rest
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of the guys right here the power trio
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if you will we're performing doing a
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little
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jam session i would say there were maybe
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only
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50 of us that congregated
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here in the parking lot and the
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gentleman here at the groove tube there
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were
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a few different employees they did an
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interview right here
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next to sublime's van this restaurant
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still remains all this time later as
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does the facade of the former
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grew to even though those pillars have
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long been oh by almost just
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tripped over this palm tree shell
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right there oh yeah look at that you got
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those little coconuts up there they
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could fall on you
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you got to watch out for that another
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interesting fact is
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also in 1990 that's a lot of 1995 1995
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was not only what i mentioned earlier
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but also when sublime performed here
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as well as it was also right in here
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where i purchased
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this wallet that i have had in my
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possession
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every day in my back pocket held
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together by
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stickers vinyl stickers duct tape the
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same chain
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yes i'm still wearing a chain wallet
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that is connected
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to my belt loop purchased it right
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inside the groove tube here
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i went to a concert bad brains
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at the edge in orlando got my previous
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wallet stolen
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next day drove out here and
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bought this wallet which i still have
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it's returned
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to the site of its purchase that's a
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groove to
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nine eight zero
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documented there the pillars are gone
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the memory of sublime performing here
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not a lot new about
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that is gone just to some who may have
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been here who have forgotten it
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or those who were driving by had no idea
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what band was performing there
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but my wallet yes
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still exists it's still here my wallet
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has made the return to the groove tube
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you've served me well for 26 years
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26 years ago holy cow and i say holy cow
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because there's a
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moose ice cream right there that was a
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coincidence there's a moose ice cream
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right there that
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steamed around cows corner of franklin
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and a1a
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moose ice cream oh my goodness
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look at this right here this is a huge
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hot dog there's a cow behind this hot
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dog hello cal
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here's a little reference photo notice
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the 980
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there's plenty of video of this you got
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to use your columbo like research skills
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nope groove tube sublime day in the sun
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those are some hits okay moving on
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ah little throwbacks a little having a
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little nostalgia fest
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right now continuing down a1a
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beachfront avenue i think there's a song
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stopped off here at pelican beach
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satellite beach wouldn't make a lot of
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sense to be this close to the water and
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not
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show the shoreline so gonna walk
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up they do have parking over to the side
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do not park where the clubhouse is
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however
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there's one of the rules as well as
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no dogs are allowed on this beach
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there's the ordinance right here
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satellite beach
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it's a little windy it's a little gusty
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a couple of fishermen are out here
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doesn't look to be too many people
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swimming
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very brisk good thing i have my hoodie
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on
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very beautiful satellite beach
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here on the coast this is in front of a
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local pizza place
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very reminiscent of what you see down in
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key west
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right i think that's supposed to be an
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homage to that i believe
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pretty neat right here cebelli's pizza
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laid back beach life satellite beach
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kind of wondering if it's gonna rain at
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all
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see some cumulative clouds up there
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in great proportions the whole sky is
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filled with clouds
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so it might get a little shower or two
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maybe not though check out those
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planes over there and that dump truck
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going by
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there's some planes and a car going by
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yeah look at those planes
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a few of them big old big old ones ah
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the former glass bank building
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cocoa beach florida that's what it
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looked like in its
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heyday this
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is all that remains of that very iconic
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structure that stood right here in this
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now
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empty lot torn down a few years ago
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and this this piece of property
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holds a little place in my heart i don't
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say a special place in my heart
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but nonetheless it sits very prevalently
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prevalently in my mind because
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it was here that the reason i do not do
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abandoned
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videos without permission anymore
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i do not sneak around and go in places
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was based on
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what happened following by going up into
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the different
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levels of the glass bank that stood
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right here
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went entered from that area after all
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the windows
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had been taken out even though some
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local news companies had also
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filmed inside
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i caught wind of that showed up with a
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few friends
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and we entered the premises
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and kind of went to the top filmed
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up on the roof documented a little
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history before
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its demolition and that came back to to
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haunt me
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obviously when you put something out
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there especially
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in video form that is frowned upon
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there could be consequences and
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i decided you know what i i'm done with
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that that is i'll leave that to others
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i'm gonna move on to other subject
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matters that is a part of my past
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go do an abandoned thing people always
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ask you should do more abandoned videos
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well i'm here to say there will be no
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more abandoned videos and there hasn't
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been
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for many many years and it stemmed
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from the glass bank it wasn't anything
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major
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it served time but
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there was there was definitely a
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punishment involved
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not good something that was just more of
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an inconvenience
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than anything else i don't want to dive
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too deep into it it seems like something
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that would just kind of be a little
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like a little slap on the wrist that was
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me give me a little slap on the wrist
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and that's pretty much
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kind of what it was maybe a little more
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than that and i just decided i don't
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know i don't have time
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to be be doing this type of this type of
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stuff anymore so i don't
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and that's why spoiler alert that is
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that is the reason
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why you will no longer see me doing that
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type of that type of stuff
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i did it a lot in my past but i moved on
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oh yeah take a look at this in fact some
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might even know that i even did a lot of
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that type of content i was kind of known
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as the abandoned guy
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i was the guy that did abandoned videos
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yep this has been years and years and
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years ago now
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okay i'm crossing over on a show
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right here is cocoa beach
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their favorite sun right there
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check it out still here that's awesome
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right across from where the glass bank
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used to sit robert kelly slater i never
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realized he went by his middle name
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kelly slater world surfing champion
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many many years has all stated there
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honoring kelly slater
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and just up the way about another half a
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mile or so
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is i dream of genie
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lane might be tough to
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see there just because it's very cloudy
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and overcast but a little more
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specifications i dream of genie was part
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of cocoa beach
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when a television sitcom well most of us
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already knew that ran from 1965 to 1970
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70. was a two-sided barbara eden played
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a 2 000 year old
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genie and larry hagman which you might
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also know from dallas
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he was an astronaut the tv series was
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set in and around cocoa beach
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barbara eden visited coco in 1996
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when the i dream of jeannie street sign
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was placed
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at lori wilson park oh look over there
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there's a helicopter going by see a
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helicopter going over
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the top there of lori wilson park
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there's a
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little dog park there as well the
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brevard county historical
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commission is also to thank
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go on this line see if we can see it a
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little bit better
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yeah probably not should probably maybe
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i'll zoom in a little bit and you can
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yeah it's very silhouetted out there i
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dream of jeannie lane
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now don't quote me on this but i believe
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this is the world's largest
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ron's john surf shop and they have the
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little tikis out front saying hello is
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it well that gentleman just walked by
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but i think this is the world's largest
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ron johns the building itself is
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is very massive very massive building
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i like the architecture the the
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formation of it is pretty neat too it
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kind of gives that
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almost like almost like old school
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hollywood vibes here on the beach
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kind of reminds me of that for some
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reason the cocoa beach
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trolley dropping off or maybe picking up
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a few guests who were on their way to
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enjoy a very overcast day on the pier
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now i do not recall the exact year but
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it was late
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90s that there was a local rock station
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i believe in orlando oh there's a cruise
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ship way out there too
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that hosted the toadies the band the
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toadies
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rock band and they performed they set up
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a stage right here on this sand
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and the toadies played and me and a
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couple friends
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drove over and watched the toadies
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perform
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it was kind of fun because when they
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started playing a bunch of surfers
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ran out of the water and
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a a nice little little slam dancing
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ensued
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myself and my friends partook of
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right here in the sand kicking sand all
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over the place it was
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quite an experience i don't think they
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expected that to happen
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but probably a hundred folks or so were
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swirling around right there in the sand
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i wish i knew what year that was and
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what date that was that was
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that was a while ago but it's forever
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etched in my head
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here at the cocoa beach pier
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right now you could right with this the
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shoreline in view
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passing through cape canaveral now look
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at that thing
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over there
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this is a drawbridge i'm going over when
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the signal alerts
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and these close the drawbridge will
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operate right now it is
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able to be driven over however
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underneath the sign tua systems or
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tua systems i'm not sure which it is
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merit island and this kind of reminds me
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what you'd see on a back lot
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where you'll have a facade that is
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filmed only from the front so you do not
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need to
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decorate the construction area
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of the back portion and i'm just
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mentioning that because you'll see there
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is no
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theming on the back of this sphere
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right here none at all because you can't
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see it from the thoroughfare
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but when you are driving by you can get
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a peek
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at earth i almost just almost just sunk
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down you can see my feet prince
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and the murkiness of this
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ditch take a look at that that's the
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earth right there
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north and south america the oceans
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i even see some whirling winds
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okay i'm going to go back over here i
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probably even shouldn't even do this
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go back over take a look at this there
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is a hurricane
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of brewing as well as a siren goes by
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oh and i think under here might even be
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an ant bed
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perhaps or maybe something has rooted oh
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i don't even know i don't even know
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what's underneath there there might be
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an animal
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of some sort but yeah look it's just
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like it's
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only half painted
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there's some debris over there palm tree
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debris
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as well pretty neat it's not even a
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perfect circle
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no no not the music group that josh
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freeze played drums in for a while
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that's not what
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i was referring to
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a lot of musical references in today's
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episode go around this way
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you can see what it looks like from a
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distance
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no no no not from a distance the bette
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midler song the follow-up hit
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to win beneath my wings i can do this
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all day i can do this all day
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here it is earth
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here in merritt island all right leaving
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the shoreline
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that's interesting that bridge is a
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little higher going the opposite way
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heading back into the mainland
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clear it up a little bit it's not as
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cloudy as it was earlier
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like the sun is starting to peek out
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just a bit
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