Kansas City VIP Stadium Tour Before Tornado Weather Moved In - Hotel Power Out & Sad Disney History
Kansas City July 2023
Transcript
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today's adventure begins from my hotel
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room in Kansas City Missouri
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as the recording of us it is Friday
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July 14 2023
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and The View
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from this window shows
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the Kansas City Royals Stadium
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off in the distance
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Windows a little dirty let me go over
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this way just a little bit
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walking distance from my hotel I am
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knocking off my 15th stadium that I have
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been to while rooting for the Tampa Bay
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Rays
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I'm gonna knock them all out I'm halfway
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to accomplishing all of them now
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tonight's game hopefully will not get
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rained out there's going to be some
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storms rolling in
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you always get some kind of severe bad
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weather in this neck of the woods this
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time of the year
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so curious to see if there's going to be
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a rain delay I hope not
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George Brett Bridge
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you think of the Royals
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Kansas City's Hometown hero
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dedicated this on April 7th of 97 and
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look
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has a signature there I'm not sure if
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that really was how his signature look
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look at his last name
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looks like it spells something else
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I know a lot of people including myself
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think of George Brett when you think of
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the Royals
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but I think of Bo Jackson
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former royal stadium now called Kaufman
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Stadium welcome everyone Adam the woo
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here very sunny a little warm not as
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humid as Florida but definitely hot
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I also did not realize till now that the
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Kansas City chief stadium is right next
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to Kaufman the former
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royal stadium where I saw Bo Jackson I
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that was my favorite player Bo Jackson
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won the Heisman trophy for the Auburn
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Tigers the brief time frame when I was
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very young that I was in the football
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college football was in the panhandle of
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Florida a couple of my friends were
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really into Auburn so you gotta check
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this guy Bo out
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and I just really I followed his career
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earlier getting into playing for the
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Royals playing for the Raiders football
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and just love Bo Jackson I used to have
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the poster on my wall as a as a young
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lad and right inside of there obviously
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you know many many other players too but
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it definitely floods into my head
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Bo knows
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if he I always wonder if Bo Jackson
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would not have gotten injured and tried
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to play two sports what kind of
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Superstar he was already a superstar but
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what he what kind of level he would have
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gone to if he had not gotten permanently
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injured
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I'm heading in I'm inviting you to join
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me for a stadium tour and
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a baseball game
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doesn't look like there's going to be
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any rain yet
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but
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the weatherman I was watching the news
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last night in my hotel room and also
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looking at the app says there might be a
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storm coming in join me shall you
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Jackson County Sports Complex
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Authority
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so that's what the two stadiums make up
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pretty express bus that's probably a
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good time on that thing oh my goodness
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they have a bow shirt oh look at this
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look at this they got all kind of boat
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Jacks and stuff no both of these teams
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are in the American League Of Course
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Tampa Bay is on the American League east
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and they are at the top they're two
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games over Baltimore Kansas City is at
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the bottom of the Central right now okay
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I did an early check-in and as part for
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the course of most Stadium tours I've
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done they give you a little pin as well
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as the tourism experience is Kaufman
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state in Kansas City Missouri lanyard
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here and then across the back it has the
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date on it right there got my
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credentials I can almost have like a
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Wayne's World moment
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also kind of looks like a spaceship back
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there from this angle not inside but
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from from the exterior has a nice breeze
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out today too
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it's nice
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pulling up the weather it's 89 right now
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it's going to get to 9301 and that's
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when the precipitation percentage goes
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starts to kind of go up and then look
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tonight okay they're going to start off
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in the diamond tour or the Diamond Club
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I'm not sitting in this section but it
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also there was no we couldn't purchase
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any water in the gift shop they had uh
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they had merchandise for sale but
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there's no beverages so the guide was
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nice enough to get me
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a bottle of water that's the visitors
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Clubhouse so these stadiums they open on
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72 we opened them 73. this is opening
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night 1973.
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73. coming into the Press Box
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that's great
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um he's now part of our broadcasting
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team
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so if you listen to Royals game
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we hosted the All-Star Game back then
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this is interesting this was the stadium
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before 73 this is seven this is when the
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stadium was built before the renovations
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but this was the stadium for the Royals
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before 73 and the guy was saying that
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the Beatles played here it's the only
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time the Beatles ever played in Kansas
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City that played in the old stadium
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right there on that field so their
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mascot has some of the stuff he's going
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to be riding around later like the dirt
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bike the Razor scooter
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a little four-wheeler
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could we see on the field later when the
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mascot's on there
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and a random shovel
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flag the mascot they're at the winning
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flag
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s
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or ball girl on the third base side and
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they've got a
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a little stool here usually they're
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glove and their their helmet is there
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our fires are right here
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all the baseballs are kept inside that
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closet and so that used to be sure so we
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have one Jewel in one Clubhouse
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it's a baseball humidor all the
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baseballs are in there I didn't know
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that every player's number is up there
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where a player guys
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usually it's like very uniform but yeah
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but this is their where they keep the
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bats so a lot of dugouts have both the
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helmets and the bats up in the Dugout or
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the dents in the door from like being
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angry and hitting it yeah so both the
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home and the visiting side the dents on
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the door are are I haven't witnessed it
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but I think there are players who are
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frustrated after a strikeout or go out
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on the field but if you want to take
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pictures take all the photos
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all right cool I'm going in another
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Dugout hopefully yeah let's just let
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this other tour group they're leaving
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let's let them Buy
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yes oh just do it straight I know but
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I'm doing everything
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that's interesting beginning great times
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and other times for television and also
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the renewable play types and
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non-renewable play types
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what I'm one of the players right here I
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just never had the talent or the
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initiative or the drive or the work
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ethic to make it happen but this is
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where the MLB players for the Royals
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play the Rays and all the opposing teams
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of visitor teams
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right over there we were not able to go
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in their dugout
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they didn't have that 73
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composite wood here and air conditioning
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oh that's AC
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that was in the 90s
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we have the second we have the largest
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Battlefield in the American League
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second to Colorado
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this is their barber shop
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take a look at this you even have the
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barber pools up the barber chair over
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there too
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it's all right oh there's like
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autographs
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yeah I said I said watch your stuff
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there's a camera on the floor
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yeah
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I got this uh yeah
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what's the quarterback before Patrick
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Mahomes for the Chiefs commissioner of
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baseball Rob Manfred Tom Watson as a PGA
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British Open winner that's from Kansas
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City a lot of former Royals Alice Cooper
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the singer says with all my blood Alice
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Cooper Scott Ripken Jr so uh oh right
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there yeah oh yeah and then uh I need a
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vacation from Rex Cal Ripken Jr he was
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teammates with Rex for a while on the
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Orioles the rec toddler is our
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our animals
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where's Manford on here
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um
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right underneath Joe Carter so 29.
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in the front right
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there were a couple foul balls that came
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in here and put a hole in the wall down
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there uh one of them almost took out Cal
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rip again we have two announcers up
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front third announcer back here on the
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left and then our producer engineer on
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the right so four people working in here
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oh look there's the cough button that
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looks like commutes everything
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all right just sitting right here comes
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right between your the two heads
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your Dent right down there too that's
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where Brian and Andy will be tonight oh
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that's
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it
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and then
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all right another special treat we don't
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always get in here but uh we're gonna so
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this is the um
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front row is the public address
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announcer in here and then
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um macro is the music the guy that does
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all the walk-up needs
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something you normally can't go on this
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is the scoreboard room oh my
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look at this
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is our engineer you also I'll tell you
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my worst day and my exciting day how
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about that sure because I really like
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technology so if if I pull into the
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parking lot and I see that that board is
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not working and I know I got a lot of
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work that's my worst day because I'm
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like oh man boards broke I gotta fix it
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now my best day is when I pull into the
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parking lot and I see that that board's
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not working it's pretty cool because now
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I get to fix it
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remove this
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you'll be surprised at how far you get
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by reading you know how far you get by
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doing what no one else wants to do
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exactly because most people in this um
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like we'll say a camera guy for instance
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most camera guy if you want to be a new
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camera guy I'll show you what I remember
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to tell you you'll do it and you'll go
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your whole careers for when it rains
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because it's an old stadium they got the
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tube
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going up to the upper
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decks those were a giveaway item last
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year the Slugger tiles and so they're
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just collecting
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water we have somebody from every city
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wanting to watch their player Oh over
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here in the corner says do not sit here
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because they don't want anybody above
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the person that's operating the new
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pitch clock which is over here at the
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corner this is where the pitch Hawk
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takes place
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you'll go through this gift store over
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here today we're going to come back off
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this place
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oh that's interesting it was called The
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Royal Lancers
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this is a pre-1877 base and then this is
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a 18 post
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1876 base a little bit bigger look at
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these like it's like it looks like
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something you can lay your head on and
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be comfortable it's like a pillow George
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Brett rookie uniform
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1973 that he assigned and wrote that
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little handwritten note there this is
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George wrote three thousandth of the
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ball and that he ended up hitting
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3154. the founders there him and his
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wife
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and I believe Bo there wasn't a lot of
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bow stuff in the in the museum there was
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just his All-Star Game trophy that was
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it it's one little thing but they were
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playing a video where the longest home
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run hit the stadium he hit 470 something
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feet to Center and it landed like right
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here
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that was pretty awesome gonna head back
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to the hotel now relax get out of the
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Heat and then head back over later if
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the game happens and hopefully the
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weather cooperates all right it's now
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four o'clock
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a little bit of an update there is a
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heavy thunderstorm
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and tornado warning in the area
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and the game
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has been
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postponed it will not be happening today
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so there will be no baseball played over
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there the field
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and just kind of hoping for the best of
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this weather
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it's going to be uh
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according to the weather it's going to
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get pretty pretty intense
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power just went off
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power just went off I just saw a golf at
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the stadium too
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power just went off in the room and the
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stadium
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in this right when I was filming all
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right can't tell if power's off at the
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state it might be on a different grid
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over there but in the parking lot
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here at the hotel and in the room power
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went out
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man that is so look at that wind blowing
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I mean I guess it's kind of hard to tell
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through the window but it looks like the
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the water from the rain is getting blown
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across the roof like straight towards
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this hotel this is like not even going
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straight down it's just going almost at
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like a
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parallel to the ground angle
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I'll go down to the lobby and see if the
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I mean the power is off and maybe
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there's a warm coffee down there you get
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with the probably still heated up
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time we'll go down the ground level and
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see this too
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that lights blinking now with the power
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in the hotel's not back on
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's coming down so far
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that's the roof up there this is the
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ceiling and the roof above it so it's a
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wind hitting above the top of the roof
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oh I just came back on oh we're going
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off again
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should probably be down on the bottom
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level all right there is power on the
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top level that are just oh it's just the
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uh
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the reserve power that they have on down
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okay no matter what happens
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I'll be caffeinated
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all right there's a worker on
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the line with the fire department there
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are people stuck in the elevator
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severe thunderstorm watch until 7 4 40
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right now
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it's like this newspaper article damage
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you wouldn't entail possible starts
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threatened KC area
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what we're looking at now currently
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and there are a lot of people waiting to
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check in still
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thankfully they got the elevator open
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people got out of the elevator
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come and play with us Danny
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Danny's not here Mrs Torres
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all right it's subsided a little bit so
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I'm going out and about I'm gonna go by
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laugh-a-gram Studios see what's going on
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over there I always know I'm getting
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pretty close to Walt Disney's original
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Studio
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pre the Disney Studios yeah laugh a gram
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right up here
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I always know I'm getting close when I
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see that antenna off in the distance
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does it really look to be like it's in
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really good shape
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every time I've come by here it's kind
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of looked about like this someone ran
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into the side of it a couple years ago
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so supposedly they are renovating it
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but they've been saying that for like a
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decade
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and a lot of the artwork that were up
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there in the windows have been removed
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and you can just see into the top of the
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building all right let's Dodge some
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raindrops here real quick like and just
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show
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so as The Story Goes Walt found a mouse
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back here in this little wooded area and
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started to care for the mouse originally
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named him Mortimer Mouse
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and his wife Lillian
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told him he should
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well he used that okay a little more to
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the story he found the mouse over in
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here and used that as the inspiration
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for Mortimer Mouse and Mortimer Mouse
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became Mickey Mouse because Lillian said
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yeah probably a better you probably have
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a better name than Mortimer Mouse have a
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cuter Name That's How The Story Goes and
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it goes anyway
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there's Walt right up there so a while
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back someone ran into this someone drove
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into this
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smashed through here
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the Cradle of animation laughagrams
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and this went kind of Belly Up ended up
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going bankrupt moved to California
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and the rest is kind of History out
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there so I've always kind of looked at
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this you know the story of Walt and
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laugh-a-gram and not being able to
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accomplish something we just keep trying
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you never know what's going to happen so
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think of everything
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far as you know about Disney would not
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have happened
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if he had just tucked his leg or what
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what's the tucked his head
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in the sand tucked his head between his
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leg I don't know what the phrase is but
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if he would have given up
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what we know today the Disney
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Corporation
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they're doing some serious construction
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on that
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now there's a couple photos of wall
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there's a few out here I'll play up here
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doing some filming and things even back
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and that stuff that was never released
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there's like some kind of rare photos or
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kind of hard to find but they're
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of him on the roof
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with the camera doing some filming in
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his office the animation officers are on
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the back
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over there
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this is your update on laugh-a-gram
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pretty sad to see it in this condition I
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don't know what the holdup is on getting
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it renovated getting it fixed up
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I honestly don't know why Disney doesn't
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chime in with a bunch of cash and
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make it a museum of some sort
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put my camera back in the car
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so I didn't want it to get West I'm
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using my phone now
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going through here filming through here
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so I want to come over to this area
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and show the windows up there which
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hardly
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in the past were ever opened to where
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you could see in there
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now I've got never officially confirmed
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but doing a little research years ago
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when I came out here before I think my
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shoes untied but it's all right
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up here
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so in here
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was from what I can tell
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you had this back portion
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and some of those photos of him were in
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this very spot I would love to get in
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there one day and I really do hope
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that one day
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they get it all fixed up you see
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they got some new brick there so they
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are working on it it's just not coming
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along very quickly
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oh man that is
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first time I've ever seen that window
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open like that accessible like that I
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mean obviously can't get in there not
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safe my structurally sound
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nor is that building over there
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big Factory
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I've been stopping by here for
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over a decade on a
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I'll say a regular basis but every
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couple years or so
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and I'm really hoping that one day
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something happens
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it's a huge huge chunk
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of Disney history Walt history and
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Disney Corporation history
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I mean I guess technically it predates a
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couple years to the start when
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Walton Roy started the
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Disney company with that name without
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moniker
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but imagine a mouse right here finding a
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mouse going that would make for a good
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cartoon character animated character a
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name of Mortimer Mortimer became Mickey
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we have Mickey Mouse because of this
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here somewhere in here no one knows
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exactly where but
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That's How The Story Goes anyway and as
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I'm pulling away here just a kind of a
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final thought about laughagram
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it makes me sad to see this building
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like this
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and I don't know all the red tape behind
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it I don't know all the ins and outs and
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why it hasn't been completed and
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but just you know
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you got loud I mean just just thinking
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out loud for a minute think of how much
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money the Disney Corporation has think
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about even some of the Big Wigs some of
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the higher ups the head honchos in the
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corporation even if you don't want to
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even again I don't know if this is even
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available
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to be purchased by them but I would I
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would imagine so
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as a passion project even if it didn't
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have another company's pocket you would
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think that someone
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would put some money towards this
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and I believe the current restoration
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again I don't know I don't know all the
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facts and figures
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is just based on like a like funding
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from normal people
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but why should it be I mean just think
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think of the history and the backstory
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of this building
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and how much has come out of the
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imagination that started here
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why is it rotting away like this
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it just really makes me sad
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and I know this isn't probably the
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greatest area to be in I don't know if
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any tourists would come here maybe that
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is part of the problem
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but why not try
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but why not just invest the money into
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and even if it's even if it's just fixed
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up and and
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brought back to its Glo The Glory Days
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of how it was when Walt was here
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I just look at you know I just look at
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how big the corporation has gotten
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hotels theme parks movies streaming
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cruises
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and this thing just sits here rotting
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that's my thoughts on it
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pathetic
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makes me sad to say it like this
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gave it a little time though the first
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couple years I came by here over the
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last decade I was like oh yeah one day
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one day
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well one day has passed
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sorry Walt
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oh dang this tree just fell
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them winds were kicking
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the tree down in the road
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this is about a block over from laugh or
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Grant
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power's still not on here
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I have a feeling it's not going to be on
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the rest of night
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it has cleared up quite a bit though
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which is nice and the Sun is starting to
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set
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now my original plan
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was to go to the game tonight
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and then after that tomorrow morning
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I was going to head out early and head
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to my next destination
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Gabe did not happen this evening
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so I'm going to change things up a
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little bit
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because what I had planned tomorrow I
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was going to be leaving Kansas City
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tomorrow
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but now I don't know
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I'll be on the road for a while
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and I had some other ideas but the new
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the new baseball schedule came out for
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2024 they released it yesterday or the
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day before
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a couple days ago
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and according to my calculations
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I should be able to go to every baseball
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by the end of 2024.
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if everything goes well
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and that means going to every Stadium
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while the rays are playing
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so all 30 stadiums knocking them off the
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list by the end of 2024 unless something
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goes awry
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that's the plan anyway
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I think I can do it
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a lot of people have done all the
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stadiums I don't know how many people
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have done it going to see the team that
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they root for
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with the new scheduling that started
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this year every team plays every team
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sometimes away sometimes home so it
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takes you a couple years to do it and
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I'm gonna do it I'll see you the next
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video vlog
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but yeah I gotta reschedule my travel
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plans because I'm not leaving town
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tomorrow I'll see the next video the
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