A Wasted Trip To Tropicana Field Yard Sale - Day In Downtown St Pete / Planet Retro & Oddities Expo
St Pete Florida
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Welcome everyone. Adam the Woo here as a
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recording of this Saturday, the last day
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of May. Saturday, May 31st, 2025.
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Starting off here backside of art deco
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7-Eleven here in Celebration, Florida.
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Got my piping hot caffeinated beverage.
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Mike Dirts turn up the base green day
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roast, which they have almost every time
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I'm in here, they're out of it. But
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today got lucky enough to try
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it. Oh, it got a little uh Mike little
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Mike D flavor right there. Bass player
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Green Day. One of the reasons is to
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really be influenced by the early era of
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that band way back in the day. You know,
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Kplunk, Dookie, Up to
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Warning, Somniac, Nimrod, loved those
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albums. When I started playing bass, I
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used to pick up the bass guitar and play
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along with with Warning off the Warning
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album. It was one of the first songs I
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ever learned. and Geek Stink Breath was
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the first ever song that I learned to
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play on bass guitar. So, cheers to you.
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Early era Mike Dirt. Look at
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this. It's always reminds me of that
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scene from Frankenstein where it's like
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on the shoreline of the lake there and
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he finds the little girl.
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I don't know why it gives me that gives
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me that thought process.
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Today I am heading over to St. Pete to
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Tropicana Field. Of course, the Tampa
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Bay Rays. I am wearing an appropriate
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hat, but it's on it's on backwards. Are
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having a the Rays are not in town. They
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are currently in Houston. Last night,
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they lost to the Astros 2 to1. The day
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before that, they annihilated the Astros
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so that the series is tied up. They are
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not playing at Tropicana Field even if
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they were here in Central Florida or
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Florida. They're playing over at Stein
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Burner Field. But there is a heavy
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strong rumor. I think there might have
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even been an announcement that in future
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years, maybe next year or the year
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after. I don't think it'll happen next
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year, the Rays will be playing again at
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Tropicana Field. And I haven't been
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there in a long time. They're having a
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huge yard sale in the parking lot of
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Tropicana Field. So, I'm heading over
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there. Hopefully, I4 westbound is kind.
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This is a long intro. I'm going to get
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moving. I'm inviting you to join me.
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Look at this. It's an appropriate
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t-shirt right here. Grim Reaper holding
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a pour in a cup of Joe. Join me. Let's
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get over to St. Pete. Also, might hit
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some record stores over there and some
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thrift shops. Who knows where the day
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leads. Join
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me, shall you? Whoa. Is this true? an
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hour and 16
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minutes. What the heck? I mean, it is a
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Saturday and it's only 10:45, so it'll
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be a couple hours before traffic starts
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to get a little bumper to bumper. Also,
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they have widened I4 westbound from the
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Celebration I4 interchange where the
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Mickey Power Pole is from three lanes to
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four lanes once you get a couple miles
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down past 27. and then it starts to
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bottleneck again. That could be why. But
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I think it's just because it's a
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Saturday morning and it's not after the
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hour of noon yet. I'm going to try to
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get if I can get over there in an hour
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and a 15. Let's say even an hour and a
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half. That would be maybe the best time
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ever. I'm for it. Let me get moving. On
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a normal day, a normal weekday about 2
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and 1/2. Well, two, let's call it 2
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hours. On a really bad day, if traffic's
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backed up, 2 and 1/2 hours. But even on
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a good day, it's usually two hours. So,
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I will take an hour and 15. Let's call
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it an hour and a half commute. Mickey
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Powerball. I'll take it. Let's do this.
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Doesn't say anything about rain or
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shine. Just says Tropicana Field Charity
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Yard Sale today, 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
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Lot 7. I don't know how the weather
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might do. What might affect it, though?
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We'll see. Uh-oh. Little bit of a
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bottleneck. Little bit of a slowdown in
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Plant City. Don't get discouraged, Big
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the Foot. It's just a little little
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slowdown. I think we're still on par for
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the time it said it would
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take
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possibly. I think it's just this little
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section. We'll see. We'll see. Second
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backup is over here getting through the
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Eore Tampa corridor.
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Still on par to make it there in about
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an hour and a half, which is not bad.
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Only a couple
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backups. We're passing through Eore now.
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Tampa Skyline over there. I'm going to
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be going past Tampa, though. I'm on my
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way to St.
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Petersburg. Cross the Bay Bridge. I've
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been over it in a while. Yeah, that's
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quite the side over there. Tropicana
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field with no roof. Torn off last year
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during the
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hurricane. Now, this is a fundraiser for
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the
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truck. Look at
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that. So, the rumor mill says that next
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year the Rays are going to be playing
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back at Tropicana Field. I don't feel
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like that's going to happen. If I was a
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betting man, I'd say they're going to be
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at Steinbrunner again next year. They're
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probably going to do one more year at
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Steinbrunner and then figure it out from
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there. But, who
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knows? They're all out of everything.
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They're out of everything. That's what
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someone told us. They're all out. Okay.
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I see people walking out with no bags.
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All right. Thank you. I was just told
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they're out of everything. Supposed to
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go till
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2:00. It is 12:17. Took me an hour and a
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half. So, I guess they're out of
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everything. Supposed to go till 2:00.
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But good turnout. Not really looking for
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anything in particular. I just wanted a
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reason to come to come over to the trop
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again. This whole parking lot is so
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full. That is great that this many
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people are turning out. I guess they had
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a deal that you could buy a $20 raised
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bag and fill the whole thing up with
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whatever merchandise they
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had. Pretty good
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deal. I'll check it out either way.
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Still going on till 2. It's only
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12:18. Made it all the way over here, so
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why not? There's a record store not far
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from here, too, that I might go check
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out. Hey, all this traffic is bringing
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back memories of all the games at the
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Trop I went to after they were over
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trying to get the Mass Exodus out of
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here. There's also some very
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strong speculation
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that there's some people in Orlando that
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are putting throwing their hat into the
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ring to try to move the Rays over to
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Orlando. I would be 100% on board for
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that just because I live closer to
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Orlando than I do to Tampa St. Pete. To
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say they're out of everything is
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completely an understatement. I mean,
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everything, all the merchandise,
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anything part of the garage yard parking
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lot sale has been erased from existence.
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There is nothing left at all. Now,
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they're still continuing the event until
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2:00 p.m. They do have some people out
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making little balloon animals to give to
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people. They were still they were still
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selling tickets. a guest part of the $20
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all you can take in all you can shove in
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a bag deal came with a free hot dog or
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maybe they're selling the hot dogs.
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People had I was noticing people had
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little tickets that you could show that
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get in the line show the ticket that you
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that you purchased the bag deal and you
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also got hot dogs and a bag of chip or a
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hot dog and a bag of chips. I did not I
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did not partake of that, but the line
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for the hot dog, the trop dog was really
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really lengthy. Again, good to see uh
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good to see a good turnout for the
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merchandise. Kind of interesting because
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a lot of times during Ray's games when
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they were here at the trop, people
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didn't really show up in droves to to
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see the team. I mean, they're showing up
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pretty good at Tropicana Field just
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because it's not Tropicana, but Stein
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Brener just because it's a different
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experience. But if you went to a lot of
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games, unless they were playing the Red
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Sox or the Yankees or one of the more
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mainstream MLB teams, you'd see a good a
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good
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crowd at the Trop. But on a normal
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night, if they were playing another team
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that wasn't a big market team, then the
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trop was definitely not full. But this
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seems to be a pretty a pretty hectic
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event. People showed up in masses to buy
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the to buy the merchandise. I don't even
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know how much merchandise there was. So,
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I'm just I'm just throwing my opinion
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out there. But, yeah, interesting to see
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the the trop again right here. Again, I
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don't I don't know if they're going to
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be playing in there next year. They say
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they are, but then what's going to
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happen in a few years when this then the
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lease is up on this and they have to
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tear this down anyway. So, originally
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the way it worked is the last game of
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2027 season was going to be the last
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game in Tropicana Field. They were they
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were going to play here till end of 27
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and they were going to build the stadium
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I think like in the parking lot and then
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after a year of that they were going to
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tear that down. The hurricane messed all
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that up. The stadium saga continues and
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completely was altered. They announced
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that they're not going to be building a
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new stadium right here. There's some
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announcement of them may they maybe they
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were going to move this move out of the
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state go to other areas. Then there's
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some heavy announcements about them
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maybe moving to Tampa. And then also in
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the recent months that they might move
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to Orlando. There's a company or an
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organization called the Orlando Dreamers
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that wants to again throw their hat in
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the ring. They obviously probably
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wouldn't would be the Orlando Rays, not
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the Orlando Dreamers. But again, I would
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be all I would be all for that because,
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you know, I'm close to there and I think
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they would be a it'd be a nice little
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change of pace and they would they would
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get a they'd be kind of in a new area.
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So, you get people driving over from
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Tampa. Then you get people from Orlando.
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You get some of the tourists that are
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going to the parks that think, you know,
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my my team's playing the Rays. Why don't
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I go over and and see my team as well,
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which will bring more people in as well.
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It's kind of like the same same scenario
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as what, you know, formerly Oakland days
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athletics playing in Sacramento for the
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next few years. They're going to move to
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Vegas and that's kind of be the market
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kind of for Vegas. You get people going
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to Vegas and they can go see the team
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that they root for if they're in town in
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Vegas. They can pop over to the Vegas
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stadium to see the Vegas A's versus
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whoever else. I think that could work in
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Orlando. Again, I'm just spitballing
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here and just throwing out my thoughts,
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but speaking out
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loud. It's also interesting. There's a
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lot of people still walking in thinking
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that the FanFest flea market is still
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underway. It's 12:41 right now. An hour
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and 20 minutes till it's supposed to
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end. And it's pretty much over.
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Early bird gets the worm. And I was not
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the worm today. I got here I got here
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halfway during the event and it's it's
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over. All right, moving on. Go to the
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Let me go to the record store. Let me
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get an umbrella first out of my car. Be
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the person your dog thinks you are. Pick
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up their poop. All right, I got the
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umbrella here just in case I need it.
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I'm going to walk past Tropicana Field
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and go over to Fergs, which was kind of
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the the local hangout spot for
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anyone that was going to Ray Games. And
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I would imagine because the Rays are now
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playing over in Tampa at Steinbrand are
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home games. Fergs has to be hurting. I'm
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sure they're they're really bummed about
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this whole thing because that was a
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majority of their business was on game
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days. All the ticket holders and fans
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from away games would go over the Fergs
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over here in the corner. So I'll pop by
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Fergs and see Fergs. See what's going
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on. Getting a nice little view also as
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I'm walking over to Fergs. Kind of a
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closeup of the railings and the the
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banisters on the upper the upper area.
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Yeah, if a foul ball hit it, it always
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changed the gameplay a little bit. Don't
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have that issue over at Steinbreer now
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cuz he's playing outdoors. But it's
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always interesting when the the balls
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would hit the the rafters and things.
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And then panning over across, still got
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Yandi here. Raise up Yandi Diaz right
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over here as well. It's like people have
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kind of tagged their name on Yandi's
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chest and on his shoulder there. But
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this is on the other side of the street
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from Fergs. Walk over here and check it
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out. He says right here, look at this.
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You see the little green banner here? It
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almost looks like a golf putting green
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and it has the word Fergs written across
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it. Little uh like a fence is still
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falling over from from the hurricane. I
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don't know what's going on
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over anything going on over here as
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well. Oh, over here. There's like a
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little classic car over here. Hold on a
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second. Look at
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this
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classic car alert right here next to
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this Coca-Cola. Oh, no. It's a Budweiser
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can. But you got classic car right over
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here next to this uh this beer camp.
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Yeah. So it's not just the stadium
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itself, you know, that's hurting from
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the fact that the hurricane did the
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damage, but also places that rely on
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business from people who go to the
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stadium. See the stadium right over
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there? You walk either across the road
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or through a little tunnel and you got
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the Ferg, the world famous Fergs. The
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iconic liquor store drive-in stood
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originally at the corner of 16th and
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Central for over 50 years in ' 61. It
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was constructed from a globe in 1950s
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furniture store refurbished and located
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here to preserve its heritage to keep
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its heritage illuminated. Moved here in
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2019 and I would say less baseball fans
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are probably seeing it now that the Rays
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currently now again some say next year
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the Rays will be back in here. I am not
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one of those people saying that. I think
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it's going to probably be another year
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if I was saying if I was a betting man.
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My opinion would be that the Rays are
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going to be at Steinbrer again next
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year. I feel like the Yankees are going
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to let the Rays use that stadium one
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more year until it gets all figured out.
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But yeah, what do I know? Just just
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again thinking out loud. Was like up
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here too. Not a lot of people out like
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all the little stands right there
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selling the Ray stuff. No, no one's out
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selling anything. Fergs is open for
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business if you want to get a adult
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beverage or adult beverage or a burger
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or anything like that. I do like this
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big boy right here. This Bob's Big Boy
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or Fresh's Big Boy. One of the big boys
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holding the burger. I always like seeing
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this. Oh wow. Last time I was over in
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this area. Time sure flies. They were
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building these condos
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here above the little little circular
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starburst, whatever this is called.
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Tampa Jay once told me that they refer
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to
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this as the St. St. Pete bee hole. You
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know what the B stands for?
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Oh, there's a there's some raised
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banners down the road,
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too. Yeah. Tampa J leaving Florida.
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He'll be back. He'll be back a lot. I'm
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sure I'll see him just as much as I ever
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did. He'll be back for, you know,
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Universal, Disney, Rays games, Central
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Florida stuff, haunt
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stuff. It's going to be weird not having
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Tampa
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J and Tampa St. Pete residing though. I
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miss that guy again. I'll see him
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probably just as much, if not
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more. I'm still going to see him just as
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much. There's a knocked over cone.
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Yeah. Yeah. This is a shop called Full
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Full Court St. Pete. They have an I miss
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trop custommade shirt here for
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$42. Oh, I wonder if they have them in
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here. That's
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Cinderella. Just vintage shirts. Snake
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bite. You can get yourself a I missed
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the chop shirt if you want them. They'll
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make one for you. I won't even think
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about bringing an e- scooter or an ebike
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on these sidewalks. Not through here.
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According to that sign, St. Pete, they
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don't allow it, but they do allow lots
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of great
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murals. A cat, a dog on that
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one. I always like this
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one. Got Felix there. You got a wacky
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Donald. You got a couple wacky Donald.
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You got regular Donald here, non-wacky
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Donald. Then you got more than wacky
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Donald with a paintbrush going through
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his eye right here. Then you got
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Garfield with three eyes. He uh took
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some of Donald's
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eyes. Well, he took one of Donald's eye.
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I don't Donald's other eye is right here
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in this little
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pyramid. Goofy has quite a third
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eye. Okay, I'm picking up a theme here
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with the different
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eyes. Yeah, this is a brand new building
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right there. Well, new to me at least
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since I've been over here. It was kind
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of nice walking through, you know, been
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walking through St. Pete a little bit,
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seeing everyone with Ray's hats and
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shirts and all that on. Kind of getting
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the vibe back over near Tropicana, even
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though there's no game. I kind of wish I
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was going I feel like I'm going to a
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game today, but they're playing in
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Houston
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today. And all the times I've been over
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here, I've never been inside this record
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store right here.
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It's called Planet
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Retro. In fact, this is maybe the first
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time I've been back in St. Pete since I
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bought a record player. I had a record
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player in the '9s. Collected a lot of
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punk rock stuff. Don't Don't ask me what
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happened to all that stuff from back in
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the '90s. But recently, now that I
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bought a
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house, I've been purchasing records
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again. It's
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fun. So, I'm going to buy some records
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over here at this vintage store, which
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has shirts, DVDs, books. There's some
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vinyl on the windows there.
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Planet
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Retro. There you go. Planet Retro right
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there. It has the Oh, it's almost like
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the solar system where it's like the
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ring around a planet except it's ring
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around a record player. And they are
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open. All right. I got two albums. I
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wish not always, but a majority of the
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time I try to buy albums in areas where
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I have memories of certain seeing
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certain bands or if a certain group or
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musician artist has an album cover
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that's filmed in a town. Did not go the
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album cover route, but I went with two
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bands that I saw in this area on more
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than one
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occasion. And I got a rare pressing, a
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test pressing from a band called Pink
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Lincoln, which I saw many, many times.
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These open up for every band you could
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think of over at the state theater just
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down the road. Test pressing on
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Jailhouse Records. And I was in a band
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that was on Jailhouse Records for a
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while. So kind of a nice little tie in.
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I was a band called TNT, The New Threat.
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We were on We were on Jail House. I also
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bought an AF AFI
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album. Love old school
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AFI. Early AFI was so good. Oh my god. I
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mean, I like the newer stuff, too,
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but I saw AFI in a little tiny place
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called The Refuge. Saw a lot of bands
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there. Ignite there, Straight Face, but
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I saw AFI and I bought an AFI album. And
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I'll show where I saw them back in the
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mid to late 90s right over here. And
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there's the split CD, Split Series
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Volume 1. I think that was
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2007. Reour put it put the Split out on
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Jailhouse Records right there.
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Non-existent record label. stick
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currently. So, everything's pretty rare
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now. I don't know if he ever put out
19:47
vinyl. I should buy vinyl from a band I
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used to be in. That'd be kind of fun.
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But I bought Pink Lincoln today. Great
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band from this coast, the Tampa Bay
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area, Tampa St. Pete area. Our logo is
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pretty neat. It was like a
20:01
skull. Yeah. First tour I ever did was
20:04
with this our time band 2007 with Jail.
20:07
It was a Jailhouse Records tour. Two
20:09
names, Mocha Joe's and the Refuge. I
20:11
think it was two different ones. I do
20:12
not remember what the address was, but
20:14
it was in one of these. It was in one of
20:16
these little little places right here
20:18
was where you see concerts in the '90s.
20:20
I
20:21
believe it was like right over in here
20:24
cuz I do remember some of the bands
20:25
would pull up their their vans here to
20:27
load in. So, this kind of this spot here
20:29
kind of looks familiar. And I feel as if
20:32
it was this spot right
20:34
here. There's a church here and uh some
20:39
other little spots. Yeah, The
20:41
Refuge. Saw many, many bands right in
20:45
here, including AFI, which was an
20:47
amazing
20:49
show. Probably 97,
20:52
96, maybe. This is it. This looks like
20:55
where it would have been. It's either
20:56
this spot here or the next spot right
21:01
over here. This feels like that was
21:09
it. Yeah, it was just like a little
21:10
stage. Little tiny
21:12
stage band would load in. This is this
21:15
address
21:17
350. So, it could have been
21:20
350. Again, this
21:22
looks this looks this looks familiar.
21:24
So, it's somewhere in here was the
21:26
refuge. And I bought an album at a
21:28
record store right down there, right
21:30
next to where I saw the band. And it was
21:32
a year or two before Black Sales and the
21:34
Sunset came out, but they didn't have
21:35
Very Proud of
21:37
You on album in there, which would have
21:39
been probably the tour I saw them on
21:41
Nitro
21:43
Records again. It could have been the
21:46
one on the end. It could have been this
21:47
one. It could have been that one. But
21:49
yeah, got a little AFI album. Love early
21:51
AFI. So good. And then I got the test
21:54
pressing. No artwork, no liner
21:58
notes, no cover, no back cover, no track
22:01
listing. Test pressing Pink Lincoln for
22:04
their first album re-released from
22:06
Jailhouse Records Circa
22:09
2009
22:11
perhaps. Again, no artwork or anything
22:14
on it, but yeah, got the got the Pink
22:18
Lincoln. They haven't been around. I
22:20
haven't they haven't played a show in
22:21
over a decade and I don't even know if
22:23
all the members are even still around or
22:26
any of them are still around anymore.
22:27
But AFI, I believe, still play shows.
22:30
They're great. This is the 25th
22:31
anniversary. Oh, and it's on neon orange
22:35
vinyl.
22:37
Nice. I don't mind that. I like colored
22:46
vinyl. It was a great album.
22:46
The first four or five AFI albums were
22:48
just untouchably good. All right, I
22:50
looked it up. I found a couple old
22:52
flyers. I believe it's now where the
22:54
artisan is. 328 MLK MLK Drive, Martin
22:59
Luther King Drive. Back then it would it
23:02
was 9inth Street North. And they still
23:05
got some stickers here.
23:16
MLK inside this little building right
23:16
here. This is inside the old refuge
23:21
music venue right here.
23:23
You've been here 14 years. Yes.
23:27
Then it was a dance studio.
23:34
Very cool. Yeah. That would have been
23:34
the front door right there. I don't know
23:35
where the stage would have been, but
23:38
a lot of bands played in here. I also
23:39
heard that this these two buildings used
23:41
to be one. Oh, they built they they may
23:44
have built like the wall there. It was a
23:45
bigger building. That's what I heard.
23:47
Yeah. All right. So, best I can
23:50
tell. It might have even stretched over
23:53
to there, too. It might have been that
23:55
wall taken down or this wall taken down.
23:57
It might have been this whole chunk. But
23:59
man, wow. Yeah, I saw ignite in there
24:03
also.
24:08
Trying to think who else I saw in there.
24:08
To be honest, I probably saw Pink
24:09
Lincoln's in there also. Saw a lot of
24:12
bands. Straightface. Oh my gosh, I love
24:14
Straight Face. The original the first
24:17
the first album I had was Broken by
24:20
Straight
24:21
Face, Fearless Records before Fearless
24:24
Records kind of turned into the label it
24:26
is now with more kind of melodic
24:28
hardcore emoy type of pop punky stuff.
24:32
They had Straightface and the
24:33
Straightface got signed to Epitap and
24:35
then the singer quit. The band broke up
24:38
and I don't even think Epitap Records
24:41
even even talks about or even has their
24:43
albums anymore. There's a retro antique
24:45
store here by the record store. Also,
24:47
serious classic car alert right
24:55
there. The refuge was down there. Record
24:55
store right here. How did I miss this
24:57
when I was walking over to the refuge?
25:00
Turns out after perusing around in
25:02
there, a lot of great stuff, come to
25:05
find out that the same person that owns
25:07
Planet Retro also owns RetroIques. Not
25:10
retro antiques,
25:13
retroes. Couple things I had my eye on.
25:16
Some of
25:17
them I expected to be a little less in
25:20
price, so put back. But I found a couple
25:22
good deals on a couple tikis. So, I got
25:24
a couple little tiki things. Put on some
25:26
shelving near my dining room kitchen
25:28
area. I have some shelves that already
25:31
have some tikis on.
25:33
So, retro teaks for the win. Really
25:35
great stuff inside there. Really great
25:37
stuff inside there. And inside Planet
25:39
Retro, classic car alert everywhere.
25:43
Well, not everywhere, but a lot of
25:45
classic car alerts out
25:47
here along MLK, formerly 9inth
25:54
Street. All right.
25:54
See what else I can
25:56
find. I should have known both places
25:59
have the same owner cuz they're using
26:01
the same bags. There's my tikis. There's
26:03
my
26:05
records. Corner of Burlington and
26:18
MLK. This old church building still
26:18
stands here. The lot next to it has been
26:20
torn down.
26:21
do not believe this congregation is
26:24
utilizing the building anymore or if
26:27
it's even an active congregation. I see
26:29
some broken windows, boards on the
26:31
windows,
26:43
etc. There's the church bell there, the
26:43
bell tower with no bell anymore.
26:53
A former piece of history just sitting
26:53
here rotting away downtown St. Pete.
26:57
There's a beautiful old Ford right here.
27:00
Twin beam. Twin I beam. Little red Ford.
27:04
It's
27:06
beautiful. I also picked up a Planet
27:09
Retro Black Cat T-shirt here. St. Pete.
27:12
And these are the little tiki guys. Kind
27:15
of like it. We got the Eastern Island
27:18
version
27:19
there. Got the wooden carving version
27:22
there as well. It's windy. I'm liking
27:25
this wind though, to be
27:26
honest. You like the wind,
27:34
cat? Move my car over to this parking
27:34
garage closer to the bay. About a mile
27:36
closer than it was over at Tropicana
27:38
Field where all the cars were starting
27:39
to leave from there. So, I thought I
27:41
should probably move my car from there.
27:42
I'm over in this parking garage looking
27:44
down on Janice Live which used to be
27:46
Janice Landing which was a venue back in
27:48
the day. I saw Bouncing Souls there. I
27:51
believe Snuff was the opening act.
27:53
Bouncing Souls. Snuff used to be Guns
27:56
and Guns and Wankers was the original
27:58
name of that band and they changed their
27:59
name. They opened up then Bouncing Souls
28:01
and then No Effects on the Heavy Petting
28:03
Zoo tour. I guess I could if I ever
28:05
found heavy petting zoo on vinyl from no
28:07
effects, I could get it in this
28:09
particular area because I have uh have
28:11
memories of that album being played with
28:12
the souls right over there in Janice
28:15
Landing which is behind those buildings
28:17
tucked away in that little little
28:19
courtyard like this. I love St. Pete
28:21
right here really close to where the
28:22
state theater used to be now called the
28:24
Florida theater. Was many years ago back
28:26
when it was a state theater but went to
28:28
probably over a hundred shows mostly
28:30
punk rock shows inside of
28:33
there. Guess if I was to find a No Use
28:36
for a Name album from that era. I saw
28:39
Noame in here. Of course
28:43
they have not been around for a long
28:45
time. The singer passed away many many
28:47
years ago, but great band on Fat
28:51
Records. Oh, look at this little thing.
28:54
Look at this uh little golf cart right
28:57
here. Also, these are the little
29:01
drainage dish manholes. Let me get out
29:03
of the way. There you got this little
29:05
pelican. City of St. Pete drain with the
29:08
pelican. Manny, look at a pelican. Fly
29:11
pelican. Walking around now. The
29:13
coliseum has a world oddities. I think
29:16
I've been to one of these World Oddities
29:17
Expos. And they're uh Yeah. Was it I
29:20
think it's a lot of taxiderermy. But
29:22
since I'm over here in the area, they're
29:23
going on till 7:00. The Coliseum World
29:25
Oddities Expo right over here inside
29:28
this old train station looking place.
29:30
Walking in. There's a big baby doll head
29:32
right here. Kind of reminds me of in
29:34
Mexico. It's a doll island.
29:47
This actually might not be the same
29:47
event I went to in the past.
29:57
It's an everyday throw Michael Myers
29:57
right
30:01
there. Look at this little
30:03
thing. I think the one I went to last
30:06
year was like all taxiderermy and not
30:08
enough not other stuff. I like a good
30:10
mixture. Just when it's all taxiderermy,
30:12
it's a little too much for me. A zebra
30:20
sculpt. Creepy magnet. You got Frankie
30:20
there, but it's really James Dean. It's
30:23
like a mashup of James Dean and
30:32
Frankie track. There's
30:35
Bella. Oh my goodness.
30:44
And goodbye kitty. You can get a
30:44
emergency chicken right here. Or an
30:47
emergency
30:49
goat. Barely hear it, but Oh, look at
30:51
this. Emergency Bigfoot. Emergency
30:53
monkey. Emergency cat. Do a cat
30:57
fight. Think that's working. We do a
31:01
howl. Kind of hear it.
31:07
Looks like they got like a little like
31:07
freak show going on over here.
31:10
Little performance. Little sideeshow.
31:12
That's the word I'm looking for.
31:14
Sideshow. We got a little monkey shines
31:15
here.
31:17
Little clapping monkey right there.
31:20
There you go. Yeah. Everyone's here
31:27
for little stained glass area here. I
31:27
was looking at this
31:30
bat right there.
31:33
$70 for that one. There's a goat
31:36
head. They're two-headed
31:39
deer. This is cool. Impossible
31:42
Curiosities is the name of the company.
31:44
$150 for that one. It's
31:47
nice. This little toad stool frog right
31:54
there. I like this ghost down here.
31:54
Awesome. Oh, I like this
31:56
path. That's cool. All right, that was
31:58
interesting. Got a nice little view at
32:00
some things again. I've been to that
32:02
before, but I think last time was like
32:03
the Tampa Fairgrounds and it was way
32:05
bigger and there was a lot more
32:07
taxiderermy. That was like a good
32:08
healthy mix of half vendors selling
32:11
haunted Halloween horror stuff and
32:13
taxiderermy. So, right here next to this
32:25
church coliseum's over there. Church
32:25
here with the stained glass. Can't
32:26
really see what the stained glass shows,
32:28
but next door. That is a Look at that.
32:31
That's a little parking enforcing
32:32
vehicle right there. Look at that. It's
32:34
got a pelican on the side. That thing's
32:37
hauling
32:38
butt. He's got give tickets to someone.
32:41
Look at this park. I've never been to
32:43
this park before. There's like a really
32:46
interesting stage right here with the
32:48
backdrop of that church cathedral. Look
32:51
at this stage. It's kind of futuristic
32:53
looking, right? Big open courtyard.
33:01
Got some birds over
33:01
here. They're eating something. These
33:03
storks,
33:04
pigeons being fed. Somebody's feeding
33:06
them something. Or they're just eating.
33:08
I don't know what they're
33:10
eating. They're going to town on
33:12
something. That bird right there was
33:14
just chowing
33:16
down. Little
33:18
seagull. All right. See a
33:20
seagull. This is kind of a spooky
33:22
looking tree right here.
33:30
Yeah, I didn't want to start driving
33:30
back too early with the traffic and
33:32
everything. Usually a Saturday afternoon
33:34
kind of turns into
33:37
weekdayish weekdayish type of
33:41
traffic. So, I waited a little bit. I
33:44
think it's getting late enough in the
33:45
day where I can start heading
33:52
back and walk over here to the boat
33:52
dock.
33:58
peruse around a little bit before
33:58
heading back to the car and then driving
33:59
back to Celebration. Definitely a nice
34:01
time of the day. Not too hot anymore.
34:04
Sun will be setting in the relatively
34:06
near future. Little beautiful view of
34:08
the St. Pete skyline here across the
34:11
boat dock. Nice clouds going on up
34:14
there. Palm
34:15
trees. A
34:18
beautiful, beautiful late afternoon,
34:20
early evening.
34:30
Ahead. There is the first airline pilot,
34:30
Tony
34:36
Janice. Janice landing or Janice Live
34:36
named after him, which is the venue I
34:39
showed earlier. There's a little
34:41
sculpture here with Mr. Janice flying
34:44
through the air right over here on the
34:45
boat
34:47
dock or on the pier, I should say. All
34:50
right, making it back over into
34:51
Celebration. Made pretty good time.
34:53
About an hour and a half. I waited late
34:55
enough to where traffic was not too bad
34:57
here at the light here on Celebration
34:59
Boulevard. Pulling off of I4
35:02
I4. Back into
35:04
town. Yeah, good commute over and a good
35:07
commute back. Timed it
35:11
perfectly. All right, back home now. Got
35:14
a few things. Had a good day in St.
35:16
Pete. walking around checking out
35:19
the Tampa Bay
35:22
Rays garage sale that was completely
35:26
over. By the time I got there at noon,
35:29
two hours before it was supposed to end,
35:30
there was not one thing left. I brought
35:33
this with me to bring in there. I was
35:35
going to load it up with some stuff.
35:38
Didn't use it for any Ray stuff, but
35:40
that's
35:41
okay. Was not a wasted trip. I got a
35:43
Planet Retro shirt.
35:46
I got a little Easter Island
35:48
tiki from the vintage shop. Like that.
35:51
Put it over somewhere here in the
35:52
homestead. Also got this tiki which I
35:54
like. Also got the pink links there.
35:57
Test pressing right there. AFI black
36:01
sails in the sunset. And when I returned
36:03
home, I ordered this in the mail. My
36:06
favorite, not even
36:08
close to a second favorite. Bruce
36:12
Springsteen album Nebraska. wanted this
36:14
on vinyl for a long time. One of my
36:17
favorite driving records. Whenever I'm
36:19
riding, cruising along, I'll throw I'll
36:22
throw Nebraska on. It's just really a
36:25
different kind of album for
36:29
Springsteen. Yeah, I really like it. I
36:31
always wanted to get this on vinyl. I
36:32
thought about the other day. Said, "Let
36:34
me order that online." So, I did. There
36:37
it is. Nebraska. So, picked that up.
36:40
Ordered that through the mail. Picked
36:42
all this stuff up. up in person. Vinyl
36:45
collection slowly
36:47
growing and uh glad I got this. This I
36:51
think if you're going to have a
36:52
Springsteen vinyl, this is the one you
36:54
need. It's definitely a different style
36:57
than the other Springsteen albums. This
36:59
is the only one I even own, but I like
37:01
it. All right, thanks for watching. I'll
37:03
see you in the next video. The
37:05
vlog is over. Man, I wish I could have
37:08
got something at that, but what do you
37:10
got to do? Drove all the way over there.
37:13
Didn't get anything. It was all gone.