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We couldn't believe THIS celeb was at the World Series! · Scotty and Abby UNFILTERED

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  Speaker 1: Tampa Bay's best music is Magic, Magic, Magic, 94.9.
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  Speaker 2: And welcome to a new episode of Scotty and Abby
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  Speaker 2: Unfiltered as we're joined with our now author in the building, Alexia.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome, Alexia.
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  Speaker 3: Te amo.
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  Speaker 4: Buenos dias.
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  Speaker 2: There are so many things to talk to Alexia about because, girl,
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  Speaker 2: you have not stopped. I feel like every time we
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  Speaker 2: go on Instagram, you're at a new location, you're talking
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  Speaker 2: to a new chef, you're releasing a book, you got
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  Speaker 2: a puppy. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And it was the World Series, not last night, but
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  Speaker 3: the night before. I know.
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  Speaker 4: We had to do that.
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  Speaker 5: And I tried to milk all of my contacts so
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  Speaker 5: that I could in the city for some free tickets,
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  Speaker 5: but it just wasn't happening.
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  Speaker 4: So my husband was like, you know what?
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  Speaker 3: Let's do it.
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  Speaker 4: It's once in a lifetime.
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  Speaker 5: I'm a big.
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  Speaker 3: Is it once in a lifetime?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I mean, at the top.
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  Speaker 1: It could be.
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  Speaker 4: Definitely at the top.
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  Speaker 5: And like, that's so. close to home for us, literally
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  Speaker 5: and emotionally. It took us 10 minutes to get to
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  Speaker 5: and from the World Series, and we parked for free.
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  Speaker 4: Like, where can you say that?
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  Speaker 3: That's so true.
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  Speaker 4: We found street parking.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, dang. Like, off 16th.
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  Speaker 5: And it was so funny because I saw people charging,
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  Speaker 5: I was telling Scott, for the same street parking. Like,
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  Speaker 5: people would stand in the spot with a sign that
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  Speaker 5: said $ 150, and I saw tourists coming in, and like, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: and I just wanted to.
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  Speaker 4: Be like, dude, you know that's free, but.
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  Speaker 1: That's so ridiculous.
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  Speaker 5: So it's interesting to see the intricacies of the local
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  Speaker 5: versus the World Series visitor.
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  Speaker 3: They're basically just like, I'll pay you $ 150 to move. Yeah, literally.
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  Speaker 1: That's crazy.
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  Speaker 2: So let's talk about the World Series though because, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's not, there's no way it's close to a regular game.
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  Speaker 2: Like I think about like the Super Bowl that has
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  Speaker 2: the famous halftime show. The Stanley Cup has probably every
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  Speaker 2: single celebrity out there by the ice right up. But
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  Speaker 2: what is it like being in a World Series game?
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  Speaker 2: Like is it, Better food? Is it more entertainment as
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  Speaker 2: the game's going on? Like, take us in that experience.
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  Speaker 3: Are the fans more obnoxious?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, Lord.
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  Speaker 1: Girl, well, I.
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  Speaker 5: Laughed because our celebrity that we got was Craig Robinson
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  Speaker 5: from The Office.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, who, what's his character? Because I was doing that
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  Speaker 6: because I, you know, I do the three things thing
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  Speaker 6: for Magic Mornings. And I was like, here's all the celebs.
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  Speaker 6: And I had ChatGPT come up with a list of
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  Speaker 6: all the celebs that had been spotted.
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  Speaker 3: And I was like, oh, Tom Cruise in the next one.
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  Speaker 3: Tom Cruise? Tom Cruise because he lives in Clearwater.
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  Speaker 5: Of course. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, wow.
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  Speaker 4: I missed that. Young Gravy was there, too.
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  Speaker 2: With Ari.
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  Speaker 4: I wish I would have seen Ari.
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  Speaker 3: I love her, his girlfriend. Oh, my gosh.
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  Speaker 5: But yeah, Craig Robinson, he threw the ceremonial pitch.
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  Speaker 4: And he's from The Office.
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  Speaker 3: But who does he play?
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  Speaker 1: I think Craig is his name.
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  Speaker 3: Craig?
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  Speaker 4: He works in the warehouse.
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  Speaker 5: I watch The Office a lot, and he dates Mindy
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  Speaker 5: Kaling's character.
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  Speaker 3: Craig Robinson.
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  Speaker 1: Or Daryl. Daryl.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, Daryl.
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  Speaker 1: Stop.
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  Speaker 3: We had Daryl?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and then I also am watching What We Do
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  Speaker 5: in the Shadows. If you haven't watched it, it's a
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  Speaker 5: really good Halloween watch right now because it's Halloween week.
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  Speaker 5: But it was a movie originally, What We Do in
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  Speaker 5: the Shadows. Now it's a show on Fox or Hulu,
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  Speaker 5: but it's all vampires, and he's a vampire in it.
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  Speaker 4: Hilarious, very funny, highly recommend.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, awesome.
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  Speaker 3: Well, my question is why.
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  Speaker 6: Not that I don't love Daryl from The Office, but
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  Speaker 6: does he have ties to Tampa that I don't know about?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: Listen, back to the original World Series story.
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  Speaker 5: I was mad because I saw last night Burt Kreischer
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  Speaker 5: did the same pitch.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: And I was like, why didn't I get Burt Kreischer?
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  Speaker 5: I feel like I was the orphan Annie of the
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  Speaker 5: World Series. It's like, we got the shitty game on Monday.
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  Speaker 3: No, you got Antonio. Antonio. I can't say his real name.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Antonio.
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  Speaker 6: I posted this on my Instagram. I was like, oh
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  Speaker 6: my God, John Logan from off campus showed up.
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  Speaker 3: And I pronounced... I didn't even pronounce his name wrong.
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  Speaker 6: I totally got his name completely wrong, even though there's
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  Speaker 6: a tweet behind me with his correct name. His name
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  Speaker 6: is Antonio Cipriano. And I was like, Anthony Cipriani.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, that's what I would have said. Well, the
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  Speaker 5: second I saw those characters, I was like, oh, my God, Abby.
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  Speaker 3: It was really random.
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  Speaker 5: They just did like a comparison of people that look
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  Speaker 5: alike to other celebrities.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, that's funny.
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  Speaker 4: He was like the plant, like the real celebrity.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: So it was cool.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, we paid.
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  Speaker 5: A hefty ticket. Mike found the tickets. I needed an
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  Speaker 5: aisle seat because I get claustrophobic. So we actually got
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  Speaker 5: really great seats, great view. And we were sat next
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  Speaker 5: to the cutest mom and or dad and daughter from
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  Speaker 5: Milwaukee Brewers fans. But they were very nice, very polite,
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  Speaker 5: like so sweet. I will say the Brewers fans overall
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  Speaker 5: were very nice.
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  Speaker 1: That's crazy.
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  Speaker 2: Like we're talking to a bunch of Fergs and it's
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  Speaker 2: like it's hard to be like competitive and get in
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  Speaker 2: their face.
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  Speaker 1: When they're so sweet.
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  Speaker 4: I know, but they were really loud.
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  Speaker 5: Like, their chants were louder than ours throughout the entire
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  Speaker 5: game in the Trop, which was embarrassing.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, guys, like, and I would be the one like,
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  Speaker 3: go Braves!
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  Speaker 5: Mike's like, shut up. I'm like, dude, we can't allow
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  Speaker 5: this to happen right now.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, because every other sport that we have, like, people
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  Speaker 2: get rowdy in the stands. Like, you go to a
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  Speaker 2: Lightning game, everyone's screaming. You go to a Bucks game,
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  Speaker 2: everyone's screaming.
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  Speaker 3: The energy was a bit off, maybe. As a longtime
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  Speaker 3: Tampa Bay liver, local... what is it.
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  Speaker 6: About the Rays games that doesn't inspire people to show
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  Speaker 6: up because that's kind of like the ongoing thing like
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  Speaker 6: people don't fill up the chop like is the chop
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  Speaker 6: too big are people just not that passionate about the
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  Speaker 6: Rays because it's not like they're a bad team like
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  Speaker 6: it's not like it's the Bucks right now like I
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  Speaker 6: feel like I've seen people get more excited and hyped
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  Speaker 6: for the Bucks even though they're losing well we're.
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  Speaker 5: Better than 28 other teams people have to think about
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  Speaker 5: that but I think it's one I grew up with
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  Speaker 5: baseball I am Cuban growing up in Miami I've Went
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  Speaker 5: to the World Series to see the Marlins when.
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  Speaker 4: I was like five.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: They won.
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  Speaker 5: No, they won the World Series in 2003, I want
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  Speaker 5: to say.
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  Speaker 4: So I was 10.
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  Speaker 5: And I'll never forget going out into the streets with
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  Speaker 5: my family, banging pots and pans. Like literally, it was like.
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  Speaker 5: a takeover of Miami after that World Series win. So
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  Speaker 5: that's always kind of been implanted as a core memory,
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  Speaker 5: and I love baseball because of that. And moving here,
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  Speaker 5: just immediately the Rays were the first team I gravitated to.
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  Speaker 3: Also, I love the Trop. It's nostalgic 90s vibes. It's
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  Speaker 3: by my house.
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  Speaker 1: That's a good way to put it.
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  Speaker 3: Baseball is so 90s to me.
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  Speaker 5: It is.
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  Speaker 6: I associate the 90s with baseball, and maybe it's because
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  Speaker 6: my dad used to work for the Rangers in the 90s,
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  Speaker 6: so that's why I associate it.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, that's cool.
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  Speaker 6: There is something about like going to the trop that
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  Speaker 6: does feel very Americana because it's, even though it's an
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  Speaker 6: older stadium, it does feel kind of like, oh, it's 1995.
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  Speaker 4: And like Florida.
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  Speaker 3: In Florida.
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  Speaker 5: Just like specific, so specific to Florida with the stingrays.
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  Speaker 5: We literally have the dirty pool water of stingrays.
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  Speaker 3: There's no way those stingrays are healthy.
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  Speaker 1: No way.
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  Speaker 3: No way.
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  Speaker 4: But they're, you know, they're thriving right now.
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  Speaker 3: They love it.
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  Speaker 5: They're quite literally thriving and surviving. But I just, I
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  Speaker 5: love the tightness of it, the intimacy. I went to
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  Speaker 5: Seattle and saw a Mariners game and it was so overwhelming.
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  Speaker 5: Like it was very cool, but it was just too much.
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  Speaker 5: Whereas the Trop, I feel like I'm in like, My backyard.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you sit in the chair, you hang out.
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  Speaker 3: You hang out.
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  Speaker 5: You can stand at the Budweiser porch. You don't have to.
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  Speaker 5: I like to stand up and walk around. I don't
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  Speaker 5: like to sit the whole time. I get myself the
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  Speaker 5: footlong hot dog, which I didn't get. But I will
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  Speaker 5: say the top eats that I saw at the World
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  Speaker 5: Series were the Yandy Diaz tomahawk chop. They had a
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  Speaker 5: full tomahawk. I saw somebody eating it. It was like
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  Speaker 5: a bone-in tomahawk.
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  Speaker 3: A-Rod ate it.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I saw that. I was like, A-Rod's probably hungry. It's
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  Speaker 3: 12 innings. Oh, I would not want to watch A-Rod
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  Speaker 3: eating a tomahawk chop. But it is crazy.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, like last night was a game and a quarter.
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  Speaker 6: If you guys don't really care about sports, you're like,
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  Speaker 6: why is this a sports podcast now? The Rays are
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  Speaker 6: in the World Series, and they were supposed— everyone was
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  Speaker 6: expecting them to lose last night to the Brewers, and
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  Speaker 6: they ended up going into triple overtime is what I'm
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  Speaker 6: calling it, which is not the right term, but they
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  Speaker 6: had three extra innings.
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  Speaker 3: It was wild. It was like, what, until like 1
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  Speaker 3: in the morning almost?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. Imagine being a fan. Like, you're calling out
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  Speaker 1: of work this day.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, but I will say, like, Monday, and I think
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  Speaker 5: I mentioned this to Abby, watching as an outsider, it
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  Speaker 5: felt like the Brewers felt like more of the cohesive team.
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  Speaker 5: They felt more— connected in like a unit like a
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  Speaker 5: well-oiled machine like historic dare I say whereas the Rays
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  Speaker 5: almost felt like a cast of characters for a moment
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  Speaker 5: much like our three mascots I don't know it just
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  Speaker 5: felt like we have like some individual superstars like Yandy, Freddie,
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  Speaker 5: Arana but it's like they weren't meshing and operating in
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  Speaker 5: that like unified stingray fashion and i feel like last
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  Speaker 5: night something clicked clearly they got their asses yelled at
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  Speaker 5: or whatever because they came correct last night especially compared
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  Speaker 5: to monday it does make you wonder.
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  Speaker 6: If you're about to give up not give up but
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  Speaker 6: if you're about to lose the world series what is
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  Speaker 6: that conversation like like what are they genuinely like what
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  Speaker 6: are the gm saying what is the code what are
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  Speaker 6: the coaches saying what's the pep talk what's the are
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  Speaker 6: you going to bed thinking tomorrow's the last game we're
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  Speaker 6: gonna play you know like how do you even get
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  Speaker 6: yourself in the right state of mind right and I.
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  Speaker 5: Have been obsessed with the Rays wives recently the wags
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  Speaker 5: because their fashion has been like taking over social media
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  Speaker 5: really I was telling Mike I imagine Arana's wife because
• 8:19
  Speaker 5: she's my favorite right now she dresses so cute but
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  Speaker 5: she always has a new Hermes Birkin with like a
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  Speaker 5: Tampa Bay logo on it stop I'm like I'm sure
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  Speaker 5: she went up to Arana was like we need to
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  Speaker 5: fund this closet Yes.
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  Speaker 4: We need to keep it going.
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  Speaker 3: You need to win. Wait, what's her name? I want
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  Speaker 3: to look it up.
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  Speaker 4: His last name is Arana.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know her first name, but if you just
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  Speaker 5: type in A-R-A-N-A, it should come up.
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  Speaker 2: Arana.
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  Speaker 1: Might be the first one.
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  Speaker 3: Jonathan Aranda.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, Aranda.
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  Speaker 3: Aranda, sorry.
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  Speaker 2: I think what's hard is, like, how do you give
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  Speaker 2: a pep talk? Because they're all adults. They're professionals in
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  Speaker 2: their own, you know, feet. So it's like, what, the
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  Speaker 2: coach going to get up in their face?
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  Speaker 1: It's not Little League. They all know what to do.
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  Speaker 3: Right. They know what's at stake.
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  Speaker 5: But it's also, it's... I think also them coming home
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  Speaker 5: and losing that first night, you can't come home. And
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  Speaker 5: it's like, and again, being there, there was Brewers fans
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  Speaker 5: all around us yelling.
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  Speaker 4: So passionate.
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  Speaker 5: Some were very nice, but obviously you get your, your
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  Speaker 5: haters and hearing the commentary and what they're saying. It
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  Speaker 5: was infuriating to me to just sit there and be like,
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  Speaker 5: Oh my God.
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  Speaker 1: And, and we're not going to clap back.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. Fifth inning is happening and it's, I have nothing
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  Speaker 5: that I can stand on to, to back me up
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  Speaker 5: as a fan. So, It was brutal to watch on Monday,
• 9:24
  Speaker 5: but being there and feeling the energy, seeing the Trop
• 9:27
  Speaker 5: packed to the brim, which I'd never seen before. I
• 9:30
  Speaker 5: think the only time it's ever been that packed was
• 9:31
  Speaker 5: for WWE.
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  Speaker 3: That's crazy.
• 9:33
  Speaker 5: Yeah, for the WrestleMania, like the big SmackDown. That's the
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  Speaker 5: most the Trop has ever been filled.
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  Speaker 6: I just don't understand why we don't have that atmosphere
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  Speaker 6: because it's been so fun going down because we've been
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  Speaker 6: working the Ferg's bar parties the last couple of nights.
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  Speaker 6: And just the way the streets have been shut down,
• 9:49
  Speaker 6: the restaurants are filled to the brim. I'm like, oh,
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  Speaker 6: I would show up for this all day long if
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  Speaker 6: this is how it was typically.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and just to be around the atmosphere, not even
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  Speaker 4: having to go.
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  Speaker 3: To the game.
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  Speaker 5: But the accessibility... I just think people sleep on it.
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  Speaker 3: I'm from Miami.
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  Speaker 5: Going to a game in Miami would take two hours
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  Speaker 5: to get there, park, figure it out.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, the traffic afterwards, too, trying to leave.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, you pull up, you can feel like that hometown
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  Speaker 5: energy that is very rare.
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  Speaker 3: And I think because St. Pete is not Tampa.
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  Speaker 5: St.
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  Speaker 4: Pete is a secondary tertiary market.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah. Maybe that's why the energy isn't brought on
• 10:22
  Speaker 5: a place like Miami or Milwaukee. They also don't have
• 10:24
  Speaker 5: other teams in Milwaukee, if I'm not mistaken. There isn't
• 10:26
  Speaker 5: a football team.
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  Speaker 3: So this is their one thing. Also, they're in Wisconsin.
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  Speaker 5: I will say, I've been to Milwaukee, and there was
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  Speaker 5: a lady behind me who was a diehard fan.
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  Speaker 4: She was there.
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  Speaker 5: And she was like, I bought my tickets for tomorrow.
• 10:41
  Speaker 5: And she said she paid $ 800 a ticket.
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  Speaker 3: I've always wondered what happens. Like if there's no game
• 10:46
  Speaker 3: the following day, do they get that money back?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: They have to.
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  Speaker 5: I think there's a way it's structured because I think
• 10:52
  Speaker 5: there's like confirmed games before you can buy the tickets.
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  Speaker 5: Like you weren't able to buy tickets for tonight until
• 10:57
  Speaker 5: last night.
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  Speaker 4: This game wasn't confirmed.
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  Speaker 3: Gotcha.
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  Speaker 4: Had the Brewers won last night.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that would make sense. And then it just opens
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  Speaker 1: up as soon as the game's done. Yeah. Tickets go
• 11:06
  Speaker 1: on sale. You grab everything you can. Because that would
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  Speaker 1: be such a headache to try to refund everybody.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And how expensive.
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  Speaker 5: And I just noticed I got catty for a moment
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  Speaker 5: in my commentary.
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  Speaker 4: I just looked at my husband. I was like, isn't Milwaukee, like,
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  Speaker 4: really boring?
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  Speaker 3: Like, isn't there nothing going on there? And, like, very loudly.
• 11:23
  Speaker 3: Everyone turns around and is just, like, throwing cheese curds
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  Speaker 3: at your head.
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  Speaker 4: And Mike was like, oh, I guess they have stuff
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  Speaker 4: going on.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, no, they just probably don't have anything. That's
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  Speaker 3: why they're all here.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's true.
• 11:33
  Speaker 3: They're probably thrilled to be in Florida right now. And
• 11:35
  Speaker 3: it's so cold up there right now.
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  Speaker 5: They can be here, like, living their lives, having vacation.
• 11:39
  Speaker 5: But their stadium is also very cool. I don't know
• 11:43
  Speaker 5: if you guys saw the slides.
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  Speaker 3: No.
• 11:44
  Speaker 1: You were saying about the slides.
• 11:45
  Speaker 2: What do they do?
• 11:46
  Speaker 5: They have swirly slides inside of their stadium that their
• 11:48
  Speaker 5: mascot goes down every time they score.
• 11:50
  Speaker 3: So i think.
• 11:51
  Speaker 6: Lame we have an employed cat okay we have dj.
• 11:55
  Speaker 5: Kitty we have three mascots we have three i was
• 11:58
  Speaker 5: reading the history of dj kitty and did you know
• 12:00
  Speaker 5: it was actually a cat in the 1980s that like
• 12:03
  Speaker 5: dj'd there's a whole lore behind dj kitty.
• 12:07
  Speaker 1: I thought it was just the meme cat no it.
• 12:08
  Speaker 5: Was like an actual cat that like would show up
• 12:11
  Speaker 5: at the trop or something or for the raise and
• 12:13
  Speaker 5: then Yeah.
• 12:15
  Speaker 4: I read a whole story about it.
• 12:17
  Speaker 3: I need to look it up. This is a great stadium.
• 12:19
  Speaker 1: The slide.
• 12:21
  Speaker 4: I'm telling you, you have slides in your stadium.
• 12:23
  Speaker 1: Do fans get to use them?
• 12:24
  Speaker 5: Do you know?
• 12:25
  Speaker 3: I don't know that part.
• 12:26
  Speaker 1: That's probably a liability.
• 12:27
  Speaker 5: And I will say the Brewers have some Hawkeyes. Like,
• 12:30
  Speaker 5: they've got some... Oh, who's the.
• 12:31
  Speaker 6: I just found out he has the most gorgeous girlfriend
• 12:33
  Speaker 6: who's also a pro athlete.
• 12:35
  Speaker 3: Is it the Cooper guy?
• 12:36
  Speaker 4: Yeah, like.
• 12:37
  Speaker 3: Because I saw somebody talk about him on social media.
• 12:39
  Speaker 3: I was like, this is the finest man I've ever seen.
• 12:41
  Speaker 6: And then I saw somebody did an article on him
• 12:44
  Speaker 6: and his girlfriend.
• 12:45
  Speaker 3: And she's, like, a pro soccer player. Really?
• 12:48
  Speaker 6: She has the most perfect bone structure I've ever seen
• 12:51
  Speaker 6: in my life. Like, it's crazy to me.
• 12:52
  Speaker 3: I'm like, I'm looking at her. I'm like, we're the
• 12:54
  Speaker 3: same species.
• 12:55
  Speaker 5: Wait, I need to look at this.
• 12:58
  Speaker 3: And she has, like, a beautiful... Name or something. It's
• 13:01
  Speaker 3: she's just ridiculously beautiful.
• 13:03
  Speaker 5: Well, you know, hey get yourself a baseball guy I
• 13:06
  Speaker 5: never went after baseball guys my best friend growing up
• 13:08
  Speaker 5: was a cleat chaser like she always had a baseball
• 13:10
  Speaker 5: playing boyfriend Really?
• 13:12
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and I think it's cuz her brother played baseball too, but.
• 13:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they tend to always be the pretty boys.
• 13:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I Like they're clean cut, they always have very
• 13:19
  Speaker 2: flawless skin and like a pretty decent build.
• 13:21
  Speaker 3: It's the roids.
• 13:22
  Speaker 4: And a good butt.
• 13:24
  Speaker 3: And the butt, they're always juicy as hell.
• 13:26
  Speaker 4: They all have good butts.
• 13:27
  Speaker 5: Like Yandy Diaz as a specimen of a man, I
• 13:29
  Speaker 5: just stare at him and I'm like, You're just like
• 13:32
  Speaker 5: a man.
• 13:32
  Speaker 1: That's a man.
• 13:33
  Speaker 3: He's just like a father. Like, carry me in your arms.
• 13:37
  Speaker 3: That's not what I would have.
• 13:38
  Speaker 4: Every time I look at him, I'm like, mommy.
• 13:41
  Speaker 5: And I don't think Hispanic men are like, that's not,
• 13:45
  Speaker 5: my husband's so white. I never was attracted to Hispanic men.
• 13:47
  Speaker 5: But seeing like the, I don't know, the baseball player vibe. Yeah.
• 13:51
  Speaker 1: I don't know. He has like a gladiator look to him.
• 13:53
  Speaker 3: Exactly.
• 13:54
  Speaker 5: He's big.
• 13:54
  Speaker 1: He's built.
• 13:55
  Speaker 5: Oh, wow.
• 13:55
  Speaker 4: She's very pretty. Yelix girlfriend. She's a soccer player.
• 13:58
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 13:58
  Speaker 5: Wow.
• 13:58
  Speaker 4: We have no hope here.
• 14:01
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 14:01
  Speaker 6: We're just going to swoop in and get this star
• 14:03
  Speaker 6: baseball player to pay attention to Ash.
• 14:05
  Speaker 2: Hey.
• 14:06
  Speaker 4: I heard they were staying at the Vinoy.
• 14:08
  Speaker 6: Really?
• 14:08
  Speaker 3: The whole team?
• 14:09
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 14:09
  Speaker 3: Oh, they are? That's nice.
• 14:11
  Speaker 1: That would make sense.
• 14:12
  Speaker 2: Because that's what we're talking about. Where else would they
• 14:14
  Speaker 2: stay in this area that's up to that part? Like
• 14:15
  Speaker 2: the Vinoy or... What's the other one?
• 14:17
  Speaker 3: Definitely not the Moxie. The Don.
• 14:19
  Speaker 1: The Don, or the Don.
• 14:21
  Speaker 4: The Moxie was sold out, yeah.
• 14:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. It would be close, convenient.
• 14:25
  Speaker 2: But yeah, the Don would be one that you could stay,
• 14:28
  Speaker 2: but those are the two nicest ones that are the
• 14:29
  Speaker 2: closest to the area.
• 14:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean the Don would be inconvenient, like all
• 14:32
  Speaker 3: the way at the beach.
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true, but also... It's.
• 14:35
  Speaker 3: Only like 20 minutes away.
• 14:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 14:37
  Speaker 6: And I don't know about you, but after a long
• 14:39
  Speaker 6: day of playing baseball, I want to sit on the beach.
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: I want to watch the sunset.
• 14:42
  Speaker 4: That's exactly what I want to do. Look at some
• 14:44
  Speaker 4: real stingrays.
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: There you go. Go get a coffee at the Vinoy.
• 14:46
  Speaker 1: See if you spot anybody.
• 14:48
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: I bet they're out there all day, though, like doing press.
• 14:51
  Speaker 5: If you're a chaser in St. Pete or Tampa Bay
• 14:53
  Speaker 5: right now, this is your opportunity.
• 14:55
  Speaker 4: Go sit at the Vinoy.
• 14:57
  Speaker 3: Get a coffee.
• 14:57
  Speaker 4: Pretend like you're reading and you might meet.
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: A stud.
• 15:00
  Speaker 6: I don't know why the pro athlete thing has always
• 15:02
  Speaker 6: freaked me out. Like dating wise, unless you look like
• 15:05
  Speaker 6: Yelix girlfriend. Not that, you know, anybody deserves to get
• 15:08
  Speaker 6: cheated on for the.
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: Way they look.
• 15:09
  Speaker 3: But I just know like I'm going to date some man.
• 15:11
  Speaker 3: Shut up. And he's going to be like, you know what,
• 15:14
  Speaker 3: I'm in Milwaukee.
• 15:15
  Speaker 5: Did you ever date an athlete in your college days?
• 15:19
  Speaker 6: No, I think I like I talked to somebody who
• 15:21
  Speaker 6: played like club baseball at some point.
• 15:23
  Speaker 3: But I think that might be like the extent of it.
• 15:25
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 15:25
  Speaker 4: You know, you can totally see you with like a
• 15:27
  Speaker 4: football player, a football player.
• 15:28
  Speaker 3: I've gotten that before once or lacrosse.
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: Oh, lacrosse would be fun.
• 15:32
  Speaker 3: There's no professional lacrosse.
• 15:34
  Speaker 4: My high school had a lacrosse team growing up.
• 15:36
  Speaker 6: So, yeah, I don't know that anybody at the age
• 15:40
  Speaker 6: of 29 is still playing lax.
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: Maybe I know a few. Maybe is there like a
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: bowling team?
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: Oh, my Lord.
• 15:47
  Speaker 5: You know, you know, you know, we'll have to hook
• 15:49
  Speaker 5: the call for some.
• 15:50
  Speaker 4: Athletes over here.
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: Club kickball. Well, as you're out there, okay, like, so
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: you saw the tomahawk.
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: What were the other things that, like, made it better
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: than the traditional?
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: The tomahawk was really cool.
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: Because that thing looked juicy as hell. That looked good.
• 16:01
  Speaker 4: It looked perfectly cooked, too, actually. It was, like, the color.
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: Did you see how much it was? I think it was, like, 100-something. Yeah,
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: that makes sense. Stone crabs.
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: Stone crabs.
• 16:08
  Speaker 5: They had stone crabs, and I love stone crabs, but
• 16:11
  Speaker 5: as we were walking through the Budweiser porch, my husband
• 16:13
  Speaker 5: looks at me and goes, it smells like Fish and
• 16:15
  Speaker 5: stone crabs.
• 16:16
  Speaker 4: Can you please not get the stone crabs?
• 16:18
  Speaker 6: That's why they need to take the roof off the trap.
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: A hurricane tried two years ago.
• 16:25
  Speaker 5: It was really windy and sprinkly that night, so it
• 16:29
  Speaker 5: would have sucked if there wasn't.
• 16:31
  Speaker 6: No, I love that it has a roof on it
• 16:33
  Speaker 6: because that means you can enjoy the trop no matter what.
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: I did see what people, because we mentioned this on
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: the show, like people were complaining about the roof color.
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: They said it's the same color as the field.
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: I figured out it's because it's the same color as
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: the ball. As the ball, but like.
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: I don't know. That's what I saw this morning as
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: I was going on Instagram.
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: People were like, it's cheating because the roof is the
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: same color as a baseball, so it gets lost up
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: in there.
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: I'm like, the Rays do that every game.
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: Clearly not because they lost 10-1 on the first night.
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: I don't know. How did that happen?
• 17:05
  Speaker 5: It was so brutal that fifth inning. It was just like,
• 17:09
  Speaker 5: are they going again and again and again? And it
• 17:12
  Speaker 5: was like, 10-0, this is rough.
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: There was just a lack of energy felt.
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 17:18
  Speaker 5: On behalf of the Rays, and they had a very
• 17:21
  Speaker 5: off-starting lineup. Like, Aranda didn't start, which Mike and I
• 17:26
  Speaker 5: were like, what is going on?
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: Like, I don't know.
• 17:27
  Speaker 5: I don't know if they were trying to maybe reserve
• 17:29
  Speaker 5: their energy of, like, they're better players or what the strategy.
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: Was behind it.
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: But it was off.
• 17:36
  Speaker 5: Something felt off that night for sure. But it was very,
• 17:39
  Speaker 5: very cool to just be part of it and to
• 17:42
  Speaker 5: see all of, like, the ceremonial happenings when it kicked
• 17:44
  Speaker 5: off and just to see that in the trough because,
• 17:46
  Speaker 5: again— Once in a lifetime and probably never again.
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, because if they're going to get rid of the
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: trop in like two years.
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: They are.
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: I think next year is the last season.
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: That's so crazy.
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: What are the odds that we're going to go back
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: to the World Series? That would be amazing.
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, we could do back to back, baby.
• 17:59
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 18:00
  Speaker 6: But I just don't understand why they think it's going
• 18:03
  Speaker 6: to be better for us to go near the Buck Stadium.
• 18:05
  Speaker 6: Because honestly, to me, the most unappealing part of going
• 18:08
  Speaker 6: to the Buck Stadium is the fact that you have
• 18:09
  Speaker 6: to go to the Buck Stadium in the middle of nowhere.
• 18:11
  Speaker 6: And I understand they have to figure out the parking
• 18:13
  Speaker 6: and all the things. But I think that's the best
• 18:16
  Speaker 6: thing about the Trop is the fact that it's got
• 18:17
  Speaker 6: a roof over it.
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: It's got a roof over our heads.
• 18:20
  Speaker 6: There's restaurants and bars you can pregame or you don't
• 18:23
  Speaker 6: even have to go into the stadium.
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: You can just go into Ferg's.
• 18:26
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: But you're it's like in the backyard. So it's kind
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: of like you're there. And parking are plenty. Never had
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: a problem finding parking.
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: That's true.
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: To be able to drive up yesterday and park is
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: crazy at a World Series game.
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: We were saying and I'm I'm so sad about it
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: going to Tampa.
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: I don't.
• 18:41
  Speaker 5: Condone or support that move i was very against it
• 18:44
  Speaker 5: but i totally understand um the fact that like you
• 18:47
  Speaker 5: know there's a lot of players in cooks in the
• 18:50
  Speaker 5: kitchen a lot of money and and all that yes
• 18:53
  Speaker 5: but i think it's gonna take away so much from
• 18:55
  Speaker 5: saint pete we're gonna lose a lot of that local
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: identity like what's gonna happen to first that's exactly what
• 19:00
  Speaker 5: i was thinking what's gonna happen to all of those
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: surrounding places that are fueled by the trop and that
• 19:06
  Speaker 5: the Tampa Bay Rays identity, like Ferg's literally what's going
• 19:09
  Speaker 5: to happen.
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: The Moxie.
• 19:10
  Speaker 5: I know I work very closely with them. I know
• 19:12
  Speaker 5: they're not happy about it because they built the hotel
• 19:15
  Speaker 5: knowing the trop was there and to service the people
• 19:17
  Speaker 5: attending games and events at the trop. So I think
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: taking away all of that fodder for local business in
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: the area is going to really, really hurt St.
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: Pete and the community and just having it something in St.
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: Pete. We don't have any sports besides the rowdies.
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: We have the rowdies, which is.
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: Another very cool underrated venue and experience.
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: I think, But yeah, I mean.
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: A soccer experience is unlike anything I've been a part of.
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: And overlooking the water. And overlooking the water. It's beautiful.
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: I'm actually, I'm supposed to, I was supposed to do
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: it today.
• 19:44
  Speaker 6: And I don't know if the World Series is pushing
• 19:46
  Speaker 6: things along because I know one of the guys is
• 19:48
  Speaker 6: like covering, um doing some coverage for them but i'm
• 19:50
  Speaker 6: supposed to interview some of the uh rowdies players for
• 19:53
  Speaker 6: bays on bay shore talk about some cuties that will
• 19:56
  Speaker 6: be so cool i know i was like this is
• 19:57
  Speaker 6: so great for my business thank you.
• 19:59
  Speaker 5: Yeah well hopefully i'm yeah i feel like maybe another
• 20:01
  Speaker 5: night so it's not also world series crazy.
• 20:04
  Speaker 6: Yeah 100 we gotta let the rays breathe a little
• 20:06
  Speaker 6: bit let the rays.
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: Breathe Let's also talk about the book, though, because that's
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: a massive announcement that you've been... Literally, Alexia's been traveling
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: all over with her book tour, which is crazy. So
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: talk to us about this book, because you put your time, energy, blood, sweat,
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: and tears into this thing.
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel like I blacked out for like a year. Okay,
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: so tell the people what your book's about.
• 20:25
  Speaker 5: So the book's called Secret Florida, A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful,
• 20:28
  Speaker 5: and Obscure. And it came about because... So I've always written,
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: I went to Florida State for a creative writing major
• 20:35
  Speaker 5: and then I pivoted to marketing. But that's always been
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: kind of like the thread through of my creation, if
• 20:41
  Speaker 5: you will. So I've always wanted to write a book
• 20:44
  Speaker 5: and travel and tourism has been very important to me.
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: I'm from Florida, born and raised. I've never left.
• 20:49
  Speaker 5: And I was approached by this publishing company and they
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: were looking for an author to support this other author
• 20:54
  Speaker 5: who's written many books and she was moving to Florida
• 20:57
  Speaker 5: and and doing her first Florida book, but she wanted
• 20:59
  Speaker 5: to write it with someone. So they thought, okay, would
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: you want to do it? And I was like, this
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: sounds really fun. I've never done something like this. And
• 21:06
  Speaker 5: to have a tangible, like printed thing to hold and
• 21:09
  Speaker 5: present is really cool in this digital age. So I said, yes,
• 21:14
  Speaker 5: that was like two years ago. And we started the
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: journey and I wrote it with Joanne Hill.
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: She's amazing.
• 21:19
  Speaker 5: She's a teacher. She wrote half of the book. We
• 21:22
  Speaker 5: have 84 entries all about Florida. The Weird Wonderful Obscure,
• 21:25
  Speaker 5: we go from spooky hauntings, which is very timely for Halloween,
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: to hotels, which I love to write about, things in Miami, Tallahassee, Jacksonville, Seaside,
• 21:35
  Speaker 5: where the Truman Show was filmed. We cover so many
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: fun things, and it makes you realize that Florida is
• 21:39
  Speaker 5: such A unique and diverse state that you don't have
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: to book a plane ticket to travel and discover something new.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: Wait, was the.
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: Truman Show really filmed in Seaside?
• 21:46
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 21:47
  Speaker 6: That makes so much sense because I've only been to
• 21:49
  Speaker 6: Seaside once. And I remember looking around and going, it
• 21:51
  Speaker 6: feels so dystopian.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: It does feel like you're in the Truman Show, like
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: you're on a set.
• 21:56
  Speaker 5: No, yeah, it was filmed there like most entirely. There
• 21:58
  Speaker 5: were parts filmed like on a set in L.A., but
• 22:00
  Speaker 5: most of it was filmed in Seaside.
• 22:01
  Speaker 6: So what cities did you specifically research and write about
• 22:05
  Speaker 6: for this book?
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: So we, like I said, 84 entries and really, um.
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: It was based on like the actual location versus the city.
• 22:12
  Speaker 5: So I cover everything from Miami places that I would
• 22:14
  Speaker 5: go growing up. Um, and like haunted a place called
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: during a state, for example, it's right in my parents' neighborhood.
• 22:22
  Speaker 5: And I would go and with my friends and smoke
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: pot and do like the Ouija board and stuff. So
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: now reading it and diving into the history and the
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: hauntings and learning of all of that, it's really interesting
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: to tie like my childhood and my upbringing to my
• 22:34
  Speaker 5: current life here in Tampa Bay.
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: But Cover everything from Miami.
• 22:37
  Speaker 5: To the Vinoy Hotel is on the cover, actually.
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: The Fenway.
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: We talk about the hidden tunnels in Ybor City.
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: Wait, there's tunnels?
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah, the underground tunnels.
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: Why are there tunnels?
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: We're the Prohibition era.
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: There's still a few that you can access through a
• 22:51
  Speaker 5: hotel or two, but most of them are sealed off now.
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: Of course Ybor.
• 22:55
  Speaker 6: Would have tunnels so you could drink.
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: For mafia doings and Prohibition and all of that. And
• 23:00
  Speaker 5: then even everything to the Panhandle, and we talk about
• 23:04
  Speaker 5: the Florida games, which is like the most crazy Florida
• 23:07
  Speaker 5: man type of shit, but it's like a mullet tossing competition.
• 23:10
  Speaker 5: We talk about the town of Wausau where there's a
• 23:12
  Speaker 5: possum parade and they worship a possum. I mean, why not?
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: Because possums were their source of food during the 20s. Oh, boy.
• 23:19
  Speaker 5: So now they worship the possum and have a giant
• 23:21
  Speaker 5: possum statue. And so we talk about that. We talk
• 23:23
  Speaker 5: about WikiWachi where the mermaids are. ABC bought that property
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: in 1948 and turned it into a giant Hollywood film set. Oh, cool.
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: And a ton of movies were filmed in WikiWachi.
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: Name one. Name five brothers. Pfft.
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: The mermaids of WikiWachi.
• 23:38
  Speaker 5: No, but it's really like so cool to learn about
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: these places in Florida that maybe you've heard about and
• 23:43
  Speaker 5: you didn't know that there was so much more to it.
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: It's not all theme parks and beaches.
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: That's so crazy because it's like you live in this state. Like, again,
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: like I've lived in the state my entire life. I
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: had no idea about any of the things you just
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: talked about.
• 23:54
  Speaker 6: Where in Florida do you want to travel to now
• 23:56
  Speaker 6: after doing all the research for the book?
• 23:59
  Speaker 5: There's a place called Casadega by Orlando, which is the
• 24:02
  Speaker 5: town with the highest concentration.
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: Of psychics in the world.
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: Oh. And it's a spiritualist camp, and it's still working today,
• 24:09
  Speaker 5: and you can go and get your readings.
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  Speaker 1: I get scared to get a reading.
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  Speaker 3: Ghost tours. I really want to get a reading. It's
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: perfect for Halloween, actually.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Because, like, when do you ever, like, when are you
• 24:19
  Speaker 6: going to contact a psychic and they're going to be like, yeah,
• 24:20
  Speaker 6: you're going to die tomorrow?
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: You know what I mean? No, and it doesn't have
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: psychic law.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: They shouldn't be able to tell you when you're going
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: to die. That would suck.
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: And it's a whole city. Like, well, it's a very,
• 24:28
  Speaker 5: very small town. But the whole town is all spiritualists.
• 24:31
  Speaker 5: So you go in and you can feel the energy
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: and all of that. So that's somewhere I'd love to
• 24:36
  Speaker 5: really dive into a little more. But Seaside is one
• 24:39
  Speaker 5: of my favorite places, actually.
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: Really?
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: So I'd love to go back there. I talk about
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: Amelia Island, which I just traveled to. It's really fun.
• 24:46
  Speaker 5: It's a fun book. So you can pick it up
• 24:48
  Speaker 5: at your local bookstore. It's at Barnes and Nobles. It's
• 24:51
  Speaker 5: on Amazon.
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: And it's a great holiday gift, too.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: I want to get one. Thank you. Can we get
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: a signed copy?
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: Of course.
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: And we've got events coming up. We're doing a really
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: fun dinner.
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: With a chef.
• 25:00
  Speaker 5: It's a place called The Chef Upstairs here in St. Pete,
• 25:02
  Speaker 5: December 15th. And they've created a whole secret Florida-inspired dinner.
• 25:05
  Speaker 5: And then you can come, have the dinner, and then
• 25:07
  Speaker 5: we'll sign the book and talk about it a little bit.
• 25:09
  Speaker 5: But we have a few events in the pipeline. So
• 25:11
  Speaker 5: check out the Instagram, atthegalalife.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: That's awesome.
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: Thank you.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: Congratulations.
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: Thank you.
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: That's a huge accomplishment to say like author next to
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: all the other things that you do.
• 25:20
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it was like, you know, I started that before
• 25:23
  Speaker 5: I started working at magic. So I didn't know what
• 25:26
  Speaker 5: was going to happen. So I started writing and traveling
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: for research and everything.
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: And then life changed a little bit. And I was like, oh, snap.
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: When it rains, it pours. But it's been really.
• 25:34
  Speaker 5: Cool to have it all happen now and the launch
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: and we've been having so much fun with it. So
• 25:38
  Speaker 5: I appreciate your support so much. But I do feel
• 25:40
  Speaker 5: like I blacked out for the year of writing it
• 25:41
  Speaker 5: because it was like the last couple months. You know,
• 25:44
  Speaker 5: when you have that deadline, when you have something looming
• 25:47
  Speaker 5: two year deadline, you're like, oh, I got so much time.
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: And then it's six months. You're like, oh, shit.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: It's creeping up.
• 25:52
  Speaker 5: The last six months, I was just like, boom. So
• 25:55
  Speaker 5: I'm thankful. It felt like laboring a child.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: That's in the world.
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: A literary baby.
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: Now you're also, I mean, we have a couple minutes
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: left before you have to hop on air, but you're
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: also laboring a child, your dog.
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: Oh, God, yeah, that one.
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: We love a puppy.
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: She's the best ever, little Luna. Four months.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: How's that been going?
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: Because you came on, you talked about when you first
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: got Luna.
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: I'm like.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: What has happened since?
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: We've had her two months now.
• 26:16
  Speaker 5: She is... I feel like we could do better at
• 26:20
  Speaker 5: our training. We're trying really hard. She's still like pooping
• 26:25
  Speaker 5: and peeing inside. So we're trying really hard to get
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: her to do it all outside. She has started doing
• 26:29
  Speaker 5: it outside. But it's just, it feels like having a kid.
• 26:32
  Speaker 5: It feels like having a baby.
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: It really does.
• 26:34
  Speaker 6: As a woman in her 30s, does this make you
• 26:36
  Speaker 6: more or less open to wanting children?
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: I don't want kids now.
• 26:41
  Speaker 5: I honestly like we we both look at each other
• 26:44
  Speaker 5: and we're like, this is good.
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: We could get one more. Yeah, I think we're good.
• 26:48
  Speaker 5: I just I commend moms like I really do. I
• 26:51
  Speaker 5: just don't think I have it in me to really
• 26:55
  Speaker 5: have a child 24 seven and be able to to
• 26:59
  Speaker 5: keep my identity as who I am.
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: I'm very independent.
• 27:02
  Speaker 5: And even just having the dog alone, like I'm so
• 27:04
  Speaker 5: thankful for my partner, Mike, my husband, Mike. But he
• 27:07
  Speaker 5: feels like such a partner in this journey because he's
• 27:09
  Speaker 5: taken on so much. And there's times where I lose
• 27:12
  Speaker 5: my shit. I'm an only child. So growing up, I
• 27:14
  Speaker 5: would go in the room and just like have to
• 27:15
  Speaker 5: be alone. And I am like that to this day.
• 27:18
  Speaker 5: So I see it with the dog. I'm like, if
• 27:19
  Speaker 5: I had a kid and I couldn't isolate from this kid, postpartum,
• 27:23
  Speaker 5: I think.
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: I'd struggle with that.
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: I think there are so many things I'd struggle with
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: that maybe.
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: I just shouldn't have a kid.
• 27:28
  Speaker 5: So the puppy has been a great learning opportunity for that.
• 27:31
  Speaker 5: But also I have been able to showcase a more
• 27:34
  Speaker 5: maternal side of me that I didn't know was there.
• 27:36
  Speaker 5: Maybe it won't extend to a human child, but at
• 27:38
  Speaker 5: least like it's there and I'm not a psychopath.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: Love it.
• 27:43
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: But I can't wait for you guys to hang out
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: with Luna. She wants to meet you two so badly.
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: Let's go get brunch with Luna.
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: Hell yeah.
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: I also, we saw pictures of your dog and I
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: was like, oh my God, Brianna and I were like,
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: Luna's getting so big.
• 27:55
  Speaker 5: I know.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: Like so quick.
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: She's a big bitch.
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: I've heard that's what happens. They grow up.
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: In like a month, she's doubled in size. She's like
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: 15 pounds now.
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: You are a mother. Commenting on your daughter's size.
• 28:06
  Speaker 5: I know.
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: I'm like, come on. This is the most maternal I've
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: ever heard you.
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: GLP-1.
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: Oh, my gosh.
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: Well, we got to get out of here and let
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: you do your show.
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: But thank you for, one, everything that you're doing here.
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: And congratulations on everything you're doing. Because we didn't get
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: to touch on the other side of it. We'll have
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: to have you on again, like for Save Our St. Pete.
• 28:23
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: And everything that's going on.
• 28:24
  Speaker 5: We can talk about that next week. If you can,
• 28:25
  Speaker 5: that would be great. I'd love to share more on
• 28:26
  Speaker 5: that because that's a fun event. Yeah, it's like one
• 28:28
  Speaker 5: of the biggest things in Tampa Bay.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's fun. So let's definitely talk about it. Where
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: can people find you online?
• 28:33
  Speaker 5: At thegallalife on Instagram or thegallalife.com.
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: Also St.
• 28:36
  Speaker 5: Pete Gals if you're looking for some fun events around
• 28:39
  Speaker 5: Tampa Bay.
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: Thank you so much.
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: Love you.