1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:02,680 Speaker 1: This portion of the Joe Show podcast is powered by 2 00:00:02,720 --> 00:00:06,480 Speaker 1: Fair and Faarah, Tampa accident attorneys. Ashley, I love you 3 00:00:06,559 --> 00:00:09,239 Speaker 1: for so many reasons. This is one of them. I 4 00:00:09,280 --> 00:00:12,799 Speaker 1: love the way you uniquely think about situations and have 5 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:17,120 Speaker 1: me going, oh shoot, wait a second, hold on eight 6 00:00:17,239 --> 00:00:19,520 Speaker 1: hundred four ow N ninety three ninety three. You're going 7 00:00:19,560 --> 00:00:26,720 Speaker 1: on a dinner day? Okay, what matters more the restaurant 8 00:00:27,040 --> 00:00:27,800 Speaker 1: or the parking? 9 00:00:28,360 --> 00:00:28,639 Speaker 2: All right? 10 00:00:28,720 --> 00:00:31,200 Speaker 1: Joe Show's Liven ninety three three fl'sday. Once you call it. 11 00:00:31,240 --> 00:00:34,000 Speaker 1: Eight hundred four own Na ninety three ninety three, Katie, 12 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:37,080 Speaker 1: think about it, Jed, think about it, Ashley, talk about it. 13 00:00:37,159 --> 00:00:40,040 Speaker 3: So whenever I have friends or family come into town, 14 00:00:40,760 --> 00:00:43,360 Speaker 3: I always have to pick a restaurant and people like, oh, 15 00:00:43,440 --> 00:00:45,080 Speaker 3: do you go and look at the food menu? Do 16 00:00:45,120 --> 00:00:46,960 Speaker 3: you go and look at you know, the area? And 17 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:49,000 Speaker 3: I'm like, yeah, I look at the parking. That is 18 00:00:49,040 --> 00:00:52,360 Speaker 3: the first thing that I look at because I'm from Tampa, Like, 19 00:00:52,400 --> 00:00:54,520 Speaker 3: I know where the parking situation is, and I know 20 00:00:54,640 --> 00:00:56,600 Speaker 3: sometimes it can be crazy and I don't want to 21 00:00:56,600 --> 00:00:58,680 Speaker 3: put my friends and family in that situation, but I 22 00:00:58,720 --> 00:01:01,240 Speaker 3: also know I just love having a parking spot. I 23 00:01:01,240 --> 00:01:03,000 Speaker 3: don't want to fight anyone for a parking spot. I 24 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:05,000 Speaker 3: don't want to do street parking if there's not a 25 00:01:05,040 --> 00:01:08,720 Speaker 3: parking garage or a parking lot, like the bar. We 26 00:01:08,760 --> 00:01:10,920 Speaker 3: went to Varsity. I googled it before we went. If 27 00:01:10,920 --> 00:01:12,319 Speaker 3: it didn't have a parking lot, oh, I was not 28 00:01:12,360 --> 00:01:14,600 Speaker 3: showing up. I was not coming because I don't want 29 00:01:14,600 --> 00:01:17,520 Speaker 3: to have to deal with driving around in circles looking 30 00:01:17,680 --> 00:01:18,600 Speaker 3: for parking. 31 00:01:18,920 --> 00:01:19,880 Speaker 1: So in order for. 32 00:01:19,800 --> 00:01:22,679 Speaker 3: Me to go on any type of date you gotta do, 33 00:01:22,720 --> 00:01:24,640 Speaker 3: we got to pick the parking situation first. 34 00:01:24,959 --> 00:01:28,399 Speaker 1: Some games here then, Yeah, you had nothing to worry 35 00:01:28,400 --> 00:01:31,039 Speaker 1: about the Varsity Club at all. You know why Why? 36 00:01:31,120 --> 00:01:36,680 Speaker 1: Because it's in clear Water. There's always got there's always 37 00:01:36,720 --> 00:01:38,600 Speaker 1: parking in clear Water. Is that what you're saying? Here's 38 00:01:38,640 --> 00:01:41,680 Speaker 1: the deal. You don't really understand it because you've got 39 00:01:41,680 --> 00:01:42,520 Speaker 1: a Honda Civic. 40 00:01:42,920 --> 00:01:43,440 Speaker 4: You got. 41 00:01:45,440 --> 00:01:47,880 Speaker 1: And when you've got a civic, you could park in 42 00:01:47,920 --> 00:01:50,680 Speaker 1: a shoe box a few you're right, all right? Which 43 00:01:50,720 --> 00:01:55,040 Speaker 1: is Tampa parking? For some reason, in Tampa there is 44 00:01:55,080 --> 00:01:57,840 Speaker 1: no parking. And if you do have parking, it's the 45 00:01:57,880 --> 00:02:00,640 Speaker 1: size of half of a parking. It's an emotion car 46 00:02:00,680 --> 00:02:05,600 Speaker 1: parking spot. Everywhere else is just normal parking everywhere. Now, 47 00:02:05,800 --> 00:02:08,320 Speaker 1: granted you go to like a like if you go 48 00:02:08,440 --> 00:02:10,720 Speaker 1: downtown dun Eden, You're gonna have to park in like 49 00:02:10,760 --> 00:02:14,560 Speaker 1: a parking Rodney Walk. But at least you have the 50 00:02:14,600 --> 00:02:17,680 Speaker 1: parking in Tampa. Like if you go to Soho Sushi, 51 00:02:17,720 --> 00:02:20,799 Speaker 1: where are you going to park? 52 00:02:20,960 --> 00:02:21,200 Speaker 4: Yeah? 53 00:02:21,720 --> 00:02:23,600 Speaker 2: What are you going to? You can't even go pick 54 00:02:23,680 --> 00:02:24,600 Speaker 2: up to go. 55 00:02:24,960 --> 00:02:27,320 Speaker 1: Yeah. I'm not saying I don't do it. It's delicious, 56 00:02:27,720 --> 00:02:29,600 Speaker 1: but you know what I mean, how is. 57 00:02:29,560 --> 00:02:31,320 Speaker 3: It in downtown Saint Pete Because I don't come to 58 00:02:31,360 --> 00:02:32,040 Speaker 3: downtown Saint. 59 00:02:31,880 --> 00:02:33,200 Speaker 1: Pete because the parking is trash. 60 00:02:33,240 --> 00:02:35,840 Speaker 2: I heard. 61 00:02:37,120 --> 00:02:40,239 Speaker 1: You can guarantee me a garage. Yes, I always park 62 00:02:40,280 --> 00:02:42,840 Speaker 1: in the same garage no matter where I go next time. 63 00:02:44,240 --> 00:02:48,760 Speaker 1: Unless I'm like going to like Lallas to do karaoke. 64 00:02:49,120 --> 00:02:53,040 Speaker 1: There's no parking there. Well there is. There's just other places. 65 00:02:53,080 --> 00:02:55,000 Speaker 1: I'm saying though. If I'm in downtown Saint Pete, like 66 00:02:55,120 --> 00:02:57,960 Speaker 1: near like Janice, I park in there. Yeah, the parking lot, 67 00:02:58,080 --> 00:03:01,600 Speaker 1: that's it's like four or five stories. They've got one 68 00:03:01,639 --> 00:03:03,359 Speaker 1: thing that I don't like about it is they've got 69 00:03:03,360 --> 00:03:06,040 Speaker 1: a really sharp turn as you're going up there. That's true, 70 00:03:06,200 --> 00:03:08,840 Speaker 1: that freaks me out every time a big Bronco. 71 00:03:08,919 --> 00:03:12,640 Speaker 3: Now, yeah, and see when you can pick out dinner reservations. 72 00:03:12,639 --> 00:03:14,280 Speaker 3: Do you do the parking lot too, though, Joe, Because 73 00:03:14,320 --> 00:03:17,200 Speaker 3: you have a big Bronco, you can't park everywhere. 74 00:03:17,840 --> 00:03:19,600 Speaker 1: So I have not thought about it, but now I'm 75 00:03:19,600 --> 00:03:23,280 Speaker 1: gonna be thinking about it for sure. But yeah, New 76 00:03:23,320 --> 00:03:27,480 Speaker 1: fear On locked completely with the parking in like South 77 00:03:27,560 --> 00:03:29,320 Speaker 1: Tampa is. It is the worst. 78 00:03:29,360 --> 00:03:31,440 Speaker 3: I love the Chipotle on Howard, but I can't go 79 00:03:31,480 --> 00:03:34,359 Speaker 3: there because the parking lot is like only maybe six 80 00:03:34,440 --> 00:03:39,080 Speaker 3: cars can fit there, only like four parking spots can 81 00:03:39,160 --> 00:03:41,360 Speaker 3: fit there. And I really want to go to these places, 82 00:03:41,360 --> 00:03:43,680 Speaker 3: but I can't. You have to go at a certain time. 83 00:03:44,160 --> 00:03:47,000 Speaker 1: When my fiance was a manager at Daily Eats, whenever 84 00:03:47,040 --> 00:03:50,080 Speaker 1: i'd go visit, oh man, it was impossible to That 85 00:03:50,160 --> 00:03:54,160 Speaker 1: little dirt parking lot is impossible. You drive by, You're like, hey, 86 00:03:54,160 --> 00:03:56,160 Speaker 1: I'm not gonna get here. They share a part parking 87 00:03:56,160 --> 00:03:59,160 Speaker 1: lot with Green Lemon, But like that's any. 88 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:02,080 Speaker 3: Apartment complex done right across the street when sometimes there's 89 00:04:02,080 --> 00:04:04,600 Speaker 3: no parking for the tenants. 90 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:07,200 Speaker 1: I don't know how people do it, I really know. 91 00:04:07,600 --> 00:04:10,840 Speaker 1: And then now that I've got a broncos. Sometimes you 92 00:04:10,960 --> 00:04:12,800 Speaker 1: got to be aware of like some of those parking 93 00:04:12,880 --> 00:04:16,120 Speaker 1: like in Hyde Park compact parking only well and they've 94 00:04:16,160 --> 00:04:19,520 Speaker 1: got like I don't know why, but it's like six 95 00:04:19,680 --> 00:04:22,320 Speaker 1: feet clearance, you know how like when you pull into 96 00:04:22,320 --> 00:04:24,600 Speaker 1: a parking lot was kept of thing. I didn't think 97 00:04:24,640 --> 00:04:26,920 Speaker 1: about that. Yeah, when I had my truck, I would 98 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:29,400 Speaker 1: hit the top of it and then you turn it 99 00:04:29,440 --> 00:04:31,159 Speaker 1: out before I wrecked my roof. 100 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:32,560 Speaker 2: Hey I'm J. 101 00:04:34,080 --> 00:04:35,960 Speaker 4: HI, good morning, first time caller here. 102 00:04:36,279 --> 00:04:52,640 Speaker 2: Oh thank you, m J, m J. 103 00:04:54,600 --> 00:04:57,400 Speaker 1: Do you? Ashley says, when she goes out to eat, 104 00:04:57,720 --> 00:04:59,920 Speaker 1: she looks at the parking before she looks. 105 00:04:59,680 --> 00:05:02,680 Speaker 4: At the in you this, I've been wanting to follow 106 00:05:02,720 --> 00:05:04,240 Speaker 4: us for so many years and this is the one 107 00:05:04,240 --> 00:05:06,159 Speaker 4: topic that so she said that. I'm like, oh my god, 108 00:05:06,240 --> 00:05:09,839 Speaker 4: that's how I feel too. But yeah, I live in 109 00:05:09,960 --> 00:05:14,000 Speaker 4: Hudson and I'm an hour away from Dunedin. And in 110 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:17,520 Speaker 4: twenty twenty four, in January, I was like, Okay, my 111 00:05:17,920 --> 00:05:21,160 Speaker 4: new resolution, I just want to be more outgoing, meet 112 00:05:21,240 --> 00:05:23,840 Speaker 4: new friends. And so we had girls get together with 113 00:05:23,920 --> 00:05:25,159 Speaker 4: you know, a bunch because we didn't know. We just 114 00:05:25,160 --> 00:05:27,880 Speaker 4: wanted to meet up and you know, make new friendships. 115 00:05:28,160 --> 00:05:30,880 Speaker 4: And they had a place that duaneedon on Fenway and 116 00:05:30,960 --> 00:05:35,080 Speaker 4: if you know that place the water, yeah, yes, yeah, 117 00:05:35,080 --> 00:05:38,080 Speaker 4: it's a roof stop. I drove a freaking hour to 118 00:05:38,120 --> 00:05:40,080 Speaker 4: get there. I was so nervous. They were like twenty 119 00:05:40,080 --> 00:05:42,560 Speaker 4: five girls. I got there, I had no idea where 120 00:05:42,600 --> 00:05:44,640 Speaker 4: to park. I just made a U turn and went 121 00:05:44,800 --> 00:05:49,520 Speaker 4: right back home. I myself, I did not. My anxiety 122 00:05:49,680 --> 00:05:53,200 Speaker 4: level was to the roof. I was, yeah, no, I'm not. 123 00:05:53,200 --> 00:05:55,919 Speaker 1: Doing that that. What did you end up doing for 124 00:05:55,960 --> 00:05:59,360 Speaker 1: the rest of the year, did you that resolution? 125 00:05:59,880 --> 00:06:02,279 Speaker 4: I said, a fine place where the parking was clear. 126 00:06:03,120 --> 00:06:06,520 Speaker 4: I knew where to park. Yeah, my directions and my 127 00:06:06,640 --> 00:06:08,880 Speaker 4: sense of like words for just like you know, like 128 00:06:09,160 --> 00:06:12,360 Speaker 4: downtown Saint Pete. I hate that. I'm a proper restaurant 129 00:06:12,440 --> 00:06:14,520 Speaker 4: like I would love to go, but I just if 130 00:06:14,560 --> 00:06:17,200 Speaker 4: I can't find parking, just I don't know, they make 131 00:06:17,240 --> 00:06:18,039 Speaker 4: it so complicated. 132 00:06:22,560 --> 00:06:25,000 Speaker 1: I know that boys got garages and everything. But if 133 00:06:25,040 --> 00:06:30,000 Speaker 1: I go down to Eboorg, you can ask any. 134 00:06:31,320 --> 00:06:32,839 Speaker 4: I just want to share that with you guys. 135 00:06:32,839 --> 00:06:33,800 Speaker 2: So MJ. 136 00:06:35,040 --> 00:06:37,600 Speaker 1: I love you so much. You're a great you. 137 00:06:37,560 --> 00:06:40,599 Speaker 4: Guys, you guys who'll talk to you guys. Thank you 138 00:06:40,640 --> 00:06:42,000 Speaker 4: have a good one, thank you. 139 00:06:43,560 --> 00:06:47,400 Speaker 1: I know that there's multiple garages, there's all that, but 140 00:06:47,480 --> 00:06:52,480 Speaker 1: every time I go to the Columbia, I have because 141 00:06:52,520 --> 00:06:54,599 Speaker 1: I gotta listen. If I'm going out, I gotta have 142 00:06:54,640 --> 00:06:57,120 Speaker 1: a bite to eat. So I'll always go to the 143 00:06:57,120 --> 00:06:59,880 Speaker 1: Columbia or the Italian restaurant that they own, just so 144 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:01,640 Speaker 1: I could park in their parking and then I leave 145 00:07:02,800 --> 00:07:05,880 Speaker 1: because I trust that parking a lot more. I don't 146 00:07:05,880 --> 00:07:08,840 Speaker 1: know why. And it's also an easier exit to get out. Yes, 147 00:07:09,520 --> 00:07:12,400 Speaker 1: oh yeah, I guess that's a move. That's an angle 148 00:07:12,520 --> 00:07:14,400 Speaker 1: and you get you get good food no matter of what. 149 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:17,800 Speaker 1: I just there's something about a parking garage and e boy, 150 00:07:17,880 --> 00:07:19,760 Speaker 1: that just I don't want my car to be peanut. 151 00:07:22,160 --> 00:07:27,080 Speaker 1: I've never used a parking garaging. Boys, someone's urine throwing up. 152 00:07:27,560 --> 00:07:31,520 Speaker 1: I guess, yeah, you're not wrong. When you were feeling down, 153 00:07:31,840 --> 00:07:33,400 Speaker 1: just apply The Joe Show. 154 00:07:34,400 --> 00:07:34,800 Speaker 4: F l Z. 155 00:07:35,320 --> 00:07:37,800 Speaker 1: This portion of The Joe Show podcast is powered by 156 00:07:37,840 --> 00:07:40,360 Speaker 1: Fair and Farah, Tampa accident attorneys,