All right, we're live on the podcast again with Joe Redner.

Thanks again for coming out here, man.

Thanks for having me.

I've been wanting to do this interview for a long time.

You are, so how did you become such a legend and an icon in the Tampa Bay Area?

You've been, you're very well known around here

and you're very outspoken and people call you an activist. But how initially did you

become so well known in this area? Well, about 1976, I went to work for a gentleman that

had a go-go bar.

And I went in as a night shift manager,

and that's where the dancers wore pasties and G-strings,

and that's what they wore.

They didn't strip.

They didn't do anything to came out, danced a couple songs,

and then quit.

So anyway, I saw a case from a Supreme Court of the United States that said nudity in speech was protected by the First Amendment.

Nudity in speech? In speech.

In other words, if you're dancing and you have nudity that's protected

by the first amendment okay because you're speaking you're saying something okay uh conduct

how you conduct yourself how you dress all that is speech okay um you're saying something to other

people so uh then um i opened a club that uh was a nude

and had alcohol and uh it was a beer joint and uh it was a dorios, no, I called it the night gallery.

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