Way down upon the Swanee River far, far away. That's where my heart is your knee never, home where the old folks stay.

Welcome to Florida Men on Florida Man, episode three of the social. We are here with Nate Young, the co-founder

and owner of King State, an amazing bar and coffee shop in Tampa, Florida. It's a massive part

of Tampa culture. Nate is also one of the founding members of Amber Lynn and has been touring

the world playing drums since 2002. We've got a lot to cover, but first thanks first. Nate, how

are you, man? I'm great. I'd like to be here. Awesome. Good to to cover, but first thanks first. Nate, how are you, man?

I'm great. Glad to be here. Awesome. Good to have you, dude. Nice spot here under the tree.

You're bragging about your own spot. Yeah, yeah, already. It's been 10 seconds.

I'm here at King State. No, it's so nice out, and it's a beautiful day, and the spot's amazing.

It is a huge part of like Tampa culture.

And so for those who are listening from, you know, kind of around the world, like, what is King State? What do you guys do?

So we do, we started as a coffee roaster, which is kind of the initial idea. This was always the end goal,

having a full space with the concept of like beer, wine, food, coffee. It was based on us traveling. We saw a lot of that over and like, it's already sounds like a brag. I'm like,

oh, you know, we're asking about you. No, but yeah, like it was this idea of like at the time Tampa didn't have something kind

of like kind of an all-day spot where you go and get breakfast, you can have a beer in the

morning if you want, you know, because we traveled a lot to where we would be like, you know,

we want to go to a place like that. So that was kind of the initial concept, but we started

roasting coffee first in 2014 so that's awesome well

i mean an all-day spot we show up uh at on a wednesday at a two o'clock can't find a parking spot

slam yeah yeah that's awesome no yeah very very thankful i mean it's been a wild couple years and but

it's cool i mean it's just it's one of those couple years, but it's cool. I mean, it's just

one of those things where you just kind of, we went for it, and we had kind of a vision and

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