Eustis

When I asked him to tell me about his family life growing up, the first thing he mentioned was the strength of his mom, a single lady who moved her household full of kids to a new town to get a fresh start on life.

I was born in Eustis, Florida.

My mom and my dad, they were married.

She had three girls, four boys.

His mother, Sondra, was 17 when she had him, and his father joined the military shortly after Rod was born, and from there was kind of in and out, mostly out of his life.

Rod grew up splitting his time between Murray, Kentucky and Eustis, Florida, where his grandparents lived.

His upbringing was rough.

His mother at times struggled to make ends meet and turned to sex work to provide for her son.

Yeah.

So Rod, in particular, started taking things super seriously, even beyond Vamps and Jaden's group, like that coven he started to create.

Rod was still splitting his time between Kentucky and Florida, but while Rod had been going to Eustis his whole life, you know, he spent all his years growing up going back and forth between those two spots, 1996 was the first time that Visago made this trip, and he started spreading the news.

He had a friend there from second grade named Janine LeClaire, and Janine introduced him to another goth curious teenager named Heather Wendorf.

Lake Mary is at Mainland.

Uh, tonight, Eustis at Lake Minneola.

University Orlando plays at Wellness, Lake Buena Vista.

If we didn't get to your team, don't take it personally.

Like, as I do with my guests, like, walk us back into, like, what are, what are young, young Greg days look like for you?

Well, like you said, I, I grew up in a, a small town in the middle of Florida, a town called Eustis, um, about a hour north of Orlando or so.

And, um, yeah, it was...

We lived on a dirt road, even, like, s- kind of remotely outside of Eustis.

Um, and so it was...

Childhood was great.

So here we have on social media today about Amendment 3 hasn't even passed yet.

And already we have Florida cities that are cutting events ahead of the vote in places like Eustis and Ocoee and Altamont Springs, Miami Gardens, Fort Myers Beach.

I guess they're saying that they're canceling like veteran salutes for Veterans Day and Christmas parades and fireworks and music festivals.

So they're already cutting to get ahead of this.

Where are you taking your load, and what kind of truck are you in?

This truck is going to Eustis, Florida.

It's kinda, like, right, like, north Orlando, Lake County.

Um, and I'm in a, uh, utility truck, a all-take truck.

And so, yes, definitely check with your mom-and-pops.

And also another one is, uh, Miller's Landscape Nursery over in Eustis.

Yes.

Um, Vicky, amazing, because, um, I have gotten a, a, a white one, and then I also, uh, ended up, uh, um, getting a...

Yeah.

In Eustis.

Double adds up.

And then me with this beard-

Yeah.

Not really.

It's still Eustis.

Somebody would've been like, "Where's the chicken?"