TDW 1397 - I'm Leaving : Moving On
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welcome everyone Adam the woo here today
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I have a big
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announcement you ever have one of those
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days where you've been thinking about
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doing something it's been stirring
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around in your head and you haven't done
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it but over a time period you know it is
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inevitable that your decision will reach
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a certain point and it all focuses on
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one certain
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day
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that day is today for me it's my second
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channel daily Vlog channel it's the
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daily
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goes what lies inside this
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letter will change the path of my life
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once
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again my life is going to be
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changing you could go one direction to
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the left One Direction to the right or
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One Direction Straight Ahead everyone
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has a choice and my
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choice is inside here I've been standing
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outside the post office for about 10 or
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15 minutes contemplating this
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decision and I just got to do it I just
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got to insert it into the mail slot and
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then the journey will be taking a
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different
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turn let's
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go
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oh wow I love this little Jason Vorhees
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vinyl figure keychain
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thing I love these drawings espe the who
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is Adam the woo on the left and also
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thank you for the Dark Crystal comic my
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good friend Scott yuken wrote me a
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letter and he sent me a bunch of goodies
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from Japan where he's been for gosh
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probably almost a year now thanks for
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everything everyone I really appreciate
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it not just what I got today but what
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I've gotten in the past and over this
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entire Journey on YouTube anybody that
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has ever sent anything it really means a
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lot to me I know it takes a lot to take
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time out of your day to either send
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something that you are passionate about
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or purchase something to drive down to
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the post office to stand in the line to
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pay the postage and I really I really
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completely appreciate it and I'm humbled
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Always by gifts that people have always
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sent so thank you very much I've never
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had Japanese candy before
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Orangina those are pretty good hey Adam
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want to go to
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lots of happenings going on at
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Disneyland right
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now it's a beehive of activity down
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yeah
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I have not had Snapple Apple no joke in
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probably a year I'm pretty excited that
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the store had this let's have a chat
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right here on this bench this
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bench that I have vlogged from numerous
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times in the orange
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circle let's have a chat in February of
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2015 I moved here to Orange California
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near
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Anaheim and I did that after what I like
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to
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call fulltime traveling across the
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country in my van sleeping in my van
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traveling cruising across Coast to Coast
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filming
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Vlogs and stuff for the Adam Theo
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Channel and even
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though I was staying in Florida at my
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parents when I was in Florida and I was
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staying at my sisters in
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Indiana you know for weeks at a time two
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or three weeks sometimes a month the
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majority of those years I spent sleeping
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in the back of my van traveling across
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the country documenting things and as
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things progressed and as I started to
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enjoy stuff in
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California I ended up
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moving into a place here in Orange
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County and
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today earlier in the Vlog you were
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probably wondering at the beginning of
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the morning of this Vlog what I was
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doing what I was putting in the envelope
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and I'm here to announce I have given my
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two Monon my
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60-day notice to my landlord and I will
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be moving out of the home that I have
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been living in for about a year year and
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a
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halfish and I'm leaving California I am
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moving out of California I've decided
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against moving to Burbank and the likes
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of
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that and I'm going to take it back old
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school I'm going to go back to traveling
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fulltime at a far greater rate than I
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was doing even before I became quote
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unquote what's the word not
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institutionalized I'm thinking of a
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suicidal tendency song
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but domesticated that's the
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word I'm thinking
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of things are a little bit different now
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I have more people in my corner I
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have more supporters than ever than I
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had way back then and all that really
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comes into play it was so hard doing it
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back then and it's going to be hard to
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do it now I'm not going to
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lie the reason I am doing this is there
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is an expression familiarity familiarity
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is that the word breeds contempt and I
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am not in contempt with California I do
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not despise California in fact I love
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California but that phrase sort of makes
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sense for my
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situation because I have noticed a
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pattern when when you are living
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somewhere and you get comfortable
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somewhere comfort and this is not a
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phrase that's been made up before this
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is a phrase that I've made up in my own
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mind
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Comfort almost hinders
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creativity now this is not always true
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there are creative people who live very
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comfortably but you will notice most
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musicians and artists do their best work
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when they are
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under very disdained condition
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or conditions where they are not
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comfortable and you know think of a a
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band's first album when they are flat
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broke and have no money not a dime to
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their name and have been through the
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ringer that's when their most heartfelt
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songs are going to appear so that's kind
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of what I'm meaning the more comfortable
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an artist
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becomes the less creative they are going
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to be they're not going to stop being
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creative but when they were doing 100%
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creativity might be tailored down to 40%
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creativity and 30%
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creativity and that's kind of what I've
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been thinking about a lot lately a whole
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heck of a lot
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lately and the cost of living in
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California now especially now that I am
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living in a home all by
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myself has swayed my decision making to
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take it back to the van and Beyond the
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van now what I'm going to be doing is in
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less than 2
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almost 42 years old on August 10th I
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will be 42 years old you only go around
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this crazy Circle one
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time and what's going to happen when I
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am older and I do not accomplish or have
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not done what I set out to do I do not
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want that to be something when I am old
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older and grayer sitting on a porch
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talking with my very elderly friends
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that are my age at that point and say I
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wish I would have gone there I wish I
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would have done that now I am in a
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very small
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percentage of the population
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percentile because I have no kids I
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currently have no
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girlfriend I'm not married and now as of
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this morning I have put in my notice
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that in two less than two months in 60
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days or less
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I will also be quote unquote
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homeless now this does not mean I will
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not have anywhere to stay the agenda
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what my game plan is my sister lives in
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Indiana and I have talked to her and I
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am going to be renting a room at a very
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minor minor minor minor minor amount
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compared to what I've been paying and
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that will be where I will be storing my
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personal items you know like George my
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clown some of the knickknacks and stuff
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stuff people have sent me things like
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that things that I can put in boxes and
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store in her guest bedroom and I will be
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paying her rent basically to have that
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as a storage unit and to stay there in
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case I want to come back from traveling
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and I would have like a home base to
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rest my weary head now I'm pretty much
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assuming and guessing the way my
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mentality will be after this 2 months
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here in California but the last two
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months that I will be living in
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California I know the way my mind works
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I will become so motivated I will have
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tunnel vision like a bull in a china
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shop and I am going to
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tackle more roadside attractions
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abandoned places filming locations odd
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weird ghost towns anything and
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everything across the us then you can
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shake a proverbial stick out if you
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thought I've done a lot of videos in the
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past and you have seen my work so far
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you are in for a treat because I know
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how my my my mind works and I
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really I'm not going to look back I'm
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not going to look back I'm
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really I'm excited I'm very sad I'm
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going to be sad to be leaving the house
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that I'm living in holds a lot of
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memories for me sad
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memories I was single for a very long
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time I've been through a lot of
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relationships in my life I've probably
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been through
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10 say 10 maybe a dozen serious
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relationships you know those that when
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I'm older I will look back on and say
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you know these were the key
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relationships in my life that meant
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something to
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me and before this last relationship
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when I was traveling I promised myself
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that I would not get serious with anyone
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because I knew what I had to do I had to
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film I had to go out I had to do
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what almost like my destiny was like
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what I was being drawn to do what I felt
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I needed to do and I faltered on my
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promise to
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myself and that relationship did not end
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and
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now it's it's crazy as you get older you
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go through a lot of relationships that
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don't work and then you give it one last
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try and then that does not work you
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become very jaded but not Al not only
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jaded you become very dedicated to other
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things you know some people focus a lot
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of their time on finding someone to be
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with or you know finding someone and
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eventually having a family and all that
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and I must tell you at this point in my
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life that is not anything at all zero
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percentage of I I want anything to do
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with any of that that is not going to
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hinder me now from doing what I need to
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do which is create date videos and
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travel and see things and do things and
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live live life to the fullest extent
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which is why I feel we are put here on
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this planet and especially why I am put
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here because I fail at a lot of
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different things I
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am I'm a failure at a lot of different
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things the one thing I am not a failure
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at is entertaining and is putting
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content into the world being passionate
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I do not fail at being passionate about
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what I love and what I am putting out
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there if I was filming something I was
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not passionate about you would pick up
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on it and you would say he's just doing
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this just to do
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something and I think the key is for me
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to get back out
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there I'm going to say you know not 100%
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fulltime but I'm going to say traveling
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probably nine month 9 10 months out of
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the year and the rest of time maybe
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hanging out and my parents in Florida
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for a couple weeks or hanging out in
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Indiana for a couple weeks but I and I
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have so much stuff I want to accomplish
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and want to do the sadness and the
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memories of what did not go the way I
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wanted it to go here I have to put that
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all behind me it was very hard when I
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was going to the post office today to
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drop off the letter to the
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landlord I got a little Misty I got a
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little little
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sad
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because I had a different agenda a year
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and a half ago I thought that I could
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live with roommates and by paying rent
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split three or four ways that I would be
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able to travel I'd be able to be in a
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relationship and still be able to travel
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and do the videos and appease those who
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follow and support me every day and
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still you know continue with the
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relationship correctly and continue with
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the roommate situation correctly and
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before I could get to that point all
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that ended and after all that ended I'm
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a very stubborn person and I forced
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myself into trying to make it work and
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as time went on the more it was not
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working the more I started to realize
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that I needed to take it back old school
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I need to take it back and do what I
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used to do and that is what's going to
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happen
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now over the next two months I'm going
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to be here I'll probably be going to
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Disneyland quite a bit because I do have
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an annual pass and I have to get my fill
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I'll be going to Universal and Knots I
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do have a couple filming locations I'm
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going to do here before I leave so the
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main Channel videos the Vlogs are every
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day so those are going to be uploaded
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every day there will be no ending on
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that the main Channel video the Adam the
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woo Channel I have an abandoned video
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that I'm editing down which is pretty
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awesome a couple days from now I'll
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upload that and then I'll have a couple
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movie locations maybe one or two other
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vide
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it's going to be about normal maybe a
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couple videos two or three or four
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uploads before that 2mon period before I
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leave on and I hit the road and then the
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Adam the woo channel is going to go from
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a Content level like this the content
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level once I leave the state and start
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hitting the road in my van is going to
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Skyrocket you going to see an exorbitant
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amount of content and here's the great
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thing
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I switched the format of this Vlog this
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edited Vlog that I am now doing used to
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be unedited for a very long time and all
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this has been a test me going to Disney
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me doing stuff in the house me doing
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coffee me putting my shoes on all that
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has been a test for me to get used to
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editing every day and filming every day
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because when I hit the road I am going
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to be out all day every day filming the
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craziest stuff the weird
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stuff so you have a lot to look forward
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to that this makes me smile because the
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fact that I will not be doing unedited
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Vlogs from one location I will be
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putting 10 different things in one Vlog
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as I'm out in some little small town in
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the middle of Nebraska or if I'm in Iowa
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walking through a cornfield I can edit
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all that down if I'm at H some
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historical place that no one has
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documented ever in Vlog form I could put
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all that in the Vlog it is an exciting
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time in my life and in this this whole
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YouTube phenomenon is incredible so I'm
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super
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excited I would I would be lying if I
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said I was not sad I am very sad that I
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will be leaving I will be coming back I
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will be
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visiting you know not only being in the
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van I've also thought
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that you know being at my sisters she's
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only probably you know an hour half hour
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from an airport I was thinking about
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maybe just flying a bunch of places and
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instead of flying round trip like let's
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say I would fly from Indiana out here I
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could fly from Indiana a round trip out
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here and back I could just fly from
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Indiana to Chicago to Seattle one way
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all oneway trips get a cheap hotel maybe
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meet up with a lot of people I really
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want to meet so many people that watch
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my videos all across the country and
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across the world
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stay with some people sleep on some
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couches like I said at the beginning
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take it back old school that's what
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we're going to do there's not a lot of
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people doing this there are a lot of
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people who you know live in their RVs or
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live in their cars and travel there's
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not a lot of people who are documenting
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every day in a vlog format and doing it
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so I think that it's going to be it's
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going to be great I been doing these
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Vlogs for a very long very very long
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time it's amazing to think that on July
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1st will be the anniversary of these
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Vlogs which over, 1300 plus days in a
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row without missing an upload and we've
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only just begun We've Only Just
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Begun okay this Vlog has gone on way too
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long the announcement has been made I
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will be leaving I will be moving out of
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California I will not be living in the
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homestead that I have called home for
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almost a year and a
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half
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about two months oh we'll be
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leaving and it's a solemn time it's sad
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that flag pole is making quite the
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racket all right we have talked too much
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I've said so much yet I've said so
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little once I get the agenda of where
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I'm going to
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go I'll fill you all in with that we
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should just end the Vlog now I've talked
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way too
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I can't believe I'm going be leaving
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here
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but you got to look forward
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to the future you got to you can't dwell
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in the past you
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can't you can't sit
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around wishing things would have worked
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out the way you wanted it to work out
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and you have to know what your calling
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is you have to know what your purpose in
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life is and I know what my per I know
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what works I know what works I've been
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I've done a lot of creative things
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worked a lot of jobs and out of
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everything I've ever done this you
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guys all of this this whole thing that I
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call the circle of goodness is the only
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thing that has been
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successful in my life and that I am
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truly passionate and excited and wake up
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every single day longing to put
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something into the world
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that would make someone smile or make
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someone happy and that's what I need to
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be
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doing all
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right see you guys tomorrow love you
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guys bye