My Bizarre Life & Career - Being Thankful For 15 Years On YouTube / Looking Back But Moving Forward
Thanksgiving Day 2024
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welcome everyone Adam the woo here as
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the recording of This is Thursday
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November 28th 20124 also known as
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Thanksgiving a day to give thanks for
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what you are grateful for looking back
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on the past looking to the
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Future and also focusing on the
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present this is the holiday between
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Halloween and Christmas kind of nestled
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right in the middle of two massive
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holidays when two holidays Collide
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they're colliding right now on
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Thanksgiving Day I have plans later got
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to go to my parents they're having a
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group of friends over I'm going to
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be having a early afternoon late dinner
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with them and just until then going to
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cruise around on my glorified golf cart
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mini Marge We grab a coffee peruse
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around celebration then go over to their
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place will not be filming my time with
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them and their friends there will be
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plenty of family content coming up when
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big family trip going to Alani in Hawaii
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in December middle of December upcoming
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soon I will be making my departure out
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of Central Florida to start heading that
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way and then other family members will
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be meeting me on the way there but
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that's that's not for not another week a
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little more than a week give or take a
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day today is Thanksgiving and I am very
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grateful for before my life was kind of
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reflecting a little bit last night
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before I went to sleep and then when I
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got up this morning of just the how
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grateful and how the timeline is of how
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things have progressed for
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me didn't really think I would be
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purchasing a house in celebration did
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not think I would be making a living
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doing a quote unquote job
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traveling filming things pointing out
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the obvious of a career out of that when
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I quit the last 9 to
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5es type of job Bankers hours job a feed
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store I worked retail for many many
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years Publix wind Dixie Office Max Etc
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Walmart 20 plus years working retail
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stocking shelves never did I think when
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I started this YouTube channel late 2009
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early 2010 and then quitting my job in
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August on August 9th of 2011 and
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starting to travel in my van going
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across the US and filming videos didn't
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even monetize my videos for another year
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year and a half after
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that sleeping in the back of the
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van didn't think I would be where I am
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today and in all reality the reason for
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that is because of viewers like you
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viewers who watch videos cuz if no one
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watched and no one cared
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if no one was a kindred spirit and had
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the vested interest similar to the
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things that I'm showing and then has
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morphed into you know enjoying my life
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and things about me sometimes it's about
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the places I go sometimes it's it's just
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you know daily life kind of morphed into
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more of a video diary kind of just
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become this thing
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now I just go do stuff and it's just
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self self repelled if you
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will and I think out of everything that
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is one of the things as far as my again
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quote unquote job career that I am most
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grateful for that it has just become
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this organic Spinning Wheel of just me
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living my life and I'm able I'm able to
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survive put a little money away
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and live my
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life anyway I just wanted to kind of
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share that but the biggest thing is the
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fact that people are interested that
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people do tune in some people don't tune
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in to every video totally understandable
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I do a lot of different content that
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some people might not like some people
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aren't into and there are those that
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that watch everything and there are
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those who watch none of
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it I'm just blessed to
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be at that point all right I'm going to
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cruise around celebration
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and I'm inviting
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you that's so
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cool to join me it's good to have you
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here Happy Thanksgiving everyone I hope
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it's a good one shall you it has
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certainly been a fun ride so far Fun Run
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that I've had doing these videos 74
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degre right now here in town it's going
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to get up to 81
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I just keep plugging
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along time just keeps flying so
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quickly one day when I'm old to be able
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to look back and watch all the old
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videos
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and see the places I've gone things I've
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done paths I've
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traversed I don't really look back at a
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lot of my older videos I'm always
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concentrating on what the day is at hand
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with this
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you know daily uploads and
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stuff and next year 2025 starts a new
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chapter of my
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life
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International breathing a breath of
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fresh
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air into my soul into my body to the
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excitement almost the same kind of
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excitement as I had when I originally
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started traveling across the US and my
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van going into the unknown
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the US does not seem unknown to me now
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it seems very very familiar everywhere
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around the US so kind of excited about
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about getting out of the US and doing
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something different a little mellow down
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here at the moment I parked over here at
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the electric vehicle parking area plenty
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of parking down here today because
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people are spending time with their
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family and friend close friends and I'll
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be doing that soon enough going to be
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heading over someone else there in there
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Jim E4 going to get a little Starbucks
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over here get a little caffeinated for
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some family and friend
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time get a little piping hot caffeinated
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beverage yeah this is definitely a day
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it's always kind of a day Thanksgiving
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yeah my birthday also but birthday
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Thanksgiving and New Year are kind of
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like my three days of of reflection I
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coffee achieved this is a Thanksgiving
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blend the Barista said I should try so I
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said okay Thanksgiving I get a
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Thanksgiving
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blend now this is definitely not how it
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normally is parking wise down here
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during the holidays they put up these
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little towway Zone
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things show where I used to live I used
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to live over here for 3 years before I
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got the house now it was around this
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time of the year last year that I closed
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on the house and got the keys but didn't
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technically
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officially feel like I moved in and get
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everything moved in
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until the first of the year and I turned
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in my keys a day or so before New Year's
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Eve wow this is so wild how empty this
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is this is a rare this is rare this is a
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Thanksgiving Miracle right here there's
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parking in here there's never ever
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parking in here 99% of the other time
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but I used to live in the apartment
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right up there Face Market Street was
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right up there on that top third level
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I'd walk up there every day moving in
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December moving my stuff in December
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when they were doing the snope and the
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Christmas decor on Market Street the
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last snope it was every hour 7 8 and
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9:00 I'd have to wait until 9:00
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9:30 for that last snope to fall then
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people would start leaving so around
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10:00 I could come over here and find a
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parking spot cuz she couldn't find
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parking before that and I was able to
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move stuff over to my house from my
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apartment it was a challenging couple
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last weeks of last December before
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officially moving into my house on New
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Year's Day and turning in the keys a day
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or two before here anyway that's that's
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that was my apartment right up there in
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this little kind of cozy little Al Cove
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area right off of Market Street you know
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just a couple hundred yards from the
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Starbucks this might be my favorite
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little kind of hidden park over here
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little square called Savannah square
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based on the squares in
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Savannah Starbucks closes at 3 today
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they not open their full hours a lot of
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places aren't even open today for good
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reason Starbucks
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thankfully was open to get people their
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proper caffeine for the
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mour running over some
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acorns so this house was all Snoopy fied
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for Halloween and now they've convered
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converted it to Christmas they have a
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lot of pean nuts gang for Christmas also
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there will be
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more full full celebration Christmas
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decor right before Christmas day
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but showing a little bit of the stuff
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that's popping up now you know it's
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interesting i' I've been doing YouTube
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long enough to kind of see the
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different uh incarnations is that a word
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the the uh evolution of not only you two
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but I also wear my seat belt in here
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too guess it's I guess it would be a
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rule to drive you can dve to drive this
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around a glorified golf cart needs a
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seat belt I just do it out of habit cuz
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when I'm in my car thr the seat belt
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automatically without even thinking and
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I got enough caffeine jolting through
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the bones I probably need to be strapped
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in well will be once I chug this or sip
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on
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this also last night was the first night
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still still kind of tired from my last
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trip jet lag wise with a time difference
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and very little sunlight in Alaska when
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I was out there even though that's been
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like a week and a half ago or two weeks
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ago whenever it was but I finally last
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night went to sleep at a decent hour
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slept all night and got up at 700 or 8
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this morning which is kind of back onto
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my usual track but when I first started
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doing YouTube I didn't realize you could
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even make money I didn't realize that
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they were you know the way people always
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ask how do you get paid and the way that
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way that works with me is I put little
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ads in the video throughout the video I
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put one you know 6 or seven minutes in
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another one at 14 minutes in trying to
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go overload with it I don't let I don't
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let YouTube decide where the ads go I
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try to space it out where it's not too
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annoying for the viewer and that's it
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that's the only way I make money I have
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no other no other Avenue of Revenue
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anymore I don't do any of the other any
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kind of other platforms or make anything
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off that and I've I've done pretty well
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doing it that way but I didn't realize
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that for a long time the first few years
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first couple years I didn't make
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anything and it took me a while to to
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get to the point I am but it's
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interesting now because I think a lot of
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people when I started it it was just a
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platform to let me just show people what
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I'm doing and travels and I'm excited
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about this maybe others are excited
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about this but I feel like as
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Generations go on people know people
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choose
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YouTube as a career and you go into it
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thinking and knowing that you could make
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a little bit of money and a living and
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that wasn't something that I went into
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thinking that so I kind of have a little
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bit of a different mindset I believe
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about some things or maybe I don't but I
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feel like I feel like I'm a little have
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a little different mindset than than
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what someone now who would be getting to
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a point where they're like you know what
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I should do start doing grab a camera
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start filming things I think they would
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probably be going into it maybe not for
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different reasons the same reasons but
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just just at a different different
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different mindset if that makes any
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sense probably doesn't again half the
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stuff I say is kind of incoherent
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rambling but hopefully you get it but
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even though I have gotten a little more
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rest and kind of gotten back on a normal
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sleeping schedule still a little tired a
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little tired today but I am waking up
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now that I got the caffeine in the
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system I am also very grateful and
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thankful to be back in a place where the
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Sun is up more than a couple hours a
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day this it did not I did not realize
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how much that could throw your system
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off but it really
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can cuz I'm such a daylight guy like all
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daylight I get up when the sun comes up
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maybe an hour or two
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before and when the Sun goes down I
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usually start to wind down I start
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editing my videos but I usually have a
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full day of sunlight so I'm able to get
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a lot accomplished when you don't have
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that your system is kind of thrown for a
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little bit of a
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loop it takes a little time to
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reset all right I'm going to go drop off
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my golf cart get in my
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automobile head down to St Cloud and I'm
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going to go by a place I've gone by
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multiple times but again I'm reflecting
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a little bit today I'm going to go by a
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spot where I started my first video
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it's all about being thankful and
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grateful for paths you choose in life a
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path I chose in
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life did not have any inkling that it
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would lead me to where I am now when I
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first started doing this
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stuff never did I assume that I would
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live here in this town and be able to
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travel at will on a whim impulsively to
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wherever I wanted to go
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and be driving when I am home and not
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traveling be driving mini Marge around
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looking at Christmas decor for the
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holiday season in 2024 never thought
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that day would be here in fact I didn't
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even know what would become of it up
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another glorified golf cart I didn't
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even I wasn't even thinking for the
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future all I could think of is I need to
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go see stuff sleep in the back of my van
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as long as I have something to feed my
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face and survive in that aspect that's
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all that matters
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and
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reality I kind of had a good point
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that's all that really did
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matter it kind of still is my philosophy
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in a weird way feed my face and do
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things there's Santa flatable Santa
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you're going to be a busy guy soon
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enough going be a busy guy Santa enjoy
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this day relaxing it's about to get
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hectic for you a very very tall Frosty
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the Snowman over there too very tall
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Frosty inflatable oo you don't see a lot
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of Thanksgiving Decor in celebration and
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there was the one house I started the
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intro on but this
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place look at this there is a skeleton
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Pilgrim right there and a turkey Pilgrim
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but I believe that they have adorned the
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skeleton as a as a
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pilgrim the pilgrim had his falling off
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though but that is pretty dang pretty
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dang
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cool yeah you see a lot of Halloween
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decor put up you see a lot of Christmas
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decor you rarely see Thanksgiving so
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when I see it I stop nicely
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done also I really love living in this
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town love
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it I feel like I live like a movie set
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stated this before anyone that watches
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my videos know I know what knows I
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reiterate things a lot you film every
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day you're going to reiterate stuff
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yeah right doesn't it feel like it's
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movie set here we go look at this Happy
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Thanksgiving more
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Inflatables that was got a little
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football football suit on this uh Turkey
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right
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here I like it I like it all right
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jumped in my car drove over to CMI this
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is one of the many retail establishments
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I worked out worked at a lot of places 5
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years I worked at the feed store 5 years
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I worked at Office Max 5 years worked at
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Kmart 5 years this was a Kmart this was
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a regular Kmart and then it converted to
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a big K Kmart tried to compete with
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super Walmarts and they did their
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version of a grocery store I worked here
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when they did the change over obviously
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there's no more Kmarts Kmart has gone by
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the wayside it's a lot of PL it's
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interesting a lot of the retail places I
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worked out are closed now so if I would
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have stayed
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working at them I would have had to
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found other places to work Walmart's
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still kicking obviously but a lot of the
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other ones are gone that is not a real
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tree that is a cell phone
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tower I worked here at the turn of the
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century in fact when the year 2000 hit I
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was working
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here I also worked here around the time
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frame when Titanic came out on VHS and I
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can remember being in there worked
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full-time here for 5 years on stock crew
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and then when they changed it to Big K
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worked in the grocery
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area and I can remember being in there
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when we opened the doors and people were
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lined up waiting to get Titanic on VHS
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it was a line right there they ran in we
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had the pallet up front pallet sold out
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instantaneously it was such a popular
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hit smoking area used to be over there
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the roommate I had at the time heed to
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smoke he supp to go over there to smoke
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anyway memories right here and not just
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working here but other it's also right
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here in this parking lot in I believe
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December of
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2010 which would have been 8 months 9
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months before I quit the last retail
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retail job I had at the feed store in St
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Cloud Florida quit that J job on August
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of
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2011 wild that I've been full-time I
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keep doing the air quotes full-time on
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YouTube since then was kind of part-time
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before then you know working and then
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filming on the weekends and then August
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of 11 quit the job moving to the van
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started traveling but I was in the van
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before that and to pre-plan to start
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traveling in the van and to pay off the
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van early enough I paid it off a year
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early just so I could quit the job with
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no debt My Philosophy was if I don't
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have any debt then I could just do what
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I want if I'm broke at least I don't owe
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money that was my whole thing I can
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sleep in the van find food as long as I
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have a little bit of a little bit of gas
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to get where I got to go that's the
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that's pretty much my only philosophy
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was going from that route so I wanted to
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pay the van off early so I moved out of
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my apartment that I had in St Cloud and
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for about 8 or nine months was in the
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van going to work and then once the van
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was paid off a year
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early I ended up started a TR put my
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twoe notice in and then on August 9th a
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day before my birthday in 2011
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quit there and then a month or two later
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in October 2011 started traveling that's
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when I did the Six Flags video and the
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you know all that stuff which kind of
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like
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culminated in the the beginning of my
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YouTube quote unquote career but right
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here in this parking lot in December
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believe it was December of 2010 I did a
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video talking about van dwelling how I
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was going to move into the
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van and at the time I just I had tonn of
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vision of like this could work I
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believed it could work I knew I could
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sleep in a van and
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survive again did not ever think I'd be
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coming back here and standing
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here 14 years
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later realizing you know what I wish I
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could go back 14 years ago and just be
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watching myself film right
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here and then after you know recording
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walk up and go it's it's going to work
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out man it's going to be fine it's going
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to be totally fine but if you go you can
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actually search that it's Adam the woo
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van dwelling you just search that you
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can see that clip and I was pretty
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gung-ho on knowing that it would work I
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had that I had the tunnel vision that I
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I was all
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in it's
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also just about the 15th anniversary of
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the first video I ever uploaded which
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was on New Year's
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Eve 2009 New Year's Eve 2009
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with let's say New Year's Day even
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though it was uploaded the day before of
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2010 so New Year's Eve of this year in
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about a month a little over a month well
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I'll say a
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month it's going to be 15 years of my
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YouTube anniversary on my main channel
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the Adam the woo Channel this is the
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daily Woo which started in
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2012 but that channel is what kind of
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jump started me doing this
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and gave me the motivation I knew
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I could travel go across the us and film
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and do things and if someone even five
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people 10 people someone
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else a friend I had never met across the
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us across the
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world an
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acquaintance that I couldn't put a face
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to the name as far as people that were
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chiming in I still
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remember seeing people comment that I
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did not know I think I do not know who
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this is someone has stumbled on this
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still to this
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day obviously it is expansively grown
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since those days but it still kind of
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blows my mind that that is how this
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worked being in a band for years punk
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band I would always promote the shows to
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twist people's arm try to convince them
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to come out and watch your watch your
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band
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play
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flying none of that is how I had ended
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up being on this
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platform I just put stuff out there and
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people found it so bizarre to me that it
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worked so for that I'm thankful totally
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different totally different mindset game
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plan than what I had beforehand when it
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came to being in the band even though I
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did apply a lot of being in a band the
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punk stuff those you know core values
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and things going into making videos you
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notice there a lot of people who make
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videos who used to be in bands I think a
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lot of that has to do that in fact me
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moving into the van traveling in the van
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was so easy for me cuz I had done that
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in a band with a group of other guys and
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I thought how easy would it be to just
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have it be
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me a lot simpler than being with a group
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of people so that's why it was so for me
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simple to just kind of take that step
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and do it but it happened right here in
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this parking lot anyway anyway got to
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get going so since the last time I was
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over
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here they have
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paved a little walking riding driving
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path right along the old St Cloud Sugar
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Mill again New Year's
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Eve believe it was New Year's Eve of
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2009 which next month will be 15
24:24
years this I uploaded my first video
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grabbed a camera that was the worst
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quality
24:30
ever came out here with my buddy Cody
24:34
Cod we kind of did like a half
24:37
exploration half goofy video probably
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more goofy than
24:42
serious right over here at the Old Sugar
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Mill and it got me thinking you know
24:47
what there's a lot of stuff on Highway
24:49
192 I could film on my nights and days
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off from the job full-time job I had at
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the feed
24:54
store so that's what I started doing
24:57
that that started this whole
25:00
thing that idea of being here I've
25:03
talked about this before but because
25:05
this will be the last time I'm able to
25:07
visit this before it hits the 15E
25:09
anniversary be doing YouTube since I am
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reminiscing while heading over to my
25:15
parents for Thanksgiving day just makees
25:18
sense to stop off here and show this
25:29
years I didn't really make an income
25:29
you know a livable income probably till
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about
25:33
2015 I moved to Orange County California
25:36
with a few roommates a girlfriend I had
25:38
at the time and two roommates there was
25:40
four of us we rented a house at the
25:42
orange circle and I had enough for my
25:45
cut my quarter of the
25:47
rent and things started to grow a little
25:49
bit there as far as the YouTube
25:52
thing but all that was pretty much the
25:55
first time since I had quit my job in
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August of
25:59
2011 that I started
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to to have a little bit of money to pay
26:04
some bills that I was able to get out of
26:06
debt I had a lot of credit cards I
26:08
racked up hoping crossing my proverbial
26:12
fingers
26:14
to that hopefully this whole thing would
26:16
work
26:24
out and even it it's wild to think too
26:24
that February of next year so coming up
26:27
just on a couple
26:29
months will be the 10 year anniversary
26:31
of me moveing SoCal the first time time
26:34
just really does fly so 15 years next
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month
26:41
oo something was splashing around over
26:43
here is this a
26:44
gator or a
26:55
bird oh there's a is that a eagle that
26:55
there
27:04
I vividly remember in 2015 16 17 let's
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say 15 16 17 and people would ask what
27:07
do you do how do you make money and I
27:09
kind of explain again it
27:11
was was barely getting by then but I was
27:15
was getting a little bit of little bit
27:18
of income to pay rent and travel and
27:22
things and the
27:24
most amount of comments I would get from
27:26
people in person
27:29
you know friends family acquaintances
27:31
people I would just meet randomly say
27:33
what are you going to do let say what
27:35
are you going to do when YouTube ends
27:36
what are you going to do when there is
27:39
none of that anymore what are you going
27:40
to do when YouTube
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ends I haven't heard that in years no
27:46
one ever says that in fact a percentage
27:50
of those who did say that are now doing
27:55
this it has been years I don't know if
27:58
that
27:59
vernacular even rolls off the tongue
28:01
from anyone anymore most
28:04
people are kind of
28:07
striving to figure out a way to make
28:10
this work in fact I've seen quite a few
28:13
people
28:14
who didn't really comprehend it at first
28:17
didn't really get it that are now doing
28:21
it and for me it was just kind of a
28:23
fluke it was kind of just random luck
28:26
that I stumbled on the fact that you
28:29
could just upload videos adventures
28:31
video adventures and travel I've done a
28:33
lot of air quotes
28:35
today so for me I'm grateful for that
28:37
for me I'm very thankful that I got in
28:39
at the right time I've talked about this
28:42
before but I have made a career at of
28:44
consistency for me is just about
28:47
consistency staying the course uploading
28:50
daily carrying on for me that works it
28:54
doesn't work for everyone else a lot of
28:56
people have a different format and they
28:57
are very successful with their format
28:59
but for
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me that's kind of worked for me for that
29:03
very thankful very grateful again if I
29:05
could go back 15 years next month will
29:07
be 15 years that I was right here
29:09
filming my first video that I uploaded
29:17
ever Adventure videos started with the
29:17
abandoned stuff up and down 192 did that
29:21
for a while a year and a
29:23
half then I quit the job started
29:26
traveling in the van and
29:28
the rest is history so they say
29:31
and in all honesty I feel like the
29:35
beginning is just about to start now
29:37
next
29:38
year I've stated I'm going to be going
29:40
overseas doing a lot of different
29:42
countries there's so many countries I
29:44
want to go to tapering back on the US
29:47
stuff so it's a new chapter it's a new
29:50
era for me it's the beginning for me
29:52
after 15 years stepping into new areas
29:56
excited about Alaska was just a little
29:57
bit of a teas even though that's not
29:59
International was out of my comfort zone
30:01
there and I'm excited about getting out
30:03
of my comfort zone once again but thank
30:07
you all this time for watching those who
30:09
maybe just stumbled on this channel
30:12
stumbled on my life recently or maybe
30:14
those who've been watching since I was
30:16
right here 15 years ago or somewhere in
30:18
the middle I'm grateful for you thankful
30:22
that I have ve people have a vested
30:24
interest in what I do whether it be
30:27
minuscule
30:28
you know every so often whether it be
30:31
every day whether it be you know once a
30:35
month it all kind of works out
30:42
consistency Happy Thanksgiving and I'll
30:42
see you in the next video the Vlog
30:44
thanks for watching the
30:51
Vlog the bird
31:02
Vlog is over oh yeah bonus footage just
31:02
want to State one other
31:04
thing January 1st starting the
31:08
international all new places all new
31:11
things going to attempt to do 2 weeks to
31:16
20 days a month in other countries I'm
31:19
going to try to do one country per
31:22
month there may be a month a year where
31:25
I don't get to a country but I'm going
31:26
attempt to do a different country every
31:27
every month for a couple weeks that's
31:29
the
31:30
goal just putting that out
31:37
there but till
31:37
then it's going to be more of the same
31:39
going to going out to
31:41
California and about 5 6 seven days give
31:44
or take a day I'll be out there for a
31:46
few days then some family is meeting me
31:48
out there then we go to Hawaii so why am
31:51
I why I am in while I am in California
31:54
early
31:56
December probably going to hit some
31:58
theme Parky
32:00
stuff you know the typical La stuff I do
32:04
but for the holidays for Christmas then
32:06
Hawaii it's a family trip so I can't
32:09
guarantee there's going to be any
32:11
mindblowing
32:14
stuff but I will be filming my days
32:16
there at
32:18
Alani and then come back here few days
32:20
before Christmas and then I'm here for
32:22
the week of Christmas up until New
32:24
Year's and then right out the gate bam
32:32
International so bear with me in
32:32
December and bear with me when I'm home
32:34
for that week every month or that 10
32:37
days every month
32:39
also when I'm home it's going to be
32:42
celebration stuff Disney World stuff
32:45
localized Orlando stuff when I'm home
32:48
cuz I travel a lot when I'm home I'm not
32:50
going to venture off too far I'm not
32:52
going to go Venture hours away from here
32:56
when I'm home the trade-off is when I'm
32:58
home I do localized stuff and when I
33:01
travel I'll travel but I'm going to be
33:04
gone more than I'm home so keep that ad
33:06
mind all right that's it Happy