Why I Deleted My Patreon - My Thoughts on How I Want To Continue Making Videos & Funding Travel
Why I Deleted my Patreon
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welcome everyone i'm the woo here
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today's adventure will be a casual one a
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walk around
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a celebration pond the lake
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is it a pond or lake what's the
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difference nonetheless got my
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i've procured a piping hot caffeinated
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beverage
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a couple things i want to talk about and
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some announcements that finally have
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come to fruition
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one of them took place about a week ago
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but i was on a road trip
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did 10 days with my dad a little
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nostalgia fest
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back through my youth through my dad's
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youth and
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the main reason i did it was for us
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granted you the viewers got to take a
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little
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peek in there but in reality it was
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something i wanted to do for a few years
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and my dad was able currently
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to take a road trip so i said let's just
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go let's just hit the road
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and we went to every spot that i
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remember from my youth my dad was a
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minister preached at a lot of different
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church
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churches might have been confusing
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watching that
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because we moved around a lot compared
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to someone who's like a military family
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good and going from base to base except
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from him it was from
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congregation to congregation
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let's chat i'm inviting you to join me
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shall you
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officially after a lot of talking out of
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a lot of
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confusion and dealing with the company
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of patreon
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who does not make it easy to delete
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anything from their platform
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contemplated years ago deleting my
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patreon page
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and i didn't due to different reasons so
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the
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that the comparison the only way to
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for me to justify having it was to put a
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an asterisk on there in the description
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not really an asterisk but an
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explanation saying please
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keep any of the pledges to five dollars
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per person
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per month which most adhered to
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and then as time went on as the years
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went on
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i kind of just never mentioned it again
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i never really mentioned it
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until a couple months ago when i brought
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it up once again
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and because i didn't mention it the
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pledges declined
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and i would always say un
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positive things about it that i wasn't
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really too into it even though it just
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still kind of stayed on there
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tried to delete it years ago
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takes 30 days so they say it takes 30
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days
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for patreon to acknowledge the fact that
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you want to delete it
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and the time before tried to delete it
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long story short it didn't get deleted
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so that i just never mentioned it again
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until i decided this needs to go away
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this needs to
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to hit the bricks and hit the bricks me
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i'm not gonna have a there we go i'm
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just gonna switch this over and hit the
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bricks
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it has done it's gone it did not take 30
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as patreon said it would it took nearly
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60 days 58 days 59 days
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who's counting but it is history
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i no longer from this point forward well
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a week ago
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have a patreon crowd funding
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account it's gone the only other income
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i have
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with the exceptions of you know some
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savings some stocks
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funds things like that is going to be
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what i'm making off of
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youtube adsense and the likes of that
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have a pretty decent savings so i'm good
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on that so don't get don't worry
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don't get flustered everything is
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totally fine do not and have not needed
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any of the residual income from patreon
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for
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many years it has just been a little bit
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extra there it does help with travel
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expenses and hotels
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but in all reality i can totally afford
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that on my own it is gone
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the way of the what's the bird
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the dodo is that even a bird
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patreon's history sorry i did not
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acknowledge it while on the road trip
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but didn't really want to veer off the
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subject matter of a little nostalgia
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with my dad with pops
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which i've never actually called him
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pops until now maybe
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he'd probably be very confused if i
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started calling him pops
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i've discussed this before but let me
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reiterate
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i at this point at this stage of my life
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this point of my career and in the game
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i
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do not require expect or ask for
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anything
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monetary wise from anyone i would rather
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just have
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everything that i am funding come out of
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my own pocket
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my own accounts my own credit card all
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of that
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i feel more comfortable and most
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comfortable from here
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forward and it has been this way for a
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while but i am just restating it
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to just have it be out of my own accord
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as appreciative as i am
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back in the day it was very helpful it
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is not necessary now
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i contemplated i mentioned this a month
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or so ago a month and a half ago
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right when i posted that i had deleted
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it and patreon was going to go through
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the 30-day process which they failed to
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do it took longer than that
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in fact i had been checking on it a
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couple days before it got deleted
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and it's had the pending date it had
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been like six weeks
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i said you know what this thing's never
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going to get deleted woke up one morning
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erased from existence
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thankfully now a month or so ago i was
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on the other side
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of the lake right over there and i
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mentioned how i was contemplating
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deleting my spreadshirt
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adam the woo on spreadshirt why a very
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silhouetted silhouetted out
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that is another source of income
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and the way spreadshirt works you can
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just search for it it's easy just
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look up adam the wave spreadshirt have a
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variety
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of items on there that i never promote
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in fact i don't really like pushing it
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because i really don't want people
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spending
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money and the money going directly to me
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so my
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what here's the what do they call that
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when it's
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meeting someone meeting an idea halfway
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my idea of meeting
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this halfway is i have gone on and i
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have made
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my spreadshirt a not-for-profit
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t-shirt sales so before if you recall if
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you had gone on there and ordered a
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shirt
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it may have been 22 for a t-shirt give
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or take depending on whether it's like a
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better quality shirt a small or large an
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extra double x
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depending on whether it's like a the
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quality it fluctuated
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where spreadshirt will charge me 11
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to 15 16 per shirt to create
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and then ship out and all that so i
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would put the price up to about 20
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and make about six to eight dollars per
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that's not happening anymore now it is i
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am not making a dime
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i'm leaving the shirts on there for
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anyone who wants a shirt patreon
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patreon spreadshirt gets the money to
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create
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said t-shirt you get a product
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and i get nothing and i feel comfortable
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with that i have
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i have come to accept that if you go to
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my former patreon page it was patreon
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he goes patreon slash adam the woo or
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just search adam the blue patreon
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you will see it has been removed there
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is nothing here
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at all all the pledges that were on
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there even though i asked for those to
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get rid of their pledges some did it
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some may not have not
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gotten the information or the memo or
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seen the videos where i asked
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the page has been removed so if you're
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wondering if you had a pledge if you
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were one of the few that still remained
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and you're wondering why the heck do i
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not have any kind of confirmation of
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that is because it is gone
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effective a week ago immediately
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this page has been removed thank you
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to patreon for finally taking this down
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they could have made it a lot easier
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this gave me a lot of headache and
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struggle over the last
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who knows how long but it's gone
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when they say 30 days they mean 30 plus
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hello squirrel
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you're gonna start one up yeah i'm
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nothing against that anybody can it's
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just not for me
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it's just not for me oh you want to see
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the spreadshirt stuff i was talking
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about
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all right and looks as if earlier when i
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changed it over to the not-for-profit
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it ought i didn't have to go in on a
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single t-shirt and
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zero out what i would be making it just
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does it automatically so you'll see the
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premium shirt
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is 15 16 that's what spreadshirt charges
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not for my element and then the cheapest
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one is fourteen dollars
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technically for fourteen dollars get one
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this one's 13.
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oh you know what it is that's the same
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design this is the
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this is the least inexpensive one there
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11. so this
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would have been probably 15 over there
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on that end this one would have probably
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been
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22 and i would have made seven or eight
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dollars
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you know add that up for the amount of
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people who
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who purchase yeah i made a little bit of
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residual income
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there's another design here so you see
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eleven dollars
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so if you were feeling in the mood to
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give this company your money
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i wouldn't i'm not going to get any of
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this but if you would like one of these
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now's the time sometimes now i should
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probably research this a little bit
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better but occasionally every month or
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so
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they will do a free shipping sale i have
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a
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spider on my hand look at that
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look at that oh i feel it it's tickling
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me oh it's a oh it's an ant so
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get off of there okay i had to wipe it
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off
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so you can kind of just oh there's also
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half the hats are back too
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you could get a half at 13 bucks before
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i'd have these at like 22
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it's back that thing is back on my wrist
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now if you order a shirt ant or mosquito
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or whatever you are
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i'm not getting any of that i'm not
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getting any of the the profits on that
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i'm just leaving these up for a while it
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might hit me one day where i just delete
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these and these don't even exist anymore
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but as of right now i have no plans on
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making any profit
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on anything including the spreadshirt
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patreon's gone
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i don't know i'm wacky i don't even know
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why
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it's you know what it is let me just let
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me show a couple more of these
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so if you want to get one for a good
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deal i think it's a couple dollars of
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shipping so you could get a t-shirt for
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like 11 or 12 bucks so 15
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or less you could get this shipped to
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your house in comparison to
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these were probably twice as much
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because i was making a little bit of a
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profit on them before
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not any mia to quote clue so
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that's a priceless steinway not to need
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me
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i originally started youtube
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not to make money not to make anything
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in fact i didn't even realize
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you could make money on ads on the
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videos now there's ads one or two ads
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sometimes three depending on the length
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of the video
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in between
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i gotta give me one of those that's
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pretty cool
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i just heard something splash over there
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it might be a gator oh here comes the
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squirrel hello squirrel
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he's over there you might have you'll
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see him
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i had no intention getting into this
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youtube game
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even assuming that would make any money
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i never
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started making videos to be a celebrity
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a personality i know all that in a
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moderate
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way kind of goes with the goes with the
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job
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putting yourself out there people start
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to know who you are they recognize you
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et cetera et cetera but i never thought
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this is going to be a business for me
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now a lot of people are jumping on the
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platform with that
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intention and there is nothing wrong
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with that but a lot of things have
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changed
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in doing this for gosh 11 years give or
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take for my first channel
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late 2009 early 2010
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and then i started the daily woo channel
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a few years after that a lot has changed
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and the whole intention
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was because i hated the job i had i
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hated
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almost every job i did not have respect
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for the people i was working for i did
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not feel i was being
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paid enough for the job i was doing
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long story short i left the last job i
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had
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in fact august 9th 2011
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will be 10 years it'll be a 10-year
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anniversary of me not punching a clock
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maybe i have some kind of celebration
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of sorts
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and the only reason i did it the reason
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i started sleeping in my van
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and traveling and making
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adventure videos which i used to do a
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lot of abandoned stuff
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which i don't do anymore for legal
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reasons and traveling
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road trips started doing some roadside
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attractions which at the time
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there were not a lot of folks doing
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roadside attractions in fact
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only a couple were doing roadside
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attractions who i became friends with
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they started doing channels as well now
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it seems
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also movie locations that a plethora of
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folks have
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jumped on the filming locations roadside
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attractions
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van dwelling is becoming a hot commodity
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all that stuff
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i've already done moved on to different
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phases of my life i could go back to
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doing that stuff you never know
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which way my brain is going to work but
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when i started that there was no
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intention
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on monetary gain i just wanted to get by
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i just wanted to make enough to get by
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then my next goal was
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can i make enough to where i'm making
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the same as i made
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working my last job which i accomplished
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that
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and then some now i'm way past that
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and i think to myself why
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do i need to keep pushing product i am
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not gene simmons
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i am not a salesman i do not work retail
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i gave up working retail
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why do i want to be in retail i make
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enough
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off of the ads on these videos to not
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only
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pay for my lifestyle pay for my travels
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and put money in savings and investments
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more than i ever
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dreamed so that's where i'm at to this
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day
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and that's just my own personal decision
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something is moving around over there
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i'm going to keep this short and sweet
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just want to let you know patreon gone
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does not exist anymore history years
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from now would be nothing more
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than a memory i am most appreciative for
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those over the years
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who gave a little bit of themselves and
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their wallet
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even though it wasn't much most add here
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to the 5
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or less per month it really was helpful
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but it is not necessary now and for me
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to continue on
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just doesn't feel right in here but
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thank you
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and with the spreadshirt thought about
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deleting it but i thought you know maybe
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somebody would want
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an adam the woo t-shirt i won't get any
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but at least they're out there and i've
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thought about down the road
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this year it's not able to do that due
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to distancing and
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you know the current regulations but
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maybe next year
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i could start doing something where i
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could give away more product i never
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want to charge
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for anything if i ever do not that i'm
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going to do a meet i'm not announcing a
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meetup but if i ever did another meetup
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i would like to
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to print a snot
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mess load uh that's disgusting
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of merchandise stickers shirts things
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like that
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it's not gonna happen this year because
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you can't do meetups right now and i
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haven't done a meetup in a few years i
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think the last one i did was
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super bowl sunday a few years ago in san
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antonio texas there's a squirrel looking
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at me
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or maybe i could not even have a meet up
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maybe i could just
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make some stuff and somehow send it out
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to everyone i want to just give stuff
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away
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that's my future goals not immediate not
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happening now
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but at some point hello
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at some point i just want to give
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merchandise away keep that in the back
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burner i'm going to keep it in my head
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up here it's going to happen
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i have some ideas i have some really
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cool ideas which i don't i thought about
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divulging them and spoiling them now but
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i'm not going to because you never want
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to give
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away at all the information just don't
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talk about it
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do it so i have some things i want to do
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life is good thanks for watching i'll
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see you in the next video the vlog
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it's over stay tuned on those giveaways
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i'm going to put some thought into it
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give me give me a few months towards the
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end of the year stay tuned i got some
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yeah i'm gonna give some stuff away i'm
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gonna create some stuff and just just
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give it away
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stay tuned