After 80 Days On The Road I’m Finally Back Home - What’s Next For Me & This Channel In The Future
End of 80 Day Road Trip
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welcome everyone
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adam the woo here as a recording of this
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friday
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july 15 2022 i am wearing
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an appropriate t-shirt tgi
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f
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i have returned
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back to my homestead in celebration
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florida
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the celebration hotel right here piping
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hot caffeinated beverage and as i was
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inside the starbucks
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getting this coffee this is actually a
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latte it's a vanilla latte hot venti
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lard took me a long time before i
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started referring to the sizes of the
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starbucks cups i kind of refused i'd
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always say small medium large
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now i realize the biggest is a venti
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because sometimes i would say give me a
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large and they would give me a medium or
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a small because the sizes are a little
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misconstrued so i fell into it finally
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it took me like a decade
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but i'm now referring to the largest as
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a vintage you got me you got me
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starbucks but when i was in there
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they had a
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artistic rendering of the first
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starbucks which is up in seattle which i
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went to on my road trip which ended up
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being
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80
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days
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81 days now today but i got back late
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last night 80 full days
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on the road from departing in my own
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personal vehicle which now needs some
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maintenance
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about to get a tune-up to get the tires
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checked i think there's a wheel bearing
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in the back
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i'll talk about all that i'm inviting
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you to join me as i have a little walk
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and talk and i want to discuss what is
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going to happen
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the rest of the year what is the future
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of this channel
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i'm going to let you know join me
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i didn't go around the world in 80 days
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which is a you know famous book famous
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short story famous movie could have been
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all those
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i went around the u.s in 80 days 80 days
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just like shy of three months
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i don't think i'll ever do that again
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that was a little too much
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join me shall you and just gonna stroll
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down this walking trail right here on
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lake ryan heart
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it is so good to be back
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when i went into my place last night
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after i parked and walked in
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i just really got kind of emotional i
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didn't like tear up or get a little
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misty-eyed or anything but i thought to
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myself how appreciative
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i am for my life and how
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grateful i am to live here dude through
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certain circumstances
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ended up being here full-time granted
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being gone for almost three months
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wouldn't really call that full time but
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there will come a day
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where i'll be here a lot more and i
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really kind of want to start peppering
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in that type of
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thought process the rest of the year
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even though i do have a lot of travel
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plans the rest of the year but i think
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in 2023
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i might be a florida guy i i've been
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kind of i've been kind of thinking that
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i might be
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it might be a lot more around florida
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2023 not might be a non-travel year for
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me
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just thinking out loud
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that's just just saying but i will cross
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that bridge when it gets here that
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decision no i changed my mind
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18 times a day but that's that's kind of
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what i'm thinking i really
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i have
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traveled a lot over the 10 year of my
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time on this platform
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and my life been doing this for quite
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some time
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and there's got to come a point
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where
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i kind of take a step step back and
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actually enjoy where i live but that's
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i digress the rest of this year so
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dragon con
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2022 which is happening very very soon
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it's happening
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end of august first of september
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september 1st
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through september 5th
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don't quote me on that but i believe
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that is when that is happening and i
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have not missed a dragon con yet
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close to a decade eight years nine years
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except for 2020 when it didn't happen
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but it is
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it's something i love i love to do i
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love going to dragon con and this year
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will be no exception this morning took
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care of some things that i needed to do
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paid some bills booked some hotels
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looked at some flights
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i have booked my hotel for dragoncon and
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what i'm going to do i'm giving it a lot
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of this is going to be a spoiler-ish
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as far as travel plans for me for the
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rest of the year
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i'm going to be going to atlanta
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i've already booked my hotel so i gotta
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book a flight i'll be flying up not
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driving up because right after the week
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of dragon con i will be
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departing to the west coast yes again
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i'll be going to socal where i will be
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going to hhn halloween horror nights
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probably not scary farm
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incidentally
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halloween horror nights hhn in hollywood
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opening night is the night before d23
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which i have tickets too
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for the weekend
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so i'm going to be pretty tired
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hhn
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d23 probably a few days later not scary
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i'm going to be doing all those some
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socal haunts and then
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might be going back up to utah maybe i
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shouldn't have said that but
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might be going back to
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salt lake city i'm just going to throw
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it all out there
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but i have to be back here by october
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1st which yes
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one of my all-time favorite theme parks
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disneyland i love
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epcot
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i would say probably love epcot more
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than doesn't that by the way now i am
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team wdw right now i enjoy going to
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disney world more than i like going to
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disneyland yes disneyland has the
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history of walt it used to be a great
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local pass holder park
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right now it's kind of in a weird time
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frame and because i live here i've
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really started to enjoy
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walt disney world more than i enjoy
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disneyland which is strange for me to
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say but right now
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team wdw
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at this moment now to get back on track
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well the sidewalks kind of attract not
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on the sidewalk to get back on track
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with my thoughts
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i am going to stay put in this area i'm
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not going to travel anywhere until the
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end of august so i will be in central
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florida doing central florida things
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stuff here in celebration
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probably going to the trop for a few
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tampa bay rays games which are doing
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really good they're in second place in
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the al east right now pretty good chance
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they're going to make the wild cards i'm
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really looking forward to the postseason
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if that happens even though it's about
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halfway through the all-star breaks
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coming up very soon which i thought
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about flying out
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and going to the all-star game into
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disneyland's
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anniversary on july 17th but i changed
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my mind decided to stay put i'm also
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going to go to
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disney world you know magic kingdom
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epcot animal kingdom hollywood studios
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more times than i have been
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during the course of this year i feel
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like it's just kind of time to start
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going back i think being away for a
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while
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kind of really made me miss it and
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having kind of having withdrawals a
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little bit
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i'm not going to go too
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too crazy with
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the content in there plus i'm not going
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to be going during the day
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it is just so dang hot here it is so
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toasty so i'll probably maybe do a rope
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drop video or maybe some
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last couple hours before clothes videos
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because i do not want to be out in the
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sun
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because it is
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warm it's about 46 47 possibly 48 days
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so i check into my hotel atlanta for
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dragon con so until then
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and then outstated after atlanta
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southern california
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salt lake after that i won't have a car
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so maybe i'll fly somewhere else
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probably stay out for a little bit have
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to be back
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by october 1st for epcot's 40th
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probably get in the night before
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and then november
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october november and december i'll
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probably be around florida as well doing
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florida guy type stuff would be
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do yourself around florida
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a guy living in florida in celebration
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in the beautiful
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town
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of celebration florida i love it here
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and i'm not planning on moving i'm
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really it's funny because
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i love living in anaheim
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loved it there love the apartment
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but i'm really thankful that i am now
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here
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went back out there in fact on this last
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road trip
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i thought to myself do not look at
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apartments when you get out there don't
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be tempted to move back to la
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to move back to southern california or
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orange county or
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anaheim and once i got out there there
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was no temptation i realized
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that that
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ship
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has passed that ship has sailed
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now one day down the road who knows five
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years from now i can move back out there
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to california but right now i feel
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really good being here
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rent is less expensive taxes are less
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closer to my parents it's a good home
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base
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and i also was very tempted about moving
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to pigeon forge in gatlinburg it has
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become so touristy there
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that i don't know if i really want to do
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that or years ago i was looking at
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houses there looking at apartments
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condos
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but i think that that
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that craving that i had to maybe do that
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has also kind of passed and i'm just
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really content
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probably because i was gone for so long
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and when i returned here i thought to
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myself
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this is awesome i am in a good situation
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my place is all decked out
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furnished set up
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and i'm happy to be here
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so i'm going to be around for a while
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other than the travel plans the rest of
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the year
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will be around probably most of december
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as well i don't know about november yet
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but
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so that's kind of it that's kind of what
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i wanted to say
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and i also wanted to
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look at this squirrel right here
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at this squirrel i love squirrel
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that squirrel is not startled by the
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bicycle going by at full speed
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are you squirrel
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okay see you squirrel my birthday is
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coming up kind of soon august 10th is my
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birthday i'll be 48 years old i've
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always kind of stated that i wanted to
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quit doing vlogs and quit doing the
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youtube daily thing at 50.
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yeah it'd be two years after august 10th
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i don't know if i'll make it to 50. i
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probably will
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because it's kind of muscle memory it's
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a habit and i really enjoy putting
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content out there interacting with
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people i have people watching
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reading what people think and hearing
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what people think and meeting people so
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i probably will continue doing it
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but i've always said that 50
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would be my cutoff point started doing
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different types of stuff try and try to
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find other creative outlets and
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platforms and things like that
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it might be before then it might be at
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when i'm 50 but my 48th birthday is
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coming up and the place i had in anaheim
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the rent
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originally i was going to be
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i was going to be
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not not giving up the rent what's the
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word
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paying the last month of rent in august
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of this year and i am glad
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things
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went the way they did so i was able to
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get out of that by the end of last year
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so i closed the
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the lease up early decided it did not
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want to be out there anymore
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and ventured over here just very
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grateful that
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everything transpired at the end of last
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year i don't have to deal with it now
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because right now i'd be stressing about
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selling stuff out in southern california
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downsizing
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getting to everything over here
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when i already took care of that so now
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i have a kind of a peaceful point
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in my life a good point in my life
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personally
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you know
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financially everything is doing i'm
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doing
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really really well speaking of
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financially yes i spent a ton
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of money on the road i stayed in a hotel
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all of except
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10 days
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let's say 11 days
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all of 11 days i stayed in different
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hotels that i had to pay for
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out of 80 days so 68 69 possibly 70
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nights in hotels
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gas prices also the hotels i've noticed
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i travel a lot i have over the last 10
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years hotels are about 30 to 40 percent
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more than they were
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in past years so do the math on that gas
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prices we all know the story on that i
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spent a lot of money glad i did it and
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thankfully i make enough off of what i
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do
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that was able to afford it and at least
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break even and even
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put a little away now i can't speak for
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what everybody else puts out there and
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puts out into the world and on their
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platform
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but anyone that gets kind of the same
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amount of views as i get
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in traveling and they're doing semi
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regular or even daily videos
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you know based on the view count i get
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if they're getting the same kind of
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views
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they're probably doing all right
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financially
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i just tend to be a little bit more open
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about
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how much you really you can make doing
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this at my level not everyone is at this
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point
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but just keep that in mind someone that
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might be getting the same type of views
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per video
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they're probably doing all right think
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about when i was working retail you know
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working at publix working at winn dixie
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stocking the shelves stocking canned
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peas on aisle five
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at winn-dixie or working the dairy aisle
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at publix back in the day or even
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working at a feed store throwing horse
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and cow feed and things like that which
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was the last job i had about 11 years i
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quit my job on august 9 2011.
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started doing this youtube thing full
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time even though i had been doing
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you know videos for a couple years
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before that that is when when i hit a
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thousand subscribers keep that in mind
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it hit a thousand subs
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and i quit my job lived in my van
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traveled in my traveled in my van slept
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in my van did videos that very few
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people watch it eventually
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kindred spirits jumped on board
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other people appreciate what i was doing
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and it became what i did not realize was
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going to be a rewarding thing
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for my soul and now
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you know i'm able to get by i'm able to
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do this as a quote-unquote
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career and job which sounds really weird
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but what i wanted to really say is
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i will be just taking a little a little
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bit of a breather some down time
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probably won't be taking too many days
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off i might take a few
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just to get caught up on
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you know relaxing
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caught up on sleep things like that but
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i think instead of taking days off from
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filming videos if i do i do but if
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instead of doing that i'm just going to
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do stuff locally which means i might end
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up peppering in a disney video or two i
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know a lot of people don't like that but
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i enjoy going i'll try to put a
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different way of spending on it i'm not
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going to go super in depth and super
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hard into that subject matter but do
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some of that go to some raise home games
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i've been to a lot of away games and
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just do stuff around celebration
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kissimmee
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saint cloud maybe over to melbourne
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cocoa beach but nothing within like an
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hour of here i don't wanna i don't wanna
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go too far
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i'm just gonna stay local
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for a little bit until i head to dragon
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con
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and then to d23 halloween horror nights
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not scary farm hopefully and then
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what i have talked about and that will
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continue through the end of the year so
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there will be a lot of travel plans but
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keep in mind from now until about 47 48
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days until i check in to my hotel in
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atlanta
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i will just be doing stuff
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that's just mellow that might be what is
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going to happen but i will stay busy i
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will stay active i will stay putting
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stuff on this platform
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and if you enjoy watching it
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i would appreciate you watching it and
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let me know what you think i always like
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positive criticism or positive
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constructive criticism and i also like
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negative criticism i think it's good to
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look across the board if enough people
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say something even if it's really
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negative if enough people say something
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there has to be something to it there
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has to be something
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that makes you think
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maybe i need to adjust a few things i
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always like to hear people's opinions
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sometimes i don't follow them most of
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times i won't follow them but i do like
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i do like knowing what people think i
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like this little shaded area over here
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these rocking chairs
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but for now i think i have earned the
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time to not only sit in one of these
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chairs but also take the next month
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month and a half to
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just do what i want
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if i want to relax in this chair film
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talking here i will
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if i want to go to epcot walk around
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enjoy a treat
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i will
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if i want to hit the road
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so that's basically it
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also one more thing one more last thing
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i have been seriously slacking don't
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think i don't notice i have been
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seriously slacking on weight loss i
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haven't gotten back to what i was at the
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end of last year i lost a lot of weight
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at the beginning of the year i'm going
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to get back on board with that
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and what i'm going to do is from now
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until so i originally made the statement
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i wanted to be in good shape thin by
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dragon con which is at the end of august
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first of september i have 47 46 days to
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do that
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so what i'm going to do is even though
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i'll probably go to the parks i'll go to
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some baseball games
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i'm not going to eat any junk food
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and i'm going to keep myself accountable
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and i appreciate other people that keep
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me accountable
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and if i end up working out if i end up
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going to the gym hitting a treadmill
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hitting a stair master things like that
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i will post that kind of stuff probably
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not in the video because that's kind of
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boring
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well not that this is like riveting
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content but
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i will post it on my instagram my
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instagram is adam the woo
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atw
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adam the woo atw is my instagram
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and i'll post up i'll post a little
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stories on there if i'm feeling
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motivated to take a bike ride if i'm not
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filming it for the vlog
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or you know hopping on a treadmill
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hitting the gym there's a couple there's
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a series of jumps around here that i can
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utilize or maybe hitting the pool things
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like that but if i eat anything
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from now on it's going to be coffee
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water maybe some juice i'm going to cut
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soda out attempt to coats cut soda out
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if i go to games go to theme park stuff
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like that no more hot dogs
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it's going to be salads and baked
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potatoes for the next 45 to 47 days
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and i'm not going to weigh myself
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just see how i look
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at dragon con and if i fail this i would
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like for people to call me out on just
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just call me out say you made a
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statement that you were going to try to
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lose weight and you're still eating like
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garbage i need
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that i like putting stuff out there and
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i like getting stuff back so
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if i don't say what i'm going to do if i
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fail to do that
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and you see that on a regular basis of
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course there's going to be cheat days
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but if it's a regular thing
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all right that's it i have opened up
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quite a bit here
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transparency they call it i guess you
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could say
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so i'll be here around today i'm going
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to go back to my place i'm going to take
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a nap i'm going to sleep
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which is going to be nice i'm going to
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pay some more pills i paid a few this
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morning i went ahead and booked some
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hotels but i'll book some more flights
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plan out the rest of the year and
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contemplate
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what i'm going to do over the next five
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or six weeks definitely going to go to
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some raised games raise up
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rays are doing so good right now
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really hope they make it to the
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postseason
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and i'm going to do some disney videos
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that's just that's just how it is not
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going to be an overload but i will do
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some disney videos i've said so much yet
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i've said so little
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it's time for me to mosey on
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back out into the sun thanks for
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listening that's one last thing
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i really appreciate you watching and
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listening
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none of this would exist yeah i mean i
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would still travel i would still do
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things i would still go places i would
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still have that outlet
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of
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what's the word
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not creativity i mean creativity is a
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thing too but i would have that
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curiosity to see things and do things
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but it is propelled dramatically
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by you
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the viewers
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and don't think i agree don't think i
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don't appreciate it
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it's amazing that this community has
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been built off of
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something so simple
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and thank you so much for that
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i'll see you in the next video
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unless someone was standing there but
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really it's just a fern
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it's over oh you know i'm not gonna stop
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this without a howard update
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howard the duck
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it's a fake duck