An Uncomfortable Talk About Health & Preparing For Future Inevitable Life Events - St Cloud Thoughts
St Cloud Walk N Talk
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welcome everyone Adam the woo here TGIF
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as the recording of this it is Friday
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May the
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10th 2024 I'm walking down this finally
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mode area here walking over to the St
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Cloud Florida Sugar Mill today is going
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to be a St Cloud Florida video a place
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that I hold near and dear to my heart in
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fact many years ago I got a STC s cloud
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tattoo my family moved here in 19
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1991 and my parents still live in town
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currently in fact I'm heading over to
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their Homestead
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tonight well later
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today and going to have a little
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pre-mother's day hangout sesh with my
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mom going to see my dad M's going to
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make some
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food we're going to get together we're
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going to catch up have some family
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time I'm inviting you to join me
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and I have a couple of announcements to
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make which really don't affect anyone
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that's watching but going to just throw
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them out
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there I ended up getting Insurance
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finally I have been uninsured for a heck
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of a long time I have health insurance I
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have dental insurance Etc pretty excited
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about it being self-employed it's not
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cheap but but I got the the accurate
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coverage that I need and I can now
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start progressing forward with with
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health getting constant checkups and if
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anything goes Ary which it will because
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I am turning 50 in the near future and I
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have been very blessed very lucky
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throughout my life to have pretty decent
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Health but I know all that is going to
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start falling apart very very quickly so
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I needed to do this and finally finally
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have done it as a
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self-employed
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person you kind of had to go you kind of
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had to do it yourself and I finally did
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it and it's it's in the
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works speaking of
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self-employment this is kind of where
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what I'm doing
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now this is where it all started so this
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weird quote unquote
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job if you want to call it that what I
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do for an incub making a living on the
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platform through
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making
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videos and people watching
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them is how I make how I how I make
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money how I support myself how I fund
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travels how I purchased a home how I go
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and do things all that is
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from almost 15
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years of doing this now this daily
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channel has not been going that long
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started on the Adam of the woo channel
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on New Year's Eve of 2009 right here at
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the St Cloud Sugar Mill very long
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intro and with everything I do
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here on the daily woo I'm inviting you
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to join me good to have you here I
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appreciate
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it shall you St Cloud City Town Line is
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right here the little Canal you get over
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that way I believe you're out of St
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Cloud This Way St Cloud
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this the Old Sugar Mill here in town
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little relic of the past and I got to
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thinking in 2009 late 2009 I was start
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making some Adventure videos did a lot
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of abandoned stuff kind of started with
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this it was kind of a goofy video my
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buddy Cod D who I just was catching up
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with recently we went to Galaxy's Edge
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for Star Wars Day on May the 4th we came
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out here I kind of did a little comical
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video we were climbing around at this
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and then that just kind of spawned into
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me wanting to see what other kind of
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stuff there was around so Florida I was
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still working a regular job at the feed
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store here in St
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Cloud and I did that up until August 9th
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the day before my birthday of
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2011 and that is when I went quote
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unquote fulltime if you will here on
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YouTube and I did not make any money in
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fact I didn't even monetize any videos
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didn't even know you could all I knew is
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I despised my job I hated
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working for someone making someone
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else Rich making someone else wealthy
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making someone else money and not being
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not getting
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compensated back to the same degree of
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what I
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thought I thought I was worth I don't
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know just kind of a weird thing I never
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really did I never really congealed well
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with the the punch a clock system and I
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was in the position where
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it was just
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me didn't really have anybody else I
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needed to support but myself so when you
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can be hungry and live in a van not down
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by the river by by the Ravine there like
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Chris Farley but when you have a van
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which I had purchased for my band that I
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was in TNT this is before I joined G
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mouth and I got that for a week could
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tour in paid that off got rid of my
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apartment moved in the van quit the job
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started focusing on videos in fact I
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didn't even put my first ad on a video
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Until I reached about
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8,000 subscribers I quit my job at 1,000
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subscribers August 11th 20 or August 9th
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2011 I always remember that day because
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it is the day before my birthday and I
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ended up going to Epcot and Disney on my
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birthday put a twoe notice in at the
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feed
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store and showed up because I wanted to
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go and just have a me day at the parks
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on a day when I should have been it was
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a weekday when I should have been at
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work and that was kind of the you know I
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did everything in the right the right
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order putting the twoe notice in did
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everything correctly didn't want to just
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up and quit and then that was it shortly
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after that hit the
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road and it is what a what a complete
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180 of how my life was then versus now
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never thought in a million
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years that I would that I would be able
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to survive by just making
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videos life's funny sometimes I feel
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like now it's a little bit differently I
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think everyone knows what this is
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everyone knows what YouTube is people
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start it for the reason of having a
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career out of
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it and I look at it that way in a lot of
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ways now like I know the potential I
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know that you can pay
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bills you can live a really good life if
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you just put a bunch of stuff out there
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and over time thousands and thousands
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and thousands of thousands of videos
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that pay
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residuals but it did not begin that way
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so anyway back to being in St Cloud I've
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made some decisions and I'm going to be
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making some decisions soon
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that involve me ending up here not
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moving here per se well kind of per se
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but thinking of you know the the
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end the end of a of a of a lifespan if
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you will got to you know you think about
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what what are you going to do when
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you're not around anymore and I never
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really contemplated that I've always
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never you know just when it comes to
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like insurance and things like that I've
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always neglected all of that and really
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kind of put that to the the back of my
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thought process but when you're about to
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reach half a century old your mindset
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kind of changes a little bit you realize
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I need to get things in order purchased
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a house the end of last
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year and kind of kind of get that dialed
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in what's going to happen to that and
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get my Affairs in order and I am in no
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way shape or form saying that you know
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you know knock on wood that things are
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going to be ending for me anytime in the
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near future they could be I mean who
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knows maybe who knows I don't want to
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put that out there but I just want to be
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ready when it's all kind of said and
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done and not have stuff out there for
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others to worry about and just make it
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easy on the the completion of things
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kind of a weird subject to even to even
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talk about now I we moved here from
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Oklahoma I was born in Mississippi we
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lived in the panhandle of Florida we
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lived in Oklahoma lived in a ton of
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places just too many to even even
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mentioned but the most I have ever spent
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time in other than California I lived in
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Hollywood for a couple years I lived in
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Anaheim a few years I live in Orange
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which is Orange County really next town
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over more or less from Disneyland and
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Anaheim so I have a lot of SoCal in my
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thought process but I don't know if I
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that's where I want to end up when I
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pass and I think I need to be here in St
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Cloud when it's all said and done
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not too far from
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celebration 30 minutes 25 minutes give
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or take so old STC
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here is going to be the the spot again
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just want to get some Affairs in order
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so I'm going to check out check out a
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place today and this is kind of a lull
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in travel right now into June I'm going
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to be traveling quite a bit towards the
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end of this month end of May into of
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June a lot in July a ton in August and a
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t
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done in September and then a little bit
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you know October November and a lot in
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December and then next
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year I mean it's a lot of traveling this
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year but next year the international
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travels are going to get hot and heavy
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so I just need to I need to get I need
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to take care of some adult oriented
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responsibilities something I I really
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slacked on a lot so because I've been
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localized for a little bit more this
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month than I'm going to be the rest of
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the year I'm just trying to get a lot of
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stuff a lot of stuff done you know adult
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stuff I have also chosen an airline that
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I will be now I do have a lot of other
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flights booked I probably will be using
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other airlines as time goes on but the
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key Airline I'll show that later chosen
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an airline that I'm going be flying most
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of my future travels now there are going
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to be a few that are already booked but
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from now on anything I'm going to be
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going with going with with a certain
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Airline more on that later I'll be
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accumulating some points you know
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especially doing International stuff
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also when I go International this will
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be into next year I do want to do a
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couple Disney Cruises I do want to do
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the international Disney Parks I haven't
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decided if I'm just going to hit them
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over time or maybe I'll kind of do how
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I'm doing these baseball stadiums which
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the 30 baseball stadiums seeing the Rays
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will be accomplished this year it would
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have taken if I get it done this year
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will have taken me 3 years to do that
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going to all 30 stadiums and once that's
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done more availability and time to start
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doing other travels getting my passport
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back very very soon hopefully sent it in
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the other day but once I get the Disney
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parks I I think the international Disney
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Parks will kind of be a oneandone it's
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not going to turn into how Walt Disney
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World is which is my local park that
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when I am here I do other things during
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the day and I pop in there do a quick
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little video or do rope drop or do
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closing out or do like a certain subject
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matter an event Whenever there is an
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event over at the international parks
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I'm not going to hop on a plane and go
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over there I just kind of want to do
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them like just to see them with my own
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eyes and then after that is done I'm not
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going to be the international Disney
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park guy I really want to just do go to
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other countries and see things that are
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non theme park
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related just just kind of explore how
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other countries are that is in the
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future and I don't know how far in the
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future but that is part of the thing I'm
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excited about having the the passport
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about I don't I don't want to
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go through all the process of getting a
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passport just to go
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see all the time just to go see the
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Disney version of what they have over
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there I want to utilize the passport for
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more than for more than those things all
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right downtown ccloud
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now used to live right down
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here I also have some us travels planned
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for next year I have a big big big us
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project a lot of it depends on the
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weather so I'm not sure when I'm going
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to do it but I have something pretty
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cool I'm going to be doing next year as
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well US Travel and international travel
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little substation here clock is not
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telling the correct time it is not 15
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minutes to noon that's like a couple
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hours leftow doesn't look like a whole
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heck of a lot of update on the St Cloud
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Hotel he's been under construction for a
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long
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time I walk over to Moors Market a
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staple here in downtown St Cloud
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showcase this I always like to show this
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is been here forever let me live in my
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house by the side of the road and be a
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friend of man ooh they're getting fancy
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around here they got security cameras
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now Downtown St
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Cloud and when I live down
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here I'll show my old apartment if they
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had cameras recording some of the stuff
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that went on down on that corner I used
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to live on oh man if that corner could
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talk there were no cameras back down
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down there then can't get these
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everywhere but they're pretty dang good
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so it's a smart water with a little
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cucumber lime flavor it is the most
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refreshing
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water had a few of these I saw that in
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there I thought you need get a little
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refreshing water Little
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Cucumber little just a hint of cucumber
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pretty good had it before it's tasty
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that sign means
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business yeah I walk over to my old
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place it's part of this thought process
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with just kind of getting things
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done i' like to have a place that way
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when no matter where I end up yes I just
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bought a house here and I'm going to be
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around these parts for a long time but
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who
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knows what the future holds I'm not
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going anywhere definitely not going
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anywhere or consider going anywhere but
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you just never know what life will throw
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at you but I would like to have but
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whatever does it just be nice to have
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the peace of
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mind with not having to worry about you
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know if I end up somewhere else if I
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don't live here if I live here
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again no plans but you know you know how
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life can throw you a curveball sometimes
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but I just want the end of that
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curveball to not have to not have to
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worry about or stress anyone else out I
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don't want have to be stressed out of it
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as it gets later in life and then just
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be you know just all kind of be dialed
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in just have a place have a
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plot be ready to be ready to go and then
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that way it's just all it's all handled
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so that's kind of what I've been
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thinking about recently and what I'm
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going be taking taken care of very soon
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and hopefully you know if all goes well
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this will be something I don't even have
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to think about for another couple
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decades decade two decades three decades
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four decades I'm thinking I'm really
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kind of like thinking good about the
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four decade thing but at least a few
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yeah I mean maybe I'll live till 80
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maybe I'll live till 70 maybe I'll live
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till 90 maybe I'll live till 52 maybe
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I'll live till 50 there's the old
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apartment boy it got just Gusty all of a
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sudden
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ooo apologies if the wind is messing
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with the microphone a little
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bit that's the old
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apartment fishermen in the fridge if you
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know you know right in here on the
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sidewalk oh my life kind of shifted made
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a lot of changes living up there there's
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apartment there and apartment here my
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window there was my restroom that was my
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bathroom and shower that was my bedroom
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right
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there there's the front facing of
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it yeah I made the conscious
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decision to equip my job living there to
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move into my van living there after I
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the lease ended start YouTube living
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there used to walk down to the feed
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store drive my van down to the feed
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store I don't know how yeah there's a
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sweet old bike right there I always like
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all these murals too you got all the
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donkeys out here in this old in this old
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cabin the mule yard was on the south
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side of 13th Street between Pennsylvania
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and New York AV right over here where
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this mural now is so kind of looking
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forward not I'm going to say looking
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forward to it but I also got Dental on
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my health plan so doctor visits anything
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happens as far as the hospital goes full
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health insurance and also
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dental and it's been a while so I had a
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teeth cleaning and probably have some
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issues cuz it's been a little while
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since I had a check up in the old mouth
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so that'll be happening very very soon
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sooner than
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later A little Health checkup also cuz I
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am going to
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be briskly walking jogging kind of sort
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of running a 13m Disney event in
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September so before that be nice to get
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a little a little check up just to see
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if a doctor thinks I should even do that
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in my heal I was mentioning a lot of the
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places I lived out in California and
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obviously here here in town as well also
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into CMI I lived in a couple places in
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CMI
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Florida and I do now live in celebration
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so you got St Cloud then CMI then
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celebration kind of going down Highway
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192 and there are places in celebration
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I might look at as not celebration
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celebration does not have a
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cemetery because sem's got a few but I
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am leaning towards St Cloud as stated
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also many years many many years ago I
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contemplated moving into this look at
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this very these are Apartments but it's
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almost like a little
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Beachside Hotel style but it's actually
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apartments in downtown a cloud something
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you wouldn't expect to
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see there's the old fire department
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right there too not the fire department
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anymore but that's where it used to
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be a sound you're hearing is a leaf
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lower take a look at
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this a military vehicle
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the
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Jeep I actually did think about buying a
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house here in suncloud in fact I looked
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at a
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however I didn't really want to end up
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here as far as being a homeowner here
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just too far from a lot of stuff that I
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do on the regular
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there and I really like living in
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celebration and when I'm older it would
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just be nice to just take my golf cart
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around town it's a golf cart
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community and if I want to just pop over
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to Epcot or Studios or Magic Kingdom
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later in life take World drive very
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little traffic I'm not real excited
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about the amount of money I'm going to
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have to pay every month for health
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insurance dental insurance all that
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however if something happens it what
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comes in handy it's that way with any
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insurance ah yes the People's Bank it's
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now
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a grocery store of sorts also that clock
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is not correct the other side tells
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other tells a different time than the
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other the other side both of them are
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not correct the most famous thing that
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that little grosser now produce store
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was that John Dillinger John Dillinger
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supposedly robbed that bank and it was
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fact checked and completely not true I
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don't think John Dillinger ever made it
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down here to St Cloud Florida but yeah
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it was a fun little rumor back in the
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day pre- internet when you couldn't look
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anything up and say now you just told
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your friends you know John Dillinger
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robbed that bank but he
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didn't at least I don't think so I am
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not looking forward to the heat of
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Summer here this year or any year and
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I'm just going to keep traveling as much
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as humanly possible while I am
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healthy during those
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Summers that's the plan anyway so a lot
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of travels coming
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up I mean I just like traveling in
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general anyway so yeah not making a
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decision today but this is the the place
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here in town that makes the most sense
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Soldier cities M St Cloud has a lot of
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nicknames Soldier City cuz a lot of
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soldiers were here Mount
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peace beginning in
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1909 better from all of the US began to
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move to St
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Cloud and then in 1910 to 19 42 total
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427
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burials so I guess that would have been
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when it when the first
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one it's laid to rest
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here let's go the other side a little
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bit of traffic
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City wow 105 years old Dan Armstrong was
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just shy of his 105th birthday
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wow stretches on other other side of the
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road also which makes me wonder before
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this road was
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here San Diego's kind of this way is
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there anyone underneath the road I
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haven't been over to this property in a
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while the Band Shell which is right
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across across from downtown s
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cloud there's the Band Shell right there
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again not trying to elude that there's
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any kind of
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imminent anything that's happening
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that's making me do this other than the
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fact I got to think you know I'm
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approaching 50 and I've always been
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irresponsible when it comes to
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pre-planning Preparing and readying
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myself for things if they happen so that
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is basically what has kind of got the
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wheel feel in motion turning get the old
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Noggin thinking and you know obviously
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waiting as long as I did to really get
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fully insured healthwise you know
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body doctor visits hospital dental Etc
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if anything goes wrong I am now covered
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so that is very good kind of a weight
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off my shoulders even though there
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really is no pressing
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issues just kind of nice that to have
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that so I thought just kind of knock
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everything out at one spell that way
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later you know hopefully many many years
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from now if all goes well it'll all be
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said and done I can look back at this
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day and just be like man I'm really glad
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that I handled all that and took care of
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that in a timely fashion again I'm not
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really making a decision today but it's
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going to be happening here in the next
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few weeks to the next month or so just
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kind of want to have it done you know
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before the before 50 approaches and all
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that also many many years ago here at
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the Band Shell they had a punk rock
24:00
concert and a few friends of mine that
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were in different bands played here
24:04
there were people stage diving little
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circle pit there's a photo of me getting
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a swirling Circle pit going on here
24:09
there's only like maybe a couple hundred
24:11
people and the stage diving we had to
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call people up be like hey come up I'm
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going to I'm going to jump off stage
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everyone ran up to the front cuz if not
24:17
you would just you would just fall right
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onto the ground but they never had
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another punk rock show here again after
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that I don't know if St Cloud was ready
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for that they could probably do it now
24:27
but back in the '90s
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it it was definitely something that that
24:32
St Cloud Florida was not ready for oh
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yeah look at this this is mid 90s 95 96
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perhaps there's my buddy Jason over here
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in the far right corner on the
24:43
microphone King
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woan something like to refer to him as
24:46
he started the wuan online group
24:50
Facebook group friend of mine for many
24:52
years and this is me very scrawny skinny
24:55
Slam Dancing Adam you still see that
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sign right down there as
25:02
well ah getting old you look back on
25:06
stuff like this and you remember the
25:08
good old days even
25:10
though I have some pretty good old I
25:12
have some I have some good days now too
25:14
I got to admit and who knows where the
25:15
wind will blow for me granted yes I did
25:18
purchase a house I can't sit
25:22
still it's nice to have a a homestead
25:24
locked in it's also nice to have that
25:26
passwort coming soon I'll be traveling
25:28
next next
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year many more stories many more years
25:35
of fun and excitement and
25:42
impulsiveness but it's trying to be
25:42
impulsive you know you sometimes you can
25:44
be impulsive and yet still be prepared
25:47
and that is something I've lacked on for
25:49
a long time that's where the photo was
25:51
right here younger me right there mhing
25:54
it up
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impulsive but prepared prepare yourself
26:01
for impulsiveness that's going to be a
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new makeshift
26:10
motto I need to prepare myself so I can
26:10
continue being
26:12
impulsive I've also seen this little
26:14
town not that it was little when he
26:16
moved here in ' 91 but it definitely was
26:18
nowhere near as
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bustling
26:24
inhabited
26:26
popular and thriving as it is now there
26:30
are so many more people here than there
26:33
were then a lot more businesses a lot
26:35
more residents lot more
26:43
traffic it's a good little Place St
26:43
Cloud STC
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well thanks for
26:59
listening this is kind of just a a
27:02
random video talking about my plans
27:06
and feel it was pretty important
27:08
something I can look back on one day or
27:10
others can look back
27:19
on Felts also semi-
27:19
responsible yeah that way others don't
27:21
have to deal with anything later on that
27:25
way it's just kind of it's a it makes it
27:28
easier on on other people whoever those
27:31
other people might end up being at the
27:33
time frame someone's going to have to
27:36
deal with it I'd rather not not have it
27:39
to be dealt with if that makes any sense
27:41
just to have
27:42
it have it have it
27:45
done well that's going to do it for
27:47
today kind of an interesting subject I
27:49
know but I appreciate you listening if
27:51
you made it all the way to the end
27:53
thanks so much I'll see you in the next
27:55
video and thanks for watching it's
27:57
always was good to have you here going
27:59
back heting back to the beginning when I
28:01
was over at the Sugar Mill I never ever
28:05
thought that I would be able to make
28:07
money traveling going out filming things
28:11
never even knew that was a it wasn't
28:12
even a glimmer in my eye and not a
28:16
thought in my Noggin and it wasn't even
28:18
the reason that I started even making
28:20
videos I just knew if I did there would
28:23
be kindred spirits out there people that
28:25
would be into this as well started off
28:28
very very slow but over time it's kind
28:32
of worked
28:35
out and thanks for being
28:42
here couldn't do it without you if no
28:42
one was
28:44
watching it wouldn't be a thing so I
28:47
appreciate it I'll see you in the next
28:49
video the Vlog is over