A Day Late Happy New Year Thank You & The Future Of This Channel In 2025 / Goodbye To Holiday Season
Happy New Year (A Day Late)
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welcome everyone Adam the woo here as
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the recording of this Thursday January
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2nd
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2025 I would imagine over the next week
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or two I'll probably get the year
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Incorrect and say the former year cuz I
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do that all the time at the start of a
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new year but this is my first time being
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able to say Happy New Year to anyone
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that's watching cuz I took
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yesterday and didn't film I didn't film
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a video didn't upload a video so this is
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my first documented camera
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holding for 2025 I filmed on New Year's
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Eve I went to St
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Augustine for an evening or
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so took a day or so off end of last year
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hard to believe if that was just a few
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days ago and then also did not film
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yesterday but I feel as if I cannot sit
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around I have to always be go go go go
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go and yesterday I just lounged around
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my
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Homestead sat on the couch booked a few
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future plans booked another one I was
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not going to go International this year
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but I am I have scratched the original
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game plan the original country
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plan initially was not going to go and
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I've decided I'm going to go not for the
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length of time I I was originally
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planning on going which was going to be
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New Year's Eve until like the 20th now
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I'm going to go for about 9 days but I
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am going to knock off my first
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international travels of 2025 this month
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I feel refreshed it's amazing just one
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day of lounging around feels like I was
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sitting around for like a week and half
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cuz I'm just like always always moving
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nonetheless Happy New Year I'm going to
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go get a
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coffee go downtown take down well not
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take down but check out the removal of
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the Christmas tree Christmas is
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officially over New Year is officially
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over it's a new year let's get into it
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let's start off
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2025 on the right foot or the left foot
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depending on which one to coincide with
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join me shall you and the reason I'm
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starting off here this is the town hall
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for whatever reason Happy New Year's the
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town hall is not open it's been closed
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for a couple of months and I'm not
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really sure why I had to take care of
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some business today pay some
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fees for the year resident services is
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no longer in here it is located downtown
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now in a much smaller capacity building
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which which is kind of weird because
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this is such a
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magnificent large
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structure but they're no they're not
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using it and they haven't been using it
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for a few months so I went and paid paid
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the fees my yearly fees I got HOA items
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not just this per se but other ones as
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well living here and I had to get a new
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resident card reason for that about a
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month and a half ago maybe even get
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closer to two months now but before I
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went to Alaska two or three days before
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I went to Alaska I think it was a couple
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days before Halloween I'm just really
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time just going by pretty
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quickly misplaced and or had my wallet
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taken stolen or I just dropped it
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somewhere and someone found it tried to
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use the credit card it was a whole
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mishmash of annoyances and
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inconveniences but got it all dialed
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back in and one of the last things I
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needed to get was another Resident card
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for being a resident of Celebration so I
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got that taken care of at the new
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appointed smaller version of the town
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hall for those following along you know
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in fact I kind of lounged around a good
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portion of the morning so with lounging
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around yesterday all day and then
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lounging around a portion of this
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morning again I'm I'm pretty dang
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refreshed
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63° temperature at the moment sunsets
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it's almost 5:00 sunsets in about
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40 I don't know 45 5 minutes or so
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weather feels good let's get downtown
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why isn't this thing
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moving why isn't this thing moving oh I
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got to put it and put it Forward there
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we go there we
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go I was waiting for the thing to move I
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didn't have it I didn't have pressed on
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the F which is for forward and then the
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r is for
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reverse I'm moving now situation
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downtown should be getting back to
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normal now they removed a lot of the
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stanions they're taking some of the
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Christmas decor down I'm going to get
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myself some
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Starbucks holidays are over Garland's
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even being removed from the Starbucks it
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used to be right up the side of the
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fence now it's laying on the ground
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Santa's house will be coming down as
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well possibly I might actually be able
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to get that while they're taking it down
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maybe yep all the Garland Christmas the
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holidays are over got take a look they
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got the ladder out pulling everything
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down right now real time all right
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coffee achieved yep Christmas tree is
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gone no more fake snow no more snope
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falling on Market Street the end of
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another holiday season not only here in
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Celebration Florida but all over
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holidays are officially completely and
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100% over Halloween first and then
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Christmas time for the new year I
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haven't seen cool out in a while I
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haven't seen any of the Gators in the
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water in quite a while usually you can
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always tell when there's like a lot of
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people standing along the the shoreline
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looking at a certain place but I'm not
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seeing cool out I kind of caught
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everything as it was being put up I was
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here for the first night the
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kickoff if you will of Christmas time
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and Santa made his appearance it was
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very very very hectic on on Market
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Street it was just a mad house with
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Santa being brought in on the horong
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carriage and lighting up the Christmas
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tree that seems Like Only Yesterday I
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mean it wasn't that long ago it was the
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start of the season but yeah wow that
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was a month ago it's just like time just
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comes and goes so quickly especially
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they say the older you get that's what
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happens
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but I might drive around in the cart too
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as well and see if anyone's taking their
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Christmas decor down some of the
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quintessential places was noticed in the
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fountain is a little soapy right here a
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little soapy
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Fountain starting off the New Year
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I would imagine by tomorrow morning to
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be able to drive down Market Street
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again for the first time in like 5 weeks
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yes the Jingle Bells and all the Garland
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are making their way back into storage
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till next year till 2025 well till this
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year because it just is officially this
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year 2025 it's going to be hard to keep
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saying that getting used to saying that
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but yeah pulling it all
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down I did a little pre- New Year's Eve
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New Year's resolution video the other
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day so I'm not going to really talk
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about rehash that again I'll rehash it a
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little bit I'll reiterate certain things
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cuz I repeat myself way too much bad
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habit I have but sometimes my thoughts
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just are coinciding in my mind all the
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time but the biggest takeaway is I'm not
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going to be doing 365 days this year of
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Vlogs I'll take a few days off couple
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days a month if I want to take a few
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days two or three in a row I will if I
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want to take a week off I
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will that's more more or less
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I plan for for this year not to take it
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as heavily serious on trying to stay the
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course with never missing
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days but I do want to if I when I travel
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like I'm doing Nine Days International
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coming up this month and I will attempt
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depending on how you know Wi-Fi
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services Hotel things like
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that depending on that
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scenario if I can upload every day while
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I am on the road
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I don't like missing days on the road so
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any days I miss will most likely be when
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I'm
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home also officially marks one year I've
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been in my new
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Homestead it's kind of a gray area on
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when I moved into the house I got the
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keys late November of last year and I
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had about 5 weeks to move in didn't
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officially get everything moved in until
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New Year's Eve or a day before New
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Year's Eve
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of last year so I have officially been
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in my
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Homestead for one solid year solid year
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they haven't taken their Christmas decor
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down I didn't buy a Christmas tree this
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year either cuz I think total you add up
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every the amount of time I was home this
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this year was probably like five months
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out of the Year probably five months
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maybe six but let's say let's say five
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or six months I've been home and I kind
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of like it I like being busy I like
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staying busy I like go go
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go but my game plan is in 25 to not be
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gone as much and originally I was going
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to do 20 days away every month and home
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10 days I think it's going to be more
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like 10 days away each month and some
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months I might not even travel there's a
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couple months this year that I might not
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even go
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International I'm just kind of winging
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it
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but all right Jack and Sally we'll see
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you next year two holidays Collide but
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it's time for both those holidays go by
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the wayside for a while realize it
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before but this is in a roundabout way
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kind of hot and mansionyoutube
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been to this area probably has enjoyed
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some
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seafood from the places The Crab
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Shack over here and I've showed many
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many times on the side of the wall where
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it said free crab tomorrow was like a
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clever joke they had painted on the side
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of the
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wall well New Year's Eve was the last
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day for Joe's Crab Shack here in
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Celebration Florida on the 192 side by
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the 192 Publix here at the water
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tower shopping center right there used
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to say I showed it up many times kind of
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a clever joke saying free comeback
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tomorrow free
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crab it's been painted over already they
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are not wasting any
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time ate here quite a few times over the
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years it was not a go-to every single
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time I wanted to eat out maybe that was
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part of the problem maybe they were not
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having the
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best amount of customers coming in
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and eating Seafood but yeah I always
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like Joe's Crab
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Shack all closed
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down a
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bummer another place
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curious to see what's going to happen
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are they going to put another business
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in here or we just just sit
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empty maybe it's pretty good Prime real
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estate so something could pop in
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here something could pop in those will
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be coming down to as
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well well I would guess they
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are oh yeah but it hit a little
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achievement in the last couple days also
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on New Year's Eve we'll talk about that
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too let me know in a comment the other
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day the I think it was the last video I
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think it was the New Year's Eve video
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from St Augustine and I pinned the
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comment top of the comment
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section and they had been watching I
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didn't realize it but this Channel The
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Daily woo Channel which really I have
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talked about this before I made a a
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career and made a
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living off of consistency and that
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really is the main thing that kind of
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keeps me going financially is a
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consistency I don't put any videos out
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that get a gazillion views I mean I got
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a couple that got a lot of views I
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wouldn't say they went viral or anything
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like that but definitely got a few big
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videos with the majority are pretty
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consistent on the views and you add
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those up over the course of years and
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years and years and years and I have
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achieved on this channel the daily
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woo ready for this drum roll 300
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million views how is that even freaking
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possible
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consistency since 2012 Channel I had a
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Adam the woo Channel which I never used
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anymore I haven't used that in quite a
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while but I started off on New Year's
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Eve 2009 so it's been 15E anniversary of
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that and then in 2012 I think June or
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July of 2012 I started the daily Woo
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which is taking over that's pretty my
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pretty much my main Channel now
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and it all started my main Channel well
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the original Adam the woo Channel
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started by me filming up and down 192 a
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lot of abandoned stuff I don't do the
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abandoned stuff too much anymore just
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simply because of legal reasons
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and you know it's frowned upon to be
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doing that kind of stuff so I limit the
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amount of stuff I do like that and then
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when I do it it has to be some place
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that's just completely accessible and
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open I get down into the nitty-gritty of
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snooping around like I used to but then
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that spawned into the daily
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Channel I'm thankful someone left a
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comment let me know that 300 I looked it
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up I fact checked it 300 million
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views again consistency which is part of
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the reason I don't want to just
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completely not film on a regular basis I
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want to take days off but I got to stay
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consistent cuz that's what that's what
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works for me above above everything else
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it's not the quality it's not the heavy
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editing it's not the overlays it's not
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the amazing footage that I'm getting
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it's not the incredible storytelling
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it's
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consistency and I believe that that has
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been that's been the reason I've been
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I've had moderate success on this
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platform and it just just it's just oh
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my gosh that looks like my old van what
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the heck that's a little bit more
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extended but that is a forge
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Ford van like the one I had it's not the
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same one because it has the extended
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window on the back but I miss those van
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days I miss them so basically what I
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want to try to do is stay consistent but
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also take days off you know few days off
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a month maybe more still stay consistent
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So speaking of places that close and
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other things take their place so Arby's
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used to be here it
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closed and evidently there's going to be
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a Chicken Shack Daddy's Chicken Shack
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Shack of course it said coming soon for
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a while so I don't
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know I don't
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know don't know if the Chicken Shack but
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I've I think the Arby's closed about a
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year
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ago back then I would pull through here
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and get a little Arby's roast
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beef my favorite Arby's was on Sunset
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Boulevard when I lived in
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Hollywood a corner of Sunset
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right down the road from where I
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lived and it had a classic Arby's side
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and the new restaurant that's there now
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I think kept the roast beef sign but
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they removed the
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Arby's this Arby does not have that
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classic huge neon roast beef sign
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but I want on Hollywood
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did delivery of
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rivan they're kind of like
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Teslas well their electric vehicles like
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Tesla
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but a few of them on here someone's
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getting themselves a new
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rivan crossing over 192 going to the
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other side and I'm going to get myself
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some pizza from a place that I've never
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gotten it at in Central Florida I've
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only gotten it in Anaheim many times in
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Anaheim and I feel like having a little
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Anaheim nod here outside celebration
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right now why not oh interesting look at
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all these little Flags here in the side
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so you
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see maybe they're going to be doing
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something with this little area there's
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these little Flags which usually are
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placed here when some sort of construct
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maybe a sidewalk yeah maybe it's for a
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sidewalk that's going to go right here
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there's a big ant bed that's a massive
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ant bed
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just over there went up a block crossed
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over 192 and
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now I'm across the street
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from the water tower that has no water
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in it it's all an illusion I've never
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discovered any water in there and my
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assumption is there is none I parked
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mini Marge right here and I was out in
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Anaheim a lot during the
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summer well mostly August and
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September for d23 the start of haunt
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season and I stayed a lot in Anaheim a
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lot off Harbor Boulevard
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stay at a few different places the
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Tropicana the Disneyland Hotel Anaheim
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Hotel and in conjunction with the
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Anaheim Hotel which I really like
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staying at right across from Disneyland
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there was a pizza press which I had
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never had never eaten pizza press before
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ever until then and I really liked it
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and I don't know why I've never eaten at
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the one here right across from where I
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live so now I'm going to try it here
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theming of this place is set up like a
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newspaper area they make it seem as if
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you're like creating a newspaper but
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you're really creating a
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Pizza you got all the newspaper themes
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in here through
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here mine's on its way through the
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oven that's mine right
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there coming out fresh pretty mellow
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inside here they got the Christmas tree
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up still there I got my uh this is my
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item this is what I'm I got it to go I'm
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just going to take it home maybe watch a
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little movie or something one thing I
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noticed about in Anaheim so I asked if
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they had any ham they we got ham they're
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like little pieces of ham here that you
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put on a like a salad ham like you can't
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even see them they're just like tiny
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pieces of ham down in there right there
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the place in Anaheim had like Canadian
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bacon siiz ham that was like two or
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three times the size of these little
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pepperoni
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chunks and I asked the guy working he
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says well maybe they have something up
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here they don't have here but everything
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else is identical pretty good pretty
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good place sky looks pretty awesome look
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at that
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pretty
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magnificent yeah last year was really
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something for me I accomplished a lot
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with the baseball stuff and finally done
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all the stadiums and following the Rays
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around got that out of my
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system can always now I can say I've
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been to every M Mo Stadium I did the d23
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I did the half marathon which I didn't
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really run it I did finish it in time
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got just narly
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in front of the balloon ladies even
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though I think they granted myself and
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my buddy Chim that was running it a
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little leeway because it was like 107
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degrees which kind of brings me to
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another point about why I don't want to
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take too much time off from documenting
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things that I'm out and about doing
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simply because this is like a for me
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it's like a video diary it's like a it's
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what I do with my life and I'm able to
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go back and look back at things now I
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don't go back and watch watch a lot of
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my videos currently but there will come
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a time when I will do
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that I don't know when that said time
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will be but one day it'll happen well I
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know not every single episode is
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exciting to every single person that
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watches it's not everyone's cup of tea
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in fact I
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think some people don't enjoy anything I
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do but it is what it
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is I put stuff out
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there putting my weird little
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diary so I don't want to stop don't want
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to completely stop filming but I figure
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when I'm just kind of around home for a
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couple days and I want to relax when I'm
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not doing the international stuff or I'm
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not doing us stuff or
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whichever those would be the days to
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take
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off just the lounging
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days so that's probably how it's going
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to be in
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2025 but a lot of international travel a
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lot of international travel coming up
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got my first country coming up this
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month and I got another country coming
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up next month haven't marked down march
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yet but January and February are locked
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in flights booked accommodations booked
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plans
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being circulated around in my little
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notebook and also in my head
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very grateful for my life and ability to
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be able to travel right now and I want
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to travel as much as possible while I'm
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healthy because there might come a day
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when I'm
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not I am also officially out of my
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50-year-old birthday year last year on
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August 10th it's weird saying last year
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because it was just two day two days ago
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it was
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2024 but last year I was really looking
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forward to turning 50 I was doing that
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Countdown the fit by 50 which
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immediately after I turn 50 went off the
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rails and you can see by me having
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this I haven't gotten back on track with
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that yet but yeah the year is Young I've
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often said
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that around Springtime to summer I get
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in really good shape and then after that
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it go
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it's winter you know Halloween through
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Christmas and New Year's is when I gain
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all the weight back so part for the
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course but yeah last year was uh last
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year was
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eventful is this light ever going to
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change which is another reason I like
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you know putting content out there
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whether it be here on YouTube or social
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media making proclamations which I'm
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stepping back dramatically
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from this year not going to make as many
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bold statements but it is helpful when
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you have something to keep yourself
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accountable with I feel like if you
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don't have accountability sometimes when
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I make a rash bold statement a good
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percentage of the time well let's say
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some percentage of the time maybe not a
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good percentage but a percentage of the
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time was just crossing over
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there I'll stick to it simply because
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I've made the statement and I can look
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back and go you know what I've made the
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statement I got to do it and I falter
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and I fail pretty often on
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that but sometimes I just stick to it at
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least to the goal and then I go off the
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rails but yeah
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so it's nice to kind of have that as a
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you know look back on no the Inflatables
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have taken a tumble Santa has
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fallen polar bears
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Fallen they are inflated but they are
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falling
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over well next time dancing Christmas
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tree till next year
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I just wanted to pop on here do a quick
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little
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video show the fact that the Crab Place
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clothes just Crab
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Shack and that the holidays are
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officially over say Happy New Year to
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everyone and let you know my gratitude
25:21
and appreciation for everyone who's been
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watching all these years 15-year
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anniversary since the main Channel the
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Adam the woo Channel and then 300
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million
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views here on this the daily
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woo my life is definitely drastically
25:41
different than it
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was before I started doing YouTube and
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even first few years of YouTube were
25:47
different than they are
25:49
now and I am going to utilize the
25:58
blessing of being able to travel and I
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am going to travel thankfully thank
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goodness finally got the passport
26:05
renewed last
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year I'm going be going some new places
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there's going to be a lot of stuff it's
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occasionally just you know stuff like
26:14
this everyday life but not as much as
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there was in previous years I would say
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this year out of the last few years that
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I've done you can expect me to be doing
26:25
a lot of things that I had never done
26:27
before I be going to all new
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year so thank you thank you for being
26:44
around and I'll still be around central
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Florida or at least Florida
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Regions through the weekend before
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heading to my International destination
26:56
and I'm not 100% sure if I'll
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be filming or taking those days off
27:01
again once I'm out of the country I will
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be filming every day depending on how
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internet service is I'll get those
27:07
videos up and just
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see see how it
27:12
happens and if I film tomorrow and the
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next day I'll see you then but if
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not that's fine
27:21
too but that's going to do it for today
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I'll see you in the next video whenever
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that may be
27:29
probably sooner than later might even be
27:31
tomorrow but if it's
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not it's
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not I'll see you in the next video the
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Vlog is over