My Visit To Completely Empty Six Flags New Orleans in 2011 - Full Watch Thru Commentary and Reaction
Watching my visit to empty to Six Flags New Orleans from 2011 . Commentary and Reaction to this past adventure .
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welcome everyone Adam through here to
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day number two of a series where I watch
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back review commentate some of my past
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adventures explorations and things I've
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done I'm inviting you to join me as we
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tap in to Six Flags New Orleans
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date-stamped November 5th 2011 right now
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currently has two million two hundred
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and ninety five thousand seven hundred
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and thirty-one views and at the time I
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was the second person to film on the
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property the first was kind of a more
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cinematic approach a little bit of music
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a little bit of kind of creepy ambiance
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and my thought process was I'm gonna go
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there and do first-person show myself
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which back in 2011 it was you were
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hard-pressed to find anyone that did
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urbex that showed himself on camera this
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I don't know what I was thinking but
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history has proven over the last 9 10
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years that a lot a lot has changed in
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that area and most people when they do
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locations like this are now showing
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their face but I was chastised I was
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criticized for doing it but hindsight my
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sight is 20/20 I don't know what the
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saying is we're going in starting it up
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starting off says don't try this at home
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go find somewhere else to do it and
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here's the theme song the atom the loo
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theme song and they click off the ads
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here my whole process back then was you
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want to go outside you want to see and
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do stuff create your own adventure if
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you will all right here we go
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look at me a young atom the room 7:00
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a.m. 100 acres allow that nuts this is
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my friend Oh clothes for the storm
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clothes for storm which has now become
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synonymous with this property this was a
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shot when we were heading in I got a
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little kind of like a little driving
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shot of one of the coasters there you
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are cruising box
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I'm giving a statement about how I'm
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going to be what I assumed would be the
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first person to show you a personal
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style view like more lady called vlog
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now it was it was early it was I think
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we've left started to enter the premises
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around 6:00 a.m. Sun started to come to
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6:30 7:00 got that clip started to
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record that clip about 7:00 a.m. and now
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we're in we're in to think of it we're
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in the belly of the beast if you will
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this is also when I would put a little
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bit of overlay of music over my footage
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I never use any sort of music if you
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want to use a steam song I know using
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any overlaid music you will never hear
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one shred one momentum of a tune anymore
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but on this one there is a slight
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ambiance of sound behind it
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and this was right after I quit my job
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back in 2011 I quit my job in August 9th
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of 2011 and hit the road my friend
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ginger went along with me which was
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really awesome she was willing she was
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even willing to do that we slept in my
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van travelled around there were no I
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have any ads on my videos there was no
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kind of monetization I just did it yeah
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never dived of my day it was just a
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little bit of gas in the tag and it
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injures
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okay this is the arcade side see a lot
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of zoomed in shots a lot more zoomed in
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shots that I would normally do now but
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the camera just look he got the weak
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beat he's saying that that she's saying
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that the thing and the ceiling fan is
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weeping which it kind of looks like it
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is weeping yeah sorry out of order
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that's it that's a good scientist as
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sorry out of order
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yeah there was sorry hat order I know
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this is a little kind of all over the
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place - zooming back and forth like that
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man look how close up that is okay hold
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on I got it thanks look how sumed in on
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my face that is and the reason it was so
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zoomed in as there was no the camera I
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was using at that time which was a Canon
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I believe it was the two or the three
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model now I have the 70d I think the 80
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maybe even the a DD by they often ninety
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D so it has progressed a lot with the
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flip screen but back then you couldn't
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tell what you were filming so you just
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had to just pretend that you knew that
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you were into propria
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in there was nothing manual we'll just
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had to bring it in make sure it was in
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focus hope it was in focus and that's
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why you're seeing a lot of these kind of
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close-up shots like this
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you're gonna fix it obviously a lot more
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comical aspect to buy my bike video
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check this out
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it Oh have them learning took place I
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don't even know what that even meant why
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I even said that but wow I think I just
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said where dreams country okay I think I
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just said where dreams come true yeah oh
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yeah a little bit to the national
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lampoon's vacation quote there another
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another side note about this the
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internet was much different than you
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didn't just go on youtube look up a
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place that was like kind of like defunct
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or you know falling apart wondering I'm
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gonna see what that looks like
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you couldn't just quickly google
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something and see someone else's what
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they had done what they had traveled to
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what they had you know found and
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documented there was none of that out
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there there might have been some
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photographs and whatnot but you didn't
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know when they were dated you didn't
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know what it was like how it was gonna
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be trying to gain access or if it was
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even a wild frowned upon what the
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repercussions would have been and at the
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time of this leading up to it about a
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month up to it when I was planning this
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roach of it about two-week road trip and
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this was one of the pinnacles of that a
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lot of people even my friends who were
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in that the community of you know urban
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exploring and urbex and all that said
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don't bother going the place is being
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torn down but I listen to my head and I
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said heck it I'm going and I'm glad I
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did because I kind of got a first look
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I don't even I'm asking I'm asking where
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oh I think Oh a little bird flew by
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check it out I'm gonna catch this okay
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it was right here
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they move it on it's a canoe a
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rusted-out canoe oh it's a coca-cola
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check down Wow let's go back to that
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that right there would be a major
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collector's item if that was in
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someone's collection seriously if that
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was in someone's collection you would be
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you would have the ultimate old-school
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coca-cola classic canoe
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can you imagine the dumb joke
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they never going around to some of the
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other rides and attractions he ever get
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the gift shop oh that's kind of a neat
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little futuristic thing above the game's
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the sonic slam Looney Tunes Adventures
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Looney Tunes was like a big part of the
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theming the [\h__\h] F they had snowball
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we like I believe I misspoke and seven
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name wrong about the mecca's F Wow look
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at this okay those were old photo items
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if I don't see they kit out you would
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buy like you buy a souvenir photo and it
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would go in this or keyring the
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souvenirs they're from the past this is
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one of those like fair rides we hit the
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hammer you have to get the hammer down
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and you would like slam the a little
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silly Jacko's mardi gras madness so I
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gotta watch gotta watch that back with
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are you ready
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sometimes I think I might us what's
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wrong with me
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oh that's cool that's cool it's like a
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Mardi Gras theme darkride forgot about
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the hours okay when the dark riot cars
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that's cool
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you still see some of the right track
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this jakka was maybe the crazy crazy
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juggler clowns yep there's the doors
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that would swing those open to go in oh
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yeah you can see part of the like that's
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it the track there there we go good
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layer of these Oh what's going on here's
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a foot or a hand I think I picked this
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up yep I pick up a wave again waving or
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viewing that yeah here we go here we go
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empty the place says well for obvious
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reasons let's go oh nice you set that
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one up get well high five I think this
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was my thumbnail okay your choice of a
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thumbnail yeah this here I think I use
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this as my thumbnail right this right
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here this pause section kind of like
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this looking back on it I could have
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probably done better view eyes getting
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people's attention over this nine years
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this is a bit almost almost ten years
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this has been on I don't have any here
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spent nine year nine and a half years
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some sort of some sort of year
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Proclamation I probably could have
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gotten greater reach I would have had a
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better thumbnail but everybody gonna do
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carrying up
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oh there's the mermaid it was pretty
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funny it wasn't too bad that this place
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is so crazy it blew this guy's mind I
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could go with that one that's that's not
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bad
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well cheesy but works we were definitely
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having some fun in here
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as camera honestly for the time records
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pretty good I pretty much I did not
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remember the footage being this recent
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and surprisingly okay so see how soon
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your dinners but that looks pretty good
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for the time 2011 camera wow that's we
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were standing up there on the track Wow
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look at that that should be like thumb
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that oh yeah yeah I got the name wrong
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sky coaster
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yeah the flitters looks pretty good for
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2011 but the someone behind the camera
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not knowing what they're doing I am NOT
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a professional nor I would be myself in
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need in the medium level novice category
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has clearly shown in this footage it
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here's an old burned up kitchen
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who knows if what if this is he was too
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off the back of the Tasmanian Devil
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that's neat it's like a Looney tune show
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is Yosemite Sam the Tasmanian devil
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okay this is when I gave the camera to
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ginger on her own and she did a little
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first-person shot going down this
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there's me going down the tube and at
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this point there is like something
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spray-painted on the bottom of the slide
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that probably is not family filming
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that's why I'm focusing on my stuff but
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we're back at we're back at it there she
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is on the swings up there's a hand a
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four fingered hand almost similar to
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some Mickey
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someone just crossed out oh look at this
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well yeah that's a good shot that was a
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pretty good shot but let me just go back
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just a bit this is called Bugs Bunny
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look at the name here Bugs Bunny's
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Barnstormers while Barnstormers Bugs
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Bunny which is awfully familiar to goofy
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has a barn stormer at Magic Kingdom of
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what they call the New Fantasyland out
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of it I think is just like the circus
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area was called barn stormer so I just
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keep keep noticing I'm doing a little
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circling around the barn stormer there
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the next shot is it is actually pretty
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good you just click on this here that's
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it pretty good
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there's it good when that would be a
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good thumbnail to ginger just sitting
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there on the ground that was good the
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seat has fallen yeah there's some good
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thumbnail opportunities in here though I
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dropped the ball on 100% dropped the
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ball on this is an 11 minute and thirty
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six second video of course this is the
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commentary on it and my reaction is
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gonna be a little bit longer because I'm
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stopping going back wow what is this
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well show area of some sort
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okay this is this is kind of like a
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figurative item it's a clock here see it
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was a clock it has all the numbers of
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the clock you can correspond this to
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time and what time has done to this
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place I don't know where I'm going with
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this analogy so I'm just gonna continue
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okay I think I get it
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yeah I get in I get inside the yep I got
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inside I get inside this thing
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it's like the torso okay it's like the
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torso make it back it's like the torso
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of a character of some sort yeah I don't
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know what the bottom the top part was
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that never do what if it would have been
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like a snake or like some plugs in there
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just with a quick shot they're not the
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best not the best long shot this is like
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this is like an old theater
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these are here oh this is an airboat
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attraction sort of little airboats
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okay I've got the log right here no
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water obviously up there's the Batman
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symbol up there if it's the top of the
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log right Drock
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well this was the pirate ship it's
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moving
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here's the lockers okay this is now
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there are ways you can figure out ways
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you can choose to present a video you
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can do like that of a nice little quiet
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shot of the lockers or you can set it up
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probably on a trash can I don't think I
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have maybe I might have my tripod I set
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it up on something and just have the
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host myself and my friend ginger run
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across gallivanting around without a
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care in the world and that is what
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happened there go back to it it's all
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about how you want to present a cure so
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make it is clear from this I was a
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little unorthodox and my style for that
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time that's a good thumbnail - wow look
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at all that stuff in that's right here
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we go BAM
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spongebob the ride that must have been
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done I don't even know what that was oh
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wow okay this is like that is a big ride
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vehicle just look how look how many
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seats are on that thing huh wonder what
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that was like before before it shut down
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as a big ride vehicle turning some kind
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of a knob here up there's old spongebob
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himself another first see some of this
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deposit for a moment there it looks
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almost look like she's going up the side
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of it you could just see how rusted out
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everything is but the ride vehicles are
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still there now I have not watched this
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probably since 2012 came out of 2011 I
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may have washed it once or twice in that
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year but I have not washed this in its
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entirety
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since upload I rarely after something
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has completed and edited and uploaded
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we'll go back and watch past stuff
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that's why all this is kind of exciting
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for me as it is might blow it might be
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creative it's like it's bringing backs
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mysterious nostalgia and memories from a
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cup she's got her hands up almost like
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she's up and they all look at that
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I tried to i pulled the camera up to
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make it look like she was moving oh I
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used to do this I used to put stickers
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half-ounce gosh I really have to wonder
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oh wow remember that Wow
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remember this okay this is a sticker
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here remember the QR codes
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I mean QR codes even so laughs thing I
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had this neat idea let me put my website
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which I never even utilize anywhere ever
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website anymore you know YouTube is
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basically my website are really hardly
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ever you know update the old out of the
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wu website or any of that that's the
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time I thought I'm gonna put these all
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stickers and if someone future explorers
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find them they can go I found your
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sticker so you have to wonder if anyone
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else has ever seen that sticker but the
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QR code was this little item right here
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this camera did really well with keeping
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the focus here on a sticker but kind of
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like luring out the back and ending it
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on the oh no that's not the end of it
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here we go there's Batman is supposed to
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be back he said a bat me it looks like a
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gorilla it looks like a it looks like a
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freaking gorilla not Batman if it's
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Batman he has got some serious amount of
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muscles more than normal
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muscular Batman look at down that is a
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look you could see all the foam you can
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see all the foam over here is armed miss
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o is armed right there there's the arm
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there's the foam she's pretending as a
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you know she's a torso a Batman their
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heads sticking out here we go okay okay
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I've got a toot my own horn for about a
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lot of this is rather cringy but it's
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kind of fun it's fun to look back on
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this this is a pretty good line here
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gotham still need a medic long days
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we'd a medic over here we need a medic
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now so thanks for watching my as big
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it's big blood we pause though
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and then I slowed it down so I said I
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say you need a medic now it goes we need
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a medic and then I slowed it down to
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half speed so that now is dragged out
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for no reason there's no point of that
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that is just unnecessary in the editing
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post-production process
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talking about the website again I'm
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doing all the cliches stuff about
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reposting it and all that it's final
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shot of us run it very uh I should have
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it that's a good thumbnail - man this
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was a fun day when this video came out
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had 1000 subs and I quit my job in
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August of 2011 prior to this they just
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hit a thousand subs and I said I'm gonna
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take this YouTube thing I'm gonna grab
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the bull by the horns and just see what
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I can do I started sleeping on my van
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traveling filming videos it was a new
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experience in a new era you enjoyed this
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particular episode give it a big thumbs
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up this walk down memory lane
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my memory lane and maybe you saw
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something you hadn't seen or maybe it
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jarred a couple thoughts in your process
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process from the old days I'll see you
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in the next video the log