The Day I Sold My Van in 2016 - Who Bought It Revealed / Full Watch Thru Commentary and Reaction
Original Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TftJYb4kark
Transcript
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welcome everyone Adams a whoo here today
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number six of this series a new series
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where I look back on my past that has
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been documented on the platform of
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YouTube we have had some laughs we have
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had some frivolous moments but today
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take it down a notch I'm inviting you to
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join me on a very it was kind of a
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somber moment back in October of 2016
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the 5th of that month day number 1557 of
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my continuous daily vlogs out in
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nineteen hundred and eleven nice shot
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here of the Sun rising I got it very
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early there comes the van the freakin
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van okay it's already starting off a
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little bit on the non joyous side before
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we really get in deep into this subject
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matter I may just point out a few things
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here for whatever reason I had this
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baseball in bloom on the front of it
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I've always loved baseball in fact when
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I was very young growing up into my
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teenage years I wanted to be a
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professional baseball player the only
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reason that did not happen is because I
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did not have the initiative the the
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gumption or a talent to achieve this
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goal but I always loved I always loved
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that sport
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and let me tell you this decision is a
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tough one it's my second channel daily
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vlog from already I'm already starting
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to remember doing this I haven't watched
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SSI uploaded as it's been gosh it has
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been four and a half years I don't even
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know what to say in this video
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Wow
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just shy of two hundred thousand miles I
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had on the van a little back story of
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how the van came to fruition it was in a
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local punk band by the name of TNT out
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of st. Cloud Orlando Florida we were
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kind of all spread out around the state
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and we did not have a tour van so I step
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up stepped up to the plate as you will
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depict that baseball-reference and
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purchase this via my monthly payments I
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still remember because I did not have
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very good credit at that time for $440 a
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month I believe this for five years and
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I kind of got myself in a little bit of
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a financial hole that was very difficult
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working my normal 40-hour League
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low-paying job to afford an apartment on
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my own and the van which stemmed into me
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selling my stuff quitting my job is
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starting to travel to do these YouTube
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videos a whole other subject but I
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turned a stressful situation into a
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positive situation okay that's good so I
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stayed here I'd forgotten this in March
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of 2007 is when I purchased the van and
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I'm stating here it had a little under a
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thousand miles I put 197 thousand miles
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this transportation device changed my
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life completely and I would not be here
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doing what I'm doing if it was not for
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this if it was not for this item
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this was a huge you
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artemiy when I bought it in 2006 Ford
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e-150 this is going to be very emotional
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for me in fact effect like get a little
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misty-eyed because this will be the last
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day
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may have kept with the glasses art I'm
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absolutely convinced that
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because of this piece of machinery have
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a iterate myself here
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and completely altered my life changed
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worse
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it is pretty crazy that an inanimate
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object should make you tear up a little
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bit
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why would you get a little misty-eyed
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over a hunk of metal with an engine in
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it but I am him in this referencing this
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that's starting to now
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I haven't seen didn't think it was gonna
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be that big of a deal and it just hit me
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all of a sudden that without without
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this fan I would have never gotten to
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the point where I am now
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my apologies for saying the same things
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twice I have not watched this since its
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upload date so I had forgotten what I
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had said but clearly that is a point to
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be to be held on to because I've said it
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now current day in 2020 in here back in
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2016 and look over here
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here's big the foot and that's back when
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big the foot had his bagpipes on he was
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a bagpipe player notice all the pins up
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here I had this became massive blessing
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in the new
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transportation no pun intended into the
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next Avenue my life originally I used
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the van to tour in my band a local band
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here in Central Florida whenever we
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would go out of state continuing to talk
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about the band era you know I was in
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that band for a while continued on to
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another project I've been a number of
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musical ventures and I kept the van
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during that time period up until
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basically I stayed in bands until I
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realized that I could make enough doing
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videos took this took years I can make
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enough doing videos than I was playing
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in the band and that's when I focused
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everything all my travels devoted no
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time to the band anymore and and just
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did the YouTube thing completely a
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hundred percent full time play shows we
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would use the band shortly after I
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bought it I realized this was probably
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not the best decision because the band
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was just a local band we really didn't
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make a profit playing shows and I was
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paying all of the van payments out of my
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own pocket because we never made really
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any money as a fact definitely erratic
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playing gigs and whatnot this was a real
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bummer in fact there was one point even
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with years that this is a pretty good
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rap but now that I'm now watching this
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back I'm explaining it pretty well
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during the course of this there are some
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little side notes that I definitely want
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to add as it continues however the
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payments left I consider training the
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van in for a smaller car and then it hit
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me
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why don't I utilize this space to
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basically live and travel it yeah it's a
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funny way here's a deep cut that not
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everyone might know this is maybe a
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little Easter egg look over here at this
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tool that is laying here on the bedding
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portion of where I put my air mattress
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this is like a little bedding thing it's
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like one of those like I don't know what
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the what they're called like an egg an
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egg foam item but not the egg though
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look at this tool here looks like a hand
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right there I use that to procure my
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drone the Majestic from private property
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when it crashed there was a whole man it
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was a whole rigmarole rigger Moreau is
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one of those was kind of like a
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revelation like Doc Brown says a picture
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in my head a picture of this this is
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what makes travel possible oh that's a
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good one back to the future reference
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and because I made this decision I ended
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up building a relationship with this van
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these walls could talk let me tell you
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I'm stating that I had built up a
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relationship with said van and that is
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why emotions run deep by sleeping in
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this van for years traveling coast to
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coast I believe I did I might state this
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but I did live 48 now 46 of the 48
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continental United States
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this crossed the state lines in and it
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was a tool for me to travel in sleep in
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could not afford hotels at the time all
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I needed was to put a little gas in the
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tank so many miles so many stories
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I'm hoping this let's just look at
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another couple little items in the back
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here
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remember the cat mask look at the cat
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mask here what a creepy cat mask and I
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was really into circle K's polar pops
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around that time Circle K for like 79
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cents you get a pole or pop here's the
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drone duh buh gistic cleanin it out the
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cleaning out of okay there this
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technique i seeee techne ice little
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sorry guys you got to come down one by
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one the Pens
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must be removable mantle I'm keeping you
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guys you're just not gonna be mounted up
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here on the side of the wall anymore oh
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look at that Rees look at that the
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removal of the Pens
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Wow I bet whoever is driving this now
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there are little mementos of that of
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these little indentations on the side of
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the carpeted wealth felted roofline
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ceiling line it's still remaining up
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there
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look at that taken down the join me
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shall you patch and then over here we
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got Carrollwood
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barn Wolf's barn the railroad griffith
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park here in california that was
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traveling cross-country as well in
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sticker form right there on the visor
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bad boy no honey that was on the air be
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lincoln here i still got old wu Bergkamp
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he's right over here he's watching and
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reacted as well and of course big the be
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the foot oh let me kick that back just a
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notch this is the most magnificent
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rear-view mirror i have ever owned i've
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had it for probably 20 years before the
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van and other cars and automobiles and i
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just transfer it and i have it in my
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current vehicle as well big the foot
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still got so that'll big the foot
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hanging in my current vehicle as we
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speak
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I'm a firm believer that you constantly
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have to change things up still agree
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without to for us I still agree with
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that that is why I am getting rid of the
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van it's a very hard decision to make
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that is for sure but it was awesome a
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very hard decision to originally put my
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job and move out of my apartment start
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doing these videos and traveling and the
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van has always been a tool invent and I
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think the next step to progress to the
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next plateau or the next step the next
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level of what oh look at that the empty
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back of oh my gosh that was probably the
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first time since I had purchased because
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I have purchased it that it was empty
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like that
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well besides like no vacuum it out but
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really is not a place for me to store
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the van and I do not want to burden
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anyone with having the van being stored
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while these future endeavors will be
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happening and I will get to those in the
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upcoming days and what my fields
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okay that is that kind of jarred a
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little memory there I did not have a
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place to store this at the time I was
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not going to leave that at my family's
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house in Florida I was not going to
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leave this at my sister's house in
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Indiana I did not have a home I did not
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have a house a condo an apartment any of
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those things a property to stash this
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and my next game plan was to start
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flying across the u.s. and for those who
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might remember I'm starting starting to
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really come back to me now in the
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following weeks after this I would fly
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from city to city and I would stay there
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two or three days and I fly to another
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city it what took its toll and as I was
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doing that I realized that I had made a
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huge mess
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and I am going to state this now one of
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the one of the things I really regret I
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don't know if I want to say regret
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because you really shouldn't have
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regrets but something that if I had to
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do over you know hindsight is
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twenty-twenty that statement that I
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probably would falsely mispronouncing I
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would not have gotten rid of the van I
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still drove very well it served me well
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it served a purpose so let us this was
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serving going on that this thing did for
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me and looking back I wish I wish I had
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not done this but I am impulsive that's
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just how I am and that's probably why
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I've continued to the point about now
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but this was a faux pas sure this hands
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arms crazy that this would be the last
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time that I drive
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behind this wheel in the captain's chair
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pretty bare-bones in here right now that
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is for sure I guess I had this not
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almost nine years we got in 2007 this
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was 16 so almost eight or nine years
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there I am putting it in part for the
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last time
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that's right scary alien face this
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always arrived to be of an alien face
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whatever I would do like the the selfie
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style view of me talking to the camera
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this would be behind me this alien face
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look and see the eyes and the mouth and
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the nose and ears here old alien face on
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the roof this is the last moments that
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will be sitting inside by now
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former vehicle van now this parking lot
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that you are seeing right here for
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anyone who wants to use their Columba
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like research skills this is there's a
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reference I haven't used in a while this
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parking lot is adjacent to the Orlando
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International Airport on the side that
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Carmack's sits on which is where I sold
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on an impulse I woke up that morning and
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said let's do this drove out there
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Carmack's purchased my van but before I
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showed up there I had to do the outro to
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my video and that happened in this
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parking lot between the Orlando
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International Airport and that Carmack's
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which might still exist to this day and
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the next few moments of the last times
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you will see this in these vlogs
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we're crazy to think about the very
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first daily move log was filmed right
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here in the same at the first daily
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we've walked no one was in there 46 of
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the 48 continental United States as well
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as mega 9s nothing in Canada it has
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served me well it does you have served
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me well you've done your duty now you
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can go home sleep well so I do the go
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home and sleep well which I know there
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my friend Justin scarred but you guys
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might watch and know of has coined that
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phrase because when we used to hang out
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all the time I would stay at his
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homestead when I first started visiting
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California he would put me up at his
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house and I would sleep on his couch in
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the living room and we would just joke
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around all the time I said the greatest
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line is Sean Connery from The
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Untouchables go home and sleep Wales and
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we did that so much and I would use it
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in my videos and he started doing videos
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and he took that took that bull by the
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horns and ran with it and now it's kind
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of a pretty famous catchphrase for him
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I digress let's listen let's let's watch
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the end here it served me well you have
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served me well you've done your duty now
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you can go home sleep well
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I made a mistake with the van it was
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almost the perfect vehicle to conceal
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yourself sleeping in anywhere no one
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knew you were in there
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it ran well my impulsivity got the best
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of me but it is what it is it's a move
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forward and there might come a point
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when I get another van in life I would
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not be I would not be a poset I'm not
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making any statements and it might not
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ever have how it will never happen but I
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would not be opposed to it this is a
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very interesting episode in this these
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subject matters of these looking back
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reaction videos are a different one but
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I'm enjoying them don't know how far I
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want to continue but for now I'm having
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fun with them if you enjoyed this
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