Orange Circle Memories - Revisiting Where I Lived / Thoughts on Thankfulness & Listening To Yourself
Orange Circle Walk Thru and Chat July 2021
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welcome everyone adame the woo
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here today's adventure has a recording
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of this it is friday oh
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check that out there is a vw bug
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turning the corner around
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the establishment that i just purchased
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a piping hot caffeinated beverage at
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phil's coffee it is july 9th
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2021 i have a
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jacob's wonder bar that is the name of
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this
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brings back memories because i was here
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on opening day that's been a while ago
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six months or so don't quote me on that
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that's really good they put a little
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extra brown sugar in there
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you can see the sun is starting to set
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it is 7 p.m
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and i was able to catch the door
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before it closed at 2 minutes to seven
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phil's coffee closes then now i'm gonna
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this is not the only
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memory i'm going to refer to i'm going
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to kind of go back a little bit to
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2015-2016
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before i moved out of a house i was
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renting and i am going to show the
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neighborhood
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i lived in now recently a couple weeks
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ago i was up on hollywood boulevard and
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i showed where i lived in hollywood it's
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been a few years
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and i figured heck it now is a time to
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unveil and let everyone know
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put it out into the universe where i
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used to live
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near the orange circle it's been long
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enough
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i have not lived there in a while it's
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not gonna kind of come back
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upon me to show to give any of that
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private information away so
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now is the time i'm just gonna like
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share some feelings on
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my life and youtube and memories of the
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orange circle
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which is located right over there i'm
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really glad
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that i got this before i go to the
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orange circle though i'm gonna head down
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this way i'm just gonna i'm gonna put
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some steps in today and walk
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quite a bit this has been a long-winded
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intro i'm inviting you to join me
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as i continue to ramble quite a bit
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oh that's good at first i thought it
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wasn't really warm
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but it's because it has some like cream
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on top of it now that i'm getting down
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to the
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into the nitty gritty it's toasty
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shall you your church bell's down there
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i like a lot of the shops through here
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this is called the dragonfly
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and there's all kind of pretty neat
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objects that you can purchase a lot of
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these old homes have been converted
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into businesses and a restaurant that i
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go to quite a bit
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not as much as i used to but used to go
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a lot when i used to load a couple
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blocks from here
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rudebegores highly recommended and
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chapman
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university is down here on the corner of
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of palm
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a couple interesting facts about chapman
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is the fact that the duffer brothers
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went here
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created stranger things a television
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show great show
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kind of like an 80s throwback little
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nostalgia fest even though
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it came out in the last few years
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huelhauser also has his archives here
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you see the camera that he will use to
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record a lot of his
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california gold episodes and the entire
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library every episode that he'll ever
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filmed
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is in a little little downstairs area
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here at chapman fun fact
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and that's the only located a block or
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two from the circle
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it has been a little over five years
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since a pinnacle point in my life
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also wandering through here also brings
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back quite a few memories
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strolling around this property but it
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was in late april of 2016 so
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you know a month or two past the
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five-year
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anniversary if you will of when i did a
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video said i'm
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moving on i'm leaving sold all my stuff
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moved out of the house that i was
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running near the circle
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and hit the road started traveling
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sleeping in the back of the van it
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wasn't long after that that
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i decided to get an rv oh yeah it was a
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good time
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in my life and it's just amazing that
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this platform that i am on and what i am
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doing is still
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is still kind of carrying on still just
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going just rolling on
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after all this time speaking of pinnacle
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moments and anniversaries if you will
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august 9th will be 10 years since i i
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quit the last job i had and went full
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time
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here on youtube wow yeah time just
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time waits for no one so they say at
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this hour not too many not too many on
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the campus a few
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skaters over there practicing some of
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their their trick there's some very
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interesting stuff here
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and you are allowed to just kind of
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wander the premises very expansive
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and beautiful campus nonetheless when i
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first started all this
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the common response from pretty much
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everyone by the way you can see how this
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used to be a former home
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and now it is a career and professional
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development
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center here on glass isle in fact all of
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these
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former houses are used for the
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university
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the most common thing i would hear from
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anyone was what happens when youtube
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ends
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this is not a good source of income this
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could not be a career
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what happens when youtube ends in a year
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or two fast forward
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over a decade and a lot of those same
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people that said that
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are now asking for advice or at least
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have
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started their own channels wanting to
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kind of get into it as well
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kind of interesting how how all that
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works
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when i moved to this area in early 2015
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and then left in mid 16 but in early
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2015
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it was kind of the end goal i thought
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what what better
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in goal than to just you know be getting
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five six thousand views of video
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live near disneyland live in a very
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beautiful area
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orange county california not knowing
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that there was there was even more for
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me by the way i also want to show
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huel houser has a star right here
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as well as ani
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what's going on there on the and as i
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said as i stated
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there's the duffer brothers right there
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time is an interesting interesting thing
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because you sometimes forget about your
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past
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you sometimes never look to the future
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and you're always dwelling on the
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present
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and i have learned if you're explaining
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future plans to someone
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they never really understand
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what the future could hold you know
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based on things they're always looking
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at the present
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state of this before they never really
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see where you started
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where you came from what it took you to
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get to
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the present and they never think of what
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the future can hold they never see the
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progression
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of the timeline and if i could give any
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advice to anyone out there
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doing or maybe wanting to do what i have
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done or maybe even knee deep
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in what i am doing you have to just
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listen to your heart
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and you have to do what you want to do
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because the opinions are always going to
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be on either side
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no matter what whether it is should i
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show this tree branch in a video
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half the people i ask for an opinion on
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are going to say no do not show
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those tree branches the other half
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are gonna be all for it now that is just
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an analogy
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there's a lot more deeper issues subject
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matters and things like that or
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if you want to go fully in to this
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platform or just do it part time
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you're going to have opinions on both
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sides
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so you have to go in here do things for
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yourself
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and people will follow along either they
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will or they won't
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in all honesty i really can't believe
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how far
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how far i've progressed with all this
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never thought it would get to this point
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i'm truly thankful and grateful
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for all of it it's a classic car alert
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and there's another car alarm going on
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down there that's the car alarm was not
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from this
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right over there used to be my post
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office this is where i would check
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my mail right here on the corner of
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lemon
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and chapman for a brief while i would do
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what i would call mail vlogs opening
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mail that people would send me
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that was kind of short-lived lasted
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maybe about a year
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and then i did away with that so as of
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right now and it's been it's been a few
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years i do not have a post office on
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either coast
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at all i just really i don't feel
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comfortable
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people sending me anything giving me
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thanks
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in a lot of different ways but this is
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where this is where all this was i would
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walk over here pretty often
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get my mail oh yeah this is really
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giving me some 2015
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2016 vibes pounding this pavement
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as i walked over to the house i rented
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down here a block or two
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right down here on the corner of lemon
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and kelly
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not a through street see it's magic hour
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the sun's setting over there the
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cul-de-sac
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was at the very end of this road
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thankfully i had my own parking spot
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underneath an awning at the end of a
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next to the train tracks train tracks
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were right outside my window
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up here on the end
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throwback i'd always laugh at this fake
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rock here that's covering like some
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some pipes and water pipes that would
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pull my van
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back in there around the corner and
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walk through the yard adjacent to this
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wall
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and if you follow these hedges around
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that apartment window that is where
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the house i rented was got a couple
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roommates
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and my girlfriend at the time we broke
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up
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late it took me a few months to kind of
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come up with the game plan that it was
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time for me to leave and early summer
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well mid-summer
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i departed just didn't feel like being
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here anymore now looking back on it
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i probably should have stayed it was a
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good spot i love this area
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look at this classic car now listen for
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the train
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you hear the train right over there
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i would hear that continuously
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during the daytime now at night the
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amtrak would not go by there'd be one
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freight train
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in the middle of the night and that was
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that so it's a little quieter in the
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evening but
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there still was a train or two in the
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evening hours
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yeah looking back probably should have
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stuck around
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but i didn't that's just how it's just
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how i do things
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i'm very impulsive sometimes i get the
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impulsive
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mindset and decision maybe i should do
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that again maybe i should just sell
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everything
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get another van and hit the road and
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then i think
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why should i have to do that i've done
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it
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maybe i'll do it again but i have to
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bring myself
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back down to to ground level
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and my gosh sometimes it's good to just
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have a home base well in my case two
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home bases
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and just do what you want to do and
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that's what i'm doing
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currently that could always change with
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me you never know
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it's like lincoln hawk turn it around
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it's like a switch that's where my mind
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works this entire neighborhood is
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amazing
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look at this tree right here
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and the root system is impressive
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within walking distance from that house
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is the circle
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you can still see they have it
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stanchioned off over there and also
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orange cycle where i have purchased two
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bicycles the most recent one is the
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the one that i sold when i was
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downsizing from my place here in orange
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county
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california downsized quite a bit didn't
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have room for it
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got rid of that you know in the last
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well
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it was in december i believe of last
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year so in the last six seven months
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but i also purchased a second bike
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before that the earlier bicycle
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that i had the the infamous infamous
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infamous that's more than famous
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according to three amigas
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that i went down the slide on both of
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those bicycles
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purchased here at orange cycle i'm
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considering maybe
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getting a scooter i do not have room now
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for another bicycle
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but i would like to get a scooter at
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some point one of those electric type
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that you should recharge i just got to
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find a place to buy one either online
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or locally from here you know it's
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already late enough in the day where
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orange cycle is closed i'm going to walk
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around i'm going to walk around the
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circle
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see what's going on well the historic
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plaza but i call it a circle
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as stated here orange plaza you know
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some call it the orange circle i am one
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of the ones that call it the orange
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circle city of orange plaza historic
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district
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now into last year into 2020 they placed
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these barricades that way a lot of
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a lot of the establishments the food
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establishments could have outdoor dining
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and stay in business
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some of the rules here cannot skateboard
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well you're not supposed to skateboard
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if you have a bicycle
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don't take it down any slides or run
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with it make sure you walk
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with the bicycles and you can see they
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have all the tents up here
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outside of the place there's a lot of
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antique stores down here which is pretty
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amazing too i've spent many hours
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shopping for antiques and purchasing
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them in some of these shops
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all along the circle well the plaza i'm
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gonna still call it the circle
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because as you can see there is traffic
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going around a circle and that's where
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the fountain is over there
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around the circle there used to be a
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starbucks over at that wells fargo
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now the only starbucks is over there
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in the old newspaper building but there
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used to be a starbucks inside that bank
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as well
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and i recall when this blaze pizza used
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to be a radio shack yep
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it was a radio shack back in 2015. now
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they serve pizza
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the interesting thing about uploading
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videos onto this platform
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and doing certain content i was saying
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i'm very very grateful
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because i do such a wide variety of
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stuff that i will get a
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certain amount of views per video no
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matter what i do whether it's a theme
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park
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whether it's a road trip whether it's a
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little bit of a
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more you know a darker type of subject
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something that is not you know frowned
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upon
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by others and maybe just something that
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is not out there for
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the masses something that is like a deep
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cut or maybe a movie location that is
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something that
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a lot of people might not have heard of
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you know something that
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is just a passion project that i want to
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do they will all
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generally get about the same views
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more or less the problem is
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that no matter what i do is always going
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to get a little bit of
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you know a little bit of flack or a
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little bit of negativity because
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it is not what everyone wants to see
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because i do not focus on
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one particular subject matter but i
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really like it that way
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that way no matter what i do whatever
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direction this thing takes me
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or wherever my life decides to go i will
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always
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be able to have a career and a platform
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and an audience oh yes
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the fountain and that really is the way
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i want it that's the way i intended all
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this to be
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to not really you know the title of my
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channel is just
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myself first it was the adam the woo
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channel then it was the daily woo
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channel
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and it really is just about me and what
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i like to do
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the beauty of this daily channel is
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whatever i do
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on a daily basis i film
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just like walking and talking sharing
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some memories
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you put it out there not everyone will
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choose
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to view it but those that do i am
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appreciative for
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i really am i really have a blessed life
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as cliche as that may sound i really do
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i'm very thankful such a nice area first
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time i
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drove through this area when i was kind
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of looking for a place to rent out here
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there were so many people in the circle
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you can see there's still
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quite a few people over here as now it's
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very very active
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and i thought i was watching a movie i
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thought that there was a director
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saying okay get all those extras into
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one spot
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and action because i had never seen
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anything like
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this and now i'm just kind of used to it
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but from where i had been before
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i hadn't seen anything quite like this a
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real beehive of activity
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i kind of hope that they continue to
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have the streets blocked off i really
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like this
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it's much easier to kind of get around
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and frequent these establishments
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all these businesses down here i like it
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a lot i hope it stays like this for a
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while
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and i always like to show tiddlywinks
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which was used in the movie that thing
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you do
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as the appliance store screen use
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filming location right here
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tiddlywinks the orange circle
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and i love all the the paintings the
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relics that put
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there on the you know a little nostalgia
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from a bygone era oh next to mr c's
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records there is
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there's an rv trailer it's a little
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that's interesting
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check that out there's a record store
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down here mr c's records
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right over here pretty cool a really
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good area now
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a lot of times i in celebration there is
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like a little circle in celebration with
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a fountain it's kind of like a smaller
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version
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maybe i'm just drawn to eric to living
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in areas that have a circle and
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a fountain i always like this i always
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like what's on the marquee here at this
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theater
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and i've kind of kind of gone i want to
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say full circle but i didn't mean to
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make that
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to make that proclamation but i have
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completely gone around back over to the
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coffee shop that
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i got the coffee out a few hours ago a
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couple hours ago
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two hours ago going over towards the bus
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station and there's that classic car i
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passed a bit ago
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not taking the bus just going over here
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to show it
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and a few years ago they constructed
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some parking structures which are really
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nice there's plenty of parking down here
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near the circle now i really like that
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car
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this is the corner of maple and cypress
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i guess the whole point of this was just
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for me to
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kind of stretch my legs get out
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enjoy the the duskness of orange
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california
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around the orange circle and to think
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out loud i do a lot of thinking out loud
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the beauty of what i do and this channel
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in particular
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is sometimes it doesn't have to be a
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distinct subject matter
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you know pagan mission to go to a museum
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or a theme park
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or renting a car to travel across
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country to film a town i've never been
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in
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sometimes just staying local and being
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at one with my thoughts and
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putting them out into the world is good
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there goes a bus
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the crossing of the buses
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let me just end with just saying how
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grateful and thankful i am
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for everyone that watches i don't say it
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honestly i do not say it enough
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a lot of times muscle memory kind of
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kicks in with
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doing anything i appreciate comments
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constructive criticism sometimes even
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negative criticism
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as stated there will always be
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difference of opinions
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but it's good to know what people are
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thinking you don't necessarily have to
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abide by what everyone tells you to do
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but it's good to have a consensus and
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the thought process from
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viewers audience
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that's how i like to refer to those who
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watch my videos
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i don't want i personally do not care
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for the f word
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and i'm not talking about the the bad
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word you might be thinking of
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but referring referring to those who you
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know support you
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by watching by watching stuff i don't
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really like the f words yeah
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i've always said kindred spirits those
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who who get it those who understand
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and those who might be into a certain
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subject matter you put something onto
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this platform
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and everyone has the the freedom to
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watch
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or not watch what you put out there
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and thank you for watching at least this
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video
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maybe you skipped it if you did you're
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not hearing this
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you're not hearing this ending or maybe
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you did
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it's appreciated without viewers i would
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not gotten this far
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that's for certain
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that's going to do it for today i'll see
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you in the next video
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the vlog is over
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you