My 10 Year Anniversary on YouTube - How It All Started / The Future and What’s Next For This Channel
A visit to the location of my very first adventure video on YouTube . Today’s marks the 10 year anniversary of that moment .
The Sugar Mill Video
https://youtu.be/tOrpoyFZAkU
Transcript
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today's adventure brings us to Central
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Florida to be more precise st. cloud my
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former hometown where I have been
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visiting for the holidays one decade ago
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today
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something in my life happened right over
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there at the old remnants of the sugar
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mill
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welcome everyone Adam is uh whoo here
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December 31st 2009 10 years ago to the
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moment I stood right here with my buddy
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Cody as we walked the canal I had an
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idea I will start documenting abandoned
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closed interesting subject matters
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around this general vicinity not knowing
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what the future held it's been a while
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seeing that structure brings back some
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fond memories and makes me recall what
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has happened since that since that day
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Wow time flies I'm inviting you to join
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me on the trip down memory lane and a
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little info that you might not know
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about and I'm gonna recap a few things
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shall you it has not changed much other
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than maybe a few bricks have been
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chipped away and some added graffiti I
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climbed all over this that was a younger
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man then probably had better equilibrium
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skills were jumping to and fro from up
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there
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then that I do now earlier this morning
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I went back and watched that particular
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episode which I'll put a link in the
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description box after this you can watch
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it or you can pause it now
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go watch it and you can see the
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difference between the style of filming
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my presentation and quality of cameras
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have improved greatly since those days
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however it was the start of the atom the
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wu qian allah
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you're watching currently he is on the
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daily woot channel which started in
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summer of 2012 which I did for five
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straight years the back story more or
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less was I was working retail here in
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town Monday through Friday and on the
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weekends I took this very shoddy you've
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heard the expression did you film that
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with a potato that's basically what it
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was a video camera and I just wandered
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up and down highway 192 which runs
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through st. cloud over to the coastline
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and up towards the Disney Resort area
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and just filmed whatever I thought was
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fascinating did that for a while until
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in August of 2011 little over a year
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there's a dog barking over there a
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little over a year and a half later it's
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okay it's alright it's alright puppy do
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you remember me right from 10 years ago
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I don't think he recalls in hindsight
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it's because I decided to grab that
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video camera and show this and the small
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miniscule reaction it got online caused
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me to film other things and as I was
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stating in August of 2011 after I've
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been doing it for a while decided to
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quit my job and hit the road I knew
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somewhere deep down either in my mind or
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my heart that I needed a break away I'm
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just doing local things and start to
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travel I had a van I was playing in a
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band a local band
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around this area so I already had a tour
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van that I had purchased and was paying
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for I got out of debt quit the store
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that I was working at instead of hauling
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musical equipment slept in the back of
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that van and did that for quite quite a
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heck of a long time many evenings and
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parking lots snoozing under the cool
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crisp air and good ties and just cruised
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around the countryside showing stuff
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similar to this unique items filming
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locations historical spots etc etc all
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stemming from what you see before you
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pretty neat to think about every
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endeavor has a starting point from
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October 2011 until the beginning of 2015
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so 14 into 15 New Year's Eve of that
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year I constantly was just traveling the
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open road I decided I'd get a homestead
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move to Orange County California where I
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lived up until the middle of 16 so about
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a year and a half started doing quite a
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bit more theme park Disney content etc
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etc it's also in that point right before
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I left middle of 2016 that I changed the
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format here on this channel from
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unedited to edited chopping it up
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putting cuts here and there showing more
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documenting more things as the day
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progressed instead of one unedited with
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my phone holding it up filming myself it
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should probably be a lot make more sense
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that I had the phone and showed you hit
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record be a little sporadic talk about
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what I was thinking and hit stop and go
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5 10 15 20 minutes sometimes I think
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that was more of me what my thoughts
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were then showing locales and it just
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made more sense to start editing it so
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that's what I did from that point hit
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the road once again for about a year I'd
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be a little more than a year said heck
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it I miss Southern California move to
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Hollywood on a whim kind of a very
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sporadic impulsive I'm a very impulsive
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person decision was gonna moved to New
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York City Manhattan in the last second a
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day or two before decided to fly out to
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LA and look at some places I did in that
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piece of memory that piece of history is
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also etched in stone two years in
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Hollywood right off the boulevard now
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currently summer of this last year moved
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back down to Orange County California
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where I now reside most likely for a
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while however I am NOT going to be
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staying put
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hitting the road again even though
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nearly all my possessions and where I
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will lay my head when I am back home and
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my base of operations will be in SoCal
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I missed the back roads finding a
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healthy balance is always something you
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need to do and as I get older I don't
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always constantly 365 days a year
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want to be out on the plains sometimes
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it's nice to have a place to call a
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place to call home let me try to find a
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decent balance between the two the last
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year I have really not been doing so I
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have been traveling quite a bit however
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with moves with staying moderately
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stationary I've been documenting way
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more theme parks than even I sometimes
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feel I should be there is a passion to
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get away from that to get away from the
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crowds and show Americana I love history
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I love small towns and my new year's
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resolution if we want to throw this end
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is to start showing items and locations
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that really have kind of gone by the
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wayside that's the goal moving forward a
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healthy mix a moderate mix
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of different types of content I have
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some ideas don't want to give too many
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spoilers and I really do not like
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announcing details and plans because as
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I stated I'm very impulsive and things
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change at the moment the rest assured
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things are gonna happen we'll give you a
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little bit of a hint on my thought
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process however a series in the past
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obviously for 1911 des straight 5 years
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2 months I did daily here on this
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channel and I kind of want to bring that
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back on a small scale hear me out first
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it will not be every single day without
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missing an episode however I would like
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to incorporate series of videos I stay
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home do a couple theme parks here and
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there some la locations or stuff within
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a few hours of the Greater Los Angeles
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Orange County area and then hit the road
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and do a week or two ten videos 12
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videos 15 videos in a row
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and not I don't know what this movement
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is but in a row every single day for two
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weeks
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documenting that particular trip and
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then go back home take a couple days off
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do some local stuff breathe work on the
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mindset and relaxing and having a home
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life and then go out again that's what
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I'm thinking as I said I will not I will
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not release where or when or how but it
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will be soon very soon into 2020 that's
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weird to say January of 2020 very early
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soon after the ball drops
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I'm not even necessarily saying New
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Year's Day but soon very soon also just
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to clarify I will not in Ooty stop
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filming theme parks that will always
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continue from now until my course has
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run it's not the way you say it but it
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will be tapered down considerably that I
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promise a much more fluid balance the
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occasional parks and then a couple weeks
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of road trips and then back and maybe a
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filming location or two back on the road
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for a short stint series then back maybe
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another filming location or a theme park
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and then back out on the road again for
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a couple weeks that's the game plan
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that's about all the info I can give you
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at this moment all the specifics did not
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necessarily mean this to be the
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presentation of what the future holds
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but why don't you remember the past ten
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years ago right here on this very
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premises it all began oh my my how
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things
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have altered how things have progressed
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made some good decisions made some bad
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decisions life is a very funny thing but
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all in all I feel like I've stayed the
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course pretty decently if he would have
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told me then how things would have
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turned out I might not have believed you
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to be honest
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who knew all those years ago what
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YouTube would become and that people
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would even watch it in droves
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very thankful and blessed to have
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started way back then
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I truly am a lot of blood sweat and
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tears very cliche saying but it's true
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countless nights worrying and wondering
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if I was doing the right thing flat
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broke but out of debt which is the key
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the key positive element out on the road
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but as I would lay down on the pillow in
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the back of that van and thank the heck
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am i doing
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family friends cohorts acquaintances
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didn't really get it there was nothing
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to show to say this is what I'm gonna do
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I'm gonna model myself after this
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creator or this person or this channel
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because let's be honest there really was
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not many to choose from I had to kind of
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itch my own path made a lot of errors
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learned as I went along I learned quite
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a bit in these 10 years
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ten years social media really wasn't a
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thing and collaborations didn't really
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exist
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how could you collaborate
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when there's not really too many people
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doing it you just have to do what you
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feel is right if you have a burning
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desire and a passion for something go
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after it there will be naysayers there
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will be those who try to discourage you
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but if you feel it to be right and you
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have a game plan of some sort and a
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passion I think that's the key to be
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honest back then I believe that's all I
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had
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and it worked if you'd like to tag along
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for the continuation of this journey the
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next step past the ten year mark please
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give this video a big thumbs up it lets
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me know you care and for those who have
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been with me since the beginning or as
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as time went on you can also hit that
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thumbs up because I care about you
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it would be hard difficult to have
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reached this point without the
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viewership and those who have been in my
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corner since the start I'll see you in
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the next video the vlog and this decade
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of me here on YouTube but only the start
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the beginning it's amazing to think that
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after 10 years I feel like I've only
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just begun I think that's a song lyric
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I'll see in the next video the vlog my
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friends is over