TDW 1863 - Goodbye Hollywood (For Now)
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this is where we say
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goodbye at least for now not for not
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permanently but for now I'm hitting the
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road you top former topiary Pig now
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coated in a grassy substance made of
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cloth oh what's this down here is that a
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cigarette butt I see I understand the
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coffee I completely get being
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caffeinated but the cigarette at get
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back to your old ways all right I'll see
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you soon I'll see you at the end of the
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month after a while our gu welcome
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everyone Adam the here this time
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tomorrow I will be on an airliner flying
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across the country cuz that's what you
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do in an airliner unless you're on the
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tarmac sitting but I digress today I'm
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going to Trek up and down Hollywood
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Boulevard I've done it before and I'm
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doing it again but this time for the
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last time for now until I return later
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but for
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now let's just let's just go it's my
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second channel daily Vlog channel it's
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the daily
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woo also starting off with a smoothie
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cocoa dates almond milk almond butter
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maybe and a few other things I can't
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there's so much in here I can't even
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keep track it's pretty freaking good I
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do love this mural and I do love this
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wide lens that
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lets me capture the whole thing by
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basically standing nearly directly in
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front of it I mean I'm in the road I'm
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in the road per se but you can see the
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whole mural from just a few feet away
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when I use my cell phone this is
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basically what the shot looks like the
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lens I'm using is a 10 to 18 right now
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it's set on
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18 but check this
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out you can go back eight notches to
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this impressive
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most impressive fun fact if you've ever
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been to MGM Hollywood Studios in Florida
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or DCA Disney California Adventure in
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Anaheim this building might look
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familiar to you that's because they
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modeled two specific structures after
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this exact address except Disney doesn't
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have a huge spider on the side of theirs
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and I have to wonder if these two lovely
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ladies had any clue they were going to
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be part of a beer advertisement when
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they took a photo with that guy at first
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I thought that was a poorly drawn shark
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but in reality it's a mural here on the
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side of the shutter for Dune that's
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pretty freaking cool right remember back
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when the little space invader guys were
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popping up everywhere there's a couple
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right here as well on the side of that
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building I never noticed that before I
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guess you could say I should have used
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my colbol like research skills a little
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better up until this point or check it
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out Raymond Burr Perry Mason he was
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pretty good at figuring things out as
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well here's a pretty good one of George
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and Gracie Every Time I Think of George
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Burns I think of the movie oh God you
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devil or 18 again I know he was in a lot
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of different stuff but that's the two
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that always immediately pop into my head
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an interesting story about Robert wadow
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who stood 8 ft 11 in tall and now
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Guinness Book of World Records and
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Ripley's Believe or not heavily promote
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that fact my Sunday school teacher when
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I lived in eala Oklahoma when she was
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young went to school with this gentleman
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and she said when he walked down the
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stairs he had to go sideways he had to
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take his feet turn them to the side just
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to walk down the stairs or he would tip
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over forward that is what he had to deal
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with on a daily basis and then as I
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stand here in the footprints of the one
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and only Sylvester Stallone this is a
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good opportunity to let you know that I
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will not be attending the final day of
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The Great Movie Ride on August 13th it
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closes its doors for good in
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Florida my favorite theme park I just
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had to let it go a long time ago it has
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moved on MGM is no more and I will not
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be there I'll be there in Spirit but not
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in person I did give it a lot of thought
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however but after streets of America
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went away about a year ago I pretty much
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realized that my childhood the park that
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I grew to love in the early '90s was
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erased from existence not to get too
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deep into the psyche of what is Adam the
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woo but when I was very young into my
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pre-teen and teen years I was enamored I
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was completely overwhelmed and
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moderately interested in the way movies
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and television and commercials were
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filmed especially cameras that were
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involved and the editing process and
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sound stages and that theme park in
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Florida MGM Studios in a roundabout
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weird way was my first introduction to
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this place way before I visited
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California I went there and it's some
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strange bizarre Twilight Zone type
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Universe it might be it might possibly
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had a hand in the fact on why I now
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reside in the actual
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Hollywood
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Life is funny that way the home of the
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glitz the Glamour and the fun long
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famous for its storied past it is
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renowned for its vibrant Street Scene
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entertainment Seekers tourists residents
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students and business professionals
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alike Thrive together in this walkable
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neighborhood bisected by Hollywood
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Boulevard which is arguably the busiest
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pedestrian thoroughfare in all of La
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here's a nice glary Sun bleached out
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reflection of the neighborhood in
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question there's the Capital Records
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building right up there Hollywood and
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Vine and about a half a mile maybe a
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little more than half a mile down the
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boulevard past all these historic
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restaurants and shops filled with all
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types of history is the Chinese Theater
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right in there and I have finally
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decided on a name for that guy busting
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out of the roof ready for this Buster it
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kind of just makes sense busting makes
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him feel good they have placed a chunk
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of heavyduty plastic over the this piece
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of Epic graffiti and my friend Jordan
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was telling me on the other side of this
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theater there used to be another Banksy
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piece right there but it was removed
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hence the plastic on the other side to
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protect it you know you have made it in
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the graffiti and spray paint world when
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you do something completely not allowed
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someone consider illegal in the local
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residents and business owners do their
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darnest to make sure it's going to stay
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there forever
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pretty awesome I have to wonder has he
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ever taken that down any sweet slides
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Kenny Baker also known as R2D2 from Star
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Wars he has a star right next to Eve
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Harden and Grace Kelly also in the
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general
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vicinity C Aubrey Smith right there
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see it I stand corrected that was not
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the Mr Baker I thought it was he
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performed with Jack Benny in the 1930s
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doing songs and radio you could tell
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because on the star is a radio
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microphone and not a movie camera I
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didn't realize it till I looked it up he
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learned something new every day the one
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and only Carrie Grant there's his star
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followed by Henry
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Renee and remember the other day we were
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talking about people who had a first and
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last name that were the same this is
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kind of in the same ballpark right first
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and last name that are very similar even
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though kind of nickname is and Clark
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Gable old school
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Hollywood at its finest it's interesting
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because there's a cigarette buth there
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and there's one back here on Carrie
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grants is it some sort of
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homage to the legends
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it's probably just a random coincidence
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to be honest I have some very tedious
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non- exiting non overwhelming things to
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take care of at the homestead before
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departing Manana but before I leave you
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today I just want to tell you I really
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like being here and living here and
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having this as my home base if you will
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there's always going to be a huge part
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of me that yearns Longs and thrives for
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new places new Endeavors new adventures
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but when it comes to having a stationary
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place to hang my hat if you will I like
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it here I'll see you guys
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tomorrow I'm looking forward to
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traveling
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Vlog over