TDW 1215 - How Do I Afford To Travel and Film Videos ?
http://www.AdamTheWoo.Spreadshirt.com
http://www.Patreon.com/AdamTheWoo
My Dec 11th 2012 Van Dwelling Video
https://youtu.be/Y9TqHOiSuxQ
Transcript
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welcome everyone Adam the woo here it's
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my second channel daily Vlog
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Channel bam it's a
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daily I don't think I've ever done that
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I don't think I've ever done a very
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disgruntled inaccurate drum beat between
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the daily woo theme song before but
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that's a first we're doing a driving
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Vlog driving around sometimes I do these
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Vlogs where I'm in my van the van that
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kind of start Ed this whole Adam the woo
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thing on YouTube this van that I have
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slept in countless amount if I tried to
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count how many times I've slept in this
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van in different states around the great
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us OFA and into Canada and also in
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Mexico that's even crazy so all over
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internationally this van has been slept
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in by myself and slumbered in in the
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back by me and in the parking lot of
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cold Walmarts freezing cold in the
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mountainous regions and the desertous
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regions and other things so how fitting
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is that this Vlog is actually going to
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happen this discussion this announcement
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not announcement but this answering of a
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question that is always brought up to me
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in comments on videos and when I meet
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people in person they a lot of people
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well not everyone it's a very small
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percentage of people that ask this but I
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wanted to address the fact of how do I
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people always say how does Adam afford
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to travel people have always said Adam
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had a rich relative die which is not
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true no one in my family Jean Pool and
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no one in my family tree or my family
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crest ever had more than two dimes to
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rub together at one time I use that term
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figuratively but my whole family has
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always been as far back as I could tell
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lower middle class at best so basically
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have no Rich relatives that have passed
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away I have had relatives pass away but
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they did not have any money I did not
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receive any money my parents never
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received any money and my parents are
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still working at this day and age my
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parents are in their 60s and they are
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still working and no sign of retiring so
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my family has always been people who
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were always hardworking never had a lot
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of money
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and I never had a lot of money and I for
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20 years I worked retail I worked in
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grocery stores I worked at a feed store
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the last job I had was a feed store that
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I worked for 5 and a half years before
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that I worked at a place called Office
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Max I worked at a place called wind Dix
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I work a place called Publix I worked at
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cmart so for 20 years from the age of 17
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till I was 37 years old which was about
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3 and a half years ago I decided that I
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would quit working and that I would move
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into this van and I'm going to post the
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link to a video that I did I actually
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documented this on the Adam the woo
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Channel way before I had any subscribers
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I knew that I would look back on that
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event either fondly or nonf fondly with
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regret or without regret I would look
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back on that occasion I want to document
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that historic occasion and I'm going to
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post the link to the video I called it
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van dwelling I think I called it Adam
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the woo van dwelling and it was a van
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dwelling experiment Extravaganza that I
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was embarking on and it basically all
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stem from this saying live simply and
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I've had this in my van for a very long
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time it's like a little bit of like a
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metal plate that says live
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simply so I'm going to talk about how
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I'm able to travel how I started
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traveling so I moved into my vanin
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please watch the other video if you want
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to pause this First Watch that other
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video that I will put the link down
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below or afterwards watch that video you
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can kind of get an Insight on how I
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started not filming videos because while
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I was working at that feed store I would
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work during the week Monday through
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Friday like Bankers hours tight even
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though I wasn't a banker I was slinging
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feed I would work during the week and on
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the weekends I would go out and I would
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film with this very shoddy 80 or $90
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camera that looked basically people
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always say did you film that with a
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potato that is basically what I was
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doing I was Bas basically taking
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something out of the soil that looked
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like a potato and filming with it that
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is the quality and the graininess and I
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started to develop some subscribers that
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way not very many but I didn't not have
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a lot of subscribers and basically what
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I did is I worked during the week and
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then on the
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weekends I would film and then during
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the week after work I would get off work
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at 5 or 6:00 I would go to my apartment
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and I would be
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editing the footage that I had actually
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filmed on the weekends and I would edit
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that up on the Adam the woo Channel
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which still exists all that old footage
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you can dig back and watch all those old
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videos of what I was filming while I was
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working at the feed store and then I
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decided I'm going to sell everything I
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own sell everything from my apartment
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and the only thing I kept were my bass
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guitars my bass amp cuz I was playing in
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a band at that time and my camera and my
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laptop and two duffel bags full of
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clothes that's right that's all I had in
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my van so everything in my possession
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fit in this van and I continued working
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for a little bit longer a little while
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longer until I paid the van off as soon
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as the van was paid off the next
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following work week I put my two-e
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notice in I saved up two weeks of money
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that I did not have debt on because I
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paid the van off I did not have credit
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cards at that time so I paid everything
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off I had two weeks of savings and I hit
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the road I hit the road
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around this time just shy less than a
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week shy of Halloween
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2011 so it has actually been four years
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this is the 4year anniversary of this
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saying that I actually embarked on the
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live simply saying and I hit the road
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with probably only $3 or
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$400 that went very quickly in gas in
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the van and if youve ever looked back
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and you've seen those old videos the
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videos from my I call it my 2011 trip
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the end of 2011 which is what I consider
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to be when I actually started doing
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YouTube quote unquote
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fulltime and what that means is even
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though I was filming stuff when I was
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working retail editing it on the
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weekends or filming it on the weekends
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and uploading it I was just kind of
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temporarily part-time I was not
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dedicating my 100% attention to the
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videos but that all changed 4 years ago
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late October 2011 when I embarked on a
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historic journey I went to Ghost Town in
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the sky maybe you've seen that video I
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went to Six Flags in New Orleans the
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abandoned Six Flags I went to the
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filming locations of Friday the 13th
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Part 6 and about 10 other videos The
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Wizard of Oz land up in Beach Mountain
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North Carolina and a bunch of other ones
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since then all those videos have gained
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a lot of views and that kind of jump
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started my motivation for wanting to
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travel and film and document and bring
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happy good things into the world and the
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way that all started was I thought to
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myself I should put this out there if
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anyone enjoys this maybe they will help
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me along the way so I started this thing
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a long time ago on my website it was
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called the Donate icon remember the
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click the Donate icon so basically what
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would happen is I would be sleeping in
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my van in the freezing cold early
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novembers in the mountains of Tennessee
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filming the evil day filming locations
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back in late
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November early November of 2011 and I
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would wake up and I would have a $10
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donation someone who watched my videos a
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very kindred spirit would say I really
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want to help fuel the wo I want to put
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10 or $20 in Adam's gas tank and that is
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how I got through that trip if it was
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not for those people helping me I would
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not have created those original videos
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now I was not able to go eat at a
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McDonald's or a Burger King I was not
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able to go out to eat I had to sleep in
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the van I never got a hotel room I was
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sleeping in the van and I was eating
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bread and I was eating peanut butter and
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tuna fish and things like that that were
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very super cheap and affordable from the
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dollar store and Dollar Tree and places
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like that that I could eat and all of
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that stemmed because of the fuel the woo
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because of your guys help because of
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those people that saw something back in
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the day and thought thought man this
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guy's got something this guy's on to
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something they thought that I was
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actually doing something that was
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actually should be promoted and should
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be done I guess you could say so I
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really have to really thank all those
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original people that helped me out and
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got me through that road trip I returned
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back home to St Cloud Florida my parents
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lived there and the reason I went back
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to St Cloud Florida after that road trip
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even though I was sleeping in the van
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for almost a month straight three or
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four weeks straight filming videos I got
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back to St Cloud because I wanted to
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spend Thanksgiving which is the end of
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November with my mom at her house and I
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wanted to come back from there so I got
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back from there and then I went on
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another road trip after Thanksgiving and
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the holidays and I drove down for a
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couple weeks down to Key West filmed
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some videos down there and kind of
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relaxed and stuff so that's basically
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how I got my start and people always ask
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this this is this is really what I
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wanted to address is how do you afford
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to make videos so we talked about how it
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started and people are always asking to
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this day how do you
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afford currently to actually travel and
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film well a lot has changed since those
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days because the internet has blossomed
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into a circle of goodness and I actually
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have way more subscribers now than I had
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then there are ways you can make money
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on the internet one way is promoting
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yourself which I have a pretty decent
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amount of people who follow me you know
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people who call their themselves fans
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Kindred Spirits whatever you want to
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call yourself friends that I have either
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met or not met yet and because of
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merchandising hats on adamthe woo.
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spreadshirt.com t-shirts on adamthe woo.
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spreadshirt.com that has really upped
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the plateau of actually putting gas in
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this van and also booking plane tickets
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and flights and cheap hotels when I
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travel wherever wherever it is that I
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travel and people always say there's no
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way that t-shirts could actually fund a
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trip the last trip that I went to
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Orlando the last two trips actually I
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went last month and the month before
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when I went down to Walt Disney World
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and that's another thing I actually when
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people always ask how do you afford to
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go to Disney every day it's because I
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purchase an annual pass before the price
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increase I actually purchased an annual
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pass Coast to Coast so when I go to the
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parks I don't have to pull my wallet out
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I have to just show my card and I go in
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it's basically not really free because I
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paid for it but it's out of sight out of
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mind I can go for 365 days so I paid for
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that up front and got that out of the
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way so a lot of people do ask about the
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whole how do you get into the theme
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parks thing notb Farm I have an annual
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pass too so the the plane flights people
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always say how do you afford these
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exorbitant plane flights well I'm
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actually very patient I have a very
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patient mindset and basically what I do
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is I just look for the cheapest flights
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in advance a month away a month and a
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half away and I search daily I try to
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search on Monday and Tuesday nights when
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plane flights are a little bit cheaper
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the last two times I've flown to Orlando
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I have flown round trip with no layovers
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for less than
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$200 there and back which is a heck of a
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deal because the last Orlando trip I did
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I got nine main Channel videos nine main
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Channel videos that I uploaded from
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Orlando some around Walt Disney World
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some around the Orlando area so that was
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actually actually very beneficial and it
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was actually a good investment because
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also the way YouTube works is you know
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you put ads on your videos you can what
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they call monetize certain things so I
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get a little bit of money from that it's
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really not a whole heck of a lot the
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T-shirt sales is really what drives all
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that in the way t-shirt sales works is
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spreadshirt charges you for the t-shirt
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and the print and then I mark it up a
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few dollars so every time you get a
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t-shirt on the woo. spreadshirt.com a
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little bit of that goes into my account
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and then every 3 months I get a lump sum
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from the plethora of t-shirts and
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kindred spirit folk that are out there
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who are actually helping fuel the woo
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fuel the van so that really helps out
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credit cards are a big help too I will
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rack up the credit cards and then I will
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pay the credit cards down when I get
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those t-shirt sales and I get that
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little bit of money from YouTube etc etc
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and that is where the patreon comes into
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play where does the pay people say oh
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you're asking people for donations the
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we're all helping you we're all we're
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all we're you're asking people for
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donations we're asking people donations
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all the time the reason for the patreon
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I actually battled with this for a very
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very very long time I've talked about
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this in the past the patreon thing came
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about because I wanted to start doing
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more filming location filming locations
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now if you notice if you watch any of my
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50 plus filming locations on the Adam
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the woo Channel you will notice there
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are no ads there are no ads anywhere on
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those videos except for one or two that
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the
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Studios like Universal Studios I think
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they tagged or they put an ad on the
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Back to the Future 2 filming locations
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and maybe one or two other ones that the
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studio says oh he used some copyright
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material so we are going to take his
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video leave it up but in exchange we are
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going to make some money off of his
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creation using our product which is
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totally fair as long as that video can
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stay out there in the universe and can
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be seen so the filming location videos I
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do not make a dime on say that very
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interestingly because I just spent the
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last probably 40 hours almost a full
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work week of filming I went to Los
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Angeles my friend Tyler Evans Rock
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journalist on Saturday we spent 14 hours
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filming a filming location then I went
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back two days ago with my friend count
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stankus we filmed even more for that
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filming location so I probably have
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about 20 hours of filming in for the
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filming locations that I had been
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editing for the last 3 days so so far I
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have about 40 hours of work if you want
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to call it work I do not call it work I
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call it basically something that I
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really want to just put out there
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something that I'm very fond of
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basically a labor of love but I have a
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full work week what someone else what I
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used to do working at the feed store
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throwing feed or working in a grocery
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store that I took 40 hours to do I have
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that much time so far invested in the
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video that I will be uploading tomorrow
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or tomorrow morning or tomorrow night my
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Halloween
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video that I'm going to be doing
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Halloween themed video that I'm going to
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be doing so you guys uh that's pretty
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much it that's that's how the filming
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location videos go now other videos I do
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make a little bit of money this guy is
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very angry over here hold on a second
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look at this guy right here there's a
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guy over there he's very angry he just
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threw a cup in the road he's walking
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past that school I think he might be a
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little bit disgruntled
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he threw that cup in the road he's
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yelling and
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screaming we're just going to just pass
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right by that
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guy so the patreon I started because
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people said you know what we have enough
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t-shirts we have enough Adam the woo
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shirts we do not want any more Adam the
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woo shirts and I understand that not
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everyone wants a dozen shirts to help
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fuel the woo so I start to the patreon
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for that reason the patreon is stay it's
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it's going it's raising up cons
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considerably and the patreon helps also
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put gas in the last Orlando trip that I
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did actually was funded my rental car
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which was about $170 for 10 days which
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is a heck of a deal and my hotel I
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didn't say in a hotel I say at my mom
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and dad's house so I don't have to pay
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for a hotel so I stayed in their guest
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bedroom and then the flight out there
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was less than $200 so the patreon
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adamthe woo. patreon.com I think it is
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fun did that entire trip so everyone
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that has helped a big humongous thank
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you for the patreon because without that
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it would be much much much much more
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difficult to be doing what I'm doing so
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we have a lot of different Avenues we
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have the ads we have the you the way
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YouTube pays you a few Pennies on the
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hundreds of thousands of views you have
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to get and then also the Adam the W do
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spreadshirt.com and the patreon I've
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always said that I prefer that if
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someone was going to support what I am
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doing if they like what I am doing that
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they would actually buy a shirt instead
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of donating or using the patreon but
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it's up to you it's your discretion the
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beautiful thing about all this is you
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don't have to watch these videos I am
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not going up to your door knocking on
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your door and saying hey I got a new
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video check this video please watch this
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video I have always just put things out
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there and everyone that is watching this
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has found me on their own Accord I have
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not spammed or promoted or done anything
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outside of my social media and my own
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videos other than being in other
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people's videos I have not handed out
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business cards handed out flyers gone on
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message boards and promoted my stuff I
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basically it's an organic an organic
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growth and that's what I love about it
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because I was in a band for so long and
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doing it in the non-organic way flying
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going crazy promoting and all this is
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way more organic you found me on your
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own accord and you can leave on your own
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accord or you can not buy a t-shirt on
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your own accord or you cannot go to
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patreon on your own accord or you can
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just do whatever you want on your own
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accord this is a free country to watch
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these videos and other countries are
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free not every country is free but some
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of the most of the countries that are
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watching this Vlog are probably free
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countries you have the ability to do
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what you want and I have to to be very
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humbled and very thankful that you have
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tuned in for this long you have been
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this supportive so that is basically how
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I fund trips that is how I travel I am
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not rich I probably have a dollar in my
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wallet right now and maybe $3 and qu
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right up here that I will use to go buy
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a Mountain Dew I'm actually running on
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very limited gas look at this I'm almost
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on fumes that right there pretty much
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I'm on E right now I'm on E so I am not
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rolling hard I don't know if that is the
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terminology I am not a baller by any
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stretch of the imagination I do not have
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a fat stack of cash rolling around in my
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wallet I'm pretty much living week to
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week off of what I am making off of the
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t-shirts etc etc etc and the ads and
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things like that so we're still on a
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mission I am still on a mission to put
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goodness into the world and like I said
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if you're not on board if you do not
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like these videos please don't watch if
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you don't like me please don't watch
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move on there are a million other
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YouTubers doing what I am doing doing
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similar things search the interwebs
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there are tons of people doing what I am
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doing if you do not like something if
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you I hate to use the word hate but if
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you have a hatred for what I am doing or
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my personality or something about me
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that you do not like then move on you
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are not required to watch these Vlogs or
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the Adam the woo Channel main Channel
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videos thank you so much to everyone who
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gets it thanks to everyone who is on
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board and watches these videos also let
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me talk about the YouTube ads a lot of
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people say I'm going to start a YouTube
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channel and I'm going to start making
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money I'm going to start making money
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and I have a lot of friends that do that
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and I wish them all the best anyone
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that's out there doing YouTube I had
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this weird philosophy this I don't know
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it might be a smart philosophy but I had
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this philosophy that I was not going to
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put any ads on my videos to a certain
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point so if you guys know the in ins and
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outs of YouTube and and the way uh
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monetizing things work I did not start
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putting any ads on anything on my
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YouTube channel until I had seven or
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8,000 subscribers my whole reason for
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that is I always did not want people to
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stumble on a video that they might like
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of mine see an ad and then disregard the
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video and X the video out and not watch
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it so I stuck to my guns in the
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beginning it was very hard in the
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beginning it's not so hard now now I'm
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actually at least I know I have a little
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bit of money coming from the t-shirts a
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little bit of money coming from that
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patreon account little bit of money
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coming from YouTube so all that that
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correlation of those three things keep
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me moving keep me motivated
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and I have you guys to thank those from
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the beginning those who have recently
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found me just a big humongous thank you
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but it all started because I wanted to
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live simply I wanted to quit my job I
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wanted to film videos put videos out
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into the world that is kind of how it
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all started with this saying this live
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simply saying right now and it's weird
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we just pull up to this light and I
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thought my van was actually actually you
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could probably see the horror on my face
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my van started to like shake a little
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bit and I thought man my van that would
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be an epic ending to this Vlog about
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living simply when my van runs out of
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gas oh yeah free shipping I think
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today's the last day for free shipping
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on Adam theo. spreadshirt.com got some
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good stuff coming up really considering
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this whole Vegas trip going to Vegas
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probably in about a week and a half 2
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weeks from now going out there for 3 or
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4 days so I will post if I decide 100%
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on that I will post post a video ask you
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guys for suggestions for Vegas a lot of
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people have already chimed in about that
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this is a very long- winded Vlog thank
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you for watching remember my other
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channel I will have a Halloween esque
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video uploading I might upload it
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tonight but more this probably more of a
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chance that it will be uploaded tomorrow
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I have been editing non-stop I've been
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pulling my hair out editing this video
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it's going to be a doozy I'm very happy
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about this new main Channel video that I
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have coming up all right I talked way
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too much I love you guys I'll see you
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guys tomorrow here on the daily woo bye