I Had To Take A Few Days Off But I’m BACK - My Upcoming Travel Plans & Thoughts For Rest Of 2022
Walk and Talk August 2022
Transcript
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today's adventure begins well takes
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place it's pretty much going to be right
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here so it's not going anywhere other
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than downtown celebration but as the
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recording of this it is wednesday
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the 3rd of august
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2022 it is a little later in the evening
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you see
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the sun is setting over there it has set
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and
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the haziness and beautifulness of the
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coloration of the clouds
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is up in the sky it's about
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8 10 8 15 ish
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give or take
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here on this wednesday evening
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exactly
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one week from today i will be 48 years
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old my birthday is on august 10th
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so one week from right now i will be at
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one with my thoughts
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hopefully enjoying
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the ending of a good day
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that i will be having on my 48th
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birthday
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time flies
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sometimes when you're having fun
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sometimes when you're not having fun
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time just goes by
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very quickly and there's another date
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in mind
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not only a week for my birthday but as a
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recording of this it is four weeks from
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when i arrive in atlanta
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for
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dragon con 2022 which i think is going
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to be a real beehive of activity
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precisely
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four weeks
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from this moment so two moments
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starting from now welcome everyone
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out of the woo here i feel refreshed i
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have taken
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three days
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that i have not filmed
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edited
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or uploaded
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here on this channel the last video i
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did was uploaded sunday it was saturday
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when i went to a comic convention
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in tampa bay
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and i think i had done well over 100
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days i did an 80 day road trip i thought
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i would take a day off when i returned i
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did not i get tunnel vision
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i just like to go forward and i cannot
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stop and sometimes breaking that routine
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is all you need and i broke the routine
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and decided to take two more days but
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i'm back
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and i'm inviting you to join me a little
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walk and talk as these frogs
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make a little noise
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this is going to be pretty neat because
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i rarely will film at this hour usually
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it's a little earlier in the day or even
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late afternoon it is
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getting into almost late evening well
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not really late evening but close enough
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close enough to late evening i really do
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like the mirror image here across the
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lake
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and the
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the orangish hue reddish hue of the
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clouds over there
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side note
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the theater over there
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is not open it's been closed for over a
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decade
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did i do the intro
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join me
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shall you
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now about a year ago a year ago give or
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take
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i actually walked around town with a guy
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who was part of an organization who
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was trying to get the theater back open
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and evidently the town itself
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community here of celebration
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that just did not happen and
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it still sits closed
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it's kind of a shame because that is
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that is quite the building there quite
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the
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the architectural marvel and i feel like
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the amount of people here celebration is
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growing by leaps and bounds
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stretches all the way across let's say
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it's probably six miles if i had to
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guess
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you know just take that with a grain of
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salt because i've never actually taken a
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tape measure and measure celebration
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from one into the other but there are
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countless
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amount of apartments and new homes being
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built over near world drive
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near the 7-eleven
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and art deco mcdonald's so this place
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definitely could have
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the demographic and the clientele and
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the amount of people
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that would keep that place open the last
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few days i have really enjoyed a little
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down time
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took that time frame to
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well i say downtime i still did do some
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some planning and booking some hotels
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booking some travel
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plans rental cars flights things like
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that
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for the upcoming rest of the year
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because into the end of august you know
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once i go to atlanta for dragon con from
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there i will be heading you know i'll be
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in atlanta for five or six days give or
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take that we'll head to
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southern california for a couple weeks
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do some haunt season stuff
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also we'll do d23
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and you know a few other things and then
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from there i will traverse them to other
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areas of the country before heading back
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here for october 1st for epcot's 40th
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anniversary
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at walt disney world epcot will be
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celebrating its 40th so spoiler alert
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those are some of the plans that i have
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and then the rest of the year
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you know a lot of this i'm reiterating
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kind of stated when i got back from my
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80-day road trip but just wanted to
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throw it out into the universe if that
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is still
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my game plan so from now until then
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i am just going to be a quote unquote
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local and do local things
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wonderful things
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probably even take a day off or two just
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like i kind of did throughout this month
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now once i hit the road
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i rarely ever take days off it's hard
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for me to justify
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you know going on the road traveling
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you know those expenses and whatnot i
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feel like i need for myself to keep the
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videos flowing to keep the momentum
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going also to keep myself motivated but
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also you know to help that train just
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stay on stay on the tracks
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that's kind of how i do it
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and i always some lightning just just
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happened some lightning just happened
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over there there's a bridge right here
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that's why there's this little alcove
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kind of tucks away in here
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i guess they have this up so that no
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lake like creatures can crawl up on here
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even though i guess they crawl around
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we'll get a
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strike of lightning over there
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but it was definitely nice taking a
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couple days off and i want to do that
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at some point the rest of this month
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even though now
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the rest of this month
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kind of stumbled upon that word there
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not the rest not the rest this month the
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rest
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of this month
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can i just say how awesome this is the
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night is great
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obviously you don't want to go out much
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during the day because it is very toasty
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you know when the sun is out not not a
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real big fan of heat and sun why do i
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live in florida i get that asset quite a
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bit
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you know walt disney world's here but
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more importantly than that i have some
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friends here and i have my mom and dad
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are here which are 30 minutes away from
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me the main reason what brings what
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brought me back that's kind of more than
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anything
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you know
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you got to be close you got to be close
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to family
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walt disney world is definitely an added
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bonus to that it gives me something to
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do when i am home
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hello
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oh hey how's it going
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a gentleman that just went by on a bike
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honestly truly startled me i was not
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expecting him to bellow out i know i
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changed my mind a lot ask anyone that
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knows me well or anyone that doesn't
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know me well i can change my mind
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i can make a statement in the morning
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and by afternoon
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change that thought process in my own
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head one of the most confusing things
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are when people ask what do you know
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what's your plans coming up in the next
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week or two and i have to tell them
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i cannot answer that question because i
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honestly don't even know i'm constantly
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my brain is is just always
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always formulating and always thinking
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about what the next thing is what the
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next thing i want to do
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changing things up changing my own mind
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almost feel like it's uh not a hindrance
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but it's almost a negative thing having
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too many options too much availability
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oh
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man i just missed it again
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i guess to clarify a little bit better
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so when i was working a job where you
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know you're punching a clock
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i knew i had to be there at a certain
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time now
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or i had you know monday through friday
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from nine to five let's say i had to be
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there at a certain time frame but now i
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have a little more open availability to
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pretty much go where i would like to go
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and sometimes
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i'm left to my own devices to make a
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decision
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what i'm going to do
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which means i do not have someone
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telling me
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this is where you got to be this is what
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you got to do this is what you're going
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to have to do this is where you need to
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be at this time to punch this clock to
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do this task
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i'm just at my own free will and
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sometimes
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it's very confusing all right frogs
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oh yeah yeah yeah yeah okay it wasn't
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focused very well but i think i got the
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little strike there
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it's more like heat lightning though
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it's not an actual bolt
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like a bolt
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there was a little heat lightning over
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there another habit i have which
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probably isn't a good habit is
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you know reiterating myself
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so my apologies so i'll try to make this
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quick
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but basically when it comes to disney
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stuff
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beginning of the year i really wanted to
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take a step back from it
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i'm not really taking a step back from
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it i've missed it i'm going to go and
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when i'm home i am not going to
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not go not utilize my annual pass that i
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have
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also my disneyland annual pass expires
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right before
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d23 okay i'll talk about that later
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whether or not i'll i don't i haven't
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completely decided but i'm leaning
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towards one particular
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side on whether or not
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i will be renewing that more on that
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later
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but yeah basically i'm going to
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go to the parks here
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take some days off the rest of the month
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there will be some disney videos there
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will be some tampa bay raised videos in
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fact again as the recording of this
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today tampa bay rays played and they won
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game two of a series against the toronto
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blue jays yesterday i drove
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took me three hours to get from here i
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didn't film i just had a day off kind of
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like ferris bueller and ended up going
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over to tropicana field got stuck on the
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bridge that goes from tampa to st pete
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can i remember the name of that bridge
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there was a
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a car fire
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very very scary i did not see it happen
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but it
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backed up traffic for so long it took me
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three hours to get from celebration
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to the trap and then you know another
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two hours back so i had a five hour
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commute to go to a game
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enjoyed the game they lost thought they
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were gonna win also
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that's a lot of there's like a lot of
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guys on the rays that i i really like
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one of my favorite players brett
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phillips just got
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sent down
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the orioles picked him up and now brett
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is gonna be playing for the orioles but
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i am really into the race so much in
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fact that
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i even go when i'm not filming videos
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but i am going to film some more videos
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as time goes on i don't know how many
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more away games i'm going to do but
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yeah
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so i'm just going to do
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stuff around town
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i'm going to do some baseball stuff and
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do some disney stuff until i hit the
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road
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that's about all i wanted to say
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i'm just going to do what i want to do
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and just stop making promises
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and just whatever i feel like doing
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i'm going to do i really like the g7x i
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use the
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canon g7x mark ii
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that is the camera i use and yes you
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probably can't see it but
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i'm sure some notice that
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there's a little smudge a little dot on
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the screen
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during the day you can see it a lot
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better
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up kind of near the center top of the
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screen
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i need to get a new camera the the dot
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the blemish is underneath
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the lens itself so i cannot clean it i
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have tried to wipe it off
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about 18 000 times
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and it's underneath the lens so i'm
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gonna have to get a new camera i will do
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that at some point properly before my
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next road trip for my next travel plans
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at the end of the month now there's no
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shortage of other options for cameras
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but i'm kind of used to this one and i
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like how good it is at night time with
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picking up the colors on low light so i
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think i'm going to stick with it you
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really have to
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you really have to be very patient
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though
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with getting it kind of calibrated and
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dialed in with the focusing and even the
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audio the audio is kind of a
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kind of unusual as well so i'm going to
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stick with this but maybe one day
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maybe one day i'll try something else
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but yeah
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will i ever quit videos probably not i
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will probably always have a thirst a
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desire an excitement
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a passion
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to to make videos and content on the
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platform
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but i feel like i have kind of pigeoned
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myself pigeonholed myself
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that's a phrase that's unusual
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is there really a such thing as a pigeon
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hole i've never seen a pigeon come out
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of a hole but
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there is a phrase and i feel like i've
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kind of done that i kind of feel like
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the vlogging the daily vlogging which
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very few people do
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think of like anyone out there that does
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youtube or you know you the viewer those
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that you watch very rarely are they in
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sync
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with uploading the next day or doing
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daily vlogs not uploading daily but
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doing an ends a vlog i was going to say
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in sync but that's an orlando
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singing band
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but in sync with how that works
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most of the time which i feel like maybe
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this has hindered me
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a little bit
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with
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sanity and possible
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success having a 24-hour crunch where
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it's like get up go out and film
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whatever it is has to be done in a
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24-hour time to get the video up the
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next day instead of putting a little
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more time now back in
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2017 again i am reiterating things i
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have said in the past but just this is
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what's on my mind and this is what i
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feel like talking about 2017 i quit
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this channel for a while and after a few
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months and after i did national
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lampoon's vacation video and for skunk
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filming locations that i went completely
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cross country for both and got a huge
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i'm trying to think of the word it made
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me feel good a huge
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momentum
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for my creativity i felt like wow this
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is what i really want to be doing but
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financially
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that was not enough doing one video a
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month is not enough was not enough at
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the time to survive
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and just only do youtube now i think i
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can do it
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so that might take place
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and i also feel like by me stepping away
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from doing daily whenever that day comes
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i will be able to figure out what the
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next step creatively
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personally
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a passion that maybe i don't even know
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exists
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that will rear its head into my head
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into my mind
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and into my soul
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what the heck is that noise
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now you know what i honestly
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when i'm 50
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and i call the vlog quits
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and i move on to other projects and like
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i said i still i'll still do videos i
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still do something but
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every single
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day yeah it's kind of it's kind of
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i don't know if it's something i want to
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do for the rest of my life so it's got
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to be we got to be an end goal
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there's my shadow hello shadow shadow on
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a tree
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but for now i almost said i digress but
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for now i digress but for now stay in
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the course powering through
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this month kind of off and on
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gonna do some disney stuff and go some
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baseball games might be some walking
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talks might hang out with some friends
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don't really know what i'm gonna be
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doing might take a day off
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that's just how it's gonna be no
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apologies for me no promises for me i'm
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just gonna
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live my life i happen to film film
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i'll film a video
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after
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i get on a plane go to atlanta
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dragon con d23 hot season in socal
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probably gonna go
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spoiler salt lake city i think i
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mentioned that before and then possibly
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some other areas back here for epcot's
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40th
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and then into october might do a little
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more traveling yeah maybe not got a lot
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of d20 got a lot of dvc stays
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oh yeah more spoilers i'm just spoiling
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everything
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october i have booked a lot of dvc stays
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that i have not stayed at there's going
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to be a lot of hotel reviews november
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might travel a little bit december
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all here in florida friends family time
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christmas stuff at the parks christmas
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stuff around the greater orlando area
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and then into new year's
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i will take a step back with my own
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thoughts and decide what i'm going to do
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on the future
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who knows that's all i'm going to say
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about that
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stay in the course still daily vlogs
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still powering through
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just doing it
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continuing on
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keep this train and moving the daily
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took a couple days off
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feels good got some stuff accomplished
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it's amazing
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how much you can get done when you just
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have a couple days that you do not have
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the normal routine not talking about
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this video this video is easy i just
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walk around editing is easy of this
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quick little walk and talk
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but you know when i go to when i travel
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when i'm on the road for 500 miles a day
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filming a video uploading a video that's
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when it really takes its toll
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on your mind and on the body this is
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this is a cakewalk i did this every
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single day
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and i would have nothing to
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nothing to take a break from so don't
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think i don't realize that
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but that's it that's all i want to talk
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about
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thanks for listening i'll see you in the
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next video
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i'll probably upload a video tomorrow
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now that i have got back take a couple
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days off
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i'll probably get back probably get back
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on the i'll get back on the train
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see where it goes
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see the next video
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the vlog