Van Dwelling & Almost Getting Married - Life Thoughts On Hwy 192 / An Early Family Christmas
Hwy 192 Thoughts Dec 2023
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welcome everyone Adam the woo here as
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the recording of this it is Saturday
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December 16th 2023 I am holding a piping
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hat cap caffeinated beverage that I got
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from Dunkin Donuts right back there and
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I also purchased this $50 gift card
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which I will be giving away on my
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Instagram a little holiday giveaway all
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you have to do is go over to my
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Instagram I'll post a photo of this and
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then later on 8 10 12 hours after I post
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a photo I will choose a comment that is
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down below that and I will mail this out
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free of charge to anyone who wants or
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needs or desires it just based on
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whatever comment and whoever you know
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replies to their comment and gives those
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comments hearts and all that just no
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real Rhyme or Reason to any of this but
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just wanted to kind of give some stuff
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away for the holidays I've been doing
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this off and on today I'm going to be
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heading down to my parents house down
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high Highway 192 I will not be filming
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our Christmas which is today we're going
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to be opening presents today
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brought along the gifts that I've been
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purchasing my sister flew into town late
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last night got into town this will be
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the only day that the four of us will be
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able to celebrate Christmas Even though
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it is a little bit early so we're going
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to exchange presents presents my mom is
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going to be making a meal a holiday meal
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be enjoying that we not be filming any
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of that per se but I will film some
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other stuff throughout the course of the
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day on the way down on the way back the
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afternoon and evening perhaps just kind
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of kind of today but it's good to have
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you here I'm inviting you to join you I
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really could use a
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coffee arm join me shall you oh yeah I
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also forgot to mention my Instagram is
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Adam the woo atw all together no spaces
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no other other things in there other
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than Adam the woo spelled out and then
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an atw afterwards is Adam the woo
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atw think the foot doesn't use Instagram
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but maybe one day well probably not
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though I don't even know any of this I
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don't think he has any
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socials yeah Adam the woo atw and this
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this could be yours or I'm going to be
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I'm going to be doing this I've been
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doing this a little bit but I'm going to
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continue doing it throughout the month
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with different items so if you're not
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into this just wait for another one also
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the weather is really nasty out really
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nasty weather out right here at mile
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marker 12 you see on
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192 also the reason I'm mentioning the
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doing the Christmas today with my family
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it's because on Christmas Day I might
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end up doing something
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else just wanted to throw it out there
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that if I end up doing something else
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that's non christmy non get
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togetherly it's because i' I'm doing it
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today and it's the only day that all the
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members of my
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family well immediate family mom dad and
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sister hello
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there have the day to do this and the
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reason I'm driving down this road cuz
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this road has not been drivable by the
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general public or at least anyone that
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veers off over here in years
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years I passed this yesterday and wanted
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to pull off but the traffic was so bad
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and was able to
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merge this whole light this used to be a
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resort back in the day in fact it was
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used in the movie The Florida project
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you ever seen the movie The Florida
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project there was one scene where they
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burned down one of the buildings it
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actually was burned it wasn't like
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computer Graphics or anything like that
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and it sat right in here and then even
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way before that well it might have been
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around the same time I buddy Cody and I
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the Cod
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D kind of old school
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reference we got in here and there was a
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turtle who was stuck inside the pool up
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here couldn't get out of the
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pool so we ended up getting the the
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turtle
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out of the pool and there's also a nice
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little reference too I'll mention up
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here too there used to be a dock oh the
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Dock's still out there yeah the dock is
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still out there take a look at
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that yeah take a look you just pull
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right in here no more fences no more
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blockades nothing you got the old
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parking lot spot here parking spot this
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used to be where you go into the office
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to book a room or book a
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cabin the pool was right over
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here I'm sure if you've watched my
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Channel or perhaps my friend Justin
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Scar's channel the term go home and
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sleep well it's a reference to Sean
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conry and The
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Untouchables the first time I ever said
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it in a video was over here when we got
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the turtle out of the pool which I think
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the pool was like somewhere in here the
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filled it
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in Cody said oh we got that turtle out
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save that Turtle I said we've done our
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duty could go home and sleep well then I
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ended up going to California became
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really good friends with Justin we quote
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that all the time he started adopting
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that into his repertoire of sayings and
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now he kind of has just owned that
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phrase first time I ever said it in a
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video
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imitating Sean connory was right over
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here at that
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pool check it out the dock still
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here and some of
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the some of the tile work here and a jet
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ski I don't even know if Justin knows
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that's the first time I ever used it
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here he might know
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yes go
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home and sleep
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well yeah luckily or thankfully the
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Florida project documented this in a
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feature
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film see the lyns bus system going
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by over
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there nothing left this will all be
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developed one day
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well maybe I don't know 192 is not
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exactly thriving then again I usually
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will not tear something down unless
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something's going to go in its place
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that's usually how things
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work so possibly see the parking lot
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stretch all down there and the reason
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all these parking spots are diagonal
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like this going as far as the eye can
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see is because the cabins were all right
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here twostory cabins all the way that
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direction sat empty for a heck of a long
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time was kind of became an ey sore so
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I'm kind of glad they're gone just up
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the way about another I don't know half
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a mile a
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mile heading
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eastwardly I don't know if I've ever
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mentioned this before I probably have
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never stated this back in
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2003 I was going to be
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married in this wedding chapel it is now
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an A glaus
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Pentecostal International Church it used
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to be a wedding chapel kind of think of
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like one similar to what you'd see in
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Vegas in a little wedding shop I got
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married at the chapel oh love that's
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kind of what this
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was uh the girl I was dating at that
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time got pretty serious set a date set a
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venue 2003
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is didn't work out obviously I never
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have been married it ended before came
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to
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fruition but yeah I just passed by I
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don't think I've ever I don't think I've
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ever mentioned it before there's a guy
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yelling at me from the hotel next door
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it's like yell I don't want to like show
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him but he's like on the balcony of the
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hotel yelling at
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me so I think I'm going to get back in
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the car keep walking there's a hotel
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right next door I'm going to get in the
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car and keep driving still yelling but
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not not showing he's behind that bush
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over there from his balcony yelling ask
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me what I'm doing standing here on the
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side of 192 I'm just reminiscing about
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how I was almost
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happen all right going to carry on it's
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even Wilder to think that was 20 years
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ago could have been celebrating a
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20-year anniversary maybe one day I'll
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get
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married I'm not opposed to it I think
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I'm more into the idea now than I've
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ever been in my life
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not that it's going to be happening
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anytime soon but yeah I'm not opposed to
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it for a long time I was but I think now
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I'm getting older kind of could accept
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it I'm passing into the CMI city limit
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now dang look at this the building that
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used to be right here in front of that
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those Apartment Homes used to be a hotel
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the apartments is no longer there
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they've torn it down and this Sunny's
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Barbecue if I recall it was a barbecue
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place I think it was Sunny's
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Barbecue now sitting
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empty desolate enclosed relics of
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192
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Lots satellite dishes over
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there wipe that off the the lens there
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apologize for giving you the
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finger little security camera there
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probably not
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on yeah another BBQ bites the D
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it's been closed a long time though so
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it's not anything that's happened in
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pressing
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moments I'm just trying to show some
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stuff on the commute down to St
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Cloud from celebration CMI area ooh back
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gates open over
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here yeah somebody's living in
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there nope no one's living in there I
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thought they
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were there was like a big TV old school
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TV in
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there
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yeah must be a building right
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there whoa holy crap that Boston market
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closed you know how many times I ate my
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windsh wipers are starting to make some
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noises I ate that Boston Market so many
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freaking times when I lived in this area
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down here early 2000s man Boston Markets
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closed to new and right across the
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street from
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that caddy corner on the other
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side this used to be a Chinese
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restaurant that looked like a train so
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it was a full train or at least train
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cars you go inside the train cars and
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get Chinese food ate here a few times it
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burned down I believe it was in the late
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'90s
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and the rumor is that the person that
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owned the business I don't know it could
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be speculation they had something to do
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with the fire
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but I don't know I don't know that's
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it's hear it's all
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hear it used to be right here here's the
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parking lot a lot of empty parking lots
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of former buildings here on 192 covering
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a lot of 192 lately I'm doing a lot of
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reminiscing I like to reminisce you
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should be a really good Steven right
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line I like to reminisce with people I
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don't
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know people ask how I'm feeling so you
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know that feeling when you lean back in
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a chair and you tilt back and you almost
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fall over and you catch yourself but you
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don't fall over I feel like that all the
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time and since I showed that old wedding
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chapel go over here on Catherine Street
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right off a Highway 192 I lived half a
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block 192 right
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there that abandoned Kmart I showed
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yesterday across the street but I lived
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right here on Catherine Street with the
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girl I was going to Mar
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right down here in this house on
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Catherine
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Street 20 years
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ago remember we rented that
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house so we're just renting it and I
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built a kind of a soundproof it was
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really not the most soundproof band
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room I put boards up around the whole
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room separated it by like 5 in of air
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cuz I had heard that that would kind of
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muffle the sound out outside and you
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really couldn't hear the the Bas amp or
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the drums too loud outside it did work
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but it was a it was a real big
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undertaking to do that and when we moved
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out tearing all that out of there and
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cleaning all that it was just such a
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pain in the
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rear
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ah memories used to be a cell phone
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store right there got my very first cell
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phone in 2003 I was a little late to the
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game but yeah my first cell phone used
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to be right there in that cell phone
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shop all right I stand corrected it's on
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the other side of the building and it's
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still is an AT&T store look at that yeah
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2003 a couple years late to the late to
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the party on the cell phone thing but
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yeah I've been having a cell phone for
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20 years it's incredible how many food
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truck places are popping up on Highway
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192 there's one at the flea market near
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Hope thrift that just opened and there's
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like 30 food trucks in it there's
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another one cross from Oldtown less than
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a half a mile from the new one that open
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that has like 20 or 30 tuck behind the
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shopping center
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and now there's this other one which is
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in front of one of the first CC pizzas
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to open in this vicinity in fact I
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remember in the late '90s early 2000s
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probably late '90s when this CC's opened
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goodness gracious it's
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raining and I have to say also there
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used to be
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a can't remember what was over there
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it's like a shopping this shopping
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center here used to be a record store in
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here kind of shortlived record store
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there's a mini storage place but I put
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the blame on CC's Pizza Pizza even
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though it's a good heck of a good deal
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for starting the whole hi welcome to
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cce's when you would walk in and now
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every place emulates that a lot of
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business owners a lot of big wigs who do
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not work in stores retail stores you'll
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walk in even Starbucks does it some
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convenient stores do it truck stops do
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it
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restaurants do it not restaurant mostly
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Quick Service you'll walk in and even
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though like let's say you'll be like
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ringing out the C the employee even
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though they probably don't want to yells
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over your head hi welcome to insert the
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name in there and CCE is the one that
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started that and I I don't really care
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for it I don't like I don't like being
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yelled at when I walk into a place that
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I'm consciously parking and walking in
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and making my own decision to enter like
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I know I already want to be there I
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don't need to be welcomed I'd rather
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just be helped I know it's kind of a
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weird tick but cc's is the one that
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started
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that and back in the day it used to be
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249 I love cce's pizza I'm not not
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knocking on CC's at all it's a heck of a
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good deal used to be $249 then it went
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to like 3.99 then it went to 49 I think
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I don't even know how much it is now but
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yeah my roommate Rob and I back in the
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day when I lived over on donigan we went
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to like the one of the grand opening
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weeks of this ccon it's still up glad is
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still kicking and I'm sure when you walk
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in they probably welcome you in there
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and then you go out to your car if you
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forget your wallet you walk right back
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out and go back in they welcome you in
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again they don't even like look up they
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just welcome
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you also here's kind of a deep cut for
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anyone that might be tuning in that's a
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local they might remember even though
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all three of these Lanes is a green
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light this used to be a continuous Green
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Lane for years this far right lane not a
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real
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tree not a real tree drove through the
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Kmart parking lot I used to work out not
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the one I showed yesterday in the video
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yesterday but the other one corner of
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Simpson Road that I worked out for 5
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years now it's to school yeah since I'm
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kind of on a level of memory Trail here
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I've talked about it a lot of time also
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I did my moving into the van video when
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I first started doing YouTube and quit
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my job at the feed store I did my uh van
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dwell first van dwelling video right
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here in this parking lot fun fact also
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got a lot of inquiries from folks folks
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saying oh going back to the van getting
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another RV the answer to both of those
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is is no not happening this is the last
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stop off of the video and then I'm going
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to head over to my parents and enjoy the
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day with
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them the first job I ever had this is
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the backside of the former Publix that
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used to be back here now it is a gym of
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some sort first job I ever had I got a
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in ' 91 I worked at this Publix from 91
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to 94 is 99 3 and A2 something like that
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3 years I went over to the bvl store BR
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matura Lake store so right over there
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was the loading where that truck is it
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used to be a a loading dock that would
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lift up we'd unload the trucks I worked
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overnight stock
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crew that was the first job I had the
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first paid like punching a clock job I
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ever
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had stocking shelves at Publix and then
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on to other retail places as
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well the van day the van dwelling times
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were were interesting times and
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definitely learning experience
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and really helped the channel out a lot
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didn't realize when I first started it
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that people would tune in to watch
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travels and I will never stop traveling
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I will always travel but soon there will
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be new
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Endeavors you know next year will kind
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of be business as usual obviously the
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move that's coming up after
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First of the Year New Year's Eve and New
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Year's Day I got some announcements and
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things that are going to be
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changing dramatic changes big big news
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coming up but I don't want to I don't
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want to spoil that yet or announce that
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yet going to be
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uh going to be uprooting re-rooting
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lots of rooting you're rooting around
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but I'm always going to travel I'm
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always going to have that wander
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lust Wonder lust wander lust
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yeah that truck's right on where the
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lift Hill is my car it's raining in my
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car I don't know if I'd ever buy an RV
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again either I think if I ever did
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traveling sleeping in a vehicle I'd go
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back to the Vans but I don't even know
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if I would do that I just it's easier
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just to have a small car Rent A Car get
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a
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hotel and I was kind of van dwelling
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before it really became a thing I think
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I kind of missed out on the PO
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popularity of I think I ended it before
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it became a thing that became a a a
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titled thing that makes any sense I'm
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going to go eat some very tasty
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delectable
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treats and savory dishes that my mom is
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preparing spend some time with my mom my
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dad and my
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sister and enjoy the holidays thanks for
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watching I'll see you in the next video
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the Vlog the Vlog
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and my camera lens well my camera lens
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is wet but the
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Vlog you going to eat some turkey big
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you going to eat some turkey big to foot
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all right all right the Vlog is over