Learning Things About Myself & What I Want To Do Going Forward - Finally Home After Lengthy Trip
Celebration Florida Sept 2025
Transcript
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Welcome everyone. Adam the Woo here as
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the recording of this Wednesday,
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September 24th,
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2025. As you can tell by the noise
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this vehicle is making, I am in Mini
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Marge, my glorified golf cart. It's like
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a golf cart, but a little bit bigger,
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but it's still the same realm of a golf
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cart. I have returned home to
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Celebration, Florida. I arrived last
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night around 1:00 a.m., slept a good
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portion of the day, uploaded yesterday's
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video, and then slept a majority of the
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day as well. So, a lot of sleep has
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happened. I'm not going to say that I've
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been caught up on sleep, but I have
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gotten more sleep in the last day, well,
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half of a day than I have in quite a
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while. Did a lot of events in SoCal. Did
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a lot of, you know, things populated
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conventions, theme parky stuff.
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Very busy.
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My own fault. Honestly, now that I'm
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looking back on it, may have been a
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little too much as I'm getting older.
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It's for getting a little more difficult
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uh to do super late night events that
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end after midnight multiple days in a
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row of the haunt persuasion where you're
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going through tons and tons of houses.
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But more on that later. I'm inviting you
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to join me. Let's get some coffee. See
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where the day leads. Join me where the
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night leads, shall you?
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Current temperature at 6 minutes until
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7:00 p.m. It is 6 54. Let's call it 7:00
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p.m., which means it's 400 p.m. in
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SoCal. Not a drastic amount of time
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difference. It's not like I went
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international. My next international
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trip will be in November,
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but most of October with the exception
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of like 3 days, I think I'm only gone 3
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days in all of October. So, I am home
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the rest of this month, which is another
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week
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and into all of October with the
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exception of like three days.
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I am so looking forward to that thought
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process.
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I feel I've been gone a long I've been
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gone I've been gone too long. Gone too
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Oh, they're playing baseball over here.
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They're playing baseball. Fired a
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parking spot over here. Wedged in to
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this little section. Just got it on the
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cusp here. Just got it on the cusp. I
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could have probably been up another
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couple inches there, but that works,
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too. There's no spot behind me, so it
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should be fine. Went ahead and ordered a
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coffee, mobile order. Should be ready by
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the time I walk up there, it's good to
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be back. So, I totaled up how long I've
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been gone.
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Well, I mean, I'm always gone, but this
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last trip, I did come home for four to
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five days. So, putting that asterct on
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there. of the last 50 days, I've only
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been home 40 or I've only been gone, let
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me rephrase that.
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I've been gone 45 of the last 50 days. I
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was only home four or five days and I
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left again. This last trip, I was gone
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four weeks, a full month. Before that, I
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was gone a few weeks. So, of the last 50
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days, I've been gone for 45 of them.
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That's just uh it's a little it's a
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little much. It's a it's a little much.
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But I'm I'll talk about that. I'll talk
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about that. All right. Piping hot
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caffeinated beverage acquired. They have
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drawn some little flowers on here. Are
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those patunias? It might be. And then
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around the back, enjoy. I've noticed
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Starbucks has been writing something on
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every cup now where they used to just
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sporadically do it, but now they're
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putting it on almost every cup. There's
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a lot of cloud formation out here, too,
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which is pretty pretty beautiful, to be
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honest. Yeah, it's going to be very nice
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and also very interesting and odd to my
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brain to be home for for a while coming
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up, which is going to be very very much
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needed because I have just been I feel
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like I've been on the go more than I
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need to be go on the go. I don't know
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what it is in in my brain or in my
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whatever in the the buildup of myself
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that makes me want to always be gone and
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go go go. Maybe I find maybe I find
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comfort in always being uh non-stop and
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changing hotels and traveling and
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getting on planes. And I'm not going to
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slow that down, but I'm definitely going
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to kind of readjust. Well, maybe I'll
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slow maybe I will slow down a little
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bit. This is really a good time of the
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day to pop out. It's been it's been
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well, people have told me that it's been
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a little cooler here in Florida since
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I've been gone, but I have not been able
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to, you know, really chime in on that
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because I have not been here myself. But
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now that I'm back and I did not step
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outside of my my home today until an
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hour ago. So
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now that that dusk starting to rear its
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head, it's a little little cooler and
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not as bad than I'm sure it was earlier
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when the sun was really really high up
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in the air. But I am getting the the
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sunset
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sunset views here.
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I love the mirrored reflection on the
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lake of the palm trees or the trees in
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general, I should say.
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Do you have that Florida humidity that's
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definitely still here even though it's
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not I guess you wouldn't call this the
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heart of summer towards the end of
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September, but it's still warm.
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So that's going to be interesting to
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deal with while I'm here.
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>> So for the last 10 years, well 12 years,
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some some parks, 12 years, but for the
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last 10 years, I have gone really heavy
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on SoCal theme park stuff. Well, not
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necessarily the theme park stuff, but
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the theme park haunt stuff, haunt
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season, if you will. You've heard me
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refer to that. out in SoCal, which in my
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opinion the lo greater Los Angeles area
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has the best Halloween
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time frame of haunt season or at least
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it did. I feel I feel like post 2020
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2021 when the events came back after the
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closures of 2020 they have not the the
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hype from those going and even the
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haunts themselves with the exception of
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HHN and Scary Farm. I feel like all the
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other ones or a majority of the other
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ones aren't as good as what they once
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were. It just something about it has
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been a little a little off. Those that
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want to watch the videos, those going to
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film the videos, those going to the
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events, those putting on the events,
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those creating the events. There's been,
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and I cannot put my finger on it, but
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something
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has been different since 2021. In fact,
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I went back and I watched some of my
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2019 stuff, a couple of them, and I
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thought, "Wow, it was like a different
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it really was a different kind of vibe
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than than it is now." I mean, it's still
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still still kicking, but it's like, I
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don't know, something hasn't bounced
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back yet. Or maybe I'm just getting a
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little older, getting a getting a little
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worn out a little bit easier by go
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walking, you know, 30,000 steps a day,
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multiple days in a row, going through
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haunt, staying up till the wee hours of
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dawn to to edit. Who knows? Either way,
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I think this might be the last year that
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I go as heavy on spending as much time
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out in SoCal during September. probably
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always going to do Scary Farm, always
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going to do HHN, but other than that, I
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think I'm going to pick and choose on
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all the other ones that I've been doing
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for a long time.
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>> Back in the day, you know, 2015, 2016,
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17, even 18 and 19. Oh, there's a bunny.
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There's a bunny.
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Well,
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>> that's a squirrel. That's a bunny right
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there.
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You know, 10 years ago when I would do a
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Halloween video,
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>> they would do really well.
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Mostly because
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not everyone was going out and filming
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it. But it's a different world now. Even
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many other people I know that have been
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doing haunt videos for a long time this
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season, they noticed across the board.
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the interest is not there noticeably
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noticeably different in the amount of
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people that are tuning in than what used
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to and I think the reason is because so
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many more people are doing it and it's
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such a such a tiny
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tiny little community
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the people that get it and once you know
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once you have so many people putting the
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stuff out for that community. It's tough
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to really choose who to tune into. Look
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at the squirrels running around.
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>> It's not going to taper back my
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interest. Obviously, I'm going be
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putting my Halloween stuff out into
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early October. Really into the Halloween
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season. Going to be do some some of the
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haunts here in Florida. Going to be
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doing some spooky stuff to theme parks
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around this area. But I just think in
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the future
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going to slow down on how long I'm out
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in California doing those haunts.
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Maybe I'll start making it making more
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Florida stuff.
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>> Enjoy enjoy being here a little more.
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>> Time will tell, but it's definitely been
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something that's been on my mind.
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And I also miss traveling the US. I
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started doing the international this
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year, and I have a big international
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trip in November. Maybe a couple
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countries, maybe even a country in
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December while I'm out and about for my
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November country.
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But I think in the next year I'm not
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going to do as much international stuff.
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And if I do, I'll just go out for a few
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weeks, go somewhere, and come back, you
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know, a couple times a year.
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But I really would like to get back to
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some US road trips.
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It's just I don't know, it clears my
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head, makes me feel good. I like just
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getting out by myself into, you know,
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the country that I know, country that I
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love, country that I'm comfortable with.
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and I just love Americana. So, there's
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going to be more of that coming back
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next year. Been thinking about it a lot
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recently.
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And I think, you know, I was talking
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kind of how the haunts haven't really
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been at their full potential since, you
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know, pre2020.
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And I think I really haven't been at my
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full potential because I've really been
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kind of neglecting
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doing the road trip stuff.
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I'm never going to move back into a van
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or no plans I should say to move back
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into a van or an RV, but I would like to
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hit some of the It's been a while since
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I've gone across the country and done
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small stuff. That will not be until next
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year, but it's coming back. It's
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definitely going to come back on a on a
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small scale, but that small scale will
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be a much bigger scale than I have been
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doing the last couple years. And I
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definitely recognize that is missing
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from my life.
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Oh, that's nice. Here are the insects.
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See in the glare of the sun bouncing off
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the clouds there.
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Very nice. Very nice. Now I will be
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doing a lot of events the rest of this
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month. Well, September and October,
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obviously with all Hallow's Eve
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approaching, there are some convention
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events, theme park stuff till then
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talking about into next year and then
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obviously my international travel in
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November and December. So, there will be
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there will be some in October, but I
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think the fact that they will be
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localized in the Central Florida area
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and I'll be able to come home and sleep
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in my own bed will be nice on its own.
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when you sleep in a hotel bed 45 out of
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50 days
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it
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yeah it's different it's different than
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being home and again this is all brought
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upon myself there's no one telling me I
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have to do that making me do that I'm
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just doing stuff I enjoy trying to live
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my life and do things that I like to do
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but I'm definitely looking forward to a
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reset starting today I've got got to do
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a little reset Got to regroup, reset,
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rethink, re-evaluate,
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and get some slumber. Get some rest, get
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some slumber, spend time at the house I
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bought. There's only a few games left of
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Ray's baseball before their season comes
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to an end.
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Oh, someone's coming by on some Segways.
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I haven't seen Segways in a long time.
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It's also going to be interesting having
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no no baseball for me to follow after a
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few days when the Rays play their last
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final games. They're not making it to
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the postseason.
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All year I've been following the Rays,
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rooting for them in spring training,
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going to games, listening to games,
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listening to games, watching games. I
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listen to games. I said it twice because
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I listen to a lot of games.
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But no baseball for me until early next
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year of 26. So
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that's weird.
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Darkness has certainly reared its head
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out here.
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Not seeing any deer.
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So yeah, my thoughts right now. This is
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the first impressions of
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I call it Halloween 2.0. So hall
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Halloween 1.0
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was in August.
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That would have been the Midsummer
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Scream, the not scary farm nightmares
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reveal, the announcements, all that.
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That was a whole hype. Whole bunch of
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hype in August. And then September is
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Halloween 2.0, which is my SoCal theme
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parky haunts, scary farm, HHN,
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Six Flags Frightfest.
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What else? Dark Harbor, Queen Mary,
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Disneyland, OogieOogie Bash, etc. And
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now once October starts here, get into
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Halloween 3.0, the Florida version. Kind
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of hard to see it from here, but there's
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a crescent moon up there.
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Yeah, kind of right in the center of the
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screen. You can kind of see it.
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I'm no longer doing weigh-ins and making
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extreme promises to myself. I've talked
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about this before, but it's, you know,
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painfully evident by looking in the
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mirror when I see myself on camera and
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in the mirror and all that that over the
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last two months since, you know,
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pre-birth, starting two weeks before my
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birthday on August 10th, I kind of went
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off the rails a little bit with eating
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and it's really really starting to catch
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up with me. I'm not the fattest I've
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ever been. I'm not the heaviest I've
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ever been. I'm not the most overweight
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I've ever been, but it's creeping up.
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But I figure if I don't adjust it now in
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the next month that I'm home,
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I'll probably just keep going down that
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going down that road. Again, no
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promises. Not going to do any weigh-ins
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or anything like that. But
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there's a good chance you'll see me
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doing some treadmill stuff, doing some
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workout stuff over the next month. I'm
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going to be here for four weeks. No
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plans on leaving Central Florida. really
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no excuse on why I can't jump in here
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into the home gym and and set up some
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kind of a a regiment of sorts. So, just
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throwing that out there. I've noticed, I
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know others have noticed. And when you
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just kind of throw caution to the wind
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as far as diet goes, it really does
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catch up quick. However, I have learned
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that if you just put yourself to some
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sort of, you know, routine the opposite
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way, I can usually take it off almost as
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quick as I as I gain it. So, we'll see
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what happens. Not going to be hitting
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the scale. Not going to be giving daily
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updates or anything like that, but see
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what I can do by Halloween. And
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hopefully I could, you know, be a little
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a little weigh a little less by
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Halloween and feel a little bit better
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because I'm I think that's the biggest
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thing. I'm just starting to
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I think I'm starting to feel the fact
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that I'm gaining a little bit of weight,
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which that's when your body tells you
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you got to do something. So, we'll see
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what happens. But just throwing that out
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Also, I just also want to chime in with
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this as well as far as the international
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stuff in a roundabout way.
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Kind of wish I wouldn't have gone as
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heavy on the SoCal. Not speaking of
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weight, not heavy weight wise, but as
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heavy on the content in SoCal as far as
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Halloween stuff goes. Granted, I'm going
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to be going, you know,
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pretty intensely on that here because
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I'm home. I can sleep in my own bed, but
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traveling all the way across the US and
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getting hotels to do all that. I kind of
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feel like I probably should have just
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kept doing the international stuff, but
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live and learn November pick back up
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with the international. December
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international and then some
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international into next year. I am going
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to do international a little bit
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different next year. Instead of doing,
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you know, one a month or so, I'll go
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somewhere. Let's say 3 or 4 months into
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the year, I'll go somewhere for two or 3
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weeks, it hit a couple countries or one
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country for two or three weeks, then
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come back, take a few months off from
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international and do it that way instead
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of trying to, you know, do one a month
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like I did the first seven months of of
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this year.
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The only thing I've added to the magnet
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collection over here with the domestic
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stuff was I got a little Midsummer
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screen.
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Couple magnets there. And I've added a
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knots hotel right there. And that's
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going to do it for today. As I sit here
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in my living room looking over at the
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Haunted Mansion light,
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which I've talked about before, but that
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haunted mansion light that's
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illuminating the orange coloration from
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the ceiling line, used to hang at the
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Haunted Mansion from 1971 until around
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2014, 2015. So for decades, guests would
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walk right underneath that.
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And I was given that as a gift
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after they remodeled it and it sat in a
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box for many years
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from a buddy of mine. And then another
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friend of mine, Dune Buggy Jim, helped
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me mount that up there.
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So after owning it for almost a decade
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of it sitting kind of rotting away full
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of cobwebs,
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he helped me get that up there. So I
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love it. I love just sitting here.
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returning home, turning the mansion
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light on.
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Just a heads up, there's going to be a
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lot of Disney World content coming up. A
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lot of Central Florida content, event
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content,
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driving around in Mini Marge, looking at
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Halloween decorations content, me
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putting up my own Halloween decorations
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content the rest of this month and into
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October.
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There's certain things that I will do
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that I know is not going to have the
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most interest for those who have either
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subscribed to me or been watching for a
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long time. There are certain subject
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matters in the last few years that I
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know will not gain interest as much as
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others. Baseball being the number one.
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anytime I would do a Rays game, even
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traveling to Yankee Stadium, Red Sox
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Stadium, Finway, any of those places,
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very rarely would those get a major
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interest from my viewers, but I just do
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it because I love to do it. Halloween
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stuff, pretty much since 2021 and on,
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even though I've been doing a lot of the
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haunts I mentioned for the last decade
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or 12 years, but in the last four or
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five years, kind of garnish the same
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type of interest. If I do any sort of
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Halloween thing, especially theme park
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stuff, you know, events, they don't do
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very well. It's the lower tier, the
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small niche, or is it niche? Niche or
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niche will watch it. But there are
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certain things that I like to do that I
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just do because I like to do them. The
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baseball series was a really good
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example, and the Halloween stuff is a
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good example. Even though I am going to
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taper back a little bit on that as far
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as traveling out of the state to go to
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those kind of events, I still love them
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and you know like putting that stuff out
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there as a video diary for myself to
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look back on and others to look back on
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when they could say, "Hey, what was this
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year? What was what was 2022 SoCal hunt
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season looking like?" You can always go
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back and search search the stuff that I
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did. So, and I I do that from time to
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time and referencing things when I'm
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talking to others or being around
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friends,
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but they can't all be home runs. And the
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baseball stuff definitely were not home
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runs. Those were the least amount of
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interest for those, but there is a
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select group of people that do subscribe
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and watch my videos that that's their
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favorite stuff, just like the Halloween
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stuff. So, it's a mixed bag here on the
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Daily Woo. And I appreciate everyone
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that watches. Whether you watch the mix
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bag, whether whether you watch some of
22:05
the bag, whether you take all the bag
22:08
and dump it on the table and watch
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everything that the bag presents.
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I appreciate it and I'll see you in the
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next video. I'm home for four weeks.
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That does not mean
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I'm not going to do other stuff out of
22:24
celebration, but it will be in the
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greater central Florida area. There'll
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be some Disney World stuff. There might
22:31
even be a DVC Orlando Disney World stay
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or two,
22:36
some resort stuff, some spring stuff,
22:38
some convention stuff, Halloween stuff,
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maybe even a home vlog or two. Be kind
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of neat to do a video where I don't even
22:47
leave the house. and just, you know, do
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some stuff around the house. Show some
22:52
stuff in the different rooms. Some stuff
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I've collected.
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All right, I'm going to turn the TV on
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now and watch the Rays play. They only
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have three or four games left. I think
23:02
they're in the middle of the game now
23:04
and they are winning currently.
23:06
Checking the score while I'm pointing
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over here. It's bottom of the fifth
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inning against Baltimore and they're up
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three to zero.
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Man, I love the Rays. Oh, also the Rays
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are getting a new owner. Stu Sternberg
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is passing the torch. He bought the
23:23
team, I think, for $200 million.
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$2 to $300 million and he sold it a
23:31
couple decades later, drum roll,
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internal drum roll, for $1.7
23:38
billion.
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So, he made some money. kind of wish he
23:43
would have taken a little bit of that
23:44
money he knew I knew he was going to
23:46
make and invested in, you know, a
23:48
heavier arsenal of players. But next
23:51
year, they're going to be back at the
23:52
Trop and then we're going to hear about
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new ownership and where they're going to
23:56
move to. Will it be will they stay in
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St. Pete? Will they move to Tampa? Will
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they come over to Orlando? Will they go
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to Eore? I don't think Orlando's going
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to happen, but if Eore happens, I would
24:08
be all for that. That is way closer
24:11
than driving a Tropicana field
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over in St. Pete. Eore is
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this closer to this side of me from
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Tampa. So that would be east of Tampa.
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I've talked too much while pointing at
24:26
this light. It's a long outro.
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But thank you for watching.
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I'll see you in the next video. The vlog
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is over.