Speaking My Mind - The Future Of This Channel Rest Of The Year / Travel Plans & What’s Important
Walk and Talk October 2021
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welcome everyone
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adam the woo here as the recording of
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this wednesday october 27th
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2021 and i say that with a little
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hesitancy
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because of the last three days i have
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not picked up a camera i have not edited
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i have not uploaded i have not filmed
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and it feels good it feels a little
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unusual it feels a little
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wacky and weird because it is
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that is out of the norm for me
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oh yeah it feels good to take out take
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to have taken
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a little bit of break and i'm going to
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take a little bit longer of a break i am
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not going to go long stretches without
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uploading
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but the rest of this year
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i will not be on a cadence of constant
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everyday
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rhythm
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just other things are more important to
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me
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at the moment as far as
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kind of just
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kind of looking around and enjoying life
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a little bit again also piping hot
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caffeinated beverage has been procured
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this is a
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warm
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vanilla latte that i got from the
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little coffee shop here over on the
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corner and you will also notice
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i'm inviting you to join me on this
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little walk and talk i haven't had one
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in a while i did mention
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how i was going to be stepping back from
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disney vlogs disney videos disney
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content
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and i went by the way join me
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shall you
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as i walk down
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and not feed
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any squirrels here in celebration
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because that's what the sign states
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i'm going to follow the ordinances
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there's a gentleman back
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back over there fishing this is a very
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nice area to walk around
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last night i went to one of the
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walt disney world theme parks
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did not bring a camera
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did not take any pictures
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did not do any videos i have
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stopped
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posting on social media
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facebook and instagram that was back in
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june on this very grounds
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where i walked around and stated that i
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was going to be
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also stepping back from that and it was
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a wonderful decision
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and the reason i'm doing this
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is because i could simply probably post
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something similar to us my thoughts
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on either of those social media
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platforms since i don't use them and
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this is
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my only real
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outlet to the outside world
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other than close friends and family
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acquaintances
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then i figured this this is probably the
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best option
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to just make a video and it's kind of
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how i make a living
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cheers
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really been thinking since i kind of
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announced
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that i wasn't going to be doing disney
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videos anymore at least taking a
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considerable step back
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that i should apply that to other things
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in my life
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and that's
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that's what this is about also you're
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probably thinking
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why are you wearing that headgear why
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are you wearing atlanta braves cap
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last night was game one of the world
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series the braves one
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against the houston astros a best of
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seven
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series
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and i will state now
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until the start of next year
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when i will get back on board heavily
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for the tampa bay former devil raised
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raise
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i will be rooting for the
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atlanta braves
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through the rest of the season to defeat
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the houston astros a former team that i
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used to work for and that right squirrel
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back in the late 90s
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well midnight because i used to go to a
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lot of spring training games
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met craig cragg
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craig bgo
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jeff bagwell
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my dad and i would go to some games
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he used to really be into baseball he's
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not into baseball as much as he used to
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be but he still follows it occasionally
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kind of like i did you know you get into
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it kind of fall out of it you get into
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it you fall out of it this last year
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i have really gotten back into baseball
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big time probably a little overboard
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a lot of disappointment when tampa bay
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lost
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in the division series against the red
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sox
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i thought they had it
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i invested a lot of time driving to
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saint pete
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tropicana field i also follow the
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anaheim angels
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los angeles angels of anaheim
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i would say my favorite team
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by far
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is tampa bay rice
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close second anaheim angels because
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you know the stadium is only about a
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mile or two of where i live out there
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but there's a few other teams
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like the one i'm wearing that i have a
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lot of history in my life for
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with and have a soft spot
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and a special place in my heart
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that's where i'm wearing the braves cap
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through the rest of the season until
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you know until spring training starts
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and then back
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back on board with the rising angels
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there's also some rumors and talks that
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maybe in the next few years
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the rays might leave or temporarily
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leave
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florida
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there's even some talks about montreal
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splitting the season up half and half
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which i hope does not happen because i'd
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really like to
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really get on board even more
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with supporting the team and going to
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games
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it's a little bit of a hike from here
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you know it's probably about 90 90 miles
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you know with traffic it
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can take a couple hours two or three
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hours if traffic's bad hour and a half
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of traffic's good
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but i hope they stay out there
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like to go to more and then obviously
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the angels when i'm out in california i
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have no immediate plans at the moment to
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go back to california i kind of want to
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mention that a little bit too
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had a few things
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you know in the last few months
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at my age i'm 47 years old
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my parents are getting older
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and you start to realize
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certain things that
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you know not that they were never not
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important but they become
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more important
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the older you get
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you see your parents getting older want
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to spend more time with them
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and that's kind of what i've been doing
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thinking about that a lot
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and i don't know if now's the right time
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to head out to the west coast
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at this moment
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and there's a good possibility that i
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might not see california
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until
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you know late until after christmas
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until after the holidays
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just something and something
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something inside me
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says i should just stay out here
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at least on the east coast or at least
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in this general vicinity
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for a while
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that's kind of the extent of it
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still have my place out there
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everything's fine
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but there's really no rush to get back
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out there obviously
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my immediate family is here
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so this is kind of where i'm staying for
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now
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till the end till after the holidays
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then i'm going to step things up a
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little bit on the travel aspect
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and i'll mention that now not yet
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didn't mean to tease that too much
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going back to the braves they used to
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spring train over here wild world this
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wide world of sports on disney property
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for years and i went to quite a few
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games there
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in their tenure when they spring trained
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here spring training teams move around a
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lot so i did see the braves a lot there
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also my uncle who
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has lived in atlanta most his life at
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least since i've been on the planet in
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the vicinity of atlanta in the suburbs
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of atlanta
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big braves guy
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always supported the team always been
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one he rooted for when i was when i was
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a youth when i was a wee lad
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he took me to one of my first baseball
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games i ever went to
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maybe not the first but within the first
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two or three professional baseball games
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he took me to a braves game and i
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still fondly remember that day
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very well walking in the stadium it's
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amazing how your mind even at a young
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age
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can comprehend something and then retain
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it
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into your adult life and then when you
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put a cap on
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when you watch a team watch the world
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series game last night
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as they conquested game one
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against the houston astros
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it is strange i'm rooting for the braves
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considerably heavily
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over the astros even though
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i guess i got a paycheck from the
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houston astros for a little while back
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in the day but the asterisk you know
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times have changed since those since
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that time frame but i have more of a
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heartfelt family connection
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to the braves
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obviously support the race because they
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are the local team here
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and the thing i like about the tampa bay
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rise is they don't have a huge payroll a
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lot of rookies have a lot of heart and
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soul i love that
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as opposed to some of the bigger
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the bigger money teams now there was a
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time when i really followed the yankees
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i would say probably
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2006 to 2009 i was really into watching
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maybe 2010
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you know back in the a-rod jeter days
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yeah really really got in i really like
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jeter a lot
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so i've had quite a few teams that i
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followed
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nonetheless so there is a tie-in to
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the braves with my uncle taking me the
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game
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my dad he went to atlanta christian
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college which is now a
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defunct think this school might exist
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but they've changed names and moved
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campuses the campus he went to
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when him and i did our road trip
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together
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last year we went by that campus
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and saw i need to switch switch hands
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there we go we went by that campus
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which the buildings that i have
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photographs
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of my mom and dad when they first met
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and they first started dating before
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they got married
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photographs of that campus we went back
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to there and he's always told the story
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when he was in college
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or around that same time
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he got to see hank aaron
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he would go to games
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and see hank aaron hit home runs
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whether in the games or batting practice
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over the wall you'd sit out in the
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outfield
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holy cow so my dad
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like the braves and my mom
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who has a a very large frame a lot of
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brothers and sisters
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all of my uncles
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on my mom's sides maybe my aunts too
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always would wear well the uncles would
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wear braves caps
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so i always have like the braves kind of
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in my heart so i'm rooting
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rooting for the breads gopros one thing
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i will say about the rays though tampa
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bay
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kind of do wish they were
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in tamper proper just because it'd be
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closer than driving all the way to saint
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pete i mean orlando would be
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even more better i don't think that's
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even better i don't think more better is
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the appropriate word but
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it'd be nice not to drive so far because
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i really like that team a lot
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and that right bird but what it boils
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down to is all we just kind of just
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always loved the game
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even when i would sleep in my van travel
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in my van live in my van back when i
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started this channel
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for those that go back that far
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there's this bird right here he doesn't
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hit the bird doesn't remember
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the van dyce oh taking off flying off
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also i have thought about doing the van
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thing again
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probably never will do the van
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probably just you know keep a small car
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and
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travel and stay in hotel rooms but
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i am really missing the road
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and after what i said about the holidays
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you know
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family stuff and christmas
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and all that
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i think into 22
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the road trips are going to be
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the main focus
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above everything else
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theme park stuff's kind of going by the
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wayside
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movie locations will still happen
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occasionally
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but i really want to focus
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on small towns and travel
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cross-country adventures
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now i know some will hold me to that
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within the next you know month or two
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saying oh you stated you were going to
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be doing that but please keep in mind
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nothing is really going to start
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moving in a forward direction
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in that aspect until
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after the holidays into 22.
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but i assure you that is what is in my
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head and on my mind and what i want to
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do
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i really miss being on the road a lot
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i'm just stating that out loud
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and i've had a re-shift on
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focus of what i want to do here on this
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channel
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it was back
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in
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but it's been four years ago now it was
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late september
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of 2017 that i quit
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the daily vlogs
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four years ago i stopped
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doing daily vlogs
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also
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keep this in mind
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and after i made that statement i did a
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couple of big filming locations
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across the country
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and then after you know after a short
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while i went back into doing one or two
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videos a week
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here on this channel and then
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slowly crept back into doing daily again
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you know it would take like maybe a day
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off a month or so
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we have really been thinking i'm not i'm
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not going to go cold turkey again here
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that's not a turkey in there i think
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that might be a sandhill crane but
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i'm not going to go
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go full-on stopping of the videos in any
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way i'm thinking more of a
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taking some days off you know this is
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after
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after the holidays keep in mind
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everything is going to be
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kind of like this random
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until after the holidays after the
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holidays are over
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and i start hitting the road again
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i want to do like a kind of a more
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serious approach to this channel instead
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of every single day 30 days 31 days
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a month
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maybe do like three weeks on and a week
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off
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if i go cross country
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you know i could do 20 days on the road
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cover 20 small towns that have never
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been touched by video form
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just off the beaten path off
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road small towns
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cover that
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what is this what are these bubbles at
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the loch ness
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that's a celebration loch ness
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and then once i finish a two week road
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trip
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just kind of disappear for a week
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and enjoy life i need to enjoy life
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and i've learned that
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as i've gotten older especially you know
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just in this last month or so
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with missing a day or two of videos
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it's nice
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i think i put my time in i put my time
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by not missing dies i don't have to do
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that anymore now i can acknowledge some
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of the things that i've stated
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i have mentioned before in the past some
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of this might be a reiteration
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but this as stated is an update
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and it's something that i just wanted to
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kind of clear the air put everything out
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there why
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i have not uploaded in a few days just
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kind of
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taking a breather
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it's been 11 years since i've been doing
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this
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here on this channel 11 years i think 11
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years
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more than 11 years
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i've lost track
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and in that time accumulating
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almost 4 000 videos
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between three and four four and a half
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thousand videos
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i can afford
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not to have this the stress the not only
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stress but the the daily grind
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and it's not even the daily grind that
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bothers me i i kind of get excited about
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that and that's what drives me when i do
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two or three weeks straight
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and really focus
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you know focus and
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and do the videos for that amount of
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time but when there never is a break
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when there never is a couple days off in
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there
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that's what really
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that's what really kind of messes with
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your head so that that's kind of what
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i'm saying a long-winded explanation of
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kind of that
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i don't need to
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you know constantly putting videos up
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just because i have such a big backlog
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stated all this before
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that's why i've taken a few days off
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and just wanted to hello
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i definitely just wanted to
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restate
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finding what's important
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went to the parks last night disney
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parks last night did not film it was
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awesome
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doing it again tonight after i film and
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upload this
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i'll be at one of the disney parks
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tonight while disney world parks tonight
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no camera in hand
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i'll be just enjoying the evening
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freaking awesome
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like you think
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it would not be that big of a deal
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but muscle memory sometimes kicks in
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and the grind
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the
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you know just the constant
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constant need to be posting and getting
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that interaction
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doesn't have to exist
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it's very peaceful out here right
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final rehash
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might not see a video tomorrow might not
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see a video for a couple more days
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or maybe there will be
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rest of the year through 2021
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all bets are off
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if i upload i do if i don't i don't for
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something i want to cover i will cover
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if i want to take a day off
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spend with friends spend with family
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enjoy what is important celebrate the
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holidays
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thanksgiving coming up
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christmas season coming up halloween
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well halloween is more or less here
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in a couple of days
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i'm going to do that
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this is not the most important thing
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in my life at the moment it's still very
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important and it still drives me
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but it doesn't need to be the number one
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anymore it needs to be
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tied with number one or maybe a close
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number two
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i am very driven i am very dedicated
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to this platform since i started
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and i still will continue to be but
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sometimes you just have to
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have to just understand
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that mental state is sometimes
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taking a day off is is good and that
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being said the way my mind works
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very possibly into 22
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i could go pretty hard i could go
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you know three months without a day off
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just i could just go back on the road
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full time
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and i've leaned towards that
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for now till the end of the year
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just enjoying the
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just enjoying all this
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as everyone should
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to enjoy life
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celebrate what's important
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this is a celebration i didn't mean to
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do that
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all right so that's it
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into 22 will be a lot of road trips a
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lot of back roads very few theme parks
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and if there are theme parks there will
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be smaller ones
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independent ones
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less disney filming
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if any disney at all probably
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little to no
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filming of the disney parks i just want
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to film my travels road trips
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and adventures as it should be
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as why this channel was started
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there's a turtle right out there in the
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water
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peeking its head up have to look very
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closely but the head is peeking up out
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of the water there
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take a look at the turtle with the head
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out of the water right in the middle
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after you verbally state something
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sometimes it really
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makes sense i like the idea of into next
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year doing you know three weeks on a
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week off or two and a half weeks on a
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week and a half off
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build up some anticipation
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build up some excitement
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with those that are watching wondering
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what's adam going to be up to next
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yeah
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squirrel that's it might be a good idea
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and before this channel you know comes
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to a close there will there is an end
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date
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an end goal
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in mind it's not for a while it'll be
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you know two or three years from now
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that's what i'm thinking
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but before that happens you know we'll
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move on to other things and i feel like
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when i finally stop this 100
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no ways nowhere off i mean next year
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i could i could go every day next year
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for the full year for 22.
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or maybe i'll do 300 videos or maybe
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i'll just do two weeks on two weeks off
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as i stated
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but there is an end date in my mind that
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i'm kind of thinking an end goal
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two or three years away
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maybe longer but
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that's kind of what i'm thinking
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three years from now give or take
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but before that happens
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i will end up doing stuff that i have
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never done before and i will end up
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going out
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in a more in a memorable
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for a memorable series i will have stuff
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that i'm gonna do that has
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never really been done by myself
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or others
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at least i don't think has been there
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were a lot of travel plans when before
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everything kind of shut down
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i had a lot of travel plans thought i
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could get them done this year 20 20
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couldn't get them done 2021
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did not make sense those will be
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happening
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and 22
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a road trip of epic proportions will be
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wedged in
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most likely in this in the late spring
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maybe even during the summer it has to
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be done
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when i am able to not be blizzard in
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anywhere or drive on safe
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on ice road so it'd probably be
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into early summer
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but i have i have a road trip
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that it's been in the works for a couple
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of years and it will be something that i
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feel will be looked back upon by myself
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as
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something worth doing and something that
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will be memorable not only for me but
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for maybe viewers
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and for
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for ages to come also it's been 10
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months since i moved here to celebration
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and i'm gonna i'm gonna resign for
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another year i'm not going anywhere and
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i'll probably be around here for for
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years to come
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i love i love this area
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close to my family as stated that is
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very important to me
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especially as i get older that was
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really the
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the whole reason i even kind of started
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filming this video i went off on a lot
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of tangents but the real reason is just
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got to know what's important
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especially as you get older
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and your parents are getting older
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you always think that everyone's going
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to stay young forever
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and not have any
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any health problems
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i'll see you the next video the vlog
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is over