I’m A Little Exhausted So Here’s Some Thoughts On Things - Jet Lag & Being In My Own YouTube World
Walk & Talk Celebration FL 2023
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welcome everyone Adam the Wu here as a
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recording of us it is Sunday March 19
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2023
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today's gonna be a casual day today's
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going to be a very kind of relaxing day
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maybe
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a little walking around downtown
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celebration Market Street which every
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each and every Sunday I believe it's
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from 11 to 1 or 10 to 1 it'll go beyond
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that but it's early morning well mid
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morning until just afternoon 1 or 2 p.m
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depending on the time of the year
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they do I guess you can call it a
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farmer's market an art Market a downtown
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little
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get together a lot of local people who
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sell their wear and sell their products
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it's always it's always pretty nice and
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enjoyable and the weather is great it's
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55 56 degrees give or take it is
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beautiful cool crisp I love the cold
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and I have to admit I'm pretty
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let's say I'm exhausted I'm a little
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tired
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the last series a day since I've been on
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the road for a while traveling got back
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in town
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jet lag I guess you could say is a real
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thing
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maybe not
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but I'm feeling I'm feeling
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a little tired I think maybe the time
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change has a lot to do with that I
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stated this a couple days ago recently
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renewed my gym membership and walking
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more steps when I go to the theme parks
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and trying to walk a little bit more
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than I have been walking and also with
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the consistency of trying to be on a
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treadmill for 45 minutes I've been doing
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that
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you know not every day but pretty
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consistently and I think the combination
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of of all that and going pretty much
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non-stop with the videos and travel and
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and all that has kind of
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kind of worn me down just just a little
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bit
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all right I'm inviting you on this walk
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and talk to join me
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thank goodness for coffee
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I used to be hooked on lattes in fact I
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still like lattes and all that
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all the uh the good stuff that they have
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it
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Starbucks and whatnot usually I prefer
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more Duncan or Joffrey's or
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Tim Hortons
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if I'm in certain areas of the country
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more Northern or towards the Canada Line
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and all that
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but I really have started to get I've
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started to not dislike Starbucks as much
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as I used to dislike it I don't know why
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I'm just maybe
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maybe it's just kind of growing on me
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and on a side note out of all the times
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I stopped inside the coffee stand over
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there
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the Starbucks this is probably the
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busiest I've ever seen it outside of a
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non-event you know like like the
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Christmas nights or Halloween's and
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things like that where they do a lot of
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stuff now granted they are doing the the
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Sunday
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downtown little
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you know for sale booths and whatnot but
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as far as like a big event going on I
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mean Starbucks line was really really
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long and I kind of learned a little
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trick or a little
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I took the advice my friend Daphne who
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every time I go in to get a a latte and
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I have to wait around for a while she
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would say I'm just going to get a
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regular coffee like a pie splice and
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usually they'll just whoever's behind
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the counter you know ringing you up will
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just turn around and just pour it right
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there you don't have to go through the
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whole process of one of the Baristas
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making your drink and you save a lot of
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time so I've kind of honed in on that
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advice and that's what I do now I just
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go with like a pike splice even though
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Pike's Place was out so I just said give
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me whatever you got I think this is a I
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think this I can't remember what it was
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I think it's called a blonde roast but
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the same difference you turn around give
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me the coffee right then and there and
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you're out the door little hack
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well Daphne hack I kind of made a
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promise to myself I don't know if I just
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mentally said it or said it out loud I
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might I may have mentioned it in passing
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but I'm trying to go harder this year as
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far as travel plans and doing things
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than I've ever done in any year ever now
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you know granted I'm continuously gone
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road trips travels things like that but
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this year I'm trying to do it more than
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I have ever done it I'm just trying to
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I'm trying to go for the Gusto over the
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next at least at least this year and
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maybe even the next year so I'm going
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I'm going full All In
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you know this this entire 2023 and I'm
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gonna say it's really like getting to me
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already but definitely is going to be an
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adventure in fact I spent a good portion
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of the morning booking a lot more
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flights hotel rooms rental cars things
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like that for the rest of this year I
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spent a lot of the morning doing that
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what I'll try to do what I well not try
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to do what I usually will always do is I
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will book Things way ahead of time so if
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I'm doing something in a week two weeks
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three weeks a month ahead later in the
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year I try to always book My Flights
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rental cars hotels that way when it
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comes time to it it's kind of out of
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sight out of mind and it's already done
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so this is Archie here we're in a very
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sweet buckies because it's kind of cold
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out here at archery
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you're wearing a Bucky shirt also that's
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right you're doing the your guys for the
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Ocala location
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when does that open I have no idea and
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of course because it's a celebration
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there's always a lot of hidden Mickeys
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and Minis and
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Disney type of items that are kind of
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scattered around through here
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appropriately and even in Central
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Florida it just seems like you can never
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Escape
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Hollywood
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it's always on my mind I just I love
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Southern California this is just such a
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great weekly event that they have down
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here it's just awesome that they do this
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I love living here it's such a great
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place to live speaking of traveling I
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will be departing out of town not
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necessarily out of town but out of state
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it's going to be starting to leave the
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state tomorrow not for an expansive
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amount of time just for a series of days
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so I just really can't ever sit still
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and again that's kind of like let's say
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it's my motto but it's definitely what I
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want to do this year and doing a lot
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more flying than I have done in the past
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I'm just trying to kind of mix it up and
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obviously the the baseball season which
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is yet to start also speaking of
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baseball man the World Baseball Classic
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that's been going on has been awesome I
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have to say there's a the Tampa Bay Rays
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are really representing Jason Adam in it
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as well and of course Randy rosarina is
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really man if Randy keeps playing like
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he is playing in the World Baseball
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Classic for the preseason Before the
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Race have their home opener and he plays
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that way during the regular season
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man the rays are going to have a good
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year if he's if he's on fire this year
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but that's a whole that's a whole other
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this Fountain is really just kicking it
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today look at this this thing is in full
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Mo I think my coffee's starting to kick
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in too I'm getting a little getting a
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little excited or maybe it's the maybe
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it's the
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the fountain is just going overboard I
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don't know if they've seen the fountain
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this excited before
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I think this Fountain is like pull on
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okay all right it's our Rich done and
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just to get back on that subject of jet
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lag you know like I'm not even sure what
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what the jet lag means like jet you're
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on a plane I don't know what the lag
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stands for maybe you're just like
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lagging yeah you're lagging a little bit
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I never really like noticed it until
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like recently I think maybe because I've
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been flying more than I've ever flown
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before
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but yeah just the last series of days
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just I'm kind of confused on like what
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Coast I'm on
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and what time it is and just my sleep
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schedules a little bit off which is for
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me is different no skating
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grinding property has been treated with
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skate Stoppers
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walkway deterrent system
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it's like a TV series could be like a TV
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series these are them right here
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so the usual routine I usually go to bed
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around midnight I wake up around 6 30
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a.m like clockwork no matter what Coast
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I'm on sometimes it varies by an hour
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give or take on both ends of that
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but oh there's like something bubbling
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up in the water over here but lately
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it's like it'll be one o'clock in the
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morning I'm not even tired I want to go
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to bed sometimes until two I try to wake
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up at six and then it's like eight and
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then I have to edit the previous Day's
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Video usually I'll edit half the video
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so this is kind of how I go about doing
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things all edit half the video at night
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the other half in the morning about an
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hour takes about two hours to edit each
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day not necessarily two hours but give
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or take and I'll do an hour one hour at
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night hour the next morning and then
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I'll upload it oh
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sometimes when I don't wake up until 8am
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instead of 6 a.m that puts me like you
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know an hour or two behind and then it
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kind of throws the whole day off so I'm
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definitely definitely a creature habit
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well my habit has changed just a couple
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hours kind of makes you think like what
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reality
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what reality am I living in messes with
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your head a little bit you look closely
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in the middle of the screen there's
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Howard Howard the Duck
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and then if you pan out it's a decoy
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duck he's not a real duck and then over
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here in the Middle look it up there is
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something bubbling up maybe it's the
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celebration version of the Loch Ness
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monster there
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about to like pop its head out
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maybe one thing I get asked pretty often
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by friends and family is why the heck
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are you doing this every day when you've
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been doing this for so long
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and I think my only real reason well I
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have a couple different reasons but it
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keeps me motivated it keeps me I don't
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say sane but it's just my habit it's
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what I do it's my routine for now I'm
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not gonna do this forever but you know
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one day I'll stop
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but for now I'm doing this
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and just a couple other couple other
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reasons other than the fact that it's
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just you know force a habit it's what I
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do it's what I enjoy doing
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putting things out to the YouTube world
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and there are people that enjoy it I
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enjoy doing it and there's a lot of
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people who enjoy and get that routine as
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well so this is kind of my routine
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but there's also people who have the
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routine watching my routine
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the internet you know is sometimes it's
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not the greatest place
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but sometimes it's pretty dang awesome
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and I think
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I think what I'm doing and what people
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enjoy I think it's pretty dang awesome
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that this exists I've kind of explained
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this before over the years but I'll kind
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of mention it again on the way I make a
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living the way I make money is off of
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you know ads on the videos I don't
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accept any sort of crowdfunding I don't
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sell merchandise I don't do any live
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streams any super chats I do not ask for
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any sort of
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money from anyone any kind of Kickbacks
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I don't do sponsorships I don't do
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anything like that so the way I make a
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living is by putting out videos and the
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ads on those videos is what gives me a
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paycheck that's how I'm outside I'm able
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to afford to travel pay rent for
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criminal cars flights things like that
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and not accept money from anyone outside
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of what I'm getting from YouTube and
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it's interesting because as long as I've
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been doing this I still do okay every
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year it has a decrease since I've been
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doing this I've been doing this like
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what 11 years I mean not the not the
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daily 11 years but I guess the daily is
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getting pretty close to 10 I think I
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quote unquote quit over 10 years ago in
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2000 17 took a little time off and then
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kind of went back with it now I probably
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do 300
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330 videos a year I don't think I've
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missed a day in a couple couple months
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left you know thousands
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of videos on on both channels and the
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way residuals work
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you know I do okay financially and by me
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consistently putting videos out it
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really makes it easy not to not to do
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those other things that I mentioned so
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that's another Factor on why I'm always
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continuously just staying busy putting
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stuff out there and that way I don't
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have to resort to using those other you
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know crowdfunding mechanisms and things
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like that I also kind of take the
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tortoise and the hair approach where
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well maybe that's not a good analogy but
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I try to take the approach where you put
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a lot out there that has consistency and
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I'm pretty thankful for the the audience
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that I've kind of developed over the
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years you know the connection to people
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who are into a little bit of everything
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I do a wide variety of things filming
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locations travels theme parks you know
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even flight videos now baseball videos
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movie locations and pretty much all my
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videos
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some will Spike up and get dramatic
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amount of views but most of the video
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stay at a consistent ratio
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you know like with within a certain
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Range View wise
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from the worst video to the best video
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of the whole month are pretty close in
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proximity and then I'll have one video
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out of it like every seven or ten
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that'll kind of Spike up and get a lot
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of views but I kind of look at it as
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okay you put two videos up a week or
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three videos a week even if those videos
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do really well you're still getting
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average views seven days a week going to
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get more total views and make a little
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more income than you would by just
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putting out two videos a week to get a
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lot of these Tortoise and the hair
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approach which isn't a good analogy but
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that's the best way I can describe it
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that's kind of what I go for and I also
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like the fact that
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I could just keep putting stuff out
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people enjoy it I enjoy doing it until I
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figure out a final date no I have
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announced that I would like to not do
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this past the age of 50.
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which would be August 10th of next year
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so August 10th of 2024 I don't know if
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that'll happen
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but you know I went somewhere around
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that time frame or a little after like
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to end the daily thing
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stockpile some money have a good savings
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have a nest egg if you will because of
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what I just mentioned and then I can
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move on to other projects and because
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I'm doing continuous
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you know travels and videos and kind of
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knocking a lot of bucket lists off one
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day
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I don't have to it'll just I'll be done
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I can move on to other projects and I
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don't even know what those other
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projects will be
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as it goes right now my thoughts on
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things now is I really enjoy doing what
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I'm doing sometimes I'll go through Ebbs
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and flows of like the desire to want to
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do this you know kind of get
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disappointed with things and sometimes
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the 10 of the internet that's not
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awesome we're really kind of tap into
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your mind it'll play tricks on YouTube
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as a is a double-edged sword it can
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really get inside your head and right
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now it's not in my head right now things
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are
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really great I'm getting like a good
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vibe from doing all this and I'm just
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gonna
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I'm just going to continue doing it
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probably for a pretty good probably for
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a pretty good while continuing continue
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doing the daily videos I mean I might
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take a day off here and there but I'm
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really I'm really
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I'm in the zone right now things are
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things are good and does my future mean
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that I will be settling down forever
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here in Celebration
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who knows
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I'm saying probably not but you never
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know
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in fact I've been giving that a lot of
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thought lately too like where will I end
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up
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where will I am my mind is
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my mind's always thinking but as of
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right now I am really content and happy
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with being here I love I love living
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here
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it's also because it's not scorchingly
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hot right now the weather is really nice
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so that's probably like really helping
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my my attitude right now because the
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heat not a fan and since I'm just kind
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of rambling I think I'm going to take a
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long walk on a short pier because well
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the purines down here at this concrete
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wall but talk about a couple other
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things they were cones sometimes I feel
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like I am an outcast when it comes to
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the YouTube platform just as far as how
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maybe it's because of when I started and
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why I started never knew you could make
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money off doing this never knew that was
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never my intention I didn't go into this
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to be a business or anything like that I
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didn't go into this look at this
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floating bags
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floating bags are beautiful
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if I didn't go into this
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I'm gonna stick that right there I'm
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gonna come back and get it in a minute
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put it in the trash
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I didn't go into this thinking
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that it would be you know a profitable
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profitable endeavor
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now there was a time yeah there
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definitely was a time when I was
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starting off and wasn't doing as well
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you know I lived in a van for a long
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time slept in the van slept in parking
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lots traveled
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and I was inclined to start you know
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some crowdfunding patreon and all that
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and I had merchandise
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but I think it was probably a year or
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two ago yeah about a year that's called
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a year
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maybe a year I don't know don't quote me
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on that it's been a while ago I just
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completely disintegrated all of that and
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I've never I've never done like any kind
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of like hosted stuff I've never like had
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someone pay for something and I would
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put it in a video I would say you know
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I'm doing this for this reason a lot of
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people do in fact I think everyone does
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I would you'd be hard-pressed to really
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find maybe one percent of people who
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have any sort of audience on this
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platform that don't do that and that's
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perfectly fine it's just not it's just
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not the way I really do things
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or have ever really done anything and
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completely like abolished all that
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but I feel like sometimes
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that maybe well I'm gonna say maybe I'm
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not doing things the right way but I
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feel like I'm kind of the anti-youtuber
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YouTuber
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I don't know I feel like I could be
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making
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probably a heck of a lot more money that
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I'm making right now
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and
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I don't know I'm kind of fine with not
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and as stated I'm kind of past the point
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where I would even need to be comped on
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anything and it's just my way you know
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it also helps in a lot of other ways too
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from my mental well-being to just know
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I'm doing things myself I've just always
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been kind of a DIY kind of guy where
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it's like I just do everything myself
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everything this whole channel has always
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been me
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always will be me I'll have the other
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people
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in the videos
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a lot of friends do the same thing some
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friends that don't do this
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but it's just kind of always been me and
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there's been one or two occasions in
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past years
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where I've
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done you know accepted things and
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whatnot but it's been a while and it's
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just not how I want to do things anymore
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it hasn't been for for a long a long
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long time so just know that anything I'm
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doing is coming out of my own pocket
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it is brisk out here
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I think maybe the jet lag got into my
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head and maybe just want to spout some
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things off
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I don't know it's just been something
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that's been on my mind again recently
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I mentioned it a year or two ago but I
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feel like it needs reiterating I just
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want
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people that watch me and my viewers to
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know exactly where I stand on
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on you know how I make an income and why
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I do this
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and why I go about things the way I do
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and just my philosophies in 2023 and
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pretty much has been the same for the
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last series of years and will be
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you know carrying on
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that's gonna do it for today I'll see
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you the next video on the Vlog is over