My Tax Day Stress Was Completely Overshadowed By An Unexpected Overload Of Mail At The Post Office
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oh goodness starting off the day here
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with a gator
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the celebration pond
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take a look a good size gator
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it's
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it's not a it's not a youth
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might be a full might be a foreground
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probably what six feet maybe if you had
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to guess
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oh turning is turning this way it's
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coming over here oh my gosh the skater
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is coming over here
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quite a little group of people are kind
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of watching but you can see it's right
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here off of market street
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take a look this gator is heading over
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to the shoreline
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oh my
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gosh let's go start my intro over here
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get a piping hot caffeinated beverage
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from the coffee stand that's over on
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that corner
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this gator is like really
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heading right in
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this episode by the way as a recording
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of this is a monday morning
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march 14th
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2022
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should i be standing this close to the
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skater
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i am monday morning and also
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you know mondays are always an
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interesting day anyway but today i have
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a tax appointment later this evening it
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was going to be earlier in the day but
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it's technically not until 7 00 pm
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so i have the course of the day to do
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other things i just want to talk about
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how i prepare taxes
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how i
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you know save throughout the course of
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the year
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first said uncle sam reaching into my
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pockets
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and i'm also about to check my po box my
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p.o box i have not checked two days ago
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i went and took the key up there
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looked in the p.o box and they had
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placed a note saying
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you have a lot of you have a lot of
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envelopes waiting
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and there's a card in there so i have to
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go in on an open day
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so i had to wait till today because over
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the weekend i could it was after hours
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and then yesterday because today's
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monday yesterday was a sunday
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it was closed
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this gator
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okay gator i got i gotta i gotta do my
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intro
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they notice that sign it says it's a
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violation of florida law to feed the
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gators
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i think that's possibly what that gator
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wanted so that's what now that
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it's pulling away from the shoreline
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seen a lot of gators out here lately i
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think there's at least two that live in
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this
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in this pond well like
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like reinhardt
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tax day
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and post office package
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and hopefully just envelopes
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not the most exciting but you know
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it's a monday
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the length of the line at the starbucks
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was pretty lengthy so i opted out of
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that
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walking over here to the
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bohemian celebration hotel take a look
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at the top there's a bunch of crows
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up top but fun fact they do have
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starbucks inside the celebration hotel
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now it's it's just you can just a cup of
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coffee you can't get lattes or anything
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like that but
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i'm gonna go inside and see if that's
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the case right inside
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this very hotel okay success it worked
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out
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they just have regular coffee with it
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you put a little bit of cream and a
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little bit of sugar in there we also
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have a restaurant in there i've never
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eaten out it's like a lakeside
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restaurant that one day i'll have to try
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what is that gator
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still over there welcome everyone
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probably not the most safest place to be
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standing
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because i stated there is a plethora of
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prose hitchcock would
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be
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if
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inside tip
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local tip if you will if that particular
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establishment is very busy
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they have coffee over here as well they
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also have it on market street at the
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what's the corner market corner the
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corner market cornerstone market i
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believe it's called and also over at the
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church they have a coffee place but i
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did walk over there that was close those
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are usually the three or four spots that
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i will choose today
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inside the
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bohemian hotel full of crows
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tax day check checking my p.o box today
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and possibly most likely shipping out
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some items stickers
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and free pens buttons things like that
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one-inch stuff like that to folks who
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sent me a self-addressed damned envelope
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i'm not going to go into that again
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talked about that a few days ago but
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today it's mail day shipping out free
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stuff
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and taxes uncle sam
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just i'm always going to say cheers but
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you don't get a share as [\h__\h] with that
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you get you get you're getting enough
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then more that you don't need shares
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join me
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shall you oh goodness this gator is
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right up alongside of the wall right now
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the gator's like down there in the water
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with everyone kind of looming
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above said gator yeah from this angle
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you can really see the the size of it
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there just kind of getting definitely
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getting some sun today the sun is out oh
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there they go all the flock of the birds
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there and this yeah hello mr alligator
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mrs alligator not really sure not really
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sure if you're male or female it's hard
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to tell from this angle i do kind of
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wish i lived around here or at least
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visited on a regular basis back when
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they did you know shortly after the the
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opening of celebration in 94 they had
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sail boats and little boats that you can
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rent and take out on the water would be
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neat if they did that again that'd be a
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good business plan for someone or maybe
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it's not allowed possibly because the
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gators are in there who knows but this
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is just such a cool vibe reminds me you
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know a lot i always say this reminds me
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of pleasantville also reminds me of
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mayberry and it reminds me of the truman
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show and main street usa at any of the
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disney parks so it's a combination of
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those four things that's the best way i
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can describe it here on market street
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aka
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main street main street usa celebration
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a little bit smaller version but
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very similar to an alligator is this
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lizard over here
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right there hello lizard
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i'm walking around not the back side of
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water but the back side of the main road
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heading over to the post office do love
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the architecture through here i've
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stated this before also but michael
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graves not the singer for the misfits
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you know danzig was in the misfits so
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they also had other singers michael
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graves had an era
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as well when i was in a band once
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michael graves played an acoustic show
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and my band was not an acoustic band you
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know we were full on with the bass
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guitar and the electric guitar and the
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drums and everything we opened up for
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michael graves very nice guy but this is
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not the michael graves that built
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this architecture here for the post
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office but he also did the swan and
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dolphin hotel on property and also did
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in burbank
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at the disney studios the building that
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houses you know has like the dwarfs
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holding up the roof
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michael graves also did that but he also
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did the post office here in celebration
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looking across at the spires by the
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theater that is not operational at the
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moment and as stated even though i can
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check the mail anytime
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they said it was full they left a little
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envelope in so i have to go inside
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it is pretty deep giving the history of
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this place and the architecture of it
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that i do have a p.o box
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here as well
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you don't see too many post office is
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that look like this
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he has a flag out front you got other
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architecture over there
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that's pretty amazing and of course this
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also
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is very very different
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but you don't see too many
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you don't see too many post offices
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in this fashion do you oh my goodness i
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was expecting a few letters i was
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probably expecting maybe a hundred
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letters give or take when i showed up
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the postal employee she was very kind
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and very patient and she just kept
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bringing them out
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bringing them out and then put them in
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my bucky's bag here and then just
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decided i'm just going to give you this
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entire tray bring the tray back back at
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some point
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this is how many envelopes showed up
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a lot and i do have to say thank you
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to
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everyone pretty much it appears to have
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followed the instructions pretty well
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only one or maybe two smaller packages
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i did ask do not send anything other
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than a self-addressed stamp you go walk
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back and watch that video i'm gonna go
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into those details again and i'll
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probably even taper off of mentioning
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you know every so often just because i
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don't know if you know receiving this
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many on a regular basis might be i'm
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gonna run out of stuff just to stickers
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and pins to give away i went in
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and had them weigh
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which inside of here
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inside of this very envelope
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is
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i put four or five stickers
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three pins just to be on the safe side
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and she was saying it's going to be 88
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cents to ship so anyone that still set
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one self-addressed stamped envelope
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i have purchased i'm going to pay the
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difference because i was incorrect with
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saying just send one self-addressed temp
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envelope this is going to be about 90
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cents give or take
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so i'm going to put two forever stamps
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which is going to be you know a dollar
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and 10 cents or dollar and eight cents
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so that will cover it
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so anyone that has sent the
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self-addressed stamped envelope
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will be getting back at least
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at least three stickers and two pens
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and until i run out you might be getting
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five stickers and two pens
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wow so freaking cool i this makes me
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really happy that a lot of
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a lot of folks went through on sending
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the self-addressed and this is only
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a couple days worth
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yes as stated this might be the last
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time i mentioned this for a while
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obviously it is mentioned in this so
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anyone that wants to get on board
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with the offer
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free stickers free pin self-addressed
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tampa look go back back and watch the
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video i did a couple days ago
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but after this i might let it subside
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because i would imagine for the next
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week or two
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the influx like this will be pretty
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heavy all right fast forward a few hours
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i have had a pretty active
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day so far
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meaning i have now
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readied
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if you will
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about 150 letters to send out going back
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to the post office i counted the ones
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that showed up about 600
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so it means i have to order more
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stickers and pins
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because i do not have enough
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you know to
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to furnish all the envelopes that showed
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up i've done about 150 pretty proud of
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myself it's kind of therapeutic
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to open all the envelopes take the
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self-addressed stamped envelopes out and
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stuff some envelopes it's been a while
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since i've done that so it's kind of a
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kind of fun took me i don't know three
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or four hours
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probably and it got a little quicker
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towards the end i developed a little bit
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better system so i think as time goes on
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i'll be able to do it a little quicker
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but all these are going to the post
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office
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right now back to the post office
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which just so happens to be
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right
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over there
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that's where the magic happens right
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there usps united states postal service
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pretty amazing how it all works
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any sort of delivery but
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yeah postal service has been around
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forever
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also as stated don't know this would be
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a continual thing i probably won't
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mention it anymore
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so this will be the last time i really
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even mentioned this exists so if you get
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in on it
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you know it'll still be open so i'll
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still
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keep replenishing whoever sent stuff but
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yeah this was
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the turnout of who
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followed the instructions and i also
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must say
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everyone follow the instructions
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correctly
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put the stamp on the self-addressed
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stamped envelope didn't send anything
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worked out well
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i thought it was a little too over
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detailed with everything but i guess i
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wasn't everyone got it right
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okay this just happened
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same day
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four more crates
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i think
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ah yeah that's i
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a few thousand more letters here
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this is probably going to be a one and
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done
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type of deal
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oh my gosh there are five
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there are five
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i had to rethink this i got to rethink
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i am blown away right now
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i was earlier
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this is a whole other level
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this is incredible
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it's going to take me a while to to send
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everything back i got to reorder some
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other stickers
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i have to reorder pins
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and officially as of right now
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i think this is a kind of a one and done
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thank everyone that has sent it if
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you've already sent one and you're
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watching this in this video
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i will replenish whoever sends one but
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after today
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i don't know if i'll be able to handle
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it
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this is awesome
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what the heck
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okay i don't know what else to say this
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i was expecting like maybe a hundred
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letters
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all right this has been emptied out i
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decided to just bring it back up to the
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back door
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i'm done loading it in my car
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all right i as of this very moment
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earlier i
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thought it could possibly continue as
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far as me being able to replenish
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everyone that sends one in
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i i
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thank you for
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the vote of con not only the vote of
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confidence but also going back to the
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not the stone age
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but to
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a more retro time of the self-addressed
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stamped envelope i didn't think that
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people would even do it i knew a lot
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would do it i figured a lot but one
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thing i realized when i was stuffing the
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envelopes earlier
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putting a name with a subscriber count
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or someone you know that chimes in from
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time to time
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seeing that that
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not that you forget that that is a real
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person but sometimes the internet has an
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unusual way to see that there
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that you forget that there is a
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name
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behind
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the screen name a real person's name
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behind the screen name and when earlier
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spending a few hours
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unpacking the envelope stuff in the
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envelopes that brought back that kind of
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like some brought some joy to my heart
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to to remember to to have that kind of
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go for almost like doing a meetup
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not quite the same as a meetup because
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you're not face to face but seeing names
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addresses places i have been states i
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have been things like that
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it really kind of kind of hits home to
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some degree
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and like you know the first
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seven eight hundred thousand that i got
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this morning which were obviously over
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the weekend
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you know kind of hit me pretty hard too
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like wow this many people are going this
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and this is a whole other level
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i am not going to be able
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to do this every day it took me quite a
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while to even do the 150 that i sent out
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if you're one of those 150 you should
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get it soon
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so from here on out if you have not
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already sent one now if you have one in
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the process you're already stamping one
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and you watch the other video fine go
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ahead and send that i'll
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i'll get all to all those in time but
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after that i will not be mentioning this
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this will not be a thing anymore i will
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not be creating any new designs i will
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replenish the designs i already have for
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those who do not have them
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but wow this experiment has been a heck
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of a one and a success
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and really this was only the full
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because obviously the post office is
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closed on sunday this was the first full
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day this morning was probably saturday's
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mail
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or maybe end of sunday and then today's
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mail showed up here as a recording of
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this on a monday
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goodness gracious and i have a feeling
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over the next series of days it's
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probably going to be that intense
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i i just thank you so much for
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for humoring me on this experiment and i
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i will send everyone out
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what i promise i'm just gonna have to go
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on purchase more stickers get more pins
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wow i
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i can't be the only one that's
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kind of flabbergasted by the number i
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knew there's gonna be a lot of letters
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but
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whole level and to think i started this
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video
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as really wanting it to be about how i
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was gonna do my taxes which i still have
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a tax appointment at seven pm
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down the ways a bit
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and i really what i wanted to state how
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i do my taxes basically i put one third
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of all my income that i make
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off of the platform here i put that in a
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separate savings account and when it's
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time to do my taxes
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i'll have my write-offs you know i write
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off a lot of stuff like
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hotels and gas
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and flights
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things like that purchases like you know
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camera equipment admission into certain
18:21
things and those write-offs
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you know help make it possible
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for me to get it down to a
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percentage-wise based on what i make per
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year a percentage-wise basically to be
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able to
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to take that separate savings i have a
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regular savings i have a checking
18:38
account i have a regular savings and
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then i have a second
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savings which is used
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for my taxes every year it's very
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stressful i get very stressed out by
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taxes
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but luckily i've learned a long time ago
18:51
that when you're kind of at a level
18:53
where you're getting decent views and
18:54
you're making some income off of the
18:56
platform you really got to put money
18:58
away so if you're planning on doing this
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as a career
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trust me you're not going to be getting
19:03
money back you're going to be paying
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uncle sam his dividends his share of
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what he's gonna reach into your pocket
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and take i put away one-third
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and by doing that with my write-offs i
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have a lot of write-offs this year an
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exorbitant amount because i traveled a
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lot a lot of hotels and whatnot
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i usually can get a little bit back for
19:24
myself
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usually i have more than enough save by
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saving you know one third 33
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that's just the way i do it so i am now
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going to go
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back home
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put all the envelopes away maybe stuff a
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few more
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it's going to be a work in progress over
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the next you know a couple of weeks most
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likely doing this all myself
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and i have to reorder stuff
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probably got about a third
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or more of the stickers i ordered 500
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original pens two different designs 500
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stickers i've got to order a heck of a
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lot more than that to recoup what's in
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there but the rest of the day i'm going
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to go home prepare my tax print
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everything out that i need show the
20:03
account things like that but that's it i
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just wanted to mention doing my taxes
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and
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the the whole tax
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thing which this episode was going to be
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focused on
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has veered into
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the overwhelming success of my idea for
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the self-addressed stamped envelope
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giving out free stuff this will be the
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last time i mention it but expect one if
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you followed the guidelines for all
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those rules
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you're gonna get some stuff
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and 150 of them just went out i just
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dropped them off inside so you should
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get those if you're one of those 150 you
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should get your soon and the other
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2 000
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soon enough within the next week or two
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i'll see you the next video
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thanks for watching
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restored my faith in this platform
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and the fact that everyone kind of
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abided by
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the requests that i had
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to a t
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i'm very thankful for really makes me
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happy i'll see you in the next video
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the vlog
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oh man
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what just happened today
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the vlog is over