How I Make Money On YouTube - Why I Don't Do Live Streams / Media Events or Promote Patreon & Shirts
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welcome everyone adam
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the woo here
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pepper cured a piping hot caffeinated
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beverage there is a bug scratching the
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back of my ear globe but up the low
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would be inside the exterior of the ear
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the celebration theater
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over there rearing its head it is a
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beautiful
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kind of overcast day
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oh that is warm that is warm the
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the wind is formulating across the lake
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here this is my view
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at the moment
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the fountain over there is not even on
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yet
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for whatever reason the fountain is not
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quite
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operational
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also
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sitting next to me
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is a
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starbucks you are here or you are there
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what's it called now it's called
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a been there series
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the sunshine state florida there's a
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little alligator there
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there is some citrus and other items
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well let me let me just show
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everything that's here on this
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here we go
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yeah you can kind of see i guess i guess
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could pour the paper cup contents into
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this but this is where you know at my
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homestead i make i have a keurig and
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i'll make little k-cups from time to
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time but i still have frequent
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establishments around you know
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local places corporate places just any
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place that has coffee
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i will go in
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but i like to have this just you know
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this little porcelain mug
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i have a lot of these back at my place
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in
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in southern california i didn't bring a
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lot with me i only have one which i
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think is a hollywood studios
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mugs and i have two mugs
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today's just going to be a casual
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chat
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inviting you to join me on this casual
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you know that's very very nice
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the sun does not permeate they don't
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even have the hat on the big brim hat
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sometimes i'll walk and talk it's gonna
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be a sit and talk join me
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shall you as i share some thoughts
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i'm asked often or there's some
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speculation
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there is
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you know rumors or those that are
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that have no idea how youtube works and
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would like to know
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you might be included in that
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percentile of how i make money how i
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make a living how i survive how i pay
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rent
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how i purchase things how i am able to
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travel i've talked about this in the
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past
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years ago and then
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in a very
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not very detailed episode from
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way back in the day i'm gonna try to be
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a little more precise and a little more
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detailed
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when i explain this now these thoughts
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i'm gonna be sharing have been have been
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those that i have
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i have had on my mind for a number of
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years
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probably what i'm going to state has
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been my
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what's my beliefs and just the way i do
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things and how i can lay my head down at
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night and get a peaceful
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night sleep in my own head now others do
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things a different way this is only the
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way i do things my opinion the way i
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operate
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and this has kind of been the way it's
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been going for a couple of years but
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i've never really shared those thoughts
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in the last couple years of
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the way i am so that is what i'm doing
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now i apologize if the wind noise is a
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little too intense
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going off of the water
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right over there is this a nice little
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gusty what's going what's going behind
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here
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look at that
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the majority of my incomes comes off of
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this platform
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youtube making videos and if you are
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familiar with television
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which is kind of the age-old standard of
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people from any you know age group can
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comprehend when you put a television on
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you will have commercials you know stay
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tuned we got to take a break we gotta
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pay some bills we gotta take a word from
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now for a word from our sponsors
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that is similar to how i do not have any
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sponsor side note i have no sponsorships
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there is nothing that i am promoting for
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a fee
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no one is is saying hey we would like
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you to utilize this and on the back end
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we will give you an incentive
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any sort of
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any any of that i don't do any of that
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is not my it's not my forte
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so if it's kind of rumbling around
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in the head thinking that
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it's something i do it is a complete
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it's a falsehood a fallacy i've
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everything that i do i pay for out of my
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own bank account out of my own wallet
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and that's just kind of how i do
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anything that i drink i consume i eat i
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do i ride around i utilize
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all that is it is because of convenience
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purposes or
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something
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that is just
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that i enjoy that that's that's just
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that's just how it is there really is no
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rhyme reason or back story
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to any of it no matter what it is across
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the board that's just how it works as
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well as
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going to places staying at
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you know accommodations and whatnot all
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that
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is done do my credit card
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paid off a little later in the month you
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know out of my bank account and that
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that way there is a paper trail for not
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only tax purposes but also just it's
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just that's just the way i am i just
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like to have
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i was like to do everything kind of my
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own from my own accord and while i'm on
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this tangent it is also
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just in my the way i whoop the water is
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now on the water has now turned on
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when it comes to to going to events when
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it comes to
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you know let's say conventions theme
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parks special events anything like that
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it is also
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just the way i do things is to purchase
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a ticket either in advance or the day of
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wait along with the regular crowds i am
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not a behind
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the scenes when it comes to like media
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access
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type of person
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i do not want to be hosted by anyone in
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fact you know i get contacted
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quite a bit of places that say hey if
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you come to our place we will comp the
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ticket this is all we require we just
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want you to give a review and i always
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turn that down i would say 99 of the
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time
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i will not do that the only exception
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the only exception
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is around hot season
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halloween time
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some haunted houses
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some
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you know events do not want you filming
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unless you are on some sort of list i
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wish that would just go by the wayside
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and i wish there would be none of that
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anymore i wish every place would just
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allow everyone
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to film but sometimes that is not the
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case
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during some of the the halloween time
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look at this duck over here so i've been
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told this duck
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is not
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a real duck let me zoom in
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word on the street is that is a fake
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duck
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could be
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could very well be
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so if it ever got to the point which it
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might
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where every event every
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themed attraction
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you know we'll let you let you document
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and film which is kind of getting that
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way i mean everyone's got a camera
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everyone's got social media everyone is
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you know showing what's out there if
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that day ever comes i would never ever
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this is just me i would never
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want
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to have to have anybody invite me to
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anything or say hey if you do things
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this way just show this we'll give you a
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ticket i would rather just buy i would
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just be like the every man
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that's just that's just it makes me feel
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more comfortable that way the every man
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is just the way it's just the way i am
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but i digress
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so here i am trying to have a little
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discussion
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about how i make money how i make income
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i'm getting sidetracked
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by that hole but just throwing that out
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there so
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let that be when i upload a video i have
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the responsibility of putting ads
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throughout the course of a video there's
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usually one at the start i usually put
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another one around the six and a half
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seven minute mark another one at the 14
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minute mark
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and then if it's a longer video that's
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usually only two
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you know in the middle and then if it's
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a longer video let's say a 40 minute
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video i might throw another one in
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around the 20 minutes this is all you
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know just just give or take a minute or
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two so don't hold me to the exact
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the exact amount now those ads
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are what helps me survive helps me
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pay my bills helps me
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generate an income
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and that's that is i would say 90
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75 80
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of
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of what i get on a monthly check i'm
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paid out once a month
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and it gets direct deposited into my
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bank account based on ads that i have
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placed in newer videos and
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the arsenal
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that i have created over the last
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10 years on this platform from both
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channels originally the out on the wood
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channel and now here on
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the daily woo channel
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and that's kind of how it works so you
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take in
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2500 videos here on this one and then
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three or four 500 on the other one we're
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getting into the three thousand i gotta
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try to block the wind
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i might have to move this might be a
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little too windy we're getting into the
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3 000 video
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range or more which a good percentage of
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them
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are oh oh there's a there's a bird
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are monetized this look at this look at
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this let me walk over here
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let me check this out
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so when you have so think of musicians
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and residuals you know you hear
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the rolling stones or the beatles or
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foo fighters nirvana any of those bands
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on the radio
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someone is getting a kickback a residual
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every time
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that music is played or used
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in anything
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so you turn it on the radio and you hear
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that song
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someone from that band or owns the
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rights to it
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is getting you know a nickel or a penny
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or a dollar
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think of that
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with
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youtube videos and that's exactly
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the same way as how it works
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exactly the same well not exactly the
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same but kind of sorta in the same
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ballpark
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and that's it so even if i never
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uploaded another video ever again if i
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quit today 100 and disappeared you never
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saw me again
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online
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which one day might happen years from
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now who knows
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this is something i will not do forever
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and ever and ever
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maybe but probably not
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i will still be able to generate those
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residuals now it will not be as much as
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current videos because the current
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videos
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have those ads on them and are getting a
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decent amount of use which brings in the
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majority of it but
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it takes those older videos they show up
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in suggestions even if those videos only
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get you know
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a couple hundred views here and there
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you know it's a it's a it's a small
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amount of change it kind of adds into
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there
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you take like
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i don't know
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50 cents a dollar on some older videos
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and you multiply that
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it can really
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it could really be beneficial
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just swallowed that but i'm walking over
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here quietly
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hello
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yeah i know the squirrel was very
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curious about how all this worked and
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i'm probably not even explaining it to
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the best of my ability but
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that's how it works so because i've been
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doing this for so long
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and i've been able to in the last
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three or four years i'd say
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you know to have a good size
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viewership and audience
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and to have those old videos
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because i've saved some money
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i've been able to pay off uncle sam what
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he is owed
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and i'm able to pay my bills
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and on top of that pay for travel
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even on top of all that
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i am still able
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to save money
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a decent amount of money
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not an exorbitant
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amount of money i live relatively simple
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i do have a place here a very small
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place here and i have a very small one
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room
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on the west coast my car's paid for
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all i am really paying for is rent
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combined
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let's just have a little transparency
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here i would say combined my rent on
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both coasts
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with utilities
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and you know internet etc
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twenty three hundred dollars between the
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two
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two places both coasts
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less than twenty five hundred dollars
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with bills
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with everything
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said and done
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uh let's just get in some some
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transparency
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that's a good word transparency now i
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will not tell you precise numbers on
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what i make
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off of videos because frankly that's
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none of your business and i believe it's
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frowned upon by the platform i don't
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think you're technically
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supposed to state it
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but even if it was it frankly it's none
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of your business so i'm not going to
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tell you or release that into the world
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but i will give you a vague estimate and
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also let you know what's going on with
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the the words i never use patreon
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and my spreadshirt where my t-shirt
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sales are which are my other two incomes
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i'll give you exact
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approximate figures
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on those the rest of it you're going to
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just kind of kind of guesstimate just
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know
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that i am making more
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off of doing this that i made at any job
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i've ever had
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so the key phrase is you need to get a
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job
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once you get a job
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you should get a job
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well if someone offered me truthfully in
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all honesty if someone offered me a job
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making what i'm making with my skill set
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which is very low i don't have a lot of
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skills if i could get a job making even
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half of what i'm making
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truthfully
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half of what i'm making to do something
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else that i enjoy hello
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hi
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even half with my skill set i would not
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be able to find a job
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making what i'm making now
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and that's the truth that's the honest
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truth
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so to get a job thing really makes no
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sense i would be taking a massive
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downgrade in pay
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at my skill set level if i did that
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hello oh my gosh
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didn't mean to startle you i should just
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zoom in instead of walking up right
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beautiful i have not done a live stream
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in about two years
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maybe more than that
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it's been it's been a long time and i
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kind of went into the live stream
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like
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the live stream gamut if you will is
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that even a word
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back when i took a break from the daily
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vlogs when i was working on a couple big
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projects
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across the us that took a lot of time a
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lot of effort national lampoon's filming
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locations and
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forest gump vacation well vacation and
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forest camp
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filming locations and while i had a
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little down time from
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getting back to edit those
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and taking a long break
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from the daily the daily videos
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even though i do skip days here and
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there i'm still pretty consistent i'd
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say i probably do
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25 30 videos a month sometimes which is
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pretty
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pretty close to daily nonetheless
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when i took that break i thought let's
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give live streaming
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let's give live streaming a chance that
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i did that and with live streaming there
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is an option that started then that kind
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of lured me in and it's still continuing
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known as super chats so someone will
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leave a super chat to ask a question
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let's say you have a thousand people
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watching a live stream 500 of those are
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commenting on the regular the chat is
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moving very quickly if you want your
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chat to be read
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donate a couple bucks two dollars five
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dollars ten dollars
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a hundred dollars whatever it is
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i don't feel comfortable with that so i
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stopped doing that that's part of the
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reason
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i stopped doing live streams simply
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because
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i
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the way i make money off of ads on the
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videos comes from
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a corporation
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example
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if this was an ad on a video
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this
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in a roundabout way
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is who is paying for that advertising
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spot not a person
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not an individual
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and it just makes my heart more at ease
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to know that a person
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as caring and as supportive
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as they are
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is pulling out their wallet and doing
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that so that's part of the reason i
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stopped doing the live streams i do like
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the interaction with the community it's
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just
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it just didn't work
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for me and you know privacy issues being
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out about filming something live people
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know exactly
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where you are i had a problem with that
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too
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i would like to do another one at some
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point maybe in a hidden spot a live
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stream but i would like to do it for a
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charity of some sort and i'll get into
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so the money's not going
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you know if someone in the individual is
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going to take their hard-earned money
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and give it i think i think for me it
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should go
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to something that
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that i would endorse
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as a
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as a decent charity another thing about
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a lot of charities i had to pick a
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certain one or maybe a couple of
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different ones
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the problem with that
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and live streaming in super chats
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is this if i were to or anyone that now
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currently
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does a live stream and let's say you
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give
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that creator let's just say me let's say
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i was doing a live stream right now and
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you chimed in and said
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here's 100 bucks adam
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what's your favorite ride at magic
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kingdom
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and i answered that question and
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said thank you
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but as i answered that question the
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hundred dollars that you have given
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i'm not getting all of that hundred
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dollars
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uncle sam first of all is taking
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probably 30
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as well as youtube before the taxation
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is taking 30 percent
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so
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if you give a hundred dollars
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dollars of that right off the top
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youtube is saying
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thank you for asking that question about
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what adam's favorite rite of magic
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kingdom was
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thirty percent of it thirty dollars of
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that hundred dollars would not even be
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going to me now i have not done a live
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stream in about two years it's not my
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thing
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but if i was to do that realize that the
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total if you add up everything that a
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creator is given
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right off the top
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30 percent
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gone
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and then at the end of the year well
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just like with their
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their revenue that they make
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monthly
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you know 25 of that's going
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to uncle sam as well
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so in reality
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if i did a charity stream which i will
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in some way i will figure out some sort
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of way to do a live stream at some point
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to figure out a way to get around that
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so hypothetically let's say i was to do
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one
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next month
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from a place and all the money would
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want 100 of the money to go to them
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the only way that would be possible as
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far as i know i have not really looked
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oh it's the sun's coming out
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it's like it feels like an annie song
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it's not even tomorrow it's today the
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only way let's
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let's say uh ten thousand dollars was
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raised
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for a charity
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ten thousand dollars let's okay to make
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it less confusing a thousand let's say a
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thousand dollars
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was made ten people donated a hundred
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dollars and the total was a thousand
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dollars that was going to go to said
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organization
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when it comes to me paying the tax on it
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and when it comes to
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youtube taking their cut
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really only about
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650
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of that thousand dollars given would
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even be going to the place which means
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i'd have to after every every thousand
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dollars i have to take 350 of my own
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money
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and put it to match that total because
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people are gonna say oh we raised a
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thousand dollars when in reality for me
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to keep that number keep the the the
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number
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in the exactly at a thousand dollars i
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have to pay the difference which i would
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be fine with as well but if we could get
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around that
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that would be nice so that's what i'm
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thinking
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that's what i would like to do if
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big if
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big hypothetical
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it might not happen but if i ever did
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another live stream
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stating this now
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it will be
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in on those terms
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because i really don't want to do them i
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don't really like doing them
21:55
but if i did it it would have to be
21:57
for a pride do you want a little digging
22:00
yeah
22:06
what are you looking for
22:06
okay i digress
22:08
this squirrels everywhere out here
22:15
okay so we had we talked about
22:15
the bulk of my money comes off of
22:18
off ads that are on videos
22:20
every month the amount of views i get a
22:22
decent amount of views i'm not like
22:24
some viral sensation not a huge
22:27
youtuber on this platform
22:30
but
22:31
anyone that's out there that's getting
22:33
you know 30 40 50 000 views a day
22:36
is putting out almost daily videos
22:39
rest assured they are making a decent
22:41
living without doubt
22:44
they are making
22:45
a decent living and i am in
22:48
that category nothing to retire with
22:51
nothing to purchase a mansion
22:53
buying a house would even be kind of
22:55
difficult depending on where you live
22:56
but they are making at least as much as
22:59
someone working
23:01
a regular job decent paying
23:04
regular job if they're getting those
23:05
kind of views per days per per day
23:09
and
23:10
have ads on their videos
23:12
and i am thankful that i am in that
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category
23:15
hence
23:17
why i do not push
23:19
for the last few years i do not push my
23:21
patreon the website is still up and my
23:24
t-shirts
23:25
now you're gonna say oh you're
23:26
mentioning it right now
23:28
out of context i am mentioning it but
23:30
i'm going to ask a favor
23:32
i'm gonna
23:33
make another statement now about
23:35
my patreon and my t-shirts
23:38
on spreadshirt real quick though before
23:39
i get sidetracked i'm not stating i'm
23:41
going to do a live stream
23:43
for a charity but i would like to know
23:46
what some good charities are when i
23:49
finally do something
23:52
when it pertains to that
23:54
the problem is sometimes even endorsing
23:57
said
23:58
you know
23:59
said places
24:01
might be i don't i don't know the
24:02
backstory of the history i don't know
24:04
which ones are good which ones are bad
24:06
which ones are
24:08
you know kind of above the belt which
24:10
ones are frowned upon which ones are
24:13
true to themselves so about to do some
24:15
research on this i'm just kind of
24:16
thinking out loud keep all this
24:19
realize i am thinking out loud
24:22
at the moment not putting the setting
24:24
this in stone
24:26
but i am thinking out loud and leaning
24:28
heavily towards doing something
24:30
like that okay off to the other two
24:33
things i was talking about
24:34
as of this moment i have 393
24:38
patrons
24:39
i would like to see that diminish
24:42
drastically now i've stated this before
24:44
it's been a long time since i mentioned
24:46
it but i would like to see this dwindle
24:49
away the only reason i am not deleting
24:51
it
24:52
first of all they make it very difficult
24:53
i tried once
24:55
but they get they ask you 50 different
24:57
questions and they don't let you delete
24:59
it immediately and then when i posted
25:01
something on social media stating should
25:04
delete this i got a little bit of
25:06
backlash from
25:07
from those who've been on here for a
25:09
while and
25:11
i understand that and i feel like
25:12
completely getting rid of it
25:14
would be a miss especially since i do
25:17
utilize most of it
25:19
for these reasons flights admission fees
25:22
into things expenses hotel rooms and i
25:26
feel like i do a healthy amount of
25:28
traveling more than most so the total on
25:31
there the 393
25:34
who are
25:35
supportive and it says here
25:37
please please this is this is years ago
25:40
not more than five dollars i don't i
25:42
never felt comfortable i don't feel
25:44
comfortable with even the five dollars
25:45
per person now but
25:46
for those who you know feel like it is
25:48
necessary
25:50
and feel like that the support is
25:52
something that they want to give
25:54
there are there are people that i enjoy
25:56
their content that i am supportive of so
25:59
i get it
26:03
so that's why i'm leaving this up
26:03
however
26:04
if you take the five dollars times this
26:06
that is not
26:08
exactly how much i'm making in all
26:10
reality i make about eleven hundred
26:13
a month off of this yeah it's probably a
26:16
little
26:17
a little less of that probably like ten
26:19
five
26:20
if we were to say so
26:22
you can't do the three nine three times
26:24
five because not everyone's doing the
26:25
five something you're only doing a
26:26
dollar
26:27
or two but i would like to see this
26:29
dwindle now a thousand dollars a month
26:31
being given a thousand dollars a month
26:33
is something that is really
26:35
you know it's something i'm very
26:36
grateful for it can really go a long way
26:40
so that's it
26:41
please
26:42
if
26:43
you feel like what you are giving here
26:47
is something you don't want to give
26:48
anymore or you could utilize that for
26:50
your own well-being or to someone else
26:54
by all means please
26:56
i am i'm not asking for
26:58
that i have it for a few years i would
27:00
like to see it eventually just dwindle
27:03
away
27:04
but i'm going to leave it up i'm going
27:05
to leave it there for said reasons
27:08
but that's kind of the amount it's about
27:10
that much per month which does help with
27:13
travel expenses
27:14
and the other is spreadshirt adam just
27:17
all you gotta do is just look up adam
27:18
the woo spread shirt this will pop up
27:20
it's a company that i've used since the
27:22
very beginning
27:24
used to heavily promote the shirts i
27:26
haven't mentioned them with the
27:27
exception of this just for
27:29
you know clarification of this videos i
27:31
haven't mentioned them in a long time
27:33
they're still available
27:34
they might start to dwindle away i'm
27:36
always on the fence with even deleting
27:38
this i don't even really like selling
27:40
merchandise
27:42
i kind of just want to make videos
27:44
that's it i just kind of want i just
27:45
want to make videos and and that's it i
27:48
don't want any other extra correct
27:49
curricular stuff
27:52
but i'm going to leave these up for a
27:53
while you might see a few of these go
27:56
and i make without promoting these which
27:59
i have not promoted these in
28:01
probably a year or two
28:03
i would say probably maybe even two at
28:05
least a year maybe two years
28:07
i have not mentioned any any of these
28:10
and i still make you know just like in
28:12
the trickling down of older videos that
28:14
were mentioned years ago i still make
28:16
probably about two maybe three
28:19
hundred dollars a month
28:21
off of these so that is a nice little
28:23
little income so if you take in
28:26
you know the the crowd funding which
28:29
i'm hoping goes starts to dwindle away
28:32
that plus this i make about 13
28:36
13 ish 100
28:39
1300 ish
28:42
off of off of this which is not bad i
28:44
mean that is
28:45
a job in itself
28:48
and i get there have been jobs that i've
28:49
had that i didn't even make that much so
28:51
this is
28:53
i live a very blessed existence
29:00
okay so that's it just trying to stay
29:00
transparent this is something i want to
29:02
talk about for a while i'm not going to
29:03
mention this ever again these t-shirts
29:06
get an eyeful
29:07
they're just there yeah it must be sad
29:09
just keeping up with the
29:11
transparency if you will i don't know
29:14
what that word means but people say she
29:16
needs to be transparent so as we're
29:18
doing it
29:19
that is
29:21
just a percentage
29:22
of what i would make a decent percentage
29:25
of the total of what i would make just
29:26
from doing videos so really
29:28
having those
29:29
at the comfort level of
29:32
i didn't go into this to be a salesman i
29:34
never wanted to be a salesman i worked
29:35
retail for a long time and yeah i could
29:38
take that and parlay that into
29:40
making a lot more money i could make
29:42
a lot more money if i pushed
29:44
i did a route 66 trip with jacob the
29:47
carpetbagger a few years ago we had this
29:48
brilliant idea hey i'm going to give you
29:50
some of my shirts give me some of your
29:52
shirts wool at the beginning of every
29:54
video or the end we will mention the
29:56
shirts and on those
29:58
on that road trip
29:59
made a lot of money on t-shirts
30:03
a good amount let's say
30:05
five six seven times maybe more than
30:07
that maybe even ten times the amount of
30:09
what i just mentioned that without
30:10
mentioning them when i said i don't
30:12
mention the shirts
30:14
but when i mentioned them that's a lot
30:16
of mentioning
30:17
back on that route 66 trip
30:19
we both made a decent i did pretty well
30:21
i don't want to ever speak for anyone
30:22
else but i did pretty well on the
30:26
but in reality
30:28
spoiler alert as much as you push okay
30:31
here's another thing for youtube
30:32
creators out there that are thinking
30:34
about starting a channel or even those
30:35
that are doing a channel right now let's
30:36
say you've got
30:38
a hundred thousand two hundred thousand
30:39
three hundred thousand subscribers
30:40
you're pushing the merch
30:42
you really could make more
30:45
off of just doing videos
30:46
a lot more
30:48
than how much you would make off of
30:51
attempting to sell it now if creativity
30:53
is your side you like doing t-shirts
30:55
that's that's great
30:56
that's not really my cup of tea
30:58
i am not very good at you know photoshop
31:00
and doing all that stuff but if you
31:02
really invest into doing a lot of videos
31:05
you could have a decent paycheck each
31:06
month just stop making videos without
31:09
doing all that other stuff once again
31:11
disclaimer these are all my own thoughts
31:14
and what helps me get through the day
31:16
gets through life
31:17
helps me sleep easy at night
31:21
that's just my own it's just my own
31:22
thoughts
31:24
doesn't apply to anyone else
31:26
i i've i honestly have given this a lot
31:29
of thought over the last couple of years
31:31
i am not the traditional
31:34
person on this platform and i understand
31:36
why because i've been doing this
31:38
from back kind of the early days i don't
31:40
say i'm the first wave of youtube but i
31:42
probably like the second way there were
31:45
2009 if you want to call them the
31:47
vloggers well they were
31:49
they coined the phrase
31:51
i came along about a year or two after
31:52
that 2010
31:54
went full time on this quit my job in
31:56
2011 which august
31:58
9th of this year will be ten years that
32:01
i have not punched a time clock keep on
32:04
staring at that
32:05
fake duck over there
32:07
and i think because i started
32:09
things a little differently
32:11
there was no you know social media was
32:13
not a thing
32:14
collaborations were not a thing
32:17
crowdfunding was not a thing now i did a
32:20
thing called fuel fool fool that's what
32:23
i should be called
32:25
fuel it should be we should have a sort
32:27
of series called fool the woo
32:29
we try to confuse me
32:31
it was called fuel the woo
32:34
where i would have
32:35
a little donation emblem at the end of
32:37
each video this is back in 2010 2011
32:40
and sometimes when i was sleeping in my
32:41
van in a parking lot freezing cold i'd
32:44
wake up the next day i'd check my
32:46
smartphone email and someone would send
32:48
me
32:49
50 bucks or 20 bucks
32:52
every once in a while 100 bucks
32:54
for gas and that is how i started my
32:57
career
32:59
so there is
33:01
there is a definite reason for that
33:05
it is something i am extremely and
33:07
eternally grateful for i needed it then
33:12
i don't need it now
33:14
and there will come a day one day
33:16
might be three years maybe five years
33:18
might be ten years it might be next week
33:20
where i stop making videos completely
33:25
and add in the icing on the cake
33:28
i really do not want
33:30
all of that that i have mentioned
33:33
to be kind of looming over my head
33:36
and someone saying
33:38
you owe me this
33:40
you are look at this look at this
33:43
i never
33:45
want to be indebted
33:48
to someone forever
33:50
grateful
33:51
for what i've been given
33:53
but i would rather be i'd rather i'd
33:55
rather make my own way
33:58
than to be gifted through life
34:05
if that makes any sense it might come
34:05
off as
34:07
condescending it might come off as
34:09
just say bragging
34:11
but i've reached the point where i feel
34:13
more comfortable with my own well-being
34:15
doing things this way and that's just
34:17
how it is
34:19
so for now i'm just all about well it's
34:20
been this way for a while i'm just
34:22
stating what's been on my mind for a
34:23
couple years
34:25
i just want to be known as a guy this is
34:27
how i want to be remembered
34:29
you know from from here on out
34:31
a guy that just makes videos that's it
34:33
nothing else
34:34
oh that's that guy adam he makes videos
34:37
no pressure for anything else in fact i
34:40
might even stop with the
34:42
give it a big thumbs up
34:43
and i'm not even going to ask anyone to
34:45
like or subscribe anymore if you do you
34:48
do
34:49
i think everyone realizes at this point
34:51
how it all works there's no reason for
34:52
me to
34:54
to mention that anymore i'm just going
34:55
to make videos
35:00
and have a good time
35:00
that's how i want to be remembered the
35:02
guy that makes videos and
35:03
documents stuff to the best of his
35:05
ability
35:07
lives a good life
35:08
i'll see in the next video the vlog
35:11
is over now that i stated all that i
35:13
really hope all that makes sense
35:17
and if it didn't
35:29
not the best at explaining thanks
35:29
thanks for watching