By Beleaf In Fatherhood
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What is the true value of family? To me, it’s priceless. I realized I had to put my time and money where my mouth was, and start investing my assets back into the places and people who shaped me into the man I am today. That’s why we decided to take this road trip, to spend our most precious resource, our time, with family and friends across the country, as well as each other. Multigenerational living is something I was brought up with, but that my kids haven’t had too much experience with. They definitely learned about it during our month away, and they also learned the importance of family. Join us in this vlog as we journey to White Sands National Park, New Mexico, for our latest adventure!
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okay
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hello hello hello look at me i’ve been
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fresh i’ve been walking with my savior
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yes i’m trying to do my best guess i’m
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just a bag of bombs trying to shake up
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by the flesh when you see me never
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stress when you see me see me see me you
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say hello hello
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[Music]
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you know something i realized we started
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going on this rv trip and i never told
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you why
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of course we want to spend time with the
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family and set out time to go on
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adventures but it all started with him
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see this right here is my grandfather
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david lindsay henry him and i were very
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close two years ago i found out he had
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only a few days to live so i dropped
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everything and flew back to baltimore
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to visit with him
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the first thing that my grandfather says
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to me is
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where are your kids
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see he wanted to see his great-grandkids
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before he passed away anaya and uzi he
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hadn’t even met
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see i couldn’t afford the ticket to be
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able to bring us all out there and i
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thought me being there was good enough
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but for my grandfather to ask to see his
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great-grandchildren on his deathbed
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i feel like that’s a reasonable ask and
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i should have been able to afford that
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no matter what the cost see i’ve made
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this trip before
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i’ve traveled across the country to do
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music and to do shows to entertain
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people that i’ve never even met i’ve
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slept on floors
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missed meals and went to great lengths
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to show off my rapping ability
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surely i can make the same sacrifice
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to see the people who help me become who
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i am
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and if i really believe that family is
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foundation
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it can’t just be represented in the
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clothes i wear or the stories we tell
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it has to show up in how we spend our
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time
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and who we spend it with that
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conversation and that experience lit a
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fire under me because a lot of people
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ask me how much did it cost to take this
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trip
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but not many people understand how much
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it’s worth
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okay
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[Music]
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so how it works as i drive through the
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night we get to our campsite by the
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morning yvette wakes up makes an amazing
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breakfast we co-parent till about lunch
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time and after that uzi and i are spent
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ready to take a nap and the kids go to
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the pool
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huh
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yeah yeah yeah
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[Music]
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i thought i was amazing i thought i was
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amazing so we’re getting our little
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system down the kids go to the pool i
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take a nap and then we do some type of
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family activity today we are going to
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275 square miles of white sand dunes
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also called white sands national park
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and we’ve been here before but we’ve
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never been at sunset and we’ve never
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been with uzi
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goodness gracious
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okay
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[Music]
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all right here we go
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[Music]
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[Music]
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whoa
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man
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[Music]
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go go go go go go go go go
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[Music]
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i see you baby
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that was awesome
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pleasure around you
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do you stink
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do i stink
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[Music]
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is it sugar or sound
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no
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i have to know first
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i don’t know this is a scientific
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science experiment
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tell me
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well i think it’s only one way to find
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out
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uh
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we’re not done
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no i’m gonna sweat
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[Music]
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i don’t know how it hurts
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what
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[Music]
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are you ready yeah okay
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i don’t know if i am
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okay ready yeah set
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yep
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[Music]
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okay
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[Music]
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what happened raya
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[Music]
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i think this part of the episode is
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really important because you guys have
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already seen me wash the kids feet for
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connection but usually we just have to
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wash their feet just for cleanliness and
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stuff like that and i think something
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that’s kind of misrepresented here is
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the amount of work that i’m putting in
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versus what’s happening with yvette
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inside see i have to wash the kids feet
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just to get them inside of the rv she
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then has to bathe them and get them to
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brush their teeth put on pajamas all the
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things though this channel really does
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highlight and celebrate fatherhood in a
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major way i don’t want to lessen what
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yvette is experiencing because i’m not
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showing it it’s best that i put in time
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and help out where i can
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and filming it possible but it’s mostly
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about being a present father and a
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present husband over being a content
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creator
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we are here in white sands national park
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um
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i didn’t realize
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how much patience i needed
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uh i definitely feel like there is a
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another level to like
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my patients
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that i have not hit yet
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being in tight quarters with the kids
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has like really
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challenged me
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any bit
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even being in thai quarters with you
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that
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i do feel like
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you’ve got not a really really good
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solid team
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i mean i’ve always known that but
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just even like the first few days
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being on this rv
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has taught me that you know we’re really
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we’re a really good team
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we can work together
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well but it’s only like
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day four
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so
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there’s a lot for us to learn and
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understand and grow through
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but yeah i am very very very fortunate
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man this life is
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it’s amazing you know
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we haven’t even started
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uh the true mission which is
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you know
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me being able to see
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some of the
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the grandparents and the aunts and
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uncles
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i’m at this age where
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people are getting sick they’re not
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doing well some people are passing away
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and we’re missing we’re missing people
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we’re missing
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opportunity we’re missing friendships
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and so i don’t want to miss that okay so
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um i have to interrupt and just
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kind of communicate
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that though i am
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experiencing all these feelings in this
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video and knowing that dang we’ve been
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losing a lot of people let’s go see
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everybody that we can especially all the
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older people because they’re most likely
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to get sick you know what i’m saying
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um
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i didn’t really understand how bad my
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sister was doing at this time and so i’m
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making i’m continuing to put out this
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content because you know
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we already experienced it and so we’re
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editing it now we’re putting it out but
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realizing too that i have to
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i had to come home and deal with it like
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a loss that i was not ready for
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uh and so
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uh i just wanted to kind of say that i’m
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not trying to avoid that conversation
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i’m just not ready to have it and so in
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due time you know we’ll talk about it
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but not right now so uh we’re gonna
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finish through the road trip and uh all
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that and then uh
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we’ll figure out where we’re at when we
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get back
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i don’t want my children not to meet the
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people who made me who i am
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and so
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tomorrow
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we’ll be meeting some family
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thank you guys so much for watching
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protect your life keep your network
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popping if you’re fortunate enough to be
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doing life with someone else make sure
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you watch this video with them if
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they’re not around
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share with them see y’all next time
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thank you guys so much for watching
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patek your life keeping network popping
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if you’re fortunate enough to be doing
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life with someone else make sure you
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watch this video with them and if
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they’re not around share it with them
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but if you can’t wait for another
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episode sign up for patreon and you’ll
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see all this
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because
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trying to have my privacy because i have
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not had my privacy in a very long time
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as long as we’ve been on this trip
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[Music]
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but yeah tomorrow i really want to leave
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right now
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pull out games atrocious i could have
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another kid wouldn’t notice
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every child is born with a little bit of
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light people say me and my kids we don’t
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look alike bedtime routine we don’t miss
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a night who knew having a daughter be my
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kryptonite
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