By Beleaf In Fatherhood
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Traveling with my family is something I want to do because I know it will create lifelong memories for all of us. I want my kids to look back and think about the family road trip we took, or watch a movie about a family vacation and be reminded of the ones we went on together. To be honest, though, we travel with four kids and IT IS HARD! Kids screaming, unbuckling their car seats, making poop jokes, DRIVING ME CRAZY! But the types of bonds we are creating, the experiences we are having together, I know are priceless and will be things I look back on in five, ten, twenty years and smile. So yeah, traveling with four kids nine hours to Yosemite National Park was frustrating, and may or may not have pushed me to my limit, but nothing was better than watching their faces as snow fell, or seeing Yosemite Falls with them. IT’S ALL WORTH IT! Enjoy this episode of Uzi being an escape artist, Anaya competing for loudest scream, and a whole lotta patient parent moments y’all.
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are you not being a good listener
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[Music]
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hey yo this video starts out in the
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truest fashion i’m not going to get in
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your way too much because i want to get
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into the meat of it but theo
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i told you guys he started vlogging this
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is actually like one of the second
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videos he did so this starts out as
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theo’s video
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and then we’re headed up to we’re trying
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to go to yosemite but we barely can get
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in the freaking car because
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he keeps unbuckling it’s just a crazy
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situation
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but we had to get away and i wanted to
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share with you so this is not
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as uh like cinematic as some of our
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vlogs have been lately but it’s just
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real and authentic and i hope you guys
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enjoy it
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welcome black hey guys welcome to my web
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channel i’m about to show you
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how what mom just told us to do we’re
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gonna have to clean up because we’re
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going to the
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um airport today so that’s going to be
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my next video
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hopefully you watch it going to the
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airport what
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we’re driving there
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[Music]
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whatever we’re doing how we get there
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anyway i hope you love that next video
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but um today i’m just going to show you
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how you watch this video so we’re gonna
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clean up these stuff
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raya we’re gonna put these up in order
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we need to leave it we need to leave
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this house
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organized hey man i seen you do that a
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couple times walk up and down there
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that’s not clean that’s not what mommy
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asked you to do she asked you to clean
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right
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okay so stop doing that
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and clean and i don’t know why you have
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your brother’s helmet so
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i’m gonna show you
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i’ll show you this
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[Music]
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she’s a girl she she says she wants
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people to say she’s beautiful
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and we do a lot of times she gets love a
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lot of times
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so anaya just likes to be beautiful but
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she just doesn’t want
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she wants people to say she’s beautiful
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but she wants to make herself feel
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like she’s beautiful i’m beautiful well
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anyway
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thank you guys for watching my channel
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and
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peace you need to stop
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unbuckling yourself you hear me
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okay
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please keep this buckle so dad yes
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oh when we’re leaving from that hotel is
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on tuesday yeah
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it’s our hotel that place is a hotel
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it’s not a hotel it’s an airbnb
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we’re going to don’t don’t unbuckle this
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uzi
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okay okay uzi
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don’t unbuckle it okay
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okay okay
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okay thank you
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[Music]
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mommy
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mom you gotta look at this
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you gotta look at this dad i didn’t
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forget your bar
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what am i looking at you know
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and dad literally just closed the door
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because he unfolds himself
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are you not being a good listener
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no you do not do that
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wait what girl cecily tyson right here
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on what book i know oh wait yes it
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doesn’t
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like that you did a good job on that
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speech man
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thanks i was happy i got to see it
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you’re a bully
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yes i thought mom was going to tell you
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this but there’s a handbag on yourself
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all right guys we’re on our first road
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trip
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our first road trip has you been on a
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road trip with us before
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think about it no no
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i guess all right first road trip
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it’s ashy no
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no okay listen you have to keep your
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feet up
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okay okay so don’t take it off
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okay excuse me
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it’s 53. i know
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i didn’t mean to rush yet i’m getting
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lunch
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but it’s past lunch yeah and like
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in like a minute it’s gonna be
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[Music]
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of course we got the kid some food and
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then we hit the road
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straight to yosemite it took us nine
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hours to drive about five and a half
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hours
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but we made the trip and we got there
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regardless what was important for us is
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to prove to ourselves that we’re not
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tied to any one relationship or
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community
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we have the freedom to expand and go
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anywhere we want to go
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yo we are in yosemite uzi is up there
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say hi
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he doesn’t want to say when we got there
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we saw that it was worth it
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not only for us but also for the kids
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i think the thing that i have taken for
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granted lately is not allowing my
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children just to be
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exist in their own freedom and just
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finding ways to have adventure
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and explore together when we got out
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there we noticed all the beauty
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in the nature but we also got to see the
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nature in our children’s beauty i was
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listening to a group of men talk about
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bugging out just getting the family in
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the car and leaving and how important
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that is because it’s not that it’s
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without annoyance or stress
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it’s just that when you look back at the
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memories you don’t think about that
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you only remember the good stuff this
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one
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is a rock yeah that one’s a mouth that
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one’s a mountain okay
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what else do you want to tell me maya
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come in front of me
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so i’m going to make a robotic holder
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that could hold like a stick and
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it’s going to make the stick
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have to be sharp and then you can make
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it turn into an
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axe oh that’s amazing
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i know why you’re asking to take a video
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because so i can write a number
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are you okay are you trying to get me to
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see he’s look he’s
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licking are you okay oozy
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huh i can’t see you oh okay you okay
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okay come on
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family hike family hike
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family hike today
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it’s like all my mom’s dreams coming
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soon we are in
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why is it not following me we are in
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yosemite
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and uh we came on a little
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walk with the family
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and i don’t know
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[Music]
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it wasn’t because of you you’re right a
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car that could work so wait you’re going
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to make a car
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out of a tree uh-huh and the car is
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going to be able to drive
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uh-huh okay about
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anything like that watch out please
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it’s not gonna even be it doesn’t even
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have anything to run out
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so that’s why it’s gonna be a
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a car that purely runs on air
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so it so you just have to press the
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button
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on the bluffing and then it stretches
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and then grabs something that is very
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very far
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okay so dad i told mom i’m gonna make a
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robotic glove
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because that contracts to something very
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far
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like it could this glove could abstract
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something
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that’s shiny or that stretcher
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and it could and it could stretch to
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the space to another
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plane all right let’s walk okay sounds
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good man
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are we going to knock our house not our
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house
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are you happy about that i’m happy
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i’m hurting like for real you know what
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i’m saying my back my
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shoulders this be a lesson to everybody
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watching
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don’t buy things you see on instagram
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they’re not always packed up
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[Music]
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man what’s that it’s you
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what do you want me to do pull on the
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hunk
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honk the horn why horn
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hurry up dad if you can’t call
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if you’re not gonna want hunk then why
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don’t you hug
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the horn okay hunk the horn
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then why don’t you just honk the horn
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louder
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[Music]
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the house
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one of the things that was hard to see
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was the effects that the fires had
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on the environment it makes me want to
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save up to buy an rv
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and hit the road because what we know
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about today may not be the same
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as what we see tomorrow i don’t know if
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y’all can see it but there’s snow
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oh my goodness this is gonna be our kids
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first time seeing snow
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fall from the sky
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so cool
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dad guys guys
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you guys see this daddy
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[Music]
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it’s flying from the sky
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yes it is that’s right
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no can i go snow is falling from the sky
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yeah i already saw that
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[Music]
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is
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you need shoes on
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hey you baltimore ian
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[Music]
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you can’t touch it buddy why it just
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when the wind blows it flows like
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because it um blue in my face but i
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can’t eat it like in my tongue
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you know how people do this
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can you not do that
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[Music]
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i didn’t know i needed to travel this
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much yvette loves to travel that’s her
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thing
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this is like her love language um you
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know even in the video she said you know
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i feel like all my mom dreams are coming
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true
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uh i didn’t know how much i needed it
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but i i do
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you know i think something i really do
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long to do
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is get an rv keeping our house of course
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but
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taking these extended field trips um and
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allowing our children to see the land
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because it’s very valuable to give them
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that experience and
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i honestly think i kind of slept on that
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for a long time and so
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i want to make that a part of our
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lifestyle
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and i don’t see a lot of black people in
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rvs that weird
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um but yeah let me let me know what you
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guys think about that
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um you know via the comment section on
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the community page
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i i want to know like have you guys seen
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a lot of black people taking those
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big rv trips and documenting it and
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stuff like that would that be something
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you’re interested in watching us do
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uh but most of all like getting together
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and making
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memories for the sake of making memories
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even though it is
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annoying like there are parts of the
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trip that i’m just like yo
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i need to get out of this car you know
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what i’m saying or like i’m taking red
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bulls and energy drinks just to stay
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awake and stuff like that and
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um it’s just important you know what i
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mean for us to have that
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part of our lives um and i i’d be
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a child and hearing so many different
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stories of other families doing it
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and now it’s a part of my life so i
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don’t know guys
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i’m really glad that we took the trip i
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feel like i can breathe deeper
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i’m looking forward to our next trip my
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wife and i are planning the trip to go
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to uh hawaii uh which uh is gonna be
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much needed for my birthday um and for
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mother’s day so we are really excited to
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take that trip and we’ll be documenting
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that whole thing too
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also anything we should be doing while
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in hawaii let us know
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um what kind of new bees to travel life
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and all that stuff but i know some of
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you guys are
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really good stewards of your money and
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you guys take vacations well you
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celebrate well so let me know what you
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guys are up to
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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 fortunate enough to go along
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with someone else
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make sure you watch this video with them
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and if they’re not around share with
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them hello
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