Vid 2

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and uh she called me back the next day

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and said that uh um that that could be a

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mental health problem so the VA will get

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me an air conditioner uh so so she

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submitted it and I got approved so

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they're going to mail me an air

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conditioner I guess which

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is which is kind of cool um I don't know

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man I think I'm still like in my own

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trauma bonds with

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um when I was a child I had air

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conditioner I don't know my parents just

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didn't have the right house for it it

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cost a lot of money to run them when I

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lived with the girls I was like insanely

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neurotic about them like leaving the air

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conditioner on and their door open or

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leaving it on unnecessarily cuz I would

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just to me like my I I think the power

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bill is like skyrocketing and it's and

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it is a little bit but you know you

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shouldn't be wasteful with it but also

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Afghanistan like I feel like I'm still

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in battle so like it's been really hot

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lately and I'm really kind of struggling

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like I have to be in front of a fan like

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it's really freaking hot I'm on the

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second floor you know so like but I'm

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just struggling like unnecessarily it's

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like my own trauma bonds with with with

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with I'm totally fine with being a

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warrior in Afghanistan and it's kind of

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what I feel like I still am like I I

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haven't relaxed yet

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it's you you know so that's I think

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that's really nice that they're going to

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get me an air conditioner I I mean I

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actually I do have one but it's a it's

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like a window model and you can't have

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them in in the front windows here and um

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so they're getting me a different model

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which I I don't think I would have

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bought myself so this is going to be

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nice like she said you know you'll sleep

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better and um it'll definitely impact

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sleep and and heat there's a lot of

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research that shows heat um

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increases like irritability and and anst

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and and some of that what you're

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describing with like feeling like you're

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back in the I just I just like I look at

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the temperature if it's going to be 90

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during the day but then like 60 at night

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I'm like I can just make it through the

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night or the day and then open the

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windows at night and and go through it

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all the next day

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so I'm really I I don't know this is

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good I feel good that I'm like learning

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to relax somehow and yeah um you know

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I'm still uneasy about you know Shayla

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and the girls and whatnot you

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know

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but I I don't know I feel like I

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survived and I'm surviving and that's

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good and now I'm I'm flourishing I mean

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it's weird cuz the work that I've picked

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up since I've been on my own I had to

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almost pick it up right where I left off

2:51

when I met Shayla like I stopped doing

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all these really important things to me

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when I met her like playing

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piano like I well I was a homeless

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veteran for a while I spent a lot of

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time at the VA and um spent hundreds of

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hours playing piano at the VA uh in in

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2012 and

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2013 so it's nice to actually be I'm I'm

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relearning piano and um that's actually

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something I I wanted to mention if you

3:19

have a moment I could actually play some

3:21

piano for you right now I could play you

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a quick song or I could just send you a

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video uh well I've been working on send

3:28

me some send me some of the on um

3:31

whatever it's called secure message so

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today I've been working on a Pomp and

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Circumstance you know that song the CL

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classical song um I'm also really good

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at a bunch of classical music like I

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used to be really into studying

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classical music um I can play Beethoven

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for at leas like the bomb like really

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really well I can play handle Sarah Bond

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the first movement anyway second

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movements a little I haven't relearned

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it in a while uh Paca Bell Cannon and D

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major oh love that song um I you know

4:09

I've been studying music theory for you

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know decades now and it's finally like

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becoming useful it's really exciting

4:16

like I can actually play music now and

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um and I've been doing some um some

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piano covers lately so I'm expanding

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from PI from guitar to piano um Sunset

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piano was my other one of my channels

4:31

that um oh and I also make advice or

4:35

wisdom videos I think I made think I

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asked you last time if you know who Dr

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Wayne Dyer is and you said no uh you've

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never heard of Dr Wayne

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Dyer um well actually I don't even know

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how old are you are you older or younger

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than

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me um let

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see how old are you I'm going to be 40

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in four days yeah

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some early age I

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suppose you are trickster with your

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answers I only asked because um he was

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like really really popular in the 80s

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and 90s and 2000s and I actually like

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really like fell in love with his um his

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teaching

5:23

style um Wayne D Dr Wayne Dyer yeah yeah

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and so I like really fell in love with

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it and in 2014 and 2015 I was like

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really into him and like when I first

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met Shayla she got like sick of hearing

5:37

me to talk about wisdom that I was

5:39

learning from him and uh and then he

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died in 2015 and I was like really

5:45

shocked like it

5:48

like but thankfully he you know got you

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know he's written like 20 books and he's

5:53

got seminars and you know back then it

5:56

was books on tape and stuff you know um

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oh fantastic um doctor of um of healing

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like um transcending any particular

6:08

religion like getting right to like the

6:10

spiritual heart of of God and and and

6:14

you know meaning and purpose and being

6:17

at peace like I was really obsessed with

6:19

him because I've never been at peace and

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he talks about like being at peace and

6:23

meditating and like being okay and like

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okay with the world and not trying to

6:28

force the world be different like stuff

6:31

like that it's really really good so

6:33

I've been uh cranking out a couple of

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videos of him lately

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um cool um let see oh Twitter do you use

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Twitter uh no I don't actually I only

6:47

post on Twitter I don't actually read

6:49

anybody else's stuff it's kind of I

6:52

wonder if I'm like too obsessive with my

6:54

own work um because I'll like make

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videos and I'll like watch them over and

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over again like I enjoy my own content

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but that's how you get better that's how

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you master [ __ ] you know what I mean

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like yeah

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um professional athletes watch their

7:09

Sports tapes and previous games over and

7:13

over to learn mistakes and improve right

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yeah and that's why the video quality is

7:18

getting better and better because I've

7:19

gotten a lot better at video editing it

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took me a while to um you know the

7:25

technology is evolving really quickly

7:27

also um do you use um iMovie or um

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what's the Adobe version I use um clip

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champ mostly it's a Microsoft product um

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but I have another um program for more

7:43

advanced type videos but making short

7:47

clip videos um is perfect it's really

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really good then then if you need to

7:51

make something longer you can make it in

7:53

shorter clips and then like piece them

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all together

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it's I've gotten really good at uh

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splicing and editing and you know

8:02

trimming

8:03

fading um you know font size the way the

8:07

thumbnail looks it's really

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critical um yeah you know and that took

8:13

you know a while but I think that's

8:15

actually I think that's what people

8:17

might really like about my content

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particularly um my music because I'll

8:23

often do several takes of a song and in

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the description or in the ti

8:30

I'll I'll tell you what number take it

8:33

is and you know the first take is

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usually pretty bad but I'm learning and

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people like to see a learning curve

8:41

because then by the time you see like

8:43

take you know take 10 or take 11 like

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I'm really good at it so it's fun to

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like

8:48

watch the progress and not to mention

8:51

the video quality itself I've learned

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quite a bit um

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absolutely so um I wonder

9:01

if or writing is inal of the oh actually

9:08

effect a place of that's the primary

9:11

description of my Sunset guitar is I I

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say that um I'm just a guy likes playing

9:17

guitar and piano I'm a disabled veteran

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I I live alone and nobody would hear me

9:22

otherwise but the songs I choose to sing

9:25

are always important like I don't sing

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lame [ __ ] you know I say I sing good

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stuff like sing songs that matter to me

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um and what's also really cool is in

9:36

particularly like the shorts you know if

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I'm going to do a cover of a song that's

9:40

like two or three minutes um I'll have

9:43

to either make two or three shorts

9:45

because a short is maximum of of one

9:48

minute um so it it's kind of fun because

9:50

I can that's how actually I ended up

9:53

writing the [ __ ] fire song is because I

9:56

when I learn a song I write my own

9:58

arrangement of it like sometimes I don't

10:00

care for certain parts or I might choose

10:03

to skip the chorus Al together and just

10:05

do like the verses sometimes I'll

10:08

rearrange the verses like all my music

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is I think extremely

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thoughtful