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Live from the Florida Vanlife Gathering!
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May 2, 2025
Live from the Florida Vanlife Gathering!
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hey hey everybody
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it's 12 45
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which means that we have a another
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Workshop start all right guys we are
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live at the Florida van life Gathering
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so hopefully this is not too shaky uh I
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don't have a I don't have a gimbal for
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the mount but
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um yeah we were walking through where
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all of the vendors are
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uh this is uh I can do a couple more
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little interviews video interviews with
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these guys
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um talk to uh go camp so we met them at
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the Chattanooga show
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and then we have
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um let's see here let me flip the camera
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around
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there we go much better
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yeah so we got live more we've got
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flare space go camp Adventure Gear we
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did a video with them
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we've got Moxie vans so I talked to
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Justin over there we did a tour of his
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van and
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um over here on the left side
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I'll walk back through and we'll talk
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about who's over there
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[Music]
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and then we got go code Overland
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Valley High
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so Valley High is actually getting ready
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to do a
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talk over here about electrical systems
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so I might do a little coverage of that
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but guys if you can look
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in the foreground or the background
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look at all these vans
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I have not counted the Vans yet
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but the way this venue is set up uh I
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started over there and that is where the
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stage is and then over here we've got
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the uh
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the van Life pavilion so that's where
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they're you know selling shirts and
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stuff like that
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the mini Donuts from glaze to confuse
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man I almost had to take another nap
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after I ate those they were they were
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they make them fresh they were super
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good
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um got a couple more vendors over here
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on the right
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uh this is the Talking Tree I think
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that's what they called it
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Breaking Bad barbecue
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baking bread barbecue I had that twice
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yesterday it was phenomenal
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there we go dinar home style Southern
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cuisine
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so the food truck game is good over here
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we've got good food so if you didn't
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bring food it's okay
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uh over here on the left side we're
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gonna go left to right
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so left side is the uh I think this is
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was the bigger RV hookups
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and then if you guys are Storyteller
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fans
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this is the Storyteller Lane
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so the way that it's set up and I'll
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I'll show you guys later on the Drone
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video that I took but you have all these
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Avenues
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so you got Storyteller then you get like
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the Revel
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um
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I believe that's uh Scott Watson way
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and then there's a bunch of other ones
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so we'll just we'll get through here in
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just a second
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yeah but the storytellers are really
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cool
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right there
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travados there you go
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Jamie spotted this travado
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looks like we're doing a YouTube live
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hiking hide and seek here
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but again the rebels
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everyone loves winnipego Rebel
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Travato
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yeah hopefully this video is not too
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shaky
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I'm just doing on the cell phone we
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don't have the fancy setup today
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I promise you guys I would do some live
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footage
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let's see is it cool
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all these rows
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just rows and rows of vans
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all right hold on I'm trying to not make
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you guys seasick here
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we go we got
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more Vans and
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I wish I could interview all these Vans
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I met a lot of great people
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uh I actually helped
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that couple over there and they locked
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their keys in the van and uh
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I rigged up a coat hanger method to
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unlock the van for him so
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they're super happy so
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that was fun guys if you're watching
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this later
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that was a fun
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little MacGyver project
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and we've got uh
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good ambulance here that's been
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converted
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I definitely want to come back and do an
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interview with a van tour with them
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so I want to do this ambulance
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and then there's a schooly that I also
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want to do
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but yeah
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so the vibe here you know the energy at
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this event is so relaxed I mean it is
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very very
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relaxed inter so it's so relaxed here
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that I'm really having to stick to my
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to-do list to cover
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to get the footage that I want
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because uh
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yeah it's a
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it's like that
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so I may ask
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Josh one of the organizers
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how many Vans we actually have here
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but there's a lot
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there's a school bus back there in the
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back
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look at this
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Dodge Sprinter Airstream was falia I've
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never I've never seen one of these
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before
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oh these guys got lucky over here we've
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got shade
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that's right not good for solar but good
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for staying same cool
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um I don't think so Jamie I don't think
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I don't think that is here
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foreign
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but yeah a lot of DIY builds
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yeah hopefully this is not too shaky
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Solus is I have not seen I'm sure one or
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two are here
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uh but I've not seen
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I'm not seeing them
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so this is a really nice
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this this schooly it has a dual mini
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split
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that's that's serious you need uh
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you need some serious power to run that
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yeah
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that is nice
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thank you
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so just give you guys a it's just a main
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interview
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that wind is probably picking up
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all right so let me get let me get over
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here before we get run over
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all right so we're gonna walk back to
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we're gonna walk back to the beginning
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of the event
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uh so we'll end the stream when we get
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back to the stage
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but if any of you guys have uh questions
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while we are out here
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go ahead and ask me those questions
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I'll try to do a couple more of these
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streams
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the weather's perfect out here it's like
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for like 72 74 degrees
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so since we got the
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iPhone here
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we can't get too wide so let's go ahead
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and flip around
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there we go
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yeah so there's I mean all kinds of uh
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yeah look at the sky
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it's a nice day in Florida guys
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yeah hopefully this uh I mean I'd say
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this event is a success look at this on
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the right side
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that's all day parking
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these are just people coming for the day
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this is not the people that are
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um
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registered or camping for the event
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and uh so I met a guy Stephen over there
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we did a full van tour of his van
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and
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it's really great because I know you
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guys see a bunch of uh
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hold on a second
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I know you guys see a bunch of builds
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that are extremely expensive
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and it might be overwhelming if you're a
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diyer and doing custom builds
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are you just a DIY trying to do a simple
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build so his build
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is extremely simple
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and I mean he's like a he's a true van
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lifer I mean he really travels from here
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from Florida where this this is actually
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his hometown
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drives all the way to California
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he manages uh
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uh Stephen I'll mess this up
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he he does uh
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cattle
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like helps
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managed cattle or something like that
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anyway super outdoors guy and so his van
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is a very utilitarian he did the whole
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entire thing by himself uh it's got a
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really cool interior
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I'm gonna flip around here we're at the
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uh
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second side of the
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storytellers
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and we're just making a big circle
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so again look at this guys this is day
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parking
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so these people are not here overnight
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they are just here to hang out
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and experience the event
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Thomas is over there with his uh van
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Marine one and he's crushing it he's
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doing a great job
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talking to everybody at the event
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talking about his van talking about his
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story
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so
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really really cool
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but we're gonna walk over here
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we'll go by the stage and I'll do one
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more pass on the left to show you the
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other vendors
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that are here
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I've picked out two of them that I
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definitely want to get on camera
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yeah guys as uh
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as I do these streams hopefully this is
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not the last one I'm gonna do this
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weekend
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but I definitely want to hear your input
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I want to hear questions on what do you
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want to look what you're looking for as
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far as
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uh having questions answered it could be
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Power Systems it could be
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uh you know Water Systems solar tanks
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stuff like that because what we have is
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we've got a lot of extremely
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knowledgeable people we've got man
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Builders we've got professional van
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builders
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so I'm not seeing anything that's new as
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far as uh Vans go it's pretty pretty
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standard as far as manufacturer designed
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uh I'm gonna go over here I think
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that stage audio is probably cutting me
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out
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so there's a an interesting product that
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I found was this uh there's a couple
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over here that they run Defiance tools
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and so I interviewed them and they've
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got a lot of like really cool I mean you
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might could call it like bushcrafty type
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tools so
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uh
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yeah they uh dope there's a full
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interview with them
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so as far as noodles
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okay there I gotta get back over here
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because uh
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I told him that I would take some photos
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while he was doing a a speech but uh I'm
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gonna run back over here
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yeah so tools um here are some
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you know like a pillow vendor
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um let's see here
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let me flip around
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yeah so we got stealth pillow
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we've got self off-grid luxury
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we'll check them out
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Southeast Overland and
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outdoor
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these guys they've got a
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pretty cool vehicle
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more over Landing of course
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this guy I want to I want to do an
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interview with him
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I really like his layout of his van
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and this one this one's for sale
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hey modern times vanco
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so yeah
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that's it guys let me know your
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questions let me know what you want to
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see at this event we got all day today
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and Sunday
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uh we are back over here at my booth
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so we've got we've got all day today
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we've got Sunday and then we head out
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Monday so Sunday is a full day so if
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there's something that you guys want to
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see
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uh maybe it's like I don't know sink
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water storage Vans stuff like that
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um I haven't seen anything crazy yet so
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I'll keep you guys posted
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but uh yeah all the questions leave them
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in the comments section below you can
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comment on other videos I see all the
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comments come through the YouTube
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channel
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but uh yeah thanks you guys so much for
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watching and we'll see you in the next
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live stream
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Nick's got to find out how to turn it
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off on his phone
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there we go I think this is it
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all right guys see you in the next
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stream
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