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okay uzi tell me what’s going on today
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okay
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this
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is great
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okay this is crazy why is it crazy
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okay are you having fun
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what color are the trees
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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 bones 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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welcome back to belief in fatherhood my
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name is belief we equip fathers give
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hope to mothers and inspire children by
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making this awesome content that you see
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here today if you are just joining us we
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are going on a a journey to maui last
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year i took my wife and i it just was
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amazing with just us too and now we
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brought the kids back hope hoping to
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rekindle and and manifest what we
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experienced the first time that her and
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i came
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and i wanted to set the tone right so
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we
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did our first outing which was
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a hike in makawao forest
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you are here
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this is the worst part of the trip it’s
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my mom tries to
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take us somewhere super far
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she don’t realize we got kids so let’s
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have a goal in mind because that is a
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really good point because for me the
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hike is the entire orange trail you’re
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not doing that i know so i’m just saying
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we have color directions right so we
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have our two miles dad are you trying to
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move fun or let’s do the perfect chance
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that’s the shortest
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good idea ryan
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early on the boys started complaining
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which is fine i understand that you know
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what i mean it’s a part of being young
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and you’re going on a hike for what but
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it’s because you know family’s
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foundation and we wanted to do something
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fun together and mom really loves hikes
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making sure that she felt good on the
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trip was uh kind of my main priority uh
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and the kids would also be good because
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she’s good you know what i’m saying and
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then eventually maybe i’ll be good let’s
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just go
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the secret path or the beautiful path
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which path or stop arguing
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one thing we already know is that uriah
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is going to get ahead of us so i brought
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these walkie-talkies you’re right zanaya
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being a good lookout
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10 4 means i heard you
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you’re supposed to say 10-4
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so these are pretty cool
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they have really good range
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we use them on our road trip
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and
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really good at this property we’re
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staying here
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look man
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hold hands
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now
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[Music]
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you guys across the way
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push
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it’s not funny
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ryan theo already started complaining
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which was fine uh but i wanted to make
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sure we had
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a a a good attitude toward everything um
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and so i kind of put it them against
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each other because anaya was not
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complaining at all she was hiking and
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she even said it herself she didn’t want
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to point mom we were supposed to go all
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the way to the orange here’s a question
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who is stronger boys or girls
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what do you think
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[Music]
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anaya’s not complaining she’s beating
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her big brothers
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oh my god
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anaya’s not complaining at all
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maybe she’s big sister instead of little
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sister
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big sister wait up
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you’ve been winning the whole time
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you’ve been winning an attitude you have
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a great attitude
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you got strong legs
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because i didn’t want to
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point mom you didn’t want to disappoint
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mom
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good
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that’s why i’m keeping walking because i
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don’t want to play
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you don’t want to unplane yeah you mean
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complain yeah right
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yeah
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of course i was in front of you first
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and then you come up and spit it
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and spit it in your own beeswax
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good job guys
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well we’re almost to the picnic tables
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oozy got us wish
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oozy say hi
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look at me and say it
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did you guys find the picnic tables
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nice
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there they go
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right there
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[Music]
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i think the true essence of this video
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and why this video is so important is
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because so many of us
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as parents and people young adults and
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older people whatever
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we say we’ll do it tomorrow right we we
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kind of postpone the things that we
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really want to do and activate in life
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let’s just put it off until tomorrow
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i’ll do it tomorrow i’ll take care of
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that later um but it’s really important
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to live now right and the reason i say
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this is because
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unbeknownst to me this hike is what i
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think activated all of the sickness in
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in the children and uh the illnesses
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that happened i spent
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the majority of my next few
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uh 48 hours in a hospital uh because it
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did not go well but i’m gonna save that
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for next time i appreciate you guys for
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watching this channel uh because it
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really does mean a lot to us that we
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uh can do fun things nice things uh and
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explore and adventure you know and also
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suddenly give other people permission to
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do those things as well uh i think
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growing up you know i wanted to do
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just you know just be a dad at some
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point but i didn’t necessarily know that
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i wanted to
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uh break a cycle of fear
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and uh
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you know really do things that are
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outside of my comfort zone and now
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that’s where i live on the outside of my
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comfort zone and a lot of people right
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uh you know hit up this channel like why
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are you exposing your children and you
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know they think i’m capitalizing because
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of monetary gain
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this stuff is not supposed to be
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valuable right
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black families living day-to-day life
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and just living life normally that is
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not supposed to be as valuable as it is
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but because
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i don’t know what it is about our
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culture like we’ve been taught that we
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are supposed to hide and keep secret and
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not let people know
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how we do what we do right uh
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we just kind of show them the end result
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i think it’s a disservice
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to young people coming up it almost
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gives them nothing to look forward to uh
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because they don’t know how to do
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everything anything but they’re expected
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to do everything right and so uh as you
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come onto this channel i’d have been
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getting some comments about how um you
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know i’m monopolizing or taking
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advantage or whatever and that’s really
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not my heart uh it may be normal for you
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to believe that because you you may be
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around a lot of negative people and you
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may never live with negative life um but
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here
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like we really do feel like this is an
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honor and this is something that should
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not be as popular it is because
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the parents before us uh the generations
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before us should have passed this down
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as a way to say hey this is how this is
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my thought process in in parenting
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uh this is why i’m making the decisions
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i’m making this is why you should do xyz
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um
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and but i think there’s something about
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um that generation or the generation
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before us a generation before them it
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almost thought it was a badge of honor
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to allow
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you know the younger ones coming after
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them to struggle so they got through it
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they felt like they earned it uh
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but some things you really don’t prepare
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for you know and i was not prepared for
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the next few days um and that’s why i
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wanted to make this content about
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traveling with families that uh
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especially you know larger families
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but it isn’t always instagramable you
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know it isn’t always
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like perfect and sometimes you feel like
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you’re not gonna make it
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and that is exactly how i felt
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for the next 48 hours and we’ll see you
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next time on believe in fatherhood thank
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you guys so much for watching protect
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your life keeping that work popping if
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you’re fortunate enough to be doing life
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with someone else makes you watch this
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video with them and if they’re not
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around share with them see y’all next
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time
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