Playing Dodge Ball With the Champ [Video]

By Beleaf in Fatherhood

The family that plays together, stays together! Owning a business and being a father and husband gets hectic, but I am really trying to prioritize play time with my children, both for them and for me. When I dreamed of having a family, this was the part that was easiest envision; having fun together. It’s not always the most practical or even the majority of what we do together, but creating time to laugh, run around, and really enjoy each other is such an important part of being a family. I want my children to learn balance, to see me working hard but also playing hard. I want to set the example that life is to be enjoyed, and also set the precedent that Dad will ALWAYS be King of Dodgeball. #BELEAFINFATHERHOOD #BELEAFINPLAY

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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
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today we have a very special episode you
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might have seen this video yesterday on
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youtube right uh well you’ve seen a
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short of it because uh this video
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of uh theo and uriah hitting each other
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with the ball is really funny but at the
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same time like that’s how we play now
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right we can’t necessarily do all the
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punching and stuff like that because
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kids starting to hit a little hard you
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know i mean i might mess around catch a
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concussion make sure you watch this full
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video all the way through and have some
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i have some specific questions i want to
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ask you at the end check it out welcome
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back dad you’re not going to beat me
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i feel the force
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five to one
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off your head
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thank you one more
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thank you so much
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here we go
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how did i do this last time a rope and a
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machete
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machete
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tell dad
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i’ll miss him
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i just need something to
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kind of
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pull me back up six to four six to three
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six to three six to three seven
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no i got four
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oh
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[Music]
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it’s so far
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is it a snake
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no no what is it it’s like this green
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ball
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[Music]
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you are a pretty risky father
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thanks
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lily here’s your toy watch out theo
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he made it
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i can’t believe you didn’t
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all right now what’s the score seven to
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three i’m telling you no it’s
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i got four points bro
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when i got
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the cause
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of the world
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one two one
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[Music]
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i’ll take that back
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[Music]
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take a seat young man
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[Music]
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are you sure
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oh
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wait no you already won
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dad since i lost against dad i can’t
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lose against him
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[Music]
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out
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[Music]
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you got two sons
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huh thank you
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[Music]
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now
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[Music]
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[Music]
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championship
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okay fine you may want to come over here
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but first
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let’s do deal
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this is the last battle okay
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yeah
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i know you’re going to say it i know
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you’re going to do this nope
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nope
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sorry
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yo so um
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i have to know what is your favorite
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part of these videos that we’ve been
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doing in the backyard uh currently right
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now we’re in our new space we are
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getting this place painted uh we are
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getting this place acclimated i’m so
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glad to have 5 000
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square feet of office space
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uh to kind of create fully and i know
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you guys think what you’re gonna do with
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all that space don’t worry about what
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i’m gonna take care of it you know what
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i’m saying but uh i’m really praising
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god that we’re here and excited to be
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doing a major work here um also looking
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for new interns new potential employees
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and all types of stuff uh so if you’re
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interested make sure you leave a comment
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in the comment section below or just
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email us at contactthebelief.com but
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specifically i wanted to talk about what
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you like about this video my favorite
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part of this video is when you’re ryan
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goes uh
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you’re a very risky father pretty risky
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father and then theo goes and brave one
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too so like to me
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i didn’t even realize i was i was like i
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was just doing them a favor but this
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happens often to where like the ball
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will go over the fence and i might have
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to go get it or ask the neighbor to get
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it or something like that
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but it’s little moments like that that
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remind me that they’re watching me
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even when i’m not necessarily performing
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you know what i’m saying or like trying
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to get them to learn something they’re
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just knowing that a part of the
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characteristics that they would describe
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fatherhood as
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are you know
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risky and brave right and um i always
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try to remind them that
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risk and bravery aren’t in absence of
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fear right
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there’s a lot of things
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initially like that i am
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kind of scared to do you know what i’m
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saying because i’ve never done it um and
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one thing i realized is that whenever
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i’m doing something that requires me to
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be brave or or courageous right
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i always get scared and then
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the fear robs me of the of like all of
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the intricate things that are happening
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in the experience
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so
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i would love to do things without fear
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and so in moving into this space
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i was sitting there
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having like this kind of the last
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episode of fresh prince moments just
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kind of standing in the office while i
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was empty the last place we were in and
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um the homie was like yo remember we
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were in that office and remember we were
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in that office and i was just like
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yeah i was like you know it’s crazy is
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that every time i moved to a different
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office the price went up just a little
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bit and i was like i always was scared
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you know what i’m saying like i always
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had this fear attached and i was like
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this time
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i’m just choosing not to be scared
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because it’s an inconvenience it’s
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robbing me of
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the the substance that is happening all
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around me and the things i really should
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be feeling which is excitement right um
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and i think that that right there is
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one a privilege that i have because i’ve
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experienced so many different changes
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but also it might be something that you
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are
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walking through right now
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that
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are part of the symptom of what’s
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happening even though it’s amazing but
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it’s scary you know what i’m saying and
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i believe that you can get through this
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right um
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i believe that on the other side of fear
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is freedom
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uh but i also think that
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just try to choose
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to say you know what i know that fear is
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a part of this but this time i’m gonna
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do without the fear because i want to
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experience all that comes with this
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opportunity so that’s my little word for
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today i appreciate you guys so much for
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watching these videos uh this is just
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fatherhood you know what i’m saying this
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is just what we do i hope that you guys
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are learning from my mistakes uh any
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parts of the failures or or my successes
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anything you guys see i’m doing great
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you want you implement that anything you
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see i’m doing terribly you just say i’m
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not gonna do that you know what i’m
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saying um and just you know just keep
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telling me what you love about the
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content what you don’t like about the
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content i don’t really care i’m just
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glad you guys are here we’re almost at a
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million subscribers we’re in a new space
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family’s doing well yvette is doing
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amazing um and i can’t wait for you guys
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to check back in with her so there’s a
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lot of good things coming oh and i also
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owe you guys a vlog
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on the house updates so that’s coming
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too so thank you guys so much for
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watching particularly keeping 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 and if
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they’re not around share with them see
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y’all next time
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peace
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