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[Music] all right welcome nick ellerman and
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jamie here we're headed to adventure van expo we're in chattanooga excited to see all the vans and uh
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check out this event how cool
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is your band expo they had a like especially parking for rebels and
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storytellers like see over here on the left yeah so i can see
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wow and someone has to drive all those in right no those people all people those individuals own it they just buy a
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ticket so they don't park together the camaraderie
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wow cool this is the only non-high top
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wow this is awesome
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yeah i mean i didn't i just didn't want any distractions
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that's over over landing with the tip or the top [Music]
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all right guys we're adventure van expo chattanooga tennessee and we got the van set up we got our
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vents in front on him here and then i'm gonna be in the tent tonight
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my brother's gonna be inside so yeah we got everything
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ready to go so um yeah we'll be coming back here later and
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then uh we're set up for tomorrow morning to cook breakfast and i got a table and
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everything outside hang out have a good time and enjoy the final day which will be sunday uh at the
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venture event expo but right now we're gonna go tour all these hundreds of vans there's so many vans let's start walking
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this is just people that are camping this is not even the show
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and then you kind of see everybody that has their
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mercedes or a rebel they actually have specialty parking so that they can
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you know park together um jamie let's just make one more hook up around here
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yeah i want to see the storytelling
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kits on the back
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that's awesome
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[Applause] i mean i didn't think lifting the video would make that much of a difference
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oh are you going to do that with yours will you do that for the
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other ones i don't have a plan for it but that's why i'm here plans might change i
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need ideas inspiration and there's my van
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i'm just hanging out all right let's go look at some vans inside oh there you go
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is this better weather for filming yeah what's that uh is that overcast i'll film you walking over here
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wow look at that that's cool
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[Applause] this lens is so wide it makes everything
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look small so this is this is almost 100 percent what the band i'm building number fandom
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so we've got the uh see it's even got the same roof i want you to stand in front of me talk about
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it i like the wheels too oh god
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what i'm not paying attention to my photography they're all blown out
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you want to talk about this one oh no because it looks like what you're going to do yeah there's the people okay
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it's cool i guess i'll just go right to left yeah
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journey right there he's nice wow
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yeah sorry nova i think it would have been intense
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you need some b-roll now
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flare space this is flare space hey i'm good
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yeah so these are the bump outside
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this uh oh what you bought no no no uh i might do this on van too
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but this got the bump outs on each side and then they uh cool the the bed and
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the mattress it comes as like a whole entire kit but that's the flooring i got but i got black
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nice
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i can see why you sell vans here so that's the owner okay
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you know uh oh you just said hi i just i was just saying hi
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but uh if you buy two of their kids uh
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this is going to be awesome footage
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what's up guys
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30 frames 60 frame was 2x this could be a segment yeah all right you want to talk about the
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flare space no but this is this is your product right here so it's it's what is it it's a bump out
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so that you can get more legroom okay you can stretch out and then they integrate the uh the
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awning windows oh this is an awning this is the slider but you could do an audio here too that's another bump out
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yeah and then this company right here rig rap they make graphics for
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this temple this layout and then you can you know buy this
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stuff down here too but uh okay yeah now we'll drive
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all right let's check out some more vans so this uh this company
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heard the name
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this is yeah so that's tell me what i'm looking at
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this is like the rear garage of the van it kind of looks like
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oh man the ceiling's really nice yeah yeah talk about this you get your water system over here so you got your water
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fill your washdown port so this looks like we've got two of them we got your fishing rods um yeah they've
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got some live fly rods that's awesome
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what is this right here uh it's hot water so you can take the little mini propane
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bottles you can screw them in there and then you can have a wash down shower
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it's awesome i love these panels right here yeah there's really very nice that's a really nice way to like
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insulate because it's kind of hard to put something in here so you have like these little pieces to hold it in
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yeah i like what they're doing inside they've got the sports
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family
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yeah so um
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that's the same one that i'm putting in van number one it's huge so you guys can kind of look and see how big it is
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and i like what they do with the cabinets because it's welded that's either one steel or aluminum and
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it's just really secure it's kind of big on the safety thing where if you're an accident
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you want to
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this van also has so this one's got the uh
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style turnout window so i'll be getting that and it actually has the awning style
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uh rear bunker endeavours
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yeah so this is different uh i think that's a 130 size
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yeah all right i got the black stuff this is the speckled it's got like the speckles in it so i
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was kind of hesitant but i really like this one were you thinking about making yours just open no mine'll yeah might not be
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this open um if you look this is everything's modular so they'll
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have like standard water standard power standard cabinet system and that's how you they can you know
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you know somewhat scale is this kind of
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cars it's challenging when you get like custom builds and this is what i'm looking forward to right here i'm trying to figure out the
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best way to transition and so just finding these pieces because this is fine but transitioning from here
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to here you know what's the best way to do that i got some awesome seat covers
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got a shelf
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uh
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[Music] we'll talk about that
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[Applause]
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vanilla yeah yeah he's got that huge i like this
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yeah many times
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it takes me
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vans but if he had a van this would be his i was like oh this is my speed yeah this is uh it's
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my dream van you know i i build these all day long and i'm perfectly content
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in my 86 van this is rover vans yeah rover vans
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that we have up in up in chicago where are you guys at we're in oh right now very cool
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you have a what's your company
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yeah yeah we uh we've only been around since the beginning of the year yeah yeah yeah
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so so we've done i believe four we've completed four four months so far
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this year you know it's been slow getting started which i'm sure you know uh but uh it's funny
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and then it obviously has to pull down the beginning of the season we went to the fan expo in the wood river
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oh man double the size of this wow and it was like at the beginning of the
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season and we had just finished uh two builds
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and there's right there there's a reason why we've brought these
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or the three-seater
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[Laughter]
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um
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come on
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and they changed
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no we need to go to these are
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all right over here at the rb components fan they've got like seats and stuff like
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that that they sell and then bug screens and the bags i think people really like these bags so we'll go look
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at them so they have the nate
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they have their fresh water so you can't see what they're looking at they got all of it
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so i'm also thinking about building sprinters because the components that are really there for you when you want to kind of customize
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it um but yeah like you get i like this because like if you're in the bed
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and you need to like just put your shoes up or you know get something like you have a bag right where the bed is
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and then this is like for air chucks and stuff like that get some more nets
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yeah the net that's really nice yeah i like that
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and they've even uh they've been built uh this back step oh i didn't see the trailer got a
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trailer attached typically there you go james
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what is this so that's a evaporative cooler it's not
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an air conditioner with a compressor it actually takes a water and circulates it in pine straw
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on the top of the ceiling and then it actually cools the air they don't have it on right now but
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i would like this they got paper towel holders oh it's got all the different pieces
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i don't know if that's
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this is
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and check out titan vans we got a bunch of components from them for our van number one
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um [Music]
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we typically use the medicine
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we just up like the free shipping like 4.99 it's kind of enticing it's great
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talking to this guy earlier yes i'm a big fan of your guys layout so thank you you said odyssey van is the
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company that
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yeah you have to be quite a bit of modification trains are bigger though luckily so you have to fail
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so
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does even the classic come with ac or is that no all upgrade option yeah all of our 144 builds start with just a
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is [Music]
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uh
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so this is something we're pretty excited about are these like micro campers
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oh man i think this is the mattress you got a seat that folds down and then
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you got a full built in over here that's nice
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oh there you go that that's cool a little dometic
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nice great travis
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yeah this is a short one i forgot what size this short is it is the i think it's a high roof
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i'm not sure yeah um i'm gonna come around
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you like this setup yeah i mean this is a really good layout so van 2 is this type of layout
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it's a sink over here for cabinets and you see your headboard no cabinets so you can
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sit up and then this is you know cabinets for your feet go under here yeah
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um and i like this i like the lightness this
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is this that's great
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so right here this is uh this is water fill turns the water pump on
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look at this that's like the it's got like a backlight ring
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that's really cool i like the simplicity
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that's great but see how see how cozy you can make it
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now this isn't my style builds at the current moment mine's really slowly focused on adventure
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but this is something for you know a couple younger cup younger couples and i like the younger couple
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i gotta get some young little couple i need some food i believe i mean this is like
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you can really i'm sure the batteries and stuff are over here do you like these panels
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it's kind of kind of high top yeah maybe this one look higher or no yeah
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i guess it is the high roof uh oh this is going to be nice this is really woodsy inside check it out
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so this one i like is it they get the dinette and then they get the passenger seat i like the uh i like the storage
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mountains yeah and like if you pack stuff a lot you put
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mesh behind it and then you're like oh nothing can fall out right you just look at the aesthetic but also like i can cram everything i want
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nice i'm very excited about that concept and i really
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no it's not it's just different wood the wood's really nice
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it's kind of a fun little feel yeah that's so cool
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so these are the i guess these are the rental coins
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who's this nick
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do you know what company this is [Music]
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[Music]
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thank you
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and then you got your shower where's this pole for your shower right here what's the pull forward
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yes sir do you guys make this in-house yes yep we have all the metal trim work in-house
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ford didn't skew on their dimensions much yeah we probably could i know i feel you it's because we that's why we
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kind of we just one single piece we v-notch it bend it in to get it to fit good and
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then rolled all the v-notches in and then that's a powder coat it's a
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small they call it a light texture
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out there
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oh yeah
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oh nice and so this is the extended
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170. this is this mercedes oh horseback pop it's a sportsman this
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one has a luminesce roof right that's a shower two solar panels
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they have sports bubble bands here and they've got them equipped with their roof racks i'm thinking the running
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boards right here right here yeah yeah yeah so this is luminous
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so they're known for real like very high-end aluminum products they're
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they lightweight very expensive but they're kind of the fit and finish is you know very very
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very good uh and then they come over here we got this stuff
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we so think outside the van not in inside
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like this carrier
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right and then i thought about getting this one for the van i'm working on
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what is that i just it's aluminum popper or whatever
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i'm not sure if that's a luminesce but i think they've got the uh
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lights box winch
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some roto packs
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i like the good all right so this is the company it has the shower
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and it's kind of the only shower complete like that you can buy
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it's just a thing that you walk in it's not like got the
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components and stuff but it's the one that a titan vans had in their van so
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oh i had to check it out here let's try it
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so hopefully land number two i'm gonna be getting a shower from you guys already on band number two it happens no
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no so i got two haven't sold both of me i put on yeah van number two is going to be
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i guess you could call it man three are you uh builder yep awesome ariana north carolina okay
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um what's your company odyssey
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gotcha yep um shower stalls have been popular i mean
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when we first started putting shower stalls in our vans people were like showering
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now everybody has a shower it's hard because i mean just building
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there is
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the one that i was talking about that's what 24 by 24 probably ish
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it actually doesn't come in one piece it comes knocked down because of shipping nah so if you look on the back
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wall you'll see rivets yeah you just rivet it together silicone the corners
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and you're good to go yeah i mean that's
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you can't complain about hype because you're in advance
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no i i just like funny what you what you hear at manchester that's crazy that's crazy i like this that's very smart
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that's like it's sealed it's thin you know you're not you're not compromised because you're not adding a bunch of you
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know inches are so valuable every inch counts in a van this is a 36 inch that's
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great okay yeah that's way different so that you can actually get in and close the
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door and use the bat right the 30 your knees are tight
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24 you got to use the door open and you can't like take the porta potty in it you probably want to take it out
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to take a shower there's this one you can leave no i think i i don't know just for a little bit extra space
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because it's easy but you certainly don't have to right
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you can only do the tops for the lower roof you can't do uh really
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yeah cause you can't do it on a mid roof okay i'll get you recording right now wait that one guy had a mid roof this
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mod vans let's do this one
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yeah it's interesting because everybody what is this uh bike rack
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so this to
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so we're here at storyteller overland they got the three modes so mode
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you know segment their vans so they got stealth one in the back is the i forgot what
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mode that is that's the original one the one on the right over here is the other mode
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let's check it out i kind of do it like the middle one is like low and on the right is medium and this is
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high okay price range let's check them out
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okay
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so this is what i'm going to do for van 2 this is the layout so the gallery is going to be over here is there um and then you just turn the
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water but this is what this is their only thing that they do
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so they got a fridge i mean a microwave and then they have the is that it's kind
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of like a murphy style bed where it flips down and then you can work on it
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yeah yeah so over there there's a power system and then over here
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right here right here that's all the controls of the van it's one of my
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favorites but i think the way that they're able to do this is like this is their only layout
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so every single one of these bands is the same yeah i mean i can still do that but
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in our system thank you
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so the power system is on the right yeah was it it could have been related
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so i mean that's what i was going to do is is to actually build up the boxes that high
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so the bed comes on top of it you can't kind of change your mind
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i mean this is basically ankle is so
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um
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it's the same thing the same layout
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you have to buy this stuff
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actually here just keep filming [Music]
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ca vans yeah and they've kind of upgraded each other
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[Music] this is a very good company for uh out of canada
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and humble road he likes to uh talk about that i mean use those there's that rv right
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there
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so the other two seats all the cushions on the table oh man
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these things i don't know so this is alvin's
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they do all the exterior components so this was ca vans yeah canyon canyon
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probably california it says canyon van can your canyon adventure base
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nice
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that's your diesel generator so it looks like a rixie system but i think this might be their own system so i'm
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gonna ask
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so you guys will see that in other videos right there is that
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your system yes
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conversations
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all right guys we're going to check out the new airstream interstate
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wow all right interstate x uh four wheel drive so this just came out this is new
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um dual rear wheels and then everything is
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what's up guys hey man how's it going nick kelly
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if we film a little video here of course yeah yeah i've heard a lot about the interstate x um yeah we just got it
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maybe a week ago which yeah we have to keep this one for 120 days is display which we sold
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immediately not here but i sold it before it came down yeah we've ordered a couple of them
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as well you're looking around june to get one but yeah it's a fantastic build out here you've
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got air ride suspension
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inside yes it's so cool you got the lights turned on on the counter i don't know if they are here hold on
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check it out guys the seats wow they are so nice unfortunately you still have every
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safety feature that mercedes-benz offers you've got six airbags up front the mercedes-benz user experience
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everything huge touchscreen
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so how long did you say this is 24. they make them longer now is this a sprinter
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this is the biggest one before
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so check it out james so this is a light so this one back up
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that's awesome
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nice closet light that's cool that's 16 where's my battery here we got
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to get going it's been one of my favorite so this is the uh this is noble so it's both freezer
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drawer and fridge so it's huge
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very big fan fan this lights up i wish we could see that
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it's so cool you gotta turn on the car yeah look how roomy it is yeah there it
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is there's a heating system yeah come on back here jam
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so this is your bed so like you know you have like two guys in here one over here one over here um i don't know if they connect
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well yeah i think they do and then storage down here is open nets
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microwave and then check this out jame look at that this one porthole this
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one's the closest i've seen to like
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that's great what's this like 200 yeah uh way more than that
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all right guys so i'm gonna take a couple pictures take it off a camera but yeah airstream interstate x
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very big very very very roomy
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for awesome
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hey jamie yeah come back in here i'm sorry you guys say all right
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let me take one more go ahead
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thanks foxx
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can we get inside no just keep going okay
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hold on
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that's huge
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20.
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we're going to check out the solas it's pretty popular for people that are just wanting to get into like van life travel
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really like anybody older younger this one is the one that has the
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top top up there and i mean it is really
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that's pretty very roomy
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yeah that's great
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that's great like a set toilet got some vented windows
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um i mean it's kind of black it's a got a gray tank but you can see
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this is the thing when i talk talk about like how big it has to be within the vehicle i mean very little ground
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clearance so he's gonna have to gotta pick and choose your adventures
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get something like that versus something like this
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back here storage
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so it looks like we're at live more camper vans
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uh
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yeah i like the cutting board i think i got an elevator bed yeah yeah
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that's nice so you can have a dinette and the bed you're gonna kind of best of both worlds
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you can have whatever you want in a van you just gotta pay for it you have whatever you want
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if we do i'm gonna do like the colorado boys with like this red and white you're asking me
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something that i like i'm gonna do that um
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it's a very i was like famous but people like that so this and this is not part of it
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check this out surfboard oh this big boy
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oh what's this terra wagon get that
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vent here
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okay
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hey guys how are you doing showcase capabilities
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hey look at that so these are these showman seats are super nice so these guys are blue ridge adventure
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vehicles and they're located in uh like right outside of asheville north carolina
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and we're gonna get this because the batteries run out
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this is really nice i mean this is i've been watching their builds and this is
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this is uh this is cool
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because they do they do all this stuff they build these cabinets that's really nice
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that's a differentiator for sure yeah that's nice
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yeah i definitely want to meet the guy yeah we'll definitely check out your website you know
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this right here this is a seat you can buy it folds down and up so when you have it folded out of the
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way your walk i forgot who's herself
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all right that's it for adventure van expo chattanooga tennessee it's been awesome i got to look at a lot
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of vans i've talked to a lot of van builders i get a good idea what i'm going to what i want to do fans one and
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two i'll make a couple changes i even have an idea for a part i'm gonna
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talk to you guys about that later um but it's like nice to see the vans kind of
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see what they have as far as layouts go and moreover
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everybody that's here like who who all came to this you know family
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brought their dog over here
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i think what i'm going to do is i'm going to sign off here we're going to go in and do some more detailed video on some parts that i kind
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of look at one more time but hope you guys enjoyed this video and i'll see in the next
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