NVIDIA Sept 2014 Media Event - Epic 20 Minute Vlog!
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2015-05-07
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3,023 words · ~15 min read
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so this is the place where NVIDIA is putting up all the journalists for the
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event that I'm attending right now this is kind of cool they've actually got
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live trees growing inside the hotel
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lobby which seems like a good idea until you're walking around on the inside of a
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hotel lobby and it's Autumn and our leaves all over the place still super
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neat
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though G skill's new rip Jaws 4 Series is their ultimate ddr4 memory with
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speeds of up to 3,333 MHz available click now to learn
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more so I've been talked into going on a
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sailboat um something I hadn't really intended to do but we've uh we've got a
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couple hours to kill so wish me luck
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right now do a Leonardo
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DiCaprio do a
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deafo I'm the I'm the king of the
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world well they told me I have to sit
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down up here but it's definitely uh definitely a different
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experience think I'm late for the bus I think we're all supposed to be like
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going to the aquarium or something feels kind of like an
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elementary school field trip as far as I can tell this is kind of like the NASCAR
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of fish except we turn to the right and
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thus Begins the aquarium tour so this is interesting we thought
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we found one that was going against the flow but apparently they're just all
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going to turn around now and I'm sure I'm an idiot for asking this question
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but where the hell are they coming from there must be a
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trick I walked up behind this guy kind of going why are you looking at these
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tiny little things they're stupid and then uh noticed that they like glow and
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Flash and stuff check that out
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freaking cool apparently these are sea gooseberries because gooseberries glow
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all right now we're talking no more jellyfish now we got like sharks and
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stuff and they expect us to pay attention to graphics cards
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now selfie with a
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shark oh the shark's going that way oh my head's covering it there we go check
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this out look at all these fish on the bottom you sure don't like that shark
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much eh oh here come two more here we
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go and if my camera could focus that'd be
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great wow it's a good thing this isn't a beauty contest to be
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uh featured in here this the nastiest looking
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fish this one okay I'm sure it has a heart of gold
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there's a like a
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hor I'm coming for you
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Scott Turtle time now I heard there was
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a movie about
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these although they moved a little faster in the movie hate to break it to
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you dude but uh that's a blue wall all right so I got back to the room
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and it looks like the hotel finally managed to drop off my care package so
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we'll do a short like package unboxing so to
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speak um okay first thing inside is uh
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some kind of NVIDIA clothing they're hiring me no no I don't think that's
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what's happening no they're just trying to completely take over my wardrobe so
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just a little uh subtle NVIDIA thing
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it's pretty nice actually all right what's
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next
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ooh Shield wireless controller a Shield
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tablet cover and there is The Shield tablet so
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you get the whole shebang tablet cover and wireless controller this is like the
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secret piece of paper with all the embargoed information on it hey it's
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from model price look at that so presumably a cable of some sort oh okay
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so that's mini HDMI to HDMI so that you can use console mode and then we've got
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o a name tag I'm from lanus Tech tips
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yeah and finally a lard which is
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presumably for the name tag not
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bad not a bad haul yeah I make haul
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videos now or something that's where you like
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make a video in the
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hall but all right so it's the morning of day
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two and I would uh feel and look a lot
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better if I hadn't stayed up so late reading all the comments on the 1
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million subscriber awesome celebration video but
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of course you know still leave comments I will read all the comments on that
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video they've been very uplifting um oh
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if you haven't already make sure that you're entered in the giveaway over
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there giving away a gaming PC a surface it's going to be pretty sweet so now I
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finally get to go downstairs and hopefully there's still some breakfast left they're supposedly serving it for
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another 20 minutes so I'll get some breakfast and then I'll find out why
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we're actually here it's presentation time all right so the presentations are
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over and it's time to go and play with the demos so uh naturally that would be
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done in the in the ballroom it's kind of like ball pit you
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know cuz you play look at this look at this guy
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thinks he's allowed to be in my video what's that I don't even have a signed
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release from you I'm not putting you in my video you don't have a release not from you wouldn't also wouldn't ask
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permission from him it's all right so here is where all the crazy magic new
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tech is going on they've got a couple demos from Oculus um as well as
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presumably some of the stuff they just showed us so let's go uh let's go have a
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look at the demo stations so today was bananas uh some of the stuff we learned
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about wasn't really new but um definitely stuff that I didn't have
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nearly the kind of understanding of that I now do so uh now it's time to go have
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like dinner on the beach or something like that so that's pretty cool and then
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tomorrow is another full day of presumably more stuff so I made it to
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dinner and uh we've got like the most colorful chairs in the world at what
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seems to be like a pretty cool party speaking of cool guys Scott from the
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tech report and I caught him off guard here a
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little bit I think cool party yeah pretty cool party we've got some prizes
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to give away but you need to be here in
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the sand isn't that right Kelsey if you
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want to win anything you got to be down here may I'll I was told this guy is
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like the oneman party here I was told
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NVIDIA had some real athletes here am I
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right Lord oh no oh yeah
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baby calories sure sure it's already on right
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yeah yeah it's on and I got a mic on down here tell them all right all
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right these are I'm an idiot so guys
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with the hula hoops your job I'm skiing
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is to make these guys vote for you so
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you got to do something funny that's going to separate yourself from the rest
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of the crowd get anywhere you
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want come on okay my okay all right all
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right can I hula hoop at all no no I can
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try I mean if you just kind of go wide enough
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pour it on well that's okay with me I I
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dig Canadians dude anyway judges what do you think about the big man lonus
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working hard I got you in there brother you're
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in the final man are these our final hey
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wait there was somebody else put everything you got into it
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okay oh
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yeah what put it on your
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Don't Stop Me
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Now oh yeah baby come on you got about
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15 pour it on baby what about this guy
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from Canada everybody okay let's get the guy from
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Canada right here Kelly you come on out here too we're going to have a clap off
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here what do you think about Kelly
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what do we think about the dude from
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Canada if I Twerk will more of you vote for
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me dude I thought you were awesome but it's Kelly and this
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guy awesome job you glad they didn't say
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awesome chin up now chin up looking good
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guys are dance
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you say Korean I don't know shoud I think you're
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at a bit of a disadvantage I actually just walk right under this wait wait
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wait wait wait wait feel good all right
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J nice
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job Make some noise
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for you good and we're going to let you go again
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we're going to let you go uh-oh we got another guy down all right you get
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another chance he didn't spill a drop scream and make some noise oh Slide the
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chin must be up come on come on come on guys make a
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little no come on Kelly we're behind you come
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on very oh come on up here bro and get a get a
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lay from me all right you ready guy in the blue
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shirt behind you oh
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ouch took the whole thing down help him out got
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it waa limber little F
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dang get too close fam he might come back on you
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oh come on Jen you can do this you can
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do oh one more chance one more chance good job
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oh my God if this is good or not cuz you got a better Vantage Point than me whoa
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he stuck it it very nice very very
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nice nice job brother R okay help him
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out everybody dang was that number two bro
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nice job Mance help her out help help her out
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she's going down you can't hold the stick ma' okay if he makes it he is our
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champion he is our champion
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okay come on now guys we all got to help him out a little bit Make Some
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Noise come
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on oh he's down he is down she gets one
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last try help her out
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everybody you can do it you can do it you can do it she's down I think we got
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a champion can I can I try one more time
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oh you can try it one more time just yes but I think you've got
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it hello can you go
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all right well that was totally uh totally worth humiliation this is my
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Round of Applause for our great stick holders fantastic stick holders those
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are all yours to PE brother anybody so the uh so the beer pong we got kicked
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out of the hall here and evidently it's just been set up outside because that's
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a sensible thing thank you for
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that so so this this is this is the plan
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now a table in the middle of the Sand where's
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uh where'd he
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go all right so it's the last day of the trip and we're going to be doing a
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kayaking soon I had the second day of
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briefing that of course I can't say anything about at all and I'm just
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trying to get some sunscreen so I'm at the Walgreens here and
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uh huh okay well apparently this is not a store
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entrance so so it's time to go on an
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Epic Journey so an interesting thing I
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realized while I was here is that I've been calling I'm assuming I've been
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calling the cheese wrong all this time I call it Montery Jack and uh I think it
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must be Monteray cuz everyone here pronounces it that way the soldiers were
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making fun of me for vlogging I was going to tell them off but they're
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soldiers so I didn't you know back when
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it was film I can see why 1 hour photo was impressive but now that they're just
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printing them is that really an achievement so I'm looking for SPF 50
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and there's not a whole lot of options there's a lot of spray on ones there's a
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lot of like for babies and for kids and then there's like this one for
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$13 or I can buy Hello Kitty for N9 I
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got one of those left and I think that's what we're
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doing and now I'm running late of course I'm Vlogging about it
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forgot my credit card so I had to go
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back again for my Hello Kitty
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sunscreen directions oh know this is
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great ingredients there like two things in it purpose sunscreen love
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it just in case I didn't know that purpose
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sunscreen so I'm on the bus and uh we've
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got some interesting characters here with me did did you forget we were going
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somewhere no I'm going to the
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water yeah think the only thing geekier than a
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bunch of computer geeks there's a bunch of computer geeks in like w sa
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yeah nice Al a nice sunscreen application technique you've got going
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on there Demetri yeah well it's better than what you got going on I don't know
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what I have it but all right so here we are I've been
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informed that I'm going in a double boat they the lesson on how to operate
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the paddle evidently you want it to go with the flat side into the water not
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the other side so uh I think I can handle that but the part about not
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leaning out of the boat I think I might have a little bit of trouble with that so uh we'll see how this goes we've been
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instructed to hold on to the kelp to stay still water comes up because the
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surface water is and we get really cold fridge in
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water so right now our water temperature has warmed up but that cold fridge water
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feeds the kelp all the nutrients so in
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the summer this giant
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grow wow so this kelp only grows on Rock
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because we have rocks and kelp we have tons of kelp and rock fish over 50
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different species so hey look at that we found a sea otter
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you're not allowed to go within 50 ft of them so this is I think about it but uh
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he's over there I've been assured that he's over
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there there my boat's turning in the wind all
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right we're drifting pretty good here okay camera goes up well evidently these
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are uh not naturally white rocks those are uh those are poop
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rocks
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fantastic there are some harbor seals way out there can't get too close though
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apparently if they come near you it's okay and there's a couple guys right
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here I don't think you're going to be able to pick them up on
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camera you kind of see his head there
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cool so my Excursion uh ran a little
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longer than I had kind of sort of thought about or expected so I'm out on
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a kayak I book it back to the dock I my
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my tandem kayak partner ah oh
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my tandem kayak partner has to come in help me get out of the boat and he goes
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out on his own and then I run back to the hotel and right as I arrive they've
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sorted it out and found me a new flight so I'm not in a hurry at all so I guess
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the good news is now I get to have a shower before the flight all right so my
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Skin's still wet but I that's on account of having just showered not actually
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being sweaty but I have a
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philosophical dilemma for you guys what
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is cleaner the pants that I have already
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worn for 2 days or the pants that I've only been
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wearing since this morning but that I was just running in okay and making the
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decision even more difficult um I removed my belt and all the things from
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my pockets and didn't mark which one is
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which so now it's just a
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crapshoot a new piece of information in
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pants dilemma in the great pants LMA of
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2014 these are the ones from the other couple days oh maybe it's these ones
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whichever ones have a bunch of sand in the pockets from the hoola contest are
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the ones from the other day so now I have to decide somewhat damp but
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obviously not damp enough I could tell the difference between them but no sand
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in the pockets to get into You Know Places I think I'm going to go with the
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the wet ones with no sand yeah we have a
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decision all right so this is it the end of the
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trip I uh actually had intended to shoot
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my last bit not on my phone but on the camera instead but I realized as I was
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going through airport security that I had my lavalier mic in my shirt I'm like
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wired up with this thing and I was like oh crap this looks weird so I quickly
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threw it off I'm not going to put that back on in the airport so that's it I hope you guys enjoyed this travel blog
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and uh I hope you're looking forward to whatever it is I was doing here
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he