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today i'm going to be setting up a

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bioactive terrestrial enclosure for my

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tarantula

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so let's get started

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welcome to tarantula collective my name

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is richard and i got some rehousing to

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do

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my theraposa apophysis uh also known as

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the pinkfoot goliath bird eater

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has outgrown its enclosure and it's uh

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it's time to upgrade

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now currently it's in a small enclosure

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but it is bioactive it's it's outgrown

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it

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it's time to get it set up in something

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new but i've had a lot of people ask how

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i set up my bioactive enclosures and

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i got three or four different ways i do

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it so today i'm just going to show you

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one of the ways

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it doesn't mean it's the best way it's

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just how i'm doing this one and

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you can check my past videos or future

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videos and see other methods that i use

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now not all tarantulas need bioactive

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enclosures it's mainly just your more

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moisture dependent species

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therafosa is one genus that is moisture

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dependent and it seems the larger they

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get like the older they get

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the more important it is to have that

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moisture so that genus in particular i

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really prefer to keep it in bioactive

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enclosures so let's get to work get this

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set up and get this tarantula re-homed

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now for the most part i have

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everything that i need right here i'm

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gonna be using this

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uh tarantula cribs enclosure that they

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sent to me for christmas i'm

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pretty excited about that it's uh it's a

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terrestrial enclosure

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has this nice locking lid it's like a

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magnetic i don't know there's one two

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three four magnets

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strong magnets that will lock that into

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place so we're gonna be using this

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as the enclosure well almost dropped it

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and for the false bottom of the

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enclosure i'll be using this zoom med

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laboratories waterfall kit it's what i

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didn't use they sent me a whole bunch of

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stuff when i set up the bioactive

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paludarium for my carabiner versacolor

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i used the waterfall feature in the

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enclosure but it's a paludarium so the

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bottom of the enclosure is just a water

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feature that fish are swimming in so i

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didn't need a false bottom but

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i'm gonna use that for this enclosure so

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the first step is gonna be cutting this

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screen to

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fit the enclosure and how i'm gonna do

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that is i'm just going to set the

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enclosure on top of the screen kind of

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trace it out and cut out the rectangle

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all right so we got that done we're just

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going to make sure that it fits nicely

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yeah i think that'll work that'll work

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nice now the first layer in a bioactive

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enclosure kind of needs to be the false

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and in this case i'll be using hydro

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balls but i've seen people use like

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plastic crating there's there's all kind

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of different things you can use but

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really deep i'm probably just going to

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do like a half an inch to an inch of

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hydra balls in this enclosure because

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this tarantula really likes to burrow so

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i'll make sure i give it plenty of depth

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substrate

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i put a little too much in there first

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so i cut it back a little bit but

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i think this is gonna look nice so next

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step is we will uh throw in this screen

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what this does is keep the substrate

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separate from the hydro ball so the

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drain through the substrate get down

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there and then kind of like evaporate

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it just keeps the substrate damp or you

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know plenty of moisture in it without

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just sitting in water where it would

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start to rot and just get nasty

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now i just need to add some substrate

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i'm going to be using jungle mix today

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it's one of my favorite substrates but

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you know you can use pretty much any

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substrate really except for cocoa fiber

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there that's kind of a mixture of a

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bunch of stuff that

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would be beneficial justice frogs has

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some great bioactive substrates you can

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get some from the bio dude and some

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bioactive substrates don't require a

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false bottom if i was using the biodudes

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tara arena or whatever it's called their

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tarantula substrate i would not be using

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a false bottom but

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because i'm not using that i i'm going

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to be using some of this

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jungle mix i went ahead and opted for

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that false bottom but what i will do is

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mix a bunch of sphagnum moss in with the

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jungle mix and

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now that i've got the sphagnum moss

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mixed in there i'm going to wet it down

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as i normally would with substrate

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because i'm going to take some of the

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substrate from its uh

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current enclosure and mix it in there as

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bioactive enclosure there's a whole lot

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of microorganisms and you know

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this the soil itself the substrate

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itself has really kind of developed its

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own little ecosystem so i want to make

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all those little microorganisms i can

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transplant into this enclosure as well

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small little dwarf isopods and stuff

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like that that i probably want to carry

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over to this enclosure too and now we're

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going to transfer these plants over in

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here so i'm just going to set up exactly

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where i want to hide

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and things like that and move the plants

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over and i mean it wouldn't be a

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tarantula collective enclosure without a

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this one's for you petco so now i need

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to get into the old enclosure pull out

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the plants

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and move some of that substitute into

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the new enclosure now this

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is a theraposa species like i said it's

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a goliath pink foot bird eater which has

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some pretty serious

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urticating hairs now it's not necessary

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that you always wear gloves or long

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sleeves or glasses whenever you're

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interacting with a theraposa but it's

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idea what i'm going to be using are

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rubber gloves it's a little bit of an

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overkill especially for just the

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juvenile species but

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i got to do what i got to do but these

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are nice because they cover my entire

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arm so

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even if it kicks some hair at me or i

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mix them up and throw them up in the air

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i don't have to worry about it like

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getting on my forearms which i enjoy

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because i've been haired by this species

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before and it is not fun

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very itchy drives me crazy

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all right got the gloves on now just for

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put on some glasses but these glasses

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are really dirty

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and the only reason to wear glasses i

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actually got an email from someone not

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long ago that

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uh la ciadora perry abana had kicked

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some hairs up gotten her boyfriend's

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and they were afraid some of them got in

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the eyes so you know it's it's always

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safe than sorry i you know i don't think

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that this trash is gonna be kicking

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hairs at my face so i'm i'm not gonna

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wear them but i just wanted to show you

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that sometimes you may want to consider

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doing it especially with the theraphosa

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tarantula so hopefully this goes

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just destroyed its old enclosure and i'm

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sure it's not very happy

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it's always amazing how big these

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tarantulas get i think they're one size

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big as i anticipated and i moved some of

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the substrate from its old enclosure

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handful or so but i can see that a lot

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of springtails have transferred from

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that enclosure into this one but

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is it's the uh kook cuisine it's this

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who's incusing from the josh's frogs

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essentially it gets damp and kind of

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springtails i'm just going to throw one

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of those down in there

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and now we're going to water the plants

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yeah baby wonder if all my

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bad decisions get accounted in the

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algorithms no statistician could

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dissuade me from my bigger vision

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i know my occupation's quite an unlikely

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place in this world to occupy

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and talk about upon a daily basis our

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information is predetermined by some

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biased business

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we island sermon the silicon that push

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our lovely neighbors i'm done with paper

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chasing think i'm on the bigger banquets

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miss that full circle new wave energy on

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a tuesday turn a blue day to a bright

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you yellow with a smoothie in here extra

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fruit hey the brand you can't move me

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if i know one thing the truth is home

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even if it's a tough thing to swallow an

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even harder thing to hold and truly know

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without a doubt while on the globe

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even though all right and that's pretty

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much it i want to say thanks to

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tarantula cribs for sending me out this

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awesome enclosure and the skull and hide

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