Discover Bali's Hidden Gems: My Go-To YouTube Channels

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Hi and welcome to hey Georgie.

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I'm Pete George, host of the show and the channel and everything else and all that kind of fun and games where our motto is life, creativity, inspiration, all with a dash of my little bit of charm.

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So all of you may have seen seen different incarnations of this show from the Pete George experience to photocaster to have.

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And I've been trying to get heygeorgy.com web address for, for quite some time because that's what I've always wanted to call the show.

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And it took me a little while to get it and now I have it, which is good.

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So today's show isn't all about the hey Georgie bit, but that is the show.

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So there we go.

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That's the, that's the name of the show from here on in in its incarnations.

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So today's show, as the thumbnail has said, is my go to websites for Bali.

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Jane and I travel to Bali most years.

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2025 is going to be the only time we've missed other than covert.

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And we're doing a fair bit of travel in Australia.

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So we'll do the same sort of thing with, with Australia.

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But we're heading back in May.

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2026 will be the year list that we get back.

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So when I select YouTube channels that I want to watch, you've got to try to resonate with the people that they're educating you because that's pretty much what YouTube channels are all about, is to educate others.

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That's how I see it.

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None of this clickbait and mucking around stuff that people do, none of the negative stuff.

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And this is where Wayne, Adam and Krishna all come in to their own.

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As a photographer, I like to connect when doing the my photography with people.

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One of the gifts that I do have and whether it's through the camera or interviewing people, I enjoy telling stories and educating people with stories.

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And this is where I feel that from now on at 58, I can help others.

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Whether it's to do with photography, whether it's to do with travel, because I've worked in the travel industry, whether it's from working from home, because I do that now and I've found all the highs and lows and everything that go with that, or whether it's to do with setting up a business and the ideas that go around that we're talking a little bit of politics.

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That's what experience gives you and that's what I want to share.

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And when you.

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The first one I gotta talk about is Wayne now His show is this one, which is if you just go to heygeorgy.com forward/wayne, his channel is Fiasco de Gamma.

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And the resignation there is that, in my opinion.

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Wayne is a brilliant storyteller.

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He connects with the people.

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When you go to Bali the first couple of times, yeah, you're there for the bartering and the partying atmosphere and stuff like that.

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But as you start to learn about Bali, the Balinese people and their culture, you will then change your attitude quite quickly.

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And this is what Wayne does also.

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Adam and Krishna, being a Balinese individual, they all tell a story in different ways and with different things.

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So one of the things that over time is that when I go to Bali, I set myself a challenge every time to, you know, like, this is from a series of 20 faces of Sanur.

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That's where we stay.

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We stay at the top end or the northern end of Sanur, at the end of Jalan Templingen.

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And we actually stayed the last time in Bali in Jalan Sindhu, which heads to the beach.

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And we stayed at the Aquarius there, which I highly recommend as a property to have a look at fair pricing.

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So when I take these images, I sort of, what I do is I walk around a little bit because we're normally there for three weeks, and you start to connect with the people that are in that kapong or the area or the Banja area that you live in, the way that culture works.

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And we walked past this shop every day, they were always smiling and I just pointed at the camera when I went out to shoot some of the 20 faces.

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She just gave me a warm smile and a thumbs up when I said, can I take your photo?

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And that's, that's how it's done.

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And Wayne, when we get to his website, is very, very similar in the way that he, he does his videos.

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I'm not big on videos yet, but I'm getting there.

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Now.

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The other part to the Balinese is that they love to share their culture.

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This was a festival, a beach festival or ceremony where they walked down Jalan Sindhu to a beach temple, which is the family temple for friends of ours that own a restaurant in Jalan Sindhu.

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And because you build those relationships, they allow you to do things that normal tourists don't appreciate.

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And I appreciate it having been a photojournalist for a long time and photographer for more time than I can poke a stick at.

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And these are the images that you get when you go into your old photojournalist.

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So these, this is the first one of the images, this whole series of them slowly getting through to put them up on the main website that I have, Peter George.com that I use.

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So this one, just another one of the young gentlemen.

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And what grabbed me with this, you can actually see me actually doing some work for a change, is that the beauty of Bali is that they embrace all the young people there, embrace the Western culture and still respect their own culture.

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And this image sort of says it with the flashy sunglasses and the tattoo and everything like that.

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But.

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But he's still going to the temple and this is how everyone's raised there.

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And if you go to one of Wayne's videos, he has a chat with a gentleman and he talks about how his family home has been in the family for over seven generations.

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Quite a good chat.

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And this is why I love Wayne.

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Love him to death.

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Here's another one, bit more older gentleman carrying the.

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The white cloth down to the beach.

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And I just snapped him real, real quick.

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When I do do a lot of the photojournalistic, I have focus on spot and auto.

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And that's why I got his eyes.

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I just saw him coming and I sort of tracked him a little bit and then he looked up.

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But the beauty of having all of this, the people still know how to have fun.

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And this is just a young man that has his.

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His restaurant on wheels and all the locals go there.

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And when you chat and have a bit of a laugh, these are the sort of images that you come up with.

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And this one also made it to 20 faces of Sanur.

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So, as I said, Wayne's site is great.

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And what I'll do now is I'll drop this down and we'll go and have a look at Wayne's side.

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And the beauty of Wayne's side is that he starts them all the same way.

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There's no.

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No thrills or no big serious editing in.

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In his videos.

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He's got 75 there.

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And it's all relatable to me and to a lot of people, I think, in the sense that when you listen to him interact with the people, he can speak Bahasa pretty, pretty well.

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So they.

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Yeah, the people just.

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Good morning.

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I'm still here.

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It's good to see you.

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So that's Wayne.

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Some.

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Some may remember Chon from a video a few weeks ago.

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He was in another part of Ubud.

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And I particularly like his sat sauce.

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It's nice and thick and it's got a.

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A very, very rich.

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So as you can see, he's A narrator.

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He's an orator.

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He's a storyteller.

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And just from the interactions that I've had through his YouTube channel, he's a very warm, open individual.

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And hopefully if he watches this video that when I come back to Bali, that I can zip up to Ubud and follow him one morning and I'll do the stills and he can do the video and we can have a bit of fun because he's also a photographer as well, and he's shown a little bit of his photography work.

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He's very abstract and takes in his environment and loves what he sees in his environment.

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Now, the next one is Adam, and once again, just go to heygeorgy.com forward/adam.

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And he's got a channel called Sanur Diaries.

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Now, Sanur is where we stay, but he knows the area extremely well.

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He's an expat as well, and he lives in Sanur.

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From what I can tell, he enjoys his food and he's.

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Him and his partner or wife go out and enjoy the food, and he'll go into different areas and show you different things.

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For instance, he did a bus trip from Sanur to Ubud and showed you how to do that and the costs and everything like that.

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He finds some great restaurants for all different levels of budget.

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So he is another great one.

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And get up.

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Sonua Diaries.

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So this is Adam's site.

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He's given a bit of a refresh and some funky graphics with it, which is really, really good.

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They're not long, just as similar as.

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As Wayne's.

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And he does some great work, as does Wayne.

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And let's have a little.

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Little bit of a look at what.

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Susan's taking us on a bit of a trek around town today to a restaurant which she reckons is pretty good.

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So let's check it out.

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So when we sat down, they gave us these little nuts.

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You find them?

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I used to find them a lot back in the day.

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I haven't had them for a long time.

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They're basically roasted peanuts with kaffir lime and a bit of chili.

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And they're beautiful because you get lots of people who are in the know coming here.

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But it's really one of those edgy places that are a little bit alternative, do come here, but it's not generally very popular.

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Okay, so a good narrator, orator.

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He knows what he wants to do, he focuses on it.

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And he also does like a little news channel every now and again with updates and find some places if you're thinking of Doing long term rentals and things like that.

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So excellent once again.

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So the last one is we've probably watched Krishna the longest when we heard that Bali was opening again, stumbled across him and Krishna took us through a journey like I think he did with a lot of people from when Covid ended in Bali to when it really opened up.

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And you could see how decimated Bali was with not having tourists.

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You know the amount of things that were closed down and now where it is today it's.

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It's totally nutley change.

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So here's Krishna once again.

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Hey georgie.com and he's barley with Krishna, his channel so it's pretty, pretty cool.

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And once again we'll get a little bit of christeners up because they've all given me kindly enough, they've all given me permission to use promote their sites which I've got no qualms doing because these are great people trying to do a great thing.

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So here's a typical Krishna video.

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Hello, good afternoon everyone.

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Welcome back with me again.

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Okay, so this time I'm here in Sanur area.

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I want to walk around in Sanor and let's see the situations at the moment guys now is around at 5:30 so let's just walk around and let's see the situation.

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So Krishna goes everywhere where Wayne focuses on Ubud and that surrounding area.

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There's some also videos on India.

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Adam is Sanur predominantly and he is very knowledgeable but he does go out and about.

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Whereas Krishna will end up anywhere from Ubud to Ahmed.

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Where else has he been?

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Lombard.

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Heaps and heaps of places, the typical ones, Kuda Leggin, Seminyak, Shangu Nusa Dua.

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So all of those and some of them at walk, some of them will be on foot and then sometimes you'll stop and he'll eat at some very local warungs.

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And the funny thing is to watch when he gets a real hot chili one he has a bit of a jump around but he keeps going and he keeps eating it.

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So they're the.

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The three sites that I go to.

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So the first one is Wayne's fiasco, the gamma and just go all these links will be in the descriptions and everything like that.

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When, when you go and watch the videos they'll be listed down below.

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And then the next one is Sanur Diaries with Adam.

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So it's just hey Georgie and Adam.

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And then for a little bit of local we do, we love watching Krishna and that's Bali with Krishna.

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So don't forget if you want to see all of the or he just hear the podcast side of things.

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Just go to heygeorgy.com if you want to see all of the photography, read some blogs and things like that.

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Then we just have petergeorge.com au so thanks for giving me your time today and listening as always and subscribe and like and share and all that kind of stuff.

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And yeah so we're on Spotify, YouTube, Apple podcast so these videos specifically won't go out as a podcast because it's a bit hard to have people sort of see.

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But we'll do a show from it but it's not that important.

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But the important thing is that you let me know what content you want to me to keep pursuing.

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I'll keep on doing this for forever and a day.

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I'm in a position now health wise where everything's not going too flash so this is probably going to be a source for me to relax, enjoy and educate.

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So the next video is going to be on more in depth of different photography from weddings to sports to and some of the old sports haven't done sports for a while.

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he last sport event I did was: 2019

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But I'll give you an insight on how I actually go about and shoot different scenarios and things like that.

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But all I can say is bettergeorge.com hey georgie.com and thank you for your viewership.

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Have a great day and as always say when you wake up be the best version of yourself.