(In my opinion). My '95 Honda ST1100, his '24 KLR650, we did 1800mi to ride the Blue Ridge Parkway and Skyline Drive through Shenandoah National Park south-to-north in three days, camping along the way. Despite 90-100°F highs every day and some hot thunderstorms, we made good time and enjoyed the riding amazingly.
This is wild, I had an 83 stream streak that I lost because I didn’t know there was a stream on Friday. Normally I wouldn’t be able to tune into them, but this week at work nothing was happening. I was on my phone all day on Friday. I’m just really confused how I missed stream. I know there’s nothing that can be done to change it or anything. I guess I’m just mad. this is like the second time I’ve gotten into the high 60s or 80s and miss a stream for some stupid reason like I was on my phone all day. I don’t know how I didn’t get the notification unless there wasn’t one. Now I just look like a poser in chat
he never says boys today the plan is simple anymore. is it complicated now? plz let me know.
thanks.
Ex left me to go be with two other guys, leaving me to pay for $2500 a month apartment by myself while taking care of her two cats. Was dead broke by the time I moved out. Had nowhere to go, so I asked my boss if I could live at our warehouse until I had my stuff together. It was that or living on the streets. He said it was cool as long as our corporate managers never saw the room. Got to stay long enough to save money, do some cool things, and finally move back in with family to do some much needed healing.
1st pic was how it looked when I fully settled in. 2nd pic was how it started. 3rd pic was 5 hours later. Was pretty nice, until summer kicked in and with no ac it would get up to 95 degrees in the room lol
Sometimes I miss the privacy and the freedom to be as loud and crazy as I wanted to be. I think everyone needs a space to be a little unhinged.
Biggest advice to anyone who’s struggling.
Don’t be afraid to ask for help. You might be a bit surprised what people are willing to do for you to make sure you can make it to the other side okay as well.
EDIT:
This is really resonating with a lot of people and I’m really grateful for all the kindness here. I’ll do my best to respond to any more questions once I wake up later! I hope that my story gives you all a reminder that even the smallest things can be like a luxury when it’s taken away. My space was as close to an ideal space as I could make it given some compromises being had.
I’m getting asked a lot on what happened to my ex’s cats that I took care of when she moved out. I’ll just paste what I said in another comment below.
I never was a cat person until I took care of her cats. Fell in love with her cats the same time I fell in love with my ex. Losing the cats was just as awful as the breakup. I asked my ex to tell me when she was moving back to her home state as she couldn’t have cats where she was staying when she moved out. Reason why I asked was so I could spend my last days with her cats with a proper goodbye. I treated those cats like they were my own.
It wasn’t until one day I was about to leave for work and heard my ex trying to break into my apartment to take the cats back without telling me. This was around the time she was sneaking into my apartment to steal some of my things too.
I begged her to let me have just one more day to spend with them to have a real goodbye. She threatened to call the police, so I had to let them go right then and there. I still think about those cats to this day.
Last I heard they’re still doing okay.
You can find a pic of them that I posted in another comment. Hope you both are still doing great, Sylvester and Oscar.
As someone who isn't american it was a culture shock listening to Miyoung on ludwigs stream express disgust for even supporting US for the world cup, it seemed like she would be happy for anyone to win it except US. Isn't she like American? I was also blown away with fuslie rooting against the US and even Tariq ... like aren't they all Americans? What am I missing here? Why do they want their own country to lose?
he went boating at a lake near us and it was rlly cool seeing him, he was wearing the one piece hat with nettspend merch too lol. I forgot to get a pic tho. Very nice guy!!
For the majority of you who are Americans, and don't know much about soccer, i will now try to explain to you how insane of a switch up this is for Ludwig to do.
The USMNT is generally, globally, taken as a joke. You have some good players and have preformed well this world cup, but as a whole a the U.S isn't seen as seriously as nations from other contintents. MEANWHILE, the French national team are deadass one of the most dominant and strong national teams we've seen in football for the past 20 years. It's very difficult to put into words how strong this team is.
(context yap for americans who don't know football, if you follow football skip this next paragraph)
Three of the big name players in the france national team (Dembele, Doue and Barcola) play for PSG (Paris Saint-German), the club that won the most prestigous competition within european club football, the Champions League (awesome name btw). Mbappe, their biggest celebrity and striker, is a football SUPERSTAR who plays for one of the most prestigous clubs in football EXISTANCE and singlehandedly carried france in the last two worldcups, last of which they lost by a hair to the Argentinians (Messis national team). Micheal Olise, their winger, is the biggest "up and coming" star within superstar footballers and plays for the most prestigous club within the german league. His team got to the semi finals in said champions league, only to be BEATEN BY THE PARISIAN TEAM I MEANTIONED EARLIER.
With all of this in mind, the fact that Ludwig to my knowledge only has attended the US v Turkey game is insane. BROTHER YOU HAVE BEEN GIVEN THE BIRTHRIGHT OPPORTUNITY TO ETHICALLY AND GENUINELY CHEER ON THE NATIONAL TEAM WHO ARE THE BIGGEST CONTENDORS TO BE THE WINNER OF THE WHOLE TOURNAMENT AND YOURE OUT HERE REPPING THE FUCKING MICKEY MOUSE TEAM.
sorry if this was rambly and incoherent. i just find it insane to repp the US and not France as a french american.
ps. fuck aimen for repping a Hammarby jersey a few eps ago, HATA HAMMARBY
Aleksa from the YouTube channel *Boy Boy* (hosted by himself and the guy from *I did a thing*) recently uploaded a video of their journey to Cuba delivering aid on a flotilla (with many people who had been on the Gaza flotillas). Ludwig and Michael have collaborated with them before in a video where they set themselves on fire, and I believe they've come across each other in other events too (such as chessboxing).
I think Aleksa's video would be good content for Ludwig to react to. it's informative while maintaining a good sense of humour and positivity, even though Aleksa, his friend, and everyone on the boat are very much risking their lives to do this (the US has been known to strike down ships delivering aid, or even just fishing boats).
I realise Ludwig doesn't tend to react to super serious stuff, but he's a smart man that can definitely do some serious topics (as he did with the second episode of the LEGO scandal). I think his viewers would enjoy it too, as there's probably a decent overlap between Ludwig viewerd , Boy Boy viewers, and *I did a thing* viewers.
For those who don't know, the US has imposed a 66 year long blockade on Cuba which is still on-going. The blockade means that no company or country can trade or do business with Cuba if they wish to continue trade with the US. This situation has slowly suffocated Cuba as they are unable to receive basic treatments, commodities, or medicines.
As such, the only way for Cuba to receive fuel was through Venezuela (who had already been heavily sanctioned by the US, so had nothing to lose), but with the kidnapping of Maduro by the US, Venezuela has been forced to stop their sale of fuel to Cuba.
the consequences of this fuel shortage are immense, with constant black outs, doctors and clients unable to reach hospitals, etc. Cuba is simply collapsing without fuel.
Aleksa's video documents his experience on the flotilla and talking to residents of Cuba about the whole situation.
At Dodgers One Piece Night!!!! 🏴☠️
I’ve been a lurking YouTube frog for just about as long as Ludwig’s been on YouTube and I wanted to extend my sincerest thanks to him and Slime for inspiring me to pursue my passion after seeing their success while being English majors.
From my time watching them on The Yard and Ludwig’s channel, I switched my major to English because I found a passion in poetry and now have 5 major publications and counting, a full ride to my MFA, a living stipend, and a fellowship.
Thank you dearly to Ludwig and Slime for showing me what it means to be truly confident by creating stuff that is vulnerable, personal, and putting it out in the world to be judged in spite of criticism, haters, or nonbelievers.
With sincerest regards - ZJ
I really wanted to say hi to him and the gang but also don’t want to track him down and be weird 😭 also ludwig is right the scalpers are fucking crazy i’ve been asked to sell my card every 10 minutes.. anyways this is my first baseball game it’s fun but the dodgers r losing bad..
update: dodgers won hell yah
did i miss him announce this on stream? i know tyler leaked something a few days ago
August 1-2 and promo video ft. marlon tyler1 joe bert cdawg cellbit katieb yonna and lea
Been watching Ludwig's videos for a long time now and after watching Tip to Tip China, I knew I wanted to do something similar. A few month's ago I had the idea to do a trip across North America with the goal of meeting the goat himself!
Thanks Ludwig for meeting with me and for being an inspiration to me!