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Alright guys, so I've been living in my Tesla for the past two years now

and I wanted to talk to you guys all about it in today's video, so let's get into it.

So I've been living in this Tesla Model X since December of 2025, so seven months I've been living in this one.

Previously I did live inside my Tesla Model Y since May of 2024, so a total of two years I've been living inside Teslas.

But let me show you guys this rig.

This is a Tesla Model X that I converted into a van

because I basically created underneath storage with the help of a builder.

And that pretty much just, it's a wood panel.

And I have an entire single bed right here with a microwave, dramatic water pump.

And let me show you guys the back.

So this is the drawer system by B3 Customs in Oceanside near San Diego.

And bam, this is a fridge I have full access to.

And it stays plugged in 24-7 inside the Tesla 12-volt in the back.

Little walk around.

Let me show you guys this one.

So these are the X-Wing doors.

This Tesla Model X is actually discontinued now they don't make any of these

but here's the other view microwave

and then I have a power bank in the front also have a pop down sink right there

so I'm able to live in this full time with a full kitchen a fridge

and a bed

and let me tell you guys about the story of how I started living inside Tesla's okay

so I've been traveling so much I haven't really had a chance to like sit down

and like talk to you guys about like the story of how I started living inside the car.

So if you guys are new to the channel, my name is Nico.

I'm 31 years old and I live full-time in my Tesla for the past two years.

Since May of 2024, I started living inside a Tesla.

The Model Y before this.

Let's bring it back to 2017.

I had went to San Jose State.

I had just got a business degree and I was ready to conquer the world.

Yet I had applied to multiple different jobs.

I didn't get anything and I started my own business called Motivitz Meal Prep in San Jose, California.

And me and my brother had started it and we thought we had a good rhythm going.

We were selling about 200 meals a weekend and we thought it was all good.

And then we found out that it wasn't working and that I and my brother, me and my brother were just like, forget it.

We're just going to work full-time jobs yeah that's where alec had applied to tesla in 2018

and then i was still living off savings

and i was a server at a gen korean barbecue i think 2019 happened

and i got hired at tesla i was a production associate starting at 19 per hour

and keep in mind i had a business degree

and i was stunned i was like what is this like i i i went to school

and i and you know I got a business degree

and I'm starting at $19 an hour just base level starting

but you know I said I was gonna work hard inside Tesla

and work my way up so 2020 happened

and I got hired at GNC as a store associate

and then I had worked two jobs so I was working GNC

and I was working at Tesla

so I had actually got a promotion at Tesla I was a production team lead which was $24 an hour.

So I was working two jobs and I got a raise basically at Tesla

and I had for the life of me still wanted to climb the ladder

and so I actually became in 2021 a production supervisor starting at $85,000 a year and I thought life was great.

I have another job you know at GNC and I have Tesla and so things were going good.

So good that me and my parents actually

and my lower brother went into a house

and we bought a 1.2 million dollar house in Lathrop California

and so now my commute was from Lathrop all the way to Tesla in Fremont California

which was an hour and a half one way and an hour

and a half back and keep in mind the work shifts were three days one week

and four days the next week 12 hour shifts for all those days

so I was working like 630 a.m a.m to 6 30 p.m.

I was listening to Dave Ramsey on the road all the time.

I was listening to his podcast and it kind of gave me into the mindset

that you know be debt-free

and you know it's going to allow you to have more freedom if you ever want to get into something else.

So I kept listening to Dave Ramsey and being debt-free and what that can do for you.

The biggest expense is the house, the mortgage, right?

The rent payment.

It's going to be what whatever that number is, it's a thousand two thousand three thousand dollars right plus you have electricity and all

that in 2024 i had topped out my salary 120 000

a year i thought i was on top of the world

you know things are going great i actually got rid of

my uh gnc job i thought you know i don't need

that no more because i'm making 120 grand a year now you know life is great

and i thought it was smooth until 2024 in April.

I'll never forget it.

I was driving on I-580 and it was 4.30 in the morning.

My work shift started at 6.30.

So I was in the dark driving to work on FSD in my Model Y.

I had gotten an email saying my work account had been deactivated and I was like, what does that deactivate me?

And I would text my boss and my boss said, everybody got it, just come in.

And then I was like, okay.

So I came in to work to Fremont, hour and a half away, went to the badging gate, slid my badge and it turned red.

And the security guard had said, I had been laid off.

I don't work there no more.

So after 2019 to 2024, I got laid off.

And I thought my whole world was stunned.

It was just broken.

I was like, I look left and right, man.

I was like, damn, I remember coming here all the time, every work shift.

I slept actually in the parking lot to avoid the three-hour round-trip commute.

For about a year, I did that.

Because I used the showers at the facility in Tesla Fremont, California.

And they had microwaves inside the break room.

And yeah, it would be awkward to see my coworkers inside the bathroom sometimes at 6 a.m.

but you know how to get the job done right and

so you know got laid off

and I'll never forget it I went back home into

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that inside that 1.2 million dollar house

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and I told my parents I was like I just got laid off

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and I don't know what to do and it shocked me

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and it did my parents to electric car giant Tesla laid off around 10% of its workforce in April.

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That translates to about 14,000 jobs.

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Many who worked at the factory in Fremont were commuting from Sacramento, Stockton, and Lathrop.

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Your reporter covering San Joaquin County, Esteban Reynoso, is in Lathrop, where one man is speaking out about his experience with the car company.

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Everything was going right for Nico Murillo.

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He had bought this house here in Lathrop right behind me, as well as a Tesla, while working at Tesla, and five years in, he got laid off.

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Now he has to look for a new job and sell the house here in Lathrop.

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Got laid off recently on April 15th and Monday.

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Nico Murillo worked for five years at Tesla's car manufacturing factory in Fremont, building the cars we see on the roads.

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He commuted almost every day, the hour and a half drive to and from work and home in Lathrop.

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Pulling the car, we were putting the parts in, and then staying in the car down the line.

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And on the days he didn't commute, then he goes there, and then this is a trifold bed, so you collapse it and put it in the trunk.

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He would sleep in his car to save time.

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It was tough, man.

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Dedicated to his work at Tesla, that is until he tried to use his badge at the employee entrance like any other day.

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This big security guard in his deep voice was like, hey man, sorry.

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And then he pulled me to the side and I was like, oh, this is not good.

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And then he's like, hey man, sorry, you've been part of the layoffs.

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Yeah, you don't work here anymore.

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Just like that, Murillo was laid off.

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Around 14,000 other Tesla employees met the same fate that April morning.

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and now Murillo has to make some tough decisions.

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Yeah, I gotta sell the house, gotta do what I gotta do to, you know, keep living.

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A home he bought just two years ago.

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But Murillo isn't sour towards Tesla.

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I like the brand, how luxury it looks.

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I like the camp mode in there.

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All of that is like, it excites me to, you know, to have worked for the company, yeah.

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After the house hopefully sells, he says he will go back to living in his car.

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He says the Tesla door closing has allowed him to follow what he truly wants to do perseverance and grit.

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Once you have that attitude, the world is endless, right?

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Murillo will be documenting his journey on YouTube, living in his car, as well as his new job at the GNC inside the Stone Ridge Mall in Pleasanton.

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He says that it needs a lot of traffic and that anybody can come and say hi.

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Alright guys, we have KTVU Channel 2 News.

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He has a big giant camera.

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Look at that thing.

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Oh my god.

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So yeah, so they're here, they interviewed me, a little quick, like a couple minutes, but yeah, kind of cool.

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Showed them around the car, gave them a little tour.

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The whole setup over here, pretty dope.

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But, you know, there's always something good and something great out of something bad.

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And you can always turn water into wine or you can turn a bad situation into something good.

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So I was telling my parents, I was like, you know, what if I put this on YouTube?

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I know I signed an NDA, but if I put this on YouTube, maybe other people will share the same experience you know

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and I didn't know

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that a lot of people had had this issue of getting laid off even though they worked at a job

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that you know they were at and you know you could work

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so hard at something but still be let go

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and I didn't know that concept and I

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and this is very common in like the tech field I

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didn't know this is my first time getting laid off

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and um yeah so long story short I we had this meeting with my parents

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and my little brother because we were living in the 1.2 million dollar house in Lathrop

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and I was like what do we do you know something's

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got to go we can't afford this house anymore you know I think we're gonna have to sell

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so that's what we did in May of 2024 we had to sell our our house

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so the following month after I got laid off we put

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the house on the market it got sold in a couple weeks

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because I ended up being on the news for getting laid off from Tesla

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and soon the YouTube started growing and but I was

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so lost I was completely lost I was like you know what I'm just gonna work at GNC again

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because I had worked there before I just took any job

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because I was applying I kid you not guys I was

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applying like for like every job I could Even a target cashier I couldn't even get in.

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And it was so like, I was so distraught because I had put so much time

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and effort into a company and to be let go you know and

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so after you know going to GNC in the storage mall

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in Pleasanton I started living in the car full-time in my Model Y

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and I was like you know what this is not that bad

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but I did have some major difficulty guys i for the life of me couldn't find a gym

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that was 24 hours i went to 24 hour fitness i thought it was good

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and it turns out that it was not the best experience there was

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if i had to tell people like what to do you

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know before he started living in the car this is what i would tell them

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because like yeah 24 hour fitness like the showers were really nasty it smelled there was people spraying underneath me

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and i for the life of me i couldn't do 24 hour fitness

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So this thing I discovered a van life person on YouTube

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Anytime Fitness

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They're franchised They have gyms all across the US And I didn't even know this

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And also Planet Fitness They have gyms all across the US

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And you can go in there and shower Some of them are not 24 hours

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But Anytime Fitness is 24 hours Because you put in a badge right here

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And you just sign in And I didn't know that And

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so that's how I shower And use the bathroom

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and I was like oh this is quite interesting maybe you could do this all across the country you know

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and so I slowly realized like how bad it actually was in the car

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when I was living in it in Pleasanton when it got in June

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because remember it's April May and then now June of 2024

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and my fridge started overheating it was so hot in the car

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and like I didn't know that Tesla's had a fridge in the sub trunk like

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that that just mind-boggled me

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and then I didn't know there was Dometic water pumps to squirt water

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and I was like I was like what I was like this exists at REI

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and so water tank um I didn't know you could have a microwave in a car

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so I had got a power bank that was strong enough

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and um you know by Blue Eddy and

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or EcoFlow that's the time I had it and But now I have Blue Eddy and they're a great sponsor.

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And I'm able to have a microwave.

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So microwave, a fridge, water, a bed.

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I got on Amazon to just cut this.

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And so all these things I started figuring out on my own.

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And I had to learn the hard way by doing all of it myself.

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And hopefully this inspires you to either car camp

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or to experience what it's like to live in a car

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because this is this is the caveat this is the turning point

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when we had that meeting me my little brother

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and my parents I'll never forget it I'm a super big Excel sheet guy

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and so when I saw rent electricity gas water garbage eliminated

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and also got rid of my car note

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so I didn't have a car payment

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so I got rid of all the big expenses

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and started living below my means

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and I started saving get this $1,500 per month just on a regular GNC job

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and that's like almost basic entry-level guys and

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so I started figuring out like wow man you could save

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a lot of money by just living in a car

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and you know it's not easy but it's possible and it's doable

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and I'm telling you guys the other side of like you

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know living in the car is like savings right saving money right

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but also experiencing and and living out and enjoying nature

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and being outside caveat i do stay in a house from the months of november december

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and january because and and some of february

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because those are the coldest months of the year

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and it's really hard to live in the car

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so um i'll go actually live in it part-time

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so that's the caveat

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but you do save a lot of money by living in

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the car just saying you don't have to do it i'm not telling you

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but like the experience of living in it full-time is awesome since august of 2024 that's

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when i quit my my full-time job at gnc

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and i started doing youtube full-time because all the views

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and ad revenue

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and the sponsors started coming in that's pretty much how i started living inside the car

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and traveling full-time and doing this YouTube channel.

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All right guys I've been living in my Tesla for the past two years now

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and one of the things that I really wish I had

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when I first started living in the car would be a portable camping chair

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but not any portable camping chair one that's easy to put away easy to carry around

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but most importantly easy to deploy like takes a couple seconds just to set up.

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All right fam my front porch is down bad

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and I need a chair to help me edit these videos while I'm outside.

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I really like the Overmont camping chairs because it's super compact and it fits right underneath my bed frame.

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Items that save space is a huge priority for me

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because it's really cramped inside the car

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and what I love about the Overmont camping chair is

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that it's a quick deploy so all you got to do is flick of the wrist and it's set up.

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It took me less than a minute to set this up

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and that's what I really like about the Overmont camping chair

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and this camping chair does more than just having a place to sit.

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It allows you to connect to nature and especially when reading outside.

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I believe having the correct environment is going to inspire you to be more creative.

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Plus I literally hate not having a place to sit especially when there are no chairs in sight.

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And to put away the camping chair all you got to do is disassemble the fabric and then put the spokes together.

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It doesn't take that long.

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It only takes a couple seconds.

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You fold it like it's a little lumpia and boom it's put away.

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I'll have a link in the description box below so

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that way you guys can order your Overmont camping chairs so that way you can enjoy the great outdoors

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while sitting down because ain't nobody got time to sit on the concrete or you know somewhere else.

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So thanks overmont for sponsoring today's video and now back to the video.

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I did feel lost when I had started living in the car, in the Tesla, cause I was constantly traveling in August, right?

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And so there's this one quote, it says, travel far enough and you meet yourself.

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And that one really hit me when I read that quote, cause it's like, you start to understand yourself

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when you start living in a car and start reading tons of books

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and start you know waking up to nature and hearing birds

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and like seeing the sunrises and sunsets and

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and I'm super grateful I've learned gratitude and I've also found God too

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and you know you're never lonely when you have God that's one thing

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and you know there's something great about just living nomadically right not having not having a responsibility of a house

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and just being outside in nature in parking lots

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or I don't know I really do enjoy it

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and I hope you guys you know get a chance to you know actually car camp

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or be outside of nature and overnight camp somewhere

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which brings me into a segue of where do you actually car camp at right

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and where do you actually you know where do you actually sleep at

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and so majority of the places I sleep at is either neighborhoods the 24-hour gyms

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and you could park at loves to like also truck stops

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and also rest areas so but a majority of my my sleeping overnight is

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that like 24-hour gyms and also in neighborhoods like I would park in the neighborhood

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and then after I'd park in the neighborhood I got to

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go to the bathroom I just drive two minutes away from the gym

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and I'll just come back to the neighborhood and just park there

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and camp there overnight and

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so that's my strategy I've been doing for the past almost like two years now is exactly

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that and you know it's not

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that hard as long as you figure out your rhythm

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and you look at Google Maps

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and stuff it helps out a lot I read this one

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book called the obstacle is the way by Ryan Holliday it's a great book

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but it says that yeah problems will eventually happen it's not a matter of

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if ladies and gentlemen it's a matter of when the bad things happen

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and are you prepared for it right and so

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when these bad things happen it's okay like just know in the moment

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that these things will come and go and like this too shall pass right

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and it's like you know uh your fridge might overheat

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or like it gets too hot in the car

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or the um the gym doesn't have a shower actually and

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so you have to or the gym actually is not 24 hours at planet fitness

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and you got to go to the next one

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so these things eventually they happen but it's the mindset

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that shift of like hey it's okay because you know bad things happen eventually

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and this is just one of the bad things it's like the highest of the highest

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and you know the lowest of the lows man

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and you got to take it all in stride

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and you know that's that goes on with a lot of athletes right

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you'll win some games and you'll lose some games and you know

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if you're a quarterback at a football game you throw an interception are you gonna keep your head down

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or are you gonna work through it

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and go on to the next play right or the next drive

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and it's kind of like that same thing of like I used to play football

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and you know that's the mindset that you got to have

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when living in a car it's like next next play mentality right

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and you know you just got to keep moving forward no

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matter what no matter what happens to you you got to keep going

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and you know don't stick your head in the sand

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if you if it got laid off

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or you you lost your your job right or like

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or like you lost a house

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or you know um something really bad happened to you right

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it's like okay understand it reflect it's good to understand these emotions

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and and hold them but don't hold them on too close to where you're stuck right

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and so that's what I learned is like even like the greats like Taylor Swift she said catch

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and release right like catch the feeling understand it feel it

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but then release it right like that's the thing the mentality

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that I don't a lot of people don't don't think about

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when living in a car is like that that catch

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and release mentality right and that you know bad things happen okay let's move on right

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and so you know that having that attitude

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and also having an attitude of gratitude like I get to do this you know this is a life

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that I get to live right and that we only get one life

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and how do you want to live it right and so

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my life right now is to inspire to motivate to uplift others to either car camp

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or to you know live nomadically or just to have the right mindset

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and I hope you guys like enjoy the videos

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that I create every single week because I get a chance to motivate

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and uplift you guys and

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and I get to be a motivator that's what I've always wanted to do as a supervisor at Tesla

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as a you know um as a person in football i was like one of the team captains you know

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and so i was a running back

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and like you know i i just want to inspire you guys

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and you know to keep your head up even though things are down

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but you don't stay there right

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so i just want to end the video here i know i've been ranting for a long time

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and i just wanted to give you guys like my story of how started car camping

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and living nomadically in a car

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and hopefully you guys get to enjoy you know being outside of nature

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or go car camping once in a lifetime and

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if not you know it's okay so I thank you guys for watching

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and we'll catch you guys in the next video peace

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Этот урок разговорной практики уровня B1 построен на видео «2 Years Living in a Tesla, No Rent». В этом видео 351 предложений и 4321 слов для шедоуинга. Речь длится 23:23. Говорящий говорит быстро, около 185 слов в минуту, поэтому звуки часто сливаются и сокращаются. 83% слов входят в 3000 самых частых слов английского языка; остальные стоит разобрать перед занятием.

Ключевая лексика этого видео

Самые сложные слова из видео (15), с произношением и значением:

Слово	Произношение	Значение
tesla существительное	/ˈtɛslə/	те́сла
microwave существительное	/ˈmaɪkɹoʊˌweɪv/	микроволна́
commute глагол	/kəˈmjuːt/	смягчать наказание
mindset существительное	/ˈmaɪn(d)ˌsɛt/	склад ума́, о́браз мы́слей
inspire глагол	/ɪnˈspaɪə(ɹ)/	внуша́ть, внуши́ть
badge существительное	/bæd͡ʒ/	значо́к, знак
caveat существительное	/ˈkæviɑt/	предупрежде́ние, предостереже́ние
mentality существительное	/mɛnˈtæləti/	менталите́т, склад ума́
sponsor существительное	/ˈspɒn.səː/	поручи́тель, поручи́тельница
overnight наречие	/əʊvə(ɹ)ˈnaɪt/	всю ночь, за́ ночь
deactivate глагол	/ˌdiːˈæktɪveɪt/	деактиви́ровать, отключа́ть
overheat глагол	/ˌoʊvɚˈhit/	перегрева́ть, перегре́ть
stun глагол	/stʌn/	оглуша́ть, оглуши́ть
uplift глагол	/ʌpˈlɪft/	поднима́ть вверх, поднима́ть
motivate глагол	/ˈmoʊ.tɪ.veɪt/	мотиви́ровать

Фразовые глаголы, которые вы услышите

Слово	Произношение	Значение
lay off глагол		увольнять
put away глагол		убира́ть, убра́ть
figure out глагол		разбира́ться, разобра́ться
set up глагол	/ˌsɛt ˈʌp/	устана́вливать, установи́ть
sit down глагол		сади́ться, сесть
end up глагол		зака́нчиваться, зако́нчиться
find out глагол		узнава́ть, узна́ть
go back глагол		возвраща́ться, возврати́ться

Грамматика в этом видео

Конструкции, которые говорящий использует чаще всего, с точными словами из видео:

Конструкция	В видео
Present Perfect Continuous have/has been + -ing — действие началось раньше и продолжается	I've been living · I've been traveling · I've been doing
Пассивный залог be + причастие прошедшего времени — важно, что происходит, а не кто это делает	is actually discontinued · had been deactivated · had been laid
Present Perfect have/has + причастие прошедшего времени — прошлое действие, важное сейчас	haven't really had · you've been · has allowed
Past Continuous was/were + -ing — действие, которое длилось в определённый момент прошлого	were selling · wasn't working · was still living

Произношение, на которое стоит обратить внимание

Говорящий использует 83 сокращённых и редуцированных форм, например don't, didn't, I'm. Произносите их коротко, так, как слышите.

Звуки «th»: underneath /ˌʌndɚˈniθ/, rhythm /ˈɹɪð.əm/, athlete /ˈæθ.liːt/
Звуки «sh» и «zh»: interception /ɪntɚˈsɛpʃən/, cashier /kaˈʃɪə/, emotion /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/
Длинные слова — следите за ударением: mentality /mɛnˈtæləti/, deactivate /ˌdiːˈæktɪveɪt/, supervisor /ˈsupɚˌvaɪzɚ/, disassemble /dɪs.əˈsɛm.bəl/, discontinue /ˌdɪskənˈtɪnju/

Звуки, трудные для русскоязычных:

/w/ — губы округлены, это не /v/: microwave /ˈmaɪkɹoʊˌweɪv/, squirt /skwɝt/, workforce /ˈwɝk.foɹs/, quarterback /ˈkwɔːtəbak/, awkward /ˈɔk.wɚd/
Звонкие согласные в конце слова — не оглушайте их: microwave /ˈmaɪkɹoʊˌweɪv/, badge /bæd͡ʒ/, gratitude /ˈɡɹæ.tɪ.tud/, stride /stɹaɪd/, sunrise /ˈsʌnɹaɪz/

Как заниматься с этим видео

Прослушайте всё видео один раз молча и выпишите незнакомые слова.
Начните со скорости 0,75×, повторяйте предложение за предложением и вернитесь к обычной скорости, когда станет легко.
Запишите себя и сравните с оригиналом, обращая внимание на такие слова, как tesla, microwave, commute.

Что такое техника Shadowing?

Shadowing — это научно обоснованная техника изучения языка, изначально разработанная для подготовки профессиональных переводчиков и популяризированная полиглотом доктором Александром Аргуэльесом. Метод прост, но эффективен: вы слушаете аудио на английском от носителей языка и немедленно повторяете вслух — как тень, следующая за говорящим с задержкой в 1–2 секунды. В отличие от пассивного прослушивания или грамматических упражнений, Shadowing заставляет мозг и мышцы рта одновременно обрабатывать и воспроизводить реальные речевые паттерны. Исследования показывают, что это значительно улучшает точность произношения, интонацию, ритм, связную речь, понимание на слух и беглость речи — что делает его одним из самых эффективных методов для подготовки к IELTS Speaking и реального общения на английском.

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