At 11 years old, Max Abrams won the Disney Deck Out Your Room Sweepstakes and got the chance to visit the set of Suite Life on Deck and meet the cast.
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00:00I'm in the sky deck of Sweet Life on Deck.
00:11It was during the era of Sweet Life on Deck,
00:13and it was the Deck Out Your Room sweepstakes,
00:16and I literally applied without my parents' permission.
00:19I pulled out their computer, and they asked your email and your phone number
00:24and your name and age. That was it.
00:26And I submitted it, and then five months later, I came home from school,
00:30and I checked the voicemail machine.
00:32I remember it like it was yesterday, and they said, like, you won.
00:36Who wins these things?
00:37Like, how is it actually possible that I won this thing?
00:41And then next thing we knew, we were there in a limo.
00:43I just remember, like, pulling up to the hotel,
00:45and, like, everyone's like, oh, who's going to get out of the limo?
00:48Like, who's here at the hotel?
00:50And it's, like, my, like, little pudgy, like, preteen self.
00:54I just remember being, like, so overwhelmed.
00:58It just didn't stop.
00:59It was, like, the gift box, and then the limo,
01:01and then you meet the cast, and then you're at the set,
01:03and then the autographs, and it just didn't end.
01:07I was obviously excited to meet the Sprouse twins.
01:09I remember them being very sweet.
01:10It seemed like they were busy, I'm sure,
01:13and that they had to make time for me, but it was appreciated.
01:17I was most excited to meet Brenda Song.
01:21I will literally never forget, like, her coming in with hair rollers in her hair
01:25and just being, like, the most gracious, sweetest person ever.
01:30I was so nervous and so weird, and, like, yeah, it was all a blur.
01:41Once every year, if not twice a year,
01:45there is, like, a trend where someone asks the question, like,
01:48who was the grand prize winner of the Disney Channel's Week of States.
01:50It was, like, 2018 or something,
01:52and someone tweeted, and I responded with the collage of me with the whole cast,
01:57and that was, like, my first claim to fame.
01:59This was, like, 2018.
02:00I remember it got, like, 10 million impressions.
02:03So that's when I made the YouTube video
02:05to capitalize on that fame for a little bit.
02:08And then once a year from that point on,
02:11especially after TikTok became a thing,
02:12then people started making TikToks about it,
02:14and I would just stitch it.
02:15I'm going to cash in this check, like, you know,
02:18once every year until, or at least another decade.