Hey, Fish and Freaks, welcome back to the channel, starting off the day here at a parking lot in Austin, here at the hotel. Had a little bonfire last night at the ranch, sitting right here with Steven and Lunkers TV, waiting on Outlaw to come out today. Me and Lunkers, we ventured to this area since we were in Texas a few weeks ago. Caught my biggest bass of the year, an 8-12th True Mondo, and it was around the full moon. It was a really good time to be out. Current conditions today were coming off of a nasty cold front a couple days. Hopefully the water is going to be warming up, a hair, and the fish are going to be biting. I think it'll be more of an afternoon bite, but today, I've got a very special guest, my boy, Outlaw. We all came down here for the music video, and now we're going to go do a little bass fishing today while we're down here. Why not? Why not do it? I'm going to take the silver bullet out, dump it in a lake, close by, and see if we can get Outlaw on some bass. Give it a good sniff. I haven't sniffed one in a while, to be honest. I need a good semi-lucorm water sniff. These cold water bass, they don't smell as tasty. Let's get out of this citified stuff here with all this construction and get on to the beautiful green waters of the lake. That's where I feel at home. Definitely broke my screen yesterday, Outlaw. My screen good, man. I can't really show them right now. I guess we could show them on your channel? Yeah. We'll show them on. Check it out. You guys just have to come over to my channel and check it out. Let us know right now if you think this connection needs to be permanently hooked up. Look how perfect this is, y'all. Do you have a special name for the Dooley? That's Ghost. Ghost. Okay. Ghost and the silver bullet. Even the names are nasty together. The Ghost Bullet. I think that's it's appropriate. They just match. We're going to fish the inside grass lines. We're going to try it all. They got hybrids out here. They have large moped bass. There's even catfish. This is rather exciting because I don't think me and Outlaw have fished and... It's been a while, man.  It was. It was, man. Had things coming out of its damn ear holes. Didn't even know it was possible. Yeah. I hope we catch a bass like that today. I hope so, too, man. It's got, like, one eye hanging out, tails all beat us, about ten and a half pounds. Just ready to get your ripper. We're going to throw in some ripper McGee's to give her a dangle. I like it. What is that? Scottish Canadian walleye? Yeah. Y'all, my shoulder is a little sore from falling out of that ATV yesterday. Rubbing that tick off the horn? Yeah. It's pretty purple. Anyway, we're going to find some fish and we'll give you all an update when we hook into the first one. Get the twerking on them.  Classic Smithwick Rogue. Water is not as warm as... I was hoping this water was going to be, like, 58, at least over 55. It looks like it's 53, which, you know, after that massive cold front, I guess. That is to be expected. I have gotten to know that there are two grass lines. One is about four to six feet. The other one is about seven to nine, maybe even 12 in some spots. And that's where the hydrilla grass is basically growing out in certain areas. So it's like bushels of grass. Grass pods. That's the first thing we got to figure out is which grass line do they want to be in. I want to go to two sonar. There we go. So I'm looking at down scan on the back graph right here. And then this is real-time 2D sonar up front. And it's kind of nice having that extra view of the back sonar, especially when I've got old outlaw back here, because then I can say, hey, man, I've got fish down there, you know, right off the back corner or something. And especially if we're vertical fishing, you know, that really helps. Oh, there's one. Yep. Up shallow, dude. Just got one. So that's the key we just learned. That's our first real shallow cast. That's a tiny one, though. Little buck. Little bucker. That's the first fish of it. You're not quite sniff worthy yet. Don't have it developed. Scent. Smelled you anyway. Thanks for the twerk. Yeah, it was not too far off the reed line. So maybe they did push up there, but now they're just kind of being finicky. We'll see. There's one fish sitting on this grass bed, and we'll see if outlaw can get him. He's straight down. It's a big fish. I'm going to say it's a four or five pounder. He's looking at your lure, dude. He's looking at your lure. There's multiple. There's multiple fish. I'm dangling it, man. Shake it. Should I drop it? You can't tell if those are all fish or one of your lures. Let it drop. They're definitely looking at your bait. Yeah, I think it's on the bottom. Okay. All right. All right. So one of those was your bait. So there is a little bit of grass down there. So they're hiding in that grass, and they come up out of it and they bing bong. They bing bong it. So this is like an isolated grass bed out here. Dude, finally got one of those fish. That's awesome. Oh, shoot! Oh, no! Oh, no!  Oh, man! I didn't see that in my bag, dude. I was trying to get a drop shot rigged up, but, uh, dude, nice fish, man.  Right in the nose. Doot! Kill baits. Did you see him on the graph? No, I didn't even see him. That's cool, man. And he just... Oh, I just pulled that fish out of 23 feet of water using a dangler. Using it on a freaking, uh, they'll black and blue. Black and blue Slim Shake. They wanted it a little finesse. I had a couple of... Now I think you can get the other fish to bite down there. Yeah. I think so. There's quite a few, and we've marked some bigger ones than this guy. That's a fat, chunky one, man. Give it a good, old, sniffer rig. Yeah! Yeah! Baby! Martha! Coop! Good things. Well, I got him on a Slim Shake, y'all, on a new rig that I haven't even caught a fish on, the Tokyo Rig, but what I'm going to do is rig up a drop shot. Take that tag in, go back through the hole. We got some of our little drop shot weights from Carl's Shopcows.com. This is some of the first prototypes of Dragon Dross right here. Had a huge bag of black and blue ones just looking at them. Making sure they were good.  Yeah, I see one. He's nibbling, he's nibbling on it. He's nibbling on it? For real? Yeah. Oh, I saw him hit it. See it? Pick up on it. Has he got it? Got him. Got him. There you go. Oh, he come off! Dude! Yeah. Crap, I saw him. See, he's doing it. Yeah. He's going, wham, wham, wham! Maybe he'll come over and eat mine now. He's like, I want me a little tiny nugget. Give me a shot now. Yeah, I got a drop shot on. I'm outlawing, I'm hooked up, y'all.  Oh, there you go. Nice fish, man. Tokyo rig strikes again. Slim shake. Oh, it's doing good. It's doing good. Oh, it's a fatay. It's better than the last one. Oh, yeah. That's a nice fish. Outlaw dipper coming in with the wind. Nice, nice job, man. Need another worm? Just telling outlaw, I was like, man, I typically like to catch bass a little bit bigger than eight inches. I got me about a 10-inch here with a face full of drop shot tangles. Yeah. It's never fun. Dragon dropper. It's literally what I was doing, just dragging it down there. Oh, yeah.   He just slapped it. Boy, I worked hard for that one. Very easy on them treble hooks. Unsnag this dude real quick. Thanks, sir. Yep. Old classic rogue got him. Oh, man. Just came over to Windy Bank, said, screw it. Let's get over on some wind.  Out here taking a break for a sec. Because fishing is slow, y'all. Just a helicopter deciding to want us to come in. Two days of helicopter action right over our faces. What are you looking about here? What is he doing? I'm looking for you, dude. Looking for the outlaw. Who knows? Scaring the fish away, man. They were biting so good. Now it's a little slow. I'm watching my own video. That's how bad it is. This son of a gun, they're dropping him into these trees over here or something. I don't know what he's getting. What he's picking out. There's a dude on the end of a string. Not a string, but like a rope. Dropped him. They dropped him in there. Now he's got to go hide, and then they got to find him. That's what's going on. Yeah. Dude, you look so good right now. Yeah, man. Oh, shoot. We're in the weeds. How are we supposed to catch fish when they're doing helicopter training missions? Thump off the blades, going into the water, creating vibrations going into the fish's lateral lines and tickling them the wrong way. You can't be fishing like this. I'm blaming it on the rescue missions over here. They're picking up humans out of the woods and dropping them back down. It's not making sense to me right now. What was getting dropped into this stuff right here? I'd be a little freaked out. There's a lot of creepy crawlies that are living in there. EMT rescue, man. You got some nerve trying to learn how to rescue people. Oh, my gosh. On my fishing day, come tromb with you. We're out. Helicopter and ocean southwest, back to Clyde. Southwest Airlines flying over with your peanuts in the cabin. Thank you very much. We're out of here. All right. We're done. I'm going to drop my truck into the lake. Screw it.  And I almost lost my hat. It's a sign. Look at this rig, y'all. Isn't it just... It looks like it was meant to go together, man. Did want to show y'all something that I thought wasn't going to be cool at first, but now after using it, I'm like, wow, I want more of these. Especially for storing spinnerbaits at home. So really excited about an upcoming partnership with Bass Mafia. So I've used some of their boxes before. I'm sure a lot of you are familiar with them. Myself, the rest of the Guggen Squad, we're working with Bass Mafia this year. We're working on some special boxes with them, but they hooked us up with some of their just original boxes, their coffin boxes. And this one right here is the well, it's called the Spinnerbait or the Blade Coffin. This is the official name. So when I first opened it up, I was like, I don't know, how are spinnerbaits going to fit in there? And I'm showing you this because I'm literally putting up spinnerbaits right now, and this is how easy it is. And for a spinnerbait guy like me, it keeps them super organized. So all you got to do is pinch these little pouches right here. Pinch it and you drop them in there. You got to have two hands to do this, but you open it up like that and you drop your spinnerbait in. See if I can just shove one in here for you. Put it in like that, and the blades and everything just collapse down beautifully, and I've got 3.16oz all the way up to 1oz spinnerbaits in here, y'all. I didn't think that, look at this crazy spinnerbait. This is a huge spinnerbait. Giant Magnum. But that thing fits in there, so you can fit a ton of your baits in here. And then you can organize it if you want to have multiple boxes. You can use it for Colorado blades, spinnerbaits, whatever. Favorite clearwater spinnerbaits, dirty water spinnerbaits, stuff like that. I've just found this box to be freaking awesome. And another thing you can do with it, I took the little rod out of it, and I just made it a line box. So I just put a bunch of fluorocarbon in the box like that, and it just holds it beautifully. And you can even use it to spool. With this one, I'm fitting like an entire spinnerbait collection in one box. So really cool little box. Just wanted to throw it out there for you guys.  You can also put chatterbaits in there in the same way. So really cool. Bass Mafia, thinking ahead. Rob and Stevan taking off for the night. Yep. We gotta go get some bass on that. We've had enough gas in our life for today. I think it's diesel time. Yeah, you guys can't see me right now. We're outlawed, but I'll just let you know in this darkness moment that Rob pretty much farted the whole time over here.  I think from his farts. Aha, yes. The birds. They are singing. Y'all, we woke up this morning. Long travel night. Finally got in. The Silver Bullet and the Ghost they were so long together that we could not actually get it in the driveway. I had to literally stop and take my truck, put it back onto the Silver Bullet to back it into the driveway because it was just, it was too much with all the trees here at the tree house. I felt like yesterday it was so windy. It was kind of just blowing through. It's calm right now. It's overcast. The humidity is in there. And we're going to try something else today. We're not going to go bass fishing. We're going to go multi-species river dangling. And that is where I'm going to leave you today. Fish and Freaks. Make sure to keep it locked right here. You don't want to miss the next fishing trip. And I will see you guys on that next fishing trip.


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Colgate dental cream to clean your breath while you clean your teeth and help stop tooth decay and Luster cream shampoo for soft glamorous caressable hair bring you our miss brook starring Eve Arden Yes, it's time once again for Eve Arden in another comedy episode of our miss brooks written by Al Lewis Well the football fever is sweeping through our schools once more and Madison high school where our miss brooks teaches English is no exception No indeed most of the kids at Madison eat sleep and talk nothing but football Of course, it doesn't affect me one way or another when I start my class in the morning I simply bark the signal for order call my monitors into a huddle and with a single wing to the right do a Reverse line buck through the second act of Macbeth Last Wednesday when Walter Denton one of my pupils joined my landlady mrs. Davis and me at breakfast I chided him about not doing his homework properly. His reaction was instantaneous I don't see how you can say that miss brooks. Why ever since the fall term started. I've been doing my football religiously No, quite sure Walter that those little coffee cakes and some milk will be enough for you. No, ma'am That's all I've got in the house. Oh, then it'll be enough Boys are realistic.  Yeah, I told mrs. Davis about it before you came into breakfast miss brooks I'm going out for the team this year. I've just got to get my letter you but Walter You don't seem to have too much aptitude for athletics Who hasn't all the only reason I didn't make the football team last year was because I hurt my arm trying out for the baseball team Did you make the baseball team dear? Oh, no, mrs. Davis, but only because I hurt my foot trying to get my arm in track And I'd have made that too if my ribs weren't so sore from water polo Well, that's one thing about Walter if he doesn't get his aim from Madison. He'll get it from the Mayo Brothers Clinic Maybe you'll be luckier this season Walter now as soon as you finish moistening your fingers and picking cake crumbs off the table cloth We can get started for school. Okay, miss Brooks. Gee if I do make the team I'll be playing alongside my pal stretch not grass. He's one of the best athletes Madison ever had you know Really? Sure. He's a three-letter man. He's a three-letter man in my English class, too after a b and c He's a goner Well, we're almost there miss Brooks It will park down by the athletic field if you don't mind stretch might be working out early this morning All right, Walter. You're certainly fond of the kid, aren't you? Yeah, he's my buddy miss Brooks And I want you to know that we're sure grateful you for keeping him eligible this year Gosh, if you didn't help him with his studies after school, I don't know what would happen. I do Well, here's the football field. I'll just roll up these windows and lock the door Well, you've got the ball. Why aren't you running with it? Gee, it came right through the window. Are you all right miss Brooks? If I am I owe it all to my shatterproof skin Gee, I'm sorry folks. I don't usually kick them that crooked. Oh, that's okay stretch Gosh, look at all that glass. Lucky the laces weren't cut that football is school property I'm school property too. Let's take a look at my laces Well, I'm sure glad you're okay miss Brooks The reason I'm working out this early is because they're remodeling my room at home And I had to sleep on our drafty back portion. I got a bad king in my leg You got a king in your leg Yeah, you know like when you pull a lingamant Yeah, those lingamants can sure cause a lot of trouble Room stretch. Well, you know our living quarters are behind my father's pet shop Yeah And dad got a big shipment of marmosets in the other day and he needs more space But it's only temporary it'll take a few weeks to switch the bedrooms around then I'll be back indoors again Yeah, but meantime you can get a bad draft and pull another lingamant Or even bruise the tendon No kidding stretch. You got to find another place to sleep. Walter's right stretch Wait a minute. Haven't you got an aunt who lives alone? You mean the one you met at the movies the other night? Yes, she seemed inordinately fond of you. Oh, that's just the way she acts. She really likes me But she lives way out on Clark street, that's halfway to clay city Look, if you're worried about getting to school in the morning stretch I'll be happy to pick you up and drive you in after all if we're going to be on a football team together We'll be practicing a lot in the mornings. Gee. That's awful. Nice of you, Walter I'll call out mini before school this morning. I'm sure she won't mind and then I'll have my dad move my things out there in our Truck. Oh great. Maybe the marmosets would carry them over for you I'm sure glad you got the idea for me to move miss brooks. That porch is pretty drafty Well, I'm going to practice a little while longer. Well, how about you, Walter? Want to work out? Oh sure stretch. How about you miss brooks? Want to watch? No, thanks, Walter. I'd better get into school. Mr. Conklin wants to see me before my first class Well, okay, but you don't know what you're missing whole stretch here sure has an educated toe Good. Let's let's hope it may one day spread to his brain Miss brooks, I've summoned you here to my office to commend you for the splendid work you're doing with stretch snodgrass Well, thank you, mr. Conklin But you've got to keep that boy eligible for football if Madison's team doesn't make a presentable showing this season I'll never hear the end of it from jason brill clay city's principal the same He's the bane of my existence miss brooks. We've been rivals a good many years Oh, even before you were principles of rival schools before we were teachers Even in state normal. I found him abnormal He'll go to any lengths to defeat and embarrass me now Brill phoned me last night and said he'd be dropping in to see me this morning He said he'd have a juicy bit of news for me. Well, if he thinks he's got juicy news for me I've got still juicier news for him. Do you know what it is miss brooks? You're opening an orange aid stand I just learned that biff mooney one of the greatest college football players is interested in a high school coaching job in this part of the country I've already opened negotiations for his services by mail and it's a foregone conclusion that he'll accept my offer I can't wait until I see the expression on brills face when I tell him about it In some states that laugh would be banned Come in Well, good morning osgood.  Oh, pardon me. How are you miss brook juicy? Thanks Osgood, I've just signed biff mooney to coach the clay city football team this season Well, isn't that nice now. I'll just tell you what I've got up my face Remember that expression you were waiting to see on mr. Brill's face. Yes, you're wearing it Now see here brill in the first place I don't believe a man like mooney would be knucklehead enough to sign with your outfit But even if he has a good coach can't make a team without material material While last season our backs went through your line like it was damp cheesecloth Well, it's not going to be that way this season mr. Brill Go ahead miss brooks. Tell him this season. It's going to be dry cheesecloth We've got some great players on the squad players like stretch snodgrass stretch snodgrass. Who's he? That's him What was that? If pardon me osgood. Is that a football in your lap or have you gone off your diet? I've told those kids a thousand times go come in Well, I'm awful. Sorry, mr. Conklin. I'm afraid I kicked my football in here I'm afraid you did stretch, but I don't understand why I thought I told you to confine your practicing to the other end of the field But I did mr. Conklin. That's where I kicked it from Well, there's absolutely no excuse in the world if he Nice kick boy You mean to tell me that that ball was propelled here by that boy's foot It wasn't flown here by one of his blue j corn plasters That mr. Brill is our stretch snodgrass one of the greatest triple threat quarterbacks in the country stretch This is mr. Brill principle of clay city high. Hi, sir. Hello, son You tell me where did you learn to kick like that? Oh, it's just natural with me, I guess But if you don't mind, I'd rather not discuss football no more this morning I just got some bad news about my pal wallard dentin. He's been cut off the football squad Why stretch because he was the 29th man on it and we only got 28 uniforms Well, it would be a little embarrassing if he was sent in as a substitute I don't see how a spindly pipit like dentin could go out for the team in the first place He couldn't carry a football in a wheelbarrow Please mr. Conklin you're talking about my pal. There's nothing he wouldn't do for me Gosh, when he heard I was moving out to my aunt's place on clark street He even offered to pick me up every morning. Did you say you were moving to clark street? Yes, sir. It's way out in the 3,900 block. Yeah, but that's halfway to clay city Why you're in a district that Why don't we have lunch together this afternoon boy? Say in the school cafeteria about 12 just the two of us From the picture you were meant for me Now see here bril it'll be boy. Do you kick them that far often? Well without I should do any boasting I almost never done no kicking which the ball don't travel over 70 80 yards hardly Amazing and how do you pass in english by the skin of his teeth? 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I worried about jason brill having lunch with madison star quarterback When I communicated my fears to mr. Conklin. He said miss brooks We've got to find out what that blagout is up to at all costs So when lunch period finally rolled around I followed the blaggard into the school restaurant And borrowed an apron from one of the girls behind the steam table Uh, come over here to this corner table stretch. We won't be disturbed here. Okay, mr. Brill Hey now sit down my boy Now then there's something I must talk to you about in strictest confidence In strictest confidence it concerns your football career. Who gets the lima beans? Yeah, miss brooks. I I thought this was a self-service cafeteria Oh, it is mr. Brill except when we have a distinguished visitor like yourself Then I like to see that he's well taken care of I brought you each the blue plate Just what I wanted succotash and lima beans. Thanks, miss brooks. You're perfectly welcome stretch Now, please continue with your confidential conversation gentlemen You were saying mr. Brill that you want to yeah, I wanted to tell you what a lovely day it is Sunshineing not a bit humid although cumulus clouds do seem to be gathering in the east In fact, it looks like we might be in for a bit of a blow. This is going to be a weather report I might as well blow too. I'll go get some dessert for you. Do that You now then stretch I'll come right to the point in your present address on clock streets You're eligible to enter clay city high and that's what I want you to do transfer immediately transfer from Madison Exactly you said yourself that your pal walter dentin couldn't get on your football team because there's no uniform for him Isn't that right? Yeah, well every american boy should have the right to play football Shouldn't he of course he should now with you off the medicine team There'd be another uniform available for walter Well, I never thought of it like that. Well, think of it On economy walter won't get to play at all. He'll never get his letter and Gosh Find pal. I am yes. I don't know why he even talks to you Now stretch i've got to get back to clay city high at once But I've arranged for our new coach biff mooney to meet you outside your main gate after school Biff mooney, is he your new coach? Of course now biff will accompany you to your parent's stretch and get their consent to the transfer It's just a formality. You understand. Yes, sir. I guess if it's gonna help walter I'll have to do it But I hate to think of what mr. Conklin will say when he hears about this don't forget about mr Conklin We know that what we're doing is right. It's for our pal's happiness There's absolutely no reason to be afraid of mr. Conklin Then I'll go right down and ask him for the transfer. You wait boy. Wait till I get out of the building So you see mr. Conklin every time I got near the table. They were talking about the weather Ah, well, perhaps our fears were exaggerated mr. Brooks granted brill might try to get away with something. Come in Well, it's stretch snodgrass come right in my boy. Sit down here. Take my chair sit by the window Shall I open it for you? Do you want the fan on?  Conklin name it and it's yours.  I want to transfer to clay city high Certainly I'll just sit down at my desk get a pen and fill out the necessary transfer to clay city high Cut gore penicillin That's pirate What poppycock did brill feed you at lunch stretch? Well, he didn't feed me no poppycock. It was succotash Well, he can't get away with it this time no matter what he told you you can't transfer to clay city You don't live in their district. Oh, I do now What? Well, I use them too, but I do now You see sir, I've moved in with my aunt and she lives right near clay city Moved in with your aunt and whose bright idea was that if you'll excuse me.  I think Oh, let me explain mr. Conklin stretch was sleeping in the draft and I thought it would that's your trouble miss brooks You think too much Stretch your parents know about this transfer yet. No, sir. They just know I'm gonna live with Aunt Mamie But I'm meeting biff mooney after school and he's gonna ask him for their permission stretch Let me ask you a question in all the years you've been here. Mr. Conklin has always treated you fairly hasn't he I'll rephrase the question In fact, I'll forget it Just promise me that you'll drop into my classroom after school today Sure miss brooks. That is if somebody'll tell biff mooney to wait for me We'll take care of biff stretch now. Remember. I want you to come to my classroom immediately after school Okay, miss brooks. See you later. Right stretch. Bye, mr. Conklin not goodbye stretch. Just aloha Well miss brooks it was you who got us into this situation and I'll get us out of it And I think I can mr. Conklin. I think I've got a plan a plan Supposing instead of being taken to stretcher's house biff mooney were taken to my house I don't understand stretch wouldn't take him to your house No, the real stretch wouldn't and stretch's real parents won't be there either But biff mooney doesn't know stretch from a hole in the ground. Does he Come in Oh, it's walter dentin. I was just looking for harry and i got mr. Conklin shake hands with a hole in the ground I just can't believe that your stretch not grass. Oh, sure. I am mr. Mooney Who did you think was well, you just don't sound like mr. Brill said you would the way he described it you talked well differently What's the way I talked got anything to do with gee? I ain't never said nothing to get insulted for it by nobody hardly I take it all back Well, this is the house mr. Mooney come on in my old lady always leaves the door open for me.  I want you should meet biff mooney I'm very pleased to make your acquaintance mrs. Not grass likewise. I'm sure mr.  Well, how did you know I was a football coach? Well, it's a cinch. You don't crochet no doilies for a living What a built on him We need a transfer from madison to clay city. Hi ma. Oh now that's a serious step. I know it is mrs. Slavres You see it's for the boys own good. And that's why I'm here today to get you to acquiesce Stretch this guy's getting fresh.  Uh, you're okay. You're okay, too. But what do you want? We want stretch to transfer to play city. Hi. Well, I don't know this here madison learns him pretty good I think we'll keep him where he's at. Oh, please mr. Snodgrass. I don't don't be hasty Maybe we should discuss this with mr. Snodgrass as well. Oh, sure pops right in the next room. I'll call him Meet the little man mr. Mooney. I'm delighted to know you mr. Snodgrass Yous are too kind We'd like to get your permission for stretch to transfer to clay city. Hi mr. Snodgrass. Oh, it's a wonderful school. Nothing doing Transfers is for street cars No, no our boy wouldn't be happy in no clay city. Hi that their school just don't offer no advantages know how You don't offer nothing know how I don't see how you fox can folks can talk like this. Believe me it ain't easy I gotta go get supper ready pa. You get rid of uh, say goodbye to mr. Mooney for me whenever he leaves like right away. I hope Okay, ma See you later. Well, I guess that's a story mr. Mooney. No now wait stretch Uh, mr. Snodgrass if you let me tell you something about clay city. Nothing doing I ain't taking any chances with my only child's happiness. I I love this boy Get out of here and help your ma in the kitchen You see mr. Moon. I love you too, papa I know Now mr. Mooney if you Stretch what are you hanging around for?  Excuse me daddy, but I saw your car outside and the door was open It's my daughter harriet harriet go away child But daddy just a minute.  Stop the question. Just go in and see the doctor's on the table pa Well, if it isn't nice How nice to see you.   We told you harriet.  We've been secretly married for 16 years I'm over 17. I was hoping you wouldn't notice it What is this all about mr. Snodgrass? I demand to know the truth Mrs. Snodgrass Maybe you might as well know the whole story harriet as a poor but honest immigrant. I entered this country illegally Your mother and I started out from the old country together, but I your mother couldn't make it They shot me at the border Of course years later.  I helped build boulder dam Snodgrass, mr. Snodgrass, mr. Brooks ain't mr. Snodgrass. My mother's mr.  We're busy. But mr. Conklin. I waited in mr. Brooks classroom like she said Mr. Conklin, mr. Brooks say what is all this and who are you? I'm stretch snodgrass Stretch snodgrass. Oh, did you call me biff? Are you biff mooney? Well, I was when I came in here, but right now I Oh, it was absurd to think that this ridiculous scheme would work This is the real stretch snodgrass mr. Mooney If he wants a transfer, I guess there's nothing we can do to stop him and after all that iodine I used at the border But I won't need no transfer now mr. Conklin That's what I come over to tell miss Brooks I talked to the manager of the football team just now and he said they're getting another uniform So waller can be on the team too. Oh boy, that's great stretch Instead of living with your aunt you can move in with me. You can move in with me You can move in with you can sleep in the gym Now miss Brooks returns in just a moment, but first dream girl dream girl beautiful Luster cream girl Tonight. 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Mooney you may return to your unscrupulous employer and tell him that once again He has been soundly defeated by superior brain power. Thank you, mr. Conklin I did get a contract for mr. Brill, but if he's going to get me into things like this all the time I've got a good mind not sign it. Well, if you'll excuse me now Hold on there boy. You say you haven't signed your coaching contract with clay city. That's right, sir. Well Mr. Mooney, why don't we have dinner together at my place? There's something I'd like to discuss with you I guess that could be arranged fine. We'll have dinner at eight Care to join us miss Brooks. No, thanks.  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I thank all of you for coming. So who am I? Why am I standing here? Why are there no questions at the end of this talk? So about five years ago, I helped co-create Read the Docs, and that is probably why most of you know me. About three years ago, in an attempt to build a community around documentation, we created our own conference called Write the Docs, which I help organize, and there are no questions because that is how conference talks should be. Come up to me at the end of it and ask questions, if you would like to. So what are we going to talk about today? First thing I'm going to cover is why you should write documentation. Because even if you think you already know, hopefully I'll be able to, like, clarify some of the points in your mind as to why you should write them and then also give you some ammunition to talk to other people about why they should write them. Then we're really going to cover kind of the meat of the talk, which is restructured text, sphinx, and Read the Docs. So why should we all write documentation? My favorite is a selfish appeal to reason. I know how many people here have sat at a command line looking at a piece of code and they're like, all right, get blame, not me, not me, not me, not me. Right? Like someone you a year ago is indistinguishable from someone else that wrote code.  And this is hugely important because, like, so much of what we do is reading code and, like, loading state into our brain. And any kind of documentation that we write about the code, whether it's a comment, whether it's a tutorial, anything like this, really is just super valuable for people that are actually reading and using software. As open source developers, we want people to use the code that we write. I view documentation as marketing from developers to other developers. Right? Like, if I just put something on GitHub and there's no read me, zero chance I use that library. Right? Like, who does that? Who's like, yes, a read me, or a GitHub repo with no read me. I'm going to use that software project. Like, yeah, it just doesn't happen, right? And so writing documentation, writing tutorials, writing, getting started is really like the only way for people to really actually use the software that you create. And as open source developers, they're just developers. Like, nobody wants to write code that nobody uses. It just doesn't feel good. You have your, you know, project canceled at work and nobody gets to use that code. It's a waste, right? So we all write code for other people to use it. And so writing documentation really allows that to happen. And it makes your code better. There's, like, this whole kind of movement towards read me and driven development, right? And there's this habit of just, like, starting on projects and you get, like, super deep into code. And you're just kind of, like, you're marred with, like, the implementation details. And then you kind of get in and you finish the project with almost no thought of, like, the actual public-facing API for the code that you just wrote. If you sit down at the beginning of a project and write a simple read me that's, like, how will users of this software actually interact with the code I'm about to write? They'll end up with a much better designed piece of software so that, like, that kind of public API can actually influence the implementation details below it. And so writing documentation before you write code but also really writing down the ideas of why software is written the way it is makes the software better. Writing a design document and actually justifying why you made certain design decisions in your software will make you think more about those design decisions and will force you to actually, you know, clarify the ideas in your mind. And it makes you a better writer. I really loved Lacey's talk here earlier. We're open source developers. Literally 100% of the communication that we do with each other outside of this room is with the written word. Like emails, GitHub issues, commit messages, comments, documentation. All of this is technical writing. We just had a book author panel here and it looked like the idea of writing is a completely separate skill than the idea of writing code. And writing documentation makes you a better writer, which makes you a better programmer, which makes you a better open source community member. So that's why you should really be writing documentation. Hopefully that gives you some ideas that you can share with other people. So let's get in kind of to more of the technology. So this is basically kind of how everything stacks up. So we're going to start with restructured text, which is one of the worst named software projects in existence. I usually just say RST. It works fine. It's an example of a lightweight markup language. Who here has heard this term before? So about 30 or 40%. Lightweight markup languages are just kind of a plain text format that are used to generate other formats. Traditionally, you know, wiki markup is a classic example, markdown, ASCII doc, restructured text. And they work really well with programmer tools. That's why we really care about them, because all these tools we've built to work with source code, that works as plain text files, works amazingly well with lightweight markup languages as well. GitHub, diffs, pull requests. All these tools work the same. So the real power of restructured text and of HTML, honestly, is semantic meaning. So there was a movement about 10 years ago in the HTML world towards like semantic HTML. And what semantics really is, is saying what something is, not what it should look like. You know, you describe an object as what it is, and somebody else can come along and say, this is what it should look like. This is kind of a classic separation of concerns kind of issue. So an example of this, right, is like, don't make issues bold in your HTML. You know, you should take your HTML and give it a span or a div or something and make that an issue. So this allows you as the author to separate what something is from how it should be displayed. And someone later can come along and write CSS to say all issues should look a certain way. Another example, don't make something font color red, right? That means nothing. As someone reading this, I have no idea why something is red. But when I say something's a warning, I know exactly what it is. And so this bottom example is restructured text for, you know, this is a warning. So the really cool part about this, right, is it is separated from its format. Like the bottom part that's restructured text can be generated into HTML above. It can also be generated into a PDF. It can be generated into a man page. It is independent of the output format. So another thing about semantics, restructured text gives you this power, right? Here on the bottom, you can say just like, I want to link to pep8. Usually I'm linking to pep8. An example of something that doesn't have semantic meaning is markdown, right? Here it's like, check out pep8. But it's just a link to a URL on the Internet. There's nothing about, like, the object that actually is defined in this markup. So say they change the URL for where pep8 lives on the Python website. You know, this bottom one we have, we just go in and say, hey, change the pep function to generate a new URL. This other one we have to go in and look for every single, you know, thing that might be a link and, like, actually have a human look at it or do some kind of transformation, right? It's super important for actually writing software documentation as well. So semantic markup is super, super important. It really shows the intent of your words. And it works across output formats. And then you can use that to kind of style things a little bit differently. So I just want to kind of touch on this because a lot of people talk about, you know, markdown, it's like this amazing thing that has made the Internet better. Markdown is just shorthand for rendering HTML. It's really not a good tool for writing software documentation. Restructured text is a little bit more complicated, and because of that it's a little bit harder to write. But that complication is there for a reason. There's a part of the design that's actually important for that complication. And so if you care about the words that you're writing, you should write them in a way that preserves semantic meaning. Like, if you're writing in a way that has no semantics, like, you're just kind of losing information in your brain that's not making it into the pages and the documentation that you're actually writing. So RST, we're going to get into, you know, kind of what this actually is and what it looks like. It is whitespace sensitive, just like Python. It's extensible, and it's powerful. Slightly awkward. And so I think it's really kind of useful here to just really show you what this looks like. I know a lot of times it can be hard to kind of wrap your head around exactly what I'm talking about. So this is a basic restructured text document here on the left side. And the right side is just rendered HTML. In a lot of ways, it's very similar to Markdown, right? Like, we can make things bold, we can make things italics. But the real power of restructured text is, say, we want to add a table of contents, right? If we're doing this in something that doesn't understand what a document is, you have to just go in and look at all the headings and it links yourself, right? But with restructured text, we can just say, add a table of contents, and it will automatically create a table of contents knowing everything about what is in that document. So that's an incredibly powerful thing, right? I see these handwritten Markdown, like, table of contents on the internet, and it just fills me with sorrow. This is what computers do, right? Like, why is a human doing this thing? So, restructured text. It's this kind of Markdown-y thing that's a little bit different, and the main way that it's different is that it's extendable. So the big thing, as you just saw with that contents directive, is it has the concept of page-level markup. And that's a thing that starts with, or a line that starts with two periods and a space and then some other markup. And it ends at the next unindented line, very similar to Python. So directives are kind of the main example of this. So you have, you know, dot, dot, directive name, colon, colon, as with the contents example previously. And this is really the main thing, right? It's basically a function call in your documentation. You know, that directive name can be anything. You can write your own, but it's just giving you that ability to really, like, do more programmatic tasks inside your documentation. And this is really where Sphinx builds on top of restructured text, adding kind of programming-level concepts into the markup language. So a directive example, right? Code block, Python. That's the second line there is just a line number option. So this output will actually have line numbers. And then just indented code example, right? Like, it's pretty simple. And this turns into output that is syntax-highlighted code example that has line numbers, right? If we remove the line numbers option, the line numbers go away, right? It's pretty simple. But how do you, like, good luck doing that with markdown, right? Like, there's no way to even, like, conceptually think about doing that in markdown. So the other option that restructured text gives you is inline markup. And this is anything that's included kind of within the paragraphs and, like, the content of the text itself. And this is mainly used for, yeah, just including things inside, you know, making things bold, making things italics, all that kind of stuff. So this just looks like a set of colons with an arbitrary role and then backticks with an arbitrary target. So again, the pep8 example here is an example of something like this, right? We're saying, like, put in something that's called pep and give it an argument of 8. And that's basically just, like, another type of function call to generate that documentation. To generate a link to pep8, but really it can do anything, right? It's just Python code on the back, in the background. So one of the great examples of this is references. So here you can see on the top we're defining a label for this section. And down here we're actually referencing that section with the label that we defined. And so this is really powerful, right? This allows you to actually reference documents in a semantic way across your entire set of documentation, right? The way of doing this kind of traditionally is, like, just put in a link to a URL that is, like, the page URL of when it will eventually be rendered in HTML on a production server is, like, the way to do that in Markdown, right? Or a relative link to an HTML page. But this works with PDF output, for example. It's much more, like, you're just telling it what to do and it's doing it for you. And this is what it renders into, right? Like, there's a heading and the reference automatically takes kind of the title of the heading. So I find that the simplest way to think about this is, you know, for Python code there's something at, like, a module level that's more similar to page-level markup and there's something inside of a class level or, like, a method or something like that that's inline markup. These are just two different kind of ways of extending pros in restructure text. So that's basically, you know, directives are the main one and something called interpreted text rolls are basically those little pep 8 examples that I gave for inside paragraphs. And so you can actually that little live preview that I made you can actually go play with it online at rst.ninjs.org. So if you just want to kind of play around with a syntax, that's something you can do. So now you have RST. So then Sphinx takes RST and really makes it into a really amazing documentation tool.  To build them, you just run make HTML. So if you pull down a Python project chances are it'll have Sphinx documentation and if you want to build those docs locally you just go into the docs directory run make HTML and you have all of the HTML documents in your project. You can do this with Django. If you have a Django checkout I've been on a plane and been like I need the Django docs. I can just go into the Django checkout on my machine and generate the HTML documentation. It's really pretty cool. So Sphinx is the best documentation tool I know of. I've been working on Read the Docs for about five years and I've looked at a lot of other documentation tools and they're all pretty much awful. And Sphinx is pretty good. It's not amazing but it's definitely the best tool out there that I know of. And it was actually created to document Python. Think about 10 years ago I think they documented the Python language itself with a bunch of Perl scripts and they were like alright we need a better way of doing this. So they built Sphinx to actually document Python itself and then it turned into an open source project that could then be used by members of the community to document other pieces of code as well. And so I love Sphinx so much I built an entire website around it which is what Read the Docs is which we'll get to in a bit. But Sphinx takes that baseline of an extensible markup language that is restructured text and then adds some really cool stuff to it. The big thing is the talk tree. It's a table of contents tree and this is the way that Sphinx actually adds structure to a set of documents. If you just have a directory of files there's no way to say this one should come first, this one should come second, this one should kind of below that other one. This is how, for example, Sphinx generates its sidebar navigation. It actually builds the structure and links all the documents together in a hierarchical way. And that as a code example just looks like talk tree with a list of pages in it. Cross-referencing as I showed earlier is really, really cool. Restructured text has cross-referencing within a single page built in. Obviously it gives you cross-referencing across an entire project. And then there's actually an extension called Intersphinx that lets you reference third-party projects in a semantic way as well. So if I want to reference the keyword part of the Python documentation in my docs I just say, you know, reference Python with the keyword. And so that will actually take me to the reference for keywords in the Python documentation and generate a link in my own documentation. And if Python moves where the keyword references I just rebuild my docs and it automatically relinks to where Python moved its references to. This is super, super powerful because it makes your documentation way less brittle. You're just able to pull in exactly all of the references, all the documents from any Sphinx project and reference them in a semantic way and not just be like, I'm just going to link to this on the internet, it's some URL that's probably going to break. You can also reference documents explicitly and not just, you know, define references. So if you have an install doc and a support doc you can just say, you know, doc support and it will generate the proper reference for that document. And then Sphinx really adds all of these concepts for software. You know, environment variables, objects, classes, file names, man pages, rfcs, peps, all of these concepts that only make sense for documenting software is kind of what Sphinx adds into the restructured text kind of base language. And so that's why it's really this amazing tool for documenting software is they built this entire kind of vocabulary and this markup language that is specifically used for documenting software. The other big one is it does syntax highlighting, right? So Pigments is, I'm sure most people here are familiar, it's just a syntax highlighting library, I think GitHub uses it. It's used pretty much all over the internet and it just gives you syntax highlighting which is nice for your user's output. And the other big thing is it itself is extensible, so Sphinx actually has its own set of extensions that do all sorts of really wonderful things. And then you can also write your own, right? So you can hook in to the build process of Sphinx and really make it do whatever you want it to do. You can actually test your documentation examples with the doc test runner. So if you have code snippets in your docs, you can verify that they work and execute properly with the doc test extension. There's coverage, so you can actually see which of your API modules or how much of your Python code is actually covered by your documentation. There's all sorts of, you know, graph is support to-do lists, all sorts of other stuff in there that really just makes your life a lot easier when you're writing documentation. And Autodoc is the other really, really big one that Sphinx does is you can put your code and put them into your documentation. So the really interesting thing it does here is it actually allows you to mix prose content with auto-generated content. Like a lot of tools like Java doc or all of these other, you know, language doc just give you kind of a full reference in some kind of relatively ugly HTML output. With that you have no control over. Autodoc actually allows you to write written words with documentation generated from your source code. You'll see this with Django a lot, right? Django doesn't just have a huge list of functions and classes and stuff. They have descriptions and contextualization of those functions. Then an example that's pulled from the source code and then more prose mixed in. And this is just a much better user experience. Users can actually understand your documentation as they're reading it rather than just having a huge reference that has no context for them. So Sphinx is a documentation generator. It's main thing is it takes restructured text files and turns them into all sorts of other outputs. And it adds a lot of really, really nice ways to just document software specifically. So Sphinx was existing in the world. It's a really, really amazing tool. And so Read the Docs came along and there was something that I helped create. And it builds and hosts Sphinx documentation. At this point, I think it's kind of the de facto hosting provider for most Python documentation. We host Django's PDFs and EPUBs. We host requests, Fab, Brick, PIP, all this kind of stuff. It was actually created in 48 hours in the Django Dash in 2010. And it provides a lot of stuff kind of on top of Sphinx, but it's mostly hosting documentation. So I think the origin story is actually really interesting. The Django Dash is basically a 48-hour coding competition that used to be held every year. It hasn't happened in a few years, I think. Charles Leifert and myself and Bobby Grace, who's a designer spent 48 hours and just kind of built the proof of concept for this project. We looked around and we're like, it's really hard to host documentation for Python. We have a bunch of HTML and they just host it. You have GitHub pages, which is basically the same thing, except instead of a zip file over HTTP, it's, you know, HTML over Git, but it's just static files sitting on a web server. And I was running my own cron jobs. They were just pulling down my repos every five minutes and, like, automatically building the documentation and hosting them, right? Like, we're web developers. Like, we have tools that solve GitHub. You know, we have all these tools. And so that's really what we did. We were just like, all right, we should be able to commit something to GitHub. It should have a web hook that automatically pulls it down and builds our documentation every time we update it. It shouldn't run every five minutes, and it should automatically just pretty much work. And so that's pretty much what we built. We just had this super, super simple proof of concept. It was like, you know, GitHub, HTML, basically. And it was open source, so the code today is still open source, actually. And so fast forwarding to today, it's been kind of an interesting experiment in open source and kind of community web sites. I think we are almost at 6,000 commits. We have a bunch of other kind of crazy random stats there. The one that kind of blows my mind is that we do 15 million page views a month, which is basically one of the largest sites on the internet. It's kind of insane that we're just kind of hosting software documentation, but I guess there's a lot of software that gets written on the internet. But yeah, it's kind of this crazy thing that's kind of become a real thing that exists on the internet. This is kind of our Google analytics, which I always put in this presentation just in the spirit of open source, open stats. I love how you can see Christmas in there every year. That's kind of cool. We are relatively US centric, but I think China is the second biggest market that we have. Software really is a global phenomenon, which is really cool. We actually have users from every country in the world that visit the site every month, which is kind of a cool random stat, at least according to the little map that Google Analytics gives you. So why are people actually using this? What is kind of the value of the thing that exists on top of Sphinx? The big one, I think a lot of you have seen, is the theme. We used to have a really ugly default theme, and then we pushed a new one, and then someone said it's like the Python world got a facelift overnight. We started auto-building all these docs for all these projects, and then it just magically became pretty. You might have seen this theme somewhere. It's used by a lot of Python docs. So that's kind of our theme that we actually built for Read the Docs. This is versions. So all your tags and branches from your version control can then be hosted as documentation. You don't just have one version of your docs online. You actually have every piece of software or every version that you've released. Your documentation is built and hosted so that if somebody has three versions behind, they're not just totally screwed because there's no docs for their version on the internet. Again, post-commit hooks. So you push your code. It lets us know we automatically pull down the updates, rebuild it, so your documentation is always up to date. We actually recently added markdown support. While I have railed on markdown a lot in this talk, it is actually useful for some things. If you're not referencing your source code a lot, if you're just writing pros with links to other websites, it actually works really well. So you can actually do that now by just having an RST or a .md file extension. We do do translations. So you can actually... Sphinx will generate getText output that you can use with like trans effects or anything else like this that actually allows you to translate your docs, which is cool. Localization as well. Readthedocs.org is localized into ten different languages. So if you go to the site in China, it's actually presented in Chinese, it said eight there, so that must be the real number. Search. We use Elasticsearch for everything. It's amazing. So we actually index every document that we have that we host so you can search across all of them. We do CNames, so lots of people use Readthedocs and you probably don't know just because they're on a separate domain. Fabric, for example, uses us, but they have it on their own domain. We generate all these multiple formats automatically on every push. So you have PDFs and all that good stuff for your docs. And we host everything in a reasonable way. I think we've never had substantial documentation hosting downtime because pretty much everything is served directly from Nginx. And so we never actually have Python code running in the serving of documentation. We just have this crazy nest of simlinks that exists on the file system to support that. But yeah, it's pretty much always there, which is incredibly important for infrastructure services. Because like this room would be very upset with me if it went down right now. There's lots of little small things, like build failure emails. We have Python 3 support. We install your requirements and we go virtualM, all that kind of stuff. So using Readthedocs, it's pretty easy. You register for an account, you give us a URL that has Sphinx documentation in it and you hit build and we pull it down and we build it and we host it and it all pretty much just works in theory. For most of the time it just works. So hopefully today I've kind of convinced you, or at least given you some more thoughts on why you should be writing documentation for software. Hopefully you understand why restructured text is kind of wonky and looks a lot crazier than markdown when you actually go to write it. But there's a lot of power that's there and that's there for a reason. And hopefully you've seen kind of why people are using Readthedocs. So Readthedocs is an open source project. It is still predominantly developed by a very small team of people. So this is something you're interesting and please come help us, you know, triage GitHub issues, help write docs, really whatever you're interested in doing. If you have a large company that wants to get back to open source, we're always looking for sponsors and we are trying to do some kind of sustainable business model around private hosting as well. So this is something you've always wanted that we host for you but it's actually private. We're now trying to do that as a business as well. So I'd like to finish this talk with what really shows the kind of the value of documentation to me the most and I think it's been referenced a couple of times here at the conference but it's, you know, I can't say I'm self-taught. I've been taught by the people who wrote the documentation. Thank you.


A few of Grand Rapids smallest actors are taking audiences to the Pride Lands this weekend. Lakeland news reporter Cheryl Moore has a preview of The Lion King Jr. for This Weeks in Focus. Grab some grub and be prepared to sing along because The Lion King Jr. has made its way to the Rife Center in Grand Rapids. It's a junior version, so it's a shorter version. It's a one hour version of the show, so there's not all the songs, but there's a good number. You'll recognize all the songs. Doing this for about probably three months in the ensemble, it's a little different than the main characters. It's a lot more singing and dancing. It's not like as much facial expression, but it's a lot of work getting all the songs right and all the dance moves as a group. The show is being produced by the Grand Rapids players in collaboration with the Rife Center. There's more than 50 kids a part of the production, playing iconic roles that most will recognize. My favorite part is sincerely when we tried to plan to kill Mufasa. I like the circle of life, and I also like doing be prepared when we go out in the audience. Many of the kids were also working behind the scenes, coming up with ideas to make the show something they could be proud of. We had an idea that the Pride Rock should be Skars Cave as well, but just turn it around. Yeah, it's really been fun going and just showing our creative side. After months of practice, the show is finally opening to the public this weekend. The kids say they're excited to show off their skills. We've definitely improved, that's for sure. We've come a long way, but it's been a lot of fun though. Every other production that we ever see, we have peaks and valleys as we're going. And we're right at that point where we need that audience, and it's so exciting to see those kids gel together and really kick it. Reporting in Grand Rapids with This Week's In Focus, Traum Run, Lakeland News. The Lion King Jr. will run through the weekend at the Rife Center. The Grand Rapids players also have a production of Beauty and the Beast that will debut next month. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.


Alrighty, so many people have been asking me to do top 10s, top 5s, top lists of any sort. And I'm going to be honest, I've been avoiding doing them because a lot of the times when a YouTuber or someone on Instagram in the coaster community comes up with a top list, they end up getting a lot of slack for their opinions. So I just want to stress right off the bat that these are my opinions. My top five list for Canada's Wonderlands top five is going to be based off of multiple factors. I'm going off of comfort, theming, overall package. Again, Canada's Wonderlands a family park and I really like family rides.  So hopefully that helps you understand why I make this top five list the way I do. So sit back.  But again, I'm measuring them based off of multiple factors like comfort, theming, overall package for families and adults and just the overall package at Canada's Wonderland. Anyways, number five on my list is Thunder Run right off the bat. Some of you are probably like, how is Thunder Run in a top five coaster list at Canada's Wonderland? Well, it's got theming. It's indoors for a lot of it. It's got this really nice family feel. And I just like that it adds an actual unique difference to the coaster lineup at Canada's Wonderland. This will most certainly be knocked off my list in 2019. But for 2018, I had to give it an honorable mention for being an overall package for Canada's Wonderland. This coaster is really sought after by families. Number four on my list is Mine Buster. And I really didn't want to put this on my list. I don't know why. I was going to like swap it out with Backlot Stunk Coaster. But I sat down and I really just couldn't come up with a valid argument for my opinion on why Backlot Stunk Coaster deserved to be there instead of Mine Buster. So I gave Mine Buster its fair share of limelight in this video because it really is an overall somewhat decent coaster except for its uncomfort. So it does rank really low on my comfort scale. In fact, you will not catch me on this roller coaster at Canada's Wonderland. I am a really tall dude and I am bigger. So riding this is extremely uncomfortable. And it's just for my personal opinion, not an overall package at the current moment. Now, for those of you that do watch my videos, you do know that I have my eyes on this coaster for 2021 or 2022. Somewhere along that timeline, RMC conversion or GCI conversion. Something's going to happen to this coaster. It's in Frontier Canada. Mine Buster was always supposed to be the main attraction of Frontier Canada. Yukon Stryker has taken that limelight. But I think to complete Frontier Canada, now that we know it's a multi-year expansion, they're going to want to do something to Mine Buster to up its ante. I think it's very clear that something's going to go on. They're still working on electrical and water plumbing in the area surrounding the coaster. And I think it would just really compliment Frontier Canada if we have a really good wooden coaster. That also believes me to think that GCI may be the chosen company to come in and do Mine Buster because they might want to keep it wooden. But that's up for discussion right now. That's a whole separate video and discussion. So I won't go too much into that. But Mine Buster definitely comes in at number four for my top five coasters at Canada's Wonderland. Now this is where it's going to get really, really triggering. At number three, I have Leviathan. I am so sorry. I'm going to explain myself right now and why. In fact, Leviathan in 2017 would have been number two on my list. I'm going to explain why it's number three right now for 2018. I got to go to a really awesome event, an ace event at Canada's Wonderland this year. And I got the best ride on Vortex I have ever had. I got the best rides, plural on Vortex that I've ever had. This ride, Vortex, was swaying 90 degrees around turns. It was hauling so fast. You literally thought you were going to hit every support beam, every tree. You didn't think the brakes would be able to stop you. It was insane. And I promise you, you have to trust me, that anyone that was with me on that train can vouch that this thing was fast. It was fast. It was swaying. Like I've never seen Vortex sway before. And I get it, it was a colder day. It was later on in the summer. From what I understand, switched wheels. So it was a very unique experience. But for 2018 and my ride experience, I definitely have to say that I really enjoyed Vortex over Leviathan for that season. But these are two rides that can easily interchange for me. I get it. A lot of people's top ride at Wonderland is probably Leviathan. And I understand that as well. But I've been on a lot of giggas. And by a lot, I've been on two. So to counter myself, I haven't been on a lot of giggas. But the reason I do rank Leviathan low at Canada's Wonderland is it's just too similar to behemoth for me. I've been on Millennium Force. I've been on Magnum. I've been on behemoth. And I've been on a lot of rides that have similar elements to Leviathan. And I just found Leviathan to be incomplete. It's missing something for me. It's missing that one extra element. And when I compare it to Fury, Fury's a real giga coaster in my opinion. And Leviathan's almost like that hyper coaster that dreamt of being a giga coaster. And it didn't quite get there. Yes, it's got the height. Yes, it's got the drop. And yes, those are fantastic things to have. But it's just missing that extra oomph to give it that top spot at Wonderland in my opinion. I also would have liked to see to see some better theming in that tunnel.  But I will say it's a very comfortable ride. It is definitely very thrilling. Wonderland didn't make a mistake with it. But in my perspective, it's just missing that extra little oomph, especially with such an amazing B&M hyper on the other side of the park. It's really, really lacking that extra like airtime hills. I would have liked to see a lot more lower to the ground elements. And I would have liked to see it pull a little extra elements near the end or even have that turnaround be slightly different. It's just way too similar to be human in my opinion. Now coming in at number two, this is Vortex. Again, Vortex is at the number two spot for the reasons I just listed as to why I ranked Leviathan at number three. Vortex is amazing. This thing goes over a mountain, it goes through trees, it dips down into a ravine and you come close to a close to water encounter. You're dodging support beams, you're going fast. This thing angles at like 90 degrees, 80 degrees, seven degrees during turns. It is really amazing. And I think this is super underrated in Canada's Wonderland's lineup. It's a very old attraction. Plus it drops on people's coaster lists because you've ridden it every year. And again, it would not have been in the number two spot in 2017. But in 2018, I had a really awesome ride experience and I know the park is taking really good care of this coaster and plans on keeping it in their coaster lineup permanently if they can. So again, this coaster is super special to me. I think it's super unique for Wonderland. I like that it's unique. I like that it's not a B&M because we're getting a lot of B&Ms at Wonderland. And I like that it has this experience that you can't get on any other of the coasters. It's got the speed. Leviathan, again, is a speed coaster, but I find this a different kind of speed. It's not a B&M speed. And I think that's why I'm ranking it at number two. Feel free to drag me down below. Again, if anyone wants to react to my top five list, go for it. I totally understand why this is controversial. I understand why my opinions are not right. Again, I am a theme park enthusiast, not a coaster enthusiast.  And this is a prime example as to why I'm probably more a theme park enthusiast and not a coaster enthusiast. But comment down below. I wanna hear from you guys. What are your top three coasters at Canada's Wonderland and how would you rank them? Would your number one be Leviathan or Behemoth? And what would your number two and number three be? So now with Vortex being my number two coaster at Canada's Wonderland, you probably know what my number one is. My number one coaster at Canada's Wonderland is Behemoth. Now I do know that this is a very controversial topic. Is Behemoth or Leviathan a better coaster? A lot of hardcore coaster enthusiasts even have trouble deciding between the two. I mean, I'm on a discord call almost all day and half of us think Behemoth is better. Half of us think Leviathan is better. None of us can come to an agreement on which one's better. But in my personal opinion, Behemoth just has that extra oomph that a B&M coaster needs to have that number one spot at a park. I like that it has a ton of airtime. I love that it has different elements. I like the helix. I like the extra little airtime hills into the brake run. Every aspect of this ride has airtime. So much so at Ace Event, again, I got sick on this ride.   And I remain sick for the rest of the day. This is because of the airtime. So much airtime, especially as you get older and older and I know that people watching this video who are coaster enthusiasts and are aging, like I am getting into their 20s and then getting into their 30s, understand that you are unable to do as many coasters and rides as you used to be able to. And trust me, Behemoth is one of those coasters that I cannot ride more than five times in a day. Otherwise, my stomach is going to spill its guts. Anyways, Behemoth is just in my opinion, an overall better package. It has that overall experience that I'm looking for. And I love it. It's right next to this little pond. It's stunning. I love that it reflects in the water. I love that it's like very small footprint yet a big footprint at the same time. This thing is super photogenic. And overall, it's just the better coaster, in my opinion. Again, I totally understand if you think Leviathan is better. It's definitely one of those things that no one's ever going to agree on fully. So with that, I want you guys to comment down below what you guys think is better. Is Leviathan better? Is Behemoth better? What's your top three at Canada's Wonderland? Feel free to share this video or react to it on YouTube. You have my permission. Anyways, hope you enjoyed my top five coasters at Canada's Wonderland. Again, I was ranking it on overall experience. These are not the top five most thrilling coasters at Canada's Wonderland. These are just the top five coasters, in my opinion, with the overall package. Hopefully you liked this video. Give it a like, subscribe if you haven't, and share this video for others to enjoy. Thanks so much for watching, guys. Enjoy your break. Bye.