scheduled live as usual for me I never warn anybody but when I'm going live I like to keep everybody on their toes I hope my glasses on here while I talk to you forgot to switch these again so I'm in the truck today I have to deliver my load tomorrow morning early tomorrow morning and then I've got about a week off so I've got a week of videos coming up I got four videos the five videos from this past week that I got to put together yet and then get on to my channel I have to catch up with those I'll be able to catch up with a couple of them tonight and here come the comments hey guys mark number one howdy hey guys I'm seeing all your comments come in here now a legend oh here it is and one and only hello how's it going guys so unscheduled live broadcast like usual you know I should probably start like warning you guys when I'm gonna do this so that more of you can show up when I'm actually live and not watch it later but that wouldn't be any fun I guess it's usually a spur of the moment thing I'm not a live streamer I'm a blogger I like editing my content I like being able to you know review what I said first and then maybe you should take that part out but here we are live how's it going London UK's in the house wow you guys from all over the world I see all happy st. Patrick's Day to those of you who celebrate that a special happy st. Patrick's Day to my Irish friends and followers what's the time where you are right now it's 6 30 here central time so I'm guessing you guys are just getting started have a safe night and get home safe all right find a ride home don't drink and drive so how's it going it's your birthday happy birthday Richard happy birthday what a good day to have a birthday on st. Patrick's Day now everybody's partying today for your birthday everybody we don't do anything for st. Patrick's Day really I don't I don't drink anymore either my new year's resolution for 2024 was to quit consuming all alcohol at all it's not like I drank a whole ton it didn't have a problem or anything but I made a conscious decision that I want to drink no alcohol I usually drank like Coors light like beer on my time off on my weekends and stuff but I decided no more for at least 2024 next New Year's 2025 we'll see how I feel maybe I'll just keep it going I mean I don't I don't really miss it I got too much stuff going on and I'm a dad now and I don't have any time for that when we'll see that's that's where I'm at but however you guys are celebrating just hope you guys are being safe it's your son's birthday today your seventh birthday Daniel you're well happy birthday to him happy birthday it's a very special day for a whole bunch of people awesome my son's birthday is coming next Friday on March 22nd he's gonna be one it's the first one a whole revolution around the Sun all the way around the Sun when we were at this point in space last year we were in the delivery room actually no a week from today yeah a week from today we had no idea that we were gonna be parents in a week because he came early because my wife had preeclampsia and so she had an emergency C-section which is a whole story in and of itself I should tell it to you guys sometime when she's with me so she can fill in the gaps and make sure that I'm not missing any points she had preeclampsia which means she had really high blood pressure and we went to get an ultrasound done and we showed up to the hospital and the doctor was very alarmed we had planned to go to Olive Garden after this was done but the doctor said you're not leaving this hospital you're having this baby within the hour oh we didn't even have anything with us I didn't have my camera I didn't buy I didn't bring our overnight bag our go bag so that's my recommendation all you new parents out there those of you who have had kids before you know already but if it's your first kid every single doctor's appointment in like the last two months bring everything with you just just in case if the doctors like don't they're coming today bring everything with you because we weren't prepared we had Theo she had she gave birth or had a C-section I went into recovery and then we went into our room and then once she was comfortable hey what what I can't pronounce that last and thank you you're making your day with your videos I'm glad you can glad you enjoy them thank you we went into the room she was comfortable and then I went home it was like three in the morning and I drove all the way home to Steinbach from Winnipeg which from St. Boniface Hospital was oh it was like an hour and a half one way and then I had to get our stuff and then driving an hour and a half back I got back to the hospital at 4 30 in the morning 4 35 o'clock in the morning something like that and at least we had all of our stuff and then we were there for a couple of days or so but yeah bring everything so happy birthday you guys Timmy you just welcomed a great grandson on the fourth awesome new life is awesome to hear if you're young and you haven't had kids yet kids yet and you got a stable situation and a stable relationship I highly recommend having kids the best thing that'll ever happen to you as long as you're in a stable point in your life and you got a stable partner a stable wife or stable husband at home you guys got good jobs you can you're all set definitely go for it like it'll change it obviously change your life but it will make everything it'll make everything more busy but it'll make everything better just make sure that you're stable first that's my that's my point of advice as a parent of a one-year-old so I'm still kind of new I guess compared to some people some of you probably have kids that are adults already before you have a baby make sure you're ready it's a lot of responsibility you don't know how much responsibility it is until it hits you it doesn't matter how many people tell you how hard it's gonna be it's tough it's really tough and it's your whole life but it's also at the same time the best thing that's ever gonna happen to you so yes more babies Richard I see is explaining what a c-section is I might have missed the question is there someone who asked what that is oh what's a c-section Steve Green says yeah c-section is where instead of giving birth naturally like women usually would do to put it bluntly they cut it out but it's a lot more medically involved than that they don't just take a knife and just cut the baby there's a process to it but that they they make an incision and then the baby comes out through the stomach instead of where they usually come out of I don't know how much I can say on YouTube without getting banned it's I just rather not get flagged on my channel but you guys know what I'm talking about craze says you have a son and daughter twins that are 36 that's my age wait my 36 I think I'm still 35 right I was born in 88 great decade I was a great decade spring back the 80s 80s 90s 2000s I'm 35 yeah I'm turning 36 in April in a couple of weeks oh it's almost my birthday mark bars is the next Tim's is on you thank you you know what I'm actually gonna stop at Tim's in a boat in hour hour and a half excuse me I have a load those loaded tires behind me I don't know if I showed it to you already I didn't show it to you all I just blew my not now you know what my next load is gonna be while there goes a surprise that's okay not a big deal I have a load of tires behind me and I got to deliver it today so I've gotten a little bit behind on my videos so I apologize to the members who usually get early access to my videos if you go to my channel there's not anything up there right now I have five including today which is six so once I get caught up with these that'll take me six videos would take me six to eight hours so I need to spend some time into it but once I have them all put together in the next day or two I gotta get a few done before I go to Louisville next week so I'll try to get them all done then as soon as they're done and uploaded the members you guys can have have a look at them first and then I really some one per day after that so that everyone isn't overwhelmed if you don't want to be overwhelmed that that's that's I get that hey Josh why do truckers not like to downshift and seem to pull over in front of just in front of you you don't do that it's more of a US thing I'm not too sure I'm not too sure if I can relate to that I'm not sure what you mean I downshift when I'm coming down the hill if it's unnecessary I won't bother going through the gears but people who don't downshift but can it's probably due to laziness factor or maybe they don't know how to downshift they haven't practiced you know drivers nowadays they're getting their licenses with automatic trucks I still think that shouldn't be allowed you should have to pass your license test with a manual truck at least a 10 speed I'd recommend at least a 13 speed I have an 18 in here 18 and see is this gray little splitter here that means an 18 speed a 13 speed would have a red splitter here and a 10 speed would have no splitter but you should have to pass your license with that manual truck it's ridiculous there's automatic trucks out there but I'm not against them because I've driven lots of automatic trucks it's actually kind of handy I actually kind of like it I mean let me hold you here better angle there you go you guys I shouldn't be talking down to you I should have you up here there you go so I've driven tons of them some automatic transmissions are great some are not so great either way it's always better if you can have full control over the transmission it's just better especially in deep snow if you get yourself into deep snow when you got an automatic transmission especially if you have traction control good luck you're stuck because your traction control is gonna kick on it's just gonna sink your truck right down to the axles in the snow and good luck rocking it back and forth to get out of there with an automatic what's this yeah okay I'm going through your comments here now if you're wondering if we're watching this later when I pause like that I'm on a live stream when I'm filming this so I'm actually reading the comments live so mr. dude video no mr. video dude 709 vlogs I'm 24 now I'll be 25 in November so I'll be halfway to 50 by then well there you go I'll be 36 which is halfway to old depending who you ask I guess 76 what is that 60 72 72 is not that old 72 is like the new 50 right yeah depends on who you see you see some 72 year olds out there that are are really great shape they honestly look like they're 45 and 50 so depends on how you take care of yourself hey guys Austin are you going to maths I am going for one day I'm going for Thursday when was the last time when was the last time Trevor Josh you were clean shaved down to the skin were they razor shaving cream last okay so I think you're asking when the last time I didn't have a beard you can go in my videos back all the way go through my playlists you can see me without a beard when I was younger I was also a lot more immature and a lot weirder if that's possible I leave all of my past videos up for you guys to watch at my expense they're super cringe for me to go and they're super embarrassing for me to watch like I was watching some of my early early videos I was just me and diesel long before I met my wife long back there it's all on my channel here my playlist and I I don't know if I thought I was funny or if I thought I I don't know it's you guys you go go ahead and watch it and laugh at my expense that's okay that's why they're there that's why they're there I hope it entertains you I don't have a beard at the beginning and you can see my my lack of chin all right so I can I can admit to you that I have a beard because it makes my face look better and I also like it I like it better how was the adventure to split Lake Manitoba I haven't been up there in a long time think that was last winter when I was up there it was fun very nice people up there I went to which reserve did I go to Fort Nelson I think we call Fort Nelson very nice people got stuck there in a snow storm very nice locals Matt Vars I'll miss you at maths maybe I'll bump into you when I come up to Canada for Canada Day from Minnesota oh cool I don't know what our Canada Day plans are yet but depending on depending on what we want to do really I have no idea what their plans are gonna be Caleb says I've been watching you since you're 17 you're not 22 and you start CDL school tomorrow I've influenced you to do it awesome that is awesome I hope that it is for you I hope you enjoy it trucking isn't for everybody and don't feel bad if it's not for you but I love it I love it and there's a lot of us out here who love it too so I hope it goes well for you it was awesome let's go to the oh I missed so many comments here I'm sorry I'm missing your comments here pistol and he says you'll be going to feels graduation and a walker almost I mean I'm gonna be a pretty old dad and we're still trying to have more yet right and I that that's another reason I quit drinking all alcohol or putting alcohol into my body even if it was just on weekends or whatever I I want to live long I want to see my kids grow up I want to see you know I want to see who they get married to I want to I want to know their kids I want to see what they make of themselves what what kind of career are they gonna get into I want to see them succeed and do what I can to help them get there I want to live as long as I can so yeah I'll be an older dad but hopefully I'll take care of myself until then so that I'll be able to keep up I won't be that old I'll but I want to live as long as I can for my kids you said how was the ride to Gillam that was a long time ago as well I don't go up there anymore because that road is so awful and it breaks my truck $4,000 in repairs when I got back from Gillam John am I Canadian I am born and bred you can't get much more Canadian than this right here people always try to get me into politics I try to give me thoughts on Biden thoughts on Trudeau my answer to that is none there are no thoughts on either of those guys when I hear those people's name my brain is empty much like there's like there's yeah you've always been charming and a gentleman Josh don't be embarrassed of the past videos E-rated 78 says well thank you for the compliment hey it's still cringe for me looking back on my old videos you guys can go enjoy them though I mean I keep pressing the heart button do you feel better that's what that was yes I do feel better thank you I was wondering why I was just getting this little boost of energy oh thank you don't go don't don't blow it don't go too too much on it though because then you'll blow my head up too big and then my head will be so big right I talked to some people and they say I already got a big head don't want to blow that thing up any more than it needs to be Mr. Video Dude says again I love your older videos I just watched your trip to Fort Lauderdale in the truck from June 2017 awesome try driving a box truck 40 foot container I drove dry van for six years you can see it on my channel here Mark says I'm still pretty weird I know but I can admit that I'm weird though I know I'm a little bit different I grew up with my inspirations like my heroes being Jim Carrey for one and Robin Williams as another those two guys are my if I could ever meet Jim Carrey I can't meet Robin Williams unfortunately I was so sad so sad when he went ah but Jim Carrey and Ace Ventura all of his films I love them all that's might explain why I'm that was my influence growing up I should do reaction video videos Henry says I probably could there is some weird writing there I'm sorry I don't speak that language I don't know what that is Hawaii to Canadians typically and every sentence of a culture I guess part of our culture it's a many reasons it's a way to provoke a response I think too because when you say a word you end the word a at the end they like that like sort of like you agree like right right like I drive a truck a it could be I drive a truck a did you know I drive a truck a did you know or this food is spicy a like this food is spicy spicy and don't you agree it has many different meanings so we sort of tack it on to the end of everything thank you Don you're already an awesome dad and will continue to be a fantastic dad as you get older thank you oh boy there's so many comments I can't keep up I love this guys keep commenting keep commenting I'm sorry I can't respond to all of them just keep commenting and has a lot lizard ever banged on your truck door yeah they have in the past maybe twice in 17 years I don't know I hear these guys talking online like it's some kind of big thing like oh they're everywhere crawling all over the place no never ever see them but I'm also I drive up here in Canada and I the only two I saw one was in Texas one was an Oregon and you just tell them go away they're rude too like you could be sleeping all the lights are off in your truck and they knock on the door but that was long time ago it was about the last one I saw was probably over 10 years ago before I even met my wife and no before you ask no I have never even thought of letting someone like that inside my truck to me gross this is gross is besides my attitude I don't have to pay for it why would I yes Roberts is too cold up north maybe but where I drive no you don't see them ever ever ever maybe I'm just not looking either username and said he had one come up to his truck at 3 a.m. in the morning yeah I've heard that from drivers to like they'll just come bang on your truck door middle of the night and wake you up I'd be ticked if someone did that to me like first of all get away from my truck now that you touched it I have to wash it thank you leave get away from here dirty where I'm from in Newfoundland we speak slightly different than the rest of Canadians we stay say stuff like yes or a buy yeah we call ourselves new fees or Newfoundlanders yes Newfoundland has a unique accent I can't even understand what they're saying like a real real down-home Newfoundlander when they start talking I've been there many times they start talking to you I'm not deer in the head that they're talking English because you can understand like every sixth word but they talk so fast and their accent is so thick no idea what they're saying they have to talk really slow and I always have to be like huh excuse me oh you want to go to Timmy's okay great people though people at East especially Newfoundlander the friendliest people you'll ever meet I think that has a lot to do with the fact that they're isolated on an island and it's a much tighter-knit community than a lot of people on the mainland great people good evening trucker-jash are there lumpers in Canada probably for reefers and stuff yeah I think there's lumpers I think Loblaws here a lot of lumpers there I think that's such a rip-off lumpers I'm glad I don't got to deal with that for those of you don't know lumpers are people you get to a customer and then they charge you money to unload your trailer with their product they charge you to unload their product it is so backwards and such a rip-off and such a scam that it makes I don't have to deal with it but it makes me upset just thinking about it then they you pay them and then they unload their freight no where I go I just get unloaded I don't pay for it and if you don't want to unload your freight don't order it how do you manage the work-life balance having you at home it's tough sky skydent transport I find it hard to spend time at the shop on weekends and not with the kids and wife yes that is for sure my truck does get a little bit neglected sometimes like not in a bad way it's still all up to date and safe to drive and everything and make sure that all that's done but there's things like polishing it I don't have time to polish it as much when I come home I get done what I need to get done on the truck and then I go home if it's not a necessity I'd rather be spending that time at home with my kid before he grows up and it's too late so my attitude on it now is I'm keeping old blue my truck here running and keeping it as well kept as I can until my kid is older I don't want to miss these younger years Ronald Otto says you're gonna be the I-80 trucker Jamboree in July I don't think I'm gonna make it to that one no Harold says he's been watching me since I lived in that trailer park that's where it all began that's a long time ago already thanks for sticking around for so long pistol and he says my son a sheriff's deputy got caught in a small funnel with baseball-sized hail a few days ago oh my during a bad storm here and said said went suddenly black heard a light bar explode windshield cracking slide oh that sounds scary sounds like he's okay though I hope he's okay it's freaky Kyle hello from let's see that is New Zealand had to make sure that wasn't Australia I don't want to get that wrong your flags look very similar mm-hmm Joe popping egg and says I have had the same lot lot lizard come back three times in an hour finally a cop buster that must be annoying it must be annoying I never have to deal with that Scott yes I'll be at mats on Thursday just for Thursday though I got to come back for Friday it's Mike my kid's birthday on Friday shucker Josh Henry says how is big rig talk I haven't heard from him in so long I know he had some health issues I don't know what he's up to I haven't heard from him I hope he's doing alright okay see Picker does that mean Oklahoma City okay see Picker hey Josh when was the last time you hit wildlife like a squirrel I think I hit a bird yesterday pretty sure I pretty sure I think it was like a pigeon or something I was driving up by 29 from North Dakota and these two birds swooped right in front of my truck as they do I saw one bird in my mirror go up I don't know where the second bird went I never saw it again I think I hit it when you're talking to us what do you listen to while driving I listen to podcasts a lot a podcast audio books anything that I can listen to podcasts which podcast do I listen to oh I listen a lot of different talk shows mostly conservative talk shows Steven Crowder is one some of his videos Tim cast is another one I like listening to him keeping up to date with what's going on in the US for Canada I watched the pleb and Mr. Sunshine baby and also House of Canada watch those keep up what's going on with politics on both sides of the border just to keep an eye on what's going on I also listen to Philip DeFranco to get the other side from the US DeFranco is more of a Democrat liberal talk show so I get both sides that way Joe Rogan every now and then I don't listen to Spotify that much but I tune into some of his interviews depending on what there's Tucker Carlson let's know what what he has to say as well now listen to a wide range but they they are mostly conservative leaning absolutely for music I like 90s country Alan Jackson's my favorite artist and also Tony Justice I think a lot of you will know Tony Justice he does trucking songs if you if you don't know who he is definitely look him up definitely look him up Tony Justice just like it sounds you should look on he's got great music and what else do I listen to I have my my time where I like to listen some blue grass every now and then and all the link dang dang dang dang dang every now again I get in the feeling let's know that I sort of rotate back and forth just I like listening to people talk more than music though I don't know the I says I should check out the Sean Ryan show podcast I've never heard of it before I remember don't know who that is but I'll have to check that out was that a stoned I like that username hey Josh I'm 19 almost 20 and I've been looking into becoming a trucker do you have any tips or advice for people looking into trucking and my advice is to keep your driving record clean no tickets if you have any tickets you're gonna find it very hard to get hired so just don't speed drive like a 90 year old grandma everywhere you go or everywhere you go drive as if your 90 year old grandma has a big hot boiling pot of borscht on her lap with no lid and you don't want to spill any then you'll be fine and find a good trucking school go to sometimes people go through these big mega carriers they have training programs and then you got to work for them put in your time work for them for like a year whatever their contract says and then once you're done that then you can get out and get into a smaller company that'll treat you more like a person and not like a number but at least then you're in and you have your license thoughts on Edison motors I'm glad you brought that up I like them I've been following them since the very beginning and his truck is actually called old blue too so before they even started engineering this diesel hybrid truck it's a they've come a long ways and I'm really excited to see where it goes he's got the truck on the road now he's got it safety and roadworthy so they're doing road tests now it's it's the same idea as a freight train right it has the diesel engine in there but it's it's run by electric power but it's got a diesel generator on the front so it's this exact same idea as a freight train which gives you incredible torque and he does logging up in the mountains and so he has regenerative braking I think that's what he calls it going downhill so going uphill he has this amazing torque to pull the logs uphill and then on the way back down the hill no sorry amazing torque to get up the hill empty right he picks up the logs up the hill and brings it down into the valley either way on the way what do I know I don't want to talk about on the way down the hill he charges his batteries with his brakes going all the way down so for what he does it makes sense a lot yeah it's a very excited to see where that's going completely 100% Canadian engineering and he named it Edison just in spite of Tesla and then he's doing a better job than them to on semis anyways dash hon lover says your oldest daughter had preeclampsia yeah it's it's a serious thing it can kill you it's very serious to to have that Steven Green what do you think of your NDP government are the socialists and is everything free there in Manitoba nothing's free nothing in life is free we have a lot of public services here in Manitoba all of our insurance is public our health care is public it's not perfect it definitely needs work our new leader Wab canoe I didn't vote for him but I don't hate him I don't dislike him he has put a good taste in my mouth so to speak in his first few weeks in office I I can't say anything bad about him he's not he's not as divisive as I thought he might be I thought he'd come in and be very divisive but we'll see if everything's new we have a new government here in Manitoba right now so we'll see how it goes he seems to be more conservative than our past conservative government so we used to have a conservative government here in Manitoba and that's that's who I voted for I'm from southern Manitoba so those of you from Manitoba I went ah that makes sense that makes sense yes I'm from Southern Manitoba so our government that was in power for the last seven years I think did very little we were not impressed with them at all as a conservative or I was not impressed with them they did very little I thought they were doing it they were weak and I we had weak leadership even all the way through COVID too I did not like them but anyways Wab got in now and he's from NDP they are new Democrats new Democrat party they are a left leaning party so they are opposite from what I would usually support but in his first a couple of weeks in office the first thing he did was slash the fuel tax in Manitoba like completely flashed fuel I was like the most conservative move even the conservative government didn't do that and he's cutting taxes first thing like wait what so that I was like a sort of tip the hat to him all right cool that's a good move and the way he talks to people he seems like a really good guy he has a family don't get me wrong he has a past he has a history and I'm aware of that but I believe he's learned for it seems he's learned from his past and that he's moved on from it and that he's really turned his life around and at least from what he's presenting to the public right it's I don't know him it's not really my guy but if you want to know my opinion on him I am up in the air here I at this point I still wouldn't vote for that party I don't agree with their their stance on many things but as for him as an individual he seems like seems like he's a nice guy and you know I was talking about this in my last live too one thing that we have really been lacking in Canada and the United States both sides is the ability to talk to each other for conservatives and liberals to get along what we've done since social media has popped up have we've gone our separate ways almost got into our own echo chambers and all we do is call each other names and yell at each other over the internet and we don't just sit down and talk with each other anymore we don't see any common ground with each other you know the other guy gets in power and immediately it's like oh it's Hitler they're a bunch of Nazi racists you know and the way they talk about us but then our side also sort of does the same thing to them like they're a bunch of communist socialists and they're all evil and like guys I really wish we could just go back to the point where we could just sit down and talk like I can say that our current government I didn't vote for them they're not my guys but I seems like a really nice guy seems like a good guy and we'll see what happens let's see what he does I don't think I'd vote for them but maybe who knows he's got three and a half years now to earn my vote so let's see what he does Steve Green says our premier is the first indigenous premier yeah yeah he is but I really like the approach he took to that because that's where I thought things would get divisive right I thought everything would become about race and with his victory speech I was very impressed he said no no no he was very clear that no no no I may be indigenous and I may be the first indigenous premier of Manitoba but I am not the indigenous premier of Manitoba I am the premier of all Manitobans so he had a very unifying victory speech which I was very impressed with he didn't use that as a wedge to push us apart which a lot of politicians do nowadays they like to divide us based on our skin color based on our ethnicity based on our our history and where we come from language so far he hasn't been like that as far as I've seen he's been very uniting which was nice to see so yeah he is he is indigenous I don't know if he's a jibway or Cree but he is not our indigenous leader he is our Manitoban leader he is the leader of all Manitobans so I I respect him for that Tim he says I miss the times when people all genuinely cared about and helped each other people were put first before money everyone could have an opinion but not be crucified or without being crucified it's exactly what I'm talking about there was a time when I was alive still not too long ago like what 10 20 years ago when you could have your opinions and not be crucified for it and not you know be called a Nazi because you're a conservative or not be called a communist because you're a liberal like there was a time where things were a little less heated and I think through the US when Trump was president that divide or that people were so angry it was such a painful thing to watch from the outside where people just they were so cruel mean to this day still trying to and like nail them to a cross pretty much it's just I think we've lost a bit of our humanity and hopefully we can get that back my next Timmy's thank you so much thank you I will be stopping at Timmy soon I think I need to get going though guys we have about 200 people here I hope that I can sort of be a bridge between people sometimes because I want everyone here to feel welcome here in Manitoba here we have you know I'm from southern Manitoba so when I say I'm conservative voting that makes sense I think everybody understands oh yeah that would make sense you know when you're from Winnipeg or northern Manitoba you'd probably be an NDP voter you know and that's that's okay yelling at each other calling each other names slandering each other is not gonna win anybody over to our side if we can find common ground and just talk maybe we can learn something from each other maybe you could take time to understand why I think the way I think and feel the way I feel and I can do the same for you and that's why I'm giving this Mr. Canoe a good a good chance here because his victory speech really impressed me I really thought it would be more divisive and more focused on dividing us by every possible metric that they could and it was very uniting you know and you have to admit that so despite what you think of him despite what I think of him he got voted in he the people wanted changed they got changed I don't blame them our last government I did not like either even though I support them I thought we could do much better and maybe this will be a wake-up call for our side being like we need to do better but we'll get we'll see what he has he's got he got elected was last year 2023 so he's got four years to win me over or we've got four years to improve ourselves and become better to power truck trucker says start with a big company then when you time in you can go work for a normal company that's what I would say to start with a big company get your license use them for their training you'll have to work with them for a year or two to get your your training done and then once that's all over go to a smaller company where you're known by your name and not by your unit number so I would say I'll end off with this comment from Timmy thanks for always bringing joy to your followers we appreciate you Brett the little man Theo and the furry children God bless and keep the rubber on the road and in between the lines and to all of you as well take care everybody have a good night and have a happy St. Patrick's Day stay safe and don't drink and drive


What's up everybody welcome back to tennis talk my name is Cam Williams And we're going to go through the road to the gold medal for Daniel Medvedev the world number two And he loves playing on hardcourts We are playing on hardcourts in Tokyo for the first time since March So it's been a long long time since we've seen Medvedev on a hardcourt got to the Australian Open final this year So how far can he go in Tokyo in its best at three set match? Let's go start with who he's playing in the first round so Daniel Medvedev He starts his campaign as the number two seed against Bublick now He has played Bublick a couple of times one of those times being a couple of weeks ago at the French Open So he has some recent form against this guy and Medvedev has a 2-0 head-to-head record Against Bublick the only time they played on a hardcourt though all the way back in 2016 with Medvedev getting a straight sets win in St. Petersburg in front of his Russian crowd So you would expect that Medvedev on a hardcourt should get through his first round match against Bublick But it's not going to be easy your second round matchup is most likely going to be the veteran Isterman so it would be a very interesting matchup because they actually have played on a futures tournament So a very low tier tournament back in 2016 Isterman got the win there in straight sets But it's a different story now 2016 we're in 2021 Medvedev is a way different player than what he was back then So Isterman it's gonna be a tough match He's gonna replicate that win that he got against Medvedev five years ago If Medvedev does make it to the third round he'll be taking on the world number 31 Fabio Finini who's coming in here is the 15th seed so he's got a very high seeding in this one to fight his ranking It's not like great hasn't had a great 2021 Fabio However, these two have played four times before with Medvedev leading the head-to-head 3-1 The last time they actually played was on a hardcourt back at the ATB Cup last year with Medvedev getting a three-set win Now that's very important because this tournament is best of three and this tournament is about representing your country just like the ATB Cup So you got to watch out for Fabio because Finini is one of those players that when he's playing for Italy He gets really fired up and really charged up So Medvedev's got to be careful here that he's not playing against a fired up Fabio because there could be an upset on the card So Medvedev very tough third round if he does play Finini into the quarterfinals now And most likely gonna play by the seedings Carina Buster the number six seed currently the world number 12 and in form because he just won in Hamburg a couple of weeks ago the ATP 500 event which the huge event for the clay court season Fortunately, this is not a clay court event So Carina Buster maybe can't convert that onto the hardcourts But he did make the US Open semi-finals last year So Carina Buster does like playing on hardcourts These two have actually played four times or four with Medvedev leading the head-to-head 3-1 and 2-1 on hardcourts So you'd expect if they do play in the quarterfinals Medvedev should get the win But again Carina Buster he doesn't mind playing on the hardcourts in best of three sets We know anything can happen going into the semi-finals now and the most likely opponent for Medvedev is to file a city pass The world number four now these two have played a lot of times before eight times In fact and Medvedev has a commanding lead six two against city pass now city pass did get their win The last time they played that was at the French Open this year That was a clay court event Medvedev However won their last hardcourt matchup which was at the Australian open earlier this year and he won in straight sets Pretty convincing as well So this is the hardcourt event You'd expect Medvedev to have the edge over city pass in that semi-final getting to the gold medal match now And the most likely scenario is that Medvedev will take on world number one Novak Djokovic in that gold medal final Now Djokovic does lead the head-to-head 5-3 against Medvedev And they played at the Australian Open final of course with Medvedev barely getting any shots back from Djokovic Djokovic was playing amazing in that final however at the end of last year Medvedev did get the win in straight sets in their Last best of three set match that was at the ATB finals was a straight sets win to Medvedev back then So this is best of three so you got to give Medvedev a chance against Djokovic especially on a hardcourt But it's not going to be easy But if Medvedev can do it he'll win the gold medal for his country So there it is there is the road to the title the road to the gold medal for Daniel Medvedev Let me know down the comments below how far can Medvedev go? I think he can win a medal I don't know if he can win the gold medal But he could probably easily win the bronze all the silver medal because he does like playing on hardcourts One of the best hardcore players going around so I'm interested to see how Medvedev does has a tough road ahead though The first couple of matches are going to be tough But if you can get on a roll Medvedev, we know he loves playing on the hardcourts And then who knows he can play Djokovic in that final and maybe Maybe cause the biggest upset of the year in that final and stop the Golden Grand Slam But let me know down in the comments below how far Medvedev can go and who's his biggest threat? Daniel Medvedev loves playing on the hardcourts and it's the best of three sets who knows what could happen


Hey, did they go to boost my speed, no matter? I think I'm only like, I think, what is it? I'm 86, I could go a little crazy. I'm a little 88 without that. It's a good day to work with somebody today. I'm the feds today, I'm the feds today. I'm the feds today, I'm the feds today. Hey, come on, come on, come on, come on. Hey, let's go, baby. We all we need, we all we got. Let's go. Hey, follow up on the day. Let's go. Hey, dummy on me, dummy on three, one, two, three. I just want to say hi, mama, how you doing? Hey, bro, where do you think my mic at? I don't know why that mic, man. I don't really talk during the game. I thought after the game. They don't even know that, though. Yeah, I don't talk during the game, though, yeah.  I have my game day, man. I'm not. I ain't never say that. I ain't never say that. Hey, I see what y'all, y'all try to get on the move, like y'all try to get on the TV. That's funny, okay. Here we go, dad, with the opportunity to really get better. Another one of those days, let's see those football games, let me watch that one, man. Love you, dad. At my champagne right here, I feel one today. I feel it. At my bottle ready, I feel it today. Here we go, six years in a bottle. Hey, I got the wave, come on. Hey, let's do a great job communicating. Let's go, one, two, three, four, five, six. Let's go. Here we go, baby, let's go, let's go. Bro, I like you, man. I'm glad he running the ball.  We're already, we're already looking. You know what they gonna try to do? We gotta come out the ball. Hey, let's go, hey, we gotta come on. We gotta come on, right here, we gotta come on. That boy is magical, that boy is magical. Hey, that boy Felipe is magical. Hey, hey, hey, come here. Hey, come here. Hey, hey, come here, come here, we don't gotta yet. Hey, we gotta stand up right here. We gotta water, bro, we gotta stand up right here. Hey, we get one stop, we start rolling, we start rolling, we gotta get a stop right here. Hey, double move, double move, RPOs. Let's go, baby. Hey, let's shoot, let's go, let's go, come on. Come on, let's go, shoot that. Looked here to the near side, gonna sling it deep, downfield and incomplete. No flag on the play intended for Salvon Ahmed and broken up by Michael Walker, the linebacker. Yeah, Michael does a good job. That's my man, the speed. I told him, boy, let me redo my car, let me do, redo my 40. First of all, out the car, man, I was nervous, I was tight, you know, it said four, six, five, but I really like a four, five, you know what I'm saying? I really, I really am like a, I can get up now. They gonna put them down.


Ahoy, ahoy, and welcome to the channel. Normally today we would do a dank memes video where I would go over funny memes from the SCP community, however, unfortunately, there is an important piece of news that I should cover and I should cover it now while it's still relevant. And unfortunately, there's no way to cover that important piece of news without also covering an incredibly annoying piece of drama at the same time. So we're going to do that, but first we'll talk the news and then we'll talk about the drama that has sourced out of that news. I'm Dr. Sumerian, not a real doctor. Let's get started. So there's no way to talk about this without at least first acknowledging a single piece of thing. One of the most prolific authors on the SCP wiki to this date was a user by the name of Roger. Now I've always said Roger and I think a lot of other people called him Roger, but it's because it was in text and it was ever spoke over voice on a regular basis. A few of us had different opinions on the proper pronunciation. I believe it should have been Roger.  So anyway, you're going to hear me say Roger. That's who I'm talking about. And I'll put the name on the screen so you can see it. Roger was when I say one of the most prolific authors on the wiki, it's important to realize that like the top 10 authors of which are happened to be one of them. If you want to look up the numbers represent a huge sizable percentage of the total articles on the wiki, the top 10 probably represent maybe a full 10% of the wiki's author articles, if not more, when we're only talking about 10 out of like a couple thousand authors. So yeah, individually, we represent quite a lot of works, which means that when one of us leaves the community or stops writing, there is usually I mean, like it's going to be replaced. There's always new people coming in, of course, but there's a precipitous drop off in production. There's always there's got to be because you're losing one of the most prolific people and those people represent a large number of your activity. Roger represented a huge portion of the wiki's content. And in fact, I believe I haven't run the numbers myself in a long time. There was a time and I don't know how much they had or he had posted in that time or how much the wiki has grown since then, but there was a time for sure where Roger's contributions represented a full 2% of the wiki's content, one out of 50 articles. If you went through 50 articles, the likelihood is one of them was written by Roger. And this is a long way of saying basically that we're talking about a user with a huge amount of reach. And that is important because on the 16th of February, they edited a post on an author page. Okay, so we actually have to cover something else here. Roger has transitioned. So from now on in this video, when I refer to them, not in a historical sense, but just in general, I will be using their new name, which is their new username anyway, which is Harmony. I believe it's pixelated Harmony, but they asked me to use the name Harmony. And they now use she, her pronouns. So that is what I will be using from. I'll do my best. I've known them for a very, very, very long time. I don't I'm going to, if I make a slip up, I will try to correct it. And Harmony made an edit to an author post because they actually created a new account to leave the old name behind on their new author page. And that new author page edit covered something of particular import to the community. I'm going to read as much of it as I can. It's a quite a long post here, but it's important that we cover the cover the text here. Today is the end of my involvement with the community. But I hope not all the people of SCP, if I'm dear to you, do not be afraid to find me. I am not far away, but I cannot be here any longer. My masterpiece was the last story I had to make. And if anybody would like to finish the computer chronicles or any of the other drafts I started in this short second act, I make all material in my sandbox available to be used as you see fit. I would like to request that Dr. Rodgett's personal file, any nonfiction material, accepting for all of my contributions to HOTUS and all original primary source materials I created, such as the interview with the administrator and the files attached to some of those pages. And all of my SCPs be deleted from their current places on the SCP Wiki immediately. The same for the tales. Everything I posted under the account name rjb underscore r, which is the the wiki dot lets you change your name and the old Rodgett account was changed to rjb underscore r and not applying to that, which I wrote using this account about which I am requesting nothing other than they be treated the same as anyone's work. To be clear, don't delete anything listed on Pixelated Harmony's author page. In addition, I would like the author attribution, which I have on all collaborations, to be extinguished and authorship rights to my rewrites restored to their original authors or assigned as modern Erasmus sees fit. Do not delete anything I wrote in Conwell's collaborations, my pictures on Troy's author page, contribution to Gears Day and Leveritas can have new tech issues if he wants it. The living will, which was something that he posted or she something that she posted on Dr. Rodgett's personnel file, which was the old author page for this user, is no longer valid. I bequeath all the deleted content, which I no longer wish to have associated with my name to the SCP community at large, to be remixed and revitalized as they see fit. I would like a neutral space not owned by anybody in the community to be created to accommodate this public material or that an existing one, like GitHub or Pasteboard, or another site not controlled by any one person or WikiDot, all of their details, however, the executors of this action see fit. Any author may post my words of the wiki again as they were, which is true, legally they can, but please don't. I would personally take that as a slap in the face and seek you out to hold you accountable for it on an individual basis. So don't make me do that. I'm trying to make a clean break. OK, well, if you say I'm going to come find you, that's not really that's not if you literally say, do this and don't do this, or I'll find you, you're not making a clean break. That's not what any of those words mean. If you could be like, don't make me hurt.  Anyway, I do not wish for a credit to get accreditation other than the bare minimum in terms of credit and how many places it is placed in. Wait, I do not wish for a credit accreditation other than the bare minimum in terms of credit and how many places it is placed in that it is technically required by law. I'm reading this straight text. That's a I'm not really sure what that's supposed to mean other than maybe I don't want anything other than the legal minimum of credit in the places where it is required, which is everywhere on every article, which you just asked to have your names removed from. I hope that everybody enjoys all of the empty slots. Nothing would make me happy to know that you filled them with articles that made you happy to write to replace the things I wrote for outside validation because I couldn't feel happy by myself. Let that be my final legacy of that. You see that unique number next to others you have and will write that you think of me and we all have accomplished together in the next decade and all we have accomplished together in the next decade and the one going on after that and on and on until the sun sets. Never forget the foundation will always be for everybody. Think of your time. I had the time of my life, Harmony, formerly Roger, your eternal friend and admirer. Now, where did we? How did we get to here? All right, that's the better question. When pixelated Harmony began writing for the site, it didn't go smoothly. There was a lot of problems with mistagging posts, cold posting articles, and there's nothing wrong with it. When we talk about cold posting, that's posting an article without getting any feedback. And I was told this by I talked to some staff members, a variety of them, and I looked and some of this is definitively true enough of it that I don't and none of it's particularly controversial. There is a lot of poor quality works being posted that weren't really feedbacked, didn't see or if they were or whoever gave that feedback was not doing a very good job. And then there was a particular post on a user called Mouse's... A user called Mouse wrote a redaction guide, kind of an updated one, and there was a very, very strong post made on that. I can, let me see if I can find it real quick. All right, so we're gonna read this is sort of the trigger. Like there was a lot of things that led up to this, this is the eventual trigger for the, at least revocation. There wasn't even a ban, it was just revoked, they were just had their account revoked where they'd have to reapply, which is supposed to be sort of a wake up call. That's really all it does. It's like, it's just a bit over a warning. A warning would just be don't do it again. A revocation makes you literally like stop and be like, I have to reapply to the site now. This led to that revocation. Actually, let's double check because we have to look at the original edits here, like Jesus, okay. This is a terrible guide. What kind of creative writing side are we? That we celebrate something that spits on our core values in favor of deifying pedantry. There's not a single word here that isn't telling people how they're allowed to think and nothing about how they can use an iconic SCP visual element in new creative or interesting ways, instead urging them not to even consider the tool and throw it directly into the trash, which is something that I always suggest to people to do when it comes to redactions, that's to be fair.  So that was the original post. That was edited multiple times. Oh, there's more lines. Man, there were, oh, Jesus. This looks like 20 or so revisions. The final one is like the final revision, which was made. Wow, okay. So it went from 944 to 1052. Wow, that's a lot of editing. Actually, to be honest with you, the final arguments that they made, I'm not gonna bother reading that a whole thing again, because it's basically a whole new post, are not probably actionable, doesn't look actionable to me, but the first one is definitely in violations of feedback rules, because yeah, that's very personal. The thing is, this led to the revocation, which was supposed to be a wake up call sort of warning sort of situation. Instead, things began to spiral from there and the user eventually went to the point where they asked to have all of their works removed from the wiki within six hours of that post after the revocation happened. Okay, so here we are. We're looking at one of the most prolific users on the wiki asking to have their works deleted. How does the wiki respond? The answer to that is poorly. There, I really do feel, I'll say this, because I'm pretty sure that Pixelated Harmony is gonna be watching this at least once. I would really doubly ask that you not, I can only ask, but I very much ask that you reverse course on the request you made to have your works deleted from the wiki. None of them are particularly popular. I'll make that argument all day because there's a lot of people who tell me, like, we can't delete them. They're so important to the wiki. You know this, none of your works are particularly popular on the wiki, but that doesn't mean that there's not value to them, right? And it's not all about the numbers. You talked about this before. It's not all about the numbers, right? Just because they're not particularly popular doesn't mean they're not important to a lot of people.  I think it's gonna hurt you, not necessarily that. I think it will hurt your legacy more than anything else. And I think it's sad that it has come to this, but I'm just gonna make that plea, like change your mind, please. That's all I can ask. But if you don't, and now we're going to cover the other half of this problem, the Creative Commons license, and now I'm talking to everybody again, the Creative Commons license allows you to remix and redistribute a work indefinitely. As long as you redistributed under the right license with the right attribution, okay? So any of Pixelated Harmony's works can be copied and reposted by somebody else, legally. Now we're not talking about moral imperatives here or any of those sorts of things. Legally, they're fine. I feel like morally that's a little bit on the shaky side. But the Creative Commons license does not give other people control of the works you individually created.  It allows you to create new copies of that work. But the originals that you created, like if I'm holding up the piece of paper, I own this. And for the Wiki, the posts that Pixelated Harmony made under the old username, they own those posts and have every right in the entire world to have them taken down. And the Creative Commons license does not grant you ownership of the actual thing, grant you ownership of the content of that thing to then be reposted. It seems like a silly distinction, right? What it means is that I'm holding this piece of, I'm gonna give you this as an analogy.  I own this piece of paper. I can burn it if I want to. But if you read that story or take a picture of that story or copy down that story and then recreate it and make sure, and we're assuming this piece of paper and this story is under a Creative Commons, unless otherwise indicated, this work is under a Creative Commons share-alike 3.0, I'm sorry, a 3.0 share-alike attribution license and was written by Dr. Sumerian or my real name, depending on what you wanna use. I own the paper. I can burn it. I should have the option to burn it. And if you take it away from me, I still own it. And if I say, hey, burn that for me, you can either give it back to me, give me access back to it or burn it.  And then you can create as many copies as you'd like.  Unfortunately, the SCP Wiki has worked on now on the assumption that they just own everything on the Wiki. And when I say they, I mean, I don't know who they're talking about. Cause like, they know how it works. It's not what the Creative Commons license allows you to do. There was originally, let's do it. This is not the first time a user has wanted to remove either a sizeable or let's say important section of the wicking. And if they were still a user, if they weren't banned, which they were eventually, we'll talk about that in the drama later, but they ended up eventually banned, not just revoked, both accounts. She ended up banned both accounts. I'm probably gonna leave those on just, anyway, just to show that I'm not very good at this. Names, oh man, I'm so bad with names. Okay, so the user asked for their stuff to be deleted. The site originally was gonna have them deleted and then they found themselves a loophole to avoid having to do to, I should say, avoid having to make the difficult decision because they actually created as much work for themselves by avoiding the difficult decision as they would have had to do had they had to delete everything. So they've avoided no work. In fact, they probably have created far more work for themselves. First thing they did was held a town hall meeting and gone, you know, our policy for the longest time has been author autonomy. Authors can remove anything they'd like to from the wiki, but this is inconvenient for us right now because it represents 2% of the wiki's content. And honestly, it's a lot of work and we don't wanna do it. So what does the community think? We'll leave it up to you. And the justification for this, by the way, is in Harmony's send-off post, they left their works to the community. Delete all of my works, but the content of those works, I leave to the community to do with as they wish. And the SAP wiki's staff probably at some point, one of them had this like light bulb go off at the top of their head and they're like, we can get around this problem. They left their work, she left our works to the community. We'll just give them to the community to decide. Ha ha. And so they held their town hall. There was a long, you know, whatever, I'm not gonna read through the whole thing. And eventually they ended up with three proposals. Proposal one, status quo. That's it. They don't do anything, essentially. They refuse to remove the works. They refuse to do anything about the works. Maybe they'll figure out a way to remove attribution as necessary, but I'm not entirely sure that it's legally possible. Two, the remove all works. Individual community members can make copies of them offsite as necessary and so on and so forth. Also the SAP wiki realizes that, because this person, Harmony has been around since the beginning almost. So they own not just series one article slots, which are highly valued, but sub 100 series one slots, which are probably the most valued of all SAP slots on the wiki. So they're like, we're gonna hold off on those. There's not a rush of bad articles to be put in there. Which I don't understand the point of that because it's like, I think two or three of those are like in the 40s. So they're not even very, I mean, they're incredibly well read and they're still very poorly rated. Probably a reason for that. So like, what are you worried about other crappy articles going in there? Anyway. Or proposal three. And I like the idea that they have, I mean, they have ranked choice voting here so that it's sort of alleviated a little bit. But the idea that there's one is do nothing and then two different options to split attention and support for doing what the author has asked. So one is delete everything and do nothing afterwards. And the other one is delete everything and then allow staff to repost certain articles as necessary to support other works on the wiki. This is not the first time though that this has happened. Fishmonger is an old user who did something similar to what a pixelated harmony here has done, got banned and then asked for their works to be deleted. Technically, it wasn't in that order this time. So it was a little bit less of the maliciousness. So there was a little bit, it's complicated. The important part is that they were banned and we're not gonna go then. They were banned and they asked for their works to be deleted. But when Fishmonger asked, they just got rid of them. They said, sure, there was a little bit of hand wringing, a little bit of problems, but eventually they did it because the SCP wiki is an author's site. I mean, it's run by authors mostly, almost invariably everyone who's in staff has written something for the wiki. And so they whole, and this is the same reason like, I've talked about this as a problem before, because for example, they don't consider image plagiarism to be plagiarism, but they do consider textual plagiarism to be plagiarism. They draw a distinction because they are authors and not artists generally. There's some artists in there too, but in a general sense, most people who are authors on the wiki don't consider image plagiarism to be plagiarism or if they do, they might be like, yeah, it's plagiarism, but it's not as serious, right? That's how authors tend to think, not all authors, but that is how authors, especially younger authors who aren't involved in intellectual property on a long-term basis tend to view things. The stuff I create needs to be protected, the stuff other people create. So I mean, I could just use that, right? Anyway, but because we're dealing with a bunch of authors, the policy has always been that you have control over the works you've created on the wiki, period. Almost, and it's almost sacrosanct. It's almost considered sacrosanct to the point, or has been, I should say, to the point where like, they will bend over backwards to obey authorial requests with regards to content. And when Fishmonger, who at the time had only written like 30 articles for the website, that as far as I am to understand, weren't particularly good. And I mean, there was a lot of content. It was a single series that had a lot of branches from other people's works. And that was the important part. When you pull the rug out from underneath other people, you are affecting other people. But it was his works. They were a little foggy on the legality of it. They're probably a little bit more certain now than they were at the time. And they're just like, let's just get rid of them, save ourselves the trouble, save the problem. The SCP wiki is not doing that this time. And I think part of it is they're just angry. But also, as I said, she left her works to the community. So that's the problem, right? And you might be like, well, I should say you might be. I was like, I asked a staff member this point blank. We're gonna go ahead and grab. I'm not gonna put it up on the screen because this was a private conversation. I'm not gonna out the particular staff member I was talking to, but I talked to multiple staff members. She did give her articles to the community. So I don't see how she didn't bring this upon herself. And I said very clearly, couldn't she just retract her grant to the community? And arguably, hasn't she already, if she's arguing against them deciding, and we'll talk about that again in the thing later, but she's sent a large number of personal messages directly to people voting to keep her works on the wiki saying, please change your vote. Maybe that's a mischaracterization. Those PMs and DMs were a lot more hostile than that. But that was the gist of it, right? So arguably, she has changed her mind and community has, but she can't edit her posts because she's banned from the wiki. And it was like, I said, I know the post can't be edited, but staff is aware of her intentions and desires here and are deliberately ignoring them. And this staff member said very clearly, yes, they are very angry with her. And I was like, that's not a good way to make policy. And it's not a very good way to make policy. I wanna be clear here. I understand where both sides are coming from to an extent, but the SAP wiki is a community and you didn't, most people will be like, you volunteered, therefore I should give you a certain amount of leeway. But I'm thinking more along the lines of you volunteered, so you don't really get to complain that there's too much work in front of you. Either do it or stop being that staff member. And of course, people are angry. Everyone's angry in this. I should say not everyone, because I'm not angry. I'm a little bit disappointed in everybody, but I'm not angry. But that's the important thing of what's going on right now. The vote has three more days to complete. It looks very, very strongly like the solution is gonna be leave the articles up. Because of course it is. If you asked 20 authors, I bet it would be closer, but they open it up to the whole community. And this is just people who relate. Yeah, of course, it's like going up to people like, there's $20, everyone's getting $20 for just every day for free. Would you like to keep getting $20 or not keep getting $20? It's not quite the same thing, but it's close to it. What do you think people are gonna choose who have no vested interests in the rights or of the people who are losing $20 every day? Of course they're gonna say keep it. Why wouldn't they say keep it? Of course if you put this question to the community, the vast majority of people are gonna go, yeah, I'd like to keep access to these articles because it affects me negatively if you take them away. That is not enough in and of itself to justify keeping something on the wiki. Sometimes the right thing to do, the doing the right thing is hard, period. Anyway, we had 30 minutes, Jesus. That's probably gonna be only cut down able to maybe 30, 25, didn't do very many retakes. Anyway, that's part one. Thank you very much for watching. 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