thousand subscribers. How? I didn't think I'd get a thousand or really a hundred and now we're at two thousand. Cool. Most people, with more time I assume, would make a big sort of celebratory special or whatever. But any episode of Doctor Who Road or The Community Show takes months, so let's do this instead. I asked you for your questions and I am going to answer them now. Fifty-eight have been submitted and you are more than welcome to ask more questions in the comments down below and I'll reply to all of them. Let's crack on. When you first started your channel, what was going through your head at the time? Also massive congrats. Thank you, anonymous poster. Should have had names attached to these questions. Oh well. What was going through my head? Well, I was a child first of all. This was 2010 and I am 24 now. You can do the maths. I was inspired by three different people all working together, one of whom I won't mention because he ended up being a nonce, but the other two. The first is one that isn't going anymore called The Master Crevice, aka Thomas Rhys K, who did a fantastic maths misimpression among others. Thomas Rhys K, come on, wake up. There are things to do, people to see, videos to make. And the other that is still going is Seb, aka Daleks Theomy. People are confused that he's still going, but he is. I actually met him at LFCC, just gone, aka the one in February. We're in April now. But here's a picture, and he is a lovely chap, fantastic that I got to talk to him, especially as he was one of my inspirations. But basically all that was going through my mind as a young boy was, I like them Doctor Who funny comedy vids. I want to do that. Jack wants to do that now. And then I did, and then I didn't stop for 13 years so far. Yeah. There's two videos of theirs that aren't up anymore, unfortunately, that inspired me heavily. This was Doctor Who Big Brother, which is exactly what it sounds like, and The Ten Doctors, both of which essentially surround the idea of all the doctors living under one roof. I wonder how that inspired me. Who's your favourite character to play on Doctor Who Road? Ooh. It's hard to pin down one. I can tell you my least favourite, Colin Baker. Well, him and Trouton. Just because I can't do their voices. At least the other ones I can do comedy impressions, which are different than real impressions. It's basically all my impressions are comedy impressions. Basically, they don't have to be good, they just have to be distinct. But Colin and Trouton are terrible. They're not even close, you know? Taking one step into a new land and saying DC's mine now is not a claim land, sir. John Perkley and I had the genius idea of merging our two rooms together. But anyway, that's not your question. My favourite one to play, it fluctuates. On a good day, it's Tenon. Because I can't do Tenon all the time. I can do an impression and I can do it well. But not all the time. My throat has to be a very specific way. Smith is always fun, just because he bounces around all the time. But, I mean, Eccleston's the OG. Let's say a mix of Smith, Eccleston and Tenon. The three I played in the Doctor Who Road animated that Mari did. So cool.  Isn't it obvious? What is?  Who do you want as the Rani for Doctor Who's revival, and why? Topical, potentially, because they revealed, er, what's it from the drag circuit that's gonna be in the series later on, and everyone's just saying, the Rani. I don't know. I'm really bad at the, like, who do you want to play X kind of question? Like, who do you want to play as the Doctor? I don't know. I would have never picked Shuey in a million years.  But I guess who I would want to play the Rani is someone with just a ridiculously huge, campy energy. So someone like a drag queen. I don't know if that's the politically correct term.  So me, I want to play Rani, Jack, Jack, Rani. I want to play Rani Chandra from the Sarah Jane Adventures now. If you were the Doctor Who showrunner, what exactly would you do? Find someone else? If I didn't make it clear with the answer to the last question, I'm not the best person when it comes to new ideas. Doctor Who requires new, fresh ideas from new, fresh faces. So here's what I'm going to say. This is a bold suggestion. Whoever comes after RTD, not upset the RTDs back by the way, love him. Whoever comes after him shouldn't be a white man. Oh, Jack, you've done it now. But it's, come on. We need new, fresh people and new, fresh directions and points of view. Doctor Who needs change, damn it. That's part of the reason I'm glad that Shuey's cast. He's going to be so different to all his contemporaries. It's going to be wicked. But yes, if I was in charge, I'd find someone better because I'd just rehash everything we've seen before. I would be the fan-wank showrunner. I'll be the showrunner for the 70th anniversary because that's like, that has to be fan-wank central. Any spoilers for the Doctor Who road finale? I don't know if it'll be out before this. Two characters are going to die. There you go. There's your spoilers. How does it feel knowing that no matter how hard you, Jack, you will never be considered the best Jack in the Doctor Who fandom because you'll never Jack as hard as me. Hi, Jack Alexander Hayden. Feels bad, man. I want to be the best Jack. Who doesn't want to be the best Jack? The problem is there's so much competition. Jack is one of the most common names ever. In fact, I bet if I Google common British names. Common British boys' names. Yep, Jack is number like eight. If you're curious, the others are Oliver, George, Noah, Arthur, Harry, Leo, Muhammad.  Thank you. My question is, which outfit is your favorite to dress up in? It is just dress up, isn't it? Yeah, I like dress up. Yeah, cosplay's a nicer way of putting it, but dress up is correct. Doctor and specific variation. Oh, okay, so not just for Amy Ponds. Well, I mean, right now it's an easy pick. It's the 10th Doctor in any of his variants. I like his midnight one. That's what I've got him in for the Doctor Who road finale. The 10th Doctor's brown suit. It's mainly because it's my newest, but also look at it. It's so cool. Love that suit. I love that suit. And thank you to my mummy and daddy for buying it for me for Christmas or birthday. Yeah, I'm a child, but I'm 24. Figure that one out. Not including doctors or companions. Oh, limiting it already. Interesting. Be them full-time like Clara or Ace or part-time like Jack River, Wylth, et cetera. Oh, I miss Wylth. Who is your favourite character in the entire universe? Oh Christ, okay. Well, you've definitely narrowed it down. Well, that narrows it down. Is it cheating to say the Daleks? You can't go wrong with the Daleks. I don't know, man.  I mean, not necessarily. Doom. Can I pick Doom? I know I poked fun at it, but I wanted to succeed. Please do well. Please be interesting. Open time fracture two. Then you're forgiven. But I guess I'm just going to cheat and say the Daleks? Oh, no, him. I haven't watched the episode, but him. Omega's pretty cool too. But I'm just going to say the Daleks. Specifically, the paradigm Daleks. Ha! Love the paradigm. Unironically, they're the best. If you had the money, oh, wouldn't that be great. For two screen accurate cosplays, who would they be? I mean, you mentioned the ninth doctor. I do love his jacket, and I've seen one like a screen accurate one in person now, thanks to Madame Who's Swords, and it is nice. You know, weirdly, I would say William Hartnell. I'd say the first doctor. It's like his white waistcoat version, basically the one that's on the figure. Yeah, I'd say that, including the cloak and the cool hat and the wig, I guess. So yeah, Hartnell, one, but you say two, right? Yeah, two screen accurate. So Hartnell, I mean, I've got the tenants, so I'm more than happy with it. Oh, the twelfth doctor's red velvet jacket look. That one from heaven sent. Those two. Easy. But I mean, can I just have the money? If you could collaborate with a previous collaborator, who would it be? Ooh, okay. A previous collaborator. Well, I'm thinking specifically community show here. Going through all my interviews in my head is not working, so I'm going to get the playlist up. I mean, one that springs to my mind immediately is Katie Haynes, because she is just lovely, a lovely human being. I've worked with spectral horizons a few times. That group is lovely, especially Taya. Shout out to you, Taya. I will happily play the doctor for any of your audios in the future. But I did go back and watch such stuff as Dreams again, which is an amazing audio. Watch it. I played Tenant in that. I could have done so much better. I could have done so much better with that performance. Let's do a redux of such stuff as Dreams and I'll do a better impression. Oh, this was a bad idea. Now I'm just going to gush about everyone. Commander Moose, who's working on that Doctor Who fan game? He's lovely. DW 2012, again, absolutely fantastic people. All three of them. Luke, Meg, Dom. I've seen Dom recently at LFCC as well. Fantastic bloke. The Dobsons! No, yes, the Dobsons. We have spoken about taking the Dalek down the beach, and I want to do that in the summer. So yes, the Dobsons, actually. That's who I want to work with. Ooh, that was a long road to get to the Dobsons. But honestly, any of the people I've had for Doctor Who community show, like Abby Louise, I've worked with her many times. She's absolutely lovely. James Sutton is an absolute darling. Alia E. Tory, one of the most talented people this community has. Dan Patton, again, lovely, very generous guy. Clever Dick Films, as the name would suggest, very clever. And thank you again, Richard, if you're watching for letting me be Smith Spielberg for some reason and Moffat in your Matt Smith retrospective review series. Oh my God, the best. That video got so many views and I'm in it. I know that's vain, but I love it. Connor J. Adkins, I've seen him at Mini and MCM now. The talent on display was Connor. Oh my God. Bo, Jerry and Harry, my community show team, as it were. Oh my God, I'm so lucky to know them. I need to stop naming names. But the Dobsons is my answer. Final answer. Ding, correct. What got you cosplaying David Tennant and who is your biggest idol from Doctor Who? Answered your own question. I'll answer the second half first because it's easy. David Tennant. Oh my God.    I mean, yeah, Eccleston came first and I love Eccleston. I really do.  But David Tennant maybe fall in love with this show. And what got me cosplaying him? Well, again, same answer as before. I know it's kind of boring, but he was my childhood doctor. You wanna dress as your childhood doctor? It just makes sense.  Big up David Tennant. You don't even know what you've done. You will know. Still can't believe I've met him too. It was such a quick moment that I still like forget sometimes that I'm like, oh yeah, God, I've met David Tennant. I've met my idol. Is there our Doctor Who story? Is there a Doctor Who story you haven't seen but really want to? Probably. I don't know about really want to cos I've seen all the ones I want to see. I guess this guy's just to see what the hype's about. But I guess spearhead from space is actually what I wanna watch. But, you know, I'm not like death going out of my way to seek classic who. I'll just watch it when I am in the mood. And I very rarely am. I know, Filistine, but still, I like what I've seen. Some of them. Highlight from the Guardians of the Galaxy show you did a while back. Yes! If you didn't know, I worked on Secret Cinema's Guardians of the Galaxy immersive show and it was the best job I have ever had and probably ever will. I got to be a ravager and be in control of a prison. And that's my highlight. Well, that and getting to work with Lord Tepesh from Time Fracture. Good old Simon. Love you, Simon. Miss you. He played the collector. He was great. Moving on. Basically, part of the Secret Cinema shows is that they have a little secret area sometimes. For example, in the previous show I did, Dirty Dancing, there was the staff quarters where you kind of have to be sneaking your way in or go with a cast member. But with Guardians, it was a prison. The Nova Corps officers, played by a couple of fantastic actors. The name escapes me, but they were great. Would arrest random people throughout the show and bring them to this guy. I would be put in the prison a lot by my superiors because apparently I was just really good at it. Result. And essentially, it would work as a sort of five minute escape room where Rocket Raccoon breaks you out of prison and you kind of have to work with them. I could mix it up from my role. I could be, you know, totally working with them like, yeah, yeah, the Nova Corps, they don't really pay much. So I'm working with a member of the Guardians to get you out of here.    Getting to improv that much with drunk adults, it was more fun than it had any right to be. Especially because it kind of was a double act. There was two of us going back and forth between groups. And the people I got to work with on that show, I'm going to name drop people that you don't know, but if they ever watch this. Natalie, Claudia, Kevin, Robin. I'm going to stop naming names because I'm going to forget when I make someone sad. No more. Naomi, Nadine. So many, just such cool people. And I miss them greatly because they all live in London and I don't. But yes, working the prison on Guardians of the Galaxy is my top thing. I got to work with Rocket Raccoon. You can't go wrong. Funniest story that happened when filming Doctor Who Road. Oh, God, there's so many. Every time I do a split screen is always fun because I can't press the stop record button because that would move the camera. So I've got to have the clothes of whoever I'm going to play next, just sort of out of shot. Then as soon as I finish, I say I'm Jon Patry and I do my line and then leg it. Nope, did nothing. But there's no sans cry. Anyway, stuck in my head now. The song that stuck in my head has literally changed. Ripple my clothes off. I know, very erotic. Change into whatever character it is, whether it be Jokran or Patrick Trouton. Run back in, make sure I'm in the right spot. Do we sort of wait for his line to be finished? Yes! And then say their line. Jokran. It's ridiculous every time I've had to do it. But it's always worth it because it looks awesome. Also, there was one time where I nearly wore pants on my head as a blindfold, but I was convinced not to and just have a natural blindfold. I think that was when Eccleston was shown the new shed for the first time. If you go back, I think that's phase one. Is this really necessary?  Favorite TV show outside of Doctor Who? Probably Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Rest in peace, you are missed. But I'm glad you ended on a high.  Yeah! I'm the kooky uncle now. My sister gave birth to a beautiful baby boy called Harry and I love him. Oh my god, he's so cute. He's a couple months old now. I've got to see him lots. I'm going to be in his life so much. Am I going to indoctrinate him into Doctor Who? Probably. Probably even by accident. But yes, love you baby Harry. I'm an uncle. Yeah. Dear Jack, trying not to be weird, you're going to fail. But what's your opinion on Dona Noble not wearing any breathing equipment? Gas mask, astronaut suit, and snorkel, etc. From NoContextRTD, that one from Twitter. Don't know who you are, but thanks. PS, love your vids. Ah, thanks. I have no opinion. Is that a theme? Is that just a thing in like the Tenant Companions? Like Rose War One, did she, did Rose War One? Arthur, did she wear one? I mean, I know River Song War One, the astronaut suit. I don't know. I have no answer. You win this round. Do you think H should have been the War Doctor? Ooh, yes. I love John Her. He was amazing in day as a doctor. But no, it should have been Paul. I mean, people say it should have been Eccleston. Yeah, probably. Eccleston would have been a great choice, but Paul McGahn deserved it, would have owned it. Oh my god. We are not finished. I love the way he talks. It's great. 10th Doctor or 14th Doctor? 10th? Like 14th? We don't even know what he's doing yet. Ask me again come November. Maybe it'll change. How does it feel to be a married man?  The day was splendid. It was spectacular. I'll show you some pictures flashing up on screen now. There was a photographer there and I haven't got their pictures back yet, so enjoy the phones. I have no trouble saying that my wedding day was the best day of my life. I had my best boys, my brother and Harry. My family was there. My dog was there. Most important. Instead of a wedding cake, we had a tower of Krispy Kreme donuts. Need I say more? Also, I had three Yorkshire puddings and everyone else had one. Those are the perks. But yes, married man. Married at 24 and an uncle. Oh, I'm old. Your wife is super lucky. Oh, I missed that bit. Yes, she is. And I'm assuming she wrote that. Hi, Gemma. Why are you so handsome? Never mind. Gemma wrote that one. Or she didn't and I have a secret admirer. I'm not handsome, especially now that I've clean shaven. Gemma hates it. She hates... Like the beard is a new development. I only got it at the end of last year. But I just look like a boy.  Hence why I had a beard for the wedding. But I shaved it yesterday and she came home and I didn't tell her and she can't kiss me.  It's weird.  Why do you love doing YouTube videos so much? I don't know. It's dopamine. I think it is a mix of just me being a natural performer.  But I like to entertain, you know? I like the validation that comes with it as well. I like a nice comment. But also I want to tell my own stories, even though those stories are heavily copyrighted. But that's what's perfect about YouTube. You can do whatever pretty much. Also, now I get monetized. So, you know, there's the potential of money. I don't earn a lot, but it's pretty cool. Like, for example, the Rings of Akaten video has six K views now, which is so cool. But I've only earned like, I don't know, four pounds from it. But I mean, money's not really why I do it. Otherwise, I'd be doing Minecraft let's plays. I love making them. They're fun. And it gives me an excuse to do impressions and dress up. Yeah, dress up. And dress up as my favorite characters and stuff. And also things like the community show has allowed me to find and talk to and become friends with so many new people. It has multiple uses depending on the series. We're in the galaxy as a new sea. Hi, Rory. I still don't understand this reference, so you can shove it. Would you do a phase where Tenant becomes the Time Lord victorious? Can you read my mind? What phase of Doctor Who wrote do you like the most? Three. And it's not even close. I mean, I am proud of phase five, the latest one that's come out. In fact, let's go through them all each with my general thoughts. Phase one, rubbish. That was me finding my feet, figuring out what I wanted to do, and it's awful. Don't watch them. Phase two, I was sort of messing around a little bit with different formats and different styles. Styles. You know, you have Left for Who, where it's just entirely in a video game. And my fats are avenged, the big crossover piece. Phase three, where I had a complete idea in mind basing it around the Star Wars Brickwals, and I plotted out the story beforehand, the first time I've done that, and I think it worked out really well, and it's easily my favourite. Phase four was a bit of a letdown in my own mind. There's some good moments here or there. I like Return of Omega. I like the three Doctors, but I was trying desperately to not do the ongoing narrative, but in the end I realised I wanted to do it, so it was kind of a mess. Phase five, on the other hand, is sort of the best of both worlds. Like Family of Masters is kind of its own thing, but all of it does piece together into one long story, which I'm very excited to complete. And then phase six, I am indeed working on, and I am very, very excited to see what comes out. I haven't got a complete idea. I have the idea for two episodes, although those two episodes are going to stretch to five, I think, because one of them is such a big idea that it needs three parts, and it's so not original. It's hilarious. But yes, phase three, my favourite. How are you so darn handsome? Stop it. I'm going to get a complex. I already have a complex. I'm gorgeous. With the beard. What is your shoe size? Is this a fetish question? Nines. Just out of curiosity, how do you feel about David Tennant returning as the Doctor for the 60th anniversary, and do you think you'll ever introduce this incarnation into your videos? I love your videos and wanted to also say keep up the fantastic work. Thank you very much. I'm almost certain number 14 will end up in Doctor Who Road at some point, or I'll start making fun of them in spoofs. I don't have the costume and I don't have any plans to get it until I see the episode, because I don't get the people who, like, as soon as a character or costume is revealed, just get it immediately. What if you end up not liking it? That's so much money down the drain now. I mean, sometimes it can work out. Like, Don Dot Shooty's costume for LFCC, and he looks great. But what if it turns out that he has a different costume that looks so much better, and you've spent all your money on this one? Yeah, but I'm sure I'll get it eventually, because it is cool. Number 14. Congrats, Jack! What phase was the most enjoyable to film? Ooh, enjoyable to film. I have fond memories from all of them, really. You know what the weirdest one is? The one that in my mind I had the most fun filming was not an entire phase, but was one specific episode from phase two called Inside the Game. I don't know why, but that one I always remember being so much fun to film. But really, I enjoy all of them for the most part.  Even the serious moments are a chance to sort of stretch my acting muscles a bit, which I don't have a lot of, but it's fun to try. To answer your question, which phase? Probably the most recent. Yeah, phase five. I've been loving life with phase five. Hey, Jack! If you were the TARDIS, where would you travel to? Hmm. This is gonna sound vain. Because I am vain. But I would go back in time and check out what little Jack's up to. You know? I want to see what his day-to-day was like just before YouTube. Before, like, I was on the internet a lot. Because there was a specific point in my life, I think, between sort of junior school and secondary school, where I had not quite been on the internet at all. I've been on the internet. You know, maybe watching the on YouTube video here or there, but I wasn't really ingrained in internet culture. I want to see what that was like. I guess that would have been 2009-ish. So yeah, I'd go see, uh, I'd go see me. Little me. 2009. See what pre-internet Jack was like. Probably better. Probably a better man. Better boy. What's your favourite flavour of ice cream? Ben and Jerry's chocolate brownie ice cream. It's the best, objectively.  Who do you find more attractive? Tom Cruise or Mel Gibson? I mean, Tom Cruise?   But Tom Cruise is a weird-looking dude, too. I mean, he could look good in Mission Impossible movies, but he's a weird dude. You have to plan a Doctor Who themed dinner. Yes. What are the three or more courses? I mean, I feel Fishfingers and Custard is cheating, but it's a very obvious starter. As for a pudding, or maybe like a snack, something to do with bananas, like a banana daiquiri. Oh, that could be the drink, banana daiquiri. Oh no, for pudding, it would be a pudding brain. Just like a dessert or like an ice cream shaped as a brain. There's a Doctor Who cookbook. Something from there. That's cheating, I know, but I came up with some good ideas. Can't deny. That banana daiquiri. Good source of potassium. What are your favourite Dalek designs? I mean, I love the Bronze Boys and I do love the Grey Genesis, as well as the White and Gold Imperials, but... the Paradigm. Bring them back to the Rhodes version of Eccleson. Oh, it's like, okay. If you were to come back in another timeline, what kind of Tokusatsu power would you inherit? I have to Google. Japanese term for live action film or television series that makes heavy use of practical special effects. I don't know enough... Oh, sorry. I don't know enough about Tokusatsu to really answer this question, so I'm gonna have to skip it. I apologize.  To Jack, that's me. Is there going to be a Phase 6? Yeah. What kind of theme would it be using? Japanese heroes or USA heroes? Neither? At this current point in time. I mean, Gemma likes anime, but I don't. It's not my cup of tea. Alas, Mange Mob, is he an anime? But I have done, like, you know, the Avengers and Batman and stuff in the past, but I think that's sort of a one and done. Hell, I kind of did a two and done for Batman. I do still have American, Captain America Shield somewhere. I've got Thor's, like, Stormbreaker thing, though. I got this for Christmas. Look at that. How have I not used this more?  Phase 6 of this current point is probably going to be the most Doctor Who-y yet. I'm drawing from a lot of Doctor Who inspirations. I know Phase 5 was quite Doctor Who focused, but that's just because that's what I'm into at the moment. What I make Doctor Who road and stuff like that about is entirely expectant on what I'm doing at the moment. Like, when I did Sherlock, big into Sherlock. When I did the Avengers, big into the Avengers. When I did Star Wars, I wasn't that into Star Wars, but it was fun. Dummy Thicc Smith, boy.  How many fish fingers and custard have you eaten recently? Never. Never done it. I nearly did it as a fun side skip for the community show when I did more of those. Like, when I randomly cut up that giant melon and decided to put it in the community show, it was kind of along those lines. I really shouldn't be trusted with a knife like this, but here we are. Oh, very nice. It's a love of God.  Yeah, I've got a time bomb. I'm not using it. But yeah, I nearly did it, but I pussed out, because I, I look gross. Maybe I'll do it one day if enough people convince me, or like, if it's a charity. I don't know. I'll eat it then, but absolutely not.  What is your opinion on the Doctor Who fan universes, especially your own? Um, where are they right now? I'll answer this with myself. This may be controversial, but I don't like any of them. Which sounds bizarre, because I'm the community show guy, right? You know, I'm promoting everyone's fan universes, all on equals footing, and I can put them on equal footing because I don't like any of them. Do I like my own? Yes. I can tell you why. It's not because of the quality, right? At least not all the time. Some, you know, could try harder, do better. But regardless of quality, I'm always hyper-aware that it's a fan production. I find it so much easier to get engrossed in audio doctors, but even then, only when it's an established doctor and not an original. And I'm very sorry to all the people who I know and am friends with that have fan doctors, but you're not the real ones. Hashtag not my doctor. But yeah, I don't know. I don't know if that's controversial to say, but fan doctor is just not my cup of tea. Who is your favorite doctor? Tenant, but really, it bounces a lot. I love them all, except for some of them. I've tried to rank them many times, but then the ones that are always at the bottom are Peter Davidson, Colin Baker, and Jodie Whitaker. Although I did like Colin in What's That One Audio Jubilee. I think he's the one I listened to. He's good in that. But all this TV stuff that I've watched is terrible, and I don't like it. Peter Davidson, I like you in The Five Doctors, but Earthshox, rubbish. Caves of Androzani is boring. And Jodie, it was never my cup of tea anywhere. I didn't really like a lot of her episodes. I liked Resolution. I liked Nikola Tesla. Rosa was pretty good, except for when they put that rubbish pop song at the end. There was no need for that. In my opinion, I'm not a reviewer. I just know what I like and what I don't. But yeah, those are my three least favorite. The rest fluctuate, but really Smith and Tenant are my babies. Although me and Harry, when he was down here for the wedding, we watched the Series 2 finale and the Series 5 finale. The Pandorica opens. And I didn't realise how not laid-back Smith's performance was in comparison to 6 and especially 7, but he is so cartoony in the latter half of his era. Series 5, he's so much more like, so in the Series 7, he'd be very, very particular in every little shillable that he was saying. But in Series 7, it's more sort of relaxed, you know, isn't it? It's quite, it's like that. I don't know, it's a noticeable, noticeable difference. And I prefer Series 5 to any other of his series because of that fact. And I never noticed it until Harry pointed it out. Big up Harry, Hudson Media, get him some music, pay him. Who is a character that you would love to bring to Doctor Who Road? I've kind of done a lot of them. Willf was one of them, but Willf is going to be in the end of Eccleston, although he was in the commanding conundrum but only in like two lines, doesn't count.  It seems nice. Why are you saying that because you'll remind you of yourself, granddad. I'm great. I mean, now that I have this, I'd love to have the clockwork droids in there somehow. I'd have to have the whole costume, which is a ball egg. I'd look fabulous, but still. I don't know. I like the smaller, weirder characters, like the one off random cameos that you'd only know if you actively watched the show, like as opposed to the doctors and companions, which are pretty obvious. Let's bring Mr. Copper, baby. What makes you think I want to wee you? I'm assuming that's Harry. Doctor Who Poop is the best. And I wish they released more. I understand why they don't. They're very busy and it takes a lot of energy to make their stuff. And it's all amazing.  What's your favorite bee? Barry? Banana. What's your favorite big finish audio drama? Chimes of Midnight and it's not even close. Like I said earlier, Jubilee's pretty good too, but Chimes of Midnight is fantastic. And I feel like it's a pretty obvious choice. I feel like that's, you know, baby's first big finish, but it's because it's so good. Although I love Dalek Universe 1, specifically one. I haven't finished listening to all of Dalek Universe. I'm waiting for a sale. But Dalek Universe 1, also spectacular. Tenant at his absolute best. One of the best hardest teams for Tenth Doctor. I love Ten and Donna. No one's surpassing that. But him, Anya, and oh, that's gonna annoy me. Robot boy. What's his name? Mark Seven. Mark Seven, Anya and the Tenth Doctor, best hardest team. One of the best hardest teams, especially in audio. Although I love Ait and Charlotte Pollard. Yes, Charlotte Pollard. How many nine on have you seen today? At least three. How do you go about learning impressions? Do you have a specific technique that you use? Yes, stealing other people's impressions. I find it so much easier to do an impression if I've already heard someone else do it. And that sounds weird. And that's because it is.  And that's probably also true. But like with Tenant, I heard other people do Tenant impressions online. And I was like, oh, if they can do it, I can do it. So I just sort of kept working on it, impersonating their impersonation. And that's kind of where the idea of my comedy impressions came from. Which then over the years of doing it so much has led to better impressions, especially of the two that I do the most, Tenant and Smith. But like with Eccleston, for example, I've never had to learn a proper impression for him because the comedy impression works. It's just northern. And same with all the other ones. Like, I've only recently tried to start doing a better one, specifically based on David Bradley's impersonation. And again, it's easier to do an impersonation of an impersonation. So if you want to try and do an impersonation like me, copy someone else. Copy me. Why not? You don't do that. No, I do. I don't care. What doctor do you enjoy playing the most but based completely off running jokes? Like Chris and his Bananas. Love from Clough. That is a very good question. I guess based off running jokes is Eccleston because he's one been around the longest. Like him and his shed. The shed was always the funniest running joke for me. Just the fact that he lives in a shed. I don't know why that made me laugh so much. I love the concept. Smith going off track is always fun. Just sort of disappearing off into thought. I like going into thought. Thought is a powerful weapon used against any that, you know, just other stuff like that. I mean, Tenant has all these little catchphrases and I guess that kind of counts as a running joke. So that as well. I mean every doctor I play has a little weird running joke about them and that's what makes them a bit fun. La la la last question. You typed a stammer. What is your favorite episode of Doctor Who? Changes. Heaven Sent is up there. It's just so unique and cool and I can rewatch it a lot based on whatever mood I'm in. Like Midnight and Turn Left are two amazing episodes of Doctor Who but I have to be in a very specific mood to watch them because god they're depressing. Waters of Mars is one I go back to a lot as well. It's just fantastic. One of if not the best from Tenant's Run and the fact that it came at the end is hilarious. But I mean there's so many like Amy's Choice. I love Amy's Choice. Really a lot of them from Series 5 are great. Satan, Pit and Impossible Planet. Amazing choices. Genesis of the Daleks. One of the few classic stories I've rewatched a couple times. The first part of The Nursery Child is great so up until they leave in the TARDIS I don't care for the caveman stuff but the first part is wicked. I love an anniversary special. Five doctors. Three doctors. Day of the Doctor. None are perfect but they're all fun. Let's say Heaven Sent or Waters of Mars. Those are the two that first came to mind. One of them. Fight it out in the comments below. What's better? Will Jenny from the Doctor's Daughter be in Doctor Who Road? She already has been. In Tyler she's one of the three people Tenant was fucking. But to be fair she should probably be more in Doctor Who Road. There's so much comedy in the fact that she is the daughter and the wife and she's in there in Doctor Who Road with him anyway and they've never interacted. That is quite funny. I should do that. Well thank you. What are you excited about for the 60th? So much. I want to see what 14 and Donner's Dynamics is going to be like. It's probably going to be the exact same as 10 and Donner but I like that so give me more RTD. Feed me nostalgia. I hope it's the celestial toy maker. Everyone keeps saying it. It's pretty much all but confirmed but there's that little bit of doubt. But I hope it's the toy maker because that character is cool. I haven't watched this episode but the concept is amazing. I mean there's so much and I want to see what Shooty's about because I'm so happy that Shooty's in it. So I could get that first little taste. First little Shooty taste. Favorite pasta dish? Don't like pasta?  Which classic doctor slash new companion duo or vice versa would you like to see in Big Finish? Ooh interesting. Tom Baker and Donner. Can you imagine? Hi Jack. I'm going to Madame Who Swords and want to go as a doctor. Do you have any suggestion for a certain one? Whatever brings you the most joy. Bear in mind that you will be walking around in public in this outfit though so expect Gawkers regardless of what you choose. That's just kind of the pain in the arse of going to a con dressed as a doctor. Like going on the tube dressed as McCoy and having a drunk man not stop talking to you because of that is terrifying. I know from experience. But yeah having to hear you go into Madame Who Swords I'm going on the Sunday and I'm very much looking forward to it. I don't know if I've announced it yet but here's a cheeky announcement if you made it this far into the Q&A. I'm going to be interviewing Sergeant Benton himself. I'm going to be interviewing him because he's going to be there and the guy who is organizing it who I interviewed for the community show James he said that you know whilst he's got him would I like to do an interview and he just asked me and I was like yes please so I'm doing that. Very excited. But do I have a suggestion genuinely whatever your favourite is whatever you feel the most comfortable wearing is the way to go. Any advice for people who want to start Doctor Who fan films like Doctor Who Road? Well if you want it to be like Doctor Who Road so I guess you mean like a gimmick series because Doctor Who Road is a gimmick. It's what if all the doctors were locked in a road together like the old sketches that I said was my influence at the beginning but find your own unique voice that's the problem with a lot of fan doctors is that they're all too similar either to each other or to a clearly established doctor like there's so many that are very clearly Smith and Tenon based and that's fine if that's what you want to do really it's a fan doctor it's what you want to do like who fucked me for critiquing it right but that's why I don't get into it personally well part of the reason. Your best bet is to be original try and figure it's like what Josh Schneer said recently when he made his Might of the Daleks thing. He said he came at it from a filmmaking perspective as opposed to a fan perspective and granted I've done the complete opposite with Doctor Who Road and whatever but I like that mindset and that's why my other Daleks in my opinion was so good. It's because he had a completely original mindset going into it but I mean really it depends on what you want to do if you want to make a fanwank mess like me do that. I don't really have a lot of advice just know what you like and do that. Also the best thing about Doctor Who Road is not having a budget it's like not having to make it look good it's so handy. Are you ticklish? Yes but I get punchy so don't you dare try it. What's your trick to that amazing Dave and Tenon impression from Chroma? Chroma my goodness we're doing Chroma. I guess the only way else I can describe it is that it's kind of in the back of my throat. I never understood people who said like it's in specific parts of your mouth but it's true and Tenon he's right at the back of my throat which sounds delicious. And finally how are you? I'm great. I'm married. I'm an uncle. I'm doing well. That's a really nice one to end on. Thank you to everyone who has asked a question. Again feel free to ask more in the comments. I'll answer away but more importantly thank you to everyone who has subscribed. I find it insane that I have an audience at all let alone one this size so thank you so much for watching and now I've got to edit this stupid thing. TomSka out.


bike, bike, bike, bike, bike, bike, bike, bike, boobs, bike, bike, bike, bike, wait I forgot, more boobs. So I've gotten many requests over the years to show off all of my bicycles, kind of like going into Jay Leno's garage and checking out all of his cool cars. So finally I'm making it happen. And yeah, I realize my hair is a little nutty right now. It is crazy hair day, didn't you get the memo? So this one right behind me here is a Trek 8000 mountain bike. And I bought this bicycle when I was a Peace Corps volunteer in Honduras. I met a random guy that worked at an NGO at a bar and he said he was selling this bike for $500 and I was like I need that bike, I'm gonna buy that bike. So I called my mom and had her wire me $500 so I could buy this bike. And it was one of the best purchases I've ever made. I used this bicycle when I lived there for those two years. I lived in a small village called La Espananza and I used this bike to get around, to go grocery shopping, to do all my work. A lot of the schools that I worked at with the children were way up in the mountains and I would take this bike hours away to do my job. It does have a bit of a flashy paint job. Big Trek 8000 letters across it that just scream steal me. And I remember going to a small shop in Honduras and buying black electrical tape and covering the entire bike up to make it look a little junky. Most of that tape has fallen off now but you can tell there's still quite a bit left. This is Ryan's view of the bike. Oh yeah, a little bit bouncy. Yes, this is the bike that I rode home from Honduras 4,000 miles to Boulder, Colorado. I had never been on a bike tour in my life. I had no idea really what I was doing but I was excited and that goes a long way. So this is what it all looks like. Oh and it's, there's just too much, too much stuff. And I will never forget the day I left my little village. My last morning in Las Verandas and it is beautiful and misty and beautiful, baby. I had lived there for over two years. I had become part of the community. I saw these people every single day. I worked with their kids. It was very emotional even though I was definitely looking forward to the adventure ahead and I was full of excitement. I was also very sad because I knew that a big part of my life was over. I was never going to be a Peace Corps volunteer again and these kids that I had worked with for so long, you know, I didn't know if I would see them again. Tell them I'm a crime or I'm a little puppy. Yeah, it happens, I'm a big baby. Big baby. So I'm going to have 11 days time to start the ride. That morning I was leaving. All the kids from the neighborhood came up to my house to say their final goodbye. And I was a complete mess. I was crying like crazy. It hurt my heart to be leaving this community. Oh man, it's crazy thinking about it again. Here I am getting ready to leave. Even Esperanza heading down. I gave away most of my belongings to all of my neighbors and I only had one little Bob trailer full of my camping equipment and I was hoping that it was going to be all I needed for the next three months and it was. That ride turned out to be the catalyst for a lifetime of bike adventures. I loved every minute of that ride and I had some tough moments where I was riding through the tail end of a hurricane. This is what it looks like in this direction. Wow man. And up and down mountains all over Mexico and through the deserts and when I got home in December it was freezing cold. Deep freeze. Oh man, we're in for it. Ha. And this bike right here got me through all of it. And when I got home this bike became my primary bike. I used it to get groceries to ride around town, to go mountain biking. This bike was everything. And then I rode it from Maine to Key West. I rode it from Vancouver to Cabo San Lucas and then I rode it from San Diego to Florida. I've been called the tree hugger before but I just can't help it when you see this. Look at it. You just have to touch it and hug it. Hug it. Hug that tree. Hug it. Make out with it. Good reason why it's hanging up. This thing has treated me well over the years that I had it. It was definitely worth those $500. And do you want to know why I don't use this bike anymore? Well, it died in 2016. You see that? It just broke in half. It completely snapped. This is an aluminum frame. You can't re-weld it. That boy died a warrior's death. So I'm riding my bike up 9th Street near Mapleton charging up on the bike and all of a sudden... Look at what happened. The bike is done. They can't fix that. It's kaput. It's taken me all over the world this beautiful bike but I think that was the last rotation of those pedals. I feel bad but now I've got to walk home. Now this bike is my new Belgium 3-speed cruiser bike. And I rode this one across the country in 2009. That was actually the first time I ever went across the United States was on this bike. And everybody thought I was a little bit crazy to be riding this type of bike across the country. Riding a mountain bike is one thing but at least I had plenty of gears. This bike only had three. So going up big mountains was difficult to say the least. And New Belgium Brewery, if you don't know what it is, it's based here in Fort Collins, Colorado.  Every year they come out with a limited edition cruiser bicycle. And in 2008 this was the one. And I had been to their big tour to fat bike parades and made some videos for them. And they said hey we want to give you one of our bikes and I was psyched and I was joking when they gave it to me. I said you know what, I'm going to ride this across the country. We need to start leaving our cars behind, we need to ride our bikes more, we need to be more green, right? So I'm riding with Team Wonderbike in New Belgium trying to promote people to ride their bikes more and save our beautiful world. And the whole premise behind this ride was to show people that you don't need the latest and greatest gear to do something big. And it also was an example that hey if I can ride this bike all the way across the country more people can maybe ride their bikes to the grocery store or to work. You know I've been a big bicycle advocate all my life. I love getting people out and riding their bikes again and this trip across the country was a big part of that mission. I did put SPD clipless pedals on it. I had a Brooks saddle on it as well and I pulled a burly Nomad trailer for carrying all of my stuff. I did add front brakes for safety. This bike normally is only a coaster brake and I figured coming down some of those huge mountains in California I might want a little bit more than a coaster brake and that was a good call for sure. The first day you know how California works. It's ocean and then it's BAM big mountains and I was struggling so hard. That first day I only went 30 miles and I camped in a strawberry patch and I'll never forget calling my mom freaking out being like mom I don't know if I can do this. I'm going so slow my odometer doesn't even know what to do. It's like you're not going zero miles per hour but you're not going much faster than zero. This is going to be interesting because this bike, the gearing on it, the granny gear ain't granny. It's hard. Luckily you know I got the hang of it and this bike and I became real good friends and it was solid as a rock all the way until about 50 miles away from Washington DC my final destination. I was riding on the C&O canal trail and my crank arm snapped in half. It broke in half and that does not happen to cranks. It was crazy. I am holding the crank arm from my bicycle. In a way it's kind of funny but mostly it just sucks really bad and I'm sure all you are laughing at me right now but I'm not laughing because I have to deal with this now but gotta keep smiling right. You know this bike brand new might only cost you know three or four hundred dollars it's not you know an expensive bike by any means and yeah that crank just snapped in half and I remember riding for 11 miles one-legged. Luckily I had clipless so I could you know clip in and have some power. I rode that bike 11 miles one-legged to a bike shop and got a new crank and rode it triumphantly into Washington DC. One leg resting on the bottle carrier the other one doing all the work. My left leg is going to be gigantic after this. I'll get there. I am pedaling all the way to DC. Right. I'm in Washington DC can you believe it? Now let's talk about the bikes that I currently use. This bad boy or bad girl is my priority coast cruiser. It's probably one of the nicest cruiser bikes you can buy. It's all aluminum it's rust proof and it has a Gates carbon belt drive. How many cruiser bikes have you ever ridden that have a Gates carbon belt drive? It's pretty rare and it is solid. I mainly use this bike on Thursday nights in Boulder we have a thing called the Thursday cruiser ride and that's what this bike is for. It's got some style you've got some you know lights plugged in here let's see right there bam. At night time I look really cool and it has a very very comfortable seat. I do not get saddle sores on that bad boy. It has these stylish grips three speeds it's actually the same shifting system as my new Belgium cruiser and of course every cruiser has to have a bell. This right here is the newest bike in my collection. This is called the Rebe Squib and this is my mountain bike. This is what I take when I want to go rip up the trails. This is not a bike packing bike maybe you could put a little bit of gear on this bike but it's mainly a very high end mountain bike full suspension fat tires. It's made in America it's actually made right down the street in Lyons, Colorado. These shocks MRP this is a Colorado brand. The wheels are made in the USA industry 9 same with the hubs it's just a sweet work of art and I love it. My favorite part of the bike might be this day of the dead stem cap isn't that cool? I think it's pretty cool. This front shock has 160 millimeters of travel. The rear shock has 150 this is way more travel than I've ever had on a mountain bike and I'm loving it. This bike is a lot heavier than my previous Trek fuel mountain bike but it can roll over anything that's a tank. It's got some really nice mud splatters on it right now. I like to leave them there because it makes the bike look tougher. And you all probably remember this bike. This is the Love Cycles Trek Checkpoint. So gravel bikes like this are really very popular right now in the bicycle industry and for good reason. I love them. They're really versatile. I mean if you look at this from far away you think it's just a road bike but up close you can put much fatter tires on it and you know which allows you to go on gravel roads and with a road bike you can really only go on roads and also when you're on a road bike and you're riding on roads what do you have to deal with? Cars!  Obviously it's impossible to do completely but if you can get off the roads a bit that's always a good thing. I have my favorite bomb proof tires on it. The Schwalbe Marathon Pluses. Nothing gets through these things. If you remember in Love Cycles neither Ally nor I got one flat tire the entire 3,000 mile journey across the country. I've still got the Iowa sticker on it from when we did Rag Bride. Almost all of my bikes have this People for Bikes sticker up front. I love people for bikes. It's a great national bicycle advocacy group that is essentially trying to make bicycling better and safer for everybody in the United States.  Okay, time to go downstairs. My final bike in the lineup is the bike that I use every single day so that's why it's down here so it's fast and easy to get to. The priority 600. This right here is the epicenter of Awesome. This is the Pinion Gearbox and it's designed after like a car transmission where all of the gears and everything are sealed inside of this. So there's really very, very little maintenance to do on one of these things. And there's a 600% gear ratio from top to bottom which is equal to or greater than most bikes with a whole bunch of cassettes right here. Since we're over here let's talk about this. I love the carbon belt drive. I want all of my bikes someday to have one of these. Very little maintenance. They last three times longer than a chain. You don't need to lube them and they're just nice and quiet. I love them. I recently put on these Surly Moloco bars and what's great about these is it gives your hands different positions when you're bike touring so you're not just in one straight bar fashion. I love this bar. I also love that sticker. This is a great commuter because it has built in lights. They're powered by the hub, the dynamo hubs. We have front lights here. A little red blinky light and what's really cool is that they're always on so you're just always super safe. I still have my Raghbri bike band on here from 2019. I love these WTB tires. They just look styling. I have them set up tubeless. Barely ever get flats on this bad boy. And don't forget you are beautiful. These bike bags are made by a boulder company called Green Guru. They used all recycled products to make them. This bike has been my workhorse for like two years now. I ride it all throughout the year and here in Colorado. Obviously we get a lot of snow and it's great in the snow. Last summer I rode it from my front door right there all the way to the Mississippi River about a thousand miles so it works as a touring bike. I have these rear racks right here and this is how I get my groceries. It's good for carrying lots of stuff and it's just a comfortable, solid ride and there's just really not enough good things I can say about it. It's just, it's one of the best bikes I've ever had in my life. Well I hope you enjoyed this video. It turned out to be a lot longer than I was planning but the Trek 8000 and cruiser really have some history worth telling and I would have a lot more bikes but I keep on giving them away which feels really good. I love paying it forward and I've also had a lot of bikes stolen from me. I should do a video on all the bikes that have been stolen. It's kind of insane and sad. So thank you so much for watching. I really appreciate it and once this whole quarantine thing is over I'm going to take these bikes outside and go on an adventure and share it with you. Please like and subscribe and share this video with all of your friends every single one. Help out this channel to grow. If you have the ability please join my Patreon and I sincerely hope you are all healthy, happy and doing alright during this crazy time.


What a start for Duda! Trouble 18 again! Welcome to Speedway, it takes on a dart. Okay, well three darts, highest score wins. Let's see what these boys have got. Four players, lowest score goes out. Three players, lowest score goes out and then a head-to-head. Ladies and gentlemen, all the way from Australia, would you please welcome Max Frick. Here we go then, the first Eliminator. Max Frick from Australia is out first. Poor start for Max. He's a little bit nervous, quite clearly. Single 14, one dart left. Hints to 20, that's 34 for Max Frick from Australia. Now, here's Ty Woopendon, good at Speedway. What's he like at darts? 17-20, and that's a 10, so that's 30. We have Patrick, Patrick Dudeck from Poland. That's a treble 18. What a start for Duda! Trouble 18 again! Here we go, one dart left. 20, what a score! And now, here's the main dane, Mikkelson. Can he emulate Pearl Larson from the PDC scene? 36, and treble 5, that's 15. Ty Woopendon makes way back to the board. We go for round two, and it's Max Frick once again here. Let's see how he goes, right-hander from Australia. That's a treble, but it's only treble one. Three for Max. That's a single one, that puts him on a four. That's a big score here. He's only hit five, so nine for Max. Patrick Dudeck needs to beat nine to stay in the competition, and he's hit treble one, three. Oh, and there's the 20, so he's going to be in the final. Five, and that leaves us now with Mikkel Mikkelson. Single 20, good start. And the single one follows that up with an 18, so that's 39 for Mikkel Mikkelson. Patrick makes way, and we have a grand final shootout. Patrick Dudeck is back for more. That's a treble, 19. Great dart down the board. We call that cover shot in darts. Great use of lower down the board from Patrick Dudeck. 21, 79, 82. Mikkel, you're up against it now. You need 83 here to beat the dude. Patrick Dudeck, clever use down the board. Now, Mikkel starts up the board at 18. He needs a treble here now. Big shot. Oh! V8 scored, so, ladies and gentlemen, the winner of the three dart shootout. We started with four players, but your darts champion of the SGP series is Patrick Dudeck. Patrick, well done. Great effort.


Hey, what's going on everybody today? We're fishing on the open 352. This is Sportsman's flagship model This boat's built pretty much to be a fishing machine and also have a lot of family comforts as well We have the big twin aquarium live wells in the rear for holding all your bait We also have the fold down seat that's removable.  We've got Nice size sink and a prep station here ample amount of rod holders on this boat lots place to store your rods We've got four across the transome. We've got lots right here on the back of the teetop frame All right, so coming back up here to the helm. We've got three nice Release marine seats here nice fold-down bolsters, but it's real comfortable running out with three people in it We've got the 22 inch garments this boat actually has the AC nice and cozy on a daylight today Which is no wind plenty room for three people to sit behind the glass and stay dry up here at the front We have the nice chase lounge up here Perfect spot for lounging while you're trolling or while you're bottom fishing tons of room up here in the bow You can fish pretty much all around this thing. It's great for that. All right That's the open 352 walk-through and we're gonna get back to some fishing


Oh, how's it, how's it? Now I've been sitting here going, how can I start this video in an interesting, kind of cool way? It's gonna grab your attention. And it's all about what to find in the world where there's too much to photograph. Where do we find these images? And I've fallen foul of exactly what we're gonna be talking about, which is I've been overwhelmed. I haven't got any focus. Now focus in photography isn't just about sharp images. It's also about being able to look at these infinite possibilities in front of us and then pick out the thing to photograph. There's a piece of advice that just came through sort of arbitrary talk the other day with a very talented knowledgeable photographer, which I wish that I'd heard when I was getting started. He said, painting is the art of addition, whereas great photography is the art of subtraction. So many photographers struggle, and I used to struggle with this as well, about trying to find things to photograph. Now let's think about what that guy was saying. You know, the painter starts with a blank canvas. He can pick and choose what he wants from his imagination to put on there. Whereas, you know, the photographer, so this was me when I was getting started. What am I, how, I've got all this stuff in front of me. What am I supposed to do with it? It looks rubbish. It's because I don't know how to exclude things from the image. Now, obviously we can't physically exclude things unless we take them out of the frame or we hide them behind something. But there are a lot of tools that over time, you know, I've managed to get a handle on that kind of help this process. So we get to the point where we can distill down all the things that we see in front of us into a really cool, like awesome image that sticks in people's minds. That's, for me, was an awesome thing is to look at the images that I go, wow, that's great, it's because it's a simple concept. Don't misunderstand me here.  I'm talking about a distillation of ideas, which we can do, it's very simple. So we're going to start with something that I kind of actually found sort of almost absentminded. So back when I was a late teen, only 20 years just getting into photography and I would spend a lot of time driving around in my little 1967 B tour, going off to Pretoria and going to learn about photography and all that kind of stuff and often get stuck in traffic jams. And it was during these moments where I've got nothing to do, I'm just kind of idly looking around and I would start to think about how the elements inside my car would look if I photographed them. Now that is helpful because it was starting to sharpen my awareness. Going, okay, there's something here that could work, might work, but I'm being open to that. You can start practicing this idea as well right now. Look around you, is there, is an area and you go, okay, right.  And I could sit and look at that for 10 minutes and go, okay, well, if I change my perspective, what would this look like? If I was walking around and the lighting would change or something. So observe something. The power of observation is so helpful because the next time that you're out there, you've already been practicing this.  There's been an awful lot talked about framing, composition, things like that and people talk about rules. There's a rule, rule thirds and horizons and you know, all that kind of stuff. And I found when I was getting started that because it was a rule, well, that was just, it was a rule. We just followed it without understanding kind of why. Now, you know, what happens is when you start experimenting with ideas, if you find something that you like and you just photograph it, trying out different compositional techniques, rule of thirds, golden spiral, Dutch tilt, all of these kind of ideas and you kind of work through them. And you go, try horizon, horizon, you know, low and high and stuff like that. That you are training yourself to actually respond to this, this, I'm hoping my tummy's gonna get smaller the next year, right? Your gut. That's why I was talking with Alan Copy the other day. He's a great photographer and he's talking about, composition is about your gut instinct. And I feel that when we understand like why certain compositional rules for a better word work for us, for me as a photographer. I look at a scene and I go, does that feel right? Does my gut say this is kind of cool, right? And if it does, okay, fantastic. Because over time, I've trained my gut to feel what's right and what's kind of wrong for me. So find an object, photograph it in a massive, all sorts of compositional ways, right? And then loads. If you're not sure where to go, you go online and look, say all the compositional techniques and see what happens. See which ones feel right and see which ones kind of feel just a little bit off. Baka, baka, baka, baka, baka, baka. The people talk about baka with lenses like it's the only thing that matters. And lenses have a really great way of helping us isolate things from the scene around. Now you're familiar with maybe shallow depth of field and wide depth of field. So shallow depth of field when everything, apart from a little tiny element, is out of focus. And you often see this with portraiture on the streets.  That means it was very shallow depth of field. And then look at that. We've taken away that distracting background and turned it into something that supports the subject, the idea of this image, which is the pretty girl. So that's kind of, you know, that's one thing. But if you're not sure on how to use these ideas of apertures and of framing your subject, then just do, there's a simple exercise. Just find a flat surface, put your camera down on it. So you don't need a tripod, set your camera on aperture priority and used to lie out some Lego figures, chess figures, whatever. So long as they sort of stack, see how my hands getting close to the camera, so long as they stack away from the camera at sort of regular intervals. And you focus on the first one and you photograph it wide open. So set your lenses as wide open as go like F 1.8 or, you know, what have you. And then stop the lens down. So go 1.8, 2.8, 4, 5.6 and so on and so forth. So very simple exercise, but it gives you also an understanding about what happens and why these things happen. I can't stress enough that, you know, when we understand like the why, why does the image look like this when we photograph it at this certain aperture or the shutter speed or what have you, that it gives you another tool to help you isolate subjects from different, it's just amazing things around. This is what these photographers are doing, who are creating these stunning images, that they understand not just the techniques that we've talked about now, but also some of the ones that are coming up and how to apply them to distill that stuff down into like a really cool image. Light is one of your friends here, one of your greatest friends in helping you to isolate objects.  You know, there's lights that come down and they're just wild and like amazing. But you know, why is this important? Like I said, you can, you start to use light to kind of really guide the viewer's eye around the scene rather than just going, oh, well, golden light looks really kind of cool and stuff like that. When you understand how shadow and light itself work together, how they change the way that things look what you can do with light and shadow, then again, in building up this tool in your toolbox to help you, you know, make the viewer see what you want them to see. You can work on observing light and shadow. Again, without having a camera, you can do it, there's so many of these things you can do all the time. I can't, you know, it's great to just sit there. Whenever you've got to spare moments, they're just, they're just idly think, what would that look like? Oh, well, the light, you know, right now I can see this light's giving off some shadows there that aren't normally there. So is that kind of interesting? Is that something I could use? The more that you look at these things, the more again that you're training your eye, then when you actually do come to take a photograph, you've actually got a better handle. You're not overly reliant on the technical aspect of photography. You're managing to go, okay, I want this I want that, I've got a better handle and now have the tools to put what I've got up here into an image. And we're going to talk about equipment now because I just mentioned it. But of course either, I often say, you know, equipment isn't important and the gear doesn't make a photograph and it doesn't. But you do need to understand how to use the equipment properly, what it does. If you've got a new camera at Christmas, okay, spend today, not running around doing all the fancy kind of like the HDR things or whatever, you know, new focus peaking sort of system that the guy has. Think about getting two grips with how the camera works. If this is your first time, say for example with a camera that has modes in it, aperture mode, shutter mode, all those kind of things. Take time to explore them, to look at how does the thing work with aperture property? What is it doing? Why is it doing this? The same with all these things. Once you get a handle on how to actually kind of, you know, not know your camera backwards, right? The basics of it, the exposure. Once you get a handle on those, it makes the process of actually picking out the images a lot easier because you are not focused in on trying to make the camera in your hand. That thing in your hand, do what it is that you want it to do. So, you know, flick through the manual, that's pretty cool, but then, just play with the different modes on it, shoot. But don't run around shooting different things. You need to shoot the same thing, right? In your house, go to the kitchen, go to your bedroom, somewhere, that you can just photograph the same thing with different modes to then make a comparison. Say, okay, well, I see what's going on there, right? These are little exercises you can just do for like, take 10 minutes, right? And you won't believe how important that is into helping you pull out great photographs. I feel that one of the big issues that we kind of see as photographers, when we are confronted with a scene, is that we make the assumption that if it's a landscape, it needs to be photographed in a certain way, if it's a person needs to be photographed in that particular way. As a photographer, you know, we want to pick out the ideas, but if we have more ways of expressing ourselves at our disposal, then it makes life so much easier, gives us a thing. So, one of the things that we used to do at photography school was take an idea, you know, happiness or blue, you know, some random kind of idea and try and photograph that. Now, I've done this exercise a couple of times with people in cohorts and one-to-ones and what have you, where we say, look, you know, photograph an emotion. And often people will photograph somebody laughing or somebody sad. Not often, though, will people go a little beyond about how to kind of think about an emotion in their photographs. And if you spend a little bit of time at home, pick an idea, pick some sort of subject. It doesn't have to be an emotion or a color or something like that, but just something that you can go, okay, I want to photograph light. I want to photograph letters. I want to photograph horizontal things. I want to photograph textural things. When you start looking around your house and working to that brief, then again, you are training yourself to isolate certain subjects, because now you've got some tools in your arsenal to help you do that. Texture, I think if you're combining light that comes across the side, this light, if this light here were right in front of me over there, it would make my face very flat. But right now, I've got some form to it, right? Because there's some shadow in this film coming in from the side there. So you see how these kind of things all sort of start to build on themselves. It's great to have cameras that are all singing and all dancing, but so long as we know why we are asking them to do certain things or why we are doing certain things as a photographer, then it makes the process so much simpler. One of the reasons why I had such a problem starting this video and being overwhelmed by the options is I didn't give myself any constraints. I didn't say, Alex, you have to do it in five seconds or you know, what have you. And there's a similar issue in photography that, you know, we have many, many, many options. We have, you know, if you like a lot of photographers, we have all these zoom lenses, all these ISOs and stuff, we're not, we seem to exist in a world of photography that is almost boundless, that we have no constraints put upon us because we can do whatever. Now of course with AI, even more.  The whole first year of studying photography, we had to photograph in black and white because, you know, we had to learn how the film works and how to process it. And all those sorts of things, then you start to see the world of black and white, you understand more about shape and form and texture. So color doesn't enter into it because now we're just in black and white. So set yourself some constraints.  If you are a, somebody loves black and white photography, don't really shoot in color, do the result, reverse. Photograph maybe your car in 10 different ways. Photograph the same thing at 10 different times a day, right? Just something that's a constraint. If you're feeling really brave and you wanna just, you know, kind of push yourself out there, see what happens when you take 10 photographs in a row where you don't look at the screen at the back of your camera. Just rely on what you've got inside. If you have a mirrorless camera, then it's not what you can do. But try that. Often people have said, you know, before you had, when you photograph a film, how did you know things were right? Well, you didn't, right? You had to rely on your gut instinct that it was right. Remember we talked about gut instinct with composition? Same sort of thing. Once you get a handle on this, once you understand why these things are working, how you've put it all together, then it becomes a lot easier to sit there and go, you know what, I can't actually see, but I know what it's gonna look like on my head because I have more of an understanding about why I'm doing the things that I'm doing. That's a wonderful feeling. And it makes everything just kind of wee. It's so much fun. It's awesome. And then of course, you've got all these photographs. Just look at them. Photograph them just without this constraint. And then we're gonna do something very interesting. So you've got this creative restriction.  Now you might find when you're photographing this project, do your sister and go, nah, this image isn't good enough. No, that's not good enough. I'm not gonna do it. There was a photographer called Jerry Oldsman who you may not know the name of, but he's the guy who did the outer limits, house with the roots. Now those are all done in a wet dark room with like up to like 30 in large. It's all like crazy stuff. Now he was doing some lecturing photography one semester. He split the group into two. He said, you guys over here, to get a passing grade, all you need to do is just photograph. Like just submit me a whole bunch of images at the end of the semester and we're all good. Now you guys over here in the second group, I want you to submit one image, but there's a caveat to this. It needs to be the best image that you could possibly have taken this term. So comes the end of the semester, this group over here, they're submitting tons and tons of images and he's seeing they have grown as photographers. They have, you know, they've embraced their mistakes and also, you know, learned from them and moved on and explored their boundaries. The guys over here, they kept second-guessing themselves. There we go. I can only photograph one thing. I can only submit things. So they were trying too hard to focus down on one aspect. And so consequently, their growth was a lot slower. Now in your own photography, embrace this idea. Take everything we've talked about today, all of these ideas and just run with them. Just take photographs, right? The more that you take photographs, the more that you look around at things, the more that you understand how aperture and things of that nature work, the more that you feel comfortable with your camera, the more that you understand about gut feeling with composition, then the easier it is to start taking things away to hide them. In March and May, I am running two cohorts which are going to jump deeper into these concepts about how to simplify the world, how to train our eyes photographically to see the possibilities for really strong and amazing photographs, to learn the language of photography. If you'd like to find out more about this cohort, then please click on the link below. Thank you ever so much for watching. It's been awesome to see you. I hope you had an awesome Christmas and a fantastic new year if I didn't talk to you before then. And if you'd like to check out the video that I talked about with Alan Kopie where he talked about this idea about simplicity in photography, check it out over here. Thank you ever so much. I'll see you again soon.


Very good, yes. But it feels like yesterday. Now I can agree with my dad that indeed we have an uncle that keeps the soul. Father's favorite song. On 26th of April 2017, we lost a legend. I call my father a legend. He's my mentor. He's my everything.  Maybe you just got to know me. But this was the style that I used to dress all the time. If you check my old videos, you'll always see what am I in suits. Because my dad told me that I like seeing you in suits and he bought me my first suit. So today, being three years without him, I just felt like honoring my dad, putting on suit today to visit where he was buried. It was my first time going there because the day he was buried, even though I was around, but I couldn't get the courage to go there. My father is one of the unsung heroes in this country. I mean, no one is talking about him right now. But so far as he asked me right now, someday I will tell you more about my father. Some of you might say that he's dead and gone, but to me, my father still reigns. I love you captain. And I just want you to know that I've missed you so much. I think the last money he gave to me was just $100. And that was my own money that he sent to me. It was my YouTube money. You know, like my father never agreed of me becoming a YouTuber. But the day he agreed, that was the day he told me to start talking about Africa-China relationship. I was a comedian, you know. I was doing comedy on YouTube. Thanks to my dad. Now you are a subscriber. I mean, someone who never agreed of me becoming a YouTuber, he gave me a car and said, if you are ready to talk about the relationship between Africa and China, if you are ready to educate people about Africa, if you are ready to tell people that Africa is the place to be, if you are ready to tell people that these people are taking over our land, I will personally give you a car to go make videos. That is how supportive my dad was. He never wanted to see me as that comedy guy who was messing around with, I mean, Chinese women making videos and all that. And today, I am who I am today because of my father. I mean, it hasn't been easy. Three years without him hasn't been easy. Like imagine that you lost your dad and you are living in a city like Beijing, and the only money that was left was $100. How did I survive with $100? That's why I am saying that indeed we have an uncle that keeps the soul.


Within this library you will find all sorts, like suitcases and letters and foreign exports. I collect every item of lost property and add each one to my inventory. All bottled, all stumped and all labelled to find in the Lost Property Library for all humankind. This is the story of the Lost Hairbrush. Princess Alina Appleton left her castle and made her way to the seaside, when suddenly an army attacked the castle. They were in search for the precious crown jewels. When they broke into the castle, all of Alina's family were absolutely terrified. When Alina heard the cries from the castle walls, she marched back as quickly as she could with her magical hairbrush in hand. And with all of her might, she swung it high in the air and cast a spell. Suddenly the army's feet were frozen on the spot and they were unable to move. You're not going to get away with this, cried Alina. An epic battle followed where Alina and her family fought the army out of the castle. But during the fight, Alina's magical hairbrush flew out of the window and sank deep down into the sea and she never saw it again. And a big thank you to the class of Ingram Road for their amazing contribution to the Lost Property Library.