What up? We're here. We made it.  A thousand subscribers Never thought this would happen until recently probably in the last three months I honestly did not think this was gonna happen and especially not this year anyway, but um With all your support And with a few things that I've changed recently in the way that I approach this YouTube thing We have made it. I've just got back from holiday from a two-week holiday in Thailand This actually happened while I was away. I wanted to make the video over there, but I did want to you know, make sure I included everything to To explain to you guys how I got here And and make sure that I thanks you guys enough Because without any of you without my supporters without my OGs from the start man None of us would be possible and It's you guys that keep me motivated on those days where I just can't be fucked doing it. You know what I mean as far as Yes, this is a natural bodybuilding lifestyle But there are days when I don't feel like training when I don't feel like staying on my diet when I don't feel like talking to the camera and The fact is is that my YouTube channel and the community that I'm growing Surrounding it Keeps me going on those days and it's fantastic. It's not just about me putting myself out there to try and get famous Or anything like that. This is this is a real motivating factor for me having this channel having you guys to be accountable to And you know, it's fantastic at the end of the day some days. I think Should I be putting my my my life out there on the social media platform, you know forever on to critique and and Hate on Sometimes I do get hate. In fact, that's probably gonna be another video looking through my hate comments Because they are pretty funny, but this video is first and foremost about thanking each and every one of you. I Don't know how long you've been subscribed for. I don't know if you are a subscriber. If not, please do I don't know what number I'm gonna be at by the time that you reach this video But right now we're at around about a thousand and sixty subscribers and I'm absolutely stoked. I cannot believe it So before I get on to anything else once again, thank you. Thank you all Thank you everyone for for every one of your comments your likes Shares every view. I mean every single thing counts this YouTube algorithm No one is ever gonna know exactly how it works, but I know that The better the better the response on a video the better it's gonna do the more people It's gonna reach so if you do see a video that you did that you think really does deserve to get out to the masses, man Give it a like You don't need to share it. I've never shared a YouTube video, but um, you know, give it a like frickin Possibly write a comment. I mean the more comments on a video the better the video does I'm not begging for anything. I never have and I never will I've never got one shout out I've never done one collaboration.  So, you know with that being said, okay, those are the thanks and the congratulations Must have been a few of you guys out there actually watching my subs go up like I was and once I did hit a thousand I did get a few comments and a few Messages congratulating me. So once again, thank you to you guys But with that with that being said, let's talk about, you know, my journey to this point It's been a long one. It really has if we're gonna talk about, you know specific dates I Created my YouTube channel. I Think it was because I wanted to watch an r18 video And you obviously need to sign up for that at this point. I had no idea About, you know, most of the fitness industry. I didn't know that I was gonna make a channel At that point. I was I was still pretty lost. I was, you know, 19 years old still trying to find myself I've been in Australia for about Just under a year. This is in May 2010 and Yeah, I was I was I was really trying to find myself. I Wasn't in a job.   Not only do they have awesome physiques. We're just talking about the fitness industry here Not only that but but you know, they probably started treating YouTube as you know, a full-time job pretty early on when they saw potential and it wasn't wasn't actually until about two and a half years later at the end of 2012 that I decided to actually put up my first video and it was to do with rugby So I did a rugby tutorial video. I did I did four tutorial videos I only actually ended up putting up two and and those videos started going pretty well But it wasn't until another year and three months had passed So I started my YouTube channel in May of 2010 It wasn't until October of 2012 that I put up my first video and 2013 went by I had heaps of ideas for videos. I just never put them up. It never came to fruition Which I think a lot of people are in that position. All you got to do is just do it man You know right now.   But anyways start of 2014. I was on a serious cut I I believed I was gonna compete on the stage for the first time that never actually happened But what I decided to do was to make it vlog series I'd seen heaps of other people make them.  You know what I'm gonna do it, too I don't care if I don't get any views. I'm just gonna make it At least I can look back on it in the future and and it will be a cool little series So that's what I started doing. That was at the start of 2014 From there, you know, I it was pretty intermittent for that that year. I didn't end up competing I just did a few update videos, maybe a couple of training videos here and there by the end of 2014 I think I probably had about I Don't know 50 subscribers at most and I thought Is YouTube gonna be for me? I'm not sure so, you know, if we're gonna talk about concrete numbers here This is this is how the subscriber curve has sort of gone for me Like I said first video went up late 2012 At the end of 2013. I had about 40 subscribers At the end of 2014. I had around about a hundred Now at the start of 2015 I started vlogging a little bit more regular. I started putting a bit more effort into my vlogs I started, you know, thinking about having an intro. I'd never had an intro before that Things like that By the middle of 2015's we went from about a hundred subscribers up to just under 300 So that's a year ago. I was, you know, still struggling grinding along thinking is it gonna work? I'd raised my subscriber count up to nearly 300 and I thought right. Okay. I'm at a point now Where I'm gonna compete so I ended up competing on the bodybuilding stage And I thought right I'm gonna take this opportunity to to vlog to the stage And hope that, you know, that series is gonna get out there and people are gonna enjoy it and subscribe to my channel So I'm not sure how many of you guys actually saw that series or how many of you guys came to my channel because of that But I had a really good time making that and you know, I put a lot of effort into that series and I did compete in the end and Sadly, you know, the videos that go well are actually just my my Body fat percentage videos, you know, the the ones that go the best are ones with me posing short videos The the longer vlog sort of videos actually showing an insight into my life They don't go that well and you know, you do get disheartened when you don't have a big subscriber Subscriber base. How are your personal vlogs actually gonna go? Well, they're not going to so at the end of the day I just kept grinding a year ago I had a little less than 300 subscribers 90 days ago on the 30th of April I had around about 600 so You know, let's put that into context. It took me like three years to get up to 300 subs and it took me 270 days to get another 300 and it's taken me the last 90 days To actually hit a thousand. So obviously that subscriber curve has sort of started started going up slowly slowly And I'm just gonna roll with it with all that being said, you know one of one of my favorite things about having a YouTube channel is the fact that you can look at your analytics and Analytics is your statistics for your channel. So They've got an awesome studio app. You can use it on your phone. You can check everything at real-time, you know viewers Subscribers what videos have the most likes the most views, you know comments come in I see them automatically and I can reply to them. It's an amazing, you know piece of piece of software but one thing I've actually watched over time grow and You know, we're at a point now where it's actually doubled probably in the last year is it's not viewership It's not subscriber count because that's obvious. It's actually what percentage of my views on my videos are from my subscribers because You know, I'd love to have a huge subscriber base that are actually watching my videos You know Having someone subscribe to your channel, but never watch anything or never give any likes never never comment or anything there You know, it's it's kind of useless. It's it's a it's a number on your subscriber count But at the end of the day, they don't give you any, you know feedback. They don't give you anything So and I'm not I'm not, you know saying that I need that or anything, but around about a year ago That number was below 3% it was it was between 2 and 2 and a half percent of my total views were actually from my subscribers and I do believe that was because one video I put out which was You know the first video I ever put out that went sort of viral Which was a fantastic feeling and I and that made me realize, you know, if I can do it anyone can do it But it was it was a short video of me posing I said what does 15% body fat really look like and I knew it was gonna go well because at the time I was slightly under 15% so someone would see the thumbnail. They'd think oh that guy's under 15% What's he on about and before I knew it It was up to 100,000 views So, you know to have one video like that out of all of my videos that went really well obviously that is gonna, you know Bring the ratio out of out of balance So I was sitting at you know below two and a half percent of My views came from my subscribers and over the last year slowly slowly slowly I've seen that number jump and it's up to above five percent right now And I'm I couldn't be more happy about that and I'm not even looking at my total subs I'm not looking at my total views. I want My my videos to be viewed by my subscribers. I'm putting I'm putting them out there for my subs So that's fantastic, that's that's a really cool number and I want to see that rise But in saying that I don't particularly know what my niche is, you know, what is my niche? I love rugby. I love natural bodybuilding. I love dieting. I like helping people diet I like explaining to people, you know How the body works and how calories calories inverse calories out is is an efficient tool to use when when trying to lose body fat I love sports, you know, I love music. I love using my drone I really don't know exactly what direction this channel is gonna go in but I do know one thing and it's it's something that I got told by the man of vlogs Casey Neistat I've watched countless amounts of videos, you know Trying to explain how to grow your channel the tricks behind growing a channel How to go viral etc. etc. But there's one thing that I was told Probably about a year ago and I've kept it in my head I've told a lot of other people and it's three simple words guys.   You've got to stop worrying about what everyone else thinks and that's in general life as well But I do believe that YouTube has taught me that lesson and you know, I just needed a guy like Casey who has You know a clear success record on YouTube to tell me to just keep uploading and that's what I did Obviously if a video comes out and it's the quality is not there. I won't upload it I do want my channel to be seen as you know a high quality channel And that and with that being said uniformed every single one of my thumbnails So, you know, I wanted someone to come to my channel and think okay, this guy knows what he's doing You know, he's got a nice cover photo, which I never had I've linked all my social media accounts, you know throughout every one of my videos I've got my handles on my intro. I've got a professional intro done You know, that's something that I never I never thought about. I didn't know how to get one done and It just comes with time and it comes from experience. So We're at a thousand subs. It's nothing. I just said there's a billion users on Frickin YouTube with all that being said, I know I've taught way too much, but this is my thousand subscriber Thank You video. So I wanted to make it good.  We're at a thousand subs. Who would have thought? Who knows when the next thousand will come but I do believe I'm pretty confident It's gonna come a little faster than the last thousand from the first time I uploaded a video at the end of 2012 It's been over Three and a half years. It's nearly been four years For me to get to a thousand subs But like the great Casey Neistad said Just keep uploading. That's exactly what I'm gonna do and You guys are gonna come along with me. So once again, thank you very much Thank you everyone for all your support views likes comments shares subs we're at a thousand and Actually before I go, there's one thing I want to do to mark the occasion I didn't know what I was gonna do whether it was gonna be a food challenge. It was gonna be a workout challenge At the moment, I'm not in a position where I can do something like a 10,000 calorie challenge Although I do really really want to do one But it's not gonna happen just yet. I'm cutting down for a show You guys are gonna come along for the ride with that one too in fact straight after this, I'm actually gonna make my Six weeks out update video. So for all you who are interested and who've made it to the end of this video I am cutting down for a natural bodybuilding show and that is where most of my efforts are going at the moment. So With that being said guys, I'm gonna leave you guys right now. I think I've said everything I'm gonna open up the comment section for any questions you guys want to ask me So to actually mark this occasion, I'm gonna do a thousand subscriber Q&A It's my first ever question and answer video. I'm gonna open it up on Instagram I'm gonna put it on Facebook snapchat The only reason I haven't done a Q&A video before is one because I wanted to wait for a thousand subs and Two because I just second guess myself all the time, you know for me to put something out on Instagram Asking for people's questions and then not get any, you know, that's that's gonna be hard That's that's not easy to deal with so I had in the back of my mind You know this this idea to do a question and answer I do know these guys out there, especially on my YouTube channel who must have questions, you know, whether they be personal. I Don't really care. This is this is me as always a hundred percent transparent and honest to all you guys. I Love all the support.  Have a great day. I've talked way too much I gotta go peace


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The Lucky Strike program starring Jack Benny with Mary Livingston, Phil Harris, Rochester, Dennis Day, and yours truly, Don Wilson. Ladies and gentlemen, let's go out to Jack Benny's home in Beverly Hills. It's Sunday morning, and Jack is still in bed. Well, it's 10 o'clock. I guess I better go in and wake up the boss. Got to get down to the studio and rehearse. Mr. Benny is 10 o'clock.  I guess I better take his thumb out of his mouth. Show a hard man to wake up. Well, maybe this will do it. Getting monotonous, open up those baby blue eyes of yours. Maybe this will work. Only one thing left to do. I'll have to go back to the old standby. Uh-huh. What? Oh, it's you, Rochester. Thanks for waking me up. Turn on the light. The light's wrong.  I can't. Push the no-sale button. Thanks. Good morning, boss. How'd you sleep? Oh, pretty good. Only, I was awfully cold last night. You're cold every night. Maybe you haven't got enough blood. Rochester, I'm not a neame. Now, lay out my clothes and get me a clean shirt. I don't want to be late for rehearsal. Yes. Not a neame. I wonder what he'd say if he found out that every morning I sneaked into the bathroom and put ketchup on his razor to keep up his morale. See, the shirt should be in this drawer. Bullen socks, handkerchiefs, sweaters. Uh-oh, what's this? A bottle of ketchup. Rochester, how about my shirt? Coming, boss. Here it is. Thanks. Say, boss, while I was getting the shirt out of the drawer, I noticed a bottle of ketchup. Oh, you did, eh? Yeah, where'd you get it? Rochester, come here a minute. I got a little surprise for you. Surprise? Yeah, you keep putting it on and I keep scraping it off, but I'm not wasting it just to please my vanity. You knew it was ketchup? Well, yes, but I will admit that in the beginning, it fooled me. It did? Yeah, the first time I saw it on my razor, I took a sample down to the blood bank. They analyzed it and said, Mr. Benny, some people have girls, some people have boys, but you're going to have a tomato. Now, I want more. You answer the door, Rochester. I want to finish dressing. Yes, sir. Oh, what a beautiful morning. Oh, what a beautiful dawn. Now that it started and raining, I won't have to sprinkle the lawn. Rochester. Oh, good morning, Miss Livingston. Say, Rochester, now that we've had rain, why did you take down that sign that Mr. Benny has in front of the house? Which one? The one that says water inside, $0.25 a glass. No use taking it down. I'll just change water to lemonade. Who is it, Rochester? Oh, you can come in my room, Mary. I'm dressed. Hello, Jack. You better hurry. It will be late for rehearsal. Why? We've got, oh my goodness, look what time it is. I never realized it was this late. You still have to shave. I know. I know. It won't take long. I'll take off my tie. I'll get the razor. I'll get the ketchup. Yeah. No, no, we're having time for that now. You go get the car, Rochester. I'll be down in a minute. Try the motor again, Rochester. Yes, sir. Try it again, Rochester. Only this time, step on the throttle, advance the spark, pull out the choke, and hold down the clutch. Keep talking, boss. So far, you haven't named one thing we've got. All right, all right. Try the motor again. Yes. I knew we wouldn't have any trouble. The motor was cold, that's all. You know, it's been quite chilly here lately. If you think it's cold here in California, let me read this letter I got from Mama. Oh, a letter from your mother, eh? Well, what does the Wild Irish Rose of Plainfield have to say? Well, just a second. I have it right here. My darling daughter, Mary, this is the first chance I've had to write you since the recent blizzard here in Plainfield. In some places, the snow was so deep, many people got lost. Your sister, Babe, went out during the worst part of the storm and rescued three men. It was sure smart of Babe putting that keg of brandy around her neck. You heard what looked good. Imagine finding three frozen men. Go on, Mary. She's thawing out the cute one and putting the other two in the deep freeze. What? So much for Babe. Good. But it's been so cold, your Uncle Harry has been sitting in the living room all week with his feet in the fireplace. I wish I could break him of the habit as he's getting shorter every day. That's silly. What else is there? Mary, you have no idea how much inconvenience the blizzard caused. People got stranded in offices, stores, and factories. And your father was stuck in a burlase show for 10 days. We finally got him home, and he's all right now. Except I wish he'd stop applauding every time I take off my apron. No. That's so much. But now he's building a runway in the kitchen. Oh, Mary, your mother's too old to go back to that. No other news will pose for now. Your loving mother, Naughty Angeline Livingston.  Rochester, right here we are at the studio. Yes, sir. Yeah, I wish there was some place to park along the street. Oh, for heaven's sake, Jack, why don't you put it in a parking lot? Yeah, I guess we'll have to. All right, Rochester, drive in here. Oh, boy, a real parking lot. Wait until the boys in the lodge about this. Never mind, just go in. Now, Rochester, you go over and pay the attendant. Miss Livingston and I are going into the studio. Yes, sir. Say, Jack, look at that beautiful car driving in. Gee, what a car. A chauffeur in uniform and everything. Must be the president of the network. Here we are, sir, NBC. Thank you, James. Mary, Mary, it's Dennis. Let's watch this. I'll get your things out of the car, sir. That's the coat. Thank you. Your hat. Thank you. Your popsicle. Thanks. James, you've been licking it. Hey, Dennis, Dennis. Huh? Oh, hello, Mr. Benny. Hello, Mary. Gee, Dennis, I've never seen such a beautiful car. Where'd you get it? Well, my mother gave it to me for my birthday. An expensive car like that for a birthday present?  No, she's honest, John.  Well, I was talking to the man who prepares my income tax, and he told me I ought to get some more deductible items.  Yeah, James deductible. Jack, we better get to the studio. We'll be late. Yeah, as the case didn't do many good at all. Come on, Dennis, let's go. Say, aren't you Jack Benny's chauffeur? I sure am. Are you Dennis Day's chauffeur? Yes. Say, tell me, how many radio programs has Mr. Benny got? One? Ha! Come on, kids, we better get to the studio and rehearse it. Number once more. Let's go over to the studio. Hold it, Phil. Hold it. I'm here. OK, Phil, let's take five. Now, Phil, let's get started with this. Holy smoke, Jackson. How long have you been out of bed? For about an hour, why? Well, morning may become a lecture, but it ain't done nothing for you. Oh, Harris, through your lips passed the most beautiful jokes in the world. Look, Phil, I have a very important sketch to rehearse, so would you mind cooperating? OK, OK, I'd like to get home early today anyway. Today is my wedding anniversary. Alice and I have been married seven years. Well, congratulations, Phil. Yes, sir. Gee, seven of the happiest, most wonderful years that ever happened to anyone. Well, I'm glad to hear that, Phil. A lot of people don't realize how lucky they are. Yeah, thank goodness Alice does. Oh, fine. Say, Phil, what are you giving Alice for an anniversary present? This golden locket. Here, look how it opens. And look what's engraved inside. Gee, a poem. Yeah, I wrote that poem myself. Let me read it, Phil. OK, go ahead. To Alice. To the fairest of the fair. To the one and only queen. To the cutest little ham hop. From her loving turnips green. Why, Phil. Bill Z. Harris. Oh, gee, I guess I'm just a sentimental old slush. No, no, Phil, you're cute. But now look, kid, we got a sketch for a hearse. There's something else. They scratched it out here. We've got a sketch for a hearse. And I want it to be good, so let's get at it right away. Can I run over my song first, Mr. Benny? Sure, sure, go ahead. We'll rehearse later. And if he won, the harmony was so very sweet. Remember the name of our son, Simon. Son of the Lord, Simon. So let's rehearse our play, our sketch. We're going to do our version of Tyrone Powers' 20th Century Fox Picture Nightmare Alley. The story is about a carnival. So, Mary, you're going to be Zena, the snake charmer. Phil, you'll be the fireeater. And Dennis, you're going to be the two-headed man. All right, Don, set the scene. Ladies and gentlemen, our version of Nightmare Alley, that weird, foreboding story of life in a carnival, our scene opens in front of a sideshow on the crowded midway. These ways step up to the platform and for the price of 25 cents, you not only see the tattooed lady, the two-headed man, and the fireeater, but the one and only geek in captivity. Yes, folks, that scream you just heard was the geek. That wild inhuman fiend is dangerous. He is a beast. He is a monster. Watch it, Elliot. Folks, step right up and get your tickets. So hurry. Oh, Zena, Zena. What is it, Tyrone? I want to talk to you. Well, let's talk later. I got to get out on the platform and do my snake dance. That's what I want to talk to you about. I wish you'd keep your snakes out of my dressing room. Why? This morning, I thought I put on a necktie, sat down to breakfast, and it ate more than I did. You don't think my snakes make a good tie?  I can't. He swallowed a whole egg. Now I can't get him back through the loop. Now, Zena, I want to talk to you about that mind reading act we've been practicing for a long time. With those clever signals we've worked out, we can't miss. Now, let's get out of that platform and break the act in today. OK, Tyrone. Lead the way. All right, folks, gather around the platform while my assistant Zena passes among you. I will tell each and every one of you anything that's on your mind. And I will do this blindfolded. Are you ready, Tyrone? Ready. I am pointing to a person. What is this person's name? That person's name is William. My name is Esther. Thank you, Esther William. And now for the next question. I have a man here. Now tell me what this man has got on his wrist. He's not in a balcony, eh? Take it again. Now tell me what this man's got on his wrist. Wrist? Turn around so you can't watch. I've got it. Good. Now what has this man got on his wrist? A wart. Then it's under his wristwatch. And now, folks, if you will step up. Hey, Tyrone, Tyrone. Uh-oh, the boss. We better get back to our regular act. All right, ladies and gentlemen, step up close to the platform and see Zena the snake charmer. She will do her famous snake dance. Hey, you four fellas in the front. You four guys. Have you got your tickets? Hmm. Good. Now step up close and watch Zena do her famous dance. OK, Zena, now let it go.  She drops another snake. He strikes the smoke for me. We will tell you something confidential. Quality of product is essential to success. To continue in success, the sneaker handles will raise his voice and tell you lucky strike is his first choice. So don't buy those lucky. I'm packing up and leaving the carnival. Leaving the carnival? Tyrone, Tyrone, Tyrone, Tyrone. Why don't you answer me? I love that name. But Tyrone, you can't leave the carnival. It's in your ketchup. I mean your blood. I don't even know why I joined the carnival. That geek is driving me nuts. I'm tired of living with those other freaks in Nightmare Alley. But Tyrone, they all joined the carnival for some reason. Yeah. Say maybe if I found out why they joined, I wouldn't be so mixed up. It might help me solve my problem. You mean? Yes, Portland. It's time to go down to Nightmare Alley. What is your quest? My idea is why did you join the carnival? Shall we go? As President Truman said to Mrs. Truman, we might as well walk. We've got no porch to sit on. Come to me back at Nightmare Alley. Well, I see the fire eater is home. He must have just finished his dinner.  I'll see. Somebody, I say somebody's swapping my panel with a hot knuckle.  I beg your pardon?  If Robson's a name, come right on in and join me. I'm just having a couple lighter fluids. Hey, tell me, how long have you been a fire eater? Practically all my life, son. When I was six weeks old, I burped and set my crib on fire. I see.  Such as? My favorite cartoon is Ella Senders. My favorite movie is Forever Ember. And your favorite radio comedian? Jack Benny. Benny? He burns me up. That's a joke, son. I know, Mr. Robson.  Don't just stand there flicking my flint. Question, why did you join the carnival? Well, a long time ago, son, I was in love with a girl. She left me and joined the carnival, and I didn't see her for several years. I see. So you decided to join a carnival, too? Yes, sir. I wanted to be near my old flame. So long. So long. So long. So long. So long now. Corny guy, but he does as best as he can. Well, here's the next house. I guess the two-headed man is in. He's looking out the door and the window at the same time. Yeah, me boy, that I am. But today we're not speaking. What are you mad about? What am I mad about? Me boy, we had watermelon for lunch, and it happened again. What happened again? He ate the watermelon, and all he had to spit out the seeds. Not only that, but his dandruff keeps falling on my shoulder. Well, do you mind if I talk to your other head? You can try if you want to, but he's been moody all day. Well, I'll try. Hello? Howdy, Bob. Would you mind answering a few questions? Don't mind providing John will keep quiet. Oh, is that his name? John? Yep, I'm John's other head. What? Oh, pretty good. You can send me out in the rain, Bob. I'm a slicker. That's a fine sense of yours.  I'm warning you, John, stay out of this.   That's what I said. I'll keep your nose out of me. Wait up, man. That's what you do so far, you like that. That's true, man.  Not after tomorrow morning. What? When I shave, it'll be push, pull, click, click, and I'll be all alone. Well, look, I only came in here to ask you a question. Why did you join the carnival? Well, I'll tell you, John, with the price of what they are today, we had a work where we could make the most money. The most money? Why? We've got two mouths to feed. Good day to you. Good day. Good day to you. Thank you, sir. That should happen. Well, here's the next house I wonder who lives here. Well, who are you? I'm the fat lady. Oh, yes, we've never seen you in New York. How did you get out here to the coast? Oh, I came here on the TWA bus. Wait a minute. Another TWA is an airplane. It flies. Not when I'm on it. Oh, yes, yes.   Now tell me, why did you join the carnival? I didn't. They joined me. Goodbye. Goodbye. Well, for Ali, I wonder who lives here. And it's the geek. Well, I might as well ask him to. Pardon me, are you the geek? Uh, yeah, I'm the geek. I'm the most inhuman ferocious monster in captivity. Well, tell me, geek, where were you captured? In full expacement. In full expacement? What were you doing down there? I was buying Chanel number five. I stank. Well, tell me, geek, why did you join the carnival? I told you. I was captured. What are you doing all right with the carnival? Yeah, they give me $10 a week and all the people I can eat.  Yeah. Won't you come in? Of course, now, but you're kidding. You don't really eat people. Sure, I do. There's a girl in Plainfield going to send me two out of her deep freeze. What? Goodbye. By a 50% margin over any other brand, independent tobacco experts named Lucky Strike first choice. Lucky Strike First Choice. Back of that statement is an impartial crossley pole just completed in 11 southern tobacco states. 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Alright, so today I'd like to talk a little bit about arm swing and how it relates to running performance. Obviously running is done with the legs, but the arms are actually an important part of the whole movement pattern. You know, when it comes to form, efficiency and performance. So it's an interesting topic. Let's talk about it. Alright, so first of all, there are different ways in which the arms come into play when it comes to running performance. If you look at someone like a sprinter, they're pumping their arms.  And that's an important sort of strategy to keep moving forward. So they actually do need to work on that upper body strength and to throw their arms forward. And that's part of their, you know, generating that forward momentum. When it comes to long distance runners like marathon runners and even 10K and 5K, the pump is not as important. But nevertheless, the arms are there for a reason.  So the arms are there as a counterweight, right? Opposite foot, opposite arm goes forward when you're running. And that's part of sort of balancing your stride to keep it steady going forward. In fact, you should probably try it. Just try running with their hands behind your back one day and you'll find that it's pretty difficult.  When it comes to how to use your arms while running or how the running form should be, we can get into proper running form in another video, but with regards to the arms, we're really talking about sort of around a 90 degree angle, maybe a little bit less even. You don't want to have too large of an angle because then you're going to swing your arms too much like that and that's going to be a waste of energy. So you're going to keep your arms sort of 90 degrees or a little bit less and then relaxed at the side of your body and then, you know what, when I said that the sprinters, they actually pump their arms forward to move forward. Well, when you're running, you know, long distance, you're actually more pumping more back. You're actually not doing that much of a forward movement. It's actually more of a back movement.  So if you're thinking about when you're at running and you're thinking about, you know, should you move your arms purposely? Well, maybe a little bit, but then it's only backwards really, you move them backwards.  There's a lot of individual variation, of course. I mean, if you look at someone like Tirunas De Baba, which is one of the greatest runners in history, she has a very small angle in her elbows and she's running like this. So not only does she have a very small angle, but she does something that is also generally frowned upon that is to move your arms past your center line. Generally speaking, you want to avoid this. Imagine there's a line going down your center and you don't want to cross that line with your arms because obviously that would mean that you're putting energy that direction when you're trying to move forward. It's a pretty bad idea. So try and keep, you know, those arms going forward more or less directly forward by pumping your elbows back and keeping your arms relaxed going forward like that. So as I said, De Baba, she runs like that. Mo Farah, I mean, he has like some kind of strange movement with one of his arms kind of sometimes. So there's a lot of, you know, exceptions. But I would argue that they're probably running well despite their sort of somewhat poor arm swing. So there's no reason why you should not try to optimize your arm swing. But then again, because of differences in dimensions of the bones, shoulders and general just body type, you might find that you're doing better with, you know, a little bit of a different arm swing than someone else might prefer. And so there's got to be room for that individual variations. And sometimes when you try to force your form too much, you can actually end up getting less efficient. Let's talk about that efficiency or running economy, which is the amount of energy that you use to run. That's another issue. Well, if you imagine now standing here and you start doing this, your heart rate is going to go up, right? You're actually using energy, you're burning fuel, oxygen is being consumed at a higher rate than at rest. And so that's going to play a part also when you're running, right? So imagine that could you save energy by just not using your arms at all, just using your legs? Well, that brings us back to the first point again. And the answer is no, you can't actually, because you're going to end up so out of balance that you have to compensate with your core so much, etc. So your arms are actually there to, if you're able to stay relaxed and just have them, you know, natural good swing in your arms, that's actually beneficial for your running economy. Now, if you're carrying water in your hands, then your running economy tends to go down because you don't want to have weight far away from your body. So if you're carrying something, you want to carry it in your belt or in your backpack. So you see people running with handhelds, there are pros and cons to that. One of the cons is that it sort of costs a little bit more in terms of economy, in terms of oxygen, essentially. And if you're doing too much of a movement, like, let's say you're just, you know, running like that, then you're actually wasting movement, wasting energy every time you do that and you can end up having a little bit of a higher heart rate for that pace. Whereas if you're able to just bring your arms in, relax and not waste energy with your arms, you're actually able to run a little bit faster at that same heart rate or run the same pace but at a lower heart rate, which is essentially what running economy is all about. Now I want to give you a quick tip here on the end and that is use your arms to balance. Don't forget that you have the arms. Sometimes, especially in trail running, when you're heading down a difficult technical section or over some rocks and trails, you know, it can be difficult to stay balanced and that's when you actually want to think about your arms as, well, I don't know, like counterweights. So what I do is that if I'm really, you know, if it's a difficult trail, I'm going fast, I'll just put my arms out a little bit and I'll be able to just quickly adjust my balance by using, by putting my arms out, pulling them in, pulling them out and that sort of thing. So don't neglect your arms in these situations, use them for what they're worth, just get your arms out there and move. And sometimes if I'm sort of having to go on the left side of a trail, for example, there's a big puddle or something and I want to run there and it's, you know, I could fall into it like that. I just put my arm out like that and maybe that one as well. That way I'm like able to just go past it without falling in. So use your arms in situations like that. But again, do remember that that does waste energy. So if you don't have to do it, don't do it. When it comes to road running and stuff like that, you just want to have that monotonous, simple arm movement, pushing, pumping your elbows back, keeping them going straight in the direction that you want to go. And when it comes to your hands, you just want to close them gently. And as Durin Ryder says, imagine holding butterflies. Imagine there's butterflies in your hands and you don't want to crush them, right? But you don't want to let them out either. So you want to hold them like that. That's how you want to relax, sort of have your hands when you're running. A lot of people can get tense in their shoulders when they're running and they end up running like this. That's not a good idea. Relax. Keep your shoulders relaxed. Keep your back sort of shoulder blades. You know, you want to keep your back sort of up like that. You want to hunch over while we're getting into running form now. But generally speaking, you want to keep that running tall like that, chest forward and then, you know, relaxed arms along the side. That's what it's all about, being relaxed. What I like to do sometimes is that if I'm noticing that I'm tensing up during my run, I'll just let my arms down while I'm running, just relax. As an exercise to just get relaxed, I'll just throw them down and run for like 2, 3, 4 seconds with my arms hanging on the side just being like, no, no tension at all. And then I'll bring them back up and keep running. So bringing attention to that relaxation. Thanks for watching. Please subscribe to this channel if you haven't done so already. Let me know in the comments what your thoughts are about Arm Swing. If you have any questions, feel free to post them as well. Hope you're having a great day. Hope your running is going well. Stay tuned for more videos. Thanks. Bye.


Hey everybody, it's another episode of Low Def Moment, a show where I talk to, my name is Ian Davidson, talk to a business owner, entrepreneur, et cetera, about their business, what they've got going on in their world, and possibly talk to them, hopefully, about how they use social media to better their business, et cetera. This week we have Andrew Lanning on the episode, co-founder of Integrated Security Technologies. How's it going, man? Good. Good to be here, man. Thanks for giving me a shout. No, no, no. You know what I mean? I like to talk. You know how I am. Yeah. No, this is really cool. Thanks for being on in this quick disclaimer. I do know Andrew through Think Tech Hawaii. We are paths across a bit, and he has a show on there called Hibachi Talk, so we might talk about that in a little bit. Let's talk about Integrated Security Technologies. What do you guys do? Sure. We are a electrical contracting firm, but we specialize in electronic security systems and system integration. We install all the pipe, cable, wiring, but then we also load all the applications and the database software, configure that test, and train the users on how to use their systems, and then of course we maintain those systems for them over the lifetime. We've been almost about 19 years in business. Wow. I took a look at your website, looked around what you guys do, and you talked about electronic security and biometrics and all of that kind of stuff. So you guys are doing biometrics? Yeah, biometrics have been a big part of the industry, primarily in the DOD space for many, many years, which is sort of where we started. But the price point has come down now where a lot of commercial entities are starting to add biometric functionality to their endpoints. Biometrics just lets you have that second or third form of authentication. We hear about 2FA in like an online account where you use a password, but then you might put in a PIN code like you do at an ATM, for example. So biometrics does the same thing for us at a door where someone may have presented a card, but hey, I also want to make sure that that's really them so I can do an iris scan or a fingerprint scan or whatever it may be and add that level of authentication to a facility entryway, for example. Is a facility used biometrics because the stuff that they are securing is more important or is it that the technology like not having that layer of security also added on top of say the password or the PIN code or the card swipe, are they doing that because those lesser, for lack of a better word, security systems aren't as good? Yeah, you know, there's a couple ways to look at it. The DOD tends to have some requirements like that around multiple forms of authentication, but as soon as you get outside of that space, a commercial entity probably didn't do biometrics because the price point for entry was kind of high. So they may have a card plus a PIN, which is something that you have and something that you know. So that way if an employee loses a card in the parking lot, a guy can't just walk up to the door and badge through the door, right? So if I have turned on two factor with card plus PIN, then I've got that additional level of assurance and that still is probably adds 100 or 150 bucks per door higher than just a standard card reader. But when I add a biometric, be it an iris scan or a fingerprint scan or these are now adding, used to be thousands of dollars per door, but now I'm adding several hundred more for each opening, so we're using that. So that's why the adoption of the commercial space has been a bit slower. But the adoption is there, it's happening. Yeah, the price point finally came down to where it's, you know, obviously if you say I use it up at my X perimeter doors, you know, once I've got people in my facility, I've authenticated them maybe two or three ways, so therefore I know they're okay. So then I could let them, I don't need it on every door, but so the idea is to put it on the perimeter and then use a lower level of authentication inside or maybe I've only got one area that's really needs a higher level of assurance before someone goes in there and maybe at that particular entryway I'll go ahead and use biometrics there where everywhere else I'm just maybe using card or card plus pin. So there's a couple of different ways to apply it depending on the size of facility and the level of risk that they can assume for the materials or personnel inside of their facility. What industries are coming to a business like yours looking for security? So data centers, financial centers, supply chain to DoD, we typically see it there. Our hospitals, we tend to use a two factor kind of card plus pin. They have a lot of requirements around where people can come and go at and so they tend to do a lot of access control interior and if you're using multi factor that slows people down but a lot of times they'll have a card plus pin so they're not necessarily doing biometric biometric is that that thing that you are. So we talked about three forms of authentication, something you have which is your card, something you know which is that code and something you are and that's considered sort of the highest level of assurance other than personal identification. Like when I see you I know that that's you and that's still considered the highest form despite all the Tom Cruise movies where they're all wearing masks and stuff. People don't do that right? People aren't coming up to the front door and masks trying to be on mission impossible are they? I've been at it for 20 years and haven't seen that. I don't know that it doesn't occur in the movie level. People do wear masks to thwart cameras however so you know it's really easy to wear to put a to obscure or obfuscate your face if you're trying to not be detected by surveillance cameras so that's something that's one reason cameras sort of are not really security you know cameras are a form of an evidence gathering realistically. Speaking of sort of peering in on somebody from above I like I said I looked at your website and one of the things that you highlighted that you guys do is audio visual security and as in you know and sort of the verbiage on your thing is about listening what you know listening to what's going on in your business are people listening are companies out there like miking up you know it's their business it's their security are they miking up rooms like so they can listen on their employees not without telling people and you still requires permission however in a space where you're looking say you're watching a parking garage for example you know you've probably got a call button there in case someone needs assistance anyway like you see the blue towers right the cold blue towers so there's absolutely a lot of benefit to be able to speak into that space as well as to listen from it right so a lot of times you when you've got say you just put a camera out on a parking lot of let's say a auto car lot right and some kids out there vandalizing the cars for example when I can take audio and project it out there to them as well and let them know that I see them they're wearing a blue shirt brown pants police are on the way that tends to get a movement off the site quite a bit quicker which is what you really want to do is stop what they're doing where the surveillance alone only allows me to see what they what they were doing so being able to interact audibly or visually you know audio with audio into a remote site is very very important part of being able to actually have surveillance on that site sometimes the way you you may see two people interacting and think that they're fighting and if you could listen to what they're talking about perhaps you'd find out that they're just very excited about a sale that they found or something you know so there's a lot of reasons a lot of benefit to be able to have audio in a place and typically the law just says we have to put signage up to indicate that people are under surveillance that audios may or may not be being recorded so does this what integrated security technology does that you'd set up the cameras and all of that audio stuff for a company yeah we install all that infrastructure cabling so you know conduit and cabling and then we would install the equipment itself we specified sometimes if the customer doesn't have a consultant they're working with or someone or doesn't know what they need in the design they may come to us with a problem and we'll design a solution for them and then once it's installed you know we picked some sort of a platform to drive that with be it an access control platform some folks like to drive from a video surveillance platform and then you know intercom is typically just a feature that's used you can imagine putting a card reader on a door and someone arrives at that door that doesn't have access to the facility or they need to call somebody or they're going to start banging on the door right so intercom kind of goes hand in hand with access control and then there are typically you've also got an intrusion layer there as well you know we sense the door positions with an access control system or you know we want that door position known so I know when it was open with an authorized card reader I know if it was open from the inside by an authorized request to exit but if it gets forced open without a card read or request to exit I need to know that as well that's a break in so access controls doing a little bit more than people think about a lot of people that use it just think it's like electronic door opening but we're actually sensing that door position and I also know if I can set that an alert if the door gets held open let's say for 60 seconds or 90 seconds when people stopped smoking inside buildings and everybody had to go outside to smoke we used to get a lot of doors propped open because people would want to go out outside and smoke for a few minutes and then come back in the same door but if the door had access control on it would have a door held alarm so that would let us know what was going on because typically the smoking was supposed to be done in a certain area not out in the back warehouse area or whatever it may be so there's a lot of stuff happening with an access control system and that tends to be the platform that we drive from and all the other all the other sensors and all the other equipment is kind of peripheral and all those activities are related inside the database so when I need to see what occurred I can go in to an an event of some type maybe it was a door opening event maybe it was a door held event and with the click of a button kind of pull up the door event know who used the door the video associated with it the last time it was used maybe if there was audio associated with that file whatever it may be let's me very quickly get a report on what occurred. If you just heard that that was the the company dog over there. Nice. Very cool you've been doing this for a very long time long time it sounds like you've been a security guy and over this time you you know you were talking basically about technology here and you've seen things get progress over this time obviously and what do you see as the next security sort of technology coming you know what space should people be looking at if they're thinking about you know the future and securing their their space their perimeter if you will. Yeah so I think the perimeter is going to continue to be the focus a lot of. Folks can't afford to secure their entire perimeter for example you think of your your parking areas right where you've got staff that have to travel to a vehicle well that could be a very large parking lot so really secure in that perimeter is rarely done yeah. Most people let the perimeter fall back to the building itself and they can secure the doors maybe the front door back door side door entrances things like that so I think the pushing out of perimeter security is going to continue to grow a lot of that today is being done with analytics through through video and audio analytics which have become quite a bit more reliable we used to get a lot of really bad false positives in the industry and those the analytic engines have just become much much more robust today where we're getting you know 98 99% accuracy in the detection rates so very low amount of false positives meaning that if I'm trying to detect a person you know I've said I want to pick this large of a pixel I want it to be this big before I get alert you know it's not triggering because a small cat wandered through or something like that right so that the analytics on the audio side you know we've got a lot we've got analytics to detect people running analytics that can listen for the sound of a fight analytics that can listen for a car glass breaking and those are getting very obviously gunshot analytics have been around for quite a while you know and so we're getting better even today at pinpointing you know what type of weapon fired and actually how far away it was from the sensor so there's been a there's been a lot of advance in analytics and before these were analytics had to run on a PC a dedicated server to process it all today we're pushing the analytics out to the edge a lot of them are being performed in the camera or in the intercom device itself right out the edge so that we're only sending events that are meet a certain threshold for example to the server for processing and I think that that's the next sort of big wave you know we're machine learning obviously we're not we're not this industry doesn't isn't priced where it can take advantage of artificial intelligence yet but analytics and machine learning are definitely coming into the retail space first you know they're watching dwell times how long you stood in front of something and trying to you know send you a quick sale price before you walk away and all that kind of stuff so that space has got a its own its own sort of advances in analytics and then in the electronic security side what we're doing we're definitely interested in finding ways to push you know perimeter security out you know reliably instead of you know stringing you know fiber optic you know sensors around the entire perimeter things like that are expensive to do and primarily have been within the realm of DoD to date although there are some some commercial entities that service you know that are in the sort of that supply chain of regulated industries that have done a little bit of that kind of work you know it just depends sort of on the environment where you're at some of the college campuses have gone to great extent in some of the some of the cities where they have more of a high active crime area near to the campus and so they've gone to extending those perimeter systems quite a ways out there just to detect things earlier this in the same way that you have a burglar alarm and the police are coming it takes 10 minutes to get there all perimeter detection does is lower gets you notified sooner that something's going on that you want to detect and let you respond quicker so that incident doesn't continue to move in in closer to your assets that's that's that's crazy like I a lot of that stuff is really interesting to me and I think I could probably talk to you forever about it but but I do need to talk to you about social media because that's what I do and I like to hear what other people are doing and only because you know everybody is told that they need to have it and you know I have people come to me and say hey everybody says I've got a business online I need to have it what am I supposed to do and every sort of story is different and I went to your website that's usually the first thing I do and I look at a person's website and I see what social media accounts or that do they just put right there on their website and you've got a few out there you've got you one you got your website going on out there your Facebook your Twitter linked in Google plus that paper dot L I thing and then this YouTube that I talked about earlier to Hibachi talk do you feel like that your social media presence or your online presence is bringing business to you or are or is it just something that you feel like you need to do so great it's a great question and I obviously we we we got our first really large national level deal from Yahoo from our website in 1999 so we sold services in 1999 I just want to say that I don't know if we sold anything since from our website but we you know we obviously we're we're somewhat tech savvy and you know we always had a web presence and it's been built and kind of you know then left a left a linger and then built again over the years and but the rise of social media made all of that so much easier right because all that static data you know you want to do things on a website that aren't simple if you're not a coder and they're not easy to display if you don't know how to rapidly whip that up so social media made that so much easier and the first thing we started with was I think we built a Facebook account for our company and you know we were able to put the events that we host and all that kind of stuff on there and it lets you you know I never really necessarily put up specials but we would be featured in magazines and I could put that stuff up quickly via it whether it was a link to an article or a PDF of an article whatever I could get it up there so there it gave us ways to put stuff out then I went I started a LinkedIn account for the company as well and did had quite a bit of success publishing information there that was relevant and more more not six I don't know about success but greater adoption greater recognition really from the industry folks on the mainland than was in Hawaii so my our customer base in Hawaii doesn't seem to spend a lot of time online actually looking at our social media for example or following it or that I don't I don't find many of them commenting on it near as much as industry peers that I have on the mainland do so then you know we had those two going and they're they're somewhat static when you compare them to the you know the rise of Twitter and what we were able to do there I used paper lead to publish a a sort of a blog and I was quite active with that for a while so I kind of got used to it and then I've sort of gotten into the media with Hibachi Talks so I found that make videos are a lot more powerful than just you know writing stuff although I did have quite a bit of success taking my blog which is you know original content taking that out throwing it out on like LinkedIn and getting a lot of comments and I use Hootsuite to publish so I can publish those pieces that I think are you know important I can either publish them from myself or from our company or from that blog site which is Security Leadership Institute some of them I typically will put them always out on our Facebook page and out on our Google page and on our LinkedIn page if I'm publishing from myself and it's maybe related to the industry but not necessarily IST I may publish that under my my personal LinkedIn and not IST so I do a lot of work in the cybersecurity on behalf of our industry which is not I don't want people to get confused that IST is in that cybersecurity business and because I'm not such a proponent I'm out and you know in the public a lot with that there's a bit of confusion there so I try to avoid that in the social media space where I can um if do you feel here's one of the questions that I get from people asking me about it the the amount of work that it takes to run a successful social media sort of presence it's it's kind of a lot of work right like yeah just one person if that's the person going to do it right on a from a are you the person or like this does IST just have sort of you and or do you or do you have somebody handling that and what is that work sort of like yeah so so I do it which is why it really goes up and down you know we when we travel it goes down some events I'm really good at taking time to to sort of make a presence out of that event and let everyone know that we're there ISTs there we're we're meeting with speakers or we're learned something new about the industry and I'll pass that on so when I'm when I'm active enough with that stuff and taking you know being what so we're mindful enough to whip out my camera and take a quick shot then that plays very well I a big integrated marketing campaign I studied communications I know what that is I've yet to be able to to effectively just kind of keep one going all the time because I feel like I'm a bit of a one-man army I have been able to leverage the other sources of media that I contribute to so I'm a I don't know a published writer in some of the national trade magazines and I'm frequently asked for my opinion on pieces so I'll you know when they print that I'll use that media stuff to help to publish you know which drives you know definitely drives views of that material which hopefully reinforces IST out there or or myself maybe as a SME for the industry but it's not a it's surely not become a mover of business for IST you know per se so I don't take it too seriously you know I mean it's easy to be like a a legend in your own mind you know just because wow I put some stuff out and people liked it like you know I'm not a I'm I don't feel like a sort of an industry thought leader but I am a pursuer of knowledge in the industry thought-sharer you know I like to I like to share other things that I wow if I find it valuable I think other people may hopefully our customers may and kind of understand the way we approach doing doing security for them and things like that so that's you know that's a that's cool that you said that because I you know a lot of people come and they think that it's going to make them money being on social media but I think what I try to tell them a lot of people it can be if you have like the coolest service and you're the coolest cat you know what I mean and yeah right person touched you I talked about you you know it's really that sort of a gang sort of mentality that happens if you want to go viral and become really big using it but I using it to share sort of your business knowledge and your sort of industry knowledge to promote yourself I think is where you know the what becomes perception becomes reality you know for people and you know when you set yourself up like that as I am the industry leader look look at all this stuff out here that says here's my resume here's all the information you put it out there and then people trigger on that and they recognize it I think that's sort of the payoff in the end for this is sort of when you use social media that's right I have to I have to agree because especially so you know we take life safety very seriously which is what security is at the end of the day you know when I got when I really there wasn't much of a living in my background was in psychology and anthropology right and there's that's either teaching or writing and I end up going back to technology for a career I probably had at that time many many ways to go and when I discovered the electronic security industry and maybe it was left over from my time in the military but I really felt like you know here's a way to take technology and use it to protect people and to protect things and that was sort of the the basis when we first our ISTR tagline was like real security solutions today the teams years ago they voted that out and today it's like leading Hawaii to a safer place you know so we like to take that the high-level stuff that we've learned in our DOD spaces and take that that philosophy and that technology and then deliver it out into the community of Hawaii because the our neighbors our schools our churches our businesses all deserve the same level of protection that our military has you know and so they maybe all can't get there with one uh contract you know but they can build towards it and being able to help a customer build over time to continue to improve the security that they have for their their people on in their business and the assets that they need to protect to continue to operate you know you know hopefully profitably um is important to us and so that's our sort of the vision that our team has today and they're out there is just doing it every day you know I just get to talk about it that's that's super cool and that that's a perfect way to segue out of this episode keeping people safe it's you know it's how can you go wrong with that right uh I love it that's what we do I think that's interesting people don't really oftentimes when I think of security or perimeter you think of keeping people just out versus keeping people safe you know yeah there's people on the inside that need to be protected right sort of the flip side of that well Andrew thank you very much for being on the show I really appreciate it if somebody wanted a business out there wanted to talk to you about upgrading their security etc how do they do that integrate our istex.net istes.net look us up give us a call cool awesome thanks for being on that information will be in the description etc to this um all right man thank you very much hey Ian thanks a lot a lot


Oh, and welcome to SCP Unity, early access alpha, alpha version points, I'm sorry, 0.7.6. I played this for about 20 minutes just now, and not a single bit of it recorded. So now I'm going to start all over from scratch, although I did play on normal mode, so let's... How do we change that? Probably in general settings? No. Video settings. How do you change the difficulty? Don't see away. No, discard them. Save key. I guess maybe their it just is only normal mode, because it seems like... Yeah, I'm not seeing graphics level moderate. Sound effects. It's trying to run... Running screen capture software, this stuff, and more.   No, we're not going to do that one. I didn't get very far, I don't know. I'm seeing player status. I will say I died a lot to SCP-173, but... Yeah, sure, whatever. Lower friendly mode. Let's move this microphone into place. All right, loading complete, click to continue. Oh, what's happened? I feel like, oh man, that hurt. Oh boy, let's get up, oh man. You know, I wasn't expecting these kinds of graphics. They're a lot better than I thought they'd be. I need to move this back a little bit, so I don't have to lean in quite so much. I'll get it right. I've been streaming a lot on my Discord server, so... Trying to get used to the idea of streaming. I may even end up doing this as a... Okay, so... I don't know how much of this stuff changes. Probably not much. We'll see, though. Looks like somebody came in here and tried to get into the fire extinguisher. All right, so from what I understand, at five saves... You don't get a blinking ability, yeah. No, you can hit in five anytime. You don't get the blinking ability until you run into 173, and he's gonna be in here? Yeah, there he is. What's up, buddy? Man, that was almost not it. All right. Cool. Cool, cool, cool. You know, that doesn't do anything. All right, so now we have the blink... Before I died, like, every single time I ran into him, so... Not every single time. I actually didn't know how to run, so I could never quite get enough. Well, I mean, I probably could have even on a walking speed gotten enough distance between me and him. I just wasn't. So this is the same as it was last time.  What killed me, well, I should say, what killed me last time most of the time was SCV173. Somehow finding me, but I played for about 20 minutes. I'm looking at the clock right now to be like, I don't want to be spending too much time on this. Yeah, I played for about 20 minutes, and then the old man finally caught up to me and just straight up merked me. I was expected to take me into a pocket dimension, but no such luck. All right, I know what that is now. Didn't know what it was before. It's some sort of a creature that just doesn't seem to want to kill you, or maybe it does, I don't know, but it keeps appearing in my periphery or just appearing behind me and blocking me in. It wasn't any... I didn't see anything in there. I'm just trying to progress to where it was last time as well. Yeah, you'll find that, I mean, and maybe, maybe I'll prove you wrong immediately, but you'll find generally I don't startle very easily, so this could end up being pretty boring to watch if I don't make the commentary good enough. All right, where are we going? All the way around? All the way around. Ooh, let's actually check this out, because I didn't know what this was originally, but it's pretty cool looking. Here we get our music and our elevator. Oh, hey, I didn't know that was a thing. I'd like to go up, please. What are you saying? How'd I go up any further than this? All right, fine. But I am in a completely different section of the game now that I was not in before, so. Also, this is apparently some sort of a new logo. Not technically, I think it's supposed to be an old logo, but yeah. But yeah, grew some string of murders. It reaches it's end. Attention ARC site 48 personnel, please be aware they underground for prolonged period of time if you have severe consequences of both body and mind. Make sure to put in frequent check-ins to put in frequent check-ins, and to be like, make sure to have frequent check-ins with your appointed foundation physician or to make sure to attend your appointment. Something along those lines, that's not well phrased, but who cares, very small nitpick. And I spent an extra 30 seconds on it. Follow your exercise program and take the recommended elementary? Wait, if you do believe to be suffering, if you believe to be suffering from psychological issues stemming from isolation and confinement, please consult your superiors for psychological tests, sorry, screening. Oh, that's odd. You can barely not read this. I see the first word is probably A. Grew some strings of murder. Grew some string of, why are things censored from us? This is a public newspaper, strange. If you believed, if you believe yourself to be suffering from, yeah, that's what I should say. All right, now that I've finished critiquing the English of this, let's take a look around in this second level, I don't know. I want an ID card, you got one? Is the only, okay, cool. Reception desk with no key card, that makes sense. I feel like they're not even trying. I've got a bit of a cough, y'all have to forgive me. I mean, you don't have to forgive me, but I would appreciate it. Do not open, security services, service personnel only. All right, let's find the old man. I'm sure he's here somewhere. I guess I'm supposed to outrun him when he comes up. No, that's interesting. He gives a music cue, so we'll see. Is that a Roomba? This can't be good. It's a heater and a Roomba. All right, I got it, that's pretty cool. I mean, interesting at the very least. All right, what are we doing in here? Oh, that's a Tesla gate, fair enough. The Tesla gate killed you. All right, fine, I'm dead. I actually found these guys in the last playthrough, but I didn't have a key card to get them out. I wonder if they protect you from SCP-173, probably. If I was building a game like this, that's what I'd have them do. All right, fine. Following the disaster security event last August, the administration of Site-48 has decided to update the facility security protocols. Accordingly, it's been observed that some site personnel have been found on the premises where they're issued RFID security cards, therefore, the fellow staff have allowed them into restricted areas. Please note, this is mandatory for all Fendash note. As of all time in Fendash, you know, property, granting access to restricted area. This is a great, don't, don't, don't. In any case, it's a restricted area, it's a fellow that's not permitted and those in Fendash will be reprimanded. Personnel have lost this place or otherwise, non-position of security badges or expired validity. As an advisor to secure, I'm sorry, apply for replacements in a prescribed form in the prescribed form. Probably should have been the, as I was reading, I got lost because the words were not good words. Maybe I'm in the main security office. Okay, you don't see, well, let's see here, isn't it? Is it telling me that I can get a card in here? No, this door seems to be locked in as well, not open. All right, it's gonna be a way through there eventually. Probably once I can manage to get that other door opened up. Better save, because I'm gonna run into what's-his-face soon.  And it seems like this game keeps you from dying repeatedly. Space Eaters is a weirdly designed site, but somewhat realistic in my humble opinion. I mean, it is like this, it's weirdly designed, but also like putting up Space Eaters in an underground thing like that. Staff offices sub level one, we're in sub level one. We want to go to, can't go in there at all. Let's get our stamina back. That a, is that an aquarium over there? I got it, an actual aquarium, boy, I tell you what. Can't get in there at all. How are these fishies doing? Hello, fishies. My dad likes to, or liked, had fishes for a long time. There's just, you know, it's one of those things like they're just disappointing over not a long enough period of time. I guess it's probably pretty chilly down here. All right, so this is the security office. I guess we really only have one other place to go. And that's archival storage and staff offices. Maybe somebody left a card. Hello. It's passed by someone left a card on their office table or door or something. All right, underground facilities. Okay, that's archivals. There he is. Hey, didn't get me the musical cue this time. Interesting, interesting. So that did do some damage. Oh, hey. Cool, cool, cool, cool. Hello, homie. Oh, that just trapped me there. Not fair enough. I'm sorry, would you like my heart? It's my heart. It's all right. Oh, I forgot to turn my, this whole time. I recorded a whole session, right? God damn it, I'm the least professional person ever.   You've been watching me in the dark this entire time. As if it's not bad enough. I mean, this game's, it's got some dark areas and I'll tell you that, but so far actually it's not so bad, not so bad at all. Threat level variable. Threat level midnight. All right, well, is Duder gonna come back? I mean, does he? So one thing I noticed about the other, let's see if I got about here is when he, yeah, I guess not. So last time around, oh, he does. All right, fair enough. All right, it seems like backing up is the best thing to do because if you keep your eye on him, hey, that's mine. I mean, what am I supposed to do here? What's the, what's the call? What's the, to just keep running until he leaves me alone? All right. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm. Well, this isn't gonna work. And I'm stepping into goop.  Hey, buddy.  Really? I have bugged you out? Man, this is pretty cool. I mean, you're gonna snap my neck eventually anyway, but right now I'm cool. What's that noise? There he is. I was inside of him for a moment. The way I see this game is like, once that guy kills you, he leaves you alone for a little while, it seems like. So, I got him so tempted. I'm not gonna, but I'm so tempted to restart the recording just because I forgot to leave the light on because I'm terrible at my job. All right, where's the, what you call it? Let's take a look around, I guess. Cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo. T-knowledge? You couldn't come up with a better name than that. I get these are probably Patreon rewards, but there we go, see? Actual name. Doesn't seem to have, nope, that's just a light. Thought maybe it had something I could use. Dan-L, see? It's still useful. Doesn't seem like a, oh, that's not working apparently. Only thing that works in here are the lights. I want a keycard. Give unto me a keycard. Any keycard will do. Tristan Hallmark. Well, whatever happened in here is, doesn't seem like it was a good thing. Tyshan Hallmark. Was there multiple senior containment specialists? Was there multiple people? No, it's the same person. I must have, did I pronounce it wrong when I first went in there? Tiger Wildheart. No cards whatsoever. This is entirely for the patrons, cause that's cool and all, but I'm just like, Project Manager Martin. You would think this fella. There's some sort of axe up there. I can't quite tell because I can't jump apparently. Let's see, is there a button for jumping? You can zoom in. All right, fine. Anyway, doesn't look like there's anything of value up here. I guess, I, wait, did I go in here already? Yeah. Did I mention in either this or the last one that I have a bit of a cough? This is a very nice little area they got going on here. But who keeps up all this stuff? I don't know, I guess, so I guess the only way to keep yourself safe from the old man is to keep running from him. Do I hear him again? I hear him again. Maybe? Sounds like it. I was at, I bet that's an anti-frustration feature. The idea is that if you die to a thing, he goes away on the reload.  All right, archival storage it is.  Well, I should say there's no, honestly, the bad design of the, this is the same as before, yeah. These look all exactly the same, which is a problem. Is this some sort of a gym? I think it is. Yeah, it's a gym. You know what, kind of respect the world building here. I mean, it looks like it's a gym. I mean, these are definitely rest areas. I'll have a chessboard, I mean, I would just assume that there's exercise over there. But I don't know. Archival storage. Under construction does not work. Oh, is this an elevator? It is. All right, I'm already up pretty high, but let's keep going up. We know we're underground, and this is probably the worst idea too, because, okay, fine, 93 is. Probably should. Hello, how you doing? Let's back up here into this corner, figure out what's going on. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday. Day to you. Happy birthday. Ding, ding, ding. Did you always feel this old? Good birthday. Day to you. So, oh wait, here we go. Let's hum along with the monkey. And that's how we died. Waiting for the other shooter drop. Let's just eat this random candy we picked up. Oh, wait, really? All right, fair enough. Where's our, oh, it'll come eventually. Hey, that's not weird.  I'm down with the sickness. Nothing of interest in here either. Man, for a game that's, I mean, been around for a little while now, it's just not a lot to do. Hey, you got anything? You got a gun, can I steal your gun? I'd like to steal your gun, please. 330. Oh, this is the anomalous ducks, right? Oh, wait, no, this is the, take a candy, leave a candy, right? Let's take two. Yeah, this is that game. This is that one. Oh, man. Okay, let's codex it up. Expand document. Considering recent incidents, SCP-33, level two clearance of regard for access to the worst contents, all direct experimentation with SCP-33O is to be conducted using Class D personnel with no genetic history or diabetes, no more than two samples that are to be removed from SCP-33O at one time, except during exposure testing, SCP-33O, which would be a small round stainless steel bowl filled with variable amount of individually wrapped cases of candy. Take to the side of the bowl is a handwritten note reading. Take no more than two, please. Attempts to remove the note have been met with failure, as have been attempts to hide or obscure it. Testers have been noted finding it impossible to avoid reading the note, and those who approach it from an opposite angle are aware that it's of this request. When a quantity of candy greater than two pieces is removed, regardless of the offender, it certainly has both hands severed at the wrist by no method. Tests involving remote manipulation by D-class personnel, despite no direct contact. Inspection of the incision reveals that the cut is made at a molecular level with no tool marks or identifying factors. As we know that the third piece must be removed within a certain time frame after 24 hours, the count resets and additional candy can be removed. Since Dr. Omar is unable to control his appetite during his mood swings, SCP-333, sorry, 33-0, we're temporarily able to secure storage. Fair enough. All right, well. Oh no, no, not that. Wait, wait, I'm trying to open my inventory. Come on. My hands. You know, I feel like maybe that was a bit of an overreaction. I'm just saying. Am I bleeding to death? I'm bleeding to death. I wanted to open my inventory and try and eat some of that candy. Sweet, sweet candy. We're not done with this game. Not by a long shot. No, it did it again. Oh man, who could have expected that to happen? I went to walk. I went to leave, mother. I only wanted to eat the candy. It'd be funny if this guy didn't have, that was missing two hands. I'm just saying. I'm not telling you how to make a game or do anything, but I'm telling you it would be funny if the MTF was missing hands. Just saying. If you're gonna put him there. All right, so it keeps track past save games because I took one before and one after and it killed me, so. I don't know what these do. I got candy. Oh, hello. All right. You cannot save it this time. Well, that's not a good sign. That's a sign that something bad is about to happen. Let's go down, for God's sake. So this was entirely, so nothing about this entire like little side adventure was valuable. I mean, I got some candy. I guess you could say I got some candy. Hey, buddy. Let's continue onward. Onward, end upward. End onward. I mean, I don't know. I guess I've just gotta outrun him. Is he gonna appear again right here? No, but he's gonna appear right here, which is a problem.  I mean, I was going this way anyway, right? Yeah, roughly.  I guess I gotta go back this way. All right. You're starting to annoy me. Do-de-de-de-de-de-de-do-do. So was that it? That's nothing else to do here, except for getting that candy. All right, well, this is not the way out. Let's find our way. Making my way, making my way into the ground.   Oh boy. I'm not interested. I've been here before. Haven't completely and fully explored it, but I've been here before. Okay, apparently there's no, oh, hi, buddy. That doesn't look like that. That looks like this worked out really poorly for you. Like, I'm not saying that you're bad at your job or anything, but I'm pretty sure that red stuff's supposed to be on the inside. Oh, that's a good sign. Oh good, toxic waste. Expansion zone, auxiliary containment, packing and logistics. Oh, for God's sakes. What now? I feel like I've almost explored everything that I can reach so far. I have not. This is new. Should've probably closed, oh, that's a red mist. Not a fan of that, not a fan of that at all. Maybe I'll just do it anyway. Who cares? I mean, mysterious red mist. What's the worst that could happen? Doo-dee-dee-doo, here we come. Motherfucker. Walking down the street, I get the funniest looks from everyone we meet. Hey, hey, I am terrified.   I think I need a hat. Oh, I'd like to open the door. What's up, homies? Absolutely nothing of value. Okay, cool, cool, cool, cool.  There's nothing about this that sits well with me. I'm sure it'll be fine. If I could jump, if I could only jump, let's go down the stairway. Let's go deeper into the earth. We are in very narrow hallways. So of course, 553, no idea what that is. Oh, that's the actual SE, okay. All right, I see you. I see you, boo. Another duck, hello, duck. Oh yeah, what's going on here? Hey, butterflies.  All right, no, I get it. I get it, yeah. No cool, I mean, yeah. This is on me, really. Let's be honest, this is definitely on me. Yeah, strong hypo, I don't know what this does, but ooh, drugs. Kinda wanna go back down there though.  What else is there? That's it. Is that all of the things it's literally at?  Kinda how deadly a butterfly is.   Come, my lady, come, my pretty baby, you make my leg shake, you make me very dead. All right, well, that was a bust. No thank you, deadly butterflies. I have other things to do. No, so there's no further down. This was, again, I mean, the hypo was nice. I'm probably gonna save it for later. But yeah, I guess this is where we are right now. Oh my God.  Oh God.  No, that's the core room. Okay, so that would take me back. It's this way. All right, oh my God. Still. All right, one's probably the sub thing. Let's see. We have two things to explore here and then we'll call it quits. I mean, yeah, assuming do do do. Oh, that's not a good sound. Oh, that's definitely, oh, that's fantastic. Hey, buddy. Oh, you're just like appearing now. Okay, cool, cool. You know what, go ahead. I wanna explore this room and I can't do it with you bothering me. Whenever I save it, did I say, I think I saved it with the guy active, so. Hmm, I guess this just straight up, yeah. There's only one way to find out. Touch it again. I guess I could wait and see if he's activated. I think he's just being activated because I'm walking up to that thing. Oh, hey, what's this? Interesting, interesting. So if I just stay still, let's see if he responds if I stay still. Maybe I just quick save at the wrong time. Hey, buddy. Unacceptable. Do do do, do do do do do. Oh, okay. Fine, be that way and see if I care. Do do do do do do do. Look, I don't want you to take this the wrong way. Ah, of course. Don't want you to take this the wrong way. It's not you, it's me. It's actually both of us, but you know. At no point did I consider, did I quick save, did I? Let's, let's figure something else out. Okay, so he spawns here. Let's, oh, you cannot save at this time. Interesting, interesting. I don't know why he's killed me. That's the end of me. All right, well, I think 173 might be deactivated since it killed me already. We will find out. Oh, I'm tired, okay. I don't even know what SCP that was. You cannot save it this time. Okay, well, at least it solves that question. Oh, wait, am I stuck? Why am I stuck in? Oh, of course. Man, he just keeps on appearing. All right, fair enough. Am I too injured to run now? I think I am. All right, well, that was a bad idea, apparently. I don't know what SCP 207 does for you, but apparently it killed me. Let's heal up as best we can, I suppose. I can't run no more, though. Which kind of makes things a bit difficult. Oh, okay, now I'm healed up. Packaging and logistic storage. This is the right way. I don't know what that candy is, but it seems to have done something for me. Something's here, but it seems to be getting slightly less anti-frustrating. Let's see if we can get out of here at the very least. Cue is what I asked, yeah. I mean, I could look in here, but there's probably absolutely nothing all over again. This has always been empty.  Scary? I mean, I guess it would be scary for people. It's the old man back. Sounded like the old man's back. No, it was that guy. Okay, fair enough. So none of this mattered. I mean, I did pick up SCP-500, I guess. That's something. Probably gotta run into the old man before I get out of here again, though. I'm a bit better off now than I was before, but only marginally so. Uh-oh. Is some of the things that I have taken causing me to have problems? I saw some yellow, maybe, around the edges of my vision. No, let's just circle around, make sure we didn't miss anything, which I'm not thinking we did. Can't go in there for anything. I'm pretty sure this is where we came in, right? Tried this already, Machine Hallway Secure Storage. Did we do this? No, it says New Cluster. I feel like we've already played enough of this game for now. Who's there? Oh no. I think someone's coming to get me. They're coming to get you. They're coming to get you, Bobra. Five internet, well, you know, I'll say five internet points for anyone who knows where that's from. It's not a lot of points because it's not a very hard thing to figure out, especially in assuming a community full of horror fans. Have I been here before? No, I don't think so. But this is probably storyline-ish, so expect something to come along to.  Ooh, bonbons. I don't remember what the bonbons do.  Oh, for God's sake. All right, you know what? I think we're done for the day. I think we're done. All right, thank you very much for watching. If you enjoyed this video, you'd like to see more Let's Plays like this because I may play this a little bit more. Let's move our microphone back. If you'd like to see more Let's Plays like this, let me know in the comments down below. 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So for the Marine Corps mission, we are amphibious by nature, and this is just going back to those roots of amphibious training. So the purpose of the course is to get the students to the baselines of nautical navigation, small boat manipulation, surpasses, along sides. That way they get the whole baseline to be able to operate the combat rubber reconnaissance craft. This training is important because it bolsters the capabilities of the Marine Corps as a whole. Seeing these guys from day one, not really knowing anything about boats, because not many Marines know what the Zodiacs are. So the graduation day when they come here, they know how to operate the boats, they know how to build the boats, they know how to give proper commands. And it's just a building step for the Marine Corps and for the Marines that we have here. This helps UnicoHusien because you have to be one cohesive unit while you're operating the Zodiac. Even though the coxswain is the overall commander, without the rest of his crew, you wouldn't be successful.


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As our new mascot embarks on his journey to recruit training aboard Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, he has finally been given a name worth remembering. A name that holds great honor not only to his family, but to the Marine Corps. Sergeant Johnny Ray Mani, Manuelito Sr. was born on October 20, 1920 in California. He enlisted into the Marine Corps and started basic training here at MCRD San Diego in 1942. Sergeant Manuelito became one of the 29 original Navajo Code Talkers who played a significant role in World War II. They transmitted secret tactical messages over field radios and telephones using their native language. Sergeant Manuelito had an honorable career in the Marine Corps. He participated in the capture of Iwo Jima and the occupation of Japan with the 5th Marine Division, achieved the rank of Sergeant, and was awarded the American Campaign Medal, Asian Campaign Medal, and the World War II Victory Medal. Amongst other Marines, Sergeant Manuelito made a difference in our history with his selfless actions that paved the way for Marines who served today. We recognize Sergeant Manuelito's noble service by naming our new base mascot, Mani. Through Mani, Sergeant Manuelito's legacy will carry on.