Hey, this is Brett, and this, 2010 Chevrolet Camaro 2SS Coupe is stock number 13967Z. I am here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, you're new, and use sports car headquarters this, 2010 Chevrolet Camaro has the 6.2L V8 gas engine, and when it's paired up with the 6 speed manual transmission, it puts out 426 horsepower. This car has been fully safety and inspected by our service shop, per the state of Wisconsin inspection process. It has a fresh oil and filter change, all the fluid tab been checked and topped off, and this car is 100% ready to go. I'm going to go all the way around in this video, inside started up, take a look under the hood, take a look inside the trunk, and just give you the most accurate representation that I can of the vehicle. Silver Ice Metallic is the color, I shoot all my videos in 4K, and if you like the video you can subscribe to my YouTube channel, click the bell notifications, get updates on the videos I do each and every day, as well as having access to one of the largest catalogs of vehicle and sports car walk-arounds on YouTube. This one comes with the 20 inch polished aluminum wheels, they're in pretty nice shape for 2010, comes with the Brembo brakes, and this one has hand-cook, Ventus, 245-45 ZR20 tires on it, and got some decent tread on the front here, I would say probably about 50 to 60% of the tread left on those tires. Front fender is in nice condition, I didn't see any major dents or dings on there. You do get the HID headlamps, the LED running lights on this one, and the factory fog lights. Front bumper and lower valance here are in excellent shape, I didn't see any scuffs, scrapes, dents, cracks, it's never been drilled into, looks really good. The hood is in nice shape, the low gloss stripes are in nice condition as well, I didn't see any major damage to those. The hood, no major dents or dings on there, and the passenger side front fender is in excellent shape as well. Passenger side front wheel, absolutely perfect, no scuffs or scrapes on there. Silver ice metallic's got a lot of metal flake in it, really good looking color, one of my favorite silvers. And as you go down this side of this 2010 Chevy Camaro, just take note of how clean that body is, how reflective and mirror like that paint is. I take these HD videos, so if you're far away or even if you're close by and you just cannot make the trip down, but you're still interested in purchasing the car, you can see the car, hear the car, and have confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at before you even get here. So when you do get here, there's absolutely no surprises and you can make a smart and informed buying decision from wherever you're at. And if this video helps you make that buying decision, let your salesman know that you saw the video, that it was helpful, and that Brett sent you. Back wheel is in excellent shape as well, and the back tires on this one are brand new. We put those on in our safety inspection, so that's what a brand new hand-cook tire looks like. I have another body in really nice shape, and this one has a clean title history, clean car facts. I think it's been owned in Colorado and maybe Montana and Wisconsin recently. Coming around the back, rear bumper is in great shape, no dents, stings, scuffs, or scrapes in there. You do get the chrome-tipped exhaust. Trunk lid is in really nice condition as well inside the trunk. Nice storage area. This is where your RPO codes are on this body-style Camaro. Make sure this one's got all the options you're looking for, and those shocks are doing a nice job holding that trunk lid up, and the trunk lid itself. Really nice shape, and those stripes are in nice condition as well. Going down the driver's side, just as clean as that passenger's side, no major dents, stings, scuffs, or scrapes on here. And for full disclosure, this back wheel just as nice as the rest, and that tire is brand new as well. Down the rest of this side of the car, door looks really good. Didn't see any major dents on there. You do get the heated power mirrors.  Both these seats are heated. No rips or tears on there. The bolster looks really good. Comes with weather tech floor mats, auto headlamps, tilt telescopic steering wheel, power windows lock, some mirrors, Boston premium sound, and these side door panels have a little bit of metal flake in them, so that's pretty cool. And that's on the dash as well. That goes across onto the passenger side door. The back seats are just as clean as the front seats. I do like that gray and black color combo. Those seats do fold down for extra storage, and you get the latch child safety system back there. If you want to try and get a car seat back there, that's definitely up to you. We'll hop inside, check out the miles, the radio, and everything that this car has to offer on the interior. You can see that this one has 22,523 miles on it. Instrument cluster is very nice and clean. Comes with the leather wrapped steering wheel, Bluetooth and audio controls on the right, cruise controls on the left. There's your information center control right there. This one does have the CD player, AM, FM, and Sirius XM radio capabilities. You get your heated seats and climate controls right there. Down here is your oil pressure, oil temp, volts, and trans temp gauges, and your stability control. The six speed manual transmission shifter is in nice shape. Leather looks good on there, and the passenger side weather tech format and seat are in excellent condition as well. The headliner is in really nice condition too. Didn't see any rips or tears on there. Up here you get your home link buttons for your garage door security systems and lighting systems and map lights on star and SLS buttons. And we'll start it up and take a look under the hood. Starts right up. No check engine lights or anything like that. Also going to turn on all the lights in the front. I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today and hopefully from this HD video. You've been able to verify the quality options and of course cleanliness of this car all the way around inside and out. There are those HID headlamps and the LED running lights. They are super bright. They're working nicely. And under the hood we have the 6.2 liter V8 gas engine when paired up with the manual transmission, 426 horsepower. Once again this car has been fully safe and inspected by our service shop. Has a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off. The shock is doing a nice job pulling that hood up. And this car is 100% ready to go. Brand new rear tires. There's the emission sticker. And I would highly recommend this car from a quality and condition standpoint. I think whoever's going to get it is going to be very happy considering this is a 13 year old car already. It's in really nice shape. And to see more pictures of this car or one of our other 550 new and used cars, trucks, SUVs, minivans, wranglers, you name it, we got it. Go to that website right there. Camaros, challengers, chargers, Corvettes, Mustangs. We got them all. Go to that website, summitauto.com. Full pictures and descriptions of every single vehicle all at summitauto.com. And if you'd like to check out more HD videos you can go to youtube.com slash summitauto. 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I've never liked how macOS minimizes application windows to the dock as another icon, right? You click the little yellow thing and it minimizes down and it adds that window to the dock. So system settings, desktop and dock, and then the settings name is minimize windows into application icon. And when you turn that on, if you hit the little minimize thing, it you'll see the window minimize or sort of shrink down into its application icon, you no longer get a separate icon for that window to bring that window back. But if you like it, it keeps your dock more efficient. It keeps your dock cleaner, whether it's more efficient or not depends on your workflow cleaner. Yeah. Yeah.   Like there's no visual indication of that. Okay. So like as soon as I did this, I had the same reaction you did. I was like, oh, this is amazing. I want this. And then I was like, well, but do I like how much does this bother me? I mean, I get that we all have our own preferences and that's sure that's the wonderful part of this. But yeah, so, you know, test it. See if it works for you. Great.  It's your computer. You do what you want. It's amazing.


Hey friends Happy birthday to me. Happy birthday to me because it's my birthday and it's also The premiere of Star Wars rise of the Skywalker. So as a little birthday present I decided to get myself a ticket for opening night It was last minute. So they had one ticket left and I bought it And it is literally the first row facing the screen, but I don't care as long as I get to see it Let's go do this and in all fashion whenever I visit Disney Springs I always park at the tip of the top and they are ready for Star Wars. Look at this entrance How cool is that? They have all the different posters and then this amazing walkway They also have a nifty little photo opportunity with some characters But I don't know if those characters are for here or if they are just coming to see the movie And Disney is actually selling lightsabers right outside the movie theater now. That's a good marketing strategy Inside we have another very cool photo opportunity Look at how awesome now if this guy moved I would be scared so bad right now And I know that they actually had real characters from the parks actually here earlier. So, huh And of course if we're watching a movie we're watching it in Dolby cinema and look at this How awesome I'm like walking in right now our movie doesn't start for another hour and a half I Just wanted to scope out the situation a little bit My movie time is not till 10 o'clock So I have a couple minutes before I actually have to get to the theater So decided to come and hang out at Disney Springs a little bit and then maybe check out the hangar bar Because I hear they have an amazing Christmas overlay I'm super happy that I actually wore my sweater today because it is a chilly night Orlando It's got to be at least like 40 or 50 degrees. Oh They actually have a little frozen photo opportunity up on top of the planner right here. Huh? Oh Boy, we got a spring's performance happening right here, too. And what a crowd Oh Maybe after I get back from the hangar bar, I'll stop to pizza ponte and get myself a $9 slice of pizza It is a very good pizza. I don't know if it's exactly $9, but it's probably pretty expensive You're Disney Springs, but pizza is one of my favorite foods and since it's my birthday Maybe I'll get myself a slice. We got still Gatsby walkers out here And this is what I was talking about. I seen pictures about it and I was really excited to come check it out So here I am Look at how festive that sign is and look they have a little outdoor seating with some nice Furnaces or heat lamps But I want to go where the people are because I feel like it's cold outside and the people are inside And look at it in here. So very festive I like it. Nothing like drinking alcohol with pretty lights They did a great job decorating in here. I like it a lot Look at everything is decorated with pretty lights and cool little characters Candy Canes and ribbons Even the outdoor patio has a nice little garland wrapping all the way around. Oh, and it's actually pretty warm out here Most got the heat blasting here too And they even have a special menu for some libations here Jocks holiday nog white Christmas margarita Cinnamon Bells and Santa hat mojito all look pretty good. Oh and a jack Frost Not only do they have a Christmas alcohol menu, but they also have Christmas inspired dishes drum or boy braised lamb Jingle Bell Pops Wow, I like this a lot and also they have club Obi-Wan chicken wings Huh, how nifty is that? And they're playing some classic Christmas music along with this pretty fancy ice machine How awesome is that you ever see the inside of an ice machine? Look at that Pretty crazy, and it should go off soon. I don't know when it does but I want to catch it on video If you're not familiar with the hanger bar, you should know that they have a specialty drink here called Reggie's revenge And it's actually held and that container right there. Look at how pretty it is And they actually added a little Christmas decoration to Reggie's little tank there Definitely a very cool place to come and hang out if you're looking for a nice festive place to have a drink before a movie or just hang on at Disney Springs and Take a look at that that boat is actually Reggie's boat Let's make our way back to pizza ponte and take a look at these slices and see how much they are I don't care how much they are. I'm probably gonna get one. I'm pretty hungry, but I still am a little fascinated It is very busy in here.  I like it It's not that bad it's six dollars for a slice of pepperoni I think the most expensive slices seven bucks. Oh seven fifty still I guess that's not bad Like I said, it's Disney prices And they are not small slices. Look at all of this. This is only one side So there's three slices of pizza right there. Look at that. They look so delicious and we still have a long way to go. Oh Yeah sausage and peppers Sandrino, I don't even know how to say that right, but I think I'm gonna get a big Roman. Oh Yeah, look at that Right here, that's what I'm going for one of those big Romans, but I want to add pepperoni to it Looks like they're out of the pepperoni. So I'm just gonna stick with what they got Look at that That's a big slice of pizza I like it Up pepperoni just came out. Look at that. They cut it with scissors You ever see that before? Oh Another one That's for him and that is for me. Thank you So I said I was gonna get a pepperoni And they just left this one on here, so I'm gonna get them both I guess I Feel like I'm on an episode of man-versed food right now Pizza for slice for size. I don't want that cheese falling off, but it's going in Some good pizza How to switch hands, this is my pizza eating hands here. Look at that. I know how to get the good Ben Oh, yeah, just like that One thing I can really appreciate is usually when you take a bite out of a pizza The grease will come out this way but not on this pizza like it is not greasy that bad It's actually really really wet with sauce. I like it a lot Well, I did a good job I'm not gonna eat the crust because I don't know if I'm gonna finish all this and if I'm not gonna finish all of it I want to make sure I'm eating the good parts. I want to waste the pizza part if anything I'm gonna waste the crust This one just came out of the oven and look at that not even a fold. I like it The pepperoni. Oh, yeah, it's way better only because you get a little bit of a spice and a kick But I like that I like it a lot Yep, I can't finish it so I'm gonna have to let that crust go Yeah, yeah, you want the crust? That was really really good pizza But you know what it kind of made me laugh because I feel like one day I think this would be hysterical I go out to a pizza place. I get myself a pie I eat everything on the pizza except for the crust and then when the server comes over I'm gonna be like, can I have a to-go box to take the rest home and I want to see what they look and think They're a largest slice of pizza at Disney Springs. I didn't even know you can get pizza at Disney Springs other than here Let's make our way back down to AMC Because it's almost time for the movie and I want to see if there's a possibility I can get a different seat now I heard this myth that when a theater fills up that they actually have seats that are still available But they just don't sell them in case of like oversell So I want to see if I can find at least something better than the front row Ooh, we got some more street performers Nicholas Marks Now it is time for movie time and look at everyone all decked out in their Star Wars gear with their lightsabers I feel under-addressed here Look at that. They even have a little projection Star Wars the rise of the Skywalker Before we actually head into the theater. I wanted to take a look and see how much the pizza was here Because you know I was talking about the actual Pizza look at this stone-fired pizza $16, but you get a drink with it. I lucked out even going to pizza ponte So guys guess what on my way in I stopped to the front and said hey, you know I bought the ticket was only ticket left and it was in the front row Do you have any other seats open and they did it is five minutes until the show actually starts And I went from literally a 12 which is the front row to C3. I went back threes rows I'm very happy about that Let's get in there now, and I'm gonna show you where my seat was and where it is now I love how you're walking through here and everything gets quiet So now I'm C3 So I was in the front row, but now I'm in the third row a little bit of a improvement I like it now that we know where the seat is I gotta go back outside because I have to go pee pee and You know it's gonna be like a three-hour movie. I don't want to leave in the middle of it Peepie check done, and now I gotta get a drink movie starts in two minutes No, but lights, so I got a big blue moon and a big blue moon All right guys the movie is starting like right now, so I'll let you know how it was spoiler-free when I get out The couple hours later the movie is done. I loved it I thought it was a great movie There's not much I could tell you without spoiling anything, but it was very nifty I like what they did and that's that I mean I really enjoyed it It was a great way to celebrate my birthday, but now the night is over. It's no longer my birthday Thank you to everyone who wished me happy birthday whether it be Instagram Facebook YouTube Text message email anything. I appreciate it every single one of them So love the life you live. Let's see you next time. Bye


His name was Ray Wilson. He was a, he ended up retiring after 20 plus year career in the Army as a CW-4. An inspirational example of someone who overcame a lot of adversity to realize his goals. So he grew up in, you know, he was born right after World War II, came of age during the civil rights era and was born in the poverty. And so there's a lot of things that were stacked against him from the beginning and he just had a fantastic character, great attitude, overcame it all, was able to become a pilot in the Army when that was not something that was really open a lot to someone like Ray. So we went up to Minneapolis and just before a great big storm came in and had a good time, we met him in a local hotel there. So we, you know, ran out of conference room and had him come in and had a great two days just talking with him about, about what he did and what he did for the Army and for the men in uniform period.  He grew up without a lot of heroes in aviation that looked like him. And that, I have to be aware of that, where I'm going, you know, what message am I sending as a commander in my awards program, who gets awarded in the plaques that are on the wall, the heroes that are on the wall, that resonated with me.


This is stock number 963B. We are here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. You're new and used SUV headquarters. Today we are checking out this super clean 2016 GMC Yukon Denali. This vehicle has the 6.2 liter V8 motor and from this HD video you will be able to tell just how clean this vehicle is all the way around. This one has been fully safety to end inspected per our state of Wisconsin inspection process and has a fresh oil and filter change. We shoot all of our videos in 1080p, so if you have HD capabilities on your computer tablet or smartphone device turn them on right now because it is like you're right here looking at the vehicle with me and definitely your best way to check out the vehicle before seeing it in person. If you want to check out more pictures in the upper right hand part of the screen as a link to our website click that to check out all the photos there. Bridgestone Duler 28545 R22 tires with right around 50 to 60 percent of the tread left on them comes with the 22 inch painted alloy rims with the chrome pockets. Didn't see any dents or dings on that fender. Has the HID headlamps, the LED running lights, the factory fog lights, the front bumper parking sensors, chrome trimmed grille, the hood is an excellent condition. I didn't see any dents or dings on that. Passenger side fender is in excellent shape as well. No dents or dings there. Passenger side rim is in excellent shape too. No scuffs or scrapes on that. And as you go down this side of the vehicle you can see just how clean the body is, how reflective and mirror-like that paint is. We take these HD videos so if you are far away or even if you're close by and just can't make the trip down you can still see the vehicle, hear the vehicle, and have confidence in what you're looking at before you even get here. So that when you do get here there's absolutely no surprises. Very clean down this side. In fact, we offer a Summit Auto Fastpass option in the upper right hand part of your screen where you can apply for financing.  So that when you get here you're all ready to go. Back tires have just as much tread as the front tires. Didn't see any scuffs or scrapes on that rim. And as we come around to the back of the vehicle, rear bumper is in pretty nice shape. It does have the towing package which includes that receiver hitch and seven pin wiring. It has a four pin adapter on it right now, but it does have that seven pin wiring. The rear gate is in excellent shape. That is a power gate. Also has flipper glass. So that opens up like so. We do have the cover for the receiver hitch. Has the power fold down seats. So you just press these down like that. Watch how fast these things go down.  Really sweet. How that works? Let's get this gate down. You just press this button. And that'll close like so. Down this side, just as clean as that passenger side, it does have the capitalist fuel fill which is a really nice feature. We want to make sure you get the most accurate representation possible so that when you get here there's absolutely no surprises. And for full disclosure, this back rim is in pretty nice shape. Maybe one little scuff on the bottom there, but nothing too bad. And down the rest of this side of the vehicle, very very clean. It does have the power fold-in mirrors with the built-in directional signals and blind spot indicators.  There are no rips. There are no tears on the seats. You get the Denali stitched into the back rest, back headrest. Factory all-weather floor mats throughout. Got a lot of stuff here. So auto headlamps, turned-out four-wheel drive, including the auto feature. You have your heads-up display.  You can turn those off and on. Down here, we have your memory driver seats, your Bose sound system, logo, power windows, power locks, power mirrors, and the power fold-in mirrors feature. Also power tilt and telescopic steering wheel. And as we hop inside you can see that this Yukon only has 15,487 miles. You get the digital instrument cluster right there. You get the heated leather-wrapped steering wheel. Pretty nice condition. Bluetooth and information center controls on the right. You have your heated steering wheel controls and forward collision warning controls on the left as well as your cruise controls. This one, I believe, has the... You can tell which transmission has in here by... So it has the eight-speed automatic transmission with the optional tap shift. This one has the GMC and tele-link system with the factory navigation. This is also where your backup camera shows up. There's also a little storage bin behind there with a USB for charging if you wanted to hide your cell phone or a tablet in there or something. And then that closes like so. This radio also has AMFM and Sirius XM radio capabilities. And it does have the projection, which means that you can do Android Auto and Apple CarPlay projecting to the screen.  Down here you have your heated and cooled seat buttons and all your other climate controls right there as well. This one does have the factory remote start on it as well. And the passenger seat and floor mat are in excellent shape too. No rips or tears on that. This vehicle has never been smoked in. It does have the power sunroof. Headliners nice and clean.  And then you do get on-star capabilities in that rear view mirror. Finally, it does have the wireless cell phone charge pad. And we'll take a quick look at the back seats and then we will check out under the hood. The back seats are heated as well. They are the quads. So you get the two captain's chairs in the second row. They do have the latch child safety system for any child car seats you may have. Factory all-weather floor mat back here. Carpetting is in really nice shape as well. That seat is in nice shape too. No rips or tears. And it does have the factory Blu-ray DVD player. You do get a power point back here. I believe that's a 110 volt, 150 watt plug-in. Your heated seat buttons and your rear air controls as well as audio visual hookups, a USB and an SD card hookup as well. Third row seats are in really nice shape too. No rips or tears back there and very, very clean. We'll take a quick look under the hood. I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today and hopefully from this HD video you will have been able to tell just how clean this Yukon is all the way around inside and out. Under the hood we have the 6.2 liter V8 motor. Engine bay is very clean, runs very smooth. This vehicle has been fully safe and inspected by our service shop, has a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off per our state of Wisconsin inspection requirements. And this one is 100% ready to go. To see more pictures of this GMC Yukon or one of our other 450 new and used cars, trucks, SUVs, minivans, Wranglers, half-tons, three-quarter-tons, one-tons, you name it, we got it. Go to our website www.SummitAuto.com Full pictures and descriptions of every single vehicle from two locations all at SummitAuto.com And if you'd like to check out more HD videos, you can go to youtube.com slash Summit Auto. Remember to like, subscribe, and share on this video and all the videos that you see there. In fact, in a second you will see a link to subscribe to our YouTube channel on your left. A link to more used inventory videos like this one on your right if you have not been to our website on the bottom. A link to this vehicle on our website. 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So what was the story of an 85 grand? Literally I was doing deals with this man every single day literally for about four weeks. We was What kind of deals just selling phones like legit legit a lot deals I was getting a good deals for phones and I was selling to him for a good price And I was nicking in my strength and literally every day £30,000 or £35,000 deals come in each way and that was every day every single day for about four weeks And he'd come five grand short every day Bearing in mind he would pay it the next day, but the next day you'd be five or four or three grand short So I'm always chasing him and why he's have to go back to him because I ring him in the morning Go you're gonna clear that there and he goes. Yeah, what you got today? And I tell him what I've got today And you go yeah, I'll put it on top of the money for today And then when I go and get the money and give him the iPhones He's worker go. Oh, well, I've only got I found four grand short But that went on for four weeks and on the last time I just thought you know what he's taking that pierced this fella I Had two literally suitcases that you've obviously seen in the pictures I won in the boot and one in the car in the boot. I had the iPhones in the front in the car I had the some probably poor old woman's garden wall and He rung me when he's driver come all the way down from Liverpool and he said oh, this is I've got 95 grand there. I'll give you do I'll transfer the rest that was meant to be under 20 25 grand there. I'll transfer the rest on Friday. I Said well, he said yeah, I'll transfer you the route. I've got 95 grand here cash I transferred the rest on Friday. I said, bro, you're taking the piss, bro Like every day you are gonna be Scottish money Irish money You're not coming. It's not one deal been proper smooth and I thought no problem I've got a bag out of back like in the bricks. I said on your way me have a good day That was literally it. I said he went yeah, I've got a long journey back to Liverpool. I said, yeah When did you get the phone call? In the morning about 10 o'clock morning What was that like? Um, so I've got a phone call saying everything sweet like There's no problems Then I got another phone call saying oh, you've done him. I said, yeah Don't say you've done him. Don't say you've done it. I said for why I'm not gonna I'm not cow I'm not gonna why yeah But he said it on the phone call before that you didn't do him So you could just say well now the driver's done it or something like that.  They did that come about they Offered a watch and then they come down and he's even messaged me last night You know and said tell the truth so I'm actually gonna tell the truth exactly what happened Messing me about the watch He's come down with a watch.  Just run up the alleyway and got in the car and you've off Simple yet, you've got robbed the finesse later Bob much was out for a hundred hundred forty-five grand It was kingdom watch. I saw Richard Miller. I sold that Christmas Day to someone in Dubai for a hundred thirty-five grand How much do you think you bumped off people this year? Yeah Over half a million pounds. What? easy easy easy


This video is to answer a question of a viewer, I wanted to do a tutorial on this and maybe I will let me explain. I'm going to try to answer the question without giving a demonstration because the demonstration is too much work. I would love to do some videos on the Windows operating system not because I like using Windows but because there are times where you're going to have to use the Windows operating system somewhere and you want to help somebody or do something and all you have is a Windows machine and for some reason you may not be allowed to boot a Linux distribution on that machine and so I would do some videos on just like just getting certain things done because out of the box Windows is for the most part useless. It's gotten slightly bit better in the last couple of years with PowerShell. PowerShell actually does do a lot useful stuff. Every time I've looked at this the code is a mess it's a lot bulkier a lot more lines of code than I feel like it should be needed. The commands are really long but I guess a lot of them have abbreviations but whenever you look up tutorials and examples they give you the full version so like if you want to download a file it's like PowerShell.InitExplorer.Remote.Download or something something something crazy like that instead of just like wget. But let me go back to the question that the viewer asked. The question was how do I get a bash shell on my Windows machine and I replied in the comment how to answer that so I have in the past come across a single executable bash.exe which you can get and you just have that one executable. The problem with that is it's bash but that doesn't mean it has all the core tools it has it's bash so tools like grep and awk and and dd and all these other tools may not be aren't going to be in that executable so if you're going to use those it's a bash shell but not all the external tools aren't there and I'm not sure where to get that I quickly googled it when the person asked and I couldn't find it I did find a win-bash project and it was a zip file which had bash and all these executables for all these core tools so that would be one option I haven't tried that but I would think you would just unzip that put it in a folder that's linked to your sys your your path your sys path whatever you call it you know or just run it from that directory and then you have bash and all those common tools and I think the zip file when I downloaded it was five megabytes I didn't test it I just downloaded it to see what was in the zip file so that would be another option normally if I am at a windows machine and I just need a halfway decent shell you can get I think it's called flipper or something like that but busybox I've talked about busybox a lot I love busybox it's on most Linux devices if you have a router or your phone or your tv busybox is in there it's very easy to install on multiple Linux distributions and it's a single binary file that has so many tools built in and it's usually like one and a half megabytes if you get the full thing and you can recompile it with less tools if you don't need them all but it will have um dd in it it will have w get in it it will have netcat in it it will have grep and awk and some of them are slimmed down versions of it like the netcat or nc is not quite a full version of netcat there are a few features missing but for most parts there even has vi built in all in a 1.5 megabyte file now when you end on windows it even has an ftp server a telnet server and an http web server the windows binary when I've downloaded it are missing some of those server functionalities the the ftp the telnet and the um and the web server are missing for most part all those tools are there so unlike that other bash project where you have the bash shell and you have all these external executables which is fine this is all in one binary and so you can call it you know um busybox.exe and the command you want or you can go busybox.exe sh and it will start the shell for you and all those tools will be available there you drop that one binary in your windows sys32 folder and it should you should be able to access it but as I just said it that's not bash it's actually a shell or ash I'm not really sure how you say it which is very similar and if you're just working at the shell there you know for the most part it's going to be there and I don't really know the differences but if you try to run a bash shell first of all you'd have to change the shebang line just be sh um but there might be some some differences uh some functionality might work a little different just I know like with the z shell and bash you know I have z shell as my main shell but I write my scripts in bash and there are a few things especially when it comes like brace expansions and stuff are different from bash to z shell and I'm sure sure that ash is the same way so it's not quite bash but if you need a decent shell with a lot of your core the new tools in there that's a single binary just google busybox.exe for windows and it'll be one of the first sites to come up and it's called flippery.busybox or something like that dash busybox another option uh there are a couple of package managers for windows um a lot of them I have not tried uh because the few times that I've uh needed this uh I is because I'm at my machine at work which is running Windows 7 with PowerShell one and all these package managers need newer versions of PowerShell and I'm not allowed to upgrade PowerShell on my machine so I mean I probably could but I'm not supposed to um but chocolatey is the package manager that I've used so it's is it chocolatey or chock chockalate just talk just just google chocolate package manager and it should come up and uh you can easily uh usually you need to have a minister access but there I think there is a way to install things locally uh if you don't have a mystery so just put it inside I guess your your documents folder or something like that I'm not really sure but it's just like one or two PowerShell commands and it will install and then you just type in chocolatey search or chocolatey install and you can install packages and I would assume I didn't look but I would assume that bash is in there but I know the GNU core tools are in there and busybox is in there so you can just chocolatey install uh GNU core tools or something you know chocolatey install busybox and you can get a shell that way I also know that um Windows now has the i heart linux linux subsystem for Windows I haven't touched that I don't know anything about that I'm not really sure how that works I'm assuming that's more than just a bash shell it's probably like a a much larger package and I'll try to answer the question of just bash and trying to get it to as minimum you know one or a handful of files for you but I guess that would be an option as well now going back why am I talking about this rather than showing you um well I was like uh you know I guess I could do a tutorial on this and I have you know gotten Windows running in virtual machines before so I went to Microsoft allows you uh just you can google search yourself uh Windows virtual box images and one of the first links will be from Microsoft uh developers dot Microsoft dot com or something like that and you can get uh virtual machine images of Windows XP through Windows 10 uh for different virtual machines uh virtual box being one of them VMware being another I think there's a couple others and you can download that zip file extract it then import it into your virtual machine and then you have it's either 30 60 or 90 days to use that image and then it expires and you need to you know wind it back or go through that process again so I went to do that and Windows 10 was what the file I downloaded and zipped as a zip file was a 16 gig file almost 17 gigs and took forever to download and then it took forever to extract all that and then I went to import it into virtual box and it's and it's like setting up the appliance I think they call it in virtual box and it's like this is going to take 26 minutes I'm like I've already spent like 45 minutes just downloading and extracting this file it's nothing but bloatware I just got fed up and said forget this and I was like I literally could have gone to something like Linux mint most links distributions in my opinion these days are overly bloated when I first started using Linux most of the images would fit on a cd then they got bigger to where you need a dvd and they were just you know they were originally they were like 500 to 650 megabytes and then they got closer to the gig and to me I mean Linux comes with so many different tools so it's really hard to rate but let's start getting over a gig for an installer and again a lot of these are live CDs anyway I could go to Linux mint dot com and download a current version of Linux mint that's 1.8 gigabytes iso which I would I would consider ridiculous in size but nothing compared to the 16 gigs 17 gigs that windows 10 was I could download that load that into a virtual machine get it running as a as a live cd or a live system be doing stuff while it's installing to the virtual machine and have that installation done and reboot probably before I could finish downloading the windows 10 zip file let alone extracting it and getting it set up in the virtual machine and it's just I consider most Linux distributions nowadays to be bloated but they are nothing compared to windows which is just ridiculous and and the Linux the windows thing isn't going to have any office suites probably isn't going to have I don't know it might have a pdf reader in it it isn't going to have any image manipulation thing beyond paintbrush where at least this 1.8 iso image is going to have you know gimp and livery office it's going to have media players going to play all your media files and at least try to install the codecs if they aren't already installed it's a completely usable system without having to install anything else where the windows thing is just windows and windows without installing third-party software is nothing I mean I guess you consider gimp third party when I say third party I mean it doesn't come with it that isn't provided by the maintainers of that distribution so that would be why I didn't do a tutorial on this and I still might if I could sit down at a windows machine that I can do you know the the demonstration on do a screencast of but uh but yeah it is just just getting and and then after I start all this I'm like you know I should do a video I should do a video that that would be two two screenshots one would be you know me downloading Linux Mint getting it up and running and doing stuff with it while I'm downloading on this other screenshot uh downloading the windows and downloading the windows image extracting the windows windows image setting up the windows image and like I said I'd be able to do all this probably before this is done downloading and I started to do that I started to record that and I got the whole Linux one down down downloading Linux Mint getting it going in a virtual box I didn't do the install I just got booted and I was like okay now I'm going to go record the windows side of it and I just realized this is going to be just a super long boring video because it's going to take an hour and a half to get windows set up so it's like they're going to be going at the same time download Linux get loaded and then when Linux windows just going to sit there while the windows is downloading extracting installing and I was going to title something like windows sucks before you it's even installed Linux versus windows or something like that you know something something that's going to and then just going to get a bunch of mean comments from windows users who don't know what they're doing but will defend windows to the end but but yeah windows sucks before it's even installed so there you go if you have problems with that comment below because it does suck and it's completely useless out of the box power shell is a little bit more helpful can do a couple of things but before power shell you had visual basic script and batch files that was about it to do anything useful without having to install something like python or or some sort of c compiler but thanks for watching please visit filmsbychrist.com that's Chris the K there's a link in description as always I hope that you have a great day


Hey guys, how are you today? I thought I'd come up on Periscope since I'm here playing with my spin art machine. I thought I'd just come in you know Chat a little bit. See if my hair is all it's really hot. Hey, Nadine. Let's see if we can Hey, Art Sherpa. How are you? So this is just your basic kids spin art machine.  No, of course not and after I bought it I saw a Mark Montana's video this morning where he actually made one out of a fan That was genius, but I saw it too late. Anyway What I did like that he did was he made a ring of cardboard to go around To catch the splash back which I like Because it comes with this one which is really small when you want to put a bigger piece of paper in here That doesn't work so well These are what I've been making They're so much fun and I could see them as embellishments on their own or collage background Or just you know pages in a in a little journal. Yeah, aren't they pretty? So let's make some why don't we? Hey, Cindy So I'm gonna experiment this time and now I'm going to get the paper wet first. I Don't know what that's gonna do, but we're gonna find out. I got this one at Michaels. I used a 40% off coupon and That made it not that expensive so All right, it's gonna give you a little bit loud. I am gonna also try and tilt it Maybe Because I want you guys to be able to see I need something to stick underneath there I think my watercolor box you kind of see right I Should probably put my apron on You know, I haven't gotten paint on my shirt yet, but what are the chances of that lasting all day? I know a very old school, right? But some sometimes old school is good. Nah Oh All right, now I'm covered So, you know practically my whole yeah and safety glasses. I know right? I did have the brilliant idea earlier to put some paint in here in a marble and to see what happened would happen and I didn't have a marble. I had a bead He went now, but I had a bead and Then I just let it spin around. It's a good thing. It wasn't actually a marble because it whacked me in the head. I Should have caught that on periscope because that would have been funny All right, let's see what happens Now I did find out that If you control I know right if you control the paint with your brush you get something that's Prettier like this and the black lines are done with a pen I know a hard hat right the black lines are done with a pen after the paint is dry I put the paper back in hey I put the paper back in and then I used a black pen while it was spinning to put the lines on Now if you just drop the paint in and you don't do it with a brush you get one that's more like that Yeah, see I might need one. I have safety glasses somewhere. All right, let's turn it on It's gonna be kind of loud. I'm sorry be just like that. It is loud. I know right? They're pretty just like that or you can You know let it dry and then put Black marker or colored marker on it. They're really it's really loud I put it's probably I don't think it's less loud if I put it down on the table flat I think it's just as loud It's really it's really loud. That's the only thing about doing it on camera is there's no way to muffle the sound This machine is a spin. It's a spin arm machine. It's by I Create ology you can get it at Michael's and that's how it looks Okay, so I know I knew somebody was gonna ask it. Okay, so the wheel Just fits right in. There's my bead that whacked me in the head. See there's the bead that whacked me in the head The wheel just fits right in over this piece here It just sits on top It has these little fingers to hold paper in But you know, of course Do I want to use paper that's that size? No So I put a little piece of double stick tape in the middle and Then I just take my this is just craft card stock And then I just stick it in the middle This is battery. I couldn't find an electric one like that you plug in that would be handy Not that it didn't cost a whole gob of money But you know, I did see the one mark Montano made out of a fan I don't know if that's a good idea or a bad idea, but it looked interesting and it spins faster because it's a fan. I Think it might be a little dangerous for me to try that though Not to mention the fact that it's like a hundred bajillion degrees in California again today And I think all the stores now are sold out of fans because we've had so many hot days this year Yeah, yeah, yeah So I'm doing the spin art for a reason I can't really talk about yet, but it's for a project coming up But I wanted to do it before the project came up anyways Because I thought it would be fun. They turn out so cute and I've just been playing with different colors Yeah, I know right I'm so dangerous to myself See this is some of the paper that it comes with But I like the way they look on the craft cardstock better and this one I didn't quite get it back on in the center when I did the pen, but I like the way that it turned out It's off a little bit So I know it's loud, but should we do another one? It's a really they're really cool looking It's it's a cute little, you know embellished addition to your art journals you can cut out the circles and use them in your journal you can Paste them in as is if you use interesting paper You could do it on tags see that's the thing about doing it this way The paper will go up the edge a little bit here like you can see and if you had the factory cover on splash guard on it that paper would catch and It just messes it up trust me because I tried it But if you do it this way with Mark's idea of making your own splash guard outside or Even putting the whole thing inside of a box Then you could use whatever size paper you want You could use it you could put the tag in here and do spin art on a tag. You could do an envelope Yeah, you could doodle on top of them There if you think about it, this is just a new way to do a background But then there's a million uses for it And it's quick and easy you could do a whole bunch of them so let's Let's try something now that I said that let's try something my my my whack my head marble Okay, let's do something else with that Now that I've said let's try something I have this box that it this is part of the packaging that it came in This might still splash me a lot See them together see what together. I don't know see what together So oh sew them together Yeah, definitely and you could put little pieces of fabric in here and you could do fabric paint That would be fun and you know you don't have to do paint you could you could do this and do Only marker that would be fun, too I'm gonna get it wet again just because I think things spread a little bit and When it's wet and if you were gonna do this you could put a little piece of watercolor paper in here and and yeah Watercolor paint or water soluble markers and let them bleed and spin that would be really interesting, too I have all these teeny tiny bottles of gold and fluid acrylics that I've had for like a million years. Oh Yeah, maybe I will let's let's do one more with acrylic paint And then maybe I'll get out a piece of watercolor paper because I can't do it on this. It's too dark It's gonna get loud again. Sorry. It looks like a yellow eyeball. Maybe a zombie eyeball And it did kind of splash me, but that's okay. I'm an artist. I always get messy This is cool All right, let's put a piece of watercolor paper in there because now now you guys have me intrigued What would it look like? Let's cap the let's cap the acrylics though, so they don't all dry out I need a piece of watercolor paper now. Let's see. Oh, I have an ATC card I don't even have to cut one. Look at that. Let's just use that Let's see. We've got our watercolor paint Let's get them all wet and juicy. Let's get our paper wet That way we have maximum Spreadage on the watercolor paint. This might be a new way to do watercolor backgrounds Let's see what happens They don't have any clean water either. All my water is gross and dirty. Let's see. All right. You ready? All right, let's go. I can see doing this as a background and then just doodling on top of it It would make the coolest ATC card. Look at that The only thing when you're doing this is you're gonna want to make sure you use colors that blend well together And don't make mud unless of course, that's what you're shooting for I didn't want to make mud. I know right? Spin art who to thunk it All right, now I want to do another one of those Now you got me hooked. See what happens? I have these zen tango cards. Do I have any blank ones?  I'm gonna be sorry. I don't go get clean water before I turn the cat periscope thing on It's a good thing. I'm not using an important watercolor brush Because it's in the acrylic paint water. All right One more time See, can you see doing this on like the fan thing that marked Montana Montana rigged up where it spins even faster? That could be dangerous, but that might be really fun ATC cards Look at that. Now. I'm gonna be sorry. I didn't participate in the Hawaii ATC card swap Because wouldn't that be cool to doodle something about Hawaii on top of? Watercolor spin art who to thunk it. I'm running out of clean table space It's a good thing. I have a whole bunch of these little pieces of watercolor paper So this is I Think this is double stick carpet tape I don't actually remember because I know somebody's gonna ask me at some point. Oh, you could do that. Yeah, I can show you So this is the double stick tape. I used I think it might be carpet tape, but I don't actually remember I think it's from the hardware store I'm also I also want to try it. Let's do that Jerry Wet and then let's do it Dry I want to do try dry without proof. Let's pre-wet it first And let's see about just dropping or flicking the paint on and see what happens All right, you ready? Okay in the spin art machine on to watercolor paper That's a watercolor paint and yes, you're gonna get different looks if you use a bigger brush Of course bigger pieces of paper I started out using acrylic paint Yeah, exactly. Let's try Sorry, it's really loud you guys. I'm sorry I'm gonna try on a dry paper.  Let's see what happens on a piece of watercolor paper. I Didn't get it wet first and you'd have to get The kind of salad spinner that doesn't I used to have when it actually broke But it had a center pole inside the bowl of the salad spinner you'd have to get one that doesn't have that I think But Mark Montano has a video out this morning Making a spin art machine out of an old fan that he found on the side of the road So I do recommend you guys go look at that and it might give you some ideas for options Let's do another one because now I can't stop These are available everywhere. You know target has them toys or us has them Michaels I got this one at Michaels. Some of them are ones where you push a button. I didn't want to have to be pushing a button So the batteries were fine and it is totally addictive. I I Agree with that. Let's try one more. This one's dryer.  This is something that I picked up at Diso, it's just a black Like brush tip. I don't even know if it's waterproof. It cost a dollar fifty I want to do one of these water color cards now. What happened now? You guys are all gonna want spin art machines Okay, this is the first watercolor one. We did look at that. Is that not pretty or what? It's almost too pretty to do anything else to and I liked it with the pop of black Without the coupon, I think it was around $20, but I had a 40% off coupon But I've seen him for as low as 12 if you go to like the toy store You're gonna pay more for it if you get it at Michaels and you will be if you go to the toy store and Of course, you might you know find one at the thrift shop I can't I've been looking and I've been looking for like a month and I can't find it at the thrift shop So I finally gave up and went and bought one new I want to see what it looks like with one of my distress markers Let's see where my brush tip markers. I've got these It says spin art on the box and I used part of the box to make this thing It says spin art machine and that's that picture is on the outside of the box Okay, so for this splatter Working without the guarded splatters a little bit if you're working like this I would recommend putting it in a box probably a one that's a little taller We have it like this because it shows better on camera right now Normally I cut this piece of Cardboard from the box it came in and I put this around here like that as a guard and that catches 99% of the splash back it comes with This but this is really tiny and unless you're using a really small piece of paper This is not going to work for you. You know if you're doing little pieces of paper like this, this would be fine or the ATC cards But if you're you doing these bigger squares like this They they go up the side just enough that they catch on this So I did I put the cardboard in there But you could get a box that's about this size and just build up the sides a little bit and that and have it inside The box when you're playing with it and that way it's going to catch all the splash and splatter This one's still a little bit wet in the middle, but See if I can get it stuck down Okay, I'm gonna try some of these you could just even just do it with markers look at that But markers with a little bit of paint and you know you could have a whole bunch of these These would be cute on card fronts and then you could just put either stamp it with a sentiment or add another little Maybe a tag that has a sentiment on it This one's dry. Let's do some color on this one. I've got some blues and some purples Happy mail you could also put do this on happy mail envelopes. Can you say can you see putting an envelope in here? Right, but I still like it because I just kept going Yeah, that's the only thing is I wish it was bigger But see without that little small guard on here you could get a really big piece of paper in here So these pieces of paper it came with these you're supposed to fold in the corners And then it fits inside, but without the guard on here and with the double stick tape It fits like that Let's do one. Let's see. Let's see. Let's see it. It's too big I Almost think yet, you know, I'm almost thinking I'm wondering if I should glue this inside of here I'm tempted to stick some e6000 down there So it doesn't ever come off, but then you couldn't ever clean it inside, but I don't know that I would care I Might care eventually All right, let's do another one of these. Let's do this one. I could just sit and do this all day Yeah, Jerry. I'm with you. I could just sit and do this all day No watercolor thing was genius So what else now I forgot what else I was gonna talk about. See I don't even know I have no idea because I'm too busy spin arty. Oh I know did you guys see my new? YouTube channel Trailer I created it over the weekend and it posted yesterday. I also added a list of Holy heck. What does it call it again? Featured channels to my YouTube list all of them have a thousand subscribers or less Most of them have less than 500 and I know at least one of them has less than 20 So go to my YouTube channel and look up the featured channels list and go show them all some love Most of them are Just people I had you know watch on YouTube some of them are friends one of them is my niece 12 who's 12 years old and Sarah and a Budding artist in her own right. She's got a cute little channel I'm gonna keep adding to the featured channels list and I'm gonna keep it going You need to get on there. So if you have channels that you recommend You want to recommend for my featured channels list? email me the Channel name so I can look it up and add them to my email artist at Gina be errands.com G I N a B is in boy a H R E NS.com and I will look them up and get them added. It could be your own channel. That's fine Don't tell me now All right, let's do another one No, it's not at all. My brush is fine This is my Van Gogh watercolor brush, which is It's it's an okay brush and honestly the paint's probably doing it more damage than the the spin art machine But it's still fine. You can see It's not hurting it at all. This is another this is one of my very well-loved acrylic brushes And it's not I've been using it and then I have this is a I Think this is a folk art one-stroke painting brush Not that I would be able to tell because that's what the handle looks like But I'm pretty sure that's what it is And I was using it and it looked fine And it comes with these two brushes that you could use that are just really cheap and kind of you know Not that great, but but they do a decent job on here Let's try using this one because this one was a lot of fun. Let's use let's go back to this Some of the acrylic paint and they're just dang fun And you know, I had this paper laying around, you know in my studio taking up space Might as well do something with it I want I want to see what will happen if we just use only markers. Let's try it. Shall we really fun to play with and Look at the fun marks that you get And you have absolutely no control But I think that's what I like about it. I have this one. It's mostly dry Not exactly back lean Luna. They're so cool And they they would make cool tags. You could make them little, you know make little notes out of them They'd be cute Holiday gift tags, you know, you could make a bunch of these in Christmas colors or whatever Winter holiday that you celebrate colors on the front and then you can use the back to right to and from And then you just you know punch a hole in it and stick the ribbon through it and put it on the gift See now do I want to do more ATC? I'm gonna do more of this paper because I need to do this paper Yeah, see and this is a quick easy fast way to do a bunch of custom cards And if you the friends you're giving a gift to our mixed media artists like all of us Then they're gonna save that little tag and they're gonna use it in our journal and they're totally fast to make They take no time at all I'm gonna put the bead that whacked me in the head away. Alright, let's try it comes with all of these little pots of just you know like kids crafts paint and then it comes with the prime these these colors primaries plus green of More more fluid kids crafts paint. I Haven't actually tried these yet. I guess I could See if you can get him to make one that's you know bigger and maybe Jerry spins faster That would be cool might be really dangerous, but it would be so cool One one that's flat here and then the base doesn't have to be any bigger But if it was just flat and then you could get whatever size piece of paper you want on there. I know right? This here measure It's about seven and a quarter inches From outside edge to outside edge But the inside edge to inside it edges only six and a quarter So if you had that seven and a quarter to like eight inches and it was a Flat spin and it didn't have this depression and you could get whatever size piece of paper that you want in there That would be cool. Plus if it wasn't battery operating was something you could plug in would be handy because batteries are expensive That's my wish list Jerry if you get him to build you one just tell him to make two My husband could do it, but he's not ever home Okay, let's try these other little pots of paint I haven't I'm sure it's just kids craft paint, but not that there's anything wrong with that It might work really well in here, so let's try it and we'll use one of the brushes that came with the machine Didn't have it stuck down very well be my tape is getting unsticky a little different I probably got something jammed up down inside there or it could be running out of battery juice. Yeah That'd be my guess because I've been using it a lot today My guess would be it's the batteries Which would be why I'm having one with a power with a cord you can plug in would be handy Or at least with batteries that are At least with batteries that are rechargeable, which I happen to not have in the house because I don't know why All right, let's do one more thing in here. Let's try a tag. I really want to try a tag I happen to have some tags great start to a happy man happy mail tag Which is next month's crazy island family swap by the way hint hint to everybody out there who didn't know already happy mail Yeah, so get ready. I want to do another one That that's just this is just a regular Manila tag from the office supply store and I had stamped this arrow pattern on it from one of my handmade stamps for this month's arrow swap with crazy island family So it was already like that. I did that in the video demo video and I did three of them I've got three of them and I I Always assumed I would add more paint and collage or something to them and do make them into happy mail tags for next month's swap Okay, for October, so let's just do that. Shall we the combination of the kids craft paints that came with it? This is you trucked few fluid acrylic from the you trucked calm I've got Tombow markers distress markers the Japanese dollar store marker And then Nadine's brilliant idea of doing watercolor on here, which is just brilliant I'm gonna be talking about that for a while Nadine.  You only need a little teeny tiny bit to do that. I love it Close up all my paint pots before I spill something because that would be totally like me to do Well, that was just not stuck on well was it? I love that It's the coolest thing. It's totally addictive. I'll warn you right now if you're gonna go out and get one of these or make one It's totally addictive. I can't do any more of the pen part into it now until they dry So I just wanted to get on for a few minutes and share my love of Spin art with you guys So I hope you have fun with it. I do plan on doing a particular project share with a spin art Yeah, the blobby looking ones you mean Like this one and then I have another one late. So that one So I can show you how to do that So I'm gonna use this is the kind of paper it comes with and this paper actually fits in the little prongs on the plate how much you spin it It's you're gonna get more blobs and so then what I did with the other one was I stuck it back in here And you're welcome. I saw that post about thank you for showing this you're welcome. I just thought it was so much fun I should share So then what I did was I did this and then this is gonna splatter The runnier the paint is the more it's gonna splatter So like if you use the high flows on here They actually splatter really well or if you just thin down your paint With water or airbrush medium or glazing fluid, you know what I want to do some with that one way So anyway, I'm gonna keep playing with my new machine Check out my YouTube channel. Let me know what you think about the channel trailer check out the channels The featured channels show them some love. I have so many other things I'm supposed to be doing But I'm in here playing with paint, you know, all right, I'll see you guys all later. I'm gonna keep playing Let me know if If anybody finds an affordable one with the plug That would be handy Thank you. You're welcome. And don't forget to go out and have a great day. Do something nice for yourself. Oh I'm glad it's a lot of fun. It's totally addictive. You could just sit here and do spin art all afternoon I keep and I'm supposed to be doing other stuff and I keep coming back to doing spin art. So, you know Bye, I'll see you later, everybody I am going to post this on YouTube for a couple of fans that couldn't make it today because they're on the other side of the World and they're in bed asleep So they asked if I would so I'm going to and look for some of the spin art to show up in a particular upcoming project on YouTube In October so all right, I will talk to you all later. Bye


Okay, I want you to imagine some kid. He likes some band, I don't know, let's say, 21 Pilots for example. He probably found them before they got super massive. Maybe he was lucky enough to see them in a 2,000 cap room or something. He knows every word to their songs, owns all their records, and supports them every way he can. However, I hate to say it, but this kid might also be making elitist posts on Facebook about his dedication to the band. He might be harassing newer fans and making them feel dumb for not knowing the band's birthdays or astrological signs or favorite colors. He might get mad at the prospect of an outsider new fan being in front of him in line for a show. He might go to Twitter and defend millionaires honors against faceless microaggressions. Does this kid sound like someone that you know in real life? Does he sound like someone that you've seen on social media at some point? I'd be willing to bet, yes, this kid is a stan, the worst kind of stan. A toxic stan who not only makes himself, but the band that he loves so much look kind of dumb in the process. Nobody likes this kid. This kid has zero social skills. This kid is annoying, this kid needs to grow up and mature already.  This kid was me five to seven years ago as a young teenager. Hi, I'm sorry I ever behaved like that. Let's talk about stan culture because I think I know a little bit about it. I've been on both sides of the coin. I was at one point an annoying despicable toxic stan fanboy and now I'm a toxic stan fanboy sheep herder as the owner of a YouTube channel that targets young teenagers and talks about emo music. I have seen it all. Normally when I see videos on this topic, it's just folks highlighting what's wrong with these communities. I don't see folks talking about why stans do what they do or how we can help minimize this kind of lame behavior that I just demonstrated. I think that's what I'm interested in doing here. So I can speak from personal experience that there's something really fun and special about joining a fan base that's relatively small. When something feels niche, you're able to find more specific kinds of people who share your interests in it. You can manage to click with them much more easily because you can safely assume that you guys already have a lot in common. I don't mean to exaggerate when I say that all of my friends that I have outside of high school alum are people I've met at concerts. You know, if I see someone at a crusty music venue for some band that nobody's ever heard of, I can probably already have a solid idea of who they are as a person. They're probably the intuitive type, probably have some cool political opinions that I can get behind. And they probably have less than $12 to their name. I could paint a pretty good picture of who they are. If I were to go see a huge musician like Paul McCartney live, however, the appeal of his music is so broad and generalized that I know next to nothing about someone based off their attendance alone. Maybe that guy has a mortgage.   I mean, that's essentially what libertarianism is, right? When an artist that you love seriously blows up, you lose that honed in sense of certainty that comes with smaller artists. When you start seeing strangers and normies at concerts, you start to feel nostalgic for simpler times.  Don't do that. I think it's that sense of individualism that gets lost when a small fan base becomes big. It's no longer something that you can imprint yourself upon, because it's no longer specified. And when you're some scared kid trying to find yourself, it feels really good to have something well-defined to borrow from for a while. Uh-oh.  Well, guess what? We have a solution for you. Introducing personality in a box. Why be some individual person when you can devote all of your time and interest into things that wealthy strangers created thousands of miles away from you? Set it as your profile like. Set it as your username. Don't know what to talk to your parents about? Type out your new personality. Don't know what to wear to school today? Well, your personality in a box has you covered. Just stop by any hot topic for easy access. What are you going to do all night after school? Homework? No. Read fan fictions and watch music videos of clips and stuff. OK. I know it sounds like I'm making fun of these kids. And I definitely am. It comes from a place of love. As I said, I used to be one of these nerds. I feel like I kind of understand them. And do you know what? I think the accessibility of fandoms like Sherlock and Rick and Morty and Warrior Cats and K-Pop and all that other stuff, it only becomes toxic when younger people start having difficulty separating themselves from these properties. Listen, I'm no scholar. I'm no scientist. I'm no therapist. But if you've ever seen one of these kids who lives and breathes these entertainment properties, what do they like? To be honest, were they the kind of person who was super ambitious, super social, well adjusted and confident? In my experience, not really. A lot of these stand type kids that I knew were a bit naturally more reserved and quiet. They were creative with no outlet sometimes. Maybe they were bullied and picked on for not falling to a specific architect that was expected of them. When you're being brought up in a world that's better suited for folks who are different than you, I can totally understand why it's easy to cling on to these fandoms that make sense and provide some semblance of personal fulfillment or authority. That's kind of why I think I sunk myself into these fandoms when I was in middle school and in early high school. When I was a kid, it felt like everything was catered to people who weren't like me. I didn't like any music that played at school dances or functions. I didn't care for the art projects that I was assigned and all the kids in my class were concerned with stuff that I didn't understand, like clothes or easily digestible TV shows. Man, my stuff is so much cooler. I don't listen to plastic music. I listen to my chemical romance.  I care about deep stuff like emotions and mental illness. I don't care about whatever's playing on MTV. I care about real shows like Bojack Horseman. It felt good to take refuge behind these bands and stuff because they made me feel elite and sophisticated. Stuff like the surf to freak books or full mental alchemist series.  Stuff like football and marching band. They had nothing for an unmotivated weirdo like me. And on one hand, I think it was good that there was something that I cared about and spent my time with. I also kind of wish I was a bit more empathetic and less of a snooty brat.  That doesn't mean it's the right thing to do. This is just an explanation. So when you spend a ton of time with some entertainment property that makes you feel empowered and welcome and give you some sense of belonging, it kind of makes sense that it becomes intertwined with you, as I said earlier.  To reiterate, again, I am definitely not condoning the behaviors of these angry little Stan babies or obnoxious baby Nate. But rather, I want to humanize these bloodthirsty cringe machines. It's easy to see them on Twitter and send some condescending meme. Man, I've done that from time to time. But I think we all need to take a step back and remember this is probably just some nervous kid having a bad time right now. All right, I'm changing lanes a little bit right here but stay with me. Towards the end of my annoying Stan phase, my parents bought me a ukulele for Christmas. I was excited to learn how to play stuff like House at Gold and various My Chemical Romance songs that were definitely not written to be played on in Acoustic Uke. I went to the other room and I started learning the basics. Ooh, that sounds bad. How do I tune this? Ooh. Oh, that was cool. How do I play a song? All right, let me see here. So this is D and this is G. You see, without Toro and Pilots, I probably would have never picked up an instrument for the first time. Without being a bit of a fanboy at first, I probably wouldn't have joined bands and learned the basics of music. If I wasn't an avid, swoosy and odd ones out fan growing up, I probably would have never bothered with YouTube. If I didn't endure manga and anime and cartoons growing up, I'd probably never take an interest in comics or animation eventually. I found that the best way to pull yourself out of a stand hole is to make something that you are proud of. With my band Raccoon Tour, I hope to maybe one day write someone's favorite song or make them feel like how I did as a kid with the 21 Pilots show. It's wonderful seeing messages and emails and even fan mail on reoccurrences of people talking to me the same way that I probably would have talked to Tyler Joseph in high school. And it's not just me, by the way. Phoebe Bridgers is so clearly a fan girl of Elliot Smith. My chemical romance obviously loves Queen and it's super easy to see that Cave Town takes quite a bit of inspiration from Toy One Pilots. And I hope it's apparent that my music pulls inspiration from all the artists that I just named too. There's a really good chance that whatever entertainment property that you love is simply the result of someone else's passion for something else. Like listen, I'm sure it's different for everybody but what I think cured my annoying fanboyitis was spending the time to make something that I could be a fan of myself. What I looked for in fandoms was a sense of self-realization and self-expression. The only issue was I didn't feel like there was a strong enough conceptual me to express in the first place. You can build your own, nobody tells you that, you are 100% allowed. So consider this my call to all kids whose profile pictures are of something rather than them. The kids whose daily conversations comprise of discussions over what strangers they've never met are currently up to right now. Everyone whose hopes and dreams live in the shadow of something that someone else has done. I know it's comfortable to be here, I know it's safe and you're allowed to spend some time here. Just please understand that in the grand scheme of things, this thing that you love so much only becomes significant in your life if you use it for good. Instead of being competitive, I don't know, waste your time on the internet, fighting with people you'd never met over stuff that doesn't belong to you. Why not make fan art? Why not write stories and explore this universe that you love so much? Brush up on basics whether that be illustration theory or improving written dialogue. I learned how to play ukulele covering pop punk emo songs that I was obsessed with as a kid and now I'm in a band that I probably would have been a stan of at 14 years old.  It is so much more insanely fulfilling to be recognized by old childhood heroes and develop actual friendships with some of them than it is to spend money on meet and greets for some superficial interaction for a few seconds. To any and all stans and fanboys watching, don't let anybody bully you for the stuff that you love and please don't bully others for the same thing. Establish a safe distance between who you are as a person and the artwork that other people create. Use your drive and passion for this stuff to learn new things. Use it as a crutch to bury the struggles folks normally fight through when picking up new skills. That's kind of philosophy behind my whole channel, you know? Dude, cool stuff.  Thank you for watching. I hope you had a happy holidays. Thank you to Rage Shadow Legends for helping me afford a down payment on a car.  I will see you in the next one.