Last Weekly Updates Blog

                 As you know today we say goodbye to our long weekly updates as we transition into the new newsletter which is already in motion. What is happening with this blog? Well Chris aka the Boss Man and I have spoken about in a deep level and we have decided the following schedule:

Tuesdays, Thursdays & Saturdays: Will be Boss Man Chris 

Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays:  Will be me, Sara, the COO of ChrisBOnTheWeb Media.

                What topics it will be? A Various of posts from food reviews, local events and events in Toronto  to advice and tips from both Chris and I am even longer explanations of features we are planning to add which we have a bunch now that the Newsletter is starting up for us on Monday @ 9 am EST. Some of the ideas I will be covering on Monday will be: Merch, Free 30 minute call and also online events as well. We will be doing a big update to all the pages and to assure it is done and that is the first step this weekend as Chris and Sadie will be doing a deep clean and updates to the website so some pages may come down for a while they update it all. At this time I would like to thank you all for supporting our weekly updates and we will be missing doing these blogs on Friday mornings but this opens up more doors for content on this website.  See you all on Monday for a new and improved blogs.

 

Sara 

Newsletter Signup is complete! What's Next?

                 After a long battle with the code we have our newsletter setup and ready for new subscriptions. Already have had one or two and will remind you guys from time to time but it is easy to see. Please be patient with us as we design our newsletter over the next 6 months as we evolve and grow the newsletter as we've never done this before in the history of ChrisBOnTheWeb Media nor The Video Projects Team so we are fairly new to this as a feature on the website. We are very excited that this feature is finally out there!

          What's next for us? Merch and Sara will talk about this on Monday on the newsletter with our what's new and upcoming section of the newsletter! We have so many different ideas and I am excited for the first edition and will be reading it as I subscribed to it myself so I can see what she says each and every week. We need some new ideas for services free services and paid and we've considered the free 30 minute call thing but not add a form but just use an email as trolls seem to have fun spamming it and apparently reported and got it removed but it is what it is, we were planning to phase out the forms instead and the pages kind of need a revamp and we will be going through all the pages revamping each of the pages as it's long overdue. There is more news but she will cover it on Monday. Have a great weekend and talk to you all on Monday under our new schedule.

Chris

Back To The Grind!

           Since returning back to Ontario, I've been busy getting shows done I got two airing today, 1 pm EST the Audio ONLY version of Entertainment Man Podcast @ 1 pm EST & The CBOTW Show @ 6 pm EST. I've considered to do a second Entertainment Man Podcast on Wednesdays but sporadic episodes from time to time. Not every week, not every 2 weeks, not once a month but if I feel up to it and something I want to talk about I will post an additional episode on Wednesdays.

          For now I am also am recording a new episode this afternoon with Chris Champion and very, very excited to be doing this podcast as it is about something I love talking about and that is creating content. Anyways after that with the editing, I will be doing other things, working on Corner Gas episodes so I can book Bob onto the podcast soon. Anyways it is good to be back and as always I will talk to you all tomorrow!

Chris

Few Food Reviews!

              I know there is a lot of places where I was at while away on holidays but a few things I want to review obviously:

Veal Meatballs: Never had veal meatballs till now and loved every bite of it. It was so delicious and so tender. It was also served with fettuccine pasta in a sauce with shallots. 20/10 above and beyond my expectations Place: Bistro 1640.

Breakfast Poutine: I know it sounds odd a bit strange but it was really, really good. It was a lot to eat, it consistent of eggs, cheese curds, regular chunk of cheese, not sure what kind but also potatoes and bacon in it. I absolutetly loved it and would have it in a heartbeat! Who would of thought that Poutine for breakfast would actually work. 20/10 exceeds my expecations. Place: La Buche.

Gnocchi with Sausage: I haven't had Gnocchi in ages and it had sausage without the casing on it and was so good and tender and full of deliciousness. I give it a 30/10 as it was probably one of my favorite meals. Place: Coche Dinge Champlain

            There is the food reviews all in one, hope you guys enjoyed it and I know it wasn't everything I ate but some of the highlights and as always I will talk to you all tomorrow for another blog post.

Chris

My Trip Out of Province!

           My trip was amazing! Yeah it was very stressful at times but I enjoyed my time out there. Did some personal things that I do not want to discuss publicly. Checked out the shops below the board walk where the Chateau Frontenac is. Then we went up on the Funiclaire to the top and walked the boardwalk.  We actually went into the Chateau Frontenac and took a ton of pictures outside and inside of the hotel. So historic of a hotel. 

          Now you may think that isn't all we just did is it? No, we visited cemetery where my grandma is buried, it is personal and the reason why I didn't mention it. Anyways back to the point of this post about my travels and this was really inspired this post. When visiting a shop that carves wood, we got a VIP tour of the shops on the third floor and we thank the staff or owner for giving us a sneak peek how they create such beautiful pieces. Last point I want to make is we visited Chez Marie which has homemade bread with Maple Butter and I will review this later at 1 pm EST. However we visited this last year as well and loved the experience. That will be the post for now and as always I will talk to you all later for a food review. 

Chris

 

Flying can be stressful

           As you guys know, I was away and I flew out of the province on a bit of a vaca and I needed that break from it all. I have been so stressed out with all the work that we've been doing. Anyways, I always found flying very stressful but I enjoy the flights when I have to fly and fun to look out the window as we take off, during the flight and getting off. I will explain two instances. 1) Going through the pat down and swabbing my hands. Yeah I was pat down and swabbed. Never ever had it happen and I had no idea what the heck was doing on whatsoever as this has never happened. 

          My dad got double patted down and his items checked and I really had to be patient and with me Patience is not a virtue with me usually.  So in this instance you have to be very patient with this. Now Billy Bishop Airport isn't as stressful as Pearson but still flying can be a very stressful moment. Also sitting for an hour and a half was difficult with me with my right knee seizing up but I managed. Just be patient as you go through security and it will be all worth it in the end. That is today's post and as always I will talk to you all tomorrow!

Chris

Projects We Want to Work On!

                 There are projects we want to complete and right now is not the right time as you know boss man is out of the province but still is in Canada but not the point of my post today. There are two major things we want to complete before summer hits and here are the two features we want to work on:

Newsletter: I know we've talked about it a lot the last month to 2 months now and it is not as easy as you think as Chris needs to code the popup into the website. The NO right click has been implemented to our website probably since the start almost 10.5 years ago. That will be the first phase of the plan in June while Chris takes some time away from Ghostwriter till later in June. 

Merch: I know we have been approached about Merch and it didn't seem to have worked out too well as we didn't get a reply back but we are looking into other platforms that would want to work with us and get some ChrisBOnTheWeb Merch setup and somehow link it to the website. We will keep you informed when that stage begins. 

          Anyhoo, that will be it for me and I'm sorry for no regular updates and maybe this is something I can do between now and before we switch our schedule around as Weekly Updates being discontinued on this blog and moved to the Newsletter which I will be personally doing. I will chat with you all next week. 

Sara

Gotta Stay Positive!

                   Doing this post on behalf of Chris and he knows I am writing this post. Just a disclaimer. Between guests on Entertainment Man Podcast and The CBOTW Show, this is our busiest time of the year for us. Always is in May and June what Boss Man said to me. It has been slower in January and we always make notes to see the trend with guests and collaborations which is really cool we do that. 

         A lot of people have reached out to us and we are booking up quickly for June. You probably remember Chris left the platform, Matchmaker FM as it is now a paid service which is fine but we managed around the changes. Change is good and Chris has shown a lot of positivity and we keep track of our changes and how any notes to change things around or tweak with some minor updates. I will speak to you all tomorrow.

 

Sara

I Finalized Everything Before my Trip!

             I for the most part have finalized everything and raring to hand over the keys to the company so to speak to Sara while I am away. I have everything in place for when I am away and excited to be going away. I know there was a lot of things to do but it is to keep you guys watching, reading and listening to our content while I am not around.

             I have checked several times to assure that everything is completed in a timely manner. Like the saying goes always double check your list or work before you consider it finished or completed. I hope you guys enjoy the next few days without me and any questions do not hesitate to reach out and Sara, Larry, Kevin and Billy will be able to help you. I will chat with you on Monday and don't worry I will enjoy time.

Chris

June will be busy!

             June will be a busy, busy month for us and here is why:

- Events: We have a couple of events and activities we are going to be attending, Peony Festival which is something we do on a yearly basis and a lot of fun. Also Attending Fiesta Week which is usually my yearly review on the food if I've not had it before. 

- Podcast interviews and Collaborations: I have a bunch of collaborations and interviews scheduled. I will start with Entertainment Man Podcast, still need to book Mary coming back onto Entertainment Man Podcast. Episodes with Nick and another with Chris either went up or will be going up on the platforms. Also June I have Dr. Shafer coming on my podcast which I was on hers end of last month to talk about my journey with Autism and how I am an advocate for people with Autism/Disabilities and Mental Health. I have one more podcast to book for the month of June as of me writing this which may have been updated since. Also June plus maybe July I will be having Izac from Fun Football Podcast to collaborate and talk about our favorite Bill Murray Movies. Also Mary from Mac N Cheese Podcast will be coming on The CBOTW Show to talk about and recap Mary Poppins. 

              There is the timetable or gives you an idea what we are up to in June and as always I will talk to you guys tomorrow.

Chris

What If We Take a Break from YouTube Again?

             If we take a break, I promise you all that we will not be deleting our channel. We are beyond that as we have over 100 subs and do not want to lose our progress with the channel. The views have been fantastic and the overall amount is overwhelming on the love and support you guys given us, we do not want to take the channel away from you guys. So the channel probably go dormant if so but, yes there is a but, we are not planning to go away from YouTube at this moment as the momentum with the channel has been fantastic and we're on a roll with content. 

            That is the plan moving forward and I know, I've been approached about this with this question and I love these kind of questions actually and happy to address it even publicly on our blog. Anything you see in our social media accounts/YouTube and Podcasts, nothing is going to be deleted. Yes eventually if a podcast retires after so many seasons and episode it will stay up on there regardless. Anyways that is the post for today and I will talk to you all tomorrow.

Chris

Weekly Updates [05-17-2025]

                One word: "Busy." We have been very, very busy getting work done before boss man leaves for his out of province trip, we are really trying our hardest to get everything done as the coming week, things will be quieting down for the week. Which this means, there will be no Weekly Updates as we are working all of this weekend and possibly Tuesday but it depends on how far he gets but we are working on the long weekend. 

         I can picture what the plans are when he gets back home from his trip. I kind of know what the plan is after he's back but he's gonna take Monday and Tuesday to himself before getting back into the swing of things. So any questions on the social media will be answered by me so please do not hesitate to ask. There will be a post on Monday and I believe it is already written and ready to go out. I will speak to you all Thursday for more blog posts.

 

 Happy Victoria Weekend to our Canadian Fan Base!

 

Sara

Am I Excited To Be Going Away?

             Of course I am! I need the time away from the studio and home life. I need the adventure and change of scenery it will be nice to just get up and out of province. Plus it's an annual trip each and every year and while my parents have my health, we will keep going. Love Quebec as French is part of my family history and every year I am starting to try speaking it but it is the understanding what someone is saying and I am going to get my mom to help me with it. 

           Being away will be my downtime to de-stress from the hustle and bustle of ChrisBOnTheWeb Media as I have been going non stop with content and really grinding on YouTube again since our return to the platform after a brief break from it. I usually try and take a day off on Sundays and with this week being the May 2-4 weekend (Victoria Day) so I probably will take the Monday off as long as I have everything done in time. Anyways those here in Canada, do enjoy your long weekend and I will talk to you all on Monday!

Chris

Content Schedule Coming Up!

           This week and next week will be quite interesting as I will be away and we're full steam ahead with requests to blog on our actual blog so Sara and I are coordinating everything while I am out of province and make sure shorts, blogs, podcasts and what not are out on social media, audio only platforms and YouTube. So this week all is pretty much normal for now. I will be recording with Larry on Thursday as I cleared my entire schedule that day so him and I can finish up To The Light so when I get home, I can start working on the next one and also Corner Gas as well. Regular blog posts will happen this week, the 4 days with me and Sara on Friday as normal. Podcasts will be out Wednesday with the double episode one Entertainment Man Podcast and The CBOTW Show.

         Next week I will be around Sunday - Wednesday for the blogs and podcasts both Entertainment Man Podcast and The CBOTW Show. The second The CBOTW Show on the Friday I am away and the Sunday for Entertainment Man Podcast when I am returning home from being out of province. I will not and it will be just posted. Notice will go up next weekend on the YouTube side of things and social media. Anyways that is the post for today and as always I will talk to you all tomorrow. 

Chris        

Square Boys Pizza Review

              I haven't had Square Boys Pizza in the longest time! Years, probably over 10 years now. The reason is they closed down majority of the stores and we had one nearby us but they changed into a Pizza, Pizza which you all know I do not have a very good history with them with Pizza Gate 2019 and it will forever be famous on this website the day I did my first ever review that I didn't enjoy. Anyways we use to eat Square Boys and actually was our go to growing up. 

              The only Square Boys I know of is Bowmanville, Ontario and where we went exactly and was very convenient to the bus as it was only a few feet away from the stop and actually a good cement block to sit while I was eating it. Was cheesy and gooeyness, it was good. Brought back my childhood memories growing up. Was a bit of nostalgic throwback for me. Anyways that will do for the post today and always I will talk to you all tomorrow!

Chris

Sometimes You Have To Hit The Reset Button!

           The last several days has been a complete disaster where things self destructed on me. Mostly Entertainment Man Podcast as you know there was no episode yesterday and only thing we really posted was the video of the studio. However I am going to make it up on Wednesday with an episode, however it will be an Audio ONLY episode for this week and this week only. It'll be posted to the Podcast feed on YouTube. I will save the other episode I was planning for when I get back but will have it ready.

          So I am hitting the reset button and focusing on getting things ready for tomorrow and Wednesday. Focusing on what needs to be done first. I kind of went away from the sticky notes on my desktop and that is my own fault. So I have to hit a reset button and try and work around my faults and we all have our own faults in life, things we regret doing. The Video Projects Team was one of those regrets as there are points of that team, I will not discuss but we all regret and sometimes you need to hit that reset button and come up with a new plan. I will talk about it more on Wednesday but that is the post for today and as always I will talk to you all tomorrow!

Chris

Weekly Updates [05-09-2025]

                This week has been busy. As Chris mentioned he's done a massive changes to the website and has posted Our Team is listed on there. Community has: Schedule, Get Involved https://www.chrisbontheweb.com/p/get-involved.html and Archives; Services has the coaching services we are still offering because of trolls spamming the free 30 minute discovery call that has been removed. On Demand is now called Podcasts and the rest is the same. So this is big changes to the website and will take time for you all to get use to our site under it's new form.

            Other then that we've been editing episodes and recording other new episodes and editing those. Next week he has two interviews and he's trying to book at least two episodes in the week to get ahead with interviews which means he is open to booking interviews  but he would have to keep track which ones he records first and what not and I am going to help him with it. We are getting ready for his trip out of province and I have decided to actually take over for the blogs during the Wednesday, Thursday and Friday from May 22nd - 25th. I am proud to say things are now on the up and up. Enjoy your weekend and Happy Mother's Day to all the Mom's out there and I will be back next week.

 

Sara

We're Figuring a Few Things Out.

                       Right now, I am lost for words. Disrespect of our staff will not be tolerated whatsoever.  Never seen the boss man so upset. The CBOTW Show is going to be continuing despite the rumours `boss man was going to pull the plug on it but He has a bunch of episodes to release and takes us into June so gives him some time off. He will be working on Corner Gas hopefully next week in between but he has interviews but it is scheduled.

                He really wants to push out two episodes a week for The CBOTW Show.  However I think he's holding off. We're doing a lot of thinking right now.  There will be adjustments and changes to be made and maybe him taking a break from The CBOTW Show after next week till June is exactly what he needs right now. He needs to get away from all of this and come back when he's ready. I will chat with you tomorrow for the Weekly Updates.

 

 

Sara

Gaming Updates!

           As you know I've gotten a ton of video games lately and I mean a ton of video games! Here are some of the updates:

Inzoi- This sim like game is so much fun and the fact you can literally control the sim's movement with your keys, makes this game a lot more fun.  Things are progressing well, I only seem to play with Larry but I may pop up more but really enjoying it and it seems more lifelike of a game.  

Storage Hunter: I really enjoyed TMartn2 playthrough and Larry and I finally got to play it despite the tech issues with the code and having to buy another set of codes cause of problems with Game Stop. Anyways we successfully did our first storage auction and going to start grinding on this game on my extra time especially days off. 

Schedule1: I started to play it a tad bit and I got a little too goofy and ended up punching people randomly to the point they called the cops on me in the game but still need to learn the different recipes in the game to make the products.

Office Simulator: Another game I just stumbled upon through YouTube, forget what channel but it looked so fun so I tried it out and I want to do so much more with the game and get off being an intern so I am excited to continue.

           So that is where I am at with the gaming world, I know this community isn't really driven to gaming anymore but I wanted to do a bit of a review and update on each of the game and as always I will talk to you all tomorrow!

Chris

Updates from the Boss Man!

             Well, things have been chaotic and been solely focused on content the last few weeks and one of the reasons this website is missing an key factor to our website and that is the newsletter. This is something we are working on and by the time I get back from 3 - 4 days from out of the province, I will be sure to get working on that. I think I do know how it works. I have an idea how it will work and know it will be a very successful new piece to this. 

            Honestly we have started to question the end of the week updates or as it's now called "Weekly Updates" as it was suppose to already be removed off the blog but we've hit a snag in the plan as we are not sure how to put the sign up on our website yet plus we want to do a pop up but not sure how to do that as the site is very, very full and the pop up would be the best way for us and having it. We would have to arrange a few things first of all. Those are the few things going on right now and we are slowly getting things done and I will do a video this weekend. I will talk to you all tomorrow. 

Chris

What Happened to the Events on the Weekend?

            Well Saturday I wasn't in the right frame of mine and all I wanted to do was sleep in plus I wasn't feeling like fighting the busy crowd and we weren't sure we were able to actually get an actual parking spot as Maple Festival is a very popular event locally now so it is harder to go unless I take the bus out and maybe something I will do next time. I enjoy going to that event and the next one in Bowmanville will be in the fall as there isn't anything else. 

          Also usually on this day too we do the Doors open event locally in my city but we had my niece and nephew's 3 on 3 Hockey so a little more important to go to actually as family does come first before anything else. So the next event coming up for ChrisBOnTheWeb Media is the Peony Festival, locally here in my hometown. What I gather from our schedule of events for this year. Anyways that is the post for today and as always I will talk to you tomorrow for another post. 

Chris

Weekly Updates [05-02-2025]

                 First of all sorry for  the late post, so much chaos the last 24 hours, from my desktop computer acting up to the meltdown @ our studio from what I heard of with more tech issues with the computer software, we've had a stressful week but with a stressful week, comes great news from the home front.  What am I saying? Well, Chris got an email and I unfortunately cannot say yet as it's not confirmed but it's huge news for our community!

              The other  news is he has a sleuth of podcasts to edit and post up. It almost didn't happen this morning as the two boys had ran into tech issues last night. However that was rectified and they recorded 5! That's right 5! so 5 weeks of episodes on Wednesdays @ 6 pm EST. They are shorter episodes but they are planning to extend them in less than 2 weeks from now. He is recording Entertainment Man Podcast for this weekend and the weekend he returns from his yearly trip. He is starting to get everything together. Have a great weekend and talk to you all next week.

 

Sara

24 Hours of Fun w/ Larry!

          It will be a crazy 24 hours with Larry! Today we will be making history as we attempt to record 7 episodes of The CBOTW Show and we will be trying to keep it at 20 minutes each which will be 140 minutes of podcasting which is like over 2 hours of show coverage and will be ready for when I am away on holidays. I am having a bit of an idea and by the later half of the week as I will be talking a lot of events this weekend from the Bowmanville Maple Fest to the Doors Open Oshawa.  Anyways off topic. 

           Between our recording sessions, we will be watching a ton of TV, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Power Rangers Zeo, Turbo and in Space but not just that but playing a bit of Sims 2, Inzoi, I am going to let Larry try it out, I think I got him hooked on the game, the last time we played here in the studio. I am sure there will be a lot of snow talk as usual for the two of us but it will be fun and as I promised on the update video there will be a vlog of our afternoon and evening. I'm sure it will be a long vlog of some sort. Anyways that is the blog for today and as always I will speak to you on Monday, have a great weekend!

Chris