I Got A Media Pass For The Royal Winter Fair

          I just found out this week, I was accepted into getting a Media Pass so I can do my blogging around The Fair part of the Royal Winter Fair on November 3rd which gives me all the permission in the world to take as many pictures as I want. I have had the media pass before, 2014, 2017 & this year, 2018 so 3 times in almost 4 years since Chris B On The Web existed or began it's long journey to success as you now see it to this very day. I was worried when I got home from Minneapolis that I wouldn't be getting the pass at all as I was extremely late submitting my application for it, but it wasn't too late and hey I got the media pass and I worried over it for nothing, like honestly.  I seem to worry about the small things when it comes to these things and I'm sure if I was able to explain I would but I didn't have to, I guess applications can be in within October instead.


             However I am very excited to be going to The Royal Agricultural Winter Fair 2018 and cannot wait to see both the show and the horse show and what amazing things are going to happen. I will be on and off Instagram and Twitter throughout the day and I will have my mobile battery charger for my phone with me in case of emergencies. I was suppose to have Dave come with me but that is all up in the air right now and I am feeling a bit nervous having him with me as he's not been through what I experienced so if he does come along for this adventure with me, then I will be giving him a crash course on this entire adventure and what to do and what pictures to take as for those who didn't know he was my camera man once upon a time so he has to learn what pictures I need so I guess direct him like I did when I was still on YouTube. Either way this will be a fun trip and day and looking forward to even sharing it with one of my former team members if he decides to come along for the trip, it will be once again another great year at The Royal Winter Fair!



Chris

I Got Big News To Tell You!

            Couple of things I need to tell you all and it is big news as you know Chris B On The Web is growing greatly and it is time to make the move. What do I mean by this? I am once again am growing my empire and what I mean by this two podcasts are now in play on the programming in the way of Podcasts. Here is the breakdown of what is going on for both "Everything About Reality TV" & "The CBOTW Show" Podcasts in the shows the podcasts will be covering:

Everything About Reality TV:

- Survivor
- Amazing Race
- Amazing Race Canada
- Big Brother U.S. 
- Big Brother Canada
- Celebrity Big Brother U.S.

The CBOTW Show:

- Music City CMT
- Power Rangers
- Last Man Standing


               There you have the lineup, quite a lineup and very excited to start something new in the podcasting field and as I am typing this at 230 in the morning, I got a big smile on my face right now. I am just eager to get started on these podcasts too on top of Everything About Reality TV and start to build this podcast and grow this podcast up and never know The CBOTW Show can be the podcast of the future too if anything happened to Everything About Reality TV but let's not jump that too far but this is what the big picture is looking like for me right now.



Chris

Android Vs. IPhone.... Which One Do I Prefer?

              First of all crap hit the fan when my mouse stopped working and I had Larry over and had to go get another mouse for my computer at Canada Computers which I love the fact they are nearby and easy to get at. Anyways, we were looking at the protection cases for phones while we waited to check out my mouse and that is when I got this entire idea for Android vs IPhone which one is better? First of all, I have had both Android & IPhone, currently with IPhone at his current moment.. What the heck I said IPhone 3 times, dang it 4 now... smh. Anyways this blog post i getting so derailed now, but the question of the day is which one is better. Well I can say first of all Android it is easier to get a virus compare to IOS as I never got a virus warning sign whatsoever so Android I like but certain phones I didn't like, such as Samsung being one of them. The LG G3 wasn't bad either and I actually was hoping to get he LG G5 or the G6 which are more the latest as those phones which I really liked it. IPhone at the start I found it really hard to figure out how the heck to use it but however, I managed to figured it out how to use it minus Facetime which I still gotta figure out hopefully around my birthday I will get to do that with family if they wish to do so.


                Now the million dollar question is which one do I prefer, it is the IPhone. Why? Because I like the fact I got a lot other apps I can use, such as the podcasts app, which are hooked up to the ITunes Podcast and yes Mine is in there as well as I have subscribed to myself as sometimes I do tune into my own podcast from time to time but I will talk about it in a later time. Also ITunes are on there but I think you can get them onto a android but I could be wrong about it but you never really know as I never really tried downloading it onto my android when I had android. But I do prefer the IPhone as I said before it sure has a lot more features then android but that is only one man's opinion. 



Chris

Autism Celebration 2018

              Last night I was at the Autism Celebration 2018. I found out that the event has been running for the past 7 years and I have been involved in 5 of the 7 as I missed 2015 (Due to work) & 2017, last year, due to, well err lack of funding for planning my booth. I went over my budget last year. LOL... However this year, I can say I budgeted for the event perfectly with no problems of being off budget like last year. As you know through social media I have been planning this for the past 4 months with blue printing what I wanna do and how I want to promote CBOTW. There was a few hiccups with the board but nobody noticed it whatsoever so that is good and I will not get into that. I left finish off the board till the last possible second which is the usual me but hey it got done. 


               I got at the event a little more perkier as I was moody like an hour and a half, but anyways, I ended setting up pretty quickly, was a bit all over the place trying to figure things out but managed to setup and got a chance to sit before the event started. We heard some singing and a story of a father and son biking trip which was very inspirational to me especially and inspired me with what I am doing and I got a planned blog post next week with the initial plan for CBOTW in 2019. Anyways, I got a slow down at my booth with people popping by my booth and I got to get up and wonder around and look at different booths around the floor which mind you, I never did that last year... err sorry I mean 2 years ago. It felt good to get up and mingle with other people. Now if Larry or Dave came with me, I could wonder around a lot more as I needed to keep an eye on it in case someone came by but that's OK, I can move quite quickly despite my ailing knee problem which I will talk about in a later post. One thing I loved about the event was all the questions and yes YouTube came up last night. Why? Well my podcast started on YouTube and then Audio as you now hear and see to this actual day.  After talking to my consultant at Kerry's Place I will be more involved with them as I have not been very active with them for the last several years minus the Autism Celebration each and every year. I saw familiar faces from last 2 years ago and always good to see new faces at the event each and every year. 


                Finally In want to once again thank the Kerry's Place Staff for having me and for everything they have done over the man years as I have been with em since 1996, so 22 years I have been with them and if it wasn't for the foundations program introducing me to this event, I do not know what I would of done with myself. It sure gets me out for the evening and I enjoyed myself like always and I sure as heck cannot wait for next year as I will be back bigger then ever at the next event. 




Chris

I Made The Impossible, Happen Yesterday!

           Yesterday the impossible happen! Larry and I worked on for a good hour and a bit on an Audio ONLY live stream with Radio Loyalty which The CBOTW Network still had the station info on there from when it shutdown in 2015 after a really rough ending to it all. Anyways all I had to is update the banner and add back the player to the station and we were cooking with gas finally and we had a working station live on the air. Now mind you it will not be an 24-7 station but it will be on the Air when there is an podcast to do live on the airwaves of The CBOTW Network. It was a long and stressful process as links had to be updated and it was giving me quite a hard time accepting the link titles to the main website link but finally got it then added the player back and then we tested for about 10 minutes. The sound was great and all we had it on the web cam mic at first but tested out the condenser mic which worked great as well. We did all the tests we needed for when it starts up which mind you it will not be long till we start and I will get into that shortly in this blog post. What I like about Radio Loyalty it is so simple and easy to set up minus the pickiness with the link names but I found out to fix it but it is all HMTL5 based and not to worry about that annoying flash, especially with Google Chrome where you have to tell it to allow so you do not have to keep on hitting allow every time you watch or listen to a stream both Audio and Video as well. 


                   Now when is this going to happen? Well if all goes well as I am now into Power Rangers Turbo now with Zeo being completed, I am moving on tomorrow to start the next phase of prepping for this collab. What do I mean by this? Not ONLY "Everything About Reality TV" but also the Collaboration podcasts will be live each and every week. There will be certain ones that will be live as I do have a life outside the podcasting world and here is my Live Broadcast Schedule looks like for Winter & Spring 2019:

Winter 2019 (Everything About Reality TV, Season 9):

Celebrity Big Brother (LIVE on the IceCast Airwaves)

Spring 2019 (Everything About Reality TV, Season 10):

Survivor 38

Big Brother Canada


                     Now as for the not live podcasts as follows, Amazing Race & Music City will not be Broadcasted on the IceCast or the Audio Stream I have set up as I said before, I am busy with life too and I cannot do everything on the airwaves, Now I have been thinking about bringing on a co host or someone to do some hosting during Celebrity Big Brother & Big Brother, now will they have access to the Audio Stream? Of course they will. They will 100% access of the feed to stream the podcast live. I will be making sure I can trust em with the information 100% But it is in the long plan down the road too! It is exciting news and hope you all are excited for the future of the podcast as I am ecstatic for the return to a live broadcast!



Chris

When I Started Podcasting, I Had Horrible Audio...

               When I started this crazy adventure with no followers or listening whatsoever, my audio was terrible, horrible. My voice was very distorted as heck as I over modulated my voice because I had the volume on my mixer way high so that had a lot to do with the podcast and I think in 2015 I had the other mixer the older one that didn't help but obviously in 2016 I had this mixer I currently use to this current day and have been since Summer of 2016 when I made the purchase for this mixer. As time got further during the podcast things got better and I got followers for the podcast and I am talking YouTube days. Now Audio ONLY things got better as I started to always do an audio check or sound check or as they call it in the world of "Radio" Air check which I always do before I set off to do the recording of the podcast to ensure the quality is top notch each and every time an episode is being recorded every week to every few times a week depending on the recording schedule from season to season. 


                 The next thing I did was upgrade some of the gear in the studio, got a boom arm to hold the mic so I wouldn't be lifting up the stand with the microphone so it is much easier to maneuver in behind the screens as you probably seen it in pictures of me on my Instagram feed from time to time when I am between recording like currently at this moment as I am about 5 days from the next episode to be released for you guys. Now the AT Pro 31 hand held mic was good and what not but it was aging and I have had it since 2014 so 4 years now if you include it to today. It has seen broadcasts from YouTube to Twitch.TV to other platforms that I have been on that I rather not even mention at this point as I am banned from those platforms for certain reasons I will not state on here. In 2017, 1 year ago I invested in a more of a professional microphone. I bought the AT2020 Condenser Microphone, $200 bucks later but worth the money and the upgrade. Don't worry I still got the AT Pro 31 mic as a guest mic in the studio that will need a boom arm down the road!


                   So over the years, things got better and I am sure down the road it will become even a bigger podcast then it is now in the years to come as I make more and different ideas I can bring to the table and I have hinted on social media I wanna do something with the podcast which I will be talking about on another blog post on another day, down the road from now when the time gets closer but ideas are brewing for me and Chris B On The Web. I am proud how far I have come with the podcast and what is to come for it in the nearby future as well which I am excited to share with you very soon and I am nothing but proud of how far this podcast has done.



Chris

Friday Story Time... (My Dentist Experience This Week)

               Wednesday morning, I had to go to the dentist due to a cavity that needed to be filled in. So I did the routine of getting up and going to the dentist knowing I was going to get a filling put into my tooth on my wisdom tooth. Anyways the wait was quite long as the dentist office was quite busy that day which is fine honestly with me and I wasn't due to be with my friends till 1230 pm that day anyways and I was in no rush whatsoever to actually get to the mall as I wanted to work on a couple of things before I even left for the afternoon to see friends and what not. Now don't get me wrong, I have had a not so good experience at the dentist before and I have now forgotten it even happened since it was years ago since that has happened and I am not worried about it now anyways, it is water under the bridge at this point. 


                 So I finally got into the chair finally and once again I had to wait for a good 10 - 15 minutes my dentist came in to do the filling in my mouth. So this was the patience test for me and I think I did quite well actually. I think I passed the test of being very patient during this experience which mind you was an experience and a half and trust me it was quite an experience and a half and it is good to have these experiences in my life as I live and learn from em all. Anyways it turns out that my wisdom tooth is dropping and if they fill it it will just come back in a year or two so he recommended that it gets yanked from my mouth so I obviously agreed there and I told him to just pull it out as it will be one less tooth to worry about down the road and no more problems.


                  As you have read this has been quite an interesting experience and I wasn't expecting to have nothing done but least my dentist was apologetic for having me go there for no time and wasting my time. He's a really good dentist and I have had him for 20 years now and had been a good dentist all these years and I do not plan on changing dentists at this point of time. I hope you all this little Friday story time as I enjoyed writing this post for you guys. 


Chris