Sunday, September 30, 2018

Gearing Up For The Next Collab With Larry

               Well, it is coming pretty much the fall now and it is that time once again to actually get prepped up for the next set of collabs with Larry once again. It will be a short 2 months till both him and I are behind the mics again recording the next two podcasts. What Power Rangers Collab podcast are next? Well Power Rangers Zeo and Power Rangers Turbo are next on the list and it is quite exciting to be moving forward with these collabs and like I said before, it comes out a couple of time a year, 4 to be exact. Honestly it takes time to watch the entire season, take notes, type it up so that is what I do between each recording and this does take some time to do that and hours in per day. I was having doubts posting up the last 3 collabs I did with Larry and had thoughts about discontinuing the collaboration podcast but he talked me back into it and it is a fun kind of podcast to do and hes right it is a lot of fun. It is a tough process at times but worth it in the end as the end product looks and sounds really good.


                 The long term goal is him and I planning to go right to Super Ninja Steel down the road so we will be collaborating for a very long time from here on out twice a year and we are doing this out of the passion as we both grew up with the show and its kind of nice to remember our childhood too, plus him and I are bunch of nerds when it comes to this show so that is another factor for the two of us as well. As of next spring, him and i will be done the Zordon Era and moving into Lost Galaxy and Lightspeed and so forth. I am going to say that these collab podcasts aren't going anywhere, anytime soon and I am glad Larry came up with this idea. Even with him not part of staff anymore, he is still highly involved with CBOTW which is nice as hes given me so many ideas to move forward, even on my own as well. The collab post up is coming very soon on social media! 



Chris

Saturday, September 29, 2018

My Final Thoughts on Amazing Race Canada 6

             It has been over 2 weeks since Amazing Race Canada: Heroes Edition has concluded it's season and in today's blog post I want to briefly talk about it with my thoughts as I have now had 2 weeks to think about it and I want to briefly talk about it in today's Blog. First thing I would like to say is, am I happy with Adam and Courtney winning? Of course I am, just really hoped to see Martina and Phil in the final 3 but it is what it is and I am so glad they went that far and honestly I would like to see them both back in another season of Amazing Race Canada in an All-Star edition or Unfinished Business if we decided to go a similar approach like the states did.  Also would also like to see back Leanne and Mar to come back along with Todd and Anna from this season but this is only my thoughts or opinions.


               However I really, really did like this season, the last 3 seasons I actually did enjoy and was excited for the past several seasons and I cannot wait to see if it gets renewed for a 7th season and I will be talking about that in a bit. I was really excited this season for a few reasons. The first point I want to make is both Martina and Phil followed me on Social Media which I got excited and i mean excited, excited! Also I couldn't wait for the next episode to see what happened. This season I was very invested in the season and got right into it compare to previous seasons and I am not sure why but that's OK, was a season I will never forget actually. 


             Finally do I think they will renew for another season? I think so, I think they will do another season and I cannot wait to see what kind of theme or where they go and I like the mixture between countries outside Canada and actually in Canada so I really like the mix they do in the season. Let's just say our version has a very unique touch to it. 



Chris

Friday, September 28, 2018

The Binding of Isaac Video Game Progress! [UPDATE]

               The video game, The Binding of Isaac, it's been a crazy adventure and yet I have not yet finished the game. It has been some struggles during the game and I can be honest, certain parts can be frustrating and it has been really hard to go all the way then fail in the end when you are close to defeating Mom, one of the bosses in the video game. However there is the positive side things I am getting much stronger in the game and getting the skill I need to get 100% Platinum God. The one thing that does fear me is getting to the devil or Shioeld which is the other boss I have to deal with it but if I put my mind to it, I am sure I can beat it too. I can honestly say, I almost actually beat Shioeld and quite a proud moment for me to almost beating it. I still got quite a way to go, I am not even half way right now, I am at 44% completed with 1001 Hours playing the game. 


             My plan moving forward is to get all the challenges completed along with any other goals that I have in the game. I got 56% and the number is getting smaller and smaller but in time I will have completed Isaac and ready to move onto to Rebirth which i actually do got. I bought it months ago, hoping to have beaten Vanilla Isaac but I do play it from time to time when I got some free time to play a little video games which is becoming more often now with my schedule very much clear. One thing I am worried is beating a level in hard mode but hey i am definitely up for the challenge and I think down the road hopefully before I leave for the US but when I get back I will get back into the swing of things as of October. Again I will talk about it a week from now when I am 24 hours from actually leaving for Minnesota with my parents. I am excited to complete this game and move on with Rebirth and After Birth as well.



Chris

Thursday, September 27, 2018

St Patties Day and Card Playing Episode of The Entertainment Man Talk Show (Throwback Thursday Story)

            Decided to give you guys another The Entertainment Man Talk Show Throwback story and like I said before, I got plenty of em to give to you guys, such as this one particularly was a neat story and was a running joke in the series from season 2 and on as it made the show much more funnier and the views went up greatly on em too which is great, it was always about what you guys liked in the way of content and making sure it was entertaining as well too!  First part is the St Patties Day episode which was a fun filled episode which i actually cooked up col cannon which is an Irish dish. We actually were picking on someone we know but all in fun at the end of the day and I still yet to give Gordie that Col Cannon recipe to this day, dang it! lol. Also it was so much fun to do and I will never forget this episode ever.This day also was actually on St Patrick's Day, we scheduled the filming on March 17th. 


                The next part is the card game episode where we play and talk about playing two different card games, first UNO which is now a popular game to this very day and of course a very fun game to play as well. I believe it was UNO that we started with, had to remember almost 10 years ago since we shot that episode actually, it's... been a long time since this happened but it will be a memorable episode that's for sure and maybe I can do a post for my all time favorite episodes of this series at a later time and date. Anyways, next on my list is The Skip Bo game which both Eric, Gordie & I played a very short round of Skip Bo and of course I had to say the word s**t on camera which had to be bleeped out but still fun times as McJuggernuggets would always say. That was one of my favorite episodes during the season but to be honest that was one crazy season with 42 episodes between September 2008 - June 2009 but that is what I think. I hope you guys enjoyed this post and I miss you guys already as this is pre written and i am now in the US with Family at this time of you reading this post.



Chris

Wednesday, September 26, 2018

Not Afraid To Take Risks In Video Games

              I came into this topic from playing The Binding of Isaac which I will be doing a separate blog post on a progress update but I was playing the game and I am not afraid to take risks with the game, I am able to take a risk for example if I want to take a devil deal and take a damage up upgrade, I will not be afraid to take a risk, yes it is a risky move especially if it take you down to 2 red hearts and a bunch of sole hearts but I noticed even with that I managed to stay on the right track with that but eventually did die. Also the machine that takes hearts but gives you coins for it, if I have a ton of hearts and I am not afraid to try and break the machine to get the blood bag to get more hearts and I am getting actually pretty good at this too, I have figured out when the right time to do it and the wrong time to do it.


               Also there is the nail item that gives me sole hearts and I took that item and I kept on giving so many sole hearts, it really helped me and got me right to the end of the game and I actually beat mom, beat mom's heart and completed the level all together. I am even taking risks with the challenges as well and trying to figure out what works and what doesn't work for me in the game but sometimes it doesn't and that's OK if it doesn't. I can actually admit that I am a risk taker, I am not afraid to actually risks, I love it actually. I love to take the risks in the game, just call me a risk taker honestly. 



Chris

Tuesday, September 25, 2018

Everything About Reality TV Schedule For The Next 1.5 Weeks

                  This week and next week's schedule for Everything About Reality TV is changing due to me being out of the country for 6 days, visiting family for a wedding and as you all know I do not own a laptop nor can access social media or blog while I am away this time around unfortunately so I am working around the schedule. So here is my timetable for both this week and the follow week:

This Week:

Tomorrow (Tuesday, September 25th, 2018): 7 pm EST: Everything About Reality TV, Big Brother US Top 15 Favorite Players
                                                                            9 pm EST: Everything About Reality TV, Survivor: David Vs. Goliath Preview Cast

Next Week:

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2018: 12 pm EST: Everything About Reality TV, Hell Kitchen 18 RECAP  
                                                       9 pm EST: Everything About Reality TV, Survivor: David Vs. Goliath EP # 1 RECAP

Thursday, October 4th, 2018: 9 pm EST: Survivor: David Vs. Goliath EP # 2 RECAP

Saturday, October 6th, 2018: 9 pm EST: Everything About Reality TV, Hell Kitchen 18 RECAP  

                     
                   There is my timetable for next week in the way of podcasts and hope this does explain a lot of my reasoning behind it as I am away for 6 days starting on Wednesday of this week for a wedding in the states and I hope you all understand that I cannot be in two places at once but this is the plan for now and hope to keep with the schedule over the next week or so. Any questions feel free to contact me at anytime between now and Wednesday Morning before I leave on the big steel plane to the States. I removed this post from yesterday since I made the announcement for the other podcast.



Chris

Friday, September 21, 2018

YouTube is becoming a sinking Ship....

             I've noticed YouTubers are mentioning that videos are not being delivered to their inbox or their video is hidden due to not family friendly content and honestly where is the freedom to make what content as you want as long as it does not break the terms of service like back in the day but not it's all about them making money, not the content creators and it is truly sad this to see this happening especially those who have have grinded for 6 - 8 to 10 years or more on their content to get millions or even hundreds of thousand of subscribers and their content is now being hidden. or being demonetized which now YouTuber are struggling to making a living out of making videos for their fans. I'm sure some YouTubers have moved over to twitch to live stream their lives on the IRL category which they got a good chance if they make affiliate and/or partner on the website. 


               I am glad I bailed out of YouTube when I did or I probably more then likely have to deal with YouTube going downhill and it probably would really hurt me in the process and honestly I think I probably end up leaving YouTube all together anyways as I know my subscribers probably end up not getting my videos that get put up so either way my decision to leave 2 years ago was the best move as YouTube is starting to go downhill and Everything About Reality TV had no place on YouTube and not even in the nearby future. I wish YouTube would fix the notifications of a video as now you have to hit the notification bell in order to get notified a new video is up so their algorithm is not the greatest to this day but it is what is it, YouTube has definitely changed over the last 2 years since I left and I have said this many times, I am glad I made change in my life when I did. 



Chris

Tuesday, September 18, 2018

Do I Think Quitting Is A Sign of Weakness?

              I was thinking about this while in church back and it really made me think, is quitting a sign of weakness? Well, I have been thinking about it for the last few days now and there are many things that come to my mind when it comes to quitting and I know you will gave me a really hard time when it came to quitting YouTube but I will talk about two differences in today's post and I can tell you there is sure a difference and I will get that in a moment. This is actually a tough topic to talk about as I know I left or as most of you will say I quit YouTube but I will explain everything in this blog post because there is most definitely a difference from quitting and walking away after many, many years as a YouTuber and that is why I am writing this blog post for you guys today.


                So the first of 2 points I would like to make is if you quit after 7.5 years, that is not being a quitter, it is you moving on and that is what exactly I did so there is a difference but if you do something as long as I have, then yea most definitely I'd consider it moving on and I know you guys were quite mad or upset when I suddenly decided to move on from YouTube but I could of done one last video and left the channel but I realize when I changed emails I should of downloaded the videos first, mainly the web series the most first. 7.5 years is a long time and a long time for grinding on videos daily and I admit I was quit burnt out after all of this.  Call it what you want but I hope this kind of does explain things to you guys why I left when I did. This also goes with video broadcasting which will be changing soon and that will be a different blog post for another day, possibly tomorrow or Friday. 


                  Now to quit non stop, that is a sign of weakness, no offense to any of you, but to quit non stop, it doesn't look good on you and also you do let your fans down as well in the process and I know because I was there when I was quitting Twitch on and off several times up to me being banned for the first time in little over a year since being banned on another site but that's in the past technically. I have been in your shoes since 2016 and even know I still question myself why am I still doing online media but the reason why is because I am passionate about this field and that is what matters. You have to still have the passion and drive to continue on even when the going gets tough keep on going no matter what. If you need a break, take one, I've done that in the past and I will touch on taking breaks when you need it one another blog post.




Chris

Monday, September 17, 2018

Weight Loss Update (My New Plan Moving Forward) [EDITED]

             I have sure derailed my diet and gained and lost weight on and off and i need to start losing weight and get myself down to 180 - 185 pounds again which is my goal weight at this point. I am going to be cutting down on things but not entirely but I have to have it in my diet but not in a big quantity. So what am I going to be cutting down on? Well here is my list of what I would like to give up for the duration of this diet as I wanna get this diet done soon as I have been on it for nearly 2 years. Anyways here is my list of what I would like to cut down on:

1) Sugar, the amount of sugar intake I have during the daytime.

2) Bread, I think that is part of the reason why I ended up going up in the weight as bread is one of the reason. However, I will not cut it out completely, I will have 2 pieces of bread once a week, then 1 piece of a bread during the week. 

3) Kielbassa as I do not think it helps the weight loss situation but even once a week is fine for a treat so I will not be cutting it out completely but down by quite a bit now.

4) Chocolate which is a weakness for me and I am not tempted by it and yes I have had chocolate once a week during this diet which is fine but I am not making it a habit of always having it everyday but weekly or once and a while is fine.

5) Cookies, Chips, any junk food in general. I am trying to stay away from all of this as it was another weakness of mine as well but I think I have been doing well.


               Now one thing I want to continue is exercising which I have been doing lately and it has helped and Saturday, alone I was over 13000 steps which is amazing and I did well so exercise is going to be one of my # 1 things to do is exercise, go out for a walk for 45 minutes to an hour. Also I plan on busing it to my appointments as the exercise will be good for me to get to my appointments there and back but if it rains then I can always get a ride or just dress up appropriately for the weather. However, this is my plan and I am going to stick to my diet this time around as well.



Chris

Sunday, September 16, 2018

Ukrainian & Polish Festival 2018 In Toronto

             Yesterday, I got the opportunity to go to two festivals, the Ukrainian & Polish Festival, yes tons of food and definitely a weight gainer as you know I am on a diet right now but I took yesterday as one of my fat days for the festival and I am allowed that once and a while and yesterday was one of those days. So we left at around 10 am in the morning, drove down to York Mills Subway station and got on from there. We had to transfer at Bloor to the Bloor Danforth Line all the way over to Jane for the festival. Yes I realize it is a long way to go but worth it in the end. We got there and started to look around and we turned around and there was the parade which is do a parade that they do each and every year to launch the festival and as you can see above, there is the start of the parade. Next we walked down the street looking at some of the booths there, so many political tables which I do not know why they have to even campaign at this event as we are going into another election which will be municipal. Anyways we grabbed some food, this year we had perogies and Latke which are potato pancakes.  We finished looking around and headed on out from festival 1. 



                Then we headed our way to the Polish festival off of Roncesville in Toronto, Ontario and it was a lot to take in as it goes a very great stretch down the street. We heard some great music, Polka Music to be exact and also they had dancing as well which I have have seen polish dance before at the General Sorkorski Hall here, locally last year during Fiesta Week. As for dinner we had polish sausage on a bun which the bun was so fresh and the sausage itself was really tender and great. Another great year at both of the festivals and looking forward to going back next year with my dad once again as both him and I do this each and every year. It is always fun to go even though, there is tons of walking involved with it but it is good exercise and glad to be away from the studio for the day.




Chris

Saturday, September 15, 2018

Twitch Problems Continue!

                As most of you know, you have seen me go live a couple of times to test run on Twitch for Everything About Reality TV Podcast to actually return to video but chat decided to not load for me for no apparent reason and yet I never broke any rules whatsoever. I think I ended up getting chat banned but how when I never once spammed or broke a rule. I even asked my moderator presently in the chat at the time and they said they see the chat so I got my suspicions I got chat banned and I never broke any of the TOS which makes me quite furious honestly as I was actually looking forward to my podcast returning to video on top of the Audio ONLY as well. I don't know how long but Twitch better fix this fast or I will not be returning to Twitch and might just return to YouTube after all even tho I said I was retired from the platform but at this point I may have no choice now with the recent actions by Twitch to come out of retirement and go back to YouTube. 


                I have had issues with Twitch since the day 1 and being constantly harassed and insulted for no reason which honestly questions me even doing podcasts live down the road in the long run at this point. I even was on Twitch today watching streams and the stupid chat there no messages showing up nor the chatters list is appearing so now I have to start rethink things and figure out if I am or am I not returning to video as I would like to actually grow the podcast further but it seems I am just not welcome to the platform and plus I really hated the fact I was trolled and called an effin autistic for no reason and I banned the people for that but yet they came back so I am definitely at this point scratching Twitch off my list for even thinking about returning, even if people beg me to come back, I am officially saying this and I am retired from Broadcasting along with YouTube. I just do not see going live is a fit for the podcasts I do both the collaboration Podcasts and Everything About Reality TV Podcast. It was fun while it lasted and I will have nothing but tons of memories to remember the rest of my life.



Chris