The CBOTW Show Is Changing A Bit!

              With all the changes that has happened, The CBOTW Show is changing. Chris has made it clear he's unsure to make these big moves right away so he is waiting on certain things on the podcast. There was a point where Chris was all geared up to do The Simpsons but he felt like it wasn't the right fit for the podcast and I know you guys were excited about recaps for that series but he feels he's expanding too fast at this point. So he is slowing down his role as we just started this merger and gotta re-adjust to all of this. Maybe by September the Simpsons could be a thing on the podcast but we will see how the next month and a half goes. The next part is The CBOTW Show as he's addressed on the teams FB page what is going on with the YouTube channel which is work in progress to get things back up and running smoothly and no more issues with account being hijacked etc. However the situation is being reassessed over the next 5 or 6 days and Chris has already gotten work done with this and we will see I guess by Monday or Tuesday when he plans to announce the news to everyone.

                Also Chris has removed The Simpsons off the schedule for now, as he feels like expanding too fast is not the way to go right now. However you never know with him and his plans and I am sure in the fall he will be actually have more of an idea what the plans are with the podcast as we are still awaiting on Big Brother 22 news and really Chris hasn't mentioned the word video at this point, he is really focused but I noticed that he actually still has the YouTube channel but again that account was messed the heck up and he's unsure what the damage to it as we do have access to it again but the damage has to be assessed and he may just have to start all over again from scratch and that decision has to be made. Now he's mentioned not all shows will be on video whatsoever, some will be Audio ONLY, some will be Video if Chris and his Senior Producer decide to actually pursue YouTube down the road.  He just notified me he has a strike on his YouTube channel and cannot stream for a week which is not bad but that's not good in case there is a podcast is indeed being recorded that night as he's got a block darken out as it will be a recording night and I really have no clue what he has planned at this moment.

- Mark, Site Admin

We Had Issues With Our Account!

            We had some issues with our account for the email that we use and someone decided to post up on YouTube inappropriate content to a point where we got a warning on our account. This went on for almost a good hour and a half before we managed to reset the account and got the account reattached to the website for blogs and changed the login information to this website. We were gonna remain quiet but there is a reason behind this post. At this point Myself, both Chris's and Larry have made a very tough decision unless things are changed in the next couple of days. However what happened was not cool whatsoever and we work so hard on the website and to be destroyed within an hour and a half is no laughing matter. We are very unhappy with what has transpired and we are reassessing things right now and I am sure by tomorrow Chris will have more information on the changes to the podcast.

            However I have to say this, this has to stop, because there will be a breaking point where Chris will not wanna do this site anymore, he will walk away but I doubt he would do that really, I do not think he is wanting to walk away anytime soon. However we do not know if we will be doing video or just Audio ONLY and I am sure with more discussions going on today, that there will be an decision made but I think if we re-start from scratch on a channel then we can actually make a good run as we do not the extent of the damage to that one channel at the moment and maybe it would be best to just start over again from scratch. One final thought to this blog post for today is we beefed up security to our account so this will be prevented in the nearby from ever happening again. Anyways that is what I had to say on the situation and Chris apologizes for not being able to do a regular posts today as normally but he's become very busy trying to get the Power Rangers Podcasts up and going for you guys but he will be returning on Thursday for a regular post and I will be writing about The CBOTW Show tomorrow then his return to posts on Thursday.

Have a wonderful, Tuesday!

- CBOTW Community Manager

This Pandemic Has Thrown Me Off Kilter Again!

                 I can be honest, I am not myself anymore. I've opened up my mouth too much and I just don't why I wanna run my mouth especially about CBOTW when I have put enormous amount of hours and work into the site and team since all these changes have been made. I need to learn to keep my comments to myself especially when it comes to this here website. I know the motivation is still there but I feel like I've dragged myself with the lack of sleep lately where I am tired non stop 24-7. Not sure how on earth I get through the work load anymore to be honest with you all. I haven't been myself since being put into isolation and only out for walks and trips to the corner store on a weekly basis. However to not be able to have friends over or go hangout with friends it bothers I cannot do any of that anymore. However I find the same repetitive thing with the workload is becoming a bit of a pain in the butt but what else can I really do minus work, play games, watch T.V. and Movies. Nothing really, it's really brought me down recently and I just do not know how much longer I can hold on.... 

                To be honest my depression hasn't gotten any better and you probably can tell by my lack of updates or posts as I normally do. However I try to keep you guys up to date as much as possible and I am going to try to post a bit more or even get my Community Manager to post updates if I am not up to it. For those who really know me, I have autism and there has been days I have not taken my meds which is not a good thing really and I need to stay on the meds and I'm sure it will help with my moods but I haven't been in the best of moods lately. Really there has been day's I just did not care enough to work on things but I try to do enough work for the day and then have fun. With the way I'm feeling right now I may have to lower my exceptions for the day and even take an hour break here and there to just get myself motivated again, so maybe I need to work a daily schedule and maybe I need to schedule some time off but I will be taking a bit of time to myself once Power Rangers Wild Force is done. I napped till 130 pm yesterday so spent the entire night working hard  on posts for the week so this way I can focus on finishing up Wild Force and typing up notes and get recording. We may just get one done next week and another one the week after if possible. I know I have to get moving on Ninja Storm and Dino Thunder for October but I promise I will take a weekend off before starting the next set of seasons!

Chris

ChrisBOnTheWeb Weekly Updates! [07-19-2020]

                 Here is your weekly updates for ChrisBOnTheWeb for July 18, 2020. Well it's been a crazy week for us and we've been making temporary changes to the website to podcast stuff we can say there has been changes and change honestly is good. I've been in close contact with the boss man and he informs me of the changes. Anyways here is what has been happening around ChrisBOnTheWeb:

Website: So as Chris has mentioned in the post yesterday, we had to tweak the menu bar a little bit more as the drop down wasn't showing all the different pages that we house on the website but we have that fixed and it was him that actually noticed the issue. Like he said if there an issue on the website to send us a message on Social or send us an email thecbotwteam@gmail.com. Missing or want a feature added you can send it to us and we can look into it. Speaking of that we also removed Survivor & Amazing Race Canada and it is now under Temporary Archives which was my idea originally. Finally for this portion of the website is we're looking into a way to link our socials to help us grow as a community, grow all 3 aspects of the social media so we're trying to figure a way to do that and when we're ready to release we will let you all know.

The CBOTW Show: So recently Chris started recording episodes of The CBOTW Show, Tough As Nails RECAP Podcasts and just yesterday, he dropped a The Simpsons Recap from Season 1! I had no idea he was gonna do this weekend but it is very exciting and something different from anything he's done in the past so be sure to go check it out, here on the website, Castbox, PlayerFM, TuneIn, ITunes, etc!

                   Now much more in the updates for right now and there has been additions to our team made but we're not clearly ready to announce any of that at this moment but when the time is right, we will be sure to let you guys whether it is on Social Media or here on ChrisBOnTheWeb.com or even both. Hope you all have a wonderful week and I will be talking to you guys next week!

- CBOTW Community Manager Mark

We're Still Learning!

                I know late last night, I was tweeting out that we had a mishap with the website which Mark will talk about on tomorrow's post but I wanna make it clear that we're still learning about coding and CSS code and any other type of coding that we have actually have put onto this website. It's a learning curve with this. Trust me it's always work in progress. However over the last year, we've learned a lot about coding and website building. Neither myself or our web admin went to school for any of this. We practically learned from YouTube and Google how to put together some of the pages that you see on the website. Also the menu bar was all built from scratch which we got the code from online but customized it to our liking which has been tweaked time and time again. I love to learn and our web admin isn't the only one that works on the site, I also work on the website so he's not the only one that works in the backside of the website that works on it. 

                Either way I love to learn about new things and it has been quite a learning curve but we appreciate the patience and honestly we don't think you guys noticed really and this happened to be us that noticed the changes within the website, actually it was me as I was going through pages in the backside of the website and I saw the Special's page and went onto ChrisBOnTheWeb.com and noticed there was no special. So I talked to Mark and he said sounds like the CSS issue but I'll let him explain tomorrow. However the point I wanna make is that we're learning and we have to make sure the site look really good and just be patient. The advice we can is report the issues to us via Social DM or thecbotwteam@gmail.com. Either way we continue to learn and grow and we appreciate the patience you have had with us. 

Chris

The CBOTW Show Team & Podcast Updates!

                 We have been discussing things, between Larry, Chris (Reality Teas) and myself and a new member of the team and we have decided on a couple of things and in this post. There has been so many different developments around CBOTW and the production of sides. It is truly exciting to be honest and been holding onto this for clearly 4 - 6 hours before preparing for this big announcement post. Anyways here it goes:

- Platform Wise- We are staying Audio ONLY as the team think it is the best move even from the Producer's standpoint, meaning Executive Producer and Senior Producer that do all the Behind the Scenes prep for the podcasts and shows you hear on a regular basis. It isn't going to work now with Survivor on hold and Big Brother 22 in limbo, it isn't seen right to try and open up a channel and it is really just unknown and we're better where we are.

-  Larry: He has been named the Podcasts Senior Producer as he also is the Co-Founder of the Podcast. but he has a bit more of a say with the behind the scenes decisions for platforms etc with the shows that we put on. Also he helped me decide which shows to put into a temporary archive for the time being which are Survivor and Amazing Race are on hiatus till next year so it is in a temporary archive at the moment. 

- Other Hosts: On top of hosting their own shows which I will address in a moment, but they will get full reign of their shows, they get to produce and host their own shows. In no way shape or form will Larry or I will be involved which they will be responsible for their own shows. They will have to follow our guidelines for shows which is a guide for them and I know they got no problem with that. 

              Now the shows is the next questions you may ask is who is hosting what with the podcasts? Well here is the list of who is hosting what and what shows still need to be filled eventually:

Shows & Hosts:

Survivor: Billy

Big Brother U.S: Chris (Reality Teas)

Tough As Nails: Chris, Executive Producer

The Simpsons: Chris, Executive Producer

Power Rangers: Host: Chris, Executive Producer; Co-Host: Larry, Senior Producer

Shows That Are Open And Looking For Hosts:

Big Brother Canada

Amazing Race (Will Be Hosting Amazing Race Canada as well) 

Amazing Race Canada (Will Be Hosting Amazing Race as well)

Chris 

Start Of My Reality TV Chatter in 2013 (Throwback Thursday)

                This started back in 2013 when I was still a YouTuber, this was before the Reality TV era and when I knew Larry who's now my Senior Producer who really needs to be promoted to EP (Executive Producer) as well as he's done so much for me over the years and deserves a more of a promotion as he's helped me start this entire journey nearly 5 years ago. Anyways I was just tweeting about Reality TV, Survivor, Big Brother, Big Brother Canada as most of you know that is when BBCAN came out and actually when I met a lot of you and big shoutout to Alyssa on Twitter who I've been friends and she's been a loyal follower of ChrisBOnTheWeb even before the name came to be... LOL.. I met Sean from Sensibly Cynical Podcast I think last year but really do not remember. Getting old over here, slowly hitting 35... smh! Anyways I connected with so many of you, Dusty, Reality Teas (Chris) who is actually on my Staff right now for Big Brother USA! The list is large I cannot name everyone as we've got like 3200 + followers unless that's gone down recently as it fluctuates on a daily basis.  Either way without the Amazing Race, Big Brother, Big Brother Canada, Tough As Nails, The Simpsons, Power Rangers And Survivor fans, we wouldn't be doing what we're doing to this day. We have become a big success because of you guys continuously supporting us through all the ups and downs we have, the laughs and the tears. 

                  I am so happy I met you all and made so many great friends over the years and I cannot thank you all enough. 2013 is a long time ago, 7 years to be exact and I am glad I built a bit of a following in that department before this journey began in February 2015 with the trial runs of talking Reality TV before Everything About Reality TV became a thing and then to go on to merge with the now The CBOTW Show.  I remember when I started to tweet about Reality TV I wasn't getting many hits and with me tweeting about Tough As Nails, I've gotten likes from the Executive Producers and host of Tough As Nails which really surprised me actually. Not just that but connecting with one of my favorite Big Brother Alumni, Talla from Season 1. I remember being on her stream I happen to blurt out the numbers 191999 LOL and she said I saw that! Haha. Her reaction was priceless.  I've connected with other Reality Stars some from Survivor, Amazing Race, Amazing Race Canada. None from Big Brother US yet but never know it could happen. What I am trying to say is without any of the love and support this would of probably gone away.very fast and here we are almost 5 years in still going strong, maybe even stronger then we were before.  That is my throwback story and I had to tell and we've built such a strong amazing community and let's continue to build this community for years to come! 

Chris

Neon Abyss Demo Review

               I heard about this game through Twitch Streamer, YouTuber and Winner of Big Brother 10 and runner up of Season 14, Dan. As you all know I am a huge fan of his and been watching his content for years now and never miss a daily video. Anyways he introduced to his Twitch viewers and I was in his room and I've seen him post up. Anyways the game is Neon Abyss which is a rogue like shooter game. It's like Spelunky and it is more Isaac like as I have had the privilege to try a Demo of the video game. I really like it and in the last week or so I have actually gotten time to try it out and today I got to play and got up to 4 levels down but there is a time limit for the demo but as of today I believe it is released and I need to see how much it is actually to decide whether I am getting it or not right away but either way I like this game. I had a lot of fun and it reminds me of Spelunky and also The Binding of Isaac and I enjoyed my time playing it. I actually got to 4 levels and also beat it in under an hour as I did a speed run. Only issues I have with the game is the coin amount below I cannot see but I think it has to do with the size of the game window which probably can be fixed.

              Anyways this demo I get the grasp of the game and it definitely has a similarity to Isaac and honestly I enjoyed it, I would definitely get this game even if it goes down in price I would actually get it but if it is like 70 something dollars but I think I will wait it out but we'll see as I said today it is coming out or tomorrow around today it is suppose to be coming out. I'd love to do a playthrough of this game on my own spare time. I would give this game a 10 out of 10 and I cannot wait to play it. I might just get the game actually expensive or not I may put some money aside and get it. Once I started to play I got hooked right away. Now I cannot say too much as I am limited what I am currently am playing but the floating eggs reminds me of the orbitals and the actually the bosses were just like on the Binding of Isaac actually. Whenever I get this game, I promise to do a more of a thorough assessment of this game and give it a proper review then this one. Least this gives you a taste of what I've seen so far through the demo copy. Maybe if one day a gaming company may give me a early access to review you never know could be a path but I wanna do more reviews, maybe movies, TV Shows and even video games in the very nearby future.

Chris 

Are We Ready To Open Our Studio Again?

               The answer to that question is no, we are not ready to open the studio up to Larry or any of the team at this point cause of the pandemic is still on going and I am taking every precaution we can to avoid getting ill. i know with our studio on lock down still questions towards our Power Rangers Podcast but that is least of our worries honestly and we have a plan in case but honestly not in any rush to have Larry here and he knows this too. Staying healthy and having our staff safe is the upmost importance right now. I couldn't tell you when Larry and I will be back in the studio together and yea I admit to it, I miss seeing him in person. Getting tired of talking to him through Skype when I wanna see him physically in person but again this will be sooner then we expect with restrictions slowly being lifted up here I'm sure there will be a time and place him and I will see each other. Won't be at the mall anytime soon as I am not planning to return to the mall at any point in the nearby future till we know we are over this hump of this pandemic but it won't be going away it could come back in a second wave in the winter but who knows.

               The positive thing out of all of this is Larry and I have a plan to actually record through Skype if this continues to go longer and we have a plan in place and raring to go. Only difference is we will not have the same quality of sound but hey beggers cannot be choosers. We just have to be patient and we need to go with our plan to do things online for now till we are in a clear where we can be physically near each other again, and be together once more.  Right now is not the right time to do that and hopefully very, very soon we can start hanging out with one another again and things get back to a more of a normal schedule for us but we'll see. That is my mini post for the day and I will see you in the next post tomorrow.

- Chris

Big Brother Canada Is RETURNING for a Season 9!

                 For certain reasons, Chris is unavailable right now to make this post but he sends his apologies as he is spending time with his Fam right now which is very important to him. As I sit here writing a post for you guys, I am excited for Chris, Reality Teas & Larry and the rest of the Production Team that puts on The CBOTW Show on a weekly basis, depending on the shows currently on air. However as you all know is that Chris and the rest of the team have been struggling with the podcasting world as shows have been on hold of not as many shows on the air right now but today changes everything for not just us but the entire fan base. The title doesn't lie that Big Brother Canada is returning for a 9th Season. We found out back last month that the show was put on Hold till we know further with the pandemic as you all know but I guess with the news of us going into Stage 3 of re-opening things. Also Arisa Cox has been promoted as Executive Producer which I have to say is well deserved! She will have a part in casting for the show and also the basic storyline within the house.

                So we are very excited for this news and look forward to the next season of Big Brother Canada. I know Chris really wants to make it up to Larry for no Big Brother Canada Finale this year and he wants to make it up to him. So this is indeed good news and just have to wait to see if their is casting for this season or if they will end up doing All-Stars next season to the pandemic, however it could have online auditions and no open casting calls to cover up the fact that they are doing all stars like they did with the US All-Stars. Will they use the same house design or will they redesign the house again? I would keep it the same as it would save money for production and it was only 4 weeks in the season so they can use the challenges that were not used as they were forced to shutdown production early this year. However we will have to wait and see what they have stored for the 9th season of Big Brother Canada. What are your thoughts on this season? Let us know in the comments below!

- Mark, Community Manager

The CBOTW Show Hit It's 275th Episode Yesterday!

             For those who didn't know that yesterday, we hit our 275th Episode of The CBOTW Show! However I know it only had about 9 episodes in total but with the merger of the two podcasts it has gained a ton more episodes. However I shouldn't be complaining really as the podcast has changed so much since the merge and it's time to start this growth of a podcast. But this is the longest running project I have done in episode wise. As you know when the two merged together it gained it's start date to 2015 and it's gained all the episodes hence we are now at our 275th episode in total which mind you it's craaazy! The most in a series that I have done is about 112 episodes and I have well surpassed that mark and now my next move is EP # 300 which isn't that far off from now. It might be me that hosts EP # 300 or it could be Chris (Reality Teas) who hosts it never know. This podcast has evolved over the years and this was the biggest move we have made yet. What do I mean? I literally gave up and retired Entertainment Man Podcast just to continue to build The CBOTW Show Podcast and make this the best podcast yet! I am excited right now with what is in the plans.

              Either way I cannot wait to expose the plans that we have but I cannot say a lot right now till we know further on some of the shows but just you wait. I am working on a timetable for Video and Audio ONLY that is reasonable and will work for us. I can tell you guys this I already got video side of things already raring to go. With our 275th, I am still figuring out what platforms the podcast is on as right now we are just getting back on certain platforms, such as TuneIn.com and IHeartRadio but it would take some time actually till it is back. I have to start checking around to see if we have already expanded to others but it is time for this expansion as we're not a young podcast anymore, we're becoming an older podcast and we're ready to expand on the shows and team. However I have said too much and I will leave it at that and here is to another 275 amazing episodes! 

Chris