 The Adam Does Movies show. I still don't know how to start this. Ooh, the Adam Does Movies live stream. Welcome. I hope you guys are having a good Tuesday night. I just got back from seeing Napoleon, the two and a half hour saga epic about a real gem of an individual, Napoleon. Gotta tell ya, kinda getting sick of these long ass movies. I don't get it, Hollywood. People already have a hard time staying focused as it is. Why are you making movies so long? That said, I had a good time with it. Not a bad flick by any means. I don't think you have to rush out and see it all the same, unless you're a big history slash war buff. Maybe that's your cup of coffee. For me, it was fine. It was paced well, it was good. I'll have a review on the channel, probably tomorrow. We could do a live review. That worked so well last time. Probably not gonna do that again for a while. As you might know from the title, it is my birthday. It's actually not my birthday today. It's on the 23rd, which is in two days. That's also Thanksgiving. Thanks, America, for making this random ass floating holiday that sometimes lands on my big special important day that we don't really celebrate. I don't want my family making a big deal out of it. I try to hide away. I'm not one of those guys. My wife's big into the pageantry. She likes that stuff. She likes doing presents and making a whole spectacle decorating the house. And over the years, I've made it very clear. I don't celebrate this. It depresses me. I'm 41 years old now, 41 years young, 41 years fun. I thought to celebrate, since my birthday is so close to the end of the year, we would take a look back on 2023, on the accomplishments, on the failures. And we would look to the future because that's really what's important, the future. And I see right out of the gates, shot out of a cannon. Joseph Blasco gifts one Adam Does Movies membership. Joseph, in the last month or so, has just been this unsung hero of these live streams really coming through with these subscriptions. He wants people to join Adam Does Movies because he knows there's value. There's endless value. You not only get these cool little icons next to your name that you show your support, they change every couple months to show your tier level of support. They also come with a perk of 300 free videos that only you get to see. I mean, all my content's free. But these guys, these are special ones from my past that are hidden behind a $1 paywall a month or more, depending on what you wanna give. So thank you, Joseph. And he has one more, a 24. The price he gives us so good, $24.11. Adam Does Aging, he says. Yep, we all do it. We all do it. It's a cold harsh truth of the world. We're all gonna grow old and die. On that note, let's go over some of the stuff I did this year. Let's take a look back. I took notes, copious notes right before this stream. Had a busy day at work. Actually, the last couple of weeks has been just a whirlwind of work and family, Olivia's and Volleyball's have been taking her to that stuff. Lindsay's been sick as a dog. She's finally better, now Connor's sick. If we listen closely, we might be able to hear the pitter patter of his coughing, choking on his own spit and disgust. I hope not. Hopefully the kid sleeps well. We got him some meds. Hopefully we'll conk him out and I won't see him tomorrow at all. I'll just stay in bed hibernating. All right, I'd like to start with the accomplishments or with the failures. Let's start with failures. Let's start on a sour note. And to be frank, you can be Mark if you want. To be frank with you, there's not a lot of failures on my list. If you would have asked me two years ago if you would have said sir, how do you call me sir? Sir, what did you accomplish this year in 2021 on YouTube? This is a YouTube accomplishments list, by the way. This isn't a work, family, whatever. This is just specifically to the channel. I would have said, don't talk to me weirdo. I don't know you, okay? I don't know you. But then I would have said, well, since you asked, there's a lot of bad things that have happened. I was losing subscribers. No one was watching my videos. I wasn't really showing up in any of the algorithms. This was a couple of years back. It was bad. I neglected the audience. I focused on a lot of different types of shows. Most of them were failures. But now in 2023, things are different. Things have really turned the corner in the last couple of years. The biggest failure for me, and it brings a tear to my eye is I wanted to hit. It was a big goal. I wanted to hit 100,000 subscribers by end of year. Did we get there? No. In fact, we didn't even get close. But again, you got to shoot big. And for me, 100,000 is a lot of subscribers. That's a big number. As of right now, the channel's at 72,736 subscribers. And you might think, wow, Adam, that's not that far from 100,000. Well, you have to understand, I gain only a few a day. It's a very, very slow race to the top of the middle of the pack. I'm gonna throw a star for you. Only 1%, no, that's not right. I should actually look it up. I looked it up not that long ago. I think it's 10%. Only 10% of YouTube channels even hit 1,000 subscribers. What, let's look it up. So I'm not making stuff up. What percentage of YouTube channels have 1,000 subs? Get to 1,000, then go the next milestone. Da, da, da, da, da. Only 8.8% of channels have 1,000 subscribers. Wow, that number is actually worse than the 10% I floated. So by that metric, we're doing good. But I wanna do better. And I think we can get there. I brought, you know what's nice about YouTube is they have this handy analytics thing in the backend. So you can see the crushing reality of things. So I wanna go back. I wanna jump in the DeLorean and head to 2022. In 2022, this is when I really took the channel serious again, put in the work. Got 1 million, you know what? Just shy of 2 million views, 1.9 million views. Which was, this is the craziest number. This was a 72% growth from 2021. Can I see 2021 in here? I cannot. That's a shame. That's 72% growth from 2021. That's how bad the channel was doing. That's the level of sadness running through Adam does movies. Watch time was at 135,000, which was 43% more. And subscribers 5.9,000. 5,900, almost 6,000 for the year. Now we go to this year, 2023. It's still a work in progress. We still have a month and a half left. Viewers went up to 2.3 million. A decent bump. The YouTube shorts help a lot. 36% bump from last year. Months, you know, the year's not over. So we might get to 2.5. We'll see. Watch time 135,000 hours. That's the exact same as last year. 135,000. Oh, we're actually a little over 135.3. And we have a little bit left to go. But the subscribers is the failure. This is the part of the story that I don't like. Subscribers gained this year 4.4, 4,400 new subscribers. Last year, 5,900. I have more views this year, more watch time, and less new subscribers. What is going on? That's a failure on my part. Not converting viewers to subscribers. So a big focus for the next year is going to be really prompting people early on in my videos to hit the subscription. It's obnoxious. I apologize, but it's something I can quickly throw out there in the first 30 seconds or a minute. I have the little subscribe come up. A lot of people don't watch the video. They listen. So just doing that extra thing of saying, hey, make sure to subscribe to the channel. That's it. It's all we have to do. And I think that those numbers will go up just from that alone. And not sucking. Not sucking is also a big thing. If I could get away from that, that'd be great. Joseph's back again, with another Adam Does Movies membership gifted to a stranger. I don't know who these go to. Thank you, Joseph. That's really awesome of you. I appreciate it, sir. Celebratory drink of water for that. So yeah, it didn't hit 100,000 subscribers. And if you think about the pacing that we're at, if I'm gaining around 5,000 subs a year, and we're going to end the year with, what did I say? What are we at? What are we at? 72,000, 34,000, around, we might end around 73,000. The real goal for next year should probably be 80,000 by the end of next year. In 2040, I'm going to get that plaque from YouTube, that silver play button, but let's be real honest. And let me get down to, let me make myself feel better. The subscriber number is bullshit. It doesn't matter. In a lot of ways, it doesn't matter. Is there prestige that comes along with it? Is it a bragging thing? Of course, you can say, hey, not a big deal. I run a channel with 100,000 subscribers. Run a channel with 40,000 subscribers. That's impressive to people. But it doesn't mean anything if those subscribers aren't actually watching the channel. And I don't have 70,000 views of video. Videos usually sit around anywhere from 1,500 to 6,000. That's usually the ballpark range. Nothing, nothing amazing. It's actually pretty impressive if a video gets over 10,000 views at this point. And I don't even, that doesn't bother me that much. It kind of bothers me. In the back of my mind, it bothers me that there's other people that I think are less sincere and less good at this. They get way more views, but you gotta push that stuff away. You gotta, I focus on myself now. That was a big goal of this year was to block out all the bullshit and just focus on myself. Speaking of blocking out the bullshit, hack the movies with a beautiful $5 super chat. Happy birthday, Adam. You're the brother I never had or wanted with an exclamation mark. Very aggressive. Kind of a, you know, both a compliment and a huge sinister throw onto the bus moment. Really, really evil and kind of awful. Hack the movies is Tony. If you're not subscribed to Hack the Movies, go ahead. He earned his $5 super chat for that plug. There you go, Tony. Run over to hack the movies. He is actually a great guy. I love the collabs with him. That's another thing I wanna talk about in a little bit or collaborations. Yeah, we didn't hit the subscribes, which is a shame. Oh, that's actually next on my list. Lack of collabs slash exposure, I put. The real, this is almost like a tutorial for people who are trying to make it on YouTube or in other social media platforms. You cannot rely on the algorithm or Google or whatever search metrics you think are gonna be in your favor to be in your favor. No one's gonna find your shit anymore. In 2023, millions of hours of video uploaded every single minute on these platforms. Every single minute you're competing with millions of hours of video, it's wild. So you have to find ways to get yourself noticed, whether it's saying incredibly outrageous, terrible things on Twitter slash X, whatever that dumb thing's called, to making a complete ass of yourself by streaking naked across the streets. I mean, that's not even intense anymore. You have to really go crazy if you have no self-respect and you're willing to just do any sort of depraved thing you can for the lulls and for the views. Or the more practical thing that will garner you some actual decent people on your platform is to slowly build up a community and really get yourself in front of the camera on other people's channels by doing collabs. I started doing them on my live stream. I had some pretty fun guests on, not that long ago. Tony's always welcome. He comes on, I go on his show all the time. It's a good back and forth. Some others haven't been quite as favorable for me where I have them on, it's not reciprocated. So I just, I have to in 2024, really just hold in my pride, continue to do collabs with people and hope that they'll return the favor. Or I guess I can like, pathetically go, hey, can I come on your channel too, sir? Can I please join your channel and get the exposure from your end of the things? I guess I can suck up my pride and do that. The last thing on my failure is Patreon. So Patreon had a decent beginning of the year. I offered this Kulu incentive for Mithril members. That was the $30 membership tier and you could pick out a movie and I would watch and review it, $30 believe it or not, not that much money to watch a two-hour film, write down notes, film, edit, all that. It ended up being a lot of work. I was stressing out like crazy over it. I wasn't meeting deadlines. I pushed it to like, okay, every three months you get a review, still way too much work. I just, I can't begin to explain how I don't want this job, which this is a job, to feel like a second miserable job. Movies have always been a passion to me. I don't want it to feel like, oh my God, I'm not making my investors happy. Patreon and YouTube join was never meant to be a place where I had to answer to investors. And some people look at it like that, like, hey, you know what, I'm paying a premium price. I expect this service in return. And that's fair on their part. It's stupid on my part for setting that expectation. What it should be is, hey, you're at this tier because you like my content, you got the money to throw at it and I really appreciate you for it. And every once in a while, how about I reach out or you just hit me up and say, hey, Adam, why don't you do this on the channel? And we can have a discussion about it, which is why I, in the last four or five months, changed the Mithril membership to be movie roasts. So there's a big list of movies that all roast and you can pick from that when you join up for Mithril. And after that, every few months, well, my TV like, it looked like it flickered or something. Just out of control. I think it's the lightning. Every so often you can pick another one. That's working much better. Did I lose a lot of patrons because of it? Yes, but in the long run, it's making me a lot happier. I don't have that extra layer of stress. I mean, you have no idea. I'd be pacing around the house thinking, I don't know when I'm going to go watch this movie and review it, then do these 14 Patreon requests that I have piled up plus my day job. It was just a shit show. That was a big failure on my part of live and learn situation for sure. We got Joseph Bla- Joseph Blasco, just the hero that we, that I don't deserve, but I need $12.83 super chat. Meadow states, they are super chatting, but being seen? Meadow states, they are super chatting, but being seen. Oh, Meadow. Okay, so that's a person in the regular chat. I super chat on a different channel, not this one. Sorry for misunderstanding. I'm not sure what other channel there is. Oh, maybe he's doing bits. Okay, so this is streaming on Twitch as well. Yeah, this is streaming on Twitch as well. I apologize. I don't see Twitch. I guess I can see Twitch bits come in if I go to the regular comments section. It's just hard to jump back and forth. Orange Gat cheered 100 bits. Thank you, Orange Gat. I'm trying to go back and kind of look through it, but of course this is on the podcast, so I can't spend a lot of time with this disaster. That does remind me on Twitch. Well, that's another thing. I can get to Twitch in a little bit, but whatever. When this stream is over, I will be on Twitch afterwards doing a little video gaming like I have been doing. So if you're on Twitch right now watching, which there's probably one of you doing that, afterwards the stream's gonna end on both platforms and then a new stream will start on Twitch. Okay, what was the last one? Joseph Blasco, thank you, Joseph. And then I get another one from Joseph not being seen. He corrected himself for two more dollars. Sky, I love it. And then for $5.18, what's your best cut? Memberships, Patreon, Superchats. They're all, honestly, Joseph, I don't actually know. I think if Tony's still here, he can correctly answer. I think YouTube takes 40% across the board. So every Super Chat, let me Google it. What percentage of Superchats does YouTube take? 30%, so super fans making Super Chat payments can pay him out from $1 to $500. You will notice, however, that you don't get to keep all the revenue earned in the Super Chat. YouTube slash Google keep about 30% of the money earned. Isn't that nice of them? Man, they're making a lot of money. They're making a lot of money. All you have to do is design a platform where people can host videos. They can do the work for you and then you can just eat up the profits. It's awesome. So Patreon doesn't take a ton. What percentage of membership does Patreon take? Patreon makes money by taking a cut of all creator earnings. Patreon currently takes between 5% and 12%, depending on the product plan chosen by the customer. Okay, what percentage of membership does YouTube take from join memberships? 30%, wow. That means if a viewer pays $5 for a membership, YouTube keeps $1.50 and a creator gets $3.50. Sounds like Twitch or on Patreon takes the least amount. Wow, that's fucking huge, dude. Twitch, I should point out, Twitch is if you have the Amazon Prime account and you become a subscriber on Twitch on my channel, not a follower that's different than a subscriber, followers free, subscription costs money. Unless you have Amazon Prime, you get a free subscription every month. You can just subscribe to Adam Does Movies on Twitch, doesn't cost you anything. And then again, Bezos takes some of that money, but I get like, again, like $3 or something. Thanks as always, Joseph. And then we have, is this Joseph again? Joseph Blasco, 1452, 30% and then a bunch of explosives, yeah, it's wild. It really is. Big Kahuda for $5 with a super chat. Dude, I agree with 94.742% of what you say in your reviews. I could talk movies with you for days, weeks or maybe even months. Does that sound weird? No, that sounds awesome. That's the entire point of my YouTube channel and it always has been. When I started with my buddy Corey way back when I lived in Minnesota and worked at a place called Infinity Direct, that place sucks, by the way. We would debate about movies and we said, why aren't we doing this on a channel? And I proposed it to him. I said, Corey, do you remember Siskel and Ebert? Why don't we be Siskel and Ebert on YouTube? There is no Siskel and Ebert on YouTube. And that was the whole, like a new generation of it. And that was how it kind of started. It never really went that way though, fully. And of course, you know, of course not on the show anymore or hasn't been in years. But yeah, we just like talking movies and debating movies. So that's always been the point, big Kahuna. And that is a big goal for the next year. Now that my streaming setups pretty damn solid and things are going well, I do wanna have people join the lives and we can talk and debate movies. And it'll be fun. We'll do it maybe at if it's a Patreon tier perk or a YouTube join member tier perk or you just super chat like 20 or 30 bucks and you can join the live stream and debate for a while. That's gonna be the way I take this at some point next year. That's a big goal of mine. Man, these super chats are coming in. It's awesome. Meadow for $5, just look out for you. Oh wait, just looking out for you. Just look out for you. Just looking out for you. Today I commented on Cody's live stream with Sean Chandler asking if they could do a live stream with you. They're down. Oh, well thank you Meadow, I appreciate that. Let me see if they reached out to me. Maybe I just have to reach out to them. They did not reach out to me but I can always message them. Were you like, hey, Adam's been crying, vaguely crying on his live streams without calling you guys out by name but we all know who he's talking about and he's just sitting there stewing. Thank you Meadow, I appreciate it. Brian Babin, how's it going Brian? $12 Super Chat, fan request. Strong female leads. And quite frankly, it's about time. If not, take my $12 either way. Brian, I will dance for $12 every time and Khaleesi Grimes, you know he's a shill. You know Khaleesi Grimes is a shill. It's a character I played if you don't know what I'm talking about. Khaleesi Grimes was my spirit animal in a lot of ways. All right, that's it for the failures. Good news is the accomplishments are awesome. I'm very happy with everything. Outside of the sad, not hitting 100,000 subs. I'm very happy with the rest of this year. All right, in the past, not believe it or not 2022, this is the 2023. I'm sorry, this is the first year where I didn't start a show and have it fall down in a fiery pit of hell. This is the first year where all the stuff I started continued to go well. So, we just brought up Khaleesi Grimes 82. That was a show called The Cringe. I did it a couple of years ago, tried bringing it back a couple of times. A lot of people were confused when they would come to my channel. They wouldn't understand I was doing a parody. I get it. A lot of people just wanted to hear me talk about movies. They didn't want these like fake, you know, shill critic reviews from Khaleesi Grimes. So all those can be found as a Patreon slash YouTube join perk at any tier level. There's, I don't know how many episodes, 40, 50. There's a lot of episodes. That show is fantastic. I love doing it was my favorite show to do. Filled miserably. But people like Khaleesi Grimes 82. I tried doing a show where I was a boss named Jonathan Cross who would come up with movie ideas, but they were horrible. And that was funny. I thought that was really funny. It didn't work. I had another show where I kind of brought Khaleesi Grimes back for this back and forth debate. Filled miserably. A lot of failures and that's okay. We live and learn. I like to try new things. I like to be creative and put myself out there. Accomplishments in 2023. The shows that I started, movie roasts. I freaking love this show. People seem to be liking it. The views on those videos tend to be pretty good. The engagement is very good on those. The challenge with movie roasts is I show a lot of the movie. It's basically beginning to end. Three second clips. And I get freaking copyright flag like you wouldn't believe. Every time, I shouldn't say every time. Disney is like really lax about copyright. I noticed on YouTube it's... Honestly from them, I'm really surprised. I never really have problems with Disney related stuff. Paramount's garbage. Universal sucks. Anytime I do something from those, it's like instant boom copyright. You can't use that. And I don't even use the audio most of the time. It's me talking over it. But the movie roasts are fantastic. They're between 16 to 30 minutes long of me just shredding the shit out of the film. It's all in good fun. Some people take offense to things I say. I like that. I like that people are listening and having fun and getting upset sometimes because comedy should be like that. It should have a range of emotions. And it's where I feel my best. When I get to actually sit and script out these things and look back on it and be proud. Okay, I love movie roasts. Started live streaming. This started this year. Not at the beginning of the year. My wife's idea, two of the things on here, my wife's idea, I should listen to her more. Adam, do live streams. You just have to put yourself out there and do them. Lindsay, I'm scared shitless to do live streams. I don't have control over a live stream. I don't get to edit them. I don't get to take out the mistakes when I trip over my own words like I just did. And she said, you have to do it. Put yourself out there. People want to listen to you talk. And so I did. It started out rocky, but we made it work. And I'm very happy with the live streams. I love the people watching. I love the engagement. It's so freaking fun now. Podcast, another thing my wife told me to do. The movie podcast. This is still, I'd say it's in its infancy, it's trial phase. But I believe the Spotify podcast, and this is on a bunch of different platforms. I'm seeing the numbers, 5,251 plays already. And the podcast has only been up for, let me see how many episodes, or when I started. It looks like I started, wait, what? Five. May. I started in May. So what, six months? May, June, July, August, September, October, we're in November. Yeah, six months, seven months. That's how long it's been going. So it's been up for a decent amount of time, but it's going well. I've been porting a lot of this stuff over there now. So the Monday video is the podcast that's really tailored for audio. I'm just ranting for 15 to 25 minutes. And then I've been putting these live shows up on the podcast. I've now been putting my movie reviews up on the podcast. So really the whole channel is up there at this point outside of some random one-off lives and other things I don't feel are that great to listen to. Okay, we got more super chats coming in, powerful. What do we got? What do we have? Is this from Joe Panaccio? Joe Panaccio? I think it's Joe Panaccio, $5 super chat. Watched your Thanksgiving review and I had a similar experience. Kids clapping at inappropriate times and others just yelling at the screen. Oh, yeah. Dude, I don't even know what to say. I saw Napoleon tonight. I was scared shitless to go to the theater. My regal theater sucks so hard. I almost live streamed walking through the lobby. We're not live streaming, but doing like a video to edit later. But popcorn spilled all over the floor because some asshole spilled their popcorn and bothered to pick it up after themselves. I'm gonna leave it for the three employees to do. Bathrooms disgusting. There was a caution sign on the ground. I don't know if it was water that spilled all over. Someone's urine or vomit that they cleaned up and just left it sopping wet. I don't know. I don't want to know. The theater that I go in, it like never fails. I always go into theater 15 and there's a fucking light up top that when all the lights dim, this one doesn't. It's like the sun hitting me in the face. And so I have to leave and find a different seat every time. I hate this theater so much and there's nothing else behind me at all. I picked a state and a location within a state that is the worst movie theaters on the planet Earth. Miserable. So I feel your pain, Joe. The good news is I didn't have any problems at Napoleon itself with the audience. The audience was really good for once. Maybe it helps that it was a more adult subject matter. You know, it wasn't like Scream or even Thanksgiving like you saw. It's just such a grab bag. I hate that I have to be scared to go to a movie because I'm like concerned. There's a large portion that's concerned with how rude people are gonna be. Ugh. We got a super chat from Jan Rose, $10. Thank you, Jan. Good to see you. Happy birthday, Adam. Any fun birthday plans and the movie roasts are my favorite. Keep it up. Jan, I got a roast coming up for you at the end of the year still. It's in progress. I'm gonna talk about, oh wait, did I say that? Did I say, do I have that in my notes? I do have it. It's in my notes. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Thank you, Jan. No, I have no fun plans for my birthday. That's the goal is to not have any fun plans. My birthday is on Thanksgiving and we moved to a state without family and friends. It's pretty much just us. It's not gonna be great. It'll be fine. It'll be fine. Joseph Blasco, this guy, $17.81. Talent rises to the top. Keep doing what you do. Best comic adaptation, Sin. He said Sim City, but I'm pretty sure he means Sin City. Unless there's a Sim City movie, but that's a video game, not a comic. Sin City's awesome. I do like that movie. I think it has one of the best trailers. I still wanna do this and I keep forgetting. Thank you, Joseph. I wanna do a top 10 favorite movie trailers and Sin City's one of the top ones has this badass soundtrack on it. Another one that I thought was really good is where the wild things are. I didn't like the movie, but the trailer was great. The Good Dinosaur has a really good trailer with the, is it the Illuminers, I think, that sing the song in there? Great band, great song. Of course there's older ones that spring to mind too, but those are the three that I'm on the fly thinking of, I'd like to do that. But yeah, Sin City, great movie, the sequel, not so much. Or the sidequel, whatever the hell that thing was. What a lot of super chats. $5 super chat from Sean Lee, 88, Shan Lee, Shan Lee. I just say every, I try to say every combination that I can in the hopes that I get one of them right. Happy early birthday, Adam. My birthday and my boyfriend's birthday was yesterday. Well, happy belated birthday to both of you. My brother's birthday was like six days ago and I forgot to call and wish him a happy birthday and I still haven't called and wished him a happy birthday. So what's that make me? Greatest brother in the world? We still talk that much. There's a problem is he's so busy. My brother is so damn busy. He's like a fat cat, wall street millionaire, tycoon, insurance salesman who flies to different countries. I'll call him randomly or he'll tell me he just got back from like Ireland. He's like, oh yeah, I was just on a six day trip to Ireland. I'm like, oh, okay. How was that? He's like, yeah, that was fine. Like just cash about it. Like, yeah, no big deal. To me that would be amazing. Whenever I get to go on a plane, I'm like a kid at the candy store. Like I can't believe I'm playing again. I love it. Different worlds we live. Different paths we walk. Perm, shot out of a fucking cannon with a $20 super chat. Sup, Adam, your channel deserves one million subs for the roast alone. Talking movies with reviews and opinions is entertaining itself, but you also have a fantastic humor and creativity on top. Surprise the channel isn't bigger, firm. Respect, I appreciate that. Sometimes I'm surprised the channel's not larger myself. To be honest with you, if I could be, if I could be honest for once in my life. Joseph Blasco, just, he can't be silenced tonight. $5 super chat. Chat wants to know how old you are. How much time do we have left with you? Okay, I said it at the beginning of the stream. I know people are joining later. I am 41 in two days. I'm 40 right now. Actually, I have a second channel that I failed miserably at. Well, I have a third second channel. I had Adam Olinger was my private channel that you can only watch if you're a YouTube join member or Patreon. All those videos are private. But I have a second, second channel called Adam After Dark that I was, that for some reason I convinced myself I could do on top of this channel full-time with a full-time job. That was the dumbest thing I ever did. I'm gonna make those videos private actually. Those are gonna fold into the Patreon and YouTube join member exclusives as well. So watch them if you want right now, but in like a week or two when I remember again, I'm gonna close that channel and I'll just port those videos over to the Adam Olinger channel so that the people that wanna watch them can watch them still. But it's dead. I mean, I posted like four videos there. Long story short, I did a video last year called So This Is 40 and it was basically a three-minute skit of me bitching about being 40 and what that entails. And then I played a young version, a youth talking to myself. That was funny. I thought it was funny. This is Joseph again, gifted one Adam Does Movies membership. Joseph, what is happening with you? I appreciate this so much. Thank you, sir. King Cole, not to be outdone with the beautiful $10 super chat. It must be my birthday today. Happy birthday, bro. Happy Thanksgiving to you. Oh, he says to your family. He doesn't say it to me. He says, happy birthday to me. Happy Thanksgiving to your family. Thanks for all the fun interactions. I appreciate it, King Cole. Thanks for being an awesome member of the channel. This is lovely. This is how it should be. Matt Sclero, he likes when I say shot out of a cannon. So I'm gonna say it. Shot out of a fucking cannon with the 999 super chat. Happy birthday, man. Your regal theater is the worst. Would you like, would you like tell everyone what you thought of Point Break? Hmm, mm-hmm. Got the sniffles. I'm not catching whatever my wife and son had. Yes, Matt, I will. Matt has been begging me, pleading with me, Adam. He would say, Adam, sir. Again, he calls me sir like everybody does because I'm respected around the world. Sir, would you please watch Point Break? I'm going to kill you if you don't. He did throw a thread in there, which I didn't appreciate, but I said, Matt, booby. I got a lot of things going on and he just was, he threatened to close down his Patreon account with me. He threatened to just walk away from the channel and I'll do anything like I've pointed out for a few bucks a month. So I said, Matt, I'm going to watch this fucking movie, get off me. And I watched Point Break for the first time. I'd never seen Point Break on a channel that prides itself mainly in knowing a lot of 90s and 80s schlocky action films. And I hadn't seen Point Break and I have to tell you. Yeah, I fucking loved it. Point Break was awesome and it held up so damn well. The big reason I was scared to watch the movie was I was worried it was going to age like meat. You know, I was worried that it was going to be a terrible, miserable, cheesy, crappy film, but I was wrong. The movie is insanely quotable. The movie has some awesome action set pieces. It's got surfing, which I recently took up this year. I started surfing with my family, with my kids and I think it's awesome. So I feel like I'm in tune with that side of it. It's got a cool ass heist. It's got Keanu Reeves. It's got Patrick Swayze, both of them in their prime. Pour one out if I could fictitiously pour one out for Swayze right now. Drinking water tonight. What a sad state of affairs. This is all you know. I'm turning 41. I'm drinking fucking water. Yeah, I mean, I don't really have any hangups outside the fact that What's Her Nuts is in there. What's Her Balls is in that movie. I forgot her name. Let me look up her name. I always forget her name. No, I'm gonna remember it. I'm gonna remember it. Letty, Petty, Wetty. I can't remember. She's in a league of their own. She's in Free Willy. She's in Point Break. Come on, where is it at? Where's the name? Where is it? Laurie Petty. I was close. I was saying like Petty, Patricia, Laurie Petty. I'm not a fan of Laurie Petty. She's like a poor man's Courtney Cox. I've never been a fan of hers, but I was a big fan of this movie even though Petty was in it. She did fine. She was serviceable. It has, excuse me, it has maybe one of my favorite on foot chase scenes ever. The on foot chase scene, phenomenal. Keanu Reeves running through Johnny, oh God, what is his name? It's not Johnny Touchdown, but it's something equally as awesome. It's a four letter word. Point Break IMDB. I have to look up the name because I loved it. Johnny June, Johnny August, Johnny Utah. I was way off Johnny Utah. Running through the houses. There's kids skipping rope outside. There's a truck driving by. Everybody in the city is out on this sunny afternoon and Johnny Utah has to dodge around all of them. Yeah, Matt, you were right. I was an idiot for not watching this movie sooner. Appreciate it. Mr. BFG, which I think is Mr. Big Fucking Gun, 586, that's his name, Mr. BFG 586, of course. 499 Super Chat, thank you, with a penguin picture for the profile. Happy birthday, Adam. Alien, all caps, is my favorite movie trailer. Yes, Alien has an amazing trailer. It's nothing but like quick, jumpy shots of like, ha, ha, the crazy stuff going on in space. No one can hear you scream tagline, alien logo. You have no idea what's going on in that trailer. It's to the point though, you know that people, shit's going down in space. And you got to be there to see it in theaters day one. Blast Super Chat, Joseph Blasco, not to be outdone. $10 Super Chat, here's seven bucks. He did the math. More like, here's three more bucks, YouTube. Thank you, Joseph. I appreciate that. Might get myself a Starbucks tomorrow. We'll see. We'll see what the road takes. We'll see what the road takes. That's not even an, that's not an expression. Let's see what the road takes. Let's see where the road takes me. Let's see what the railroad tracks do. Let's see what those waves have. Okay, back to the accomplishments. Since I've just been tooting my own horn, I feel like. Podcast is going well. People like the roast, live streams are, of course. This is just phenomenal. Okay, big thing this year was focusing on YouTube shorts and the TikToks that the kids are doing. I've been doing my damnedest to put out multiple YouTube shorts and TikToks every single week. I could do better. I could do better. What I would say about it is if you're trying to grow on YouTube, put out YouTube shorts for sure. Whether they're custom or whether you're just taking clips from a longer video, the movie roasts are really great for me in that sense of the word because since they're 15 minutes long and I usually have isolated sections where I'm making fun of something, I can easily take those sections and make them shorts. So I'll get like four or five or six shorts out of one movie roast, which is fantastic. In fact, I still have some of my movie roasts on my computer because I need to put more shorts from them onto TikTok and YouTube. TikTok's the Wild West. It's, I can't understand it at all. Every time I go on there, which is rare, it's only to put up videos. TikTok's trying to figure me out so they'll quickly throw a bunch of garbage at me. At first, when I first got on there, they're like, okay, middle-aged white dude. What is he like? Let's go with barely legal teenage girls dancing half naked in front of the camera, boom. While they had my attention for a little while, I will admit it's hard to look away just like a car accident. It's hard to look away from the terrible dancing in the ill-fitting clothes. Eventually I was on to their game and I swipe past quickly as I uncomfortably look around at the dentist's office or whatever where my eyes gaze for a second too long. They got me, yeah, they got me. And then it turned into bro bodybuilders lifting heavy shit barely and like throwing out their backs. That got me for a little while. Then it was the lazy content where it's just a dude dressed up as like a construction worker or whatever reacting to popular clips. So the guy's just seriously like, and then they show the actual clip that's funny. And then back to the guy again. I mean the content, it's so lazy, it's remarkable and they get millions of views off of it including ones from me because I like the funny clips of people dying almost. The last set that they've tried on me, I think it was cat videos. They think I'm an 80 year old woman now or my wife and they're trying to throw cute cat videos at me. And while it's kind of working because I am sharing those videos with my wife, it's not gonna hold water. So good luck with your next endeavor, TikTok. Eagerly await what you come up with next. After a side tangent of TikTok, shorts and TikTok shorts are really good for gaining subscribers which is why I have to put them out more often than I am. I typically see four or five new subscribers come from one YouTube short and they are monetized now. So I'm seeing revenue coming from those. You'd be amazed how many times I've made 45 cents from a YouTube short and I thought, this is it. Might as well call it my day job and be like, hey, so and so, you can take this job and shovel it and then hang up on them. Like I'm Sandra Bullock in Demolition Man. Okay, two more accomplishments here. The restarting of Twitch. It's gonna be a process. It's gonna be a process. You know, there was a point when I did have a steady 20 people watching me on Twitch. There was a good group of guys that I would chat with over there, we'd play some video games, I would suck asset games, but it was fun. Now I'm lucky if I have three or four people watching me on Twitch, it's gonna be a slow process to get them back, but it's okay. I love playing video games in my free time. I don't have a lot of free time but I do live stream twice a week. So, you know, these things go long. Might as well go a little longer and just jump on Twitch game for an hour or so, talk to the community, have some fun and I don't see the problem, I don't see the fault in that. So I'm happy about that. Every one of these live streams, the Tuesday and Thursday live stream go to Twitch. So two streams a day over there, plus two bonus streams after this is done where I game. So two gaming streams, two video streams. Sometimes I throw an extra gaming stream over the weekend. We'll see where the road takes me. I said the phrase the right way. Let's see where the road, I don't even know how I said it wrong. Okay, last thing, updated the set. This new set that I have here, it's in a room, it's in just a regular bedroom. I have to be, when I first moved into this house, the echo in this room is insanely bad because these walls are paper thin. I can't stress enough how cheaply these houses are put together. I had to construct, and you can see this video on my channel somewhere, somehow, I bought a bunch of PVC piping and I made a room inside of a room. I put them in a hole and I threw away the hole. A small house inside of a house. So I had these pipings everywhere and then I threw packing sheets over the pipes. I draped them over, made myself a little fortress and I had to go inside of there and film. It looked terrible. You open the door and there's a blanket for it and it just wasn't that good. It wasn't great. It was miserable. Yes? Well, Sunday live streams. No. Nothing's concrete. Just, if you could, please don't interrupt the stream as it's going. It's really hard to talk and get on a rhythm and now it's just completely shot. And now she's yelling at me. Well, yeah, I am talking about pipes. I'm about to grab another pipe in a second. Subscribe for spousal abuse. Anyway, as I was really interrupted with a nonsense question, tore it down and I ended up doing the thing I didn't want to do, which is put up the foam, sound, dumbing things all across the walls except for the one that's behind me. You look anywhere else in this room, I could use some on that wall actually. This whole wall in front of me and the side wall over there, completely black with disgustingly ugly foam panels that I put up. I don't like it, but it is what it is. We do what we have to do. And I don't have people here, you know, it's not like I have a tour of fans or friends that come through this area. So I updated the set, got some nice nerdy shit back there. Got my TV, the PlayStation's rocking. I got Harry and Hermione in Lego form chilling on the counter. It's a good time. Let's go back to the super chat, see what we have. And there's more, there are more dark room reviews for $1.99 sends a super sticker. He's got a really nice looking profile icon, dark, dark. Let me go on YouTube and see this guy. Dark room reviews. There he is, got a nice profile photo. He's got 276 subscribers. Looks like he does shorts. He does do some live streams. He's got videos, okay. Well, there you go. So subscribe to dark room reviews. You got another guy making reviews. I like it. Thank you for the super chat, sir. I really appreciate it. Is that Joseph? Joseph Blasco, gifts another Adam does movie super chat. This guy, love it. Thank you, Joseph. King cold for a $5 super chat. Dude, you're 41 too? Me as well. You warmed up to Godzilla versus Kong yet? No, no, I don't like that movie. I gotta tell you, the new Godzilla, we looks fucking awesome though. I'm excited for that. Godzilla, what is it? Zero, zero one, day zero, something. New Godzilla looks awesome. I'm excited for that. Make sure I didn't miss any super chats as I was flying through these. I think we're caught up. Okay, we did the accomplishments. We did the failures. I got another set here. Goals for the rest of 2023. We don't have a lot of time. We are almost through November, which leaves us, what, what do we got? Five weeks left of the year. That's crazy, five and a half weeks. Okay, my goals for the rest of the year, I have three movie roasts planned. Hunger Games, which was supposed to be out last week to tie in with the film. As always, I'm right on time, right on schedule. I have started writing the script for the Hunger Games roast. That's not requested by anyone. That's one that I just wanted to do to get out there with the ballad of snakes and songbirds or songbirds and turtles, whatever it's called. Failing, failing miserably. But I'm hoping to have that done, scripted by tomorrow, filmed by tomorrow, and out the door maybe for a nice Thanksgiving meal or maybe a Friday, Friday meal. We'll see. We'll see where the, we'll see where I can find, God damn it. We'll see where the road takes us. Why is this something I'm saying now? Stop it. We'll see where the road takes us. The Matrix Resurrections. This is the Christmas gift that I am preparing. The roast of the Matrix Resurrections, I feel like is only gonna be matched maybe by the third request for the rest of 2023, which is Star Wars, The Last Jedi. These are two of my most hated films that I've seen in the last four or five years. I mean, it's gonna be like pulling teeth to get through these movies again, let alone come up with jokes for them. So expect some pretty epic long roasts for both of those movies because they're long movies to begin with. And I got a lot of shit to say about them. Live streams are gonna keep going for the rest of the year. And of course, in 2024, it's a big part of the channel now. I make a big mountain of my revenue from these live streams, even with YouTube taking a huge chunk. And they're just fun to do now. I have a good time doing them. Review. Oh yeah, we got reviews coming out of course. I just put reviews down. Napoleon, I'll have a review off for that tomorrow. I actually will have a YouTube short of that out. Hopefully, I don't know if I'll do it tonight, but tomorrow morning probably. Wish Disney's new movie, which I have to tell you, I'm going in with the lowest of low expectations for that. It doesn't look good. Doesn't mean it won't be. I've been fooled, I've been surprised before, but Wish, the upfront presentation is not doing anything for me. We'll see. In fact, Wish comes out tomorrow. I'm going to go see that tomorrow at some point. And maybe I'll have the review of that tomorrow as well. Okay, end of the year. I'm going to do an end of the year like I did last year. For sure, those movies did great. End of the year, best movies of 2023, top 10. And end of the year, worst movies of 2023. Yeah, those will be fun to do. I like doing those. The merch store. I've neglected the merch store. There is an Adam Does Movies merch store on Spring or Teespring or whatever it's called. I am going to look into other merch store options to see if there's one that has more options for me as far as things I can create on there. And I am going to be coming up with some new shirts for merch. I was thinking one that says, I do movies. So it's on Adam Does Movies, it's I do movies. Then you can wear it and they can be like, oh, you do movies like in a sexual way. You're going to get people talking. You're going to get people noticing you at the end of the day. That's what it's all about. It's all about getting that notice. It's all about getting that respect. And then on the back, maybe under the nape we'll have Adam Does Movies in a small logo so people can go a step further and be like, oh, that must be in reference to another weirdo. And I'll have other catchphrase T-shirts and things that I find funny. And maybe you can get for the holidays for a loved one. But the merch store is up and there are shirts there. The strong female lead shirt is a popular one around this time of year. So if you're thinking about getting one, that's a good one. Okay. The big one, the biggest goal for the end of this year is my movie script. As of right now, 64 pages are on paper on the computer paper. 64 pages equals 64 minutes of film. So we are past the one hour threshold. Aiming for that beautiful 90 minute runtime that's where I want to live. I like a short, compact, concise film that gets to the point that it has fun. This is an action comedy. Some people thought it was a straight comedy. No, it's an action comedy, but it is for all ages, most ages, I would say it'll probably end up being PG, maybe PG-13, a little bit of swearing, not much. I think you'd get away with the PG rating. I'm very happy with how it's going. I did hit like a block for a little while where I was second guessing things and I didn't think things were gonna like meet together in the end, but man, it's coming together nicely. I'm very excited to share more about it. And listen, I've read comments, I know dating a movie script made or really having anything happen with it is like winning the lottery. And then there's all sorts of like caveats that come with that. I understand, I'm not freaking naive. My biggest goal is just to do it. And then once it's done, I will go from there and figure out next steps. But I wanted to just actually make a movie script that I'm proud of. I've done them in high school. I've made amateur movies, of course, with my friends and I wrote scripts and I did storyboards in the whole nine yards. But this is like the first big boy project I'm tackling and I'm having fun with it. And I get in like a routine when I do it, I make sure I'm at the specific copy shop and I go to like a chair that I like and I have my copy and I just get in this zone. And then everything's just blocked out. It's just me and the script. And it's really, it's a different, it's like yoga. It's like a meditation for me. Just there's something about it that's pretty cool. But yeah, the goal for the end of the year is to get that script finished and we're on track to do it. All right, goals for 2024. Let's see if there's any more super chats before I go into the last section. Joseph Lasko, $9.16. Wife says, work harder, let's do Sundays. Hey, yeah, I know. Lindsay is always willing to sacrifice none of her time and all of my time to get some more revenue for the family. She's from her bed, eating bonbons, sipping some wine. Adam, you can do this too. It's not even close. I'm painting the most dishonest picture of my wife imaginable. She's in pajamas 24 seven at this point just trying to get better, but she's got ideas. Got a lot of ideas. Drew Schizzi, $4.99 super chat, Bart Simpson profile photo, I appreciate that. Happy birthday, Adam. Should have said happy birthday dude to really go with the character. Thoughts on the new Karate Kid movie just announced? Oh, really? I didn't know there was a new Karate Kid movie just announced. Is it based on the TV show, the Netflix show now? That was a YouTube show that turned into a Netflix show. Cobra Kai, is it a Cobra Kai thing? Or is this just a completely new reboot? Because we already had a reboot of the Karate Kid with Jaden Smith and Jackie Chan. So is this gonna be like another, is this another Hillary Swank situation, Karate Kid? Or what are we doing here? I don't know anything about it, Drew Schi. Should I look it up? I suppose I should look it up. New Karate Kid movie announced. Jackie Chan and Ralph Macchio. What? Jackie Chan and Ralph Macchio who starred in separate Karate Kid films, decades apart will unite for a brand new movie set in the martial arts franchise. The new movie from Sony Pictures. Ugh, gross. Sony makes so many bad movies now. Director Jonathan Entwistle, that's the name. Producer Karen Rosenfeldt and the writer Rob Lieber will premiere in theaters December 13th, 2024. What in the world is happening? It's like some fucking Karate Kid multiverse where Jackie Chan's Mr. Miyagi, Ralph Macchio's back and they're gonna, I guess his kid I'm guessing is gonna be sweeping the leg in this one. Come on, come on, man. Here's my thoughts, Drew. No, I don't like it. I think it's stupid. Let's do new things. Master Sargent in the mix with a gorgeous $20 super chat. Cheers to a uniquely fantastic channel. Master Sargent, thank you so much, sir. Always a pleasure seeing your name show up. Across, it's like everywhere on my channel. It's awesome, man. Thank you very much. Okay, let's get to the last section. Goals for 2024. First thing I have on here is update the show intro slash live stream intro outro. Da, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na. I love the song, Songstain. The new set hasn't been reflected. I have old set look. It's really, it's not gonna change dramatically. It's just gonna be some sweeping camera shots again, just a little bit more polished to it, a little bit more updated. The end thing is gonna be different because clearly as I pointed out, subscriptions year over year went down, which is really sad to see. I need to get people engaged enough to hit that stupid subscribe button, which is not happening right now. So the ending screen will maybe be a little bit more of a conversational call out instead of just dead picture of me with some related videos. Okay. More collabs, suck it up and do them, I put in there. Yeah. Reaching out to other YouTube channels is big. I think I have enough pedigree and subscribers to convince some of these other channels that I'm worth their time. Jeremy Johns will not return my calls, of course, but I can get some guys in the Sean Chandler ballpark that have a couple hundred thousand subs that are willing to throw me a bone, maybe. If I ask nicely, if I beg them, sir, please, please let me come on your channel in front of your audience and win their hearts and minds. I'll be doing more collabs with Hack the Movies, of course. I go on his channel once a month for the recap, the monthly movie recap, that's always a good time. But yes, I gotta do that more. Focus on better output. Okay. This is interesting. This is one that we're gonna have to workshop and it might not go well. I go back and forth on it. My thought here is this. My movie reviews take a decent amount of time to make, believe it or not. There is a lot of editing involved. Every time I flub, I gotta think about what I'm gonna say ahead of time. Some people, like the raw review, where it's just 15 to 20 minutes untethered, unscripted, I mean, they're all unscripted, but even when they're unscripted, I still kind of rehearse the lines, try to say them clearly, try to hit the joke properly if there is one. But some people, like the raw, unedited, uncensored, just brain-mouthed dump. So I talk about Napoleon, on the fly, I might bring up IMDB and chat about it. What this would do, if I do it this way going forward, is allow me to get the video review out far quicker, because the editing time is just me saying, start here and here, everything in the middle stays. It's going to, of course, increase the length of the video, which YouTube loves. They like longer format videos. It increases your engagement on the channel, which tells YouTube people are sticking around to listen to you. I know a lot of bigger channels, or popular channels, do it this way. And usually it's just them in front of a computer sitting on their ass, looking through shit, commentating, doing their whole, everything's woke, everything sucks, commentary, whatever. But their videos are longer, they get a lot of views, a lot of engagement. That said, I'm hesitant to do this, because I can't talk, I'm hesitant to do this because I don't do it that way. I have never done it that way. Just like I was hesitant to do these live streams, just like I was hesitant to do podcasts, I'm scared to put it out there and have it fail. And I also don't know if I'm going to like that. I don't know if I'm going to like that look. Now that said, I put a podcast out every Monday and it really is just me on the fly telling what I want to say. And I'm not screwing up. I might have a couple of rough starts where I'll have to reset and say, okay, let me take it from the beginning and then try going through it once. I've done that, but I never have to edit after that initial. It's always, I started and I stopped. I could probably do that with the reviews and it would be fine. I'm just kind of throwing it out there ahead of time as something I might want to start trying just so that I can get stuff out faster. And then the movie roasts I can really focus on, those are a lot of editing time and that won't change. That has to stay how it is. Okay, let me jump back over here because I saw some more super chats coming in. Joseph Lasko, $2 super chat. Break a leg on that script, rooting for you. Thank you, Joseph. I will, I will break a leg on that script. Big kahuna for $2. I'm a cheapskate but wanted to say happy birthday. Big kahuna, I appreciate it, sir. You're not a cheapskate. G grows for $20 with a super sticker. Thank you, G grows. Awesome. Thank you very much. What is the profile photo? It was a little sus. What do we got there? Glasses on, what is this? Oh, it's baby Yoda. Grogu or whatever the hell his name is. I could see, it looked like an old man. That's awesome, okay. Joseph Lasko, gifted one Adam does movies membership. Folks, I think what's happening is Joseph wants to be the last super chat. So every time you guys put one out, Joseph's like, not on my watch and he throws another membership or something out there. So keep him coming. Keep Joseph working to be last. I love it. Thank you, Joseph. I wanna make sure that I didn't miss anything. All right. Couple more things, just a couple more items. Grow Twitch and social platforms besides YouTube. Yes, that is big. YouTube has always been my focus and it will always be my focus because that's where my community is. But I need to also extend to other outlets better. And that's just gonna be basically keep doing what you're doing. Instagram has been a big focus in the last month. If you are on my Instagram channel, Adam does movies with a stupid underscore at the end because someone else owns Adam does movies even though it has been inactive for like eight years. There's no way for me to take that handle. So I'm Adam does movies underscore. So embarrassing. Anyway, I've started really putting effort into the Instagram posts and they're really, they're nothing more than, actually I shouldn't say they're nothing more than there's actually exclusive stuff there. So please follow me on Instagram. I put my YouTube shorts slash TikToks there but I take the time to make a really pretty cover photo for the real. And so if you go to my Instagram now you'll see that it's incredibly consistent and very pretty for the last 20 or so posts. It's just this beautiful gorgeous cascading tile effect showcasing the graphic design I can bring to the table. I mean, really I just use a template that I change and add the different flair to but still it was effort up front. On top of that I do exclusive videos on Instagram basically just telling people what's coming out for the week or where they can find something. And that's just a little something extra to make my Instagram page separate from my other stuff. TikTok, follow me there if you want or not. I'm not a big deal. I'm trying to just get an audience there. And it's every, if you follow me on YouTube you see the YouTube shorts that's what you're getting on Instagram on TikTok. TikTok doesn't have anything different. It's just I'm trying to pull in a different audience. Facebook's trash, I don't care at all about it. I know they own Instagram. Occasionally I'll try to like push to Facebook as well from Instagram they get like no views or likes or anything that that platform is pretty much dead to me. I'm also on stupid X, Twitter. And whenever that other one is called I can't remember what Facebook's Twitter thing is called as well but I'm there as threads. If anybody uses threads I'm also on threads. Lots of places to find me. And then of course just keeping these videos going to the podcast is big which is on Apple podcast, Spotify. My God, it's exhausting talking about this, isn't it? It's exhausting. And the last goal for 2024 we are doing it again since we knocked it out of the park the first time hit 100,000 subs. I'm gonna hit 100,000 subs by the end of next year. At that 5,000 pace we're going at it's gonna be cracking. I do think honestly we can at least, we can at least hit 80,000. We should be able to easily hit 80,000 with the new amount of output I'm putting in and by doing these collabs with other people and by making sure to get shorts out all the time and by putting those extra calls to action on subscribes we will hit that number. I didn't put this on the list. I've been getting a lot of people that want to advertise on my channel now. It's been growing a lot lately in an obnoxious amount and I turned most of them down. I turned down 90% of them that come in because they're garbage products or it's not worth my time or this like low pay or I don't like the agreement. And so I'm just letting you know I do my best to very rarely have ads on my channel. I know I did that big one recently for those Roku shades, which are cool. I like them, the AR glasses. And by the way, that was supposed to be for a 90 second ad that adds three minutes long. It's over three minutes long. And I gave them the script that I prepared with all the like the jokes and stuff. And they're like, yeah, we feel like it's not long enough to hit 90 minutes. The script I provided them was well over 90, I'm sorry, 90 seconds, was well over 90 seconds to begin with. And when they said that to me, I was like fucking guys, I know this is way over that. And so I had to add a bunch more to it. So they got a lot, they got a lot out of that ad. Anyway, as I was saying, I do have, I do have a one more sponsor ad lined up and then two like little micro ones. So you can, I did this for a while, where basically I just give you your company a shout out at the beginning of the video where it's like, hey, this video is brought to you by whatever. Check out the channel, check out the website, check out this, and that's it. It's seriously like a 20 second, 10 second ad. It's a 10 second ad logo tagline, that's it. Those are great, quick income, quick output. I like doing those. And I don't think that those are intrusive at all. So that's it, those are my goals for 2024 is just really branch out more, get out of my shell, collab with people, keep pumping out the content, keep the quality up, but try to work smarter, not any harder than I'm already working. And I think we'll see some great growth again. What do we got here? Did I miss anything? I think we're caught up. Joseph, did I do this? Oh, I kept it up the whole time. Joseph gifted from before. Joseph Blasco for $2 Super Chat. Just to kind of end things out, he just puts an underscore. Just to close things out, make sure that he's the last one to Super Chat. All right, those are my, that's everything. The failures, the successes, and the goals for the future. I don't have any plans on any crazy new shows or skits or anything like that. We are right now, I think it's at a good place. It's at a really good place. Between the live streams, between the podcasts, between the reviews, that's a lot of content. And the roasts, and putting all the social stuff out there, I think it's, can't get it, we can't do anymore. Can't do anymore. All right, I'll give you guys a couple more minutes. I tend to cut these off way too fast and then someone throws a like the last Hail Mary Super Chat my way. So I will give a like a couple minutes of breathing room for you to throw in a Super Chat if you want. I hope you guys, if you are from America or in the, you know, for some reason celebrate Thanksgiving in a different country, that'd be kind of weird. But I hope you guys have a great Thanksgiving. We got two more days. I have to put my bird in a bag tomorrow morning. Cause we gotta let it brime. We're gonna be briming for 24 hours on this bitch. I like the brime. What can I tell you? I like the brime. God, I'm glad I waited. Super Chat's coming in. So glad I waited. Nolan Dixon for $5, I'll be the last. Nolan says, not realizing there's already two more right after him. Thank you, Nolan, I appreciate it. You're not the last though, sir. Master Sergeant for $5 says, what up, Joseph? Kind of calls him out. This is almost turning into a disgusting game of a, what is it, an auction. Yeah, I got $5 over here. I got Master Sergeant over here. I got Joseph Bell over there. What do we got next? We got $5, we got $10, we get really ugly. I hope it doesn't turn into that. Thank you, Master Sergeant. Kaizu SGD. Kaizu Kizu, I am honestly not sure. I apologize because you gave $68.98, a gorgeous Super Chat, the biggest one of the night. Your videos are classy and unique. Keep going. I'm rooting for your success. Happy birthday, Adam. Have a glass of Yamazaki on me. You deserve it. I don't even know what Yamazaki is. I don't drink. I just never have drank. But if I did, Yamazaki sounds amazing. Thank you, Kaizu. I'm gonna drink this water. You know what I do have over here? I have this disgusting ghost energy drink. I kind of picked it up on a whim. It's orange cream, gluten free for my celiac in me. 10 calories and like a billion things inside of it that'll all probably kill me at the same time. But I see workout bros that are bigger than me and I think, you know what? This must be working if they're pounding it. It must be working. So I have this ghost energy drink. Pretty disgusting, I have to say. Not an ad, obviously. G grows for $5 with a Hadouken. It's like the Brogas. Oh, yo, God. Well, he just did the Hadouken but I felt like jumping into the other ones. If I could jump off of a Street Fighter 2, also not Street Fighter 2, but not too great. I'm a Ken fan more than a Ryu or Ryu or Ru, however you kangaroo jack. I'm a Ken guy. I like Ken's pageantry better. I like his long flowing blonde hair. I like the red and his upper cuts just far better. I don't give a shit about Ryu's fireball. Ken has a fireball. They're pretty much the same. Ryu has a stronger Hadouken, big deal. I get in close. I'm a brawler with Ken. I'm throwing upper cuts. I'm spinning bird kicks. I'm a Ken guy. I think Ryu, Ryu, whatever is overrated. But then again, I'm a Sub-Zero over Scorpion. I think Scorpion's the more popular as well. I guess I like the underdog. Thank you, G grown. Or G grows, G grown. The G grows? God, I gotta, I have to get glasses. I wear glasses when I read to my son. We're reading Aragon book two still. I've been reading it for like 17 months. God, book two is so long and so tedious, but we are at the good stuff. We're right at the end battle. We're almost there. We're over the hump. It's getting epic. And I love book three and book four. If we can just push through this second book, it's only gravy afterwards. And on that note, I think it's time to close the stream. I'm going to be on Twitch in, I don't know, 15 minutes. I will be streaming on Twitch, probably Fortnite. You know what? I honestly wanted to play Mario Maker two because that game's fun as shit. And it's fun watching me suck ass trying to get through some of the troll levels and stuff. I could do Mario Maker two. I'd have to get it hooked up, but Fortnite's ready to go. So, you know, I don't know if you guys, there's, you know, there's like 60 people watching. I'll look at the regular comments for a second. If anybody's actually planning on joining me on Twitch in 10 minutes or 15 minutes, let me know if you want me to play Mario Maker two or Fortnite. The choice is yours. I only need like one or two of you to tell me because let's be honest, not many people are going to be watching me on Twitch. It's not Adam does Twitch. It's Adam does video games, you know? It's Adam does movies and I like to play games once in a while. So, yeah, just comment if you would prefer, I play Mario Maker two or Fortnite. Master Sergeant says Mario. Mario Maker two, I'll be there in a bit. Okay. We're going to go with Mario Maker two because Master Sergeant has been one of the awesomest supporters of the year. One of the many. Just to end on a, like a thank you. Honestly, you guys, this has been a crazy year all around with my family moving to a different state. My wife being sick as fucking hell for most of the year. Kids being homeschooled. The channel like has been like, an awesome outlet for me and the support you guys have shown has been freaking fantastic. Love you all. We'll see you soon. Have a good night. Have a good Thanksgiving. You know, I was trying to end on a touchy note and then Nolan comes in with one more $5 super chat. Hmm, I did forget to say happy birthday. So have a great night and happy birthday Adam. Okay. That's a beautiful one to end on. Thank you all. I'll see some of you on Twitch if I get it set up properly. And yeah, we'll do it up. Take care.