 A quick shout out to Craig for the bright green extra long socks. They could not have arrived at a better time. Basically I'm on the scooter all day long and to protect my foot, my hurt foot and my left kneecap is going a little raw. So basically the extra long socks are protecting my knee from the pad on this scooter, so I appreciate it Craig. You couldn't have timed it better. And yes, I did just finish wrapping up the last running shoes from the giveaway. But I have a couple pairs left that a couple people haven't claimed yet, so if you still want them, email me your address, you know who you are, who won them. I think one of the gentlemen, his name is John, just so you know. And last but not least, we're going to talk about, oh man, I hesitate a little bit even talking about it, but I'm actually not afraid to put forth very, very concrete goals in running, in life and on YouTube. So I'm excited about that. We're going to talk about the, yeah, I'm just going to say it, 100,000 subscriber goals and aspirations for this YouTube channel. I can't believe I just said that. It's so exciting. All right, let's rock and roll. Running shoes from Australia. This is incredible. Let's open up one box for the next giveaway. I just can't, I can't resist. I cannot resist. Oh man, hold on here. One sec. Okay. All right, I got it loose. Here we go. What is in box? From Australia. Nike Epic React, flying it. That is what I'm talking about. Look at those. Wow. This is lightweight. Hmm. Okay. I was resisting. I don't own the Epic Reacts. You know, so many shoes, so little time and I was resisting. I've actually haven't even held them in person. That's pretty interesting. Very lightweight, very nimble, very much neutral. Thank you. I believe it was John from Australia. This is exciting. They look really nice. So these will be for the next running shoe giveaway in size nine, size nine US, eight in the UK. All right. We will thank you again. We will open up the other two boxes live together here in the studio at the next giveaway. Okay. I'm not afraid. It's a little bit of a dreamy topic, but I'm excited and I have to share what I'm excited about with all of you when I'm sitting on that stationary bike over the last three weeks. I'm not just sitting there like a bump on a log. I'm thinking and dreaming about the future. And I've been doing a lot of that recently. And all when you're in the pool and you can't listen to music or you can't listen to anything, you're just swimming lap after lap after lap. And you just start thinking and dreaming about the future. And that is what the focus of this topic is right now on the vlog. So let's dive in. Okay. So this is a brief overview and history of what's been going on on this channel. I have been publishing a daily vlog for three years now straight. No days off, three years straight. I love it. That's why I do it. And frankly, it's exciting to begin to find an audience that really appreciates the content that I'm producing for all of you. So that was three years ago, 2016. Fast forward to October, November, 2018. So basically six months ago, I decided to take my passion of running and really put it into the daily vlog. So I pivoted from just a daily vlog to a daily running vlog. Well, when we did that, the channel started to grow and grow and grow. And it really hasn't stopped since I did that October, November to the present. So 2018. So again, six months ago. So when we made the pivot, we were sitting right at 1500 subscribers, actually a little under. And now, as you know, we're over 16 and heading quickly to 17,000 subscribers. It's amazing. It's blowing me away. I don't even it's it's hard to comprehend, frankly, in about once a quarter. And so that's what I did yesterday. I took a little bit, a little bit of a deep dive into the analytics behind this YouTube channel. And YouTube provides a lot of great data points, metric points to figure out what vlogs, what types of videos are doing well on the channel. And I do that. It's really important to do that because it tells me what you all want to watch more of. And in the process of diving deeper into these analytics, I did some quick math at the current rate of growth on the channel. If it stayed the same and it's not going to, it's going to dip. It's going to go up. It's going to dip. It does whatever it wants sometimes. But if it stayed exactly the same at the same level at this current rate of growth, we would be at and I say, we, not me, we would be at a hundred thousand subscribers in just over two years. So 2021. Now, why do I bring up the analytics, the subscriber count, all of that? As you well know, there's ads on these YouTube videos. Thank you for watching or bearing through them as much as possible. But I must say, I love modern day advertising. I'd rather watch an ad on YouTube than on TV. Like those aren't targeted on YouTube. I get running warehouse ads, jackrabbit ads, new balance ads, REI ads, all these ads to running outlets that I frankly click on. And I go and I explore around. So thank you for watching the ads. And so I really believe when and not if, but when we hit a hundred thousand subscribers together, it's not just me. Like you guys, like the comments, the sharing of the videos, the live stream, like coming to the live streams, the running shoe, the running shoe giveaways. Like it's not just me doing this. When we hit a hundred thousand subscribers, I'm making right now three commitments to you. And frankly, it's made. It's going to be made possible because of the YouTube advertising. I there's no other way to say it. The money that comes in and it's pennies, it's just pennies, but lots of little pennies add up over time. All right. So here's number one. I commit to you. Number one, I am going to be able to travel. Yes, I have a bucket list of races across the United States and around the world that I want to travel to race, film, and of course, meet all of you in those locales around the world. I definitely want to go to Australia. That's where those shoes showed up from today. I want to go to Singapore. I want to go to. Where's another one? I want to go to Croatia. That's the one I want to go to Croatia. So again, through these YouTube ads, you are enabling me to go race, but more importantly, to meet many of you out there, go for runs together. Who knows? Maybe I could even like give a talk at some local running like clubs. I have no clue. The sky is the limit. That is number one. OK, number two, this is crazy. I think the quality of these daily vlogs is decent, decent. That's right. I again, I'm very particular to the human eye as far as I call it eye candy. I like to seek beauty right through the camera, through my own eyes. And so I'm very particular in what level of quality I'm willing to watch on YouTube. And if my quality level is pretty high, I want to make sure that these daily vlogs, the quality level on a production on the production side is very high. Does that make sense? So I don't want you to be watching a daily vlog that's not entertaining, not well filmed, bad audio, poor editing, bad music choices. Therefore, commitment number two is this, at 100,000 subscribers, I want to bring on more help for editing and filming these daily vlogs on a consistent basis. OK. And what does that take? It takes talent, but talent, you got to pay. OK. But again, I firmly believe that once we get that point, based on projections right now, we're going to be able to do that. OK. So that's commitment number two at 100,000 subscribers. The quality level of these daily vlogs, it's going to go up. Is I'm calling it out. It's going to go up not to mention better cameras like cameras. Or this camera is a great camera, but it's not the highest level quality out there on the market. So oh, there's so much we can do to make sure you are entertained and informed about daily running content on this YouTube channel. Oh, I guess he's so excited. Stop. Stop the madness. Stop. I can't take it. I can't take it. You do family. Commitment number three, this is the most exciting. This is what I'm the most excited for. Oh, I've been thinking about this for a long time, by the way. This isn't just something that popped into my head like two weeks ago. Or I've been thinking about this a while at 100,000 subscribers. I commit to you if I buy a new pair of running shoes you out there, somebody in need, somebody in the list of running shoe scholarships will get a brand new pair as well. For example, if I buy the Nike next percent for $275 to do a full review for you, I'll buy a second pair for somebody out there in need. Why? Because, frankly, based on projections at 100,000 subscribers, based off of the YouTube ad revenue, because you guys are watching the ads, it's all connected. You see how it's all connected? Because of that money that will come in, I will be able to buy somebody else running shoes every single time I buy a new pair. Does that make sense? I know it's crazy. I know it's crazy. I've done the math, though, and I cannot wait. I cannot wait. This is my commitment to you. For example, I haven't bought a new pair of running shoes in probably three to four weeks because of this boot on my foot right now. And so once I'm healed, I've got three, four pairs of shoes that I want to buy and therefore I would pick three or four people out there watching who, again, need help. And of course, there'll be a vetting process, but people that really need help, I get emails every week from people. Not every week, maybe three times a month from people across the U.S. and around the world who need, who desperately, desperately need new running shoes like really bad. And again, I love this sport. I love the ability to get out there, keep ourselves healthy, explore the world, get fresh wind in our hair and just be alive. You know what I mean? Just be alive out there. So that is my third commitment, my final commitment. Again, once we hit 100,000 subscribers, we're going to be able to do it. Can I do it now? I cannot. I cannot. Unfortunately, at 100,000, we can do it. I know it's crazy and I know it's dreamy. I know this is a little bit of pie in the sky talk, but I'm not afraid to dream and I'm not afraid to put my money where my mouth is. And so I'm putting it on film right now so you can hold me accountable. And I can hold myself accountable. I can't wait. I cannot wait. Keyword. Okay. I forgot to put it up here. Keyword. It's going to be a hundred K, a hundred K. I think we can do it. And the question of the day, who out there? And I know I know there's creative people out there. Who out there has some ideas for basically getting this channel to 100,000 subscribers before two years from now? Listen, it might take two years and I'm fine with that. I'm OK. I just I've been doing this for three years. Another two years is nothing in my books. But based on the commitments I just told you, based on my style of filming and running and what I do here on this channel, all the creative people out there, put your thinking caps on and let us know down in the comments. Do you have any other out of the box things that I'm not doing? And this is where you can critique me. Like, let me know what I can do to help push this channel to that. And I know it's a big number. And I maybe you're like, Seth, whoa, whoa, whoa, let's just get to 50,000 first. And I'm like, all right, that's fair. But guess what? There's seven billion, almost eight billion people in the world. There's a lot of people in the world that are runners. And that's where I get excited. In fact, I just saw today the seventh world major marathon. They're talking about adding one, the next one in China. So you know how there's six? Boston, Tokyo, Chicago, New York, Berlin and London. Those are the six major marathons in the world. They're starting to discuss right now adding a seventh, which would be in China. China is going through a running boom, kind of like the United States in the 70s. That's what's happening in China right now. The number of road races in China, it's it's it's it's gone up like 300 percent over the past five years. It's crazy. Therefore, all I'm saying is how can we get this channel to 100,000 subscribers? Thank you for letting me know. I know that was a lot. I got pretty excited there. It's because I want to help and I want to help spread the word about this sport that we all love through this channel. That's it. That's it. See, beauty, work hard and love each other. Oh, let's do this. Let's do this. See you tomorrow.