 Hello, NJRoot22.com here for another video. We're not calling it cheap wine reviews anymore, it's not cheap wine reviews, I got all this crap in front of me. It's freezing cold again, it's winter, and I find a better studio to do my fruity little videos here, which I'll keep doing because I just like doing them. I'm going to wear this oversized jacket. So we're not doing cheap wine reviews anymore because, I'll make sure it's recording, lights on, recording, okay great, three bars out of three, anyway, I'm not doing cheap wine reviews anymore because I don't like the way I feel when I drink wine, I'm done with it. So today we're going to do, I guess, how to make a really good drink that can keep you going for a long time, and I highly recommend it. This is the Smirnoff Spiked Sparkling Seltzer. Now these things here, I'll show it under, I have a new little system here, I'm not trying to be like a YouTube person, but this is Smirnoff Spiked Sparkling Seltzer. As you can see in front of me, I have a third camera, a second camera set up. Everything just fell and I don't know what it is, I think it was batteries, some double A batteries that rolled off, anyway, I'm not drinking red wine anymore, I'm doing the Smirnoff Spiked Sparkling Seltzer because they have zero sugar. So we have these things, I'm starting off with my least favorite flavor, it's cranberry lime, as you can see, cranberry lime. And what I do is I get a, oh you Starbucks cup, I reuse them, you know, like I should be really like appeasing the recycling crags, I don't throw the plastic out, I mean I'm not doing it because I care, I do it because I like the Starbucks cups for some reason. So here's my Starbucks cup filled about half way with ice, this is a 30 ounce jug. And what I do, oh pause, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, that's what I do is I use like one, two, three, four ingredients. So what I'll do is, I have my ice, right, and what I do is I take some, I go to the health food store and I get 100 capsules of the ginger root, that's ginger root there, it's nature's way, I can't really find another brand of this anywhere. So then I take one capsule out, this is like my medicinal healthy, and I'll put one capsule in, into the drink, like so, and as you can see here, it goes into the, into the drink like that. And then what I do is I'll take my, today I'm using polar seltzer, this is, I got them from Job Lot, Ocean State Job Lot for about a quarter or 30 cents a can. And what I'll do is, I forgot one thing here, I'm opening up my Smirnoff seltzer. I normally use fresh lemons, but when you're out of fresh lemons, take this cilia, Sicilia brand of, make sure you get the organic, the organic ones. There's some bad ingredients, forget some sulfur, something, something or another. In these squeeze bottles, these lemon squeeze bottles, this organic one's about the only one I can find, there's one at Wegmans too, but that doesn't have a bad ingredient in it. And it's really nice. Two or three squirts, one, two, three, four today, for this purpose there. So I got lemon, ginger, this is going to be fantastic. And then I'll take my, what do you call it, spiked sparkling seltzer, pour about half, and then take, I'm going to get all fuzzy, and then it'll get all fuzzed up to the top, you wait a minute, and all the ginger's getting infused, as they say, infused. And then I'll finish off the thing, just to make sure, so I want the whole can in here, because again, this is four and a half percent alcohol, it's just somewhere on there, four and a half percent alcohol, zero sugar, and you can read the fine print there. And when I make it about 50, 50 seltzer, I mean, it's maybe, the ice melts, so the seltzer really more than makes up for it. It comes out to about like a two and a half, or two to two and a half percent alcohol drink, and I made a mess, great. And then I have the lemon, the ginger, my spiked malt beverage, and some seltzer. I put about eight ounces of seltzer into the ice, it will melt. And not only is it refreshing, it's ridiculously refreshing. It's also a very good way to pace yourself with drinking. It's sort of like a weak mixed drink, when you get a mixed drink at a bar, let's say I want a vodka tonic, it's like 40 percent alcohol in the vodka, and they put an inch or whatever, the rest is soda and ice and whatever else you mix your drink with. That's ridiculous, that's like a glass of wine. And I've always drank my wine half or a third water. This is the ultimate in low alcohol, it's like low fat, whatever. What happens with these mixed, these malt beverages is profound when you make it like this, because you can't water down beer, and most wines, like some wines are not good at watering down, this at two percent, you catch a buzz after two or three. And what I've noticed is, the first time I reviewed this I drank a whole 12 pack, which was the equivalent of two bottles of wine. I felt okay the next day, but that was just too much, even with water, I think I ended up drinking almost three gallons of fluid. My oh my, that's probably not healthy. But I've noticed that my consumption level varies quite interestingly. First I've had only two cans of this, that's the equivalent to a third of a bottle of wine of alcohol. I think I hear the phone ringing. No, I'm hearing things. Because six cans equals one bottle of wine, alcohol, give or take, I'm not going to be like perfectionist here. So having two cans of drinking, what, that's like a glass or two of wine before bed. Sometimes I've had three, sometimes I can get four or five, I mean, the other day it took me like five days to finish the 12 pack, or four or five days, which is amazing, because I used to drink two bottles of wine a night, and that's really, really ridiculous. So this is the recipe for the new drink that I'm drinking regularly. Feel the foreseeable future, unless something comes up that I might like better, that's very low sugar. My weight has dropped a little bit since I stopped drinking wine, and I just feel better the next day. My liver pains have subsided almost 90%. It's amazing. But that's it. That's this incredible drink, adding the supplements, and it's just such a refreshing drink. It's ridiculously refreshing. And I don't crave it, by the way, as much as wine. I can milk it. It's amazing. But what we're doing with this channel now, I used to publish cheap wine reviews every Monday, which I'm still going to have a new video every Monday, and this is, you know, Monday, the 17th of December, but I'm going to divide my, I'm adding new channels to my YouTube channel, and here, njrude22.com. This is a rough draft, but it's going to break down into four new channels, basically. And I'm having a little bit of trouble here ironing out exactly what it's going to be, because I have to think about how I'm going to create content regularly. So it's not going to be a new video every week, a new video from the same channel every week. I'm going to have about four channels, and there's going to be a new video once a month for each channel. So over the course of a year, the four channels have three new videos in each one. I'm sorry, not a year, if it's one a month about. So it's going to be 12 new videos a year, basically, my math isn't getting all messed up. 12 new videos a year for each of the, the 12 or 13, 13 new videos a year for each of the four channels. And so far, my, my channels that I'm going to create are, what's going to be general reviews? It could be a review for a business, a store, a restaurant, a product. It's going to be some kind of review. It might even be a haul, one of those product hauls. It's going to be a general review about something. My second channel, and this is the one I'm probably the most excited about, and it's also going to be the one I'm, it's going to involve the most amount of work. It's a helpful hacks and tips. I don't know where I'm going with this, but a couple of things I'm going to do are like repairing things, like live on camera, whether it's a toy for kids or, or just some sort of life hack. I hate using that word because there's a website out with the same name, but it's going to be some sort of little hack. And I don't go on YouTube looking for hacks. I do, I figure out my hacks on my own. Most of the time, I'm not saying I haven't checked something out on YouTube. When I'm really stumped, I might check the interwebs. But I really take a lot of pride in figuring out things on my own because there's a long lasting benefit for figuring out things on your own. And that is muscle memory and trial and error and learning what not to do is just as important as learning how to do it. Because if you get the instructions of how to do things all the time, what do you do when the instructions stop coming? You don't have any experience doing things the wrong way. I'm going to turn the garage light back on. There we go. Motion sensitive. I must be really not moving much. Sorry, that's the second channel I'm going to do is some sort of fix, some sort of hack, some sort of tip. It's going to range from a 30 second to one minute video to maybe a 20 minute or 30 minute tutorial. I'm going to figure out something. I enjoy making videos, so I will see. I'll get my groove eventually. I'm doing this very, very much part time. And the third channel is going to be the kitchen zone. Anything related to the kitchen in your house, whether it's cooking, like I might do a recipe, that's a long drawn out. I mean, recipe videos, the YouTubers have gotten so good. They have six or eight cameras, and they're cutting and chopping. And they make a recipe into like a two minute thing because nobody has attention spans anymore. They don't want to hear the subtleties in conversation, body language. They just want to know how to do it. And that makes me feel kind of bummed out because I miss the days of picking up little things for people. But the kitchen zone will be either, you know, also may include products or tips for the kitchen. It's everything specifically related to kitchen or eating or food and that type of stuff. And I may just run that for a short period of time and add a new channel in its place. And the last thing, the last channel is, I could probably contribute the most amount of content to this last channel, but I'm going to try and go easy on because I think I'll come across as somebody who's like a little bit of a cynic, which I am and which is fine. But it's going to be more like societal issues, society, societal, not just from the human being standpoint, but from the products that we get, like how everything's getting cheaper. And I'm going to point out these things, how the quality of things is declining before our very eyes. I mean, I could just do a channel on declining quality. And that doesn't sound to, you know, uplifting or anything like that. But it's important to document for posterity, for history, for just society. Society needs to have both good and bad. You can't be positive all the time or look the other way and not say anything when something needs attention. So if you don't bring it to the attention of these companies that are really skimping for whatever reasons, whether it's their own profit or it's to appease the people crying about the environment, something suffers. And it's usually me and you or you and I or us that suffers as a result. Because when things start not working and you have to spend more money, who gets less? We do. And I don't feel good about the environment when I do something like, oh, I put this in a different bag today. That doesn't make me feel any better, OK? Whoever does feel better because of that, they're full of themselves. It's all fake. It's completely fake. So those are the four channels that I'm going to start adding content to. And I hope one day that my readership will go up or viewership will go up. And that's that. I will edit this video and put it online. And I'll see you next week. And we'll see which my first of my new channels will be. My guess is I really want to do a repair video. And I was filming one. And it got way too complicated. It was a much harder repair than I anticipated it to be. So I had to scrap that. And in its place, this video of me doing my lat, like a very good drink that I'm going to be drinking probably for the next six or 12 months. And my announcement about the new channels coming. So that's it. I hope I get some more readers or viewers. And that's it. Have a nice week ahead. And oh, it's going to be Christmas Eve the next time my video goes up. Maybe I'll do something Christmas themed. Take care.