 Hello my friends! Hope you're having a lovely day. I am here to tell you that I have finally joined Patreon! Yeah! A lot of you might be saying, well what is Patreon? Well Patreon is a platform where people like you, my viewers, team dozer, can support my channel financially. Some of you might be thinking, ah, no fair! I have to pay to watch his videos now? No, you'll be able to watch my videos like you always have. This is just an opportunity to help support my travels, adventures, camera equipment, all the stuff that goes into creating these videos. Let's start with a quick history of my career. I've always enjoyed telling stories through video and my goal ever since day one has been to inspire viewers to get out there and enjoy this beautiful world. For the past 10 years I've worked mainly in the TV world hosting all sorts of random shows for different outlets. This is Tough Jobs and today we're Climb and Towers. But after years of riding the entertainment roller coaster I decided to change my focus and by that I mean completely ditching the TV world and focusing 100% of my heart and soul into this YouTube channel. Hey how's it going? My name is Ryan Van Dozer. Are you ready for an adventure? My mission has always been to create stories that are inspiring, fun and educational. Since January 2016 I've made over 200 videos and I'm proud of each one. It sounds cheesy but I want to make this world a better place and that is sometimes as simple as putting a smile on your face. I really loved the process of building up this YouTube community and getting to know a lot of you. Maybe not in real life but I try my hardest to respond to like every single comment or questions I get through email. It means a lot to me to actually be social. This is social media after all and I truly believe that us together can make a positive impact on this planet. My altruistic dreams are great but I also need to make a living and buy lots of bean burritos because I need energy for my adventures right? My channel has grown over the past three years and I'm very excited about that. I make some money off of those pre-roll ads you see that play before YouTube video starts and from time to time I team up with brands and highlight their products in my videos. But I don't want my channel to become a place where I'm constantly trying to sell you things. That is not the goal of this but I do need money to pay for travel expenses and editing equipment and cameras from time to time. But believe me I will never team up with brands that I don't personally love and believe in. All the stuff in my videos are things that I actually use and think that you might benefit from. So I want my channel to be funded by the community and that is where Patreon comes in. I ask you to pledge your support on Patreon so we can keep this train rolling. I have a lot of faith in where this channel is going. I love creating these videos for all of you. I love interacting with all of you. I love inspiring all of you and I want to make this my career. I don't want to make any more dumb car commercials anymore. And it's time to get out and play. This is what I want to do. Again, you don't have to pledge anything if you don't want to or unable to. I get that we're stretched in a million different ways financially. But if you're able to and you want to support this channel, I would be really greatly appreciative. All the details will be down in the description of the video and thank you so much for following my channel over the years and I'm really excited to keep building up this channel, to keep building up friendships with you guys, to keep inspiring you to get out there. Wait a second, I almost forgot the most important part. When you become a patron of my channel, you will get access to lots of behind the scene moments and I'm going to try to do a lot more meetups as I travel around the country and around the world. I'm going to let you all know so we can hang out and cheers our Bean Burritos. How's that sound? Okay, now I'm really the video's done now. Goodbye.