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just sing on Papa yeah whoa ah okay this is gonna be a bit random just go ahead and put a nerd mode back hey guys this is a bit different I'm not even looking at you there you are I see you now so this is a bit different I'm in my natural habitats surrounded by computers and phones and knick-knack E's and stuff even though I already put out game addiction today I decided it's important that I put out this video because during the weekend I hit my first milestone two months ago when I set out with this channel I said if I hit 500 subs that would be amazing and on Saturday I think it was Saturday I crossed that mark unfortunately with how busy I am I have a very crazy schedule I never have any time to think half the time today as of making this video to say thank you for subscribing to me which I don't I don't know why I don't know why you did that you guys need to find better ways to spend your time than listening to me talk about technology and games and stuff like that actually I don't mean that you need to say subscribed and stuff to me huh Jesus I am so out of breath so anyway I wanted to do a vlog to say thank you so much for subscribing to me and bringing me to 538 so it's because by the time I got around to this 38 more of you subscribed and more than 32 thousand views on my channel in just over two months that's from zero zero to five thirty eight and thirty two thousand and some change and growing I get all of your comments and all of your feedback and all of your subscriptions and all of your messages sent to my phone and I have my phone set on a 15 minute site to check for email every 15 minutes and every single 15 minutes there are updates from YouTube from subscribers and messages and comments and I think it's very important for me to try and comment and reply to every message that sent to me and in the beginning that was really easy because there wasn't very many of you but that's growing and if I've missed a comment from you I apologize send it to me in a message if you want if you need advice for me if you sent me a question just keep sending it to me if I don't give you a response because it's actually starting to get a lot more popular than I thought I would and for only 538 subs it's amazing that I get at least a hundred messages a day between all of my videos and Inbox and all of that and Twitter on top of all of that we're talking 100 messages a day at least and I think one day when I put out my Samsung vs. iPhone video that's my most popular video today it's gonna hit probably eight thousand views tonight and it's only been up since see that ding-ding is a sound I set for YouTube specifically in the last 15 minutes I got seven more so I'm trying guys if you're sending me messages I'm really trying to get you the answers to the questions that you have but I'm rambling again I really want to thank in pushing me to make a youtube channel that first person is going to be holiday doc I know you guys have heard me mention him a lot I met him a few months back when he came into my live stream on Twitch I only had a couple of viewers he put out a tweet mixing I know I had 30 or 40 and that kind of gave me my start because that's where people said hey you're kind of fun to watch and I went well maybe there's something to this but I didn't think I had anything to bring to YouTube whatsoever so I told doc now no I don't want to do YouTube I'm not interested in YouTube I don't I'm not interesting enough not funny I'm not an expert and you know you know many of you would say I'm an expert in technology but I'm just like anybody else you know I'm an average schmuck who works in technology for a living as an IT engineer but you know I'm not perfect and I get things wrong from time to time but he told me no dude seriously just do it put it out there what do you got to lose so next thing I know I've got 10 subscribers 15 20 30 40 and it just kept going and going and next thing I know Yosh was willing to partner me so I went ahead and did the partnership and from there I just keep growing and it's just amazing but I thought how can I say you know thank you and it done to me there's something I've been wanting to share in the community because my old channel I'm not even gonna bother linking it because it's just it's not even worth looking at I had started a weight loss blog because you see well many of you may not realize as I'm constantly calling myself fat because I am a chunky dude I'm six foot four and I'm 290 pounds I'm a big guy I'm huge so I'm a big guy but what you guys probably don't know about me as I used to weigh 500 pounds yeah five zero zero I was a big guy so when you're that big as you can imagine you know you're constantly ridiculed both socially mentally at you can't escape what comes along with being that big whether it's in public at work whatever you're humiliated all the in fact before I get into this story I'm gonna go ahead a picture and this is this was me in 2008 I recall a time that I was at a restaurant and I was getting lunch it was that I was at work but I went to lunch and I'm eating my food and I couldn't sit in a booth he could boots were out I had to sit on a chair and it had to be a chair without arms because I was too wide I was far too wide I was a 62 waist and a 5x shirt and I remember this woman kind of off behind me saying talking talking to her kid and telling him how important it was to make sure he eats his vegetables and stuff because he was you know not wanting to eat the healthy stuff on his plate and I remember her sick I remember clearly her saying do you see that man over there do you want to look like that man eat your vegetables and at that point it's like I'm just sitting here minding my own business and now I'm an example a negative example to some stranger I had to make a life change and you know here we are in 2012 and I'm down to 290 pounds so I've lost a lot of weight I work out regularly my wife works out more than I do she's the one that's turned into a gym fanatic but I lift weights religiously and because I'm really trying to bulk up to fill out you know some of the looseness that is in my body still I decided to go ahead and share this information when I have a small viewership because you early subscribers are the one who basically showed that you have interest in me so I wanted to give you a little bit of feedback about who I am and where I come from and you know this that's not something to be sad about you know and one other story that made me really decide that I had to change my lifestyle was in the end of 2008 actually September 25th 2008 to be exact I look like the photo that I showed and why wife was one month pregnant we had just found out that she was pregnant with my daughter and so I went to work and when I was a field rep for the company I worked for and I had to travel to and from various parts of Los Angeles and one day I was driving to work and was on the freeway and you know Los Angeles traffic is a lot of stop and go and gridlock and I was sitting there stopped in traffic perfectly stopped when and f350 doing about 55 miles per hour slammed into the back of my car and here's a photo of that what I remember most about that one I was hit so hard now this size that I was ended up upside down in my seat my head was where your butt would go and my legs were on the dash of the car I did a back flip in the car I was hit so hard at that size just the sheer physics of it don't even seem possible but that's what happened but I what I remember most from that traumatic experience you know as your memory gets all screwed up with some that traumatic was the fact that it took eight firefighters to lift me up onto the gurney and that was after they had to remove me from the car and cut off all of my clothes I'm laying there in the middle of the freeway granted they made like a box with their fire trucks and ambulances and stuff because there were four cars totaled in this wreck I was shoved into a whole mess of cars and the car was just mangled as you can see but I'm laying there in the middle of the freeway they had to shut down most of the freeway because of this accident they take scissors and they cut off my clothes and I'm a 500-pound man laying there buck-ass naked on the freeway and they put a medical tarp over my privates and you know then it took eight of them to lift me up in the gurney and then on the ambulance ride to the trauma center the gurney has these wheels lock in to the floor and there's like locks for the wheels that kept coming unhooked because I was just too heavy for this thing so you have the paramedics and firefighters inside this LA County paramedic unit struggling to keep me locked in and they were so occupied with that they weren't able to do any treatment on me until I got to the trauma center so I was like okay enough is enough it's time to do something and it's time to lose some weight so you know Here I am today and I'm still struggling with some of the the social Karami that comes with being a guy that's that big because mentally in my mind I'm still that fat you know it's just it's what it is you know that's weird so don't be sad about that I hope that wasn't a depressing story I just wanted to share something intimate with you guys because you guys have given me a lot of your time and I'm gonna do the best I can to keep the channel growing and I'm gonna try and keep bringing you exciting content and I hope to hear from you guys so check out game addiction I put it up today if you haven't seen it already and as always subscribe like favorite follow me on Twitter and I'll see you in my next video and who knows maybe I'll do some more blogs maybe maybe not