USNERDOC- Short Rant | My Apologies!
Well behind me. This is the
Umatilla Indian reservation, and it is absolutely beautiful
I'm just completing a road trip returning home to portland today. I
traveled from
Las Vegas to Flagstaff visited my daughter
dropped off her little fish
Jameson he made it safely pretty well-traveled fish
He's been from Flagstaff to Portland by [Road] and now he returned by [road], and he did really well
Then after that I traveled North through, Salt Lake City Grand Tetons National Park
Yellowstone National Park and
I'm just always amazed at how beautiful our country is
Now this video may my some be considered a bit of a rant and for that. I apologize ahead of time
But I felt compelled to
Respond to a comment. That was made on an earlier video that I posted the day before
About a new product that we're carrying in our amp 3 store the lifestraw
and
I want to thank a
longtime Subscriber
stumpy for
picking up the sword and
going to battle for
my channel and
in defending amp 3 as well for a comment that another guy had posted and
Well, I appreciate that I appreciate the support I
Don't remember the guys comment
specifically, but to paraphrase
He was complaining that
the video represented Blatant advertising on a free use community I
Don't know what to say about that. I?
Wish I wish I could say that I was skilled or sophisticated enough to use Youtube as an advertising medium
And I'm not if you look at the title of my channel
It's a slice of my life, and I I'm not sure exactly how many videos I
Think over 600 videos I've posted
Showing all the different things that I'm interested in and it's really just a little slice of what I like to do
And I've been very fortunate that my family
Has been cracius enough to allow me to include them in the videos because they are my life my kids and my wife
But that said this gentleman was complaining that the video I posted on the Lifestraw was blatant advertising
On a free use community and this is the kind of person. I think has no clue
There is absolutely nothing for free
The free content that he enjoys from his armchair on
YouTube is at the bare minimum the expense of time and energy of the person who made?
produced and posted that video and
Oftentimes I would say almost
Exclusively the video equipment is out of their own pocket
the YouTube community would not exist without people making those videos and the
[companies] YouTube and Google
Monetize these videos and make money off of the hard work of these people frequently with no reward now
I want to make it perfectly clear. I'm not a Youtube partner. I
Generate no revenue from YouTube or google for any videos that I post
all of the work on my channel is my hard work my
effort
my risk
my investment
My skin in the game
So when I saw that guy's comment, I took a quick look at his channel
and I've done this before in the past with guys that make comments like that and
Lo and Behold
Same as always there was no video content posted on that person to channel. He has no risk no
Effort no work. No skin in the game
But yet. He's got a big attitude and an opinion I
Don't know what to do with those people in real life you would avoid them
You wouldn't give them the time of day you nod your head tip your hat wish them good day, and then move along
In the cyberspace of YouTube, and I think they feel pretty comfortable with the am an entity that
YouTube provides and they can talk the way they do I
Just avoid them. I don't give them the time of day and a lot of them. I just
block delete
And I probably did that this morning with a little bit too much emotion because I had smoke coming out of my ears
when I saw that I thought of all the time and energy that myself
my wife
And my son Matthew have put into amp three the austere medical and practical preparedness project in fact
that company has
Generated from a small YouTube experiment that now we've been in business for a year and a half
[we're] shipping our kits all over the world
including the military and law enforcement
And I think we're doing a good job
in fact, I know we are because
My test of that is the fact that we have repeat customers
And we've had some excellent feedback from those customers
I don't believe that a customer would give us repeat business if they didn't believe in what we were doing or
Feel like they were getting a good value
so that's my real test and
YouTube is not an advertisement for me
Amp 3 is a slice of my life. It's part of what I'm doing right now as well as
exploring the country spending time with my family and
playing with the amateur radio
So if anybody took that as blatant advertising I apologize [for] that
my recommendation would be and this is common sense, but
folks like this need
little
Nudge in the Direction of common sense and perhaps need a little friendly advice
if you don't like my channel if you don't like what I'm saying if you don't like my Viewpoint if you don't like the video
content
Please find other channels there are millions of channels. I'm a little teeny
Dot on the YouTube community hardly worth noticing
So I would recommend you find another channel find another Sandbox to plan
For those of you that have been subscribing and supporting this channel. I thank you very much
stumpy, thank you for
defending
My channel and amp 3 I appreciate it this person [has] no idea the hard work that we put into
Amp 3 and I when I read his comment. I
Literally had smoke coming out of my ears. I thought of my wife sitting at her desk
spending hours
email
communication with customers answering questions
She in fact knows a lot of our customers by first name and has spoken to them on the phone I
think of all the hours that Matt [and] I have
Put into building kits and making sure [that] we get them out as quick as possible I've built thousands of kids I
Won't let that person know I've made no money
with aMp 3
every penny has been reinvested in our company, and I think at the end of five years if we've made a
profit and I can write a
Small check to my wife and say thank you
And pull up and pull some profit out of that company, then we would have done well
But [I] don't anticipate that happening for five years and who knows where we'll go in five years all
I know is we're enjoying what we're doing
I enjoy meeting people and talking
about all the different things that we see and do on YouTube and
I would say with the rare exception
this guy included and the few trolls that I've
Run into on YouTube. I didn't even know what a troll was until
until YouTube
I
Still don't know what they are except they're people that you probably in Real life would [just] avoid
the
People that I've met online as well as in real life have been just
Universally outstanding people I've actually had people come up to me in the weirdest places
for instance
Glacier National Park in the gift store
I had a gentleman tap me on the shoulder and say I know you from YouTube and sure enough
super nice guy
Very nice family and kids we stood and chatted for a while
and I thank him for for the support, but
Almost always very nice people people that you want to shake their hand and say thank you
and I'll close this by just saying thank you to everybody that supports our channel and
Weighs in on the comments. I have no problem with Criticism quite honestly
I'm I'm okay with that and I wish the youtube environment allowed for broader discussion
But you really can't get into a debate with someone in the little text box, and it's really not worth the effort
Unless you do it face-to-face, and I think [that's] what gives these people strength is the fact that they have some amenities
Via YouTube and
They don't have to look in the eye when they talk to you, so
anyway, thanks guys I apologize for the
for the rant
Beautiful country all right guys be safe