hello this is a video that's not
minecraft how weird is that I have no
idea how to start a video on this I'm
smacking a bell and saying top of
morning so top top of morning I guess as
you have no doubt surmised we are coming
towards the end of the month and I
haven't said anything about a charity
livestream yet we do one every single
month at least I try to but this month I
will not be able to I am so so sorry
that I'm not able to do one I really
really wanted to but this month just
kind of got away from me way too quickly
at the end of the last one a lot of you
could probably tell that I just wasn't
in it I wasn't focused I wasn't in the
zone
I watched neighbors like pay attention
and wasn't able to keep the energy up
and keep it going because they take a
lot out of you to do these every month
and that that last one that we did I
just wasn't really happy with so this
month I was already feeling it that I I
just wasn't ready it was about a week
away and I was like oh god I don't have
a pin design I don't even have a charity
picked I don't have anything ready and I
I came to the conclusion that I just
can't do a stream this month that does
not mean that we're not doing a campaign
we're still doing a campaign we're still
pushing towards a charity and we're
still going to try and raise money but I
just won't be able to sit down and do a
stream where we drive to it and sit here
all day and try and raise the hundred K
that we normally do no real crazy
reasons as to why we can I just I'm not
prepared and I just don't have the
energy for it there was a lot of stuff
going on this month in personal life
things just going back and forth to a
lot of places and doing a lot of little
tiny little events here and there that
just kind of took a lot out of me and
then like right now I'm sick you
probably can't hear it but my throat
feels like I swallowed sandpaper it's
just burning all the time so recording
videos in general is proving quite
difficult and I can manage it if it's
like an hour at a time
but having to sit down and do an entire
stream is just too much and I'm also
going to pax
like next week I'm going to pack so that
I'm staying in LA for about a month so
I'm going to pax next week and then
spending la all after that so I have to
prepare for that as well so things are
just kind of all over the place so
that's the reason why I can't sit down
do an actual stream this month and
seriously I am really really sorry
because I said I was gonna try and do
one every month I really really really
wanted to because last year we did 8 out
of 12 and we were on track to do every
single one of them this this year so far
but hey I just I can't it's it's too
much but fear not because we are still
doing the pin and we are still doing a
charity and we're still doing a tilt if
I page so this one's charity we are
doing for the best friends society the
Best Friends Animal Society I should say
I've wanted to do an animal charity and
animal well-being and animal welfare
charity what's the word I'm looking for
I can't think of it an animal charity to
try and help animals because it's
something that I I do care a lot about
and a lot of people have wanted me to do
one for a while so we're doing one for
the Best Friends Animal Society who are
an organization that help keep animals
off the streets to help stop
homelessness in animals like stray pets
and they do this through a lot of
different ways and they have a few
mission statements as well which I read
out here in a second but they do it by
trying to stop the killing of animals in
shelters because sometimes if an animal
can't find a home in a shelter and this
is why it's very important to bring in
shelter pets into your homes instead of
buying from breeders is because
sometimes when pets get older or they're
not wanted or they're just in shelters
for a long time they have to be put down
so the price for Best Friends Animal
Society are doing their best to try and
stop that they have about 3,700 acres
and we lease another 17,000 acres and
about nearly 30,000 people visit each
year to meet the animals and they say
now there's about sixteen hundred
animals trying to turn their lives
around in this sanctuary so that's
that's already a great start so with our
help and our fundraising we can
hopefully put a little bit of a dent in
that and put it towards some nice animal
welfare we're not doing a huge crazy
goal this time because I'm just not
there to sit and try and drive to the
donations all the time but there is a
tilt if I page up it'll be down in the
description we're trying to raise
$20,000 this time and it's gonna be open
for a while
so it's partly gonna be open for
the entire rest of August so it's been
open the zone to fight page itself has
only been open now but the pin that we
are doing this month as well which I
will put up on screen somewhere here
this is the pin we are doing this time
because a lot of reasons why we're doing
this as well is that recently there's
been some some stories about creators
and some stories about influencers not
treating their pets the best it have
been stuff on Twitch about people
feeding their animals alcohol when they
shouldn't and throwing animals and then
there was a viral clip that went around
of a woman like putting down their dog
and abusing their dog so I wanted to try
and I don't know try and try and put
some positivity back into these stories
and put some positivity back into the
world towards animals and also I've just
been playing so much minecraft and that
whole series so far for me has been
about bringing in as many animals as I
can and treating them nicely and fairly
and trying to just have a good time with
them and it's been so super wholesome so
that's kind of the inspiration behind
the pin the pin design itself was made
by mirror gem pins you can follow them
on Twitter through that handle and
various other social medias as well they
have tons numerous pins in the past and
I've seen a lot of them and they're
really really cool they've done some ego
pins and they've sold them for charity
and different things like that it's been
wonderful so I they they made this pin
design and I loved it a lot so I asked
him if we could use it for this so thank
you to them for letting us do it I love
it I think it's a great pin so please go
down into the description and click the
links I'll try and pin a comment as well
if I remember to do so please let me
know if I forget to do so because I
sometimes forget things and then you can
click those and you can go straight to
donation pages and help out and I will
also every month that we do one of these
I donate 10k of my own money towards it
so I want to keep doing that as well so
I will also be helping out with the
donation goal but I'm gonna need you
guys's help to try and get to the rest
of the way too so please click those
links and please donate as generously as
you can and again the pin as with every
month the pin is going towards the
charity as well so any merch that is
sold on the
sceptic AECOM website will all be going
towards that charity as well not just
the pin everything else as well but the
pin is something that we do every month
so that will that will be adding to our
little collection for the year and I
know there's been a lot of talk recently
about the Amazon rainforest - and that's
also something that I care deeply about
because last month's charity stream that
we did we raised $100,000 for the
environment for the Environmental
Defense Fund so we this was before any
of this stuff happened stuff happened
and I would have done another one for
the rainforest as well but the they
animal
what's the animal welfare charity I
don't know there's a word in my head
that I'm trying to think of and I can't
come to it um I've been trying to do one
of those for a while as well so I I will
leave a link in the description for you
to be able to donate to the rainforest -
if you're feeling even extra generous
and you want to help out with that as
well so trying to raise some awareness
for that - because it's a big deal right
now and a lot of people are talking
about it so awareness is good and just
trying to raise money and help out and
just let people know how important the
rainforest is is really near and dear to
my heart - so please click the links in
the descriptions follow through again
I'm really sorry that I can't do a
stream but next month hopefully in
September I'll be doing another one and
I we have talks about what we're doing
so far and if it goes through it would
be really really cool so I'm looking
forward to that one and I'll make sure
that I'll bring the energy for that but
thank you guys so much for watching and
I'll see you next time