- [Mitch] So I get up and I start walking over.
And I remember I was filled with anxiety, excitement,
nervousness and it was all wrapped up into one emotion.
This was the moment that I had been working towards.
This was the moment that I had thinking about
for the past six months.
So, I took a deep breath... (breathing deeply)
In 1349, there was an infectious disease
called the Black Plague.
It was an epidemic that killed 150 million people.
But because of modern day medicine, these kinds of epidemics
don't really happen anymore.
However, there is a new plague that is impacting
even more people and it's not something
that you can really be diagnosed with.
But most people on Earth have this disease.
It controls the things that you say,
the things that you do, the things that you think.
But most importantly, it controls your potential
as a human being.
So today, I'm going to share with you a story
about how I cured my disease and how you can do it too.
I'm from a small island in Canada called Victoria.
And on that island there was a basketball team
called the Regional Team where all the best players
on the island compete against the rest of the province.
Anyone who made this team would get this red T-shirt
that said Basketball B.C. on it.
And I remember there were these two players
from that school that wore this T-shirt all the time
because they made the team.
And oh my God, I was so jealous of these guys.
See, this T-shirt was much more than just a T-shirt.
It was a symbol of skill, respect, dedication, hard work.
But most importantly, it was a symbol of status
which is something that I desperately craved
when I was in school.
So in order to even try out for the Regional Team
you had to get invited.
Which meant you had to try out for the try outs.
Fortunately, these first try outs
were not really too challenging for me to make
and if you watched my previous video,
you would know how much I practiced back in the day.
So thankfully, I made the real try outs relatively easily.
I actually still remember when I got the email,
it was a Monday afternoon and I was sitting in my chair
in my room and I saw an email from Basketball B.C.
With the title, Congratulations!
And the email was inviting me to the try outs
that were taking place next Friday
and they were going all the way until Sunday.
So it was a Monday and I had five days to prepare.
So phase one of getting the legendary red T-shirt
was a success, but I had to practice extremely hard
for the rest of the week.
And during this week all I could think about
were the try outs.
When I was sitting in math class
I was just thinking basketball.
When I was sitting in drama class or science class
or whatever else pointless high-school classes
that I was in, the only thing
that I had on my mind was basketball.
So, after four long days it was finally Friday morning
and I remember waking up that morning
and I was so nervous and anxious and really tired
because I was so nervous for the whole thing
that I barely slept the night before.
So it was five p.m. and I arrived to the try outs.
There were three things that stood out to me.
The first thing that I noticed was that there were
only 14 people there who were trying out for the team
and for those of you who don't know much about basketball
there are usually only 12 people who make the team,
which meant only two people were getting cut.
And the second thing that I noticed
was that there was a player there that I hated.
And for the sake of the story, we're gonna call him Blake.
And Blake was a very good basketball player
but he had one of the worst attitudes
that a guy, or person, could ever have.
Blake was the type of guy who felt good
when he made other people feel bad.
Like, let's say someone was drinking at a high school party
for the first time and maybe he drank too much
and he puked in the bathroom,
and of course he would be embarrassed by this
and he wouldn't want people to know about it.
But Blake, was the type of guy who would make a point
of informing the entire party that he did in fact puke.
If there was someone leaving the party, Blake would say,
"Hey, before you go, just know that Jimmy
"puked in the bathroom and he's super embarrassed by it.
"See you later."
He's that guy.
So immediately I knew it was going
to be an interesting weekend.
And the third thing and most important thing that I noticed
were the glorious, magnificent, red T-shirts
that were just sitting right on the stage.
The try outs began and right from the beginning
it was really competitive.
Everybody there wanted to desperately make the team
and nobody wanted to be one of the two people who got cut.
If I could summarize the try outs in three words
it would be intensity, anger and passion.
The try outs were three days long, so obviously I'm not
gonna give you a play by play of everything that happened
but believe me when I say it was a grueling few days,
literally filled with blood, sweat and tears.
It's now Sunday afternoon and the try outs are over.
I had felt pretty good about my performance.
I certainly felt like I had done enough to make the team
but I did not play my very best.
But the unique thing about these try outs were that
you found out the same day if you made the team.
So I was going to find out on Sunday after I had just
finished playing if I was going to make the team or not.
So everyone is exhausted, bloody, sweaty
and we're all laying down on the gym floor
and we all were very anxiously waiting to find out
if we had made the team or not.
So we would sit there and the coach would call us over
one by one and he would tell us
if we had made the team or not.
And I remember sitting there, on the gym floor
watching everybody walk over to the coach.
But the only thing that I could really notice
was that so far every single person had received the red
T-shirt which meant everybody had made the team so far.
So I'm thinking to myself, are they really going to save
the two people who didn't make the team for last?
Like they're gonna call over the 12 people
who made the team and then they're gonna save those two,
sorry, depressed people who didn't make the team.
So at this point, I'm just desperately hoping
that I hear my name called.
And then, after six people were called,
I hear my name and immediately I feel good
because I'm thinking to myself,
okay this probably means that I made the team.
So I get up and I start walking over
and I remember I was filled with anxiety, excitement,
nervousness and it was all wrapped up into one emotion.
This was the moment that I had been working towards.
This was the moment that I had been thinking about
for the past six months.
So I took a deep breath, I look at the coach
and before I could say a single word,
he turns to me and says,
"So, what size T-shirt do you want?"
And I paused for a moment in absolute shock.
I thought to myself, oh my God, I had made the team!
I did it!
I finally was about to receive the red shirt of status man.
I had finally achieved the goal.
So, with a huge small on my face, I proudly said,
"I'll take a large please."
I was so proud in this moment.
That is, until he turned to me and said,
"Mitch."
Unfortunately, that's all the time we have for this week
but I can assure you that this story is just getting started
and it gets much, much, much more interesting in part two.
Just a really quick channel update.
On January 1st, 2019, I'm going to be changing
the name of the channel to my actual name
which is Mitch Manly.
So the next time I upload which will be probably
in two to three weeks it will be under Mitch Manly.
This doesn't mean the type of content I'm gonna create
is gonna change at all, it's just a name change.
I want to wish you all a merry Christmas
and a happy New Year.