well hello ladies gentlemen and everyone watching i'm your host the report of the week and thank you
for tuning in now i don't think there's any reason to really you know try to lead this on because i
know the title kind of gives the whole video away today is a a very special day in regards
to this youtube channel report of the week 10 years ago on this day february 20th 2011 i did
my very first review i uploaded my first video and this youtube channel was born so to speak
and i can't believe it i mean i really can't that it's actually been 10 years since i first started
doing the reviews and to me it's like it's surreal in a sense because you know 10 years i mean
so much has changed yet it still feels like it just how could it actually be a decade you
know it just it's it's so surprising and it's sometimes tough to really get it into words
what i feel right now now i know over the years i've done like a few other types of anniversary
videos um you know milestone videos and i was thinking to myself in the days
kind of leading up to this i was thinking well what exactly do i want to say today
that you know just doesn't sound like a repetition of the same sort of thing and you
know i don't want to try to change things up too much and just you know just be babbling aimlessly
and i was brainstorming i was thinking of different ideas different things to do etcetera
as fate has it i was going through some old files of mine they're actually on a flash
drive it's from my old computer and i actually found a video that i thought was lost in the
ether i mean i literally thought that this thing was was gone and that it didn't exist
anymore and that today to mark the commandment well to commemorate the 10 year anniversary of
this youtube channel um it's my absolute pleasure to share it with you the very first review that's
uploaded on this youtube channel and you can go back and take a look at it you know i filmed it on
february 20th 2011 and i tried out five hour energy in pomegranate flavor one thing though that
i really haven't talked about much is that that actually isn't the very first video i ever made
earlier that day i had actually done my very first review which was her five hour energy
in orange flavor and unfortunately at the time i was using one of these flip cameras and it
was positioned the wrong way so after i you know transferred it to the computer i found out like
the video was upside down or something and i wasn't very technically savvy i didn't have a
good video editor or anything so there was nothing that i could do with that footage but just kind of
forget about it redo the whole video and because i didn't have any more orange flavored five hour
energy then i tried out the next thing pomegranate flavored five hour energy which was my very first
review and that was the one that i uploaded because it was filmed correctly and everything
but again earlier in the day i had done another review which was originally going to be my very
first one but again because of that technical issue i was like i can't do anything with it
i mean i was kind of a little frustrated with the fact that that happened and then i eventually
forgot about it you know i had that second take i uploaded that everything was good and of course
with time i just forgot that ever happened and i thought the footage was lost it was deleted etc
but believe it or not i found that video and i was shocked i mean i thought that was legitimately
gone forever and uh now in the video editor of course i was able to just really easily fix it
so 10 years to the day i would like to premiere my very first review that i ever did on the channel
um this has been never before seen and if you've ever seen my very first video that's
actually public right now you'll know that my delivery has changed quite a bit and i wasn't
necessarily as comfortable on the camera as i may be 10 years later but i hope you can i hope you
make of it what you will if you want to get a laugh out of it by all means and i just hope you
enjoy so i'm just going to get positioned here i'm going to get this video cued up i'm going
to get my headphones in now i'm going to watch it along with you but the one thing that i realize is
you know because it has never been seen because you can't really find it anywhere else except here
you know i'll react to it a little bit but i'm just not going to try to get too much in the way
of the um delivery of the actual video so with that said let me leave some room we'll kind of
break the fourth wall because i have to edit the video in right there let's get the headphones in
and uh yeah for a 10-year anniversary how about we check this out so let's load this up and now
that everything's set up let's take a journey back in time to february 20th 2011. this is the
first video that i ever made never before seen sit back relax enjoy and just make of it what you will
here goes hello everyone this is energy crisis now we're doing a study regarding
energy drinks where basically we try them we drink different brands you know main brands
every everything you know rock star monster red bull five hour energy all these different tribe
types and we rate them on effectiveness price and on durability or basically how long
it keeps you energized for but mainly we're going to keep focusing on the first two
now just to pause it real quick you can see obviously just how much i've changed um just
over the years but i'm still going with the suit you know that's one thing that has never changed
over all these years but let's continue now on this show we're going to be doing five hour energy
now it's you know relatively small as you can see in this bottle and that's
how they sell it it's mainly got taurine and glucoric acid and caffeine in that but
you'll find more stuff now if you tried to pour it would probably fill this glass twice
you know it's got bright energetic colors you know this wouldn't look good if it was just a
little black can uh you know the serving size is 1.9 free fluid ounces one serving per container so
you know let's see how much is in here i'm gonna pour it out i think it only filled the shot glass
once instead of twice i think that was a i'm just in that regard almost i almost filled this to them
if you take a look here it's like if you can see it's like a pinkish color almost like
it's basically almost watery with a little pink in it you can see a little bit with a
little floating around that sugar because it's loaded with sugar it's you know it's pink you
know it's almost like water you know it's almost like it looks like water let me smell it smells
like orange because we purchased it in orange flavor it's a good thing so let's let me try
taste you know the taste you could definitely you know taste
the orange flavor you know when it first hits your tongue
it's it's like a sweet flavor almost no like you could definitely taste the sugar and the orange
flavor but as it gets into the back of your mouth you know it gets this sour aftertaste i don't
know where that comes from but with the button you got the sour aftertaste must hit the taste
buds right in the back of your tongue by your throat the aftertaste isn't good i'll be honest
just to pause it once again this is the drink that in the very first video that again is available on
the channel um the pomegranate one this is where i did say i'm talking about this one where i said
it tastes like you know what in the back of my throat is this is exactly what i was talking about
you could definitely still taste the orange though no still sweet but you know then the sweet
converts the sour in the back your mouth and it leaves a not so good aftertaste not
so good after taste you know once again it's watery and kind of pinkish so you know i mean
now effectiveness this is pretty effective i'll be honest with you because you know i can't sit here
for five hours right now to see if i actually left so conveniently i tried some last night
now with that sadly it did not last for five hours but they're gonna happen
long enough to keep me awake and energized for however long i needed which that was good actually
it kept me awake so you know it it worked not for five hours for like two and a half hours
now worth it you know this small drink small little container we bought it
for four dollars package of two otherwise well it was two dollars for this little thing
you know kept me energized and taste wasn't the greatest but well now for price however
four dollars for this for two of them you know that's not that's not so bad it's not terrible
no personally it kept me awake not for five hours i feel they should rename it i'd say two and a
half hour energy it gets me every single time i can't help it anyway a half hour energy let me see
basically i think it's worth it for the price you know for about
four dollars it's not bad it's worth it i feel so you know
there we go not the greatest tasting keeps you energized but i feel it's worth it so this is
energy crisis and next week we'll be doing monster which to be honest is one of my favorites so
i'll see you then for now have a good day now there you what a video that was i have to say
i think this is one of those cases you know when you're kind of looking back at the last 10 years
you could almost say how much has changed and in some cases some things have just stayed the same
i mean obviously the suits you know that's one thing that's always it's always existed um but
i know that at the time you know i was i mean you could hear all the voice cracks and everything and
i can't help but laugh at that retrospectively it's you know it's silly and some of my um yeah
some of my own little i don't even know what you want to call them mannerisms or whatever i
i can't help but but chuckle that but some things you know they change other things stay the same
but regardless i mean i just can't believe that it is actually i can't believe i've
been at this for a decade i really can't it's like it's so it's so surreal to me
it's just a crazy time the passage of thing is i suppose but wow ten years later i honestly can't
believe that i i really can't i hope that video was enjoyable for you though i mean i know it
you know i don't know if it was like an edge of your seat type of thing but i hope you're able
you know whatever i hope you enjoyed it though one way or another that was the very first video
that i ever did trying out the orange flavor of five hour energy and then again the real you
know the first one that's on the channel now was the pomegranate flavored five hour energy
but you know as i sit here today and i kind of reflect and think back on these 10 years
this channel really has changed a bit you know locations have changed the things that i review
that's changed too when i first started out the channel it was just something that i was purely
doing for the fun of it i was just saying well i wonder what these energy drinks taste like i'm
going to do a little study regarding the energy drinks i'm just going to try out a couple i'm
going to set the camera up and i'll just record my findings on video and then that'll be that
i remember though even i'd say by the second video that i ever did
um you know the second official one when i was trying out the monster i remember clear as day
after the camera was off there and all was said and done i remember thinking to myself you know
getting in front of the camera here doing my own little show so to speak being able
to just do this little assessment being able to be myself have fun have a good time this is this is
really something this is really enjoyable and who knows maybe i'll just keep it up as long as i do
even that early on i was i was realizing this is something that i really like doing
and here we are a decade later obviously some things have changed i first started out the
channel just doing the energy crisis energy drink reviews then at the very end of 2011 and into 2012
i started doing the running on empty food review series which i think a lot of people
know the channel for at this point in 2014 i began doing my vorw podcasts which now i have
a whole separate channel dedicated to those which for the sake of it you could find at youtube.com
vorwpodcast you could also find it on spotify and itunes and all the podcast sites by searching
v-o-r-w and then in uh well starting in 2015 and then consistently in 2016 i began doing a
shortwave radio broadcast which is something that i just enjoy doing very much and uh all in all wow
what a journey it's been and you know i can't always say that it's been a smooth ride completely
of course with anything i think just in life in general right things have their ups and downs
things have oh you have the good days you have the bad days you know sometimes you just have
to deal with certain things and obviously this channel was no exception with that it's had good
periods it's had bad periods but i've been here all the same just pressing on one day one video at
a time you know the biggest reason especially in those difficult times but even on the best of days
it keeps this channel going that well it keeps it keeps me going here it's the fantastic audience
that watches listens to the content you the viewer thank you so much for your support over all these
years however long you've been here you might be here from the very start you know by by some
miracle i don't know how someone could put up with me for ten years maybe you've been here for five
years or two years or one year or even just a month but no matter how long you've been here
how long you've been watching how long you've been a listener to the podcasts and the radio shows
most sincerely i say thank you thank you for your support for your comments your suggestions
your messages of encouragement thank you all so much for being here i hope you all know
such a fantastic audience and it is all of you that give me the motivation and the inspiration
to keep this channel going that's why this channel has been here a whole decade and i know that i
can't predict the future but hey who knows maybe we'll be here 10 years more right who's to say you
can't predict the future when i first started out doing these youtube videos never once did i ever
expect that number one the channel would ever get to where it is today and let alone that i would
ever even be here 10 years later so you never know what can happen you know to all those of you who
maybe have aspirations of creating content when i first started out this channel i mean there was no
i was just it was something to do for fun i was going to do one video a week i was just
going to share my findings on the energy drinks and that would be that never once did i even
think that it would ever end up this way but it's so fantastic and so wonderful that it did
to all those of you out there who maybe you're working on something too maybe you're doing videos
or you're doing maybe music or writing or drawing or you're working on a project of sorts you never
know what the future holds you never know if it's something that you enjoy doing that you have that
passion that drive and that motivation for don't give up look we never know what tomorrow holds
good or bad we can't predict the future but put your best foot forward
take it one day at a time hey you never know if you like what you're doing don't give up
so with that that's all that i have for you ladies gentlemen everyone out there tuned in thank you
for watching i hope you just enjoyed that little that little video i thought it was something that
i found that i thought to myself uh wow you know i i mean again i thought that this footage just
was gone like it was wiped off the face of the earth so when i saw that i thought oh yeah this
is going to be something fun to just share for the 10-year anniversary so uh again hope you
found it enjoyable and we're just going to keep this going we'll have more reviews we'll have more
broadcasts and podcasts and some fun random videos too thank you all again for sticking around here
at the report of the week and at vorw podcast and radio and all of that thank you for your support
with that wish you all the very best take care i'm your host the report of the week until next time