we've got 85 subscribers now I've added like 10 in the last week 87 subscribers
on the way to 100 as soon as I hit 100 the algorithms apparently kicked in with
now up to 89 subscribers thank you 89 subscribers of a 94 subscribers oh oh
94 99 subscribers just hit 99 this morning if you're a regular not you
newbies but if you're a regular and even watch me last little while you know I've
been doing the countdown for the last week week and a half of what get into
100 now we were in that like an 81 and then we got to 83 and 84 well yesterday
we're at 95 96 videos and I'm thinking oh subscribers playing five nights 8
subscribers woke up this morning took a look at boom we're at 99 can't believe
it this is fantastic what
hey everybody how you doing today Bruce here with traveling with Bruce I pulled
out all the stops today I broke the budget broke the bank and
made all the special effects for you don't get used to this you know this is
this money out of my pocket and I'm doing the best I can with what I got but
I gotta say welcome to my channel traveling with Bruce this is daily
number 17 ten and seven daily number seventeen
today is December the 15th 2017 and I'll tell ya this is fantastic the other day
I was like barely a week ago I think I started a lot a week ago to kind of
mention to everybody that you know we're kind of come up to 100 subscribers here
we're in the 70s and then we got into the low 80s and I started the countdown
and I was hoping that maybe one a day would come together maybe two here and
there while gee whiz yesterday morning 99 subscribers and hacked by the
afternoon by the time I posted the number 16 daily and received a I noticed
there's number 100 and then an hour later a 101 and then this morning I woke
up 102 103 Wow fantastic you know I'm so grateful to all of you out there who are
watching my channel who are tolerating this poor quality this poor old guy
trying to talk about different topics a you must find something interesting I
love doing this and I'm really appreciative of your
comments and your your subscriptions that you're coming onboard I'm kind of
waiting now for my email from YouTube does congratulate me on my hundred
subscribers and the other thing that's happening is I'm about ninety five or
six more videos away from posting my 100 video and that's another milestone in
the eyes of the YouTube computers and analytics drivers that are out there so
exciting stuff you know I just gonna keep cranking out videos and and I hope
you enjoy them and anything you want me to talk about you let me know so to
start this video it was thank you four months and three days later I've
got a hundred subscribers from a dead zero start I started in August here we
are in December and a couple of events have happened here right the moment I'm
working off of my iPhone seven because my Canon camera is dead I've killed my
Canon camera oh gosh I don't know what to do I'm gonna take it to a camera
store but I have a gut feeling that they're gonna tell me brucey boy this
Canon 620 whatever you have it's gonna cost $150 to fix this thing and you can
buy a brand new one of these for 230 bucks why why would you why would you do
that uh so I think I'm gonna have to bite the bullet and upgrade to a newer
camera and I got my eye on the camera Oh what does it call the sx7 220 or the 730
HS it's got a pop-up screen so I can see myself like right now with this phone
you're always kept you're catching me I'm supposed to look at you here but I
do this all the time and I watch myself and that's the curse of this iPhone of
the glens we're here if they could put the lens in the middle I would just look
at you right in the middle all the time but that doesn't really so with the
camera having the pop-up screen instead of on the back the camera will just pop
up like this I can see myself here I'm looking right at my lens in effect and
then you won't know that I'm actually watching myself to see if I'm in the
show and you know how my hair is doing what's
left of it I mean come on there's nothing there
anyway so I'm gonna have to bite the bullet and get one of those so I need
more subscribers so I'm just begging you if you know anyone out there who might
like this channel or you've talked to someone about this channel or or someone
to sit you I like that guy he was kind of good I'm really glad you told me
about him then you asked him did you subscribe and
then go oh no I haven't subscribed again wake him up and make him subscribe
because the more subscribers I get the more seriously YouTube takes this
channel and the more it will start promoting it and the more it starts from
morning it up go the view numbers and as the view numbers go up I actually make
more money because I get paid every time I video airs with commercials and all
that stuff and and for those of you who see these commercials I so appreciate if
you watch them or tolerate them because I think I don't get paid if you don't
watch them or something like that some of these commercials you have to watch
you can't get away from others you can make go away so if you like me enough to
stick around after that or I can't thank you enough for that anyway so got to
build the numbers but at this point this isn't a living this is just a hobby as
far as the numbers go this is a full-time gig for me
doing what I'm doing I'm putting in about eight to ten hours a day now on my
channel I'm working off my promoting my YouTube channel I have a Facebook page
that I'm using to promote the channel I've got a Twitter account Pinterest and
and I have one more and you think I can think of it right now on the spot this
is the same I can't think of it the second is five of them and I'm just
doing what I can to to expose the word that traveling with Bruce is on the air
and you know the guy post the videos all the time and maybe you like it now
today's topic other than talking about my channel and my gratitude to all of
you I had a topic I want to talk to you about and and it just kind of popped
into my head about 20 minutes ago it was about the fact that the NFL ratings are
down I've just noticed this morning they're talking about it on CNN and
other stations and on the Internet CNN Elliott the NFL television ratings are
down this year over last year and everyone's asking why is it what's
causing it is it because players are kneeling on the sidelines
or is it because stars are injured or you know well we all have our opinion on
it and we all have a reasoning and and I thought about it I thought you know what
is it about NFL football on TV that I don't like and I got to tell you I'll
tell you what I don't like about NFL football it's what I don't like about
basketball and the two sports basketball is the worst but football has its own
issues timeouts delays replays video replay from the booth New York must take
a look to see if a catch is really a catch overturning of a play you can't
blame the coaches can't blame the players if you can you know challenge a
ruling on the field and get a play overturned yeah that's great for your
team bad for ratings if you can get a if you can get a you know a ruling like a
like a video review your defense is in real trouble and you know it's coming to
the end of the game or the end of a quarter and and and your boys are tired
because there's been nine plays already and getting ready for the tenth play and
you can you can cause a delay by requesting a video review why wouldn't
you do it you'll give your defense an unofficial time out that lasts maybe two
minutes three minutes I mean some of these delays are unbelievable because
we're watching that you know we're all watching the replay on the screen three
four angles five angles and it takes three four two three four minutes for
the poor referee to finally come to the field and tell us what the you know what
the final ruling is going to be well for the coach who called the ruling whether
he really thought he could win it or not he just bought his team another timeout
and fans are leaving I'll tell ya I I have this habit that if if there's a
ruling on the field and you know I feel like I have to go to the bathroom I'm
gonna get up now and go cuz I'm not gonna miss anything I can hear them
yapping away on the television and I'm gonna be in the bathroom
do what I have to do and then come back out and if I miss a minute or two the
game it doesn't matter I have a cable box I can rewind the game to where it
was and I can watch it from there I tell you my wife and I
on occasion now we'll watch an NFL football game on TV and we'll record it
we'll just record it and we'll go to other channels or we'll go to our
recordings of other shows that we've made we watched them commercial free
because we zip through commercials and we wait for the game to be about an hour
in and then we go to the game and start watching the game and guess what we do
we start zipping through the timeouts or the commercial breaks or these replays
unless they're we find them fascinatingly interesting sometimes a
fumble is a you know you're not sure that were both toes inbounds when he
caught the ball this type of things he kind of want to watch but other times we
just zip through some of this stuff to get to the football game the action the
place so we wanted to watch in the first place I think another reason that maybe
fans are turning off is a lot of us who've been watching for years and years
we don't know what it catches anymore we used to know there used to be a time
where a catch was a catch and it was called a catch but now these days we
can't tell you I don't know if it catches a catch anymore I see a guy get
a touchdown on a beautiful catch I don't celebrate I sit there and I wait
and I wait for NFL headquarters to tell the referee that the play is confirmed
it's just sad I find it amazing on one in one hand you can have a football in
your hand and you get to the goal line and you're dragging a defender behind
you is trying to talk to you and you stretch your hand out over the goal line
for like half a second you get the football just an inch over the plane
somewhere in the middle of a field and then you go down that's a touchdown and
even if you know you land on the ball and you're back at the one-yard line
because the guy dragged you down or you finally fell down and you're on the one
but for the fact that the football was just over the line for whatever you know
half a second or so it was that's a touchdown we all get it we're on the
other hand on a catch he you can make a throw to a receiver who could make a
fingertip catch in the endzone both feet inbounds has total control of the ball
the moment that he makes the catch okay and the and then the player with gravity
of course falls down and by the time he on the ground he's he's a yard and a
half two yards out of the endzone because the inertia the movement has
taken him that far and then the ball is is juggled a little bit in his hands
well that's juggled out of Bounce it's not juggled in bounce it was he was
perfectly held in total control in the endzone at that moment in time that's a
catch people if the if you can just bring the football over the goal line
for a second and that's a touchdown I don't understand how whether it's in
your hands with your feet on the ground in the end zone right there it's over
you got that we got the replay cameras you can watch it and confirm it and you
can call that that at the moment that the reception was made the initial
reception was made whatever happens after that is irrelevant it's a
touchdown at that moment just like when the football crossed the plain of the
goal line it was a touchdown irrelevant what happens after that
but no no not now no now we have to have full control all the way out of bounds
and so you see these poor receivers catch the ball and desperately try to
cling it to their body in such a way that they twist and land on their backs
and hope that the defender doesn't land on them so the camera doesn't take away
the ruing angle I mean it's just it's getting it's getting frustrating as a
fan we don't like to be frustrated when we're frustrated we watch something else
we don't watch football and this is an issue that is more taking over more and
more and now you've got the core see the inevitable the endless rulings worth
regard to pass interference now you know the defender is an expert in this
business the receiver is an expert in this business and they both know what
they can kind of get away with and what they can't get away with and it's the
inconsistency between plays that drive fans crazy it drives me nuts I'll see a
defender tugging on a jersey from behind and it'll get called for that but then
on the next play you'll see the same thing happen again on another part of
the and if that one doesn't get called and the receiver is throwing his hands
up in the air going there and what's up why and as fans we're sitting at home
going well what is it going to be called and what is it gonna be called in it and
when the when the announcers on the air begin to say stuff like well the
officiating crew that's calling this game today there they call the second
most penalties in in the in the league of all the teams of referees well you
gotta go man what great that's just fantastic if
there's such a you know a diversity such a wide range of calls between one
officiating crew and another officiating crew you know you just don't know what
you're gonna get because as a fan I don't know which officiating crew is
gonna be officiating today's game in Philadelphia or Dallas I have no idea
we'll find out when we get there and even when we get there we don't know
because how do you figure that out anyway but the announcers know they'll
the league has to know the network has to know and you gotta wonder on a Sunday
night when you're hoping for primetime ratings like we had on this last game
with Pittsburgh and Baltimore you know that the the players could decide it for
themselves I mean let the players play but if the referees are getting into the
middle of show I don't want I don't want to pay my time cuz that's what I'm
giving up when I watch an NFL football game it's my time I don't want to give
up my valuable precious time to watch the zebras making all these calls where
another group of referees might not make these calls that that's that drives me
insane and I have to say to myself you know I could go to Netflix and I could
watch the new season of crown or I could watch Empire or I could watch you know
something else or like I said I'll only watch the game after I tape it the other
night I think was last night so this is Friday so Thursday night I happen to
catch the replay on the NFL Network of the Pittsburgh Baltimore game and the
game is broadcast over I believe 90 minutes with commercials well you know
what they've done they they've edited the game highly enjoyable experience I
get to listen to Al Michaels and the color man and all the other crew and get
to watch the plays and if it's a great play I see replays but I'm not stuck in
this dead zone this dead time between timeouts and
rulings on the field and video review and all this sort of stuff it's just
endless and so 90 minutes makes it a pleasant experience to watch the
football game no I get it if you watch it live and if a football game should
take me oh two two hours 15 minutes two and a half hours but not three three and
a half or four hours
too busy a guy
okay everybody well I had another few minutes of video they're going for you
but you know what I lost it on my computer and it's gone forever what can
I say I was gonna say I was talking about the best game of the year I
watched this year the Buffalo home game in the snowstorm was that fun or what
all kinds of terrible conditions with the snowblowers going during commercial
breaks and the guys with the brooms I loved it
guy would punt the ball in with the ball would land in the field and it wouldn't
bounce it would just sit in the snow I love that the game ended in overtime
I mean even with the stoppages and everything that was something I wanted
to watch but I tell you the other games that are on these days too boring too
many too many rulings I noticed that in a buffalo game something else happened
when a player got tackled and and you know the guys got up off the field
they didn't take very long to get up off the field cuz it's cold down there
there's a foot of snow that you're lying on and they get brushed off and they get
right back to the huddle to call the next game because the more you're
playing the warmer you are you haven't got time to dilly-dally or you're gonna
freeze to them and it just made these quarters go by so much faster they had
to find ways to get commercials in when you know between the plays that was a
game I love to end in an overtime way to go Buffalo that was a lot of fun anyway
listen while I've been doing this recording for you again the 17th daily
here we are December the 15th another subscriber just came in while I'm doing
a 104 subscribers so thanks again you guys
104 subscribers are coming in from all over I love it
welcome to my channel traveling with Bruce it's Friday December the 14th 2017
I'm gonna wrap it up here and thanks for watching I will see you guys next time
on traveling with Bruce you take care