>> ALEX I’m at the park, uh, *snaps fingers* we got the movie ratio, let's do this.
Hey guys!
I’m here, let’s get technical.
Last time I made a video here at this park, I made the video "Freaking Out", which you can click here to
see, but the last time, but the last time I was here just at the park, well,
I think you know what I was doing.
*Singing* Pokestop!
Pokestop!
Poke Poke Poke Stop!
Let's go team instinct!
Yea, Woohoo!
Today, I want to talk about, in a broad sense, friends.
And, uh, talking with ‘em.
So, the other day, I saw Jabril from SEFD Science tweet: When I was about 13 or so I
spent every second learning how to code games, today I connected with my old coding partner
& he's still at it.
And, and this was one of the many things that pushed me to reconnect with my old best friend.
*Singing* Pokestop!
Pokestop!
Poke Poke Poke Stop!
So a bit of backstory here, I used to live in San Diego, from, like, 2 years old to 5th
grade, and, for part, if not the majority of the time, I went to school, with a core
group of me and 6 other friends who spent 1st-5th grade other, and, of course there
were a handful of other friends throughout the grades, but they weren't as close as us 7 friends were.
And I still kinda keep in touch with most of them more or less, less than I should,
so, like I said, the other day, I decided to reach out to my best best friend from SD.
I’m gonna call my friend Calvin, to protect his anonymity, and if he’s
watching this he’ll get the reference.
Mine as well explain it, this is Calvin, he is, well, I say he.
He is a little weaving I did in 1st grade art, and from, like, 1st-5th grade, I carried
him around everywhere I went he was my security blanket.
Anywho, for right now, when I say Calvin, think my best friend down in San Diego.
Is it really loud here? I think it's really loud here. Hopefully this is better. So I recently reached out to him, I told him what I did that day.
I, I went to a baseball game.
And I remembered when I was living down in San Diego, one day Calvin and I went to a Padres Game at Petco Park, and he bet me I couldn’t
say the word “Petco,” (I can't say the word Petco or he wins) but, uh low and behold, a couple of weeks later, I slipped
up, and, we kinda laughed about that over text. It was really nice!
And, and reaching out and talking was really, it was such a good feeling to connect with
an old friend.
To see how far Calvin had come since the last time we talked, which was a little over a
year ago at VidCon, it was so amazing, so gratifying.
Ya know what, I hope this video inspires you to reach out to an old friend.
Then I’ve done my job. By the way, I'm really red because I've been biking around. Sorry about that!
*Singing* Pokestop!
Pokestop!
Poke Poke Poke Stop!
Fast forward to a couple weeks later.
I just got a new Snapchat because I wanted to change my username and literally the only
way to do that was to create a new account and abandon your old account, you can’t
just change your username for some unknown “security reasons”.
What (shrugs).
Oh, hey follow me here, wink wink.
Anyways, so because it was a new Snapchat, I had to get my Snapchat score back up from 0 which, is the Snapchat score of a new account, to where it was on my old account.
If you don't have a Snapchat, a Snapchat score is essentially, a number that counts how many snaps you send or receive.
So, what I needed to do was send a lot of snaps so I could get my Snapchat score back
up to what it was, which was 3,000, which, if you need some point of reference, isn’t
great but it ain’t too shabby.
So I sent a snap of just me, and the word Hai, which is my new favorite way of saying
hi, to everyone on my contact list.
And, within seconds, a ton of people replied back.
This duck is getting closer to me. Hello, duck.
I immediately connected with all different types of people from all different moments
in my life.
Some of them I just saw last week, but others I hadn’t seen in a long time.
I connected with my cousin, one in Ohio, one in Germany, I connected with an old friend
I used to do Model UN with, I connected with another couple I used to do theater with,
I even connected with a girl I hadn't seen in 5 years!
And, that’s amazing!!
Can’t you see?
Ahhh.
This started as a general way just to boost my snapchat score, but it ended with me connecting
with all these past, now present friends, and that’s, that’s magical.
*Singing* Pokestop!
Pokestop!
Poke Poke Poke Stop!
Speaking of friends, and community, Technicality recently reached 5,000 subscribers!
Holy Shibow Wow!
Haha what?
Which is crazy, ahh, wow, oh man.
I’m so honored to brighten your day with facts, and if you call what this is comedy.
By the way, to new subs, I don’t usually make video like this,
I usually make edutainment, if you will videos, from the studio.
Anywho, thank you for subscribing and watching my little videos, it means a lot.
*Singing* Pokestop!
Pokestop!
Poke Poke Poke Stop!
Ya know, in a Q&A, CGP Grey said that his favorite part of YouTube was the people he
met here, and I 100% agree.
Matt, Jabril, all the other awesome and intelligent people I’ve met here on YouTube it's just, ahh I'm speachless.
I’ve recently been loving the song “Lost Boy” by Ruth B. It kinda blew everyone away
because it was a song that was topping the charts and wasn’t some crazy rap, hip hop
song, it’s just a girl and a piano.
Ya know what, let me play some of it for you right now.
Hopefully you’ll get the feel.
>>RUTH B: I am a lost boy from Neverland Usually hanging out with Peter Pan
And when we're bored we play in the woods Always on the run from Captain Hook
Neverland is home to lost boys like me And lost boys like me are free
>> ALEX: Ruth B, on genius.com, says a “Lost Boy” is someone who is lonely or is in need
of something, but I kinda disagree.
If you think about, a Lost Boy, isn’t literally a Lost Boy.
In the lore of Peter Pan, lost boys are people who live in Neverland, and quite happily I
might add.
Neverland is like this awesome place for them, right?
They have a family, they, they, they never grow up.
They don’t really seem too lost to me.
Which, kinda how this relates to me, I don’t know, I’m so honored and blessed to be surrounded
by so many amazing people right now.
I kinda feel like a lost boy, but not in a negative sense, in the positive sense I just
mentioned.
I feel like I’ve found my Neverland.
I love the part of Neverland I’m living in now, when I sent that snap to all those
people and reconnected with so many past friends, I retraced my steps and visited lands I found
in the past, and, uh, I’m going into high school next week, which means finding new
parts of Neverland.
Neverland is an awesome place.
I’m still excited to keep searching Neverland, and finding more of my family.
Haha, and you know what, this is perfect.
I’m excited to, Explore On.
Ahh french the llama that perfect.