if you know somebody who loves cooking who isn't employed who have expressed an
interest in japanese cuisine please share this video with them so in 2021 there are two really
big projects i want to start tackling um i won't complete them but they will at least get started
uh the first is my book so the book is still happening we're just in the planning stages right
now um but hopefully as cove it becomes less of an issue for international travel um that's what
i'm gonna really prioritize doing and to coincide with the book obviously are the artisans and the
bladesmiths so i've got lots of bladesmiths lined up that are from around the world not just from
japan but really amazing talented placements from around the world who make custom knives
the success of the thing that i'm going to talk about right now solely depends on how much you
guys respond to it or how well you guys respond to it we all know this phrase give a man a fish
you feed him for a day teach a man a fish and you feed him for life the latter half of that
phrase is something i really take to heart and you know and so i kind of look at my channel
and how it's been going over the last few years and i've been basically just giving away fish
i've been giving away knives i have given away at this point over 2 000 knives on my channel
and a total retail value of over 150 thousand dollars and it's a lot of knives to give away
and i've given like i said i've given my knives to over 2 000 people at this point
and i want to go a step beyond that i want to teach a man a fish i want to teach a person to
fish i read messages all the time in the comments section and i you know and these messages always
stick up to me because they'll say something like hey i'm broke right now and you know trying
to get some money to go through culinary school when i finally get through culinary school i'll
buy one of your knives and these messages really stick out to me um not because it's a potential
future customer but it's because someone who is um being really honest about where they're at and
you know and and trying to make that dream happen so that one day they can buy a good knife
and i feel like you know what if i can help make that dream come true and there's tons
of different types of cuisine out there and tons of different western cooking schools but because
of what i do and my passion with japanese knives why not focus on japanese cuisine and
so because of that i did some research and there are really two so far that i've found there's two
culinary institutes that are accredited in los angeles that specialize in japanese food and so
i looked at their pricing and pricing for classes will range from like two thousand dollars to
like four thousand dollars per student for like a two to four week class two to four thousand
dollars for a class is very expensive but the question is what if those two to four thousand
dollars i invest in somebody can actually help them feed their families for life that to me is
worth it can't promise anything else i can't say i'm going to commit 50 000 to this thing
but i want to start with one person and i want to find one person that can really benefit from this
and i will pay for the school i will pay for the education of this culinary program i will supply
them with all the knives and tools they need to complete the program and to start their career
and so again i don't know what it's going to cost when it's all said and done but it's going to be
it's going to be pretty expensive i can't really name any names right now but i have been in touch
with a couple different chefs who are willing to take on interns once they complete this program
so i have chefs who do pop-up restaurants i have chefs who cater at really high-end catering events
and celebrity events in la i have a potentially partner chef who owns a number of restaurants
that they were willing to take some interns on my hope is that once a person goes through the
program and they're able to you know land some of the internships that i've got lined up that
very soon afterwards they will be able to work at a restaurant full-time so that is my big idea for
2021 how do i teach someone to fish and how do i pay for all of that so how do i pay for this so
um basically all the money that i'm gonna earn from youtube advertising and patreon is going
towards this program uh i'm not raising any money i'm not gonna take any funds from any retailers
well and also i am reserving money for the book as well so don't worry about patreon supporters
the book will happen those of you who are waiting for the book it'll happen um but i'm just going
to add another component to what i'm going to spend my money on from my patreon earnings now
the other big question is how do i screen someone for this program the honest answer is i don't know
it's going to be a lot of work i'm going to be inundated with thousands of messages
on this video and on youtube comments um so trying to do it through youtube
messaging is really difficult because youtube's messaging isn't very efficient it's not a forum
style discussion is basically individual mailboxes or individual emails that's really hard to keep up
with and then on instagram it's going to be the same thing it's going through individual messages
and this is not an advertising for patreon you guys don't have to sign up for patreon
but i'm going to open up a discussion on patreon just for this because on patreon it's much smaller
i only have a few hundred subscribers on patreon versus you know two hundred thousand um but on
patreon it allows me to have you know one-on-one interactions much easier and i actually can have a
basically a dedicated thread just for this topic so this is going to be happening on patreon as
well you guys don't have to sign up so here is where you guys can help me okay so first off
i just want you guys to share this video with someone you think who may benefit or who could
be potentially selected for this program if you know somebody who loves cooking who isn't employed
who have expressed an interest in japanese cuisine please share this video with them and if they show
more interest they can reach out to me here on youtube on instagram or maybe even on facebook
but i just want to get the message out there so that i can have people that will come alongside
me and help so the second thing is leave a comment now i don't read all of the comments
in all my videos but the videos that i say i'll read all the comments i will okay and this video
is that video i will read every single comment um and maybe in the comment section i can start by
selecting five or ten of you guys for interviews um i don't know where it's gonna go on from there
but you know leave a comment if you think this is something that you might be interested in
and we can start there if you have a restaurant or a viewer manager a restaurant and you're willing
to partner up with me in some form or another leave a comment in the video's comment section
put a hashtag in your comment with the hashtag partner i can do keyword searches in my comments
section so i do do a search for hashtag partner all of the comments with that hashtag will pop up
please only use that hashtag if you are in fact a manager of a business or an owner of
a business and you are willing to have an open dialogue with me about getting some interns
or an intern into your restaurant when they've completed the necessary skills that they've that
they'll need to work in your restaurant you know so this video is really just me laying out what's
on my heart you know what i want to do with my channel it's been a really amazing journey on
youtube and again i want to stress i'm not going anywhere so i'm still gonna be posting videos up
here i just wanna you know take some time and explore something that can be life-changing and
life-giving for some people i think this can give a lot of hope to somebody who doesn't have hope
so over the next few weeks i will be making some updates and giving you guys large announcements
um probably though none as large as this one here so but i do have some really big moves
that are happening and um there are gonna be some traveling that i'm going to be doing
hopefully soon and then there are some things with my studio that you guys will hear about as well
um everyone who has subscribed is subscribed who will subscribe i just want to say thank you
for being a part of the perfection family and i couldn't do any of this without you guys so thank
you i'm really nervous about this announcement i'm also really excited to see what can happen
uh i think it's gonna be a lot of fun um and i'm really and yeah to be really honest with you i'm
just excited to see what partnerships will evolve from this and to see how far we can go with it
so hopefully you guys will stick around for this journey for this adventure and yeah let's
make 2021 an awesome year there's probably a few dozen of you guys who have sent me angry messages
in the youtube comments and via email about the last video posting that i'm gonna allow you to
buy your dream knife for a dollar um that is still on okay so i haven't done it i haven't selected
the winners because i haven't had time with all my kids being sick and wife being sick and then
you know just the timing of everything it just didn't work out and also in december my e-store
pretty much sold out of everything so i didn't want to just say hey
you have a ricky knife for this winner and another rookie knife for this winner i wanted to give a
variety of knives away or to sell a variety of knives for a dollar it just didn't happen
but it is still on so if you guys don't know what i'm talking about just go to the very
last video that i posted you'll understand what i mean but that dollar knife dream knife sale
is still on um as knives come in over these next hopefully a few weeks um i will pick the winners
of that dollar sale thank you for being here and i'll catch you guys in the next video