The idea was presented
The questions were there
but people still had their doubts
They asked themselves:
Is he actually crazy enough to do this?
Is this lad, mad enough
to actually go out and make this video?
And I see it.
I see it. I
I see all the- the- the difficulties, the questioning
Just the unsure attitude of it all
But I'm here right now
Showing resilience in the face of adversity
To give you the answers to your questions
The history of my scyphate receptacles
Well that was an overly dramatized
introduction I don't think anyone really cares that much but!
I've been getting a lot of questions about this, truth be told
I really have
I go through the comments every now and then and
I kind of see what people are really asking and what they might be
curious about and then I go from there to try and figure out
well, you know,
maybe I can take that and clear up a few things
and maybe you know do a random video or something like that
And of course, one of the biggest questions was
why I wear the suits and
I covered that in a video a couple weeks back
But another question that people have been asking
almost since the start of the channel
is about my drink pairing
Because of course I review the food mostly now
and I always have a glass of water next to it
And sometimes--
People have always been wondering about the glass itself or the type of water that it might be
You know, back in the day they would see this blue glass,
and they would always be curious about that
Then, having seen the Thirst Buster they'd be curious about that
and now it's the Starbucks water
You know you always
see in every video a couple people asking
well, "Why, do you always get the Starbucks Water?"
You know, "What is it about the Starbucks Water that's so special?"
"Why do you always get the Starbucks Water?"
And I'm gonna be clearing up those questions and more in a
uh
absolutely thrilling, edge-of-your-seat video
where I discuss my drinking goblets and glasses
And scyphate receptacles
and the contents therein
So stay tuned
Get the- uh- get the water glasses ready
because uh, this is gonna be an exciting one, folks
Well, where to begin, right?
I guess the first and most famous glass of them was this one
You know
You remember this one?
The blue chalice.
A lot of people were initially unsure about this one
And you can see, there is nothing in it
There is no invisible water present
Nothing at all otherwise it would be pouring out
Unless it is actually invisible water then uh
I guess it would have been pouring out
But this is the blue drinking glass,
the blue chalice as some people call it.
You can see it right here up close and personal view of it
There it is
It is a blue crystal glass
The glass itself is tinted blue so,
some people, they'll see this glass and they'll kind of think, you know,
Is he drinking with blue Gatorade or something out of it?
But I just drink--
I always have drank, and, continued to drink just water
Just pure H₂O
usually with ice cubes in it
So this glass is just tinted blue,
the drink Itself Is not actually blue,
but you could hear
[2 dings]
You know, it makes an interesting little noise when you kind of flick it
But this glass itself the, blue--
The blue chalice; the blue goblet, it has a variety of names
I just call it the blue glass
This was the first and,
probably, arguably the most well-known drinking glass
that I would always use to
You know, to
contain and control my water
for the reviews
And I use this glass probably from
Gosh, 2012 up until
2017 or so
So it's been with this channel quite a long time
It's really been-- it's had a long history to it
And the reason why I always used to use this glass
I mean I think arguably,
people probably say it goes best with the suits,
you know it's like a formal glass, etcetera.
I had a number of these glasses is sitting in a cabinet
About six or so and
Originally, my folks, they got them as a gift
but, you know, no one was really using them,
they were just there collecting dusts
Uh dusts?
I guess dust, dust singular
Though they, may have been collecting dusts, plural
But they were just kind of sitting there,
unused and I decided to
essentially, adopt them,
and put them into rotation again,
and I started using them to just
You know get water and uh
I wasn't using them just as a prop for the review you know
I was using them all day, every day.
These are my drinking glasses
If I wanted to get a glass of water,
I would put two ice cubes in it and
fill it up with some-- usually tap water,
maybe sometimes bottled but
the tap water was usually fine at that place
And uh
The one issue that came to it--
well actually there were two issues of this glass and
This is why I kind of stopped using them
so heavily with the channel
As you can see, with this glass right?
You take a look
Right?
It's not necessarily the sturdiest glass in the world
You know?
I don't even want to think about it,
it kind of makes me cringe a little bit
Kinda envisioning this,
but if I were to drop this glass on the floor
and I'm not
But if I were to drop this glass on the floor,
you know, I'm sad to say it'll
it'll shatter it'll break,
And, it's quite hard to find
It's, you know, it's difficult to find a replacement for it,
I mean they're out there but you know, you have
to really do some digging and try and find one
And that other thing is that they
really don't hold a huge volume of water,
you know, you might be lucky if It'll hold eight ounces,
and I always like to consume larger quantities of water with my meal
you know I just like to stay, well hydrated and
wash everything down well
And, also my tolerance to spicy food isn't
It's not the greatest you know how
I'll end up just guzzling down ounce, after ounce, after ounce, of water
If I have some hot wings usually,
And, I needed something,
you know I needed something more than that
Otherwise, I keep getting up walking to the refrigerator,
get the water walk back,
three minutes later go there again
Going back,
back and forth, back and forth
It would so much
You know, it would just be-- it would be an inconvenience and
Sadly the glasses started breaking
You know
Washing them out,
you accidentally knock it over in the sink,
and sometimes the stem will crack,
or sometimes the little holder itself
uh
will shatter
Sometimes they'll drop it on the floor and,
that's the end of the poor thing
I got a few replacements but,
the number was slowly dwindling and,
after I really started going out more for the reviews, you know
traveling around, going to the parking lots, moving around, etcetera
to get the freshest items and even go out in public to review 'em
I didn't want to keep bringing the glass with me but
since I was, you know, legitimately concerned for it,
I worry, you know what if it went over a bump or something
and it was it hit something and now is it
or-- there's just too much variability there
And just, you know, now I still use it on occasion
for some of the indoor reviews but
I needed a replacement for it
because it's just too fragile and
I realize I just care too much about it
And I didn't want to see them all break,
and, again, also the issues with it
just, holding such a limited amount of water
you know, came into question and it was an issue
So then we moved, and found an alternative
Ah, yes
Thirst Buster!
This uh,
this...
thing
Thirst Buster.
Came to notoriety back in 2016
and it was only really in heavy use for a few months
you know, not for an extraordinarily long period of time
but you can see it there
And this solved a lot of the problems that I outlined with the blue chalice
You can see, it's from Circle K which is great
They have-- nowadays they have the uh
Gosh, what do they call that from Circle K?
The Polar Pop
Which is great, you know,
go to the gas station there get a Polar Pop
some lottery tickets whatever
and uh
It's always great but
this is an older cup but you can see
the Thirst Buster from Circle K its
[plastic sound]
plastic
More durable,
you know, I can take it
[cup hitting floor]
Drop it
And it survived
the straw fell out,
but otherwise it completely survived
It's very durable
And also it, you know, holds a larger volume of--
of liquid, I guess you could say
[cup opening sound]
You can see the inside there
I don't know how well you can see it
but you could see really it uh
it does hold a much larger volume of liquid there
We can get this back on
[cup closing sound] We can get this back on
There we go
So it solved a lot of those problems, you know,
you could drop it indefinitely
I mean you could throw it against a brick wall repeatedly
if you wanted to
I wouldn't recommend it
But if you really wanted to, it would hold up
It was sturdy,
it held up,
and it held a, you know,
a much larger volume of water
We might say, you know,
that seems to fit all of your needs
Why, did you stop using the Thirst Buster?
Well the reason why I stopped using the Thirst Buster
was really for health concerns, and I'll explain why
it kind of sounds silly, you know,
How could this, you know, this idiotic Thirst Buster
make you concerned about your health at all?
But the reason why, I stopped using the Thirst Buster
was because I started noticing
You know this really--
the water itself didn't really taste just like water anymore
It started having this real
plasticky chemical taste to it
and I didn't notice that at all in the blue glass
and it only started coming about
in the Thirst Buster there
and that was very concerning to me
because I realized you know it's got to be something
with that container
Maybe it's just old, you know,
maybe it just the- the chemical makeup of
the the thirst busting
receptacle
But, you know, it's starting to get this real
plastic chemical taste to it, and
that started worrying me, as I said
and I decided well
I don't know-- I don't know what is coming
into the water through this device
And I'm a bit concerned about that
so I'm gonna have to find another alternative
so the Thirst Buster, was retired
and put out of commission
Maybe six to eight months ago
And now it's just kind of
sitting on a shelf collecting dust
If I ever hit rock bottom,
I might auction it off one day
I don't know
Well, I needed an alternative
I needed something that was durable,
something that, you know,
could hold a large quantity of water
but something that didn't really have this
plastic chemical taste to it
and then it came to me one day,
out of the blue
I was at Starbucks and
I had been a regular patron of Starbucks
uh three years
if there's one thing I like it's--
It's my coffee and I'm willing to spend a couple bucks on it
because I literally need it to function throughout the day
And
somehow I realize that Starbucks can give you ice water for free
And I decided to ask one day I said,
"Well, could I-- could I get a Trenta ice water?"
I got it
I took that sip
And that did it, that sealed the deal
And I immediately realized
This is gonna be my new drinking goblet
You know, this is it
I finally found it!
And thus, the Starbucks water was introduced
Now it wasn't just,
you know, the device itself
As you can see it is, quite large
it holds 30 ounces of water,
which is more than enough
It's sturdy
[plastic sound] It's sturdy
It's sturdy
It's plastic
I like how it's-- I like how its see-through
so you can kind of see what you're drinking
You know
And again,
sturdy,
holds a lot of water,
and it doesn't really have
any sort of chemical taste to it either
But there was one added bonus
and that was the taste of the water itself
now I know it can be silly, you know,
water can in it, just tastes like water
But there really are different, you know,
different subtle flavors of water
Now I don't know if it's just the water that they use
the Starbucks, maybe this Starbucks in specific
Maybe they have filtered water,
maybe it's the ice that they put in it
I really, don't know the secret
I don't work at Starbucks,
I just--
I don't have those
secret Starbucks connections anymore
So I just don't have the answers to these
mysteries of the universe
Unfortunately
but for some reason,
the flavor of the Starbucks water
Is as far superior to a lot of the tap water that I've--
and even bottled water that I've had
in my water drinking career
You know, I got this Starbucks water in this morning
10:20 a.m.
But there's just something about it,
you know,
something about this water I just really, enjoy the flavor
You know
it says something about it
I really can't, you know,
pinpoint it but I just like the taste also
So that's an added bonus there
Now it may be another age old question
about the Starbucks water
You know, people will sometimes
wonder in comment because they'll always see the Starbucks water in a cup
And they'll say, well,
Does this lad actually go to Starbucks every single day
and get a new Trenta iced water?
And my answer to that is no.
I do go to Starbucks roughly every day
sometimes I just take a caffeine pill if need be
and that'll hold me over,
But
I oftentimes do find myself at Starbucks every day
And, I always buy a coffee there, you know
Sometimes I'll rotate between the uh
What is-it-now that I get?
The Vanilla Iced Latte
Sometimes I get the white chocolate Mocha
that's very high in sugar
I'm tryna' to cut that
Sometimes the Caramel Macchiato to,
that's always a it's a good one right there
And sometimes I'll get some snacks too,
I'll get the muffins,
sometimes the lemon loaf,
that's a- that's, also a favorite right there
But I only get an ice water about
twice a week
and in the days between that,
I'll get the ice water, you know
Drink its original contents
And then for about two or three days afterwards,
I'll refill and reuse this cup throughout the day
Because again, it's a useful cup it again,
holds a large volume of water there
and uh
Again it's durable, and it doesn't really have
any sort of chemical contamination flavor at all
that it, you know, contributes to the water in any way
so that's great
And I'll reuse it, you know,
fill it with some tap water, or some--
Usually, I prefer the Zephyrhills jug water
and I'll put some ice in it and
it always works out very nicely
and then after a few days to make sure it doesn't get
you know
To make sure none of the
the chemicals on the plastic kind of seeps through
if that ever happens
Oh yeah, then I throw it out and recycle it
and uh
then get a new ice water
but the staff, you know
They don't mind at all they're very friendly
I'm a regular customer,
and uh
they sometimes, you know, they they sometimes
joke around they say "Want the ice water today?"
And I say "yep"
And, sometimes I say no and I throw them off
But it all depends on the day and
and uh
So that's really where that stands, you know,
it's a convenient
uh
receptacle,
and I enjoy the flavor of the water but
Looking forward, the future of-- you know,
what type of container I want for my water
I'm hoping one day to find
a permanent residence for the water,
and I'm hoping, perhaps to get,
you know, one of those uh
One of those glass bottles,
you know,
I really have to do some research
But I'm hoping one day to maybe get like a uh
Some sort of like, reusable glass bottle,
you know, good quality and uh
Maybe something like that one day
So if you see that
There's a prediction about what might be coming down the road one day
But for now, we'll be sticking with the Starbucks ice water
Because it works out well
though the uh
The blue chalice will still make an appearance here and there
and uh
I still like it
and this is probably my favorite of all the receptacles
But I just you know,
I again the volume can be an issue,
and I just worry about it breaking
And the Thirst Buster has been forced Into retirement
Due to repeated health violations
So I think that's really all that I have for you
I think, we covered all the ground, and all the topics and
everything else, so
This is just the, you know, kind of quick random video
Where I just answered a few questions of yours
where people were just curious about
the uh
You know, the kind of glasses that I use
if it's just water that I drink
What type of water
Why I use these
The story behind it
All that good stuff
And I just wanted to take this as an opportunity,
just to tell a few stories
and uh
Really, just address these
these concerns and questions and
pressing matters
you know, in a concise and timely manner
So that's really all that I have for you
If you want a good indication of really
when you found this channel
Is what, you know,
what glass you associate me with
you know, if you've been a--
if you've been here a long time then you
always associate the blue chalice with me
If you associate the Thirst Buster
you, you know, probably found the channel in 2016
and then if you associate the Starbucks water with me
you found the Channel in 2017
So if you're from you know the blue chalice days,
you can, go and brag to all your friends or coworkers
You know, you would say to them at the water cooler
huh, you know,
I knew about Reviewbrah's channel
back when he use the blue chalice and
and, you know, they might look at you funny
but it's literally just because they're
in awe that you are actually from that era
And if you actually remember the blue chalice
so don't worry about that they're just
they're just madly impressed
by your lore and, you know
What you found out about the the drinking receptacles
Well again, that's all that I have for you
coming up next will be a food review and
I hope I addressed any of your questions about the uh--
the you know the
The receptacles that I use to drink water
I hope you enjoyed this video
your feedback is always most welcome and appreciated
Until next time, thank you for watching
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