Well, hello, ladies and gentlemen and everyone watching! I am your host the TheReportOfTheWeek. And...
Welcome to this this fantastic
incredible video of one - one for the ages.
But I mean you could interpret that in a figurative or even the literal sense because we're taking a trip back in time! (reviewbrah time traveler confirmed)
I mean we're breaking open the books. We're going we're literally going back in a time machine here because...
And now I'll be honest very recently just a few days ago. I think it was on 20th of February?
We just passed the eight year anniversary of my YouTube channel.
I've been at it for eight years and that's just to me that's like it's mind-blowing!
You know? I never expected to be to be doing this for that long
And it all just, you know, just ended up I think I think great, but I remember I started this channel off in early 2011
kind of as a hobby, you know, just something fun to do, something to do. And...
Of course, over those eight years, I've uploaded so many videos so many hours of content and
I myself I don't really
rewatch most of my old stuff, you know? I just make sure it's
It's acceptable and then I upload it, put it up. And usually that's the last time I ever see it.
So I decided... it was actually suggested to me by a lot of people; they said, "Why don't you go and
you know celebrate the occasion and
re-watch your very first video on YouTube?" And
I thought to myself, "Alright, let's uh, let's give it a shot!" (Yes! I've been waiting for this!)
I mean, of course, I know I know what the video is and I've seen it a couple times,
but I can't even remember the last time I've ever watched the thing the entire way through.
(me neither)
So I guess, you know, we all know what we want to see.
(we do)
Without further ado. I started this channel out reviewing energy drinks and
let's just take a trip back in time to February 20th of
2011 to my very first
upload on this channel.
Energy crisis energy drink review where I happened to try out the very glorious
5-hour energy.
(When was 5-Hour Energy ever glorious?)
So let's get this set up here and...
Let's see. Let's see. What's in the store for us. Let's do this.
(Hmm. Oh right! When Reviewbrah reviewed it. That's when.)
[Editors Note - Commentary Only]
Ohhh!
There I am. Yuup.
Oh my gosh.
5-hour energy. Yeah.
price
durability and taste. (Reviewbrah remembers.)
In pomegranate form. That that's what it was.
I mean...
It's just mind-blowing. You know? Like I mean, I look at myself there. I mean I can't, I can't believe it.
I can't believe like half of this stuff I can even still recite. It's so it's it's insane.
There I am though. You can see I'm reppin that that haircut. That's... Now that is one for the ages though! That haircut is on point.
(I agree - it's pretty bad.)
Then of course though it was a transi, it was a
big, you know?
It was a journey. First, I had that haircut.
(It was something alright.)
Then I kind of went through hell and
went over to LA looks hair gel.
(ew now that's REAL bad)
We'll save that for another day. Then I made the glorious transition to the Brylcreem.
(thank god)
And that's where that is.
You might, you might be wondering, you might be seeing this and might be thinking to yourself, "Wow. He's still got the suits?"
Yeah. I could... I actually still have that exact same tie also. That's... yeah that's just crazy.
I don't know if the suit fits me anymore. It probably does. I could, I could probably
theoretically take the suit jacket,
maybe wrap it around me as a blanket or maybe make a tent out of it and live in it for a while.
(Do WHAT?)
Did that once or twice before but probably...if I still have it. I don't know if I do anymore.
And yeah, I mean you might be saying, "How old is is he in this video?"
That was around 13 or 14. I think some people were saying he's got to be six years old.
And then other people were saying it was 40 in this video. I was around 13 or
14 - so this is, you could say, this is Fetusbrah. And now what you see here, of course,
is Reviewbrah. It's just, it's just that progression. Anyway, let's keep at it.
(haha Fetusbrah glowed up)
Back then I had a camera person. Didn't have a Tripod.
Oh you're losing it! There you go. Good catch.
You can kind of see, you know, I was a little shaky doing this.
I had all my notes down there on a piece of paper. You can easily see.
I was just kinda trying to go off of the notes and, you know.
Back then I was using the shot glass, right? There's also been of course a big a
variation of course back then.
it was the almighty shot glass where I was lapping up the 5-hour energy from that. Then we moved on to the famous blue chalice.
Then we went over to the
Bubba Keg. You can forget those days!
(brah's failed attempt at neuralyzing those Thirst Buster days away)
And then over to the Starbucks Water in the metallic
indestructible drinking apparatus.
Anyway, let's see what I'm doing now.
Yeah, I didn't want to drink that. I'll show you that right there
Because the first the first video I ever did
Where it was it was actually kind of an outtake
because I filmed it the wrong way... was for this orange flavored 5-hour energy and I mean it was disgusting
I mean, I remember taste it so terrible I didn't want to do this again
But I didn't have the editing software at the time. So I had do another take and
I decided alright, I'm going to try out the pomegranate 5-hour energy and I was so apprehensive
I mean you can see I just kind of sitting there. I was twitching around like crazy
not that I still do that and
I mean I was so apprehensive though because I just I thought to myself this thing is gonna taste terrible
I mean, it's gonna taste awful. I'm gonna hate it
This is gonna be this is going to be a miserable experience
So I went in there..
And I was surprised!
There I am! Am I downing it?
Okay, let's hear it...
[Begin Laughter]
I can't do it. I
Can't it's too good. It's too good it just I mean, it just cracks me up
Just to get the adjectives from the choice of words that I use back that is
Something else. I don't know. I haven't seen this this video in full and so long today. I just find it. So hilarious
Two and a Half
There it is!
Yeah, two and a half hour energy that that was that was the big thing there
I mean you could see even then. I mean I took the the energy drink reviews really seriously and
That's the one thing what I would always try to do eventually
Where I would review the drink now try to do the effectiveness, obviously, you know
I couldn't I didn't do the editing back then. It was all just one single tape
So I didn't, you know, give like a status report and see all right, what's the 5-hour energy really effective for five hours?
Was it effective for four and a half hours that killed me? You know, what happened?
So I was kind of just basing it off of the one that I had before
Which was the the orange one and that one lasted for two and a half hours
so I really had to emphasize that point that it should be the two and a half hour energy and
Not the 5-hour energy. But yeah, that was something I used to do and then I try to
keep mental note of the effectiveness and get back at you next week and
Record on that. Anyway, let's see what I got to say to finish this video up
I remember for some reason I wanted to get that line in there.
I guess I just like zombie stuff, that's fine!
You could see how my voice was was just so it was so different back then to where
You know at the time I'm not even good I'm just gonna say it like it is I did have trouble pronouncing
certain things again, like that's not to say that I still have my my difficulties today, but I really had
difficulties with the th it is he could hear me saying like the with this fing instead of this this thing and you know,
That's that was an issue. That was a legitimate
Uh, well, he could admit legitimate fing that I had going on back then and eventually I tried to work on that and fix it
My voice has changed somewhat over the years
The Crisis!
For some reason it just cracked me up right there
Dude, you're just off to the side. Now. Remember I was trying to lean over to see it. Oh my gosh
Wow
What a video that was. What a video I mean
This is like one of those things. It's I can't even tell you the last time that I've watched this video in full
it's just it's like one of these things that
Comes back to me and it's like so much has changed
Yet at the basic format. So little has changed at the same time
You know, I still try to do these very I try to at least be concise and informative
I thought I do like some of the vocabulary I was using that they call the thing putrid
whatever that would have worked would have word for that and
Yeah, that was my first video oh my gosh
I mean
it's it's like one of those things that I'm just trying to wrap my mind around like
as I was watching this not only that I I
Couldn't believe it. Yeah, it's cringing no doubt about it
It was like one of those things. I was trying to wrap my mind around that I can't believe it's been eight years
You know, I can't believe it
That's that's something else
You can see there were a lot of rough edges that I I had to smooth out
It was just a general progression of things, you know, eventually I just was starting these out
I didn't really know what I was gonna do with it and
Then from there I just decided well, I like what I'm doing. I'm having fun with it
I'm just gonna make this into a full-blown
Youtube channel, and I just upload regularly and eventually it was just once a week
that's why this channel is called the report of the week and
Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh so much has changed
like I
Don't know the only way I can describe it is it's like so much has changed
Yet in certain ways. So little has changed -
Man, that was a trip back in time. I got it. I gotta tell you that was
I'm at a loss for words. It's oh
My gosh wow
Wow, that that was an experience. I will tell you that ladies and gentlemen, but you know, it's just like I said,
It's been one heck of a ride. It's been a wonderful eight years. I mean so much has happened. Yes
there's been some bad but so much good - it's been such an incredible journey
Just want to say thank you to each and every one of you that's still here
Still hanging around with the channel watching this video whether you've been here for the duration
For the entire eight years Spain and whether you've been watching this for eight minutes
Video is probably like twenty eight minutes long now, but you know what, I mean?
Welcome, and it's just it's great to have you here
well, what a
What a journey that was that's all that I can tell you
I hope you enjoyed this video and I just wanted to take a minute to just revisit some of my old content and I just
Re-watch that very first energy drink review that I ever did
In experience, I guess that's the only way to
That's the only thing that's the only thing I can say about it. What an experience it's been. Thank you for watching
I'm your host the report of the week and make sure you check out my podcast to
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Hope you enjoyed this as much as I did big sigh. I had a fun time watching this. Thank you and take care
I see in a couple days with another review