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Today, I need to run an errand and then go home.
So come with me on the bike.
If any of you been wondering how the bike's been getting on, very well.
It's been about 850 kilometers on it, according to the odometer,
in just less than a year
and I think the only issue I've had in that entire time has been one flat,
which you know,
It's a bike.
But I've been extraordinarily happy with it.
I think I'd like to do another video
on the bike, actually, or electric bikes in general.
Let me know in the comments
what you'd like to see me talk about in that video, because it's
literally my most searched video and feel like I feel like I could do more.
Hi. I'm here to pick up some keys.
Oh, sure.
Yes, it was Simon.
That's the one.
Nice to see you.
you've seen the title You know what this video is about?
We bought a house!
T-pose to establish dominance!
I'm aware of how silly this looks.
After 13 years of living in different places
for one year, two years, one year, six months, three months, two years.
One year, one year, one year, one year, one year and one year.
We finally bought a house.
We bought a house and you paid for it.
Like, 50% of the mortgage of this property comes from Pixel Girl having a normal,
productive member of society job
and 50% comes from me making YouTube videos.
It comes from this, and that's wild.
We could just leave it here.
No.
Alright.
So this video is trying to do three things.
First of all, and this is a little old fashioned
I think for science YouTube at least it's try to commemorate this life event.
You know this is up there with finishing the PhD or finishing at Oxford.
This is this is huge we bought a house.
Secondly and much more importantly this is trying to say thank you
because if you've watched a video of mine, if you've signed up with a sponsor,
if you've clicked on an affiliate link,
if you support me at patreon.com/SimonOxfPhys
you've paid for a bit of this house it's not an exaggeration.
You see this cupboard door?
Dan Hanvey paid for that via Patreon.
actually.
He's suported me for so long,
he's literally probably paid for this kitchen at this point.
This brick was bought by Koyaanisqatsi on Twitch.tv/drsimonclark.
Love this stone.
And lastly, and this is related, I wanted to take this opportunity
to reflect on how far this community and this channel has come.
Looking back on my old videos, I honestly wonder why anyone ever
watched them, let alone subscribed and said they wanted to watch more.
This channel has been on a real journey.
People who found me relatively recently may not be aware that this channel
was originally a vlog channel.
I vlogged my experience
studying at the University of Oxford as a state school student
and eventually started vlogging my experience
studying for my Ph.D. at Exeter
There will be some people in the comments and please do shout out
if this is you who have been around since the Oxford days.
And thank you so much because I do not understand
why he subscribed those videos were not good.
Since I submitted my thesis in late 2017, I've been making educational
and hopefully entertaining videos most weeks
and there have been so many incredible experiences along the way.
I driven a Mars Rover, written an episode of Star Trek, been to Korea and Sweden.
Ran some half marathons and published a book.
I've met so many amazing, interesting people and have made
some extraordinary new friendships but the only reason I've been able to do
all of this is because of you watching this video right now.
The first video on this channel was filmed by an old camera perched
on a stack of DVDs and my copy of Pharaoh.
The last videos I partly filmed in the old house,
were about the quest to understand life on Mars and dark matter
in a lab a kilometer below the Earth's surface, that I got to visit.
Thanks to people like you seeing my videos on YouTube
and choosing to watch them and supporting me on and off the platform,
you've allowed me to make more and more ambitious content,
upgrade my gear,
take on an employee,
and honestly,
live out some of my dreams.
It is a privilege to be able to do this job, and I never forget that fact.
I am so lucky to have a job where I just make videos about stuff
I find interesting.
I research something, write a script, make a video,
and somehow that ended up with me being able
to afford a place for Pixel Girl and I to to call our own.
I recognize how privileged I am to do this and,
I’m incredibly thankful to you as a community for making this possible.
I thank you a million times.
I don't know how to express it.
As you may have been able to tell in the background of a lot of these shots,
we've literally just moved into the house.
We've barely begun unpacking.
So, lots to do here.
Lots of things that we want to do is put our stamp on it.
And there's some really exciting times ahead,
as is also the case for this channel.
Lots of plans.
More specifically, I'm currently in a temporary set up here in our dining room.
Whilst we do some work to the upstairs where I'm going to have an office
Eventually, however, I would like to move out and actually
get my own studio and finally have a bit of separation between work and life.
And that will also allow me to make some more ambitious content
and have a set aside space that I can do longer term projects with,
which I'm really excited for.
I also have plans to expand where I'm putting content
so recently the Patreon has actually been getting a lot more love.
Luke has done a fantastic job of putting together a behind the scenes
vlog of every month, so that was That's been the case last month.
It's going to be a case this month.
Not quite sure how that's going to gel with doing a vlogging type thing for this.
That's a bridge we'll just have to cross when we come to it.
But if you do sign up as a patron, you get access to that behind the scenes vlog.
And also there's some more exclusive content plans to Patreon in the future.
So if you're not already, that's a great place
to support this channel and help me make more videos.
I also have a second channel, which some of you may not be aware of,
"Simon Clark Errata"
which is basically where I put stuff that I
would like to put on the main channel, but I just don't think it would quite fit.
And it's a place for me to experiment a bit more.
I've got some fun video ideas for that too.
I'm going to be editing over the next couple of months
So, if you not subscribed to that, check it out.
That's going to be a place for me to do some experimenting,
and there's a bunch of plans for content going in other places,
which I can't talk about yet because nothing concrete,
but keep it on my Twitter, on my Instagram.
I will post when stuff comes out and when I can talk about it.
All this is to say that this is a really exciting time to me as a human being.
You know, we've got a new house.
There's lots of stuff changing at the moment.
We're getting married in a couple of months,
but also this is a very exciting time for you as a member of this community
because whether you're here for the science type content,
vlogging type content, or if you just want to see me
put my style on lots of different kinds of projects,
there's going to be something for you in the coming months.
So thank you so much for everything
that you've done so far and for making this possible.
But I do now have a mortgage to pay, so if you could stick around,
I really appreciate it.
There is, however, an extra group of people
that I need to say a very special thank you to, and those are the people
who have sponsored this YouTube channel for the longest time, believe it or not.
Brilliant have put up with my nonsense since 2017
and they very kindly agreed to sponsor this video as well.
Brilliant is of course the perfect companion to this channel
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Thanks so much to Brilliant for sponsoring this video
and for being such a good friends to this channel.
Thank you so much for watching the video.
Right the way to the end and thank you for bearing with me
during this kind of two week period where we've been living out of boxes
and I've not had access to all my equipment.
Next week.
hopefully service will resume as usual with a science video essay.
In the meantime, here's some recommended viewing next.
And if you're not already subscribed, you can check that out down there.
Thank you again for watching, and I'll see you in the next one.