- Ooh, we're in the midst of October, which means it's really Scoob-tober! It's where I'm gonna talk
about Scooby-Doo a whole- You done? No, no, no, no, that's much worse! Sparda, I am already demonitized because of your shenanigans. Scoob-tober is basically a time of year where I make a lot of Scooby
Doo videos, I do it every year. I promise I do this every year. Starting this year I do it every year. This year I binge watched the entirety of "A Pup Named
Scooby-Doo" multiple times over the past few weeks. Because I am incredibly depressed! (Shaggy crying)
- Don't cry, you two. The Scooby Doo Detective
Agency will get on the case. So if you're not in the know, here's a short summary
of what happened to me over the past month. I tried making the
third video in my series about the old 1966 Marvel Cartoons. This time, it would have
been about Iron Man cartoon so I watched all of that,
I wrote a 40-page script, which is the longest
script I'd ever written. I even filmed the entire
thing multiple times because I had some camera difficulties. But then as I went to my computer staring down four plus hours of footage that I had I filmed for this video, I had the worst most severe panic attack I've ever had in my entire life. Several, in fact. Now, I'm not gonna go into exact
details about what happened because just the thought of continuing to work on this
Iron Man cartoon has become a massive anxiety trigger for me. And I know that that sounds really silly, I promise, I know how it sounds, but that is sincerely what happened. You can see my entire mental breakdown in real time on Twitter,
where I was posting like wild. And I even posted an update
on the YouTube community tab a couple weeks ago and that was met with just a lot of support and I
really do appreciate that. So to quickly summarize
the worst mental state that I've ever been in, I don't wanna make that
Iron Man video anymore. - I've lost all interest in you. - I am physically unable to
make that video, actually. In fact, you may have noticed that I've not been able to make any videos for the past month. - Aha, I know exactly where I am! I'm lost! (crying) - And in addition to all of
that, as if that weren't enough, that same week that I
had massive panic attacks I also had two other radical
life changes happen to me at the exact same time. Changes that will explain
where I am right now, if you're curious. But we'll talk more about
that later in this video. In short, I was not okay
mentally there for a little bit. And I know that I talk about mental health like a lot on this channel, it's probably annoying, you're probably like, move on, we get it, your brain is broken. - Shaggy, pull yourself together. - Actually haven't seen
any comments like that. I'm just projecting my
own insecurities onto you. See, I'm doing it again! My therapist, shout out
to therapy by the way, gave me this little piece of paper with a mantra on it to sort of get through this never-ending series of
downward spirals I've been on for the last month. It reads "almost
everything will work again if you unplug it for a few
minutes, including you." Aw! So, I tried doing that. I took a break from twitter, I took a break from making videos. Probably not a great idea in the grand scheme of
the YouTube algorithm. I just tried to turn my
brain off for a little bit and relax. I said that like it was
a foreign word to me. Relax? Am I pronouncing that correctly? I tried to relax the way that
I know a lot of my friends do, binge watching comfort media! - Like, why don't you just
relax in front of the TV and watch some nice cartoons, Scoob? - And to be honest, I did a
lot of that binge watching from this sleek motorized standing desk sent to me from the fine
people at Flexispot! It's a fantastic desk and
it's really helped me out through these multiple
chaotic life transitions I'm in the midst of by
having a space at home that feels professional and productive. If you like this desk there's a link to where you
can buy it in the description and I'll even tell you a lot
more about the desk later on in this video, but I
did want to say up top thank you so much to
Flexispot for this desk and for sponsoring this video. I really do appreciate it. So, I don't know about you, but I don't really tend
to rewatch tv shows or movies that much. Like I've seen The Office
all the way through exactly one time and
that was enough for me. There's just constantly so
much new stuff to watch. Like, I gotta keep up with
this season of Ted Lasso, and hey, what about
that LuLaRoe documentary that people were talking
about for like two days? And maybe I should finally
watch that movie Chef that's been collecting dust in
my Netflix queue since 2018? I'll get around to it eventually. I've never been the kind of person who's content rewatching Friends on a loop until my mortal body is
reclaimed by the earth. There are exactly two movies that I like to rewatch
every year on my birthday as a little treat. Scott Pilgrim and Kiki's Delivery Service, and I didn't even watch
Scott Pilgrim this year, I only watched Kiki. But probably the film that
I've seen most times in my life is, um. - Check out my pecks, little man! - Yeah, so I had a podcast
a couple of years ago called Month of Monsters where I watched Scooby
Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed every single day for the month of October, and I didn't even make it all the way. I got to episode 29 and I quit
'cause I couldn't take it. Still, I watched it over two
dozen times that month alone, not including all the times
that I've watched it as a kid and all the times that
I've watched it since then so it's pretty squarely
my most watched film. In fact, because so many of you have requested it over the years, I'm running a special offer
on my Patreon page right now just for the month of October where if you support me at $5 or higher you will get access to over nine hours of audio commentary
tracks of me talking over Scooby-Doo movies and
episodes of the tv shows, and yes, that includes
Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed. For the whole run down of everything go check out Patreon.com/NerdSync, would really appreciate
your support over there. Especially right now, when I eventually explain why I'm here. Point is, Scooby-Doo is my comfort media. I remember being sick as a kid
and staying home from school, and turning on Cartoon Network, they were playing Scooby-Doo constantly. Either that, or I only remember
the Scooby-Doo episodes 'cause it's the best show. I did also occasionally flip over to Nickelodeon during the day and they were playing like kids shows, you know, Blue's Clues. And I did also for sure watch
those, look, I'm a sucker for a cartoon dog solving mysteries. Now when I was in high
school, the Scooby-Doo cartoon that would play the most
was What's New, Scooby-Doo, but growing up throughout
elementary school and middle school, the one that really
caught my attention was. ♪ There's a mystery in town ♪ ♪ So call the coolest pup around ♪ ♪ Oh Scooby, a pup named Scooby-Doo ♪ - Everyone always asks me what my favorite Scooby-Doo show is and it's "A Pup Named Scooby-Doo," hands down! No question. It's just the best one. All right, there are definitely
better Scoob-Doo shows, like "Scooby-Doo Where Are
You," iconic, classic, right? "Mystery Incorporated," bold, fresh. "13 Ghosts." That one, that... ♪ Row row row your boat
gently down the stream ♪ ♪ Merrily merrily merrily merrily ♪ ♪ Life is but a dream ♪ - It's got Vincent Van Ghoul in it. It's pretty good. - Oh, what a wonderful night's rest. I must've had 20 nightmares. - But a Pup Named Scooby
was my favorite show, is my favorite show. Airing originally between 1988 and 1991, "A Pup Named Scooby-Doo" was
subjected to the same fate a lot of properties
underwent this same time: take a franchise, make 'em younger, that's a new show right there. Muppet Babies, Tiny Toons, James Bond Jr. That last one can't possibly be real. ♪ Bond ♪ ♪ James Bond Jr. ♪ ♪ No one can stop him
but some always try ♪ ♪ Young Bond cuts through
these weathered skies ♪ ♪ He learned the game
from his uncle James ♪ ♪ Now is heir to the name ♪ ♪ James Bond ♪ - Wait, so he, his name is James Bond Jr., his uncle is James Bond, but he's James Bond Jr. and it's not his dad, it's his
uncle who's the James Bond. Is that, can you do that? Anyway, the Scooby-Doo franchise already tried to inject the show with some more fresh
new younger characters, like Scrappy and Flim Flam. Take a guess how that worked out. And since the gang was already
supposed to be teenagers, if Hanna-Barbera wanted to
babyify this show as well they would have to take the Scooby gang and make them literal children. Which is what they did. Scooby, Shaggy, Velma, Daphne, and Freddy all together make up the
Scooby-Doo Detective Agency, a sort of precursor to
Mystery Incorporated, or potentially alternate
universe version of it. It's hard to know for sure, the Scooby canon is
tricky, to put it lightly. But I think that's what I appreciate about this show so much. It makes so many choices that differ from the other shows in this franchise. The monsters here are
silly and ridiculous, never attempting to be
actually frightening, the way they were in "Where Are You." There aren't Space Kooks
or Ghost Clowns here. There are burger monsters, and a ghoul that's just a
big wig, and a Chickenstein. - Obviously she forgot
that dude tried pluck us. - The animators played with
wacky, over-the-top gags, and kept pushing the banas cartoony energy beyond anything we've seen in
Scooby-Doo before or since. The way that Scooby overreacts
to eating Scooby-Snacks, the way that his nose pops off
his face to chase down clues as if it has a mind of its own, so many of these visual gags
give "A Pup Named Scooby-Doo" a sort of classic animation
quality about them. Like, I don't know, it
feels like stuff you'd see in Looney Tunes, and even then
they amped it up a bit more. And the music in this show! (lively music) Very few things on this planet can instantly flip a switch in my brain to put me in a good mood the way that the opening to
"A Pup Named Scooby-Doo" can. ♪ Scooby, a pup named Scooby ♪ ♪ Scooby, a pup named Scooby Doo ♪ - And beyond that, the
music throughout the show has a bouncy, jazzy vibe to it, keeping the antics light and fun. Nearly every episode has an original song for the big chase sequence too. And every single one rips! ♪ We've got our number ♪ ♪ You just can't escape those bad guys ♪ ♪ Here comes the ice man ♪ ♪ He's trying to freeze the crew ♪ ♪ He's not a nice man ♪ ♪ His touch'll turn you blue ♪ ♪ Chasin' good guys
was his whole routine ♪ ♪ He's a Were-Doo wolf ♪ ♪ Were-Doo wolf ♪ ♪ He's a Were-Doo ♪ ♪ She's got a crush on him ♪ ♪ He's got such metallic skin ♪ ♪ He's made of terrible transistors ♪ ♪ And ghostly circuit boards ♪ ♪ Micro monster ♪ - [Scott] It was also the first cartoon to bring back Velma and Freddy after they had been
absent from the franchise for over a decade, and this show made quite possibly my two favorite versions
of the characters. Velma is quiet and studious, almost to the point of being oblivious. The characters are
shocked when she speaks, because when she does, it's usually something
crucially important. - Aha! - Velma spoke! - She said, aha! - She must have an idea! - I think I like this version of Velma because I see a bit of myself in her. My parents always told me when I was a kid I didn't speak for a really long time, but when I did I spoke in full sentences. Almost as if I was waiting to speak because I wanted to make sure
what I said was important. Not that it was important. I mean, I still feel that way too when I rewrite every line
of my script a dozen times to get it the words to sounds good. Wow, that was real bad, can I get a second pass at that, please? Just kidding, I even wrote
that flub into my script. Everything I do is a lie! Freddy returns to the series in the exact opposite role to Velma. Rather than being calculated and measured with what he chooses to say and do, Freddy believes anything he reads, loudly shouts everything that pops into his head without thinking, and never learns any lesson. When he's not blaming mole people and, I don't know, bubblegum martians I guess for every monster attack
that happens in Coolsville, he's blaming Red Herring. - The dog catcher ghost
is really, Red Herring! - [Reporter] We interrupt
"A Pup Named Scooby-Doo" for this special announcement. - When's that doofus Freddy
gonna learn I didn't do it! - [Scott] Ugh, one of the best characters in all of Scooby-Doo lore. This show taught kids, taught
me, what a red herring is without ever having to
actually explain it. The first episode treats
Red like an actual suspect, but of course he didn't do it. Red Herring is a red herring! Season after season, he was
never behind the monster mask. Except the one time that he was, but that was the one time
Freddy didn't accuse him. - I knew it, I knew it! - Heartbreaking, truly. More than anything, this show
was the first Scooby show that allowed Fred to be eccentric. He was boring in the past, but he's genuinely extremely funny in "A Pup Named Scooby-Doo." And that would later translate
to the live-action movies where he was made to be a bit of a himbo. - Excuse me, ma'am, but have you seen a goofy
looking kid and his puppy? - Like, it's us, Freddy. - Who's the ugly old broad? - Say hello to grandma. - [Scott] And all the way
down to Mystery Incorporated where he obsessed over creating traps, which is a punchline that
never ever is not funny. - Oh Freddy, a scrapbook! I bet it's filled with
wonderful pictures of, traps? - We used this one to catch
the Phantom of Vasquez Castle. - Yeah, I remember. - And it all started in Pup! That's how I shorten "A
Pup Named Scooby-Doo" 'cause if I did the intitials
then it would be APNSD. APNSD. A-penis-D. you see what I mean, that's no good. I could be wrong, but I believe
Pup was also the first show to make Daphne rich, which is
a thread that's been carried way passed this cartoon. It also invented the town of Coolsville, which was a turning point
in the Scoob-universe. - The people of Coolsville
are the best in the world! (audience cheers and applauds) - And dare I say it, this show perfected
the Scooby-Doo formula. Three suspects, one
entertaining chase sequence, some Scooby Snacks, ending it
all with those meddling kids! This would solidify even further with future Scoob movies and shows sticking quite heavily to the formula, either to embrace it
wholeheartedly or subvert it, but Pup did it best. Every episode successfully
setup 3 possible culprits, and then recapped all the
clues at the end of the show. - Do you know who it is? - Who? - Well then, let's review the facts. - Displaying how it was totally possible that you could have solved the mystery simply by paying attention. I think my favorite episode
is the one with Al Cabone. The way that that puzzle,
that mystery unravels is just, so satisfying. And to be honest, that's not
something you can say a lot about classic Scoob. There are episodes in Where Are You where the person behind the mask is someone we had no chance of knowing. Bluestone the great? Big Bob Oakley? How was I supposed to
know about ex-magicians and escaped convicts if
you won't even tell me they exist in the first place, gang? At least mention these
characters so I have a shot! I remember in an episode of What's New where Velma didn't get
to meet the culprit, which made her guess wrong, and that annoyed her a whole bunch! - What, who's this? We haven't even met her, we
don't even know who she is! - She's my assistant, Suzie Smile! - And how was I supposed to know that? - Now you know how I feel, Velma! What's New Scooby-Doo was built on the extremely formulaic structure of "A Pup Named Scooby-Doo," and I don't say formulaic
to imply that it's bad. Being formulaic isn't
necessarily a bad thing, even if it is a term that people throw at
media they don't like. Not to rehash an extremely 2018 debate, but there's no such thing
as objective art criticism. You can have a piece of media that unironically embraces
formulaic storytelling and have it be good, actually! It's all about what
purpose the formula serves. And when it comes to binge watching media I've already seen a dozen
times because I'm depressed, that formula's critical. I think there's a pretty clear reason why the most binge-watched shows are sitcoms with
predictable plot structures. An instantly understandable
formula is comforting. "Mystery Incorporated" is one of the best Scooby-Doo shows out there. It shakes up the gang's
relationships with one another, attempts a more serious tone with actual supernatural horror, while still keeping it light enough to be a proper Scooby-Doo show
for kids and adults alike. I loved watching through it, and I'm never gonna watch it again. At least not likely, the reason is because the
further you get into the show, the less formulaic it becomes, which again, is neither
a good or bad thing here, just an observation. The show has an ongoing plot that continues from episode to episode with lots of deep lore to keep track of, which makes it exciting the
first time you watch it! But, I don't know, I'm
not itching to revisit it, because that serialized story structure doesn't have the same
comforting predictability as something like- - Scooby! Like, am I glad to see you,
ol buddy, ol friend, ol pal! - "A Pup Named Scooby-Doo"
is like a warm hug around my childhood heart. It is a math equation for comfort. While it's exciting to watch
something new and keep up as the story unfolds in ways
you might not have predicted, that precise lack of surprise
when binge watching something that you've already seen a dozen times is where its true value lies. Any element of surprise
is gone, but like, good. That's what I want, actually. But okay, binging any show
for the umteenth time, regardless of whether
or not it's formulaic, can provide a sense of
experiential control, wherein you already know
how you're going to feel during your viewing. "Oh, I love this episode!" "I hate what happened to this character when the show runner changed." "Oh yeah, this character arc
gets real sad here in a bit." "If we watch this next episode, we have to watch all the
way to the end of the season 'cause it gets wild!" You don't necessarily
need to have good feelings about every part of the
comfort show or movie that you're rewatching, but the fact that you know the parts you like or don't like already means that you likely
already know the emotions you're going to be feeling regardless. And when you're battling mental states like anxiety and depression
where, at least for me, I don't know how I'm going to
be feeling moment to moment, let alone day to day. Popping something on the tv
that I'm so familiar with that I know precisely how I'm gonna feel about every character and every gag, it just makes me experience
a level of control over my emotions I am
in desperate need of. After all, that's kind of
what this show is about. In "A Pup Named Scooby-Doo" the gang is presented with a situation that doesn't make sense, that causes all kinds of confusion and throws them into a
state of unpredictability, until they are able to
piece together the clues and make sense of the senseless. To enact some kind of
control over the chaos. To make their world make sense again. This makes even more sense when you realize that Pup
isn't just a show about kids, but it's a show for kids. Think about it, if comfort media is something familiar that you can hold onto in the midst of new and
overwhelming life changes, then the people who probably
need it the most are children. They just got here,
everything's new to them. And a lot of children's
media is actually designed around specifically repetition. Take for instance, Blue's Clues. I have no idea if they still do this with the modern episodes,
but back in the day, Nickelodeon would air the same
one episode of Blue's Clues every day for five days
straight, Monday to Friday. Then, the next week, they'd
air a different episode for five days straight. No other children's show
at the time was doing this. But there was a good reason
why Blue's Clues did. It's a show about a
detective uncovering clues, trying desperately with the
help of his canine sidekick to unravel the mystery of who was responsible
for his fiance's death. Whoops, sorry, that was the spec script for a gritty Blue's Clues reboot where it's a true crime thriller now. Someone had to help the
killer bury the body. Where were you that night, Shovel, Pale? My point is, kids watching this show wanted to feel like
they were helping Steve. And by about the fourth or fifth time they watched through an episode, they were able to solve puzzles and shout out answers to Steve's questions before he'd even asked them. - Great job. - The kids felt like geniuses,
they felt like they were on one of those Limitless pills, you know, where you
know what's gonna happen before it happens. They probably knew the movie
Limitless was gonna happen and they didn't warn us. What I'm saying is, if you
grew up with Blue's Clues, you were the original
comfort show watcher. Not intentionally, but just 'cause that's
how they aired the show. This video was supposed
to be about Scooby-Doo, I don't really know how I got here. Although, I should probably
tell you how I got here. Yeah, so this is my tiny and
cramped one-bedroom apartment that I live in with my girlfriend, Emily, and it will be the place where I film all of my YouTube videos for the foreseeable future. This is how it's gonna be, pretty much. What happened to the office space that I was sharing with other YouTubers that had different sets
and better equipment? I don't got it anymore! I don't have the same
camera or lens or lighting, I mean, as of a couple weeks ago I really had almost nothing
to film or make videos with, I didn't have a computer
here until a couple days ago. The situation is complicated, I wrote a whole big post on
the YouTube community tab if you wanna read that. But basically, in the
midst of me suffering massive panic attacks from
the Iron Man cartoon video, I also had to figure out how I
was gonna start making videos from home. And this is the solution
that I have come up with. I don't have room for a
set like I've been having so this is just my dining room and you can see my living room back there. Sparda's still here, you see him. I mean, I've still got
some colorful lights, this is a decent camera,
hopefully the audio sounds good. It's nothing too fancy, I won't be able to do any
super creative cinematography like I've been doing with my videos. I really can't move the camera at all, this is about the only angle
that I can get right now. I bring all this up not
so you feel sorry for me, this still looks good,
right, it doesn't look bad. I bring it all up for context! NerdSync, as I said, is once again an independent production. It's just me making these
videos in this apartment and I feel like I've shot
myself in the foot a little bit with my previous videos. Over the past like two years I've been trying to make my channel more and more cinematic and having interesting
different camera angles and telling these like
narratives through the video and having some fun lighting
and props and things like that, and I just, I can't do that right now. And I didn't want to start
making more videos from home where the production quality seems like it's been cut in half without really explaining why, because I felt like if
I didn't say anything and I just started putting
out videos like this that are just so different looking than what I've been doing then I guess worried that
people would think I'm, I don't know, like I gave up,
like I just stopped caring. Couldn't be further from
the truth, I care so deeply about making elaborate
videos, but I can't right now. I don't have the time really, I don't have the space physically, I don't have the budget to do it. But what I do have is
my ideas and my writing and my very good editing. And I know that a lot of you have said that the fidelity of my videos is not really the reaon
that you subscribe, it's not the reason you keep showing up, you just wanna see what I have to say. And I really do appreciate
that, genuinvely, it means so much to me. But I want that, I want to
make big, elaborate videos, it's creatively fulfilling to me. And I think that's sort of the big giant question of all of this, you know, am I going to be
creatively fulfilled doing this? Making videos this way. I mean, I hope so. I mean, obviously we've
got some limitations to what I'm able to accomplish filming everything in
a one-bedroom apartment with equipment that I've just
sort of cobbled together. In that regard, it's extremely fitting that the last video I did end up making was about creating art by cobbling together bits and pieces of whatever you have lying around. And after that the video I tried to make a video about a cartoon that featured Iron Man, a character known for building a suit of armor
in a cave with a box of scraps. Plus, the cartoon studio that made those 1966 Marvel cartoons was a studio that didn't
have a lot of money, they didn't have a budget,
they had very little time to put anything together and they weren't even thinking about if people will like it decades from now. They were just making
something in the moment. Like, I was unintentionally
making videos back to back about how limitations can
be creatively freeing, and now look where I am. I'm cursed! My next video will be about how artists, specifically those named Scott, should probably get paid
lots of money, I think. Oh, hey, wait, whoa, what's
this, a sponsor segment this far into the video? Yeah, okay, really quickly
I do have to shoutout the sponsor of this video, Flexispot, for sending me this
really rad motorized desk. It was spooky timing actually. How did you know that I needed
a desk so quickly, Flexispot? Did you know what was gonna happen? Are you on Limitless pills? Flexispot makes incredible desks that are also ridiculously
easy to put together. My experience with this desk
is that it came in two boxes. One for the top and one for the legs, and the instructions were basically, "screw the two big parts together and start using your desk, please" It was so fast that most of this timelapse is me assembling a chair from a different company
that didn't wanna sponsor me. The chair was more complex
than assembling the desk. The desk is super sturdy regardless of how low or
high that you have it. And you can customize your desk to be the exact size
and color that you want. Originally, Flexispot
was gonna send me one with a wooden top but I
pulled a Batman and said- - Does it come in black? - And sure enough you know they got some, so they sent one my way. And because we don't have a
lot of space in this apartment they sent me one that's
a little more compact which is perfect for
our space and our needs. I've been working from a standing desk for the better half of two years now, and I love the flexibility of
being able to sit or stand, depending on what I'm doing. I find that I like to stand when I write and sit for long editing sessions. My previous standing desk had a crank, but this slick black
glass top Flexispot desk is fully motorized with
4 programmable buttons for quickly adjusting the
desk to your desired heights. I've got one for
standing, one for sitting, and one in the middle that
is just barely high enough to fit my chair under
it when I'm not working, so everything is neat and tidy. Having this desk in my apartment has really made me feel like I
can start gettting work done, it's really made the transition
to this new part of my life, this new phase of my life a lot smoother. It feels like everything is
off to a really great start and it's all thanks to Flexispot. The desk they sent me also has a couple USB-A ports on the front and one USB-C port for charging as well. I cannot tell you how
genuinely convenient that is when I'm binge watching
"A Pup Named Scooby-Doo," I can plug in the iPad to make sure it can get me through the entire series multiple times in one sitting. And you can get this
same desk that I'm using by visiting the link in
the description below. Again, link in the
description, get this desk, thank you so much to Flexispot. Wild how the timing of it all
worked out, suspicious even, but I genuinely do appreciate it! Oh yeah, that's another thing too, probably expect more
sponsors on this channel than you're used too videos
just 'cause paying the bills is something I'm gonna
about a lot more these days. Support me on Patreon to get the Scooby-Doo commentary tracks. There's a reason that we're
doing a special offer right now. It's scary to once again not have the stability that I once had and to try and make due on
my own month to month again. But in a weird way I'm feeling maybe not a sense of happiness
from all of this happening, I don't feel happy that I
had massive panic attacks and that my life changed
in immeasurable ways. But I do feel a sense of, I guess what can only be
described as Joy, weirdly. Like, it's hard, every single day is hard. But I wake up and I get to do
this, and I love doing this. Happiness comes and goes quite
rapidly for me these days, but I do feel a revitalized
and ever-growing sense of joy in the midst of all the chaos, you know. It's like that chef from Chef. - Yeah, my credit cards are maxed out and we're not charging for food yet so we're gonna have wait
on the sound system. - Yeah, but you look
happy, baby, don't you? - So happy, so happy.
- That's what's up in this. - I did end up watching that
movie, yes, it is a delight, obviously! One of the big things that
I'm still trying to navigate is continuing to go to therapy
without health insurance, especially now that I learned, um. So not to add even more to
my already quite heavy plate, but once again the same week that I was having
debilitating panic attacks, multiple panic attacks
from the Iron Man video, and had this huge life change where NerdSync became independent which caused a lot of
anxiety in and of itself, I also found out a brand new
way that my brain is broken! And look, I've already
known, you've already known, that I have mental health issues and I've been extremely open
about my anxiety and depression for a really long time. But as it turns out my
brain also functions, or at least tries to function, with ADHD. - ADHD.
- ADHD is right. - I had genuinely no idea. But here's the thing, when I walked out of my therapy session with a diagnosis for
something that can be treated with continued therapy
and even medication, I mean, I just can't
express how much that, it's hard to put into words, it just feels like I
finally have an explanation for why it feels like I've
been playing life on hard mode. I mean, it felt like it was a massive turning point in my life. And it was for different reasons. So now of course my biggest
priority is to continue therapy and hopefully be able
to afford medication, that would be great. And this would be the part of the video where I would say that we're
gonna get through this. I'm gonna tackle this era of my life with a positive attitude and everything's gonna work itself out. Everything's gonna be okay in the end. But I don't know that. I am excited for this
new venture of my life, but I'm also scared, obviously. I'm incredibly grateful
to be in a place right now where I can be surrounded by people, bye Sparda, you're done? Sparda's done. I can be surrounded by people who are so endlessly
supportive of what I do, not only you all watching but my friends and family
in the real space out here. Everyone's been going above and beyond to really help me navigate this and I really do appreciate it. But I guess I just don't want to hide behind a wall of positivity and just pretend like everything's okay. I think there's been a
lot more open discussions about the idea of toxic positivity and how destructive that
can be to one's mentality. A part of that LuLaRoe documentary talked about how having a
workplace where the sellers were not allowed to criticize
anything in the company but instead only spin things
in a positive, can-do way was mentally exhausting and damaging. Ted Lasso, especially season two, is arguably about how the
most upbeat people you know are likely dealing with their
own trauma and mental illness that they are attempting
to mask with positivity when what they really need is therapy. Heck, I think everything
should be in therapy. And Therapy didn't pay me to say that. Therapy didn't send me a free desk. Thank you, FlexiSpot,
great hookup, 'preciate it. Link in the description. My point is, I don't really know how all this is gonna shake out, the next few months are
gonna be challenging, to say the least. It will be hard and stressful
and induce a lot of anxiety in ways that I've probably
not experienced before and when it gets to be too much and I can't seem to get
my emotions under control I'm gonna turn to my favorite comfort show to get me through. Because almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few
minutes, including you. (soft music) Aw! So cheesy, so corny. (upbeat music) Okay, so I've said a lot of bad things that are happening in my life right now so here's a couple good
things to sort of even it out. My skin looks amazing. I am staying hydrated, that's great. And of course we're still doing the Scoob-tober commentary
tracks over on Patreon! Patreon.com/NerdSync,
link in the description. Right now I really rely
on your Patreon support more than ever. So thank you to Bill & Diana
Pilat, Christopher Lang, Eric Ketchum, Jonathan
Lonowski, Amanda Trisdale, DeCassowary, Donna Barck, Edwin Latorre, Eric Tortora Pato, Everett Parrott, Jonathan and Megan
Pierson, Maher Saadaldeen, and the rest of the wonderful
nerds who support me over at Patreon.com/NerdSync,
as I've said, I've said that link a
whole bunch just now. And hey also, other good news, I just launched a brand
new podcast called, It's Probably not Aliens, I do it with my buddy Tristan
from Step Back History, and it's a show all about
debunking conspiracy theories and wild claims from the History
Channel show Ancient Aliens and we also teach you about
the real-world history behind fascinating ancient
civilizations along the way. We're brand new, we're available everywhere
podcasts can be found, there'll be links to that
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