It’s been a long journey! Puddin’s Fab Shop.

y'all hear that that wind right there's barely blowing it's been getting after a minut minute ago them suckers were slamming these ones over here were creaking we've had a a windstorm come through but we also had a snowstorm this morning here in Oklahoma yes we will rebuild uh I think we'll make it out alive we lost our negative half in it's already melted off cuz the Sun came out cuz that's how Oklahoma works but I swear there was the tiniest amount of snow this morning on the ground it happened dang how'd that gets so dirty that don't even make sense the wind though that crap is getting after it now that's the wind probably blew the snow right right out of Oklahoma so welcome back to the second Channel and this week I've kind of set myself up for Content wise what is a easy week it's it's also what I would call depressing week for me because I do like working I very much uh very much so enjoy working being out here in the shop working uh so it's not my favorite when I have to take weeks off we did it around Christmas time there's a total of almost two weeks I had to miss and now basically our first week into January I'm having a Miss I had to get those testosterone pellets put in my butt I've told y'all that uh that's a procedure where they go and they actually slice it and kind of in the shape of like loading a six shooter they shove the testosterone pets in there and it depends on how many where your testosterone's at and your weight and height and all that kind of crap factors into how many you need well I'm lucky enough to need tend and I've seen these things they almost look like horse feed and they just one after another they just shove them down into the meat of your butt ow and I've got a little tiny butt so it ain't a lot to work with and yeah by time they get done it's sore and of course that is a incision on your butt so you got the possibility of it getting infected so you got to take care of it and besides that uh being there you're not supposed to do a lot of bending picking up heavy stuff uh getting up and down basically everything we do when we're really in here on a project you're not supposed to do in fact last year I had a day of work planned out the first time I went and ever got these I went in there Flying Blind I went in there at 9:00 expecting to be back in the shop working by 10:00 and she was like yeah you can't do this this this and I'm like so you're saying I can't work today she's like you don't need to be working for at least four or five days that thing needs to heal up where you don't start shooting out pellets so yeah the first one was an learning experience experience this go around I was smart enough to get my get myself set up enough to be able to take a easy week and I found out this week ain't going to be that easy and all this ties into what we're going to talk about today which is YouTube as a business and some of the equipment I use just some of my thoughts on some of my journey because it still seems like at least once a week we get a message or comment across the board speaking of comments we're going to talk about how many comments I got in the last year and why I can't reply to every comment for those people who comment and go I comment all the time and you don't reply fame's got to your head I get that one a lot too we're going to discuss why things like that are not possible unless I want to be the worst dad in the world or husband worst husband I could be that uh but we're going to talk about some numbers on that some of the equipment I use I don't know what I do what I do it different I don't know we're just going to talk about YouTube as a business and I'm telling you that because I had to plan to get this done because one thing I believe in is consistency and just like anything in life consistency is key you have two people who are both just kind of a natural at kicking a football well and one of them decides he's going to kick a ball 50 times a day to practice and the other one just does it the little bit he's forced to and practice or whatever you know we probably know which one's going to end up being the better Kicker the one who puts in the reput reputation not reputation don't put your reputation on the line the one who puts in the repution and is getting off more kicks I'm terrible at sports so I should not talk about that because I don't even know if that's true it just kind of sounded smart or it sound like it made sense anyhow but obviously y'all get what I'm saying now the algorithm has changed over the years I would say around Co time to 2021 it was easier to get picked up in the algorithm and I've watched some videos on this it's been said by the guy who uh is in charge of the algorithm of YouTube or whatever and in the past couple years stuff has just changed and that's why it makes it harder to get picked up in the algorithm so I do believe I'm no expert these are just my experiences and the little bit that I seen but more or less now they're going for uh the quality of your videos how do you judge quality well I can tell you how they judge it they judge it a lot off your retention time so before I think they kind of looked at views views was a big thing oh that video is getting a lot of views they push it well you know then you got stuff like clickbait and stuff like that people would use to get big views and get picked up like that uh you two factors in now a lot of your retention time yeah people are clicking but if instantly they can tell it's a clickbait video and they click off there and you have no retention time it's down the drain well guess what YouTube ain't going to push that they know you're click baiting woo that wind's getting buck nasty right now it's just now starting to get cold here in Oklahoma this next week we're going to have a day or two that goes down in the single digits I do believe or maybe that was this week it's supposed to do that and then right right around the corner is going to be tornado season so all that is to say if you're going to go the clickbait route uh that don't work as good as it used to for some people maybe they can still pull it off uh but but retention time is a big thing they look at now and I can't tell you a whole lot of how to get picked up in the algorithm cuz I ain't done it in a long long time we've had the model a video do it was the best video of 2023 that one's just under 900k but I personally has still never had a video that's gone to a million views the whole time I've been on here mory's had I don't know probably like nine or so go to over a million views and you know he just he's just a grumpy old man talking into him and I'm just like you know so I may not be the best one to give advice here if you want solid YouTube advice we may need to ask him cuz his videos have done better than better than mine I tell yall that information actually because I'm super proud of him and I'm glad uh well me and him we've talked about it and he's like uh he's like I'm a consistent second base hit you know like it don't matter if I'm doing a video about pellets in my butt cutting down a tree or cutting down a short wide bed huh so uh he's like you know you're going to get in this range every time which is awesome cuz I can do stuff like my shop build and everything where there are certain things he's nervous to do or not nervous to do he just you know he ain't done that before and he knows he needs to stick to his kind of content that he does and for like me I'm like okay well you know if I need to do that month and a half of shop building or whatever we did uh thankfully you guys watched and still supported throughout that and I'm not really a gambler so I actually really like where I'm at that I just know that we're doing that that we can have some consistency uh in our lives as far as my life and what I'm providing for my family I like the consistency I tell y'all that because a lot of people be like you know we've you noticed I've been doing some 2hour videos uh not all of them the last couple recent as we've gone out of town I've had to ain't been able to have as much time to get stuff done but the longer videos and usually the most verbal people in the comments section if they have something bad to say there's such a small percentage of the actual people who like care or I guess would matter not to say so that don't mean if someone disagrees with me they don't matter but I'm saying collectively as the audience and the people who interact with me they are about 1% or less and I know this video is going to be all over the place I did no planning for it other than thinking we'd talk about YouTube stuff so you may learn something throughout this and I may go down a couple different rabbit holes and very off different trails and eventually we will conclude somewhere maybe there's going to be useful piece of information in here at some point back to the 2hour videos though guys as many there's a lot of people I I still I say a lot of people again 1% or less uh you see where it's 1% on the YouTube side of things meaning I can go look at my content and it'll give me a percentage of how many people like the video so I'm basing the 1% there meaning I actually looked yesterday and in the last two I think I went two years I've only had five videos with a like average below 99% and it wasn't even crazy low there's like five of them I think the lowest got I think I did have one go to like a 97.9 but the other four were all like 98.6 and most of the like other three of them were like 98.7 to9 just barely down in the 98 blah blah blah that's the people who are going to say thumbs up or thumbs down and it puts those versus each other which a lot of them I notice here recently we got an average of say like I don't know maybe 14,000 so that's a lot of people but there's a lot of people obviously who watch who aren't interactive but yet they come back time and time again so we know for the most part they're enjoying what they're seeing right in fact going off of that uh we get I don't know around a 100,000 views in the first 24 hours on our videos and then in a week period we usually do another 100,000 views so 100,000 of y'all thankfully every Monday are usually coming back within a 24-hour period which is awesome I cannot thank you guys enough I'll never forget one hit my first 100,000 views and it meant the world to me but two I'm pretty sure I was working on uh pudding pops Toyota douly that video a year or two ago when it was at it was the first time I'd ever hit 100K within 24 hours I remember putting that in the video and now it's kind of become the standard where we're going to hit that which is awesome back to the 99% that I told you I'm going to go different places with this cuz I can't stay focused uh the 2hour long videos the numbers just say people like it the same and my numbers personally I keep anywhere from I don't know basically you could average it out and say a 50% retention time so this is for the people who think if I'd make x amount of length videos they would change my YouTube game oh you'd already be a million views if you'd start doing 15minute videos I me a million subscribers not a million views uh guys me myself my experience me seeing my analytics and what happens I just don't believe it what do you think Bob Bob don't believe it either in my time on YouTube main Channel that's more successful than the second Channel but y'all know on the second Channel my video links they really vary where on the main Channel I try to be more consistent no matter what I put put out people watch half of it as an average when we went to 2hour long videos my retention time is right at an hour for years we stayed right at an hour length and retention time was always 30 minutes if we would go to an hour 15 retention time would be about 37 and 1 12 minutes anytime I put out a 30 minute video retention times within a couple minutes of 15 minutes and anyone guess what a 50-minute video does if you guessed around 25 minutes you're stinking genius put out 15 minutes 7 to 8 minutes guys so everyone who thinks like oh we would watch all of that it's not true people I think nowadays are impatient and it's become a tendency to just click through no matter what the video is unless you're Mr Beast and the whole premise of your video can be to give away 10,000 to half a million dollars every 40 seconds of a video video and in that case you can keep people's attention but in my case we can't do that can we Bob Bob said hell no we can't so you got to do what works for you guys if you're going to create a channel uh I I was so hesitant to do the longer videos for so long and it was received extremely well of course the people who don't like it they will be the most vocal about it but the like rate I don't think a single one of my 2hour long videos are below the 99 % they're all up there 99.5 so like I said the ones who don't like it they're the ones who are always extremely vocal about it they're the ones who will send you an email to let you know you're doing it wrong and you lost me as a subscriber and I'm going to thumbs down everyone you do that length because I don't have time to watch it and when you get a lot of the a lot I mean what's a lot compared to hundreds of thousands you know 99% rate but throughout the week as you see it on Instagram you get the email you get this message you see the comments it feels like a lot because you may have seen it 10 times and you're like oh man am I messing up here but no I was not in fact I was holding myself back for a long time because numbers are numbers and if I just told you an hour long video was doing 30 minutes now a two hour long video is doing one hour what does that mean that means I'm getting the same amount of view time on my videos which equals eyes on ads and it doubled so as the video length doubled retention time doubled and during the last couple of months YouTube Revenue doubled it is important that if you're going to do YouTube as a business to treat it like a business like I said I was hurting myself there now do I think the Channel's going to explode to a million views based or a million subscribers or like one of them big channels by always putting out 2hour long videos no I don't I do agree in a sense you'd have to find the happy medium of what's short enough to be able to really dumb down your material and compacted enough where it was really packed action-packed a lot happening uh to be able to keep retention time as high as possible which for me like I said it don't matter what we do it stays at half anyhow uh I just I'm sure there's some magical number and someone's going to figure that out and there's going to be a couple car channels that get great momentum from that they're going to build an audience off of that and it'll grow fast for them where they have that they build their revenue as they go that's the fastpac style they're used to and whatever for us we've been doing it long enough I don't feel like we're in a rut but I do think YouTube catches on to stuff with my channel and it kind of keeps me not in a rut but just where I'm at where I'm consistent which I'm perfectly fine with I don't care that we're skyrocketing I just care if we're ever going downhill which we have not no matter what the Channel's grown uh I wanted to pick up more subscribers last year I think we ended up picking 44,000 throughout the year as a whole I would have loved obviously to picked up a 100,000 last year uh but that's the thing it it did does that mean we're doing bad no I mean there's always things on YouTube that we can do to uh I don't know just like that doubling link the video it doubled my Revenue I've been missing out on that for years I think as Trends come and go or whatever you know there may be things but y'all I hope y'all know what me and this is interesting there's a lot of people like we've I'm having to do junkyard uh content but y'all see when I got a to go out of town and holidays and crap you're going to see more junkyard videos more will it runs if I can go to the junkyard in one day and get a video okay or I can do a will it run and within a day or two have that done and get a video uh that's obviously a lot less work than cutting down a short wide over a period of a week and that's still equaling one video that's the same length I mean that's just hours to work ratio I've told y'all we don't get paid time off and that's just part of it but you got to treat YouTube like a business so I know the viewers always tell me take a week off just don't worry skip this or skip that but from the start I told you consistency or at the beginning of this I told you consistency uh I don't know exactly how YouTube does it but there's some big Channels with hundreds of thousands of subscribers that you can come across and their last videos for years they can't get a single video with more than 10,000 views and that terrifies me cuz I know the possibility is there that will will always keep me hungry to not skip weeks or make that a a consistent thing to do uh I can I just feel like if you're treating it as a business no it ain't your best content which I did say they're going qu quality over quantity but for me I just I know it works uh always getting something out and that ain't to say anyways that people don't love the junkyard videos uh people I don't know guys you're talking about 200,000 plus people that I try to keep happy on a weekly basis and if you're a parent you know if you've got two or three kids multiple kids you can't keep three kids happy so now try to keep 200,000 plus viewers happy week to week it's damn near impossible someone always has something to say you're letting someone down in one way shape or form they're going to leave the channel this that you know whatever it may be if you're going to do the YouTube stuff you got to uh learn to let that crap roll off your back are you trying to hurt my feelings because of so you are succeeding fortunately my feelings regenerate at twice the speed of a normal man now I like to address it on here because people do say things but when I address it I hope y'all can tell I don't get on here actually like mad or whatever that's when I like being sassy and I just know I can kind of have fun with it and for me that's my comedy uh I've I'm one of those people that grew up in a family where everyone had something smart but to say so I can read a negative comment and I can in my head instantly you know usually I could flip every comment around and if I'm being sassy in myself and you know feeling myself talking back to people uh I think I can make it funny but then again I've I've had comments where people say they love it when I do that and then people hate it you're just feeding the haters and the mo you're motivating them for more well the the haters are always going to be the most vocal no matter what so I don't think I'm going to gather up another 20,000 20,000 of them who have something to say now uh but the crap don't really bother me I just like to have fun with it if possible but I've backed off because I don't want I try to be positive in my videos and I can see how that can be entertaining negativity and I don't want to spread negativity in anyway so I've kind of backed off on it even though I just really enjoy having fun with it and I will every once in a while but if you're going to be in front of a camera guess what you're going to be critiqued everything anything and everything you do there's going to be at least one person who knows better than you there's I mean there's people in the car world who love to call me a hack because they'll look at the stuff we do for fun entertainment because YouTube's a business but they won't credit any of the like higher end stuff like what's underneath my travel law right like yeah that dude's just a hack well obviously you don't know me me you know there's stuff there's levels of builds and when YouTube's a business well would I love to take this thing down to Bare frame and powder coat it and go back with 100% brand new everything well sure but if you spend more money than you make your business does not last if that makes sense and that's what's hard for a lot of people as they go to do YouTube like you know y'all y'all's asked and asked and asked several people uh they want slick FY to start his own channel and then same thing in the comment section anytime he's on the channel we will have at least a couple people comment and complain again that he's on the channel get him out of here blah blah blah that's my friend he ain't going nowhere okay you going to have to deal with it that's me being sassy and just having fun with it I don't really care that 05% of people may not like when he's in a video because 99.5% are perfectly okay with it and are more than encouraging down there you see what I'm saying I can still have fun with it because I know the real numbers behind it back that he's more than welcome here Fleck does not want a YouTube channel his main goal as a professional car person what he wants to be known for what he's trying to build his reputation towards is being like a metal finisher he likes slapping out those DMS there's some people who comment like it's like people said he don't know what he's doing and if y'all could see these panels on this 32 Ford the holy gra of hot rods that he's starting with where there's dents and dings and this and that and he spends the time and he slaps out all these dents and he he files and he marks it again he checks for the low spots and the high spots and he works it when he gets done it's a perfect piece of metal and people's like you don't know what he's doing you've done too much shoty body work over the years but I'm I if I was a b man because I've been in several body shops and not a lot of a metal finish you know what I mean and that's what he wants to get to uh restoring old hot rods to a higher end and as far as a YouTube business it's hard to uh uh uh just do the same exact thing every video and keep people's attention sure we buildt a lot of patina stuff but it never fails the videos that usually do well are ones when we introduce the project for the first time so if we bring in a new vehicle and we get into the meat and potatoes of it like dragging this one in to say we're cutting it down to a short bed and then that that one that one week y'all see me cut the frame down and cut the bed down and get it back together as a roller and you really got to see this truck look super different especially since I had that dented up bedside but guess what from then on that kind of was like the peak of this truck now we've got to make it an actual run and driving truck and from there the views fall off because you can't keep people's attention by always working on the same thing and uh not not everyone as a whole obviously but just saying from the business standpoint you can always notice that it falls off uh I also think you know talking about like mories having those videos go to a million views well he also drags in a new project almost weekly where y'all know I may drag some stuff here just to store in the junkyard but last year we went through the wagon which was a deep build we were in there for five months probably total and then we did do the mini build on the S 10 we did the build on this that was a lot of work where all this goes back to I like to focus on the builds and I'm just so thankful over the years that the junkyard videos and stuff we did do built the channel large enough where now I can really do what I enjoy doing which is builds and uh keep y'all's attention and help and actually I'd almost say I see it in the comments more where it's more demanded that I do builds which is awesome for me cuz I'm a builder my name ain't Bob like Bob but I am I am a Builder Bob the Builder T Tang the Builder Oklahoma Wildman here at your service there's one thing that needs built around here you better call it damned old Pock County Legend cuz he's a builder yeah I like building stuff where then like morsky is kind of opposite he'll tell you yeah he he likes the idea of starting a build but then like on this truck when he got it to that point I just described he's like I would have slapped a drive shaft in it did whatever I had to do to make it run and drive I would have drove it a couple times and it'd be sitting where me I like to take it through the process till we get it looking like this truck where you're kind of like man that's the same truck and that little finicky crap just takes a lot a lot more time and details uh which the details equal a lot of time to finish out but I can't thank you guys enough for actually watching the builds where I can do that for starting up with slick on the other hand if he's going to be like I showed yall in one second Channel video he was repairing on a rocker well I mean he had 4 days over there repairing on rockers then he had a few days actually getting them installed and there are people who like that but for slick who's trying to do his thing and then ain't trying to make YouTube his main thing because he understands the amount of work that comes with YouTube from being my friend and I told yall that the first time I ever asked him why he don't do one his simple response was it's too much work and that don't mean that he ain't a hard worker it's just doing videos and planning the content and all that I think takes a lot more behind the scenes than most people realize especially when you're trying to get the brand built up to a point where it can actually produce Revenue that is covering the time that you're invested AKA I did YouTube for three years and finally at the end of the third year I'd made just crossed into $800 three years of work 8 $0000 and I remember at that time I focused and I broke it all down and over the years I averaged how much I had in each video how many videos I posted and up to that point in my YouTube career I had worked all them hours for 4 cents an hour that's just a fact guys it's a crazy fact but it's a fact and that was my turning point where I told my wife uh a lot of people see my old videos and they think that's the real me and they see me now and they think I'm acting and oh he just this that he's not real blah blah blah and that is so far from the truth that ain't even funny uh why I'm able to get in front of the camera now be this cornball goofy guy hillbilly from pot county is because that's what I am guys all right for the longest time when you'd see me in the old videos and I'm like hey guys today we're going to put some rockers on this Ford shoe box yeah God bless it I should have turned that logo out they ain't paying me hell now the compressor's off we lost the moment uh those old videos were so unnatural for me cuz I was so worried about looking like an idiot Ironically in front of the camera that there's points when I would sometimes spend an hour no joke one hour rehearsing what I was saying saying a take that should take if it was 30 minute or 30 seconds to a minute I remember there's one day where I spent over an hour in between me stumbling road noise and whatever in the shop it took me an hour to say it and I was just like I can't do this crap anymore it ain't me when we made it to that point where I made $800 I had to claim it on my taxes by the time you get hit with self-employment fee blah blah blah fee this and that my $800 I made dropped my tax return ear by like $790 or something and I was like w that's a good $80 we should do the math now I probably worked for 0.009 pennies an hour in all this time it was just a turning point for me guys where I went in and I talked to my wife she was very exhausted with my YouTube career up to that point completely understandable I used to call her my biggest hater because she was and she had every right to be I had invested almost three years of my life uh week by week editing recording film all this crap to have made eight $800 that cost us 790 in taxes in a three-year period I do not blame her for not being annoyed with it she never told me to give up in fact she was the one who ended up encouraging me in a short time later to quit my job and truly go for it but you can see why that would be annoying and uh if you're going to start a YouTube channel and you think you're gonna just come out swinging and be fulltiming in a couple months that ain't the case uh for most people some channels get lucky but there are millions of channels out there I'm sure and obviously not everyone again is a million plus or even to the point they can do it fulltime takes grinding guys it takes getting comfortable almost three years worth for me of real light like and I'm glad I went that way I mean I learned how to edit during that period I built some cool stuff that helped me learn some new skills at that point but when we made it to the end of that year I just told my wife I told her I said hey I can't do this anymore she's like you're going to quit YouTube and I'm like no I didn't say that don't get ahead of yourself I said I can't do this what do you mean you can't do this I said I'm not this cool truck Builder that I'm trying to act like I am I'm not this cool I know it all kind of guy and that's what I was kind of trying to portray I would think at that point I thought that's what needed to be seen on YouTube and I just told her I said look I said one I need to quit building every project I get I want to build it to the Max and that's not super relatable and even though I was super budgeted I've always been good with my own personal finances so back then guys I was not making much money at the factory we got Wife and Kids y'all know where we came from I still would always budget so I could do a build for myself but I understand for most people that's not possible all the time so I was like I need to get to some more budget friendly kind of content I do think you know which I like doing the budget friendly stuff anyways uh but at that point in my life I was just ready to build everything and build these cool cars but as I finished up the travel La uh which those series did terrible at that point I just built the international then the next year I did all that sheet metal work on the shoe box which which was a huge learning experience for me learn or cut the whole bottom off a car and learn how to get all that stuff ped back and everything so again a great skill set for me being learned the money I made off at doing that car I was able to buy a TIG wheer buy my bead roller I kind of kept the finances separate there went hey I made this in the shop I'm going to reinvest it into the shop I wasn't relying on my side hustle to uh pay bills which is why we never had a brand new car which is why I didn't go get a new cell phone every time they came out which is why I told my wife one day I want to get y'all to a bigger house but as we slowly do better we're not going to slowly try to upgrade we're going to stick it out until we can truly get what we want here and that's just the financial side of me that I do believe helped was I was responsible with my own finances there we did The Shoe Box made the money for tools I was ready to build something for myself that's why I don't do customer work guys you invest all all this time and work into a customer car and then you see them leave with it and they enjoy it and they Cruise it around and I'm like man I built that and I would just ready to drive it myself you know what I mean uh so by the time the shoe box was gone I was very much so ready to build something for myself I'd been uh just drooling over that Trav LA and we built it and then as I finished it up I was like man I've built a lot of crap the last three years uh we need to do a little more funner stuff the junkyard exploring the let's go rescue some cheap budget many trucks and there's another good point if you're going to start a YouTube channel find your I don't know if it's called a niche or a niche I'm not fancy enough or smart enough to be able to tell you the difference between the two I can just tell you that I don't think there's a lot of people consistently doing the old school mini trcks and I know y'all know I like mini trcks but I don't like them much newer than like our little S10 I kind of cap out around the 80s that's not to say I don't like the newer ones but as we get to newer ones I get like super specific about the ones that just kind of do it for me uh I like the old school stuff well you know what there wasn't a lot of people doing old school mini trucks on YouTube was there so I think you know most people would see a little dancing and go that's a dancing you don't want to mess with that thing but think about this a lot of a lot of people try to focus on crap like that well that right there's oversaturated guys everyone you know has one you can't go on YouTube without YouTube recommending one of those videos and for you guys who love that truck that's great you know I know they are the most popular truck which should have the most following but the numbers don't translate to that working on something like that just automatically brings more views I've done the same views if not more views with little Oddball mini trucks which most people wouldn't think but the numbers don't lie on my side and I think that helped with my channel a lot too I started dragging in all them old school mini trucks and I when I was first doing that there were so many comments that said Uncle Johnny used to have one of them oh my I remember my dad's you know we used to ride 12 deep in the back of one of them to church as a kid and those mini trucks from the 70s to 80s I think people were seeing them and they ain't seen them on YouTube really and they're like man it just struck some memories with them so if you're going to get into YouTube it's not bad to find your little kind of alley to stay in to get views where if you try to hop in in and compete against the big dogs and it's in an oversaturated Market if you put a video up against top Contender or new guy starting out and it's got the same truck on it and someone only has an hour to spare they're probably going to the the big one okay it's just kind of makes sense another example on all that is you know again the most the most vocal people are the people who usually ain't the if they're not happy they're vocal that's what I should say because there's very there's a lot of people who support the channel again 99% that are very vocal but the ones who are unhappy have to be vocal that's a good way of saying it so you know we do the whole old school mini truck thing and even like Slick's love I didn't need that love that's why I gave that truck to Slick I've been trying to talk him into finding a Chevy love I found that one for 500 bucks and I'm like I'm giving this truck to slick and I just told him the other day that if I stick to my plan on this truck which ain't revealed yet I'm like then we get the green one going at some point I'm like we're going to have to I'm like I'm might have to find a C10 for you to cruise or something so we can have some c10s cruising we have to replace that old Chevy Love and he's like hey that's my girl she ain't going nowhere we did the Chevy Love though and the numbers on it and the retention time on it and the revenue from it kicked the crap out of immediately after it we did that 1958 Chevrolet and we did the whe it run and transformation and blah blah blah basically same things we did on it we did that back to back and we did the Chevrolet the 58 Apache and what should have been a more profitable month even on YouTube because the closer you get to Christmas the more Revenue goes up because more people pay for ads because of Christmas everything's commercialized don't forget the reason for the season it ain't to spend a bunch of money on presents it ticks me off we ain't here to talk about that don't bring that up and get that started uh anyhow the Chevy Love kicked the crap out of the 58 Apache but a lot of people would say if you'd quit working on these little Japanese mini trucks your channel would be at a million subscribers or whatever if you'd work on a real truck like old Apache or something where we do them back to back and Compare the numbers and that uh that love cleaned house against the old Apache which I could see why people think the Apache would be the most popular but at the end of the day like I said oversaturated Market versus kind of Niche niche market that one cleaned house I mentioned YouTube's a business so you should treat it like a business so we did our whole thing and I told my wife anyways at the end of whatever year that was 2020 I said give me one year I I've got to stick to this YouTube thing I said I'm going to first thing three things I'm doing one I got to start being myself which it still took me throughout 2020 to get super comfortable to hop on here and just be loud and obnoxious and the gy that my poor family has to live with and put up with every day and yes I can become much at sometimes and I know that but it's me and it's my personality and I also like to runme I need to be myself I need to do something besides detailed builds detailed builds are boring I mean I know some of y'all enjoy them like I said I'm very grateful of that but I I have to agree if you give me the choice of watching that video where we got so much work done in one good one versus when we make it to the video that we're blending paint and cutting down trim and they're the same length videos I want to watch the first one it's just more entertaining you see more get done you feel like you're spending your time in a better I don't know situation I don't know how you describe that uh but I can see why those do better and I can also see why rescuing stuff out of junkyards and having multiple new new uh vehicles on the channel can bring in new viewers like again mory's videos uh him bringing in a will it run every other week or every week or so uh you know he's more than likely going to find an area where there's a new group of people Mo Mopar people Mopar people are hardcore they pretty much like Mopar things so if all you ever do on your channel is Chevrolet or Japanese mini trucks the chances of bringing in some op our eyes are probably pretty slim and all that can kind of go back to when I said he says I get like a a second base hit every time or a third base hit and then he's like he's like sometimes I just strike out and he's like but I'm out here just freaking swinging for the fences and sometimes he hits it big and there's different ways you can do a channel uh I just knew it was time at that point going into 2021 that I had to change it up some I had to be myself I wanted to change up the content some do more budget friendly more relatable and then three it was time to be consistent by golly I told my wife I was going to putet out a video every Monday no s endsor but come hell or high water I was going to make it happen captain captain captain cap Captain uh so I wanted to be consistent on my schedule and those things did work for me it did take me throughout the year to get comfortable with it or whatever uh but throughout that year that was the exact same year that we did get some momentum uh I believe 100% God was ready for me I was at a point where I was trusting in God and God was in my life and it was time to go and that's because for me I just realized part of my mission in life as I got more comfortable was I started getting these messages on YouTube about how my my videos help someone laugh or smile uh guys over the years I've got messages can't talk about it y'all see me cry over the years ain't no one surprised by that anymore I've got messages about how my videos have kept kept people from uh doing heartbreaking things to their selves I'm just going to say it like that and I don't take that lightly because man I I had a very deep conversation with one of the gentlem and he had a lot to leave behind including uh Wife and Kids he's an army vet he's not the only one over the years and GI Joe if you still watch today and happen to see this man your conversation was a very big turning point for me it was it was literally an answered prayer that day when I was struggling recording a video and I was battling myself mentally on what I was doing and if I'm doing it right and it was even to the point where I know sometimes I'm bad with my my cussing guys but I'd had a conversation I'll be I'll be 100% transparent with you I had a conversation with god about Lord I feel like I'm doing this to spread joy in this world and if it's part of my mission with you am I doing the right thing because I've been around cussing my whole life and I'm good about keeping the F bombs out and stuff but sometimes when you stub your your toe or you smash a finger you just got to say sh and the reason I say is cuz that's what's going through my brain and I also know when you say it like that it's funny and uh that's what I want to do is make people laugh I took I want to take a bad situation my finger is bleeding I just smacked it with a SB Sledgehammer if I can say one word that makes viewer laugh and have a good time out of my pain then that's what I want to do and like said it's just natural it's what's ready to come out of my mouth and I was just like man I don't know if that's the right thing and I recorded the Chevy Love video rescue and went out the salvage yard and I was just struggling that day and I would say some things then I'm like I would do retakes cuz I'm like oh I'm cussing too much then that didn't feel authentic because I was faking what I had just done or whatever which I don't like doing that I don't like to Stage anything uh I just want to show what's going on and that day I got that phone call and some of y'all you know I'm not here to just have a full conversation about God and what's right what's wrong but I took that conversation that day as hey pudding if you can say and make someone laugh and it makes this person laugh who ain't laughed in over 6 months and is ready to do the unthinkable laugh and that one laugh makes that gentleman laugh and he goes I didn't even want to laugh but I couldn't help but laugh I had to laugh that made me watch your other videos and they got me laughing and now we're getting help and now uno momento please all right I can do this I got it and we're doing better and we've got help and I've got that relationship back with my wife and my kids I don't even remember how we got here guys but I just realized that there's a bigger Purpose with what I'm doing and we we still get it today in emails in messages in comments and I try to reply to all those that I can and I guess we can take this to piggy back into I told y'all we're going to talk about comment soon because some people think I've let Fame get to my head because I can't reply to them all but most people aren't who think that aren't putting their your in my Sketchers and thinking about how there's only so many hours in a day and I did what I did because of three reasons one I knew I could ultimately get this to provide for my family better than I was when I was at the factory I knew that was a possibility I never thought we'd be able to grow to what we've grown in the time we have and God will and the support of you guys I cannot thank y'all enough for making that possible uh what growing the mission of spreading joy and happiness and just trying to make someone laugh and then that's two again that's four and then just being able to do what I love to do which is try to make people laugh but also work on stuff that I like to work on like I said I I really enjoy working for myself it's very hard for me to work on customer stuff at a normal job it's very hard for me to go somewhere where I just want to do my job but you got to spend half the day playing politics or kissing butt or what whatever it does to get ahead and I just hate that half the blue collar people working just said amen I guarantee it and speaking of doing that when I was at the factory people would say you know like oh you used to reply to every single comment well I know I did guys I worked 12 hours shifts on this uh rotating schedule where I worked five days one week two days the next week working seven out of 14 days but every work shift was at least 12 hours and that's that was my old schedule so the other s days in that twoe period at work if we weren't working on a machine I would spend every little bit I could on my phone when I wasn't getting caught or whatever replying to every single comment and I'm just being honest when you're treating YouTube like a business and you can be at your full-time job getting paid 26 bucks an hour to reply to YouTube comments that you do on the side that's a pretty good deal I do also realize after posting this I will never be hired anywhere else again so hopefully YouTube never goes away and still after I went fulltime I used to reply to every single comment and I could keep up with it till about 100,000 subscribers and I think I've heard this from other YouTubers a couple different ones that yeah you can stay on top of that until you hit around 100K and after that it's not that you couldn't but it's the amount of time that's required guys so I'm just going to break down some some quick stuff for you even then when I staying on top of it what that meant was from when the time the video dropped at 6:00 I was on my phone replying the comments to midnight every single night as they came in basically I had to reply then when I'd wake up the next morning Tuesday Morning I'd have to be on there till noon replying trying to get caught up and you never get caught up you'd still have to stay on it through the end of the week and then usually by that Monday if you stayed on top of it and all your spare time you could have every single one replied to so people for the people who think I've just let Fame gone to my head I'm not mad about it I can see how people don't understand there's that requires time so we went to Utah uh that week before Christmas as our little family present we did a trip instead of gifts and there's a morning where I was up at like 7:00 and we're on this little mountainhouse thingy we we went up to Utah to try skin for the first time ever I am much more Brave than I am capable uh I've wanted to record some of that and I was having some issues with cameras and crap but anyhow Thursday morning I got up at 7:00 and everyone else is asleep so I went and sat in the hot tub out on the uh little thingy we were staying at no one else was out there so I could just sit there and I thought about that and I was like out of curiosity I know I don't reply to comments guys it takes a crapload of time and when you're doing everything to provide content most people would rather have content versus a comment reply again the 99% uh but I was just like you know what out of curiosity what I did was I replied to comments for 30 minutes and out of those comments are replied to I was able to get 64 replies in now out of these 64 replies I tried to do pick comments where I could do a simple reply to whether it be like a little pounded fist Emoji like they were doing almost like say maybe like a compliment or like oh that's a cool car or something pound fist pound fist or a simple reply appreciate you watching thanks for the kind words stuff like that then there are some where people would talk more on a subject that was relevant to the video and I'd reply back to it a more genuine reply which is what I want to give I mean I'm sure we could set up a robot to reply thank you to every single comment if that's what people wanted but that's not what they want everyone wants a genuine reply understandable so I'd reply yeah you know I've tried this or that before but you know this or that or yeah I used to have one of them too they make great vehicles or a little bit more of a full sentenced reply and I could get 64 done in 30 minutes that's not a lot that takes a lot of time guys and I I can't tell you what we average on comments per video because obviously there there's a big difference on your comment amount if you get an extra 50,000 views on one video you know what I mean so what I can tell you what was interesting was I just did that little study not even thinking about us coming up to the end of the year but guess what we were right at the end of the year and my YouTube app the other day as the year closed out it gave me a recap of my year and it told me all kinds of numbers and I wasn't even paying attention to them uh that's why I didn't even see how many subscribers we actually picked up I had to go look look at that the other day cuz I was just curious uh because the one that stood out to me was comments cuz when I seen the total amount of comments I went holy crap I'm pretty sure my jaw hit our countertop cuz I was in the kitchen and uh I picked it back up and my instant thought was to switch over to the second channel to let's see how many comments we got there as well and when I seen that I thought holy crap because I can tell y'all the main channel was 77,000 go figure my lucky number with some zeros on the end and the second channel was 50,000 a grand total of 127,000 comments and I'm sure someone's going to check the math on this uh I was having a tough time mathing that day but I'm fairly certain the math breaks down like this that if I can reply to 6 4 and 30 minutes and then you apply it to all that that equals like 44 and a half days of nonstop 24hour Around the Clock replying to comments and obviously you can't stay up for 24 hours well you could but ain't going to work for 44 and A2 days so even if you split that in half that would be then what 89 days of 12-hour shifts only replying to the comments on YouTube to be able to stay on top of them which is obviously why it's just not even entertainable okay and with that amount coming in even if I get a say 30 minutes where I want to well when you reply to 60 comments and 1,200 comments again that's not enough for the people who didn't get theirs reped to I should be replying to more but what I'm trying to show y'all here is there's a lot of time it would take to do that and we didn't even talk about Instagram messages I get those you're too bigheaded now to check your messages or even reply to us people who support you we get it in comments we get emails I mean just all kinds of stuff and guys that's just YouTube comments if we could somehow Factor up the amount of other messages we get I'm pretty sure that 44 days would probably turn into 50 60 something days through all the other you know areas that people try to communicate with us so I'm sorry it's just not possible there is times there like that where I want to sit down I didn't just do that as a study I do like to get on there and interact when I can but again it goes back to do you want content or do you just want me for two months out of the Year replying to you know messages they don't pay bills it does show people you're interacting with them but I think again 99% of you understand that you would rather see me working instead of just replying to comments and uh that was just crazy okay I I knew it would take a lot of time uh but just to actually put some numbers to it kind of blew my mind like I knew it would take time but I didn't think it take that much time and I was tired of mathing but I'm sure someone could break down for that amount of comments uh how many hours a day it would take but guys I'm trying with YouTube as a business doing it for yourself you got to always be thinking about your next week what are you going to be doing do you got parts coming uh for me want to make it entertaining do I need to get anything to add to that value of it or whatever which I've kind of lacked on and that's because there's just so much going on we are going to hopefully get some of that back because I am actively seeking help because I believe me working 80 to 100 hours for the last 3 years or two years or two and a half 3 years now whatever it may be has taken a toll on me and that's fine I ain't scared all right Mama didn't raise no punk I'll take the licking and keep on a ticking but what I noticed was getting help has actually relieve me some and I still get to work a lot of hours a week but now I I can have more time for my family and that's what I'm saying my family loves me they support me but I'd be lying if I didn't say for the last couple years years they didn't hardly see me and I work from home guys I mean think of the bigger YouTubers who go out and travel uh a lot of them do and they're all over the place and that's great I'm just not one of those guys I see my family every day but because I don't feel like I get to spend always genuine time with them I don't feel like I even see them even though almost every night me and my wife sleep in the same bed I get to tell my gidos kiddos good night uh yes we get to have dinner together most of the time but uh there's a lot of time that's been spent on all right we had dinner now it's back to packing orders now it's back to editing till midnight get in bed uh wife's already asleep get out of bed 6:00 to either pack more orders and or do more editing then get back to work and I've got help over the years and it's made it now where I can work around I would say here probably 50 60 hours a week and that feels like a 40 hour week to me which is amazing uh what were we I don't even know how we got here oh time with my family so I'm trying to get to where I feel like I have almost some normal hours and I don't think it's fair to them to go in there and be like let's play a game together but every time it ain't my turn and they're playing a game that I'm on my phone trying to reply to YouTube comments or when me and my wife to go to lay down in bed now if we can get in bed at 10:30 together or 11 after getting kids sorted or whatever uh at a somewhat decent time and taking care of what we got to take care of that the last hour before we fall asleep I spend it replying to comments on there I got to have time uh I've got to maintain my personal relationships with my immediate family don't even talk to my friends or outside family about our relationships because in the last few years they've become non-existent CU everyone knows all I do is work because if you want to come over and spend 20 minutes well I don't have 20 minutes to spare anymore I'm sorry I'm chasing a dream and I don't have help need well guys I'm here to tell you I finally have some help and we'll talk about this real quick I'll talk about a couple things that you can use to edit or record with some people are curious about that I don't have a lot of experience with the technical this or that I can just give you some quick advice that has work for me works for morsky um as far as what equipment to use and crap like that and then we'll probably conclude cuz I've been rambling for a minute this last November was Nathan's oneyear anniversary at pudding Fab shop helping us do merchandise Nathan is a college kid he is one of my good friends Sons and his dad's rule is he has to have a part-time job as he's in college he's working at Chick-fil-A and long story short I went drove through the Chick-fil-A line and I poached them watch your ass Chick-fil-A oh trying to work on my cussing watch your butt Chick-fil-A y'all tell me down below which one had more effect I personally the one with the a word sound like I was more serious and I was threatening chickfila and please don't sue me I cannot go against y'all and that goes back to can I say the a word or but and which one's funnier and you know spreads Joy anyhow we're not going on that again we got Nathan he has made it possible for us to release more uh he freed up time where I could get more work done which was much needed it don't seem like it in the video so it probably didn't translate to yah will because that was around the time where the framing of our house was nearing completion which from the time we started to do dirt work to concrete to framing we did not have to be involved in a whole lot because they're just trying to get your house dried in couple decisions here there but you know they're fighting the winter weather back then or whatever and sometimes delayed this amount of time or that amount of time whatever so for months we were making progress out here and uh we weren't required then as Nathan started helping us around that time is where it become more decisionmaking more of us having to be involved constantly coming out here and trying to keep the ball rolling out here as well and again God's timing uh he knew I was to the point where we needed help uh me and Ashley again being transparent uh I'm an open book about it we were fighting over t-shirts cuz we couldn't get them out fast enough and I was worried about getting y stuff out faster and she goes they support you they'll understand and this and that which I get but at the end of the day if you bought something for me and I have your money I need to get your stuff to you and there's some of y'all where we have cases whether it be stuff comes up missing we got shorted on our t-shirts whatever I understand that but if we get a big round of orders we need to get 98% of orders out that's just how I feel no we ain't Amazon but we can do better than what we were doing is how I felt to about the situation and me and my wife were just butting heads over t-shirts too much which again ain't no one's business but me and her know that and we're open about it we laugh about it like we're like we're fighting over t-shirts it's kind of silly now you know at the time it just seemed very important it wasn't anyhow we needed help and because there's so only so many hours in a day and here I am thinking family time means we can spend the one day a week that people are home from Sports and this or that we can spend that family day together in our shed in the backyard packing t-shirts oh man there's been some sacrifices made from my family too to make all this dream happen again thank you guys from the support they're not mad at me about it we again we'll talk and laugh about it now uh I was just thinking we could all Superman everything and again we're still fairly new to the YouTube thing not so much now but at that point I just feel like I still feel like the rug rug could just be swept out from underneath us so I didn't want to hire no more help than we had to have and on top of that I didn't want to feel bad if for some reason I had to turn around and fired Nathan two months later cuz I couldn't you know something went sour and I couldn't afford to have an employee which you know thanks to the support of you guys and everyone has not been the case but anyhow as we got Nathan hired crap out here got super busy and uh as we continue putting out merch we put out about the same amount you know Nathan had a couple of weeks where he just just come up to me and he's like man I don't know how you were getting all this merchandise out and still putting out two videos a week and I was like I don't know either just ask these couple gray hairs you know what I mean I call them gray they're Snow White I know y'all see them they may be on this side I don't know like yeah me neither man well it's cuz I wasn't sleeping I was packing t-shirts uh and now moving at the end of last year I decided I needed help with editing actually I decided that well over a year ago I actually put out a video asking people if they knew anyone to send them my way a lot of people emailed me but the problem was a lot of people were not even close to me and I like to have a one-on-one conversation and I take my videos very serious if there's stuff I don't liking the edit I just want to be able to talk people and not be a email just not feel like I have a genuine relationship with them well two years ago year and a half ago at some point ago I want to say is during the datson build I got a random text some local guy he want to know if I wanted to shoot a video as an interview kind of thing he makes this kind of that trying to do this content or that content and again I don't even have time to hardly reply to subscribers in the comment section CU I'm working or I can't hang out with my family CU we got a pack t-shirts so a lot of people who inquire with me guys they don't get a response if it ain't something that needs to be introduced as a business uh part in my life or I don't know how to say that but what I'm saying is I don't entertain a lot of stuff unless it's extremely relevant to what we have going on and I just never replied to the guy and I don't remember how we made it to the point that me and him got back in contact I want to say someone gave me his number and I went to text him to ask if he was a local editor and it was that message that text message come up in my old history and I was like well this is awkward cuz now I got to reply to this this guy who text me and I never said nothing I just ghosted him he going to tell me piss off so either way I got in contact with this guy and I'm I've putting Fab shop is my baby I've wanted to do a YouTube channel since I was a teenage kid guys I graduated 2009 YouTube become some become something when I was like Middle School to high school I'm one of them kids who watched some of the first old school YouTube videos back then and uh anyways it's just been a dream of mine forever so it's very hard for me to ask for help because I don't feel like there's a single person in this world who's going to care about it more than I do so I reached out to him and I kind of talked and asked his background and he had some editing skills and had you know did a lot of weddings owned a company that did that and few things and uh my favorite part was he is local to me which is great his name's Chris in fact that video that slick put out on the second channel the beginning was Chris and he said I edited this video well the surprise to you guys is since we've moved about five to six weeks prior to that I had him start editing the second channel the very first video he did we put the brakes on the van and if you go back and watch that video now for whatever reason you can probably catch it especially where when the work was getting done he skipped some of the steps and some of the ways that I like to do things but that was the very first video he had ever done for me and uh thank goodness he took constructive criticism well I told him I don't want to Rebrand my brand I don't want it to look like someone new is editing it uh I want it to look like I edited it as far as the clipping goes I have a very fastpaced clipping style and uh certain points when I want it done or whatever so we worked on I think he did five videos there and then we made it to the point where we were moving and after we got moved even that week we actually moved I only put yall out like a 20 minute update video on the main Channel which was the worst video I've ever done it was just the busiest i' been in my life of course trying to move shopping house in one week and make them both get somewhat house functional shop just get everything here it's a lot of heavy crap uh anyhow that next week as I went to start doing shop stuff still trying to get the house and everything I just realized I was like I'm literally going to have two days this week so if I record for one day I'm going to have to spend the whole second day just editing to be able to get that video done and I'm going to give yall one day's worth of work around here which I just you can't organize and again kind of go back to like slick spending the time he'd have to spend on rockers and how many videos do you want to watch with rockers well how many times do you want to watch me move one thing in the shop and I was just like man so I reached out to him and I was like hey do you think you could do a main Channel video for me this week and he was ecstatic he's like full on board are you kidding me uh super he's super proud to be part of this team I feel like the only reason I feel like that is cuz I've talk to like 20 people local who he's met and when they find out he knows me he tells them he edits for me now so I know he's proud everywhere I go they're like hey I met your editor I'm like I'm sure you did Chris likes to tell everybody surprised you ain't made a YouTube video yet saying I edit for pudding's Fab shop Secrets out uh anyhow he edited that week and and in fact that's where the 2hour video started coming from so guys y'all think I talk a lot I talk a lot in my hourlong videos I've cut out apparently an hour's worth of content because I know my key points I'd skip ahead in this or that and I'm sure I was missing some stuff I've said over the years that was really worthy content uh but Chris don't have my my thinking on you know what should I take out whatever so he left everything in there and that's how the longer videos came about and after a couple weeks I was still reluctant to try them but morsi's like dude go for it my top viewing videos ever are all over two hours long all of his videos that are in the millions are two to three hour plus long every single one of them so everyone who thinks short videos the answer it's not in fact Ian from big tire garage that's also Ian from extreme 4X4 channel from the old power block TV I just talked to him a few days ago on Instagram we'll CH chat it up every once in a while and he's trying longer format videos and he's like dude since I've went to longer videos he's like revenues up uh subscriber counts up uh I'm reaching new viewers on YouTube blah blah blah so guys we're we're almost like TV car shows we're a placing you can't get good TV car shows anymore so people come to YouTube for it so the longer content I don't think matters so Chris does have obligations he does uh have another job he's actually a youth pastor bless him for putting up with me and I don't want to talk about him too much personally cuz that's his business and I didn't ask him if I could talk about that so if you don't want that in there Chris just take it out and if you're okay with it just leave this part in but he had obligations and I always edit my videos week to week so if I start that Monday I'm editing throughout the week it's the video that goes out the following Monday working through the weekend editing finishing it up through Sunday day hopefully Sunday night getting it uploaded Monday morning Monday morning you look upload complete good hey start the process again so we did what we had to do to get out a week ahead where it could work with his schedule better so what I'm I'm telling y'all this because then like that second or third week you did the main Channel and we had done that I'm so used to recording it Monday editing what I did Monday recording it Tuesday edit what I did Tuesday and then always into the following morning morning I'll have to edit some and I just do that throughout the week and I clip video then I go through and I adjust volume on video and then maybe I add a funny thing or two then I render the video then I watch the video then I upload the video and by the time y'all's videoos ready to go out on Monday the following morning I've seen that video happen in person once and on video three times by the by the following Monday I hate the video that's what I'm telling you I'm overthinking it I shouldn't that in there I should take this out blah blah blah obviously I was cutting a lot of stuff out and I was just even tired of hearing myself talk well once we got ahead and then Chris was giving me the videos to watch after they've been clipped uh I'd watch a 2hour video and I was like yeah I still take out some of the long long talks cuz there's sometimes that I don't realize how long I'm going uh but I wasn't reducing no more from usually 5 to 7 minutes out of the videos now there was one that was real bad it was like 2 hours and 35 minutes long and I got it down to like an hour 50 cuz I was talking way too much but what I realized was I was cutting out a lot of content that was YouTube worthy in my opinion after being away from it for two weeks and then watching it instead of doing it doing it doing it editing blah blah blah watching it oh this is terrible two weeks later I watched the same thing not had seeing it a million times just had recording it and giv it to him I'm like pretty good video and again 999 something per seem to agree cuz we're not getting the dislikes there and uh what I'm telling you is Chris paid for himself very quickly cuz I told y'all the longer videos retention time everything doubled so he made his own Revenue he he generated Revenue that covered what I was paying him like I said very quickly you may also not notice that the videos on the second Channel lengthened which not as much and and the retention time didn't double there cuz we were always all over the place anyhow but we have had some longer ones so the revenue on the second channel did go up as well some too so not only did Chris pay for herself he's actually made puddin Fab shop some money and Chris is I'm more than fair with Chris or any of my employees which is just Chris and Nathan I like we got a damn team of people and my wife of course she helps with all the merchandise stuff uh still too but I just consider me her whatever uh but what was I saying dang it did it again he paid for herself he made pudding's Fab shop actually a little bit extra money from all this workload I've been putting on myself and what he did mostly was free up about 20 hours a week and funny enough just like Nathan after Nathan did it for like a month or whatever it was and then he was like I don't know how you were doing all this by yourself uh Nathan came or Chris edited for like a month no he did the second Channel but then when I gave him the second Channel and Main Channel and he has his other job and that he came over and he was like I don't know how you've been editing all this and doing everything you've been doing for as long as you have and not missing videos and I told him you see these white hairs sleeps for the week okay we don't need it why would you sleep when you could be packing orders or editing he Creed up time so like I said between getting help from Nathan and getting help from Chris I have now made it to where I can work about 55 to 60 hours a week to still get everything done that needs to be done for my behalf not doing that stuff and that's still a lot of work my wife did not want me to tell y'all that I got an editor because whenever I first announced that I was going fulltime and I told y'all that the automatic assumption from a lot of people was now instead of doing one video a week he can do three videos a week well that's not true guys one if I've got to have time to edit well that means Chris has to have time to edit too uh but what I wanted when I went fulltime was not to do more videos I wanted better quality videos with having Chris on board that's what I've been wanting to get to is better quality videos with having the free time where I'm not having to get up at 6:00 and then edit till 9:30 or 10:00 and then have to get out there out here and work till 6:00 and then go in to edit or some days depending on what we going on in the evening I may have to close down here at 4:30 and go in where I can edit for a couple hours and then edit at night uh having Chris on board to take up that editing time has made it where a lot of times I can get out here from 8 and even work till 6 which is way more work so that's why in one video you'll see a lot more get done like this thing uh getting cut down the frame side and the bedside and all that stuff we got done in one week uh with our S10 like these two things we we need a video each to have them wrapped up but the amount of work we got done on them in the four videos we spent on each one or whatever it was we got a lot of work done in that and that's because I finally had help where I could just focus on working so no we don't plan on putting out more content because I have help I plan on staying working my 50 Plus hours a week uh but that's not just working here well no 50 hours a week is what I try to do content working wise and then whatever is required with me still doing art designs and uh keeping all that kind of crap going and flowing and then also Chris does edit it but you can't teach someone the humor that's in your head so when I do get it I do kind of Master it I will watch every video Chris I love you but you're really bad about missing them little black screen clips for just a split second and I'll cut those out of there because it makes the video just flash black for a second and I've told him this guys he ain't going to be mad at me don't think I'm being critical here uh I'm fine with that I like mastering it a lot of the Zoomin a lot of the add in little funny stuff and text overlay and a lot of that that is still me I watch it and then I also take out what I got to take out so on Saturday or Sunday mornings I still have a few hours required of me on the main Channel and then Wednesday night usually on the second Channel I got a couple hours where I got to spend on the computer uh mastering the edit and then of course you got your time and thumbnails and all this other stuff that you don't think is that much and it still adds up to a lot of time but thanks to Chris being on the team I have had that time more in the last well since he's done that and we finally are somewhat settled in here where me and my family can spend really good quality time together which we've always been a happy family uh but to be a happier or to try to reach the happiest family why not that be the goal guys and uh just in the last these last couple months uh we've been doing really good in there of getting to spend time together and thank goodness Dad don't have to be on the computer every hours in the house in the evening unless we're eating dinner and I told Ashley she didn't want y'all to know that Chris is part of the team but Chris is a very valuable member of this team Chris thank you uh for everything you do for me and my family to uh free up time where I don't have to try to feel like Superman because I didn't know how many years I had left in me of Superman and everything but I'm not worried about that now cuz Chris is here to stay he's part of the team also Nathan knows I tell him all the time but thank you Nate Dog for helping take care of the merchandise and thank you guys for watching the videos to the point where I need Chris where I can in increase our content quality for you guys and thank you guys for the support with merchandise to the point where I need Nathan to help us get the stuff out on time without you guys supporting this yes it's a lot of work on our end but with no audience to watch it you know we would I would still be fighting and pursuing it I was never going to give up on YouTube but I'm so thankful for you guys who have found us at this point and are still supporting this journey of ours I will see you guys next time do not forget sitting on your ass won't finish your project I will see you guys next time as we well there's going to we're going to have another update video of the shop addon and then hopefully we can get into work around here as we get out of my crazy holidays and butt pellets hot damn there's so much BS re we had to start a whole channel for all the 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Channel: Puddin's Fab Shop 2 (All The Extras!)

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Id: BklBpzQ9dPI

Length: 81min 9sec (4869 seconds)

Published: Thu Jan 18 2024