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Dome Improvement 17
You probably shouldn’t take branding advice from the guy who chose “Internet Shaquille” for a name, but I think you should fervently avoid allowing your physical appearance to be a part of your logo, whether it’s your entire face or just your hairline. At some point, you will grow to dislike how you look. At some point, your favorite eyeware manufacturer may discontinue your “iconic” facial accessory. Let your logo (and the rest of your personal brand), be it for work or for play, reflect your values, skills, or ethos, rather than ...
I'm Taste Testing Every Light Beer
I'm going through my own personal Eat Pray Love journey of self-discovery but instead of world travel it's eating Taco Bell and drinking Miller tallboys. Is the culture of light beer self-identity actually as prevalent as I thought, or is that more of a country boy thing? I also talk about incoming text-based posts so if you're concerned about receiving too many emails from Patreon, speak now and convince me not to start.Here's a link to the most recent Twitch stream (7/8/2021): https://streamable.com/19iu4kI hope to go live aga...
Wine Notes and Extra-Early Access
I can't get my mind off that "Electric Chardonnay Acid Test" I bought for this video. It was so good: https://www.vomboden.com/product/electric-chardonnay-acid-test-2018-750ml/ Real wine heads will laugh at my "Tasting Notes", since one of the notes is "has a screw top bottle". I think that's illustrative of this video's attitude— Pay attention to the parts that influence your wine experience, and don't worry too much about what you're supposed to remark on, like its "legs" or whatever. I d...
Brita Refills - Removing the Resistance
Bree bought this dish rack from Marshalls, but here are some comparable amazon affiliate links:https://amzn.to/2U7hwbx ($11)https://amzn.to/3hdxQzb ($9)https://amzn.to/3A6CHe2 ($25)
Flour Tortilla Early Access + Notes
The recipe says "a third of a cup of fat", but I like to use my 2tbsp scoop three times, bringing the fat up to 6tbsp. That's 2 teaspoons more fat, but I felt like "one third cup" is simpler to convey The level of smoke is going to depend on how long the components are smoked. I like to do this stuff while a whole brisket is cooking, so it could be up to twelve hours. The smoke intensity will also be impacted by the wood choice. Fruit woods are delicate, whereas a mesquite smoke will punch you in the face. I made so much do...
Cumulative Exam - Early Access & Notes
This is the first time I've ever done what I think is called an "integration", but it's not exactly a challenge to think of ways to use soy sauce. Plus the brand was super flexible— I was allowed to say anything (and as little) as I wanted. I plan on reheating my leftover salmon this way every time now. I love those dark crusty sides. This method of pasteurizing an egg at home is also helpful if you want to make something like mayonnaise or caesar salad dressing. I have yet to see an inappropriate use of chili crisp or chili ...
My First Taco Bell Experience
Live and uncut (except for the time the hard drive ran out of space [and the time i felt drunk 20 minutes later])This is very long but I believe streamable lets you right-click on the video for variable speedAlso Grandpa did not get any due to the salt, sorry to have lied to you
Abbio Set Winner
congratulations :)
Shorts Thoughts and a Prize
thank u abbiokitchen.com ur the only brand thats nice 2 me
Spice Mixes - Early Access & Notes
I'm not sold on this title yet. Also, I don't have a thumbnail yet. You patrons get to see the ugly first look like that of a newborn baby. The green chile spice blend I'm holding in my hands is a blend by my mom's Junior League of El Paso club (is Junior League a club? ...organization?) Anyway they sell these chile salts as a fundraiser but I've never actually seen it for sale. My mother just brings me a huge box of them every year. They make one Chipotle flavor and one Green Chile flavor. That blend has been an icon in my...
Golden Milk
This stuff is also really good in a latte. Adding a crank of black pepper is also very good I cover my turmeric in foil to shield it from the light I meant to say laborious, not tenuous. (this is why I write scripts ahead of time smh)
Cast Iron Notes & Early Access
This is probably the new "most revisions to the script" award winner. I kept having to re-evaluate my own biases. For example, I cut out a bit about using metal utensils because in order to have that conversation you have to talk about exceptions and details for a minute or two, and this is meant to be just for high-level overview material. I am gonna try to never sign any more ad contracts that require that little nod to the brand at the beginning. I didn't like wasting precious early seconds on some stinky ad copy. This is probab...
Explaining, and thus ruining, the joke
Let this be the last time we ever speak of this abomination. Two things I forgot to mention:1: I did end up losing followers for this stunt! (Can you blame em?)2: The thing I was about to say when I got distracted was "A lot of people don't seem to know this but..." Youtube ad breaks actually lowered their threshold, so you get twice as much money when your video is EIGHT minutes long instead of ten. I got a lot of comments asking me why I didn't stretch the length to at least 10 minutes, so there's a little hot tip for you.
April Fool's Day (Super Early Access)
Sorry if this ruins the April Fool's Day surprise for you as a patron. Feel free to close your eyes and watch it next week :) This was legitimately a pain and a chore to put together and even though it's made as a joke, it was a real look into what these types of media producers must feel. For example, after I was done with the video I was disappointed that I didn't think to do the transition where i zoom the camera into an ingredient so far that the image turns black, and then zoom out of something else as a "cool" transit...
Roth Followup
WHO WILL WIN
Mandito's First Roth Deposit
I texted him during his first purchase, and afterwards he wanted to recap on cam :)
Shrimp Shell Notes & Early Access
The original title for this video was "Throwing Away Shrimp Shells is for Losers" but that might be too harsh and difficult to read. The star of the video is this Big Dogs t-shirt My $50/hr calculation is wrong. This pound of shrimp was about $2 less expensive than the pre-peeled option, so since it took me 4 minutes to peel each one, it's more like $30 an hour. Your rate will vary, depending on the price per pound and the number of shrimp per pound. Whenever I peel shrimp, it's because I'm about to cook them. For that reas...
On NFTs
If you haven't heard of NFTs don't let this be your cue to get obsessed with emGet obsessed with seeds instead: rareseeds.com
No-Internet Shaquille
I took a week away from the computer, but not for a good reason.
Salmon Notes & Early Access
I think the only downside to this cooking method is that if you're on the fence about eating fish of any kind, it might be easy to conflate silky with slimy since all you eat is birds and mammals. You wouldn't want to serve this to a super young crowd that might not be into salmon in the first place Everyone already knows that salmon is fatty, but you don't really realize how much fat is in there until you slow roast and feel how it turns to fish butter Most of the time, I make this just plain with salt and pepper. On day one it...
Fast Night
do u get it it's like date night but without the foodHere is the VOD from Thursday's most recent Twitch stream, if you care to watch: https://streamable.com/04t56s
$6 Patrons Now Get (Limited) Discord Access
It's just one channel, but for now we're trying to minimize chaos (as made evident by this video that took 6 takes)
Making Merch is Impossible
Welcome to the designer's table.
Early Access - 9 Levels of Cooking Meat
Shaq trivia: this is my longest video ever! If I had to re-do this video, I would spend more time on the thought process while cooking each iconic dish, instead of just explaining each level and justifying why it's in its place. I had to pirate some $1,200 audio software to remove the rustling lavalier mic noise from the outdoor scenes. You can still hear it, but it used to be FAR FAR worse, and I was out of time! The dead plants behind me are banana trees that I took from 2 inches to 3 feet this summer. Please tell me they'll come bac...
Cow Herding and Chill
Now that I have a check mark next to my name I can't complain in the comments when I see something I don't like so here's my reaction to a video that made me unsubscribe from someone.Self-improvement is fantastic way to meet goals, but if you give yourself the goal of "be better every single day", you might be in for some serious misery.
You Have to Eat Vegetables - Here's How
The bit on food preservation could be its own whole video. I have a lot of luck simply treating produce like cut flowers and storing them in a glass of water. This works especially well for celery and green onions... things with a visible root. I'm not totally against the concept of science developing to a point at which it concludes that vegetables are mostly unhealthy, but we're nowhere close to that and I think the idea is mainly used as an excuse to scarf down hot dogs daily. As hopefully made evident by the recipes I mentioned whi...
Costly Heehees
Thank you for everyone who joined in this experimental attempt at "You laugh, you donate $50 to charity". Here's a brief recap of the submissions that broke me
F*ck It Up Episode 7
This is honestly the best performance Armando has ever given me. We only had to do like 50 takes of his lines instead of 200. Bree says it was a dick move to cover up the brand's logo with the "THIS IS AN AD" graphic hehe whoops If I were to do this again, I would do like 4-5 layers of cereal breading instead of just 2-3. I wanted more cereal flavor from it! The texture was incredible, but I could have done with some bigger clusters of crunch. I still have 750 halloween candies (and now 3 boxes of cereal) To be honest, that was the...
Finally, A New Video
Please enjoy this oatmeal video. To be completely honest my hard drive crashed while I was exporting and I thought I was right about to lose this project (plus the other two I shot this weekend!!!) SO IF U DON'T MIND I'm gonna so if u don't mind I'm gonna take a long post-freakout walk. I'm also attaching a photo from the wedding because those just came in :)
How to Make the Sausage
Here's an hour-long video in which I try my hardest to start writing scripts but get distracted by questions about gaming, potatoes, banana trees, curry, video production, and meditation.
