2017 Gone, 500k Here!

Chopper's out today 2018 I've reached 500,000 subscribers it's negative 20 degrees Celsius and mr. scooter and I are in the woods for the day to cook up a lunch and to talk to you my fine subscribers about a few things hey I've got my frost River Cliff Jacobson pack with me that's a big old boots so we've been getting a pretty steady snowfall nothing crazy but we've got enough accumulation here where I could say comfortably we have about six to eight inches of snow on the ground you can see here but this is odd for my where I live especially for this early in the winter for it to have accumulated and stay around and be this cold it's a good thing it's like a old-school winter perfect very good so we're gonna I want to get some firewood together I'm probably not going to show too much of it get a fire going cook up some food and talk to you guys oh you know what i see a perfect perfect base for my fire good boy look at this old ash tree with its bark peeling off look at that that'd be great shelter building material boom i'll put that shelter that i just did that video with mike this is exactly the kind of stuff that i would want to put on on the on the roof this will be waterproof stuff is phenomenal but the problem is down here hardwoods hardwoods hardwoods and up there ah not ash we got oak we got maple this is ash anyways make a little spot on the ground i have a fur it is bright out here with the sun i can't even tell if i'm in the viewfinder or not but listen in the winter maybe some people think it's silly to wear sunglasses and a toque together but your eyes can get real messed up from that glare off the snow so we're gonna keep some sunglasses on today let's go just chewing on that lug all right These gloves talked about them before but these are surplus mitts. I think they're I believe they're Canadian surplus They're wool and leather some snot rags and these are my go-to when it's like negative 15 or colder So I want to have my fire just a bit in front of me enough where I'm not gonna melt my boots any more than they've Been melted but close enough where I can still get some warmth from the fire since there's snow everything looks different and stuff I've come to a different spot in the woods than I normally come to so there's lots and lots of dead standing stuff that I haven't like accessed before lots of small stuff that'll get my fire going really easy started really easy stuff like this I can literally just just break it you know I mean I don't really need any tools or anything I do have a saw and a small little hatchet axe grants for his outdoor axe but for now this is the name of the game man just walking around grabbing twigs then i can get my fuel pieces on after this is what i've got so far not much but i should get a small warming fire going and then as that's going i can process some bigger fuel pieces so i think i'm just gonna snap off some small twigs and get that fire going right now good boy i can go through what i brought out here in a little bit but right now i got a little tiny five by seven tarp that i'm just gonna lay on the ground so that i can organize my stuff and then after that scout can lay on it if he wants to i do have some reflectives that can buffer him from the cold as well if he needs it i brought it for him just because we're planning on being out here for the day reflectives can go right underneath as well back up buddy so i really just want to concentrate on the very smallest pieces i can get right now i do have a fire starter i'm going to use i got my um fat rope stick just like shavings of it yeah the fat rope i think shavings actually so i'll use that with my fire steel is that what i was talking about it's called fat rope and you seem to use a couple things like this in the past but this is just like the shavings it's all busted up so take a spark pretty easily i'm just gonna throw a little handful down there this is probably way overkill i'm sure it is this is not food this is not food back up crazy i got you some food don't worry big guy my new uh Mora Garberg sheath from one tree leather with fire steel loop i still have to get a decent fire steel for but she fits in there like a glove i told you last time i was going to get one of these after the Turley sheath i got nice and solid black with the red stitching just like i asked and she fits in there like a glove let's uh this fire going canadian fireworks this is what's so good about a fire steel you can just kind of rub it in the snow and then wipe her off and give it go give it a go right here good boy my hands ah it's not negative 20 i should i should elaborate it's not negative 20 by itself it's negative 20 with the windchill i don't know what it is by itself i can look on my phone here in a second and see oh i know it hurts ah i know my hands hurt we'll get you some food soon negative 12 but it feels like negative 22 i hope you can see that on there it's so blinding out here negative 12 degrees Celsius feels like negative 22 I don't know that must be with the windchill I guess but it's not that bad again. He lays next to it. It's like No, no, don't mind me. Don't worry about what I got going on So 500,000 subs guys half a million subscribers, let me let me say thank you. First of all, obviously 500,000 subscribers is not possible without 500,000 subscribers subscribers. Viewers like you. PBS stuff. It took me like 7 or 8 years to get 100,000 subscribers and in one year 2017 I got 400,000 more. Actually I think I'm sitting at like 500,005 right now. Yeah but that was by New Year's anyway so 400,000 subs in one year which is insane for me considering how long it took me to get that first 100. It's humbling. It's it's actually unbelievable really like I don't fully grasp it. My wife was able to quit her job in 2017 and stay home and be ready for for the kid when she gets done school and be able to see her and Cook and be there and that's what we all wanted right like when she originally first started working again emerald My daughter was three so will my wife hadn't worked for three years and she really wanted to work So I said, babe, by all means, go, you know what I mean, I'll help with the kid, and we'll make it work, we both worked a bit, for a bit there, before I quit, but then she didn't want to work anymore, she worked for a good two and a half years there, and she was tired, she was the manager of where she worked at, she was tired of coming home, and not even being able to see our daughter before she had to go to bed, and that was like five, six days a week, and I wanted her home, she wanted to be home, so we both were able to make the call she was able to make the call i was able to provide enough for her to have that luxury to make that call that she was able to go home to come home and stay home and do you do you know how good that made me feel very good very very good um i'm providing for my family well and i'm doing what i love and again it's because of you guys so thank you thank you very much also in 2017 i became a homeowner for the very first time i'm 33 years old born in 1984 and uh in 2017 i became a home homeowner i should say my wife and myself became homeowners i bought the house that i've lived in on and off my whole life my wife and i have lived in this house for the last about six years seven years and when i moved into it it was my grand it was my grandmother's house to begin with he's laying in the snow eating his stick if you didn't notice anyway not on the bed but uh yeah i had lived my grandma had bought that house brand new i lived in and out of it my whole life my mother was raised in it um just lots of memories and lots of lots of family history in that house so i was given the option to buy it out when when i originally started renting it from my uncle six or seven years ago never thought that was going to be able to happen he told me that this spring coming up 2018 he has to sell it regardless he's getting a little old can't uh have that on his conscience if he if he goes he doesn't want to leave his wife with it and i completely understood so the option was a move and try to get a mortgage somewhere which we went bankrupt like three years ago you know i mean we were we're broke guys broke broke broke broke anyways went bankrupt three years ago so i getting a mortgage is going to be an iffy thing for me myself and my wife um or settling somewhere where we don't want to settle renting which honestly has been just throwing money away and i don't want to do that anymore you're okay lay in your bed buddy you're okay um but then when this youtube thing really kicked off and and things started getting better financially that i was on a canoe trip and this all ties into it too we've been wanting to have another kid as well and our fear our whole plan the whole time was get out of windsor get out of windsor get out of windsor and and and it's still our plan but we can't just jump to that right so i i'm i'm concerned about moving away and not having a helpline or like even like uh our families around us which we have to help us now yeah for the baby for for whatever my wife has a high risk pregnancy she has a disease called von Willebrand's disease it's a blood disease she could not get an epidural the first time she had her natural emerald naturally in about two hours so we got so lucky guys and i'm just concerned that the doctors up there aren't gonna know i'd rather be home for a pregnancy home for a newborn you know in windsor where we have our families and stuff so i'm on a canoe trip and i'm out by myself at night and i'm just thinking and it just clicks it's like yes we want to move away from windsor very badly but i can't just jump to that so what so so so i buy this house that i live in now which i really don't want to do i didn't want to live here anymore but i buy this house we live in now we put some money into it we sell it in about four or five years and and move away and have that income or that capital from that house and then everything that i've banked already to be able to put a mortgage down or a down payment on somewhere where we want to live and being home for those five years we could have a kid the four or five years we can have a kid and have our support lines here and the doctors here that know what's going on and everything and it just kind of all made sense so we were able to get the mortgage we had to put half down we've got a steal on the house we just just just bought it for the the the remainder of the mortgage that was left over that was the the deal that my uncle had offered me six or seven years ago I'm very thankful to him for that and we've done it all it's everything's done the house is in our name we've begun to make renovations on it because with us living there for four or five years we need to make it our own you know what i mean i didn't do much to it before because it wasn't mine and i really really want to make it ours now so we're doing a lot of renovations to it as we speak and yeah it's pretty exciting there's lots of stuff going on we've been trying for another kid no luck yet but last time it took about almost a year anyway so who knows i want to have the the kid as soon as possible because i'd like it to be as close in age to Emerald as possible we've already waited too long I feel like I said I'm 33 my wife is 34 real talk okay this has burned down to pretty good coals I'm gonna get some food out show you what I got and uh start making up a delicious delicious brunch delicious brunch okay we got a cup we've got a 10 centimeter billy can that has an everything bagel that fits nicely inside of it let me just back that off a bit fits right inside of it and then we got an egg that's wrapped in paper towels just inside there so we're going to do that up we also have some coffee the Jiva Cubes coffee again we've got some butter some cheese and the piece de resistance breakfast sausage one for me one for mr scoots so looking forward to that that will always be Good, and frozen butter and cheese on there, like I said. Frozen butter, frozen cheese. I got my grill, and I got a chair, actually, but I don't think I'm going to use it. I got my plate, too. You good, bud? I'm just going to stick that insert in the coals real quick to get it hot so that I can kind of paint the frozen butter onto it so that my egg will come out nice and easy as opposed to not nice and easy. Hard, as it were. This fire is making everything a little warmer, eh? It's funny how fire does that warms things up. Okay, nice Oh, I got a shell a little piece of shell in there. Come on. Come on. There we go All right, that's good like that Okay Now I'll just build that spot up real quick with some twigs and then grill my other food on the other side These are pork sausages. I like these ones and I also like the turkey ones the breakfast sausages I'm gonna have to get a little bit more fire probably underneath there, but that's okay I can scoop some of these coals underneath there, too. Alright, everything is done. This sausage is for Scout Got my bagel nice and toasted my cheese Somewhat melted but my my egg will do the rest for the melting of the cheese This is gonna go on my bagel get my my egg. Ooh to her That's though. It's still in frame. Nope. I'm excited for this. Can you tell all right spatula would have been a good idea? idea my knife will probably work just fine oh yeah buddy oh you know what I'm missing is pepper pepper is the ingredient that I am missing okay this is gonna come out nice and perfect actually wait till you see this super hot okay I gotta take a picture of that one and I also want to start steeping my my coffee and do this quick oh I'm stoked and this is good to go I've had to turn around the Sun is very bright in my face right now and if I shot the other way I'd just all be backlit I can't see anything I can't see anything okay here you go Scout it's a big part for you right now savor that take a little bite of mine I think my yolk might be a little bit runny still which would be awesome All right. Cheers guys. Happy 2018 first First breakfast outside. Oh, man. You got a BAM son on one of those. There you go, buddy I'm gonna get my coffee be one second here. Here's your last piece and you know where your blanket is go lay down looking good Oh, yeah, buddy. Where have you been all my life? So I woke up the other day. I'm watching my normal YouTube feed and I'm seeing all of these famous youtubers talking about this thing that Logan Paul did just absolutely crazy I don't watch Logan Paul, I don't watch Jake Paul either. I don't think that many of my subscribers watch them, but I could be way off on that. I think they're targeted towards children, to be honest, for the most part. They're just loud, obnoxious, like, braggarts, basically. And it's just weird entertainment. You can tell they're just fake people. But what I saw other YouTubers talking about, what they did was, what Logan Paul did was absolutely insane. So remember, these people are entertaining your children, okay? He goes to Japan, and there's a specific forest in Japan where people go to off themselves. It's got a specific name, and they go there looking for a specific thing, and they find it, and they film it, and he's making jokes about it. Craziness. Think about that. This is children watching this. How is that even allowed on YouTube? When Sean gets videos restricted for using an axe You know what I mean? I've had restricted videos for talking And then that video got trending number one on YouTube Isn't that crazy? Like even telling you guys this story I'm trying to not use specific words Because I'm scared of my video getting flagged and restricted You all know what I mean by There's a special forest A certain forest in Japan where people go to off themselves It's a thing And they went there looking for that And found that And filmed it And it's so disrespectful well imagine the people's the person's family japan is already a place of like honor you know what i mean and like things like that and that's why i believe i don't know but i believe that's why it's in the culture i mean old samurais would do it i think it's just part of their culture and to put that out on youtube and where they've got well i don't know billions of people watching them some of their some of their videos are huge and i'm saying they're kind of just lumping both of the Paul brothers together but because they are they're both dummies they do um they do just just like shock random stuff it's just it's it's fake you can tell it's fake and anyways my point is this is the point to that monitor what your kids are watching monitor what your children are watching on YouTube because there's not just because you think you've seen a little bit or you see they're wholesome because they used to be on the Disney Channel they got fired from the Disney Channel you know I mean you got to really really pay attention to what your children are watching on TV and YouTube especially right now YouTube is the big thing there's not as much censorship they're trying to get it but they're censoring all the wrong things obviously if that if they put that to trending number one number one video come see this guy disgrace all nothing will come of it he made an apology it sounded like a half-assed just boasting about himself and then took that down and made another apology so who knows who knows if he's sincere who knows if he actually knows he messed up but um regardless of that people all mess up i've messed up big time in the past monitor what your children are watching on YouTube craziness another another reason i make this channel without swearing without um things that i think that children shouldn't watch because i i have parents and and families email me all the saying that this is like their their Friday night get-together they watched Jojo video kids with babies kids with babies parents with babies say that anyways this has been very good very very good you think he wants a little bit more well Scout refuses to lay on his bed that I made him and he keeps putting his paws up in the air being cold so what I think we're gonna do is walk around for a bit get the blood flowing and just explore a little bit of the winter of the little winter woods so just packing up now my hands are about to fall off they are so cold I was about to take down my saw and the thought of touching the cold metal I would highly recommend these gloves gotta look for them at surplus stores they're not the most dext they don't provide the most Dexterity like you can see but they are easy on and off and they're warm and those two things are important in the wintertime I wish this saw fit in there a little bit better. The pack is cool I just don't like how much the saw sticks out of it Okay, let's go walk around the woods briskly I'm sure most of you realized that last week's video was a very old video was old footage that I made into a video and I said that in the description and stuff. Not everybody catches on to that, but I hope that you all understood that. It was pretty cool to look back on that footage and see what I was saying three years ago and see how far everything's changed and everything, but pretty cool, pretty cool. I was sick last week pretty bad actually the whole week. I'm just getting over it now. I wanted to do an overnighter this week. I'm just not feeling up it but very soon I'm going to do a pretty cool overnighter I got a bunch of surplus stuff from Australia I got a pretty cool subscriber sent me a bunch of stuff like one of those LK 35 backpacks and then some some tarps of hoochie tarp so I can't put you I can't remember the name off the top of my head anyways that go together it's all military surplus stuff so I figure I'll come out do an overnighter with that be pretty fun I'm not sure if I'll bring the dog or not depending on how cold it is when I do have my when I do a winter winter hot tent camp thing I'll bring Scout for sure but I just don't know about the cold camping with him anymore I don't want to feel bad for him if he's too cold or whatever he has a real big problem with laying on things apparently that'll keep him off the ground but oh it's nice out here man sun it's a perfect winter day the sun's out it's uh very cold snowy so as long as you keep moving it's pretty good so yeah 2017 guys she was a she was a messed up year but she was a good year for me i got a not only of all the stuff i already told you that happened i also got to do a bunch of really cool trips some really memorable ones that stand out to me are the woodland caribou flying float plane flying trip we stayed there in the boreal forest for like nine nights um doug and i crossing algonquin was very very cool as well lots of lots of good stuff i had some go really good winter uh trips and videos early on in the year just uh i i don't even know i didn't count last year i counted i think i had like 56 nights out or something i didn't count this year but i'm sure i beat it this is my job this year guys i took it serious you know i did almost one video a week except for one month hiatus in august oh i got to go to california to see kyle i saw some climbed mountains i freaking camped in the mountain good boy go go go camped in the mountains for the first time i was like 20 miles away from the JMT the John Muir Trail oh man, almost died, whitewater kayaking, I don't know if I ever I never put that video out, Kyle and I did a bunch of like class 3 plus whitewater in the American River in California near Sacramento, or in Sacramento if not near, we rented these duckies, which are like sit on top kayaks and they blow, they're inflatable and there was all these guys like those like snub nose uh or stub nose hard body kayaks i've never seen water like this let alone gone down it and we spent the full day working our way up i only fell in once but when i did it took me i couldn't uh couldn't get back on lost my paddle these guys come save my life come with me if you want to live kind of thing it was fun man kyle kyle wiped out a few times but uh i think the the worst was me almost dying but oh and getting sunburn on my legs second and third degree sunburn on my legs that from that day uh full seven hours in the sun and just exposed my little white virgin canadian legs in the california uh july sun that was fun that was a fun trip shout out kyle hope he's doing good i hope you all had a good christmas and new year hope you're all feeling rejuvenated and having goals and and feeling like you want to improve on things I know I do I have something coming up I want to talk to you guys about but that's going to be for the next video about improving myself for 2018 okay well guys if I'm being honest this tripod and camera it's getting pretty heavy holding out in front of me while I'm walking I think I'm just going to enjoy the rest of the time here with scope put this camera away so once again you guys rock seriously thank you very much for all of the support and all of the views and all of the comments and all of the likes i appreciate it it's uh it's awesome it's been allowing me to do more and more things so thank you hope everyone has a great year hope everyone has a great day i will see you soon with an actual trip video the next video will be a trip video it'll be pretty cool and i'll talk to you about what i want to talk to you about at the beginning of that video say bye Scott say bye scope bye scope