Revisiting My First Review After 15 Years...

Hello Everyone and welcome to my editing
bay or as I like to call it my laptop.

Now I've been doing this now for 15 years
which is an absolutely frightening thought.

My videos go all the way back to 2009 and
even a couple a little bit beyond that,
but technically

that is where the first bad movie
beat down episode originated

Not on You Tube though, lots of you don't
seem to realize that I've been around longer
than you the You Tube Channel

because back in the day, THE OLDEN
DAYS, I didn't post things on You Tube

I posted on blip.tv that got bought out
by Maker which got bought out by Disney

who then strip mined it for parts,
and then shut it down.

AWWE, the internet....
I don't feel very comfortable celebrating

milestones on this channel because
I feel like it's a bit self-congratulatory.

And when the 10,000th story rolled around
I just left the old website about a year or so

ago prior and I didn't feel I like I had especially
much to be proud to celebrate at that point

in time, but 15 years is enough for a celebration,
I think, especially since I did not acknowledge it

back in 2019. But of course, I don't want
to be too egotistical. So I've decided to

punish myself by watching my first bad movie
beat down video. This isn't my first video, but

it's close enough. So we are going to go
right back to 2009 and watch me

absolutely squirm at my younger self.

Oh God, here we go.

I'm about to press play..... Now.

"Hello and welcome to bad movie Beat Down"

Oh My God, so much hair, so much hair

and unfortunately, mate, you are not
keeping any of that.

WOW, not in the long run anyway.

Appreciate it while it lasts.

You might notice by the way that I
deliberately decide to wear the exact

same t-shirts that I was wearing back in 2009,
arguably it has aged better than I have.

I'm not wearing the same jacket,
however, because I think I threw that out

at some point. So I've deliberately worn

something that is close enough to the
clothes I was wearing back in those days.

"the bad movie Beat Down is for everyone
that went to see"

Oh man, I drew these in MS paint.

MS Paint.

chuckles

Man, that's fantastic.

Oh, and I've paused on a still frame
of myself.

I need to contextualize this, a little bit
I think.

Somehow when I was doing my early videos,
I actually edited those in Windows Movie

Maker. That's right.

Windows Movie Maker.

Always known for its high-quality
production standards.

This still frame here is literally pulled
from out of the video somewhere. I've

apparently, pulled the most embarrassing
image of myself humanly possible.

So I did all of my editing in WMM for
a long time,

An embarrassing amount of time.

It was kind of split between WMM and

Vegas, everyone had a crap version of Vegas
in those days. I still use Vegas

to this day, obviously
a much later version.

What I would do a lot of the time
is that I would edit the movies in WMM and

then finalize them in Vegas
especially if they were in wide screen.

WMM was incapable of putting out a purely
wide screen file, it would in (?)

and anytime you would upload it directly
like that it would be squished and stretched.

But it proved to be a good learning ground.
And eventually, longer than perhaps it

should've been I did eventually
stop using WMM.

"Here's where I unleash
my good friend PAIN"

The MR. T thing, what on earth

"Now you must be wondering, isn't this a
bit nostalgic like?

Well, right you are. But no one in their
right mind would consider any of these

celluloid feces be nostalgic?"

I know what you are thinking at that point

Isn't that an ipod touch?
It is an ipod touch!

Ok, being serious now, yes, that is Doug

on there are you know he gave my big break
back in the day but

effectively bringing me onto the website
and I didn't start out by making videos

I was actually writing articles, people
were looking at the videos there, they

weren't reading the articles, so I very
quickly pivoted towards that. And I

do have to admit that I am grateful
for the opportunity that was afforded

for me. It opened doors that