ONE MILLION!
Me: Heya, can you tell me one more time how many times my videos have been seen? I’m writing something about it for my blog.
Producer: The exact number up to July 8th, 2025, was 236,526,963 on YouTube only. But if I had to guess YouTube is closer to 280m and with TikTok you’re closer to 350m.
Me: Holy shitballs!
Years ago, I told you that the reason the 3 Musketeers candy bar was called that was because each one had three bars, with ear bar a different flavor: chocolate, strawberry, and vanilla.
But, for a variety of reasons, it’s just chocolate now.
And did you know that Daisy – the makers of the Red Ryder BB gun in A Christmas Story, was originally a windmill company?
They used to give away BB guns as promotional items for their windmills, but their promotional items became more popular than their main business, so they ditched windmills completely to focus on BB guns.
Speaking of Daisy, there’s a major BJJ competition team called Daisy Fresh, just because the team originally trained in a beat-up laundromat called, “Daisy Fresh,” and they figured it was easier just to keep the name.
That happens a lot.
Like, two fellas named Henderson and Moore bought a hotel in Massachusetts that already had a large, expensive sign on the building.
It was cheaper to just keep the sign, so they ended up calling their entire hotel chain the name on the sign – Sheraton.
Finally, there’s this popular sandwich shop named Potbelly that was once was Chicago antique store that was struggling.
So, they hit on this idea to sell sammies that they heated up with an old potbelly stove that they had in the shop.
My point’s that the things we think we know actually probably went through a lotta things to become the version of the thing you’re familiar with.
And things that you know of in one form may actually have been something else entirely.
My little side project I first told you about years ago, Scenic Fights, just hit one million subscribers.
There’s a really funny backstory to that whole thing that I’ll tell you about some day.
But I digress.
The thing is that there are alla these people that now know me as Logan the Weapons Guy from Scenic Fights, and I’m proud to be known as that.
And, of course, there are all those people that know me as Logan, the intellectual property lawyer.
And I’ve got this whole other career – two, actually – that I’ve only ever mentioned to you in passing but I’m held in pretty high regard there as well.
I do alla those things but the two things I’m proudest of – and I’m proud of everything I just mentioned – are being the kid’s dad and my writing.
Because we are what we constantly do.
And those two things are the things that I constantly do the most.
There are somea you that have been reading me since the Livejournal days and I feel that, outta everyone that “knows” me, you all know me the best.
Because what you’re reading is the most closely aligned with how I really am (edited), I think.
So, thanks for helping me/us get to 1 million on Scenic Fights.
And thanks, most of all, for continuing to read me.
One of these days, I’ll have something important to say.
Oh, a special nod to my buddy Mark H. Anbinder who’s been reading me for decades – and still constantly comments (!) and I’m super thankful for that. Shockingly, he’s still on Livejournal.
And my friend Debra, whom I’ve not seen in decades, just dropped me a line outta the blue saying (a) she’s still reading me and (b) is writing herself now.
Location: a middle school, trying to figure out what to do
Mood: achy
Music: I’m hopin’ I can find what’s left of me (Spotify)
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