MICHAEL JACKSON'S CHILDHOOD - (and the "jokes" that still come of it)

[00:00:01]Trigger warning. This video will be talking about childhood as well asive language. If that is triggering to you, I would not recommend watching this video.

[00:00:11]>> I would really get it more than anybody.

[00:00:13]Do you think your father was too strict?

[00:00:16]>> Yes. No. He's going to kill me.

[00:00:19]>> Not only were we practicing, we were nervous rehearsing because he sat in the chair and he had this in his hand and if you didn't do it the right way, he would tear you up. really get you. I I got it a lot of times, but I think my brother Marlin got it the most. How scared.

[00:00:37]Scared.

[00:00:40]I mean scared. So scared that we I would regurgitate his presence just seeing him. Sometime I'd faint and my bodyguards would have to hold me up.

[00:00:53]>> When he was you, did you hate him?

[00:00:56]>> Yeah.

[00:00:58]strong hate and he didn't allow us to call him daddy and I wanted to call him daddy so bad.

[00:01:05]He said, "I'm not daddy. I'm Joseph to you." You know, and I totally forgive him for all of it.

[00:01:12]You know, you have to when people say the abuse, that's not true.

[00:01:18]Then after school, we get home about 3:00 3:30 and my father have all the mics set up and the amps on standby and we had enough time to just drop our books and we would practice um like 4 hours until about 7 or 8. And uh after that, you know, we would get ready to go to Chicago or somewhere and go do engagement. We had like four or five different sets. We would play for 45 minutes and take 15 minutes off and do our homework and get rest in between those 15 minutes. And uh by the time we was through with our day, it was about 2:30 in the morning and we' drive back from Chicago to Gary, get home about uh 3:00 4 in the morning and go to school the next day. And that's what life was for us for many years. Did your father and your brothers tease you about your appearance as an adolescent?

[00:02:17]>> My father did. I don't think he realized how much he was hurting me. He would tease me about how I looked and he would say, "Well, you didn't get it from my side of the family." Like, I would just go to the bedroom and cry. You know >> what did he actually say?

[00:02:30]>> God, your nose is big.

[00:02:31]>> I don't know anything about him being sick, but regurgitate. But if he did regurgitate, he he regurgitated all the way to the bank. You know >> what do you mean?

[00:02:42]>> I mean by me um by me stupid a little bit and and made him a superstar. My father doesn't feel that men should cry and he's very strong but he's older now and and things are different in life and as you get older you change a bit and I think he's becoming more sentimental at his age.

[00:03:05]>> He had great difficulty showing affection. He never really told me he loved me and he never really complimented me either. If I did a great show, he would tell me it was a good show. If I did an okay show, he would say nothing. My father was a managerial genius and my brothers and I owe our professional success in no small measure to the forceful way that he pushed us.

[00:03:38]But what I really wanted was a dad. I wanted a father who showed me love. And my father never did that.

[00:03:47]He never said I love you while looking at me straight in the eye. He never played a game with me. He never gave me a piggyback ride. But I remember once when I was about 4 years old, there was a little card I own and he picked me up and put me on a pony.

[00:04:05]It was a tiny gesture, probably something he forgot 5 minutes later. But because of that one moment, I had this special place in my heart for him. I am forced to admit that he must have loved me.

[00:04:22]He did love me and I know that my father, he did try.

[00:04:29]But my favorite food to satisfy my sweet tooth was glazed donuts. I would come downstairs in the morning and there on the kitchen counter was a bag of glazed donuts. No note, no explanation, just the donuts. My father had to leave him secretly at night so as no one might catch him with his guard down. He was scared of human emotion. He didn't understand it or know how to deal with it. But he did know donuts.

[00:05:09]Hey guys, welcome back to my channel. So today, as we can see by the intro, this is going to be more of a serious video.

[00:05:16]I actually got inspiration to make this video when I saw Duski's recent skit. I don't have cable TV. I know that the BET Awards recently happened and Nia Long was there as well as Jafar Jackson. They both presented. I also want to say real quick, unrelated, but congrats to Jafar and Coleman for winning their first awards. That is so exciting. so deserved for the movie Michael. Of course, I did not tune in to the entirety of the BET Awards simply because we have very limited cable channels. We don't pay for cable anymore. I've only seen clips on the internet, but apparently Duski, I believe he got famous from being on social media and doing skits. I have seen some of his skits, the Erica Kirk ones, that young man, as well as the Megaurch one. His skits are meant to be very shocking. I guess the best way I could describe it is a lot of his skits I've seen is saying the quiet part out loud. He recently released a new parody and it was a Joe Jackson trailer. The reason I brought up the BET Awards is because apparently this was broadcasted at the BET Awards. Yeah, if that was released during the BET Awards, that is wild. Now, I do know that um aside from Nia and Jafar being there, Janet Jackson was also there and she presented an award for Tiana Taylor. I believe that Jafar actually left the BET Awards before Drewski's skit apparently played.

[00:06:49]But Janet, I don't know if she was still in the building or not, but that's pretty wild. That's a pretty bold thing to do, especially when the Michael movie has come out and a lot of people that maybe didn't know much about Michael or didn't really understand him. Now that they've seen the biopic, they are either understanding him a little bit from the biopic or they're taking the time to actually learn real parts of Michael's life aside from the biopic. And although there's inaccuracies and that's, you know, just kind of a part of biopics, unfortunately, for the dramatization of it and it to be a little more easily digestible and cohesive, I don't think it's a bad thing to be interested in someone's life because of a biopic and then with that information from the biopic and your interest in that, learning more about the person in real life. This skit, I have a lot of thoughts. I'll give you a summary. It's a very short trailer. It's literally less than three minutes long. And I know what Driski is trying to do to an extent it is to show how strict Joe was with his children. It doesn't really go into like the psychological damage or anything like that. I mean, it's not like a super indepth thing. It's meant to be taken as shock value comedy. But the thing that keeps reappearing in this trailer is the use of the belt which you know in the Michael movie they did show that I have many clips of Michael talking about other forms of that he suffered at the hands of his father.

[00:08:27]Would he only use a no more than a irony courts?

[00:08:37]Whatever is around just in very public interviews alone, Michael has went into a lot of depth of what was happening to him because of Joseph. And this trailer having the belt in it at the end it says Joe like the movie is called Joe instead of Michael for this trailer and a belt appears at the bottom of his name and it's just I understand he's criticizing Joe right but what is that belt being used for? People in the comments some people thought it was really funny and laughed whenever the belt would appear on the screen. Um, you know, there's multiple scenes where Joe is trying to remove his belt. That's like the whole joke. It's even being used on Tik Tok with like reaction pictures. This image, you know, a lot of people are making jokes about it. Particularly if someone's like a really good singer or a good dancer, they will use this picture of Joe and be like, "We're going on tour or we're going to call it the reincarnation tour." You know, people try to make light-hearted fun of it, but I feel like when you see these videos of Michael being a grown adult brought to tears over his father and the lack of love and care that he felt from his father and the judgment and just the he just never really felt like he ever got his dad's approval. And I'm going to be honest, I think Joseph was jealous of Michael.

[00:10:05]Now, this is an outsers's perspective.

[00:10:07]Obviously, I didn't know Joseph personally. And I will say that one thing about Michael and his family, they seem very forgiving. They have given Joseph a lot of grace and they still refer to them at him as their dad. They have a lot of grace for him and again, they definitely know him better than I ever could. But just from what I've seen in interviews and things like that, I do personally, my personal opinion, think that Joseph was envious of Michael. I think the qualities that Michael had like his sensitivity and um you know even Joe belittling his nose, his appearance to see Michael blow up and be this success and the fans not only love his music and his artistry but they gravitate toward his towards his sensitivity and his kindness and his empathy and they think he's a beautiful person inside and out. And I think Joe seeing that and seeing these things that he deemed as bad qualities in Michael or I don't know non-masculine qualities.

[00:11:10]Michael was blowing up and his fans loved his message and just the kindness and lovely soul that he had. I think Joseph was like, "Huh?" You know, I mean, THAT'S MY OPINION.

[00:11:22]>> THAT'S MY OPINION.

[00:11:25]And reading the comments, I will say a lot of Jeruski's comments are overwhelmingly positive. This trailer of Joe, my take on this, I feel like is honestly really unpopular. And I'm sure I'm going to get people in my comment section that think that people are being too harsh on Joe Jackson and the way he parented his children. And to that, I have to say that I think the number one thing, and I've seen it in Duski's comments on his video, just because something was more socially acceptable at that time, for example, putting your hands on your children, spanking them, yelling at them, whatever it may be, that doesn't make it okay. It's true that, yeah, that was very common at that time. And especially in a show business with children, it's very common that a lot of children in that industry were treated horribly and worked an insane amount of hours and were put in very compromising, inappropriate, not age appropriate whatsoever situations. Like one thing that isn't included in the biopic, and again I understand why it is very dark. It would be disturbing to see on the big screen.

[00:12:41]Michael and his brothers were in clubs.

[00:12:43]Uh I don't want to play the audio because it's a personal conversation like it's a private phone call that Michael was having, but you know, he talks about being in these nightclubs and women being new and men taking their underwear and literally smelling them.

[00:12:59]Um it was a lot. And he is a child seeing this.

[00:13:05]He is up till like 3:00 in the morning playing at clubs, rehearsing to be this star. And I feel like at that time, children being in those spaces wasn't as sideeyed as it is now. Um, which is really scary to say. Like children in the entertainment business, I feel like it just happened.

[00:13:29]It's so common to hear child stars or child actors, child singers be in spaces with adults most of the time rather than with children their own age. And how people don't think that can mentally, psychologically affect a child is beyond me. Um, that's why when Michael gets so much criticism for being around children and things like that, I think of situations like this where a child's mind could be changed forever. And I mean, these are the times where their mind is the most influential. They are absorbing everything around them like a sponge. So, this is setting their mindset for the rest of their life. And I'm not saying you can't change that mindset to an extent, but like what he is learning as a child is going to stick with him. And he can see that things were wrong. I know he's talked about being, you know, I hated it. I hated clubs. I hated bars. I hated all of this because I grew up around that and I thought it was gross. And that that will affect him, you know, for the rest of his life. and he can try to work through things, but it was put into his mind in the most there's a certain word I'm looking for the formable I can't think of the words. So, going back to the physical that Michael suffered at the hands of his father, I did want to share this video that I found on Tik Tok and I actually have the link to where this person got this information. It's a Harvard study that was done. I feel like the rights of children just they're one of the most vulnerable and I feel like least respected people in our society.

[00:15:15]And that's so crazy to say because you know children are reliant on adults to take care of them and have their best interest at heart. And after I show you this video, we're actually going to read some of the comments on Dusky's video.

[00:15:31]And yeah, a lot of them again overwhelmingly positive. Um, but there are some people and I noticed it is a lot of Michael fans, but it's not all Michael fans that have a problem with this. I It's also people that have went through this kind of themselves. And you know, some people even I saw were saying, "I went through this similar things to this as a child." And I think that this trailer is funny because I handle my by laughing at it, like making light of it. It was interesting to see so many people's different perspectives in the comment section. I personally had a really great childhood. I never experienced anything like this. Um I wish that no child had to. So I really can't say too much. I don't have any personal personal experience with that, thank goodness. But I'm curious and I'm not going to force anyone in the comments to share. Please do not share, you know, personal details or atic things that happened to you as a child.

[00:16:38]I'm not asking you to do that. If you do not want to do that, please do not. But if you feel comfortable and want to share, you may and share your perspective on Drewuski's trailer of Joe or just how the media has handled not just Michael but the Jacksons in general, their relationship with their father Joe and how their childhood was with their father and how some of it even went into their adulthood. I mean, with Michael especially. So you know let me know how you feel if you feel comfortable if you want to share your experience but by no means do not feel obligated to do so but let's go ahead and watch this particular clip about this Harvard study >> Harvard study abouting our children and what impact it actually has on our kids.

[00:17:28]So I was as a kid um and a lot of us feel like you know is just a natural part of either a cultural or generational way of raising kids and disciplining them. I'm actually going to pause right here. Sorry. I feel like if you have a study from literally Harvard that is showing evidence that this will affect someone for the rest of their life and you claim to love your child, why would you continue to do these things? I just don't understand having that information and thinking, well, I've been doing this, disciplining my child in this way, and my parents disciplined me in this way, and my grandparents disciplined them, so I'm just going to keep the cycle going.

[00:18:09]Like, there's nothing wrong with pausing for a second and thinking, "Hey, this happened to me. This happened to my parents. This happened to my grandparents." But that doesn't mean I have to continue doing that with my kids or my future kids. There's nothing wrong with coming to the conclusion that as a parent maybe you have done something wrong. Sitting with that and saying that was wrong. I need to apologize to my child for that. I need to be the adult in this situation. And there are ways to parent your child and be a responsible adult without putting your hands on them at them ultimately scaring them. If you were to go out in public and put your hands on someone, you most likely would be arrested. But when we do that to children, tiny children, vulnerable children that are relying on you to help them regulate their emotions, to help them understand how to handle things in a way that an adult should, you know, in a calm, regulated way. But you as the adult are blowing up on your child in their face and you expect them to not do the same as they get older or you expect them to not suffer from the effects of that. And it's just crazy to me. And I think, you know, it's insane that you could yell or get in a with someone out in public and get arrested, but if you do that to a child, you may not face any consequences for that because some people see that as parenting. You absolutely should instill, you know, good work ethic and things like that into your child, but there is absolutely no need to put your hands on them. Just because it was at one time it was deemed as socially acceptable and some parents still do it, that doesn't make it right. I think people in the comment section that I'm going to read later need to understand that are trying to justify Joe's behavior and saying that this generation is soft and generations to come are soft if they don't put their hands on a child. scaring your child just so they will listen to you. That is just that's not okay.

[00:20:14]>> But Harvard recently did a study where they followed children who were at least once a week, not to the point where left bruises or marks so it wouldn't um I guess qualify as but they just followed just kids that were and then they scanned their brains when they were between 19 and 20 years old. And what they found was that on average that those young adults, the ones that were versus the ones that weren't, had a 30% reduction in gray matter in their brains. 30% reduction just by being.

[00:20:48]What they also found by flashing images of aggressive looking faces is that the same parts lit up in the brains of those kids that were as those that had experienced severe physical or sexual trauma or children as well. So basically what the stud is telling us is that even though we think that a 2-year-old or a 5-year-old is just part of helping to discipline a child or helping to correct their behavior, it is the equivalent of extreme children, which is new to me because like I said, I was as a kid. Um so yeah, the more you know, >> just think about all of the things that children are learning in their formative years. That's the word I was looking for. Think of all the things they're soaking up. They're, you know, soaking up their environment around them, behaviors, people's tones, their facial expressions, okay? They're learning everything for the first time. To them, their reality that they are living in, that's all they know, you know? So if you are surrounded by people that areing you at you, belittling you, making fun of you, and on top of that, in Michael's case, you're surrounded by tons of fans that adore and love you, but they don't actually know you on a personal level.

[00:22:08]Can you imagine how confusing that is?

[00:22:11]Just putting yourself in Michael's position. My father that lives with me doesn't really seem to like me.

[00:22:16]Mentally, physically, I cry. You know, I feel lonely. I feel isolated. I feel sad, but then there's all these people that love me when I go on stage and I feel happy, but at the same time there's this emptiness that comes with all of it.

[00:22:31]That's got to be so confusing for a child that is tackling like financial responsibility. You know, him and his brothers are financially supporting their family to an extent. That's a lot of pressure on a child. It's hard enough for people that are famous and are adults. I mean, even they struggle. So, imagine that for a child where all they know is their home life and in Michael's case being on stage, being interviewed, fans, screaming, yelling, constant go, go adrenaline is on high. His nervous system must have just been so all over the place, just unregulated. And I just feel for him so much. He was in fight or flight mode, I think, for a lot of his life. and it's just really sad. So, the last thing I'm going to do, I've been doing a lot of talking. I'm going to be reading through some of these comments.

[00:23:28]So, the top comment is the whole movie about Joe struggling to get his belt off. That has 31,000 likes. Now, this one is just wow. So, Michael, where did you get the idea to write Beat It, Michael? And obviously, they're referencing he is getting out his belt to obviously harm his children. The belt better get best supporting actor nomination. This skit just healed my whole childhood. I can laugh now. So, this is an example of someone that must have went through something very similar in their childhood, suffered some kind of and this trailer skit is making them feel like they can kind of laugh, which I understand again some people that is how I I'm kind of that person too.

[00:24:12]anything that I really struggled with, I do sometimes make light of it and laugh because I don't know how else to handle it and I feel like if I don't laugh, I'll cry kind of thing. So, I'm not really going to comment too much on that because again, I don't have experience with any kind of abuse as a child. But if again, if you feel comfortable sharing, feel free to do so. I'm curious to see if anyone else feels the same way as this person. This person says, "This is someone that is in favor of this kind of parenting. Shout out Duski. Standing up for all good misunderstood black men.

[00:24:47]Joe was a genius." Which I'm kind of confused because I feel like this whole trailer was definitely making fun of Joe. Um, not to say it doesn't make jokes of the belt and the children with the belt. So, I don't really understand where he's getting that from this video, to be honest. Joe was a genius. I got my ass with a belt thicker than this. My pops didn't play.

[00:25:14]Oh yeah, 55. Never been arrested. Shout out to real black dads. Curious how those in the black community feel about this comment. To be honest, that was full of wonder. A true satirical elevation. Y'all got some catching up to do. Again, I know that this is meant to be satire, especially towards Joe. At the same time, the punchline is heavily being focused on the belt. What is the belt doing? It is his kids. That's where you've lost me. And here is another person that is, you know, kind of in the same boat as the person that was laughing about what they faced as a child because of this Joe skit trailer.

[00:25:59]It says, "I love all the generational and childhood stories in the comments."

[00:26:04]So, a lot of people are bonding over this in the comments. Some people are laughing at it. Some people don't find it funny. Um, these are some of the people that do not find the skit or this trailer funny at all. Waiting for the punchline. The reality of the situation is actually triggering and sad. Michael and his siblings had to endure such a and that Michael missed out on having a childhood. Ain't no one want to watch this. I find it appalling that no one seems to find anything wrong with this.

[00:26:35]Everyone here is literally laughing at something the Jackson family actually went through. This is not a joke.

[00:26:41]Nothing about this should be amusing to any of you. This literally Michael and the whole family. I think the comment section here is a real reflection of our disgraceful society where people lack empathy and human decency and laugh at literally anything. Y'all are sick. I have to agree that in the state of the world we're living in today, especially here in the US, I think a lack of empathy crisis is huge. Uh, I think a lot of people are being desensitized to things like this, whether it's through memes, like, you know, the Joe Belt meme, and a lot of people look at those that criticize this kind of humor, and say, "You're being too woke. You're taking it too seriously. You're not getting the satire in this." I get the satire, but what is the punchline of this at the end of the day? Um, let's see. Are there any more critical comments? I think those were the main ones that I saw, but like I said, most of the comments are overwhelmingly positive and find this trailer funny.

[00:27:46]So, I'm curious to hear you guys' thoughts on it, especially since most of us are Michael fans. But the biggest reason I wanted to make this video is because I think people don't realize just how painful Michael as well as I'm sure his siblings lives were at times when it came to struggles they faced with their father. I have read so many comments on this people's opinions whether they're MJ fans or not, but I do have to say that this one particular Reddit user, I know some people cannot stand Reddit. I I have a lovehate relationship with Reddit. I think there's a lot of toxicity on Reddit and just out of control things. I also think there's a lot of valid points on Reddit from just other people on this planet.

[00:28:39]This person goes into, you know, no one was protecting these kids in the Jackson 5. He was exposed to sex in such an early and extremely inappropriate way.

[00:28:48]Referring to Michael, they're talking about, you know, the Jackson 5 per performing at clubs, nightclubs. It says, "This is insane. I feel like the public largely brushed over the tragedy of his childhood in favor of making fun of him for being odd. It's no wonder he had so many health issues. He had been an entertainer since he was a small child. And yet, he never seems to get the same sympathy that other child stars who develop mental issues and dependencies do. It's so bizarre. A child being exposed to that environment should never just be a little asterric in their story. Heavy on that. That is serious. And I cannot help but feel as though the reason why it never was taken seriously is due to the adultification of black children.

[00:29:35]that got 143 up votes. I think that's what you call it on Reddit. I I think those are some very valid points. I think a lot of people label Michael Jackson fans as overly sensitive and I just don't know how you can be overly sensitive about someone's lived experience that was traumatizing. I just don't understand that. Um having sympathy for that and being told you're too sensitive about that, you're overreacting about that. I know why the biopic wouldn't include a lot of these things because it is very dark and to see it on a screen happening. I mean, them being in a literal club and Michael's a child. I mean, that's a lot.

[00:30:18]I don't want to just see that. I I hate seeing anything where children are. I can't stand to watch that kind of stuff.

[00:30:24]I I can't. But it is unfortunately the reality that a lot of children live every day. And you know, Michael was definitely not an exception to that. And um I think when we see skits like this, when we see trailers like this um and it seems like the overwhelming response to it is to laugh, I think we need to remember moments like this where Michael was heartbroken. I mean, he was still suffering from the effects of this. And just because, you know, it was the thing to do at the time for many parents, that doesn't make it okay. And I don't understand how, you know, with this Harvard study, especially if you know that this has been proven. It's not an opinion. It is a study that you can factually prove uh that links to what they found um of children's brains. I mean, how could you read that as a parent and not think, "Hey, maybe I need to do better. Maybe I don't want to do this to my child." I know there's only so much you can do to protect your children in this crazy world that we live in, but I feel like this is the least that parents can do. And you're going to make mistakes as a parent, you know, but the least you can do is apologize and try to do better for your children. And yeah, I just I don't think we should forget about the true horror that Michael experienced as a child. And although I don't want it to be the only thing we think of when we think of Michael Jackson, I feel like knowing this information about Michael helps you to understand how he became the person that he did as he got older.

[00:32:10]and rather than continuing to joke about what he faced, actually try to understand him. I think we just we need to be more careful and sensitive and respectful when it comes to people's um I think because Michael was you know the biggest star in the world and he was larger than life and his siblings you know I mean Janet incredibly successful career I think people just start to see them less and less as a human being and feel you know like these things it's just part of pop culture and unfortunately it is like Michael was the butt of so so many jokes and just straight harassment, bullying, and it's a shame because they were human beings just like us. I can't imagine hearing about someone's experience and deciding to make a joke out of that. If you want to make jokes about, you know, what you went through, that's on you. You know, I'm not going to tell you what you can and can't do with your as long as you're not hurting yourself or other people. Hi guys. I have a few more things to add with a voice recording before I close out this video that I did not originally mention in my video. The first thing is I know that there are at least two clips of Michael where he has said he has forgiven his father and you know he just felt like he needed to do that. And like I said earlier, I feel like a lot of the Jackson family, they're very forgiving and give a lot of grace to Joe. I've seen a lot of situations where, you know, some people they go no contact with their parents, whether it's their mom, their dad, both or just family members in general, and that works best for them after going through a experience or having a horrible childhood because those people were not being parents. They weren't taking care of them. And I totally understand that.

[00:34:00]And I've also seen people that forgive their parents and they go on to have a lovely relationship. And you know, I'm not going to tell anyone what they should or shouldn't do. I can give my advice all day long, but at the end of the day, I'm obviously just someone that loves Michael as a fan, and you know, I try to understand aspects of his life.

[00:34:20]Um, so, you know, I have my own opinions. I have my own thoughts about Joe, but Michael himself, he did forgive Joe, even though he had a lot of anger and resentment towards him at one time.

[00:34:29]And I'm sure that was a constant battle with Michael. And I feel for him. The next thing I want to say is thank you guys so so much for 40,000 subscribers when I filmed this video. I had not hit 40,000 yet, but as of editing this, I have. And I just want to say thank you guys so much to those of you that have been watching me for years. Some of you since the beginning of this channel, some of you since I was on Vine, some of you since I had a fan account on Instagram. Thank you so much. I appreciate it. And to those who have found me, whether it's through the Michael biopic or you've just been looking into Michael Jackson YouTube channels and you happen to find me, thank you so much. Last thing, I uh said on my community tab, I had a surprise.

[00:35:10]Uh well, unfortunately, I don't have a surprise as of now.

[00:35:14]>> Disappointing.

[00:35:15]>> Uh I thought by the time I'd get this video out, I would have a PO box opened.

[00:35:19]I used to have a PO box, and I loved it so much. I'm going to put this on the screen. I still have some of y'all's like letters and stuff like that. I cherish it, you know. And uh basically when I left YouTube, I ended up closing my PO box um because I wasn't posting regularly anymore. And uh I haven't opened it since. And that was probably back in 2020. So I've been wondering if I should reopen one. But unfortunately, I went today and the prices have truly skyrocketed for PO box openings uh for literally just 3 months. It was kind of a lot of money and there was like a opening fee. It was just a lot more than I was expecting to have to pay. So, I don't know if I'm going to end up going through with that. I'm trying to find options around me. If you have any suggestions that are more affordable, uh feel free to let me know. But yeah, that was supposed to be the surprise, but unfortunately, I'm not sure if it's going to happen, but if it does, I will let you guys know if I reopen a PO box.

[00:36:18]And uh yeah, that is all I got to say.

[00:36:20]So, let's go ahead and close out this video, shall we? That's all I've got to say. The belt thing, it's unfortunately been brought up as a joke and continues to be, and I just when I see clips like this of Michael, I just can't seem to find the humor in it. And I think a lot of other Michael fans feel that way as well. But I'm curious to see what you guys have to say about this. Sorry for a more serious video. Thank you guys for watching and I will see you guys in the next video.

[00:36:50]Bye guys.