Let's Talk about my Birthday tomorrow

Well, it’s time for the most important day of the year — that’s right, tomorrow is my birthday.

I actually don’t like birthdays. I try to keep them very low-key and do my best to not really bring them up. However, this year is special. Tomorrow I turn a quarter of a century — that’s right, I finally hit the big 25.

That’s a fairly big number in my books. So big, in fact, I think it’s worthy of a celebration. We haven’t had a good celebration here in a while, and we haven’t done a lot of things that I wish we could have done over the last couple of months. However, I feel incentivized. It’s my birthday, and last week TNSR broke over 100,000 monthly viewers.

To say I’m overjoyed is an understatement, and deeply, I couldn’t have done that without the support of everybody here. So thank you all for making this birthday very special for me, and for giving me a very big accomplishment that I can celebrate.

Now, you guys deserve something special for all that love and support, and I want to spoil you guys — I love to spoil you guys! It’s one of my favourite things to do. So why not tie everything together?

For the last little while, I’ve held something in my pocket. I’ve kept something as secret as possible, something I was hoping to throw out there on this very special occasion. It took a lot of work, it took a lot of effort, but I can finally talk about it now that it’s done.

To celebrate crossing 100,000 monthly viewers and my birthday tomorrow, we will be releasing a special edition of Let’s Talk, where I sit down with the Commander of the Royal Canadian Navy, Vice-Admiral Angus Topshee.

This is something I’ve kept close to my chest, and something I’ve been working very hard on over the last month to nail down and get done. The Vice-Admiral was kind enough, despite his busy schedule, to sit down with me and have a candid conversation.

I can’t thank him enough for being willing to do that, especially given that he’s been running around the last couple of weeks. I would know — I stalk him, as I do everybody. So I am both humbled and eternally grateful that the Vice-Admiral would take the time — over an hour — to have a discussion with me.

Along with this, our community survey ends tomorrow. You guys will be hearing back next week about the results, and from there, if everything works out, maybe I can make some more special announcements.

So to all of you — thank you. Thank you for staying with me, thank you for making all of this possible. If it wasn’t for all of you, I wouldn’t have the opportunity to sit with the people I do. You guys deserve some praise too for your loyalty, and with loyalty comes reward.

It only goes up from here!