Schedule a Video

5th December 2024

Dear YouTube,

It would be really helpful in this YouTube business if I could schedule a video live to my channel members and then set a date to go live to YouTube in general. Now you can only post a video live to channel members with a date to go live to everyone.

I’d like to give my members early access to my videos, but I honestly can post videos up to a year in advance, and you just can’t have a year’s worth of videos flowing around to members and not open to the public. It would clutter up my channel and make it hard to find the live videos. Further to that point, the algorithm just wouldn’t suggest a video that has been up to members for a year to none members.

Along those lines, if I added another level of membership it would be good if I could give those members early access like two weeks rather than one. The whole idea of channel membership is to give me an easy way to make more money on YouTube and in order to make my members happy I need to have a video up every day meaning that if I go on vacation work comes with me. I take a day off, not a chance, I have uploads to make the paying customers happy.

It would be really helpful if I could upload all my videos and be done with them until I get comments or something of that nature. However, the truth is that I can’t upload all my videos at once and just post them for members. There are too many of them for that and it would overwhelm members making scheduling videos effectively useless once a channel has memberships.

Channel memberships is a new thing but this is a bug that really should be addressed. It would make my life easier and my members happier

Best,



Richard Leland Neal

NewsFreed

6th September 2021

Hay (YouTuber),

A funny thing happened the other day and you popped into my head. It started with a cat crying. I thought it was one of mine and went to investigate only to find after some real dirty work that I was dealing with a kitten. This reminded me of the videos I made with kittens and that was back when you did the (YouTube Segment).

I have to admit if I had it to do over I would not have done those videos. I ran into too many internet stalkers that way, but one of the things I brought up back then was your (YouTube Program)  friends making a movie.

Yeah, I need to get that idea out of my head so I can move on to better things. Truth be told, I know you wouldn’t start a kicksstarter for it, but some of your friends may. It’s just an idea, and a lot of famous people do it now.

You can’t use the name (YouTube Program) for copyright reasons but let’s say you make a comedy horror film about a defunct YouTube channel named NewsFeed, or NewsFreed, something like that. It’s not important. What is important is that everyone is getting back together for a reunion in the middle of nowhere for no good reason.

It would be fun, and I’m sure there would be public interest in the large number of folks who worked on the show. Anyway, (YouTube Mascot) could be News Fiend and in the end he, the puppet, could be the killer after being left in a box alone for so many years. It would be funny. You’d have a good time, and you may just forward this email to a few folks and see what they think.

Just a thought,


Richard Leland Neal

The Queen Mary - Ads

16th June 2021

Dear Mayor Garcia,

Again I wish to speak to you of the state of the iconic Queen Mary. Repairs to the ship will cost a good deal of money, and every little bit helps.  Have you considered placing Google ads on the website?

This would be inexpensive, add revenue to the project, and given that you need a webmaster regardless of doing so should have little impact on the overall maintenance project. In other words, not doing so would be like throwing away money.

I have a number of blogs which I have Google Ads posted on and they do bring in some income. Not enough so that I can live off of it, but a good fewer people care about me than care about The Queen Mary Hotel.

 The addition of Google ads on Mary’s website could at least make the website pay for itself, and that would not only be one less problem but open the way to adding other web related features. Virtual tours, feature commercials, and walkthroughs of attractions can all become cash cows of the hotel hosted by YouTube for free and embedded on the hotels website.

Being far from residential areas The Queen Mary was perhaps harder hit by the pandemic, and finding some way to keep money coming in even if this happens again is a priority.

Not everyone in Long Beach can go eat at one of Mary’s restaurants or take a tour and see her rich history and splendor. Few in this struggling economy across America and the world have the funds to come visit the majestic ship. However, with a Google ads account means that every person with an internet connection can do something for free that could help save The Queen Mary.

Often the best answer is to bring people together,

 

Richard Leland Neal

The Queen Mary - The Millennial Principal

15^th June 2021

Dear Mayor Garcia,

On hearing of the state of the once cruise liner and now hotel Queen Mary I felt a great pain in my heart. I have only been on the old ship ones, but she has been a background player in my life for years and I had always hoped to make more trips down to the majestic old vessel.

Now with her hull rusted, and her being in danger of sinking I may never again step foot aboard her. Well, we need to save The Queen Mary if for no other reason than the hole she will leave in the hearts and minds of Californians if she goes.

 That said, I believe the key to saving the Queen Mary is to take what I call the Millennial Principal into account. The Millennial Principal is simply to monetize as much of the process of maintaining a thing as possible.  

This comes from the modern economy and the push, often by millennials, to monetize as much of their life as possible. If you’re going to have a hobby in this economy it best make you money or at least work as a tax write off.

One thing you can do to make this happen is to get a volunteer to go in there and film work crews repairing the Queen Mary. This can be live streamed on Twitch and then edited into videos on YouTube. 

You would be surprised to see what people watch nowadays. I watch a channel on YouTube where a man trims cow hooves. I’ve no interest in the subject, but I find it very entertaining. This could bring in a small income but it would also raise awareness for the ship and make her part of the day to day lives of younger people.    

A good way to accomplish this is to recruit film makers from CSU Long Beach who need the credit for graduation. They would be working for free and lending editing and filming skills to the project and the city would be supporting education.

Best,

 

Richard Leland Neal

Modern Day Fairy Tale

24^th January 2020

Hello there, (YouTube Channel),

I just read your craigslist ad for a writer and watched some of your Fairy Tale Friday with the segment about Willy Wonka so far being my number one. I guess it’s the one I can relate to the best being a large man who has had to keep his hands off the sweets. I think cocaine would make me thin, but it didn’t work for Chris Farley did it?

In any case, you can see my writing credits on IMDB https://www.imdb.com/name/nm9030649/#writer

And watch some of my work on AbsurdTV were I write and voiced many of the characters https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XSf-FCc6LY&list=PLCFgpl-HbKCakK8dfI5b6rh2YzAHgykMY . Many of my jokes reflect politics or current topics, I was writing comedy news, but cursing and sexual comments were prohibited.

After watching a few of your shows I would say what jumps out at me is the teased story of the woman who sued McDonald’s for too hot coffee. It sounds like a silly thing, but someone’s grandma was in the hospital for eight days. A segment based on that would put the joke on the audience for having dismissed the news without looking further. Old light on a new topic.

Another idea would be to write a story about the crappy movie “Mortal Engines” likening it to Disney. The movie sucked and Disney eating up all the other studios and making the same movies over and over again sucks.

I wouldn’t mind writing a fairy tale about any modern political figure. The film “Underwater” could be likened to the finances of modern Americans. We are all under debt and some big monster, in real life he’s Orange and stinks, wants to take what little we have left. Give me a topic, I’ll write you a script.

I also think it would be funny as hell if I hosted and episode. I mean, I’m a big funny looking fat dude and we could do a Farley joke about it.

Best,

Richard Leland Neal