I Cracked My Head Open Building A Fort

Today I wanted to re-live my childhood by building a fort, telling some stories and doing some of my favourite childhood activities!
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  • @perennialshelf1832
    @perennialshelf18323 жыл бұрын

    Love that his reason at the end was: I built a fort because I wanted to. Sometimes we all need to just do things that are harmless fun just because

  • @melaniekeeling7462

    @melaniekeeling7462

    3 жыл бұрын

    Great attitude

  • @kaylastewart6184
    @kaylastewart61843 жыл бұрын

    You surprisingly are a part of my childhood 🤗 I remember you spoke at my school and it was crazy seeing you now that I'm an adult

  • @marlenemcmillan8891

    @marlenemcmillan8891

    3 жыл бұрын

    That's very nice

  • @ceciliamae5592

    @ceciliamae5592

    3 жыл бұрын

    This is honestly amazing

  • @chrismcpherson1204

    @chrismcpherson1204

    2 жыл бұрын

    Is Spencer uploading new videos as I'm not seeing any?

  • @McQuakli

    @McQuakli

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@chrismcpherson1204 no, but apparently he is active on intsagram

  • @chrismcpherson1204

    @chrismcpherson1204

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@McQuakli Thank you because he doesn't post on KZread anymore

  • @jaimereynolds258
    @jaimereynolds2583 жыл бұрын

    Loved making forts in my room as a kid. We would get it all set up, and then drag our little TV in there that had the VCR contected to it 😃 Sweet times

  • @TheDoctorginger
    @TheDoctorginger3 жыл бұрын

    I am going thru a lot right now with my work, and i work a lot of 12 hour shifts and i work out side of my normal work. my depression was at an all-time low today. and this video was what i needed today. i have been thru ovarian cancer twice and breast cancer once and my work drama is the last thing i need but this video helped me more than you know. your smile is just so lovely and you honesty is so nice. i will always to the wake up and shower as my coffee because of you.

  • @wq7352
    @wq73523 жыл бұрын

    Great message, When I was a kid about 12, I thought that being mature meant that you stopped doing all the fun things and acted like the adults in my life who sat on the sidelines and watched everything. I missed out on a-lot of things with that mindset. When I had my own kids,!I decided to be active with my kids and it was the best thing ever. Doing all the swimming, play grounds, forts, cereal, for supper and summer camps and it’s been a blast. Love the channel, so many vids to catch up on.

  • @charisse234
    @charisse2343 жыл бұрын

    Spencer that was absolutely beautiful I totally understood it.im a grownup but gosh that inner child in me is very much alive.thank for a super video.peace and love 💛👏💐

  • @RandomRetr0
    @RandomRetr03 жыл бұрын

    “I built a fort because I wanted to” and Saturday morning cartoons are things to live by 💖

  • @Laurengreenkat
    @Laurengreenkat3 жыл бұрын

    Love this. So much fun. Loved your message at the end. When I was child I made a dog out of boxes. I even stuck on curled up bits of paper for its fur. Not thought about that in years. x

  • @dramac333
    @dramac3333 жыл бұрын

    After you said the words "I have to fix dinner" a KZread ad for a grill came on! I'll have to think about the childhood thing. When I was a kid they hadn't invented memory yet. 😃

  • @junbh2
    @junbh23 жыл бұрын

    I found being a kid way more stressful than being an adult, even though I would say I had a basically happy childhood. So many situations where you have no control, plus you have no coping skills yet so even problems or interpersonal conflicts that wouldn't seem like such a big deal when you look back on them now, at the time were absolutely overwhelming and borderline terrifying.

  • @NyxTravels
    @NyxTravels3 жыл бұрын

    I was a kid back in the day when they would toss us outside in morning and we didn't have to go back in til the streetlights came on. For me, any random time outside takes me back. I do it every day.😁

  • @johnwmcmahan7889
    @johnwmcmahan78893 жыл бұрын

    OMG I AM LIVING FOR THIS!! Great work my friend!!!

  • @sonyazetlan5930
    @sonyazetlan59303 жыл бұрын

    Love your playfulness! Nothing like a fort to crawl into!

  • @loveinthemidst5841
    @loveinthemidst58413 жыл бұрын

    Don’t worry that plant’s immortal. 🤣 Come back when you’re not. 😆 This took me back to the days when my son was a child and he absolutely would have loved to hang out with you in that fort! He loved cardboard boxes. My mother in law would send big boxes of absolute junk she’d get at garage sales, my son had no interest in the toys he’d play with the boxes. One day he was 2 and he spent hours in his room taking a big box apart, drawing all over it, he put paper wings on it and made an airplane. I couldn’t believe it! This is just a great video and I can’t wait to send it to my son! Thankyou. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤍

  • @PShy-er9hz
    @PShy-er9hz3 жыл бұрын

    Spencer You Crack Me Up! 😜 Love You 2 the 🌙 ... xoxoxo

  • @tyreesetjjoyner1995
    @tyreesetjjoyner19953 жыл бұрын

    Good video. Continue on your road on getting the silver play button

  • @keishamckoy6135
    @keishamckoy61353 жыл бұрын

    Lovely creation. You are so fun Spencer.👍. My daughter favorite cereal is Cinnamon toast crunch.😊

  • @vahneb7260
    @vahneb72603 жыл бұрын

    Every time I see a video from you I smile. Yes, we need to nourish our inner child.

  • @swsarah
    @swsarah3 жыл бұрын

    OMG love the Jurassic park humming! I'm with ya on not deciding on meals. I can't decide.

  • @bradkendall9551
    @bradkendall95513 жыл бұрын

    One of your videos came across my feed today and I watched. I love your channel. Very educational and very creative. Love your humor and your concept. Teaching people about your disability is awesome. So many people in the world act as if you're not a 'normal person" because of your disability. It's nice to see you bridging that gap.

  • @penguinchick6563
    @penguinchick65633 жыл бұрын

    I did that! In my van...and 2nd van...and now my tiny 19' RV, it is fun and comforting to me to LIVE in my fort... 👍

  • @bass777chick
    @bass777chick3 жыл бұрын

    I wanna come hang out in your fort!!! For realz, though, today was a real hard day of having MS, so I definitely needed a boost like this. 😊❤️ Hoping that tomorrow I’ll have enough spoons to build my own fort! 😁

  • @loveinthemidst5841

    @loveinthemidst5841

    3 жыл бұрын

    I hope you will feel better today. 🤍✨🤍

  • @chloepoudrier9309
    @chloepoudrier93093 жыл бұрын

    AHH your rules are the best rules ever made!! Also I'm really inspired to make a fort now... damn I miss being a kid and having a child's mindset when the smallest things (like making a fort) made everything magical 😢💖 now I need to watch The Sound of Music because it's always been my favorite movie since I was itty bitty and will definitely fulfill that inner child in me! Thank you for this, Spencer

  • @shoshannafachima1306
    @shoshannafachima13063 жыл бұрын

    It is always great re-enact good chilhood memories because it simply bolsters up positivity and,yes,reduces anxiety. For me it entails looking at old photos,playing chamber music from student days(i am a professional wind player)together with fellow musicians,especially sight read8ng new concertos or sonatas.it is sooooo refreshing and such fun and full of laughs at funny mistakes🎵🎶 Hugs and happy trips through memory lane🤗🙂

  • @theresamelvin60
    @theresamelvin603 жыл бұрын

    Love the tent/Fort!!!!

  • @tmaffeo
    @tmaffeo3 жыл бұрын

    Hello cutie patootie , you never cease to amaze me . I remember when My kids were young and we would purchase a large appliance we turned that baby into a house 🏠 my son is 42 and boy did he love he man and skeletor . he had all the characters and the houses . He would scream out “ I HAVE THE POWER . And the moral of your story is a great one . 🌻🌻🌻

  • @MsDee409
    @MsDee4093 жыл бұрын

    I use to build tents in my room with many sheets. Good times!! Btw, Spencer, the Jurassic Park theme for the boxes.....😆😆😆

  • @keishamckoy6135
    @keishamckoy61353 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for the motivation Spencer.😊

  • @alexwohlgemuth4099
    @alexwohlgemuth40993 жыл бұрын

    I think it is _so_ important to just _play_ .I believe that it is the secret to life and happiness

  • @paulinasakaite4382
    @paulinasakaite43823 жыл бұрын

    This is so cool and fun! I have some toys from the time then I was 6yo. I'm going to play now

  • @krishankaligoswami685
    @krishankaligoswami6853 жыл бұрын

    KZread gave your channel to me randomly. It was like love at first sight. Subscribed your channel n now going to see your previous ones.

  • @3Blacksheep3
    @3Blacksheep33 жыл бұрын

    Awesome fort!! And an awesome message here as well, on more than one level. It really is important to make time to do stuff such as this. I've learned in life that it's the little things that are very often actually the big things.

  • @caliefairfield1338
    @caliefairfield13383 жыл бұрын

    Gem and the Holograms was the best cartoon!

  • @The.Only.Angel_thatyk
    @The.Only.Angel_thatyk3 жыл бұрын

    Your awesome

  • @jakiwood7508
    @jakiwood75082 жыл бұрын

    Just brilliant! 🤩

  • @beeb6730
    @beeb67303 жыл бұрын

    I'm in love with the sign! 😁

  • @traceywatson2092
    @traceywatson20923 жыл бұрын

    I’m much older than you, so you may not relate to my childhood forts. We’d take blankets, fold them over the clothesline, and anchor them into the ground with wooden clothespins. Just about every blanket we owned had the telltale holes in all four corners. Anyone else? 😄

  • @melaniekeeling7462

    @melaniekeeling7462

    3 жыл бұрын

    I remember building Christmas tree forts in the yard, surely making use of the clothes line.

  • @ceilcaswell4041

    @ceilcaswell4041

    3 жыл бұрын

    We'd clothespin our towels to the fence, then use bricks from my mom's garden landscaping to hold down the other end. Good times!!

  • @traceywatson2092

    @traceywatson2092

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ceilcaswell4041 and wouldn’t come in until the street lights came on! Sigh, we were so innocent! Thanks for sharing.

  • @rojoecasey7579

    @rojoecasey7579

    3 жыл бұрын

    When I was a kid,, every kid on the block was doing that but we didn't have a yard, so my grandma hung clothesline in the living room so I could have a fort, too..

  • @traceywatson2092

    @traceywatson2092

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@rojoecasey7579 hooray for grandmas who know how to make everything better! And you didn’t have to worry about the bugs and snakes getting you!

  • @TheGhostOfTheMind
    @TheGhostOfTheMind3 жыл бұрын

    Always love going back and watching X-Men the animated series when I need some of that fun. 😁

  • @markvolpe2305
    @markvolpe23053 жыл бұрын

    You should invite Jake to enjoy that fort with you! Recently, I've been watching old game shows that I used to watch as a kid like Press Your Luck, The Price Is Right, etc.

  • @margiemadrazo1667
    @margiemadrazo16673 жыл бұрын

    Oh spencer you inspire me Thanks for the fun video ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @julierocketqueen6257
    @julierocketqueen62573 жыл бұрын

    The framed photo of the Golden Girls god I love this guy 🤣 👑 👏🏻

  • @SusannahPerri
    @SusannahPerri3 жыл бұрын

    OMG, it's magical!!!

  • @cococreates26
    @cococreates263 жыл бұрын

    This looked like so much fun! I remember watching Saturday morning cartoons too, and whilst we don't have CTcrunch, we have cinnamon graham's which I suppose are kinda the same - and yes they are my favourite cereal too! Unfortunately I don't have many boxes around right now - BUT there are enough to build my cats a little Fort instead 😍😍😍 #WeekendSorted

  • @gabrielaparadamorose6183
    @gabrielaparadamorose61833 жыл бұрын

    Will your next Keynote be inside the fort? Love how we see your reflection in the tv holding your blog camera. Now to get brand deals for those boxed dinner time!

  • @julebenjes6122
    @julebenjes61223 жыл бұрын

    Hi I'm new but I love your videos❤️

  • @resourceress7
    @resourceress73 жыл бұрын

    I think you should keep the fort up and put up one of those signs like they have at a construction site: IT HAS BEEN _______ DAYS SINCE A WALL FELL DOWN. And have prizes for each dozen days. Each 5 days?? Your friends could come over and have a prize drawing. Live It up! For as long as possible, and invite every adult you know and maybe some kids you know to come hang in the fort every weekend. 🥳

  • @TheNeurospicyMama
    @TheNeurospicyMama3 жыл бұрын

    I love this, but I was always the kid (and adult) who looks ahead to the clean up and then doesn't want to do the mess part.

  • @stephielulu9096
    @stephielulu90963 жыл бұрын

    Spence, you've inspired me to build my own fort! 😂❤️

  • @sharonnichols1867
    @sharonnichols18673 жыл бұрын

    Loved this! 335 likes and not one dislike. You're my inspiration!

  • @ishaneooswald6178
    @ishaneooswald61782 жыл бұрын

    I loooove CARTOONS, and I love it even more since I'm an adult

  • @heleninglis9961
    @heleninglis99613 жыл бұрын

    I used to LOVE building forts when i was young, i used to get super upset when my mum would to wreck it to get her sheets back!

  • @nadiamachina9646
    @nadiamachina96463 жыл бұрын

    Sweet fort!

  • @sarcasticirene
    @sarcasticirene3 жыл бұрын

    Now, that's one way to recycle •ᴗ• btw, I'm a big fan!

  • @tonisjustknotright
    @tonisjustknotright3 жыл бұрын

    They had awesome cartoons back in the day.

  • @ishaneooswald6178
    @ishaneooswald61782 жыл бұрын

    You are suuuuuuuch fun

  • @kayray915
    @kayray9153 жыл бұрын

    I bought some CTCrunch today 😋 live your best life man

  • @taco2947
    @taco29473 жыл бұрын

    Just found the channel. Great vibe. You kinda have a James Mercer look to me. Haha. He's a brilliant songwriter, so it's a compliment. Anyway, keep it up!!! More need to spread the positivity like you. Thanks.

  • @kristinabranch3097
    @kristinabranch30973 жыл бұрын

    I’m going to colour. I love it as I kid.

  • @iamgiatho
    @iamgiatho3 жыл бұрын

    I've run with my inner child the whole time 😁 & I totally skipped the day we learned how to grow up 😂 #noregerts haha

  • @SayconTalks
    @SayconTalks3 жыл бұрын

    You should watch Spike Lee movies from the 90’s and he and his Director of Photography at the time Ernest Dickerson always had these shots or scenes where the main character is moving forward on a “ stroll “ as you like to say! Have you ever watched Spike Lee movies? I would say start with ‘Mo’ Better Blues’ since you like music.

  • @lexxieburton6182
    @lexxieburton61823 жыл бұрын

    this was so much fun

  • @aishahb8336
    @aishahb83363 жыл бұрын

    thank you for giving me an excuse to go back on a swingset again!

  • @deekrebs7144
    @deekrebs71443 жыл бұрын

    I too needed stitches in my head when I was a child. I still have hair growth there but, as of about 20 years ago, the hair has grown in grey/white!! I had the white streak in the front area of my hair before it was fashionable.

  • @evalynn1863
    @evalynn18633 жыл бұрын

    This made me so happy. But now I really want to build a fort and break out the N64 and Sega lol

  • @CUTIEBOI65
    @CUTIEBOI653 жыл бұрын

    Awesome fort..cereal is my favorite neals...I'm the cereal killah

  • @michaw.2168
    @michaw.21683 жыл бұрын

    If you do something like that again use bedsheets with the elastic in them they stay up better. I used to be a childminder miss it.

  • @TheZionrouter
    @TheZionrouter2 жыл бұрын

    Now I wanna build a fort!

  • @robynhayward
    @robynhayward3 жыл бұрын

    100% going to start calling fake plants "immortal" 🤣🤣

  • @Huyderman
    @Huyderman3 жыл бұрын

    Those things... are pretty much what I do all the time... 🕹️🎲🤖👾

  • @keishamckoy6135
    @keishamckoy61353 жыл бұрын

    I remember. Saturday morning cartoons and Saturday morning wrestling.👍😊

  • @diane9247
    @diane92473 жыл бұрын

    Wait a minute. You're building a fort out of boxes and you don't even have any cats? Anyway, every boy I ever knew grew up cracking his head. It was like a gruesome hobby. So, nice fort, Spencer. You've now got a tiny home inside your apartment! Hmmm...what will I do? If I had a copy of Tale of Two Cities, I'd read it in the attic. That was me as a kid. I need to get outside. That's what I'll do.

  • @emmaagarner
    @emmaagarner3 жыл бұрын

    (People going crazy during the Ontario lockdowns) 😂😂

  • @spencersteinmetz2994
    @spencersteinmetz29943 жыл бұрын

    Man, I should make a blanket fort.

  • @frenchibristianbok8847
    @frenchibristianbok88473 жыл бұрын

    Whatttttt omg I need a damn fort buddy lmao

  • @rojoecasey7579
    @rojoecasey75793 жыл бұрын

    Omg @ jem and the holograms.." me and my friends are jem girls.. jem. Jem is her name.."

  • @robynhayward
    @robynhayward3 жыл бұрын

    Lolllll being a 30 something watching another 30 something (I think?) build a fort 😎😎😎

  • @ashtree80
    @ashtree803 жыл бұрын

    Jem and the Holograms! Are girls allowed in your fort? When I was growing up, most were boys only lol

  • @Dovejep
    @Dovejep3 жыл бұрын

    I made myself a big girl fort and can actually live in it! It's 8x12 feet :) lol

  • @katies7158
    @katies71583 жыл бұрын

    I just realized I haven't built a fort in like.... 2 years. WUT am I doing with my life?!

  • @melissavidal2600
    @melissavidal26003 жыл бұрын

    😬

  • @soks5705
    @soks57053 жыл бұрын

    no dislikes

  • @LordofKings2
    @LordofKings23 жыл бұрын

    PS4 is way better