The transcript is lightly edited, but I left all the emoticons in. Tor Eckhoff, who was better known by his YouTube username Apetor, uploaded a video on 22 November entitled 'I Am Not Dead, I Am 57 Today', in which he could be seen in a bathtub outdoors with the. To get a bit more insight into what I do believe is the best winter video ever, I've been Facebook messaging back and forth with Eckhoff for the last couple weeks. hit the front page of reddit earlier this month.

(I'm completely serious.) It's also still popular, having once again. The video has stuck with me since I first saw it, providing the fodder for occasional daydreams about quitting the city and internet forever and moving out to the country where I can skate by myself, drink vodka, and wave chainsaws around because why the hell not. Somehow, he's completely impervious to cold. Then his shirt comes off, and suddenly you find yourself watching some random guy skate around an empty, serene lake by himself, while progressively getting less sober and less clothed.

Then the vodka comes out, which Eckhoff knocks back with a characteristic 'ahh' of delight.

'Why in the hell does this video have a few million views?' you ask. It's not until 20 seconds in-a lifetime in viral video terms-that Eckhoff does anything outside the ordinary, skating in pseudo-extreme fashion (and quite capably, I might add) over a frozen ridge, before a quick cut to him pretending to crash. The video starts off harmless enough, with Eckhoff skating around a lovely frozen lake in a pair of worn-in hockey skates.

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