 Point was to do it and take the take the free Yeah, I was like I was It was one of those days where I was left alone at the office And yeah, like and I was again an intern and Just yeah had absolutely nothing to do but to absolutely waste company resources. Oh, there it is. Oh, man I could yeah, I you got What do you got going on right now? You got revenge going on back. Oh, okay So I already hit looks like I already hit start streaming. I think I'm trying to get yeah, you did I'm trying to get you situated on the screen. All right. Well, welcome in everybody. There you go All right, if anybody's alive and wants to give us a shout out tonight. We are here. Yeah I'm glad that you got to see the setup. We've been trying to figure out what to do I've gone and upgraded the situation a little bit better with Roger here the 8-bit Esquire as opposed to Lewis so we can make Lewis a little jealous that's right but Yeah, so Let's just see hang out and I've got a couple. All right James Boone's here All right, we got we got some people here live. So we're guys coming in. All right. We're just hanging out tonight Mr. 8-bit Esquire himself here has been Of course YouTube's newest retro sensation By jumping on the scene last week and then Actually before this we had been talking about Some pvms that you had been purchasing right Yeah, we man. We've been we've been meaning to get together for a while I think it was before you ended up in the hospital. I think we were yeah Seriously, like we because I've had I've got two pvm sitting here both from Japan and And I I remember when I bought them. I like sent you a DM. I'm like, dude Look look what I just bought and look how much I paid for it You're like get the fuck out of here. You're like, oh, we got it. We got a stream it We got it. We'll do the stream and that that was probably six weeks ago Right, then you ended up in the hospital and then I ended up losing power And then I ended up in trial last week and it's just like one thing after another and it just never materialized but Finally we're here. So that's it's weird. I'm watching I'm watching the YouTube feed right now and we're yeah, we're a solid like We're like a solid 10 second delay, but whatever Yeah, okay, well Roger you just have to pay pay attention to my voice And follow that and not worry so much except for maybe the chat. I do see the chat here I'm running OBS and it does give me a chat so I can see people talking and responding there. So That's good. But Anyway, let's so you've got a couple of these PVMs Yeah, why are we gonna do you want to set the table? I was gonna say before you actually open them up Let's talk. Tell us everybody how How you found them what the kind of the process was of buying them I mean, I don't I kind of I kind of you want to keep that a secret. It's no no no no look no Look, you just tell us much of this as much of the sauces you want to yeah No, I mean I I touched upon this in my video like you know you go So by e comm is where I go if I'm importing anything from Japan and by is like a It's like a aggregator of all the different Japanese Auction sites like you've got Yahoo auctions. You've got Mercari you've got however many else and they all just show up on by e comm and by e is kind of like a It's like a global storefront for anybody that wants to import anything from Japan and they make it super easy to set up an account credit card information PayPal however, you want to pay whatever And yeah, so so you just go in there and you could you could import virtually anything I mean that you can't just go in and type in PVM You know 19m to and expect to get results like you kind of have to do a little bit of digging and for me You know if you just browse the different categories you could find it and then you could search the different keywords and I was able to find a couple and Sellers don't care about you know like if you were to put a PVM on on eBay for instance You know your first thought is well, how the hell am I going to get it to people? I have to figure out a way to ship it and for folks in Japan If they're going to be selling to like by Yi or one of these aggregators They could care less because they don't have to worry about the international shipping all they have to worry about is getting it in A box and getting it to the distribution center in Tokyo and then from that point forward by Yi just does the rest They actually do the professional shipping so like Steve when you said I think you had mentioned on a previous Podcast that when you got your stuff from Japan it looked just like mine same similar box similar Red tape similar. It just looks it was packed similarly From what you saw in some of the posts. I had on Twitter So whoever is there at that distribution center, they're doing all the packing and they must be doing a pretty good job And when you buy online if you if you buy their their standard plan with the insurance, I mean you get You know you get You know you get full insurance if it's damaged at all at any point during the shipment you can make a claim get your money back You know the shipping is the most expensive the most expensive part of all of this. I mean I bought Each of these PVMs for under a hundred dollars. So it was too good to be true So I'm not gonna pass it up. I bought it. Hopefully they came in one piece We're gonna find out together. Yeah Wait a while, but how I mean honestly, I didn't how much was like the shipping cost then Once you were able to get all that booked So it was about two hundred and fifty dollars for each one Interesting. Oh, okay. Yeah, it was about two fifty for each one, but again fully insured Got here in less than a week, which is insane. Yeah And and they did all the packing for me and everything like that. So all told I Spend maybe a little over three hundred dollars on each one of these which if they work great. It's still a bargain. So I I'm personally pretty excited about Yeah, I hope they work. Yeah, I mean it but it's not like I've been busy. I bet. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah But yeah, my wife like we'll bump into him. She's like what the Yes boxes Me and Steve are doing a thing. Well, that's kind of interesting because it sounds to me like possibly someone the person that I bought mine from on eBay was over there and like you said might be another one of these buyers that has ships it after they just get it from by E and Hmm and They ship it on their own and they're like trying to be the middleman there with their eBay account through America So they're importing it Like the one that I got because it was about four three or four hundred dollars and it was packed the same way So that would make sense that if the boxes look the same Maybe they're both be packed the same place and it's just different people like you This person tried to do basically what you're doing only there They're probably over in Japan or something and that's where no no because you're in New York That's why they have the New York Account that makes more sense about to say that's just what I was gonna say because your listing said they were from New York So it's like if I were to put a listing saying from you know from Detroit Yeah, and I was just gonna spin it off and send it somewhere else and then and what's cool about so with these Um, you could keep them at their warehouse for up to a month So what that guy probably did was he probably bought them for a warehouse Real cheap for under a hundred bucks kept him at the warehouse And then he was just waiting to see who his buyer was and then he would tell by E. Okay ship to this address And and just ship it there. That's probably what ended up happening with yours and you know Yeah, he's just the middleman and he's collecting all the money I Know I don't think he made a lot of money. That's kind of funny, too That no, I bet he was disappointed when they broke the one that right But no actually he still gave me we actually worked something out where I only had to pay about half price for it But yeah, and you're gonna buy in did you buy 14 inches or 19 inches? No, they're both 14's the ones that I had yeah Now yeah, I very rarely see 19 inches on there. It's mostly just 9s and 14s Yeah, people don't want to ship 19 inches anymore. They shouldn't know I was trying to piece together two 19-inch Olympus monitors that were in They're in a hundred pieces out in the garage right now from they were both damaged at shipping But I can make maybe one good one out of the two But dude you you had such you had a streak man Now I'm on a streak of it going the other way. So When eventually, you know, I'm waiting for another one to find so that I can get off this streak But I haven't found one yet But yeah, if I mean so we've got You've got you've got both of them there. Yeah, you want to start get set up Right listen, I'm gonna just you're fine. I put no thought into how I'm actually gonna present Yeah, you'll just have to try to you know if you go back buy your Saturn games back there. We can see you buy your Shelves or anything I'll try to get your image a little bit more squared up down there now If you're looking in here what you see is Rogers down at the bottom right corner I'm beside him obviously and then above me. I've got a Sony PVM 14 L2 right here in the shop. Just it's one that's Been this is one of the ones that I bought that was on the good streak of shipping. Roger was talking about Oh, yeah, there's that lovely box. This should be pretty easy to open Let me see how it looks on discord. Oh, okay, this is this isn't too bad. Yeah Yeah, we can see it. All right, let me get I don't have a knife down here. Hold on give me give me a moment So SS BM be Andy was asking Well, you know, sometimes people wonder why you use CRTs How do I explain to someone that you work on COTs professionally? Are they shocked? Yeah, you know It's it's an interesting thing that most of the time when People that are outside of something like this find out what I do. They are of course shocked, but they think it's cool. They usually Just yeah, they think it's a really cool thing that you know anytime that Somebody that doesn't do something online like this and and you know, you got somebody else doing it it's it's a small business and I've been fortunate to be able to be in the right place and do things the right way and like The way I explain it now is I finally got to the point where I kind of call myself or actually I do I call myself a Tech consultant more than anything like in because actually nowadays A good portion of my income comes in total at the end of the year from consulting Just as much as anything like consultation and repairs is like 90% Of my business. Let me yeah, here we go. So you got me hold on Let me let me switch to switch to my AirPods since I'm moving around. Yeah, do that Input Alright, so You can hear me, right? Okay. Yeah, I hear you. All right, so I'm trying to figure out Kind of want to give you like an aerial view. That's nice. I mean this thing is packed. This thing is packed really well Let me see there we go. I'm on full screen. All right, cool This is packed into a well. Oh, it's all foam Yeah, it's gonna be one giant piece of foam over that. That's the way they pack up. Yeah, dude This is they're all coming from the same place you you got to just pull that all out in one solid piece that piece of foam and then PVM will be inside it James Boone asked Is there any way to do to magnify a PVM case or de magnetize a PVM case? Now is it the case like a travel case or is it the Actual metal case. Yeah, you don't have to pull all that out. I think you got to try to get that plastic out like from It's in here so snug I So to de magnetize it you've got to try to use the de magnetizing wand to the degausser wand or I Had a shell one time that was on an eight inch that the only way I could get a de magnetized We actually had to go set it outside In my yard for a week and for some reason sitting outside and getting de magnetized by the earth's magnetic poles Finally fixed it Yeah, that's what it was on mine was an eight inch it was eight inch it was the metal shell itself It got really bad. I had to literally set the thing out inside and like clean it The the metal shell and leave it outside for a full week before it actually went down and and de magnetized a little bit James All right, so it looks like what you think it looks good. Oh Dude, this looks great. Let me move that There we go. That's a good shot Here we go. I mean greens intact tubes intact Yeah It was dude. This this thing was packed so well Is it was it one big piece? One big piece man one big chunk of foam. Oh my goodness You mentioned some how so how exactly do they do that? They just There we go. Okay. Now what model is this one a 1350? No, this is 1351. No, this is a 14 M1 J M1 oh my really which was lucid to Japan It's it's basically an M2, but without component Okay, it's just RGB And it doesn't have a camera indicator I'll leave that on for the moment, but let's see. Oh Oh mother fucker, I need a cord for this. I didn't even think You're gonna need a cord and then well Hold on, I'll be right back. I got I got a hundred of these hang on. Yeah, I'm surprised I didn't include a cable there for you Well, you know what because I remember I got that old 44 or 42 which has got the cord built in which is really nice Yeah You know, I Just wonder does that thing say anything on the back to about the power if it's I Bet it's rated if it's an M series. It's probably rated for one to 100 to 240 So what will we I don't even you know, I'm looking in this WCW game and I don't think that they have Dusty roads in it. I do know No, I do know that I know I've played it a hundred times, but I do know they have Rick flair If you're playing revenge, yeah, I saw so many fucking hours into that game Yeah, it's a good one Maybe he's just in the other one now Maybe he's in the first one. I'm not gonna be able to find a cord I think I know I Know I got one upstairs. All right. Well, we're gonna go somebody fun here. Let's do Macho man Yeah, this You just need to get a power cord man, you not have What about what about the other What about that other box you think they got one in there, all right If you want or not You know what I know where I can find my goodness gracious. I know I'm it's all right. No, man I'm gonna start while you're doing that. I'm starting my campaign for the US championship belt here with With the macho man Randy Savage. I'm seeing how it looks on the screen. So Sudra flair restaurant. He's out almost every night Tampa James. You're right. I follow him on Twitter He's at almost every night on Twitter. I mean on Tampa in Tampa and He's still running around, you know like as As crazy as ever Like for I mean, he's he's got to be close in his you know late 70s 80 almost I Saw him the last time I've been to so many wrestling shows But the last time I saw him was in it wasn't even for WWE. It was for Gosh, TNA. Did you ever watch any TNA? Well see where I lived in outside Nashville was like where all that came from was Part of that was from the people that were in That area like the Jarrett family Who originally that guy worked in Memphis with the king and all that stuff Remember that stuff right with Did you watch any of that that recent behind-the-territories videos? No, I didn't but I want to they're good. I want to you know, that's the thing is I never really realized How important Jeff Jarrett was I just you know, I just knew of Jeff Jarrett as Some douchebag on WCW He was he was he was so dislikable Everybody you're walking around with a fucking guitar and everybody's Like just a terrible character like the guy never got over but he was like an every single championship card It's like why it was it was because his dad his that's what I'm telling Roger like the hat the town that I grew up in For half my life like my parents after they split up and my mom moved to Tennessee this area was The house was the biggest house in the whole city was owned by Jeff Jarrett's dad And he was the one who worked in the Memphis territory with Jerry like way back in the day and They were they that's how he became you know in charge of all that stuff and So Jeff Jarrett was always gonna be at wrestling because it was in his family Well, I mean obviously took all the daddy's money and started TNA. I mean I I gotta tell you I never I never watched much of TNA But I know like a lot of big acts got their start there like I know I mean I think AJ Styles what he's a I think he started in WCW, but I think he didn't he like he was pretty much a TNA guy the whole way I think yeah, like he cut his teeth there. It's he and I and and You know, but I man, I'm paid attention to wrestling and probably Good 10 15 years. So like all the current acts. I couldn't tell you anything about him. By the way, I found a power cord No, that's good. I I just I just ripped it off my ps3 That wouldn't work. Yeah, that's that's a good work. I think right if it's got a middle. It's got a ground Yeah, okay, then you're good. I'm trying to give try to give old Hulkster here the big elbow drop Let's see if I could do it boom. Oh, I missed Goodness, let's do this. Yeah, let's get a test run here. So Yeah, I haven't watched wrestling in a very long time. We got some power going did you hear the Yeah, there we go All right, let's pin here we got here. Oh To count it's a bit loud back here. Okay. Yeah Let's let's get our power source on here or our video source Yeah, you can always click the menu button to see if you get anything to show up on there Oh, I just know it says no sink on here. Okay. Yeah, then you're It did It's not under scan for something That's uh, oh Hogan's giving me a hard time here What do you what do you go? What are you starting off with tests in here? So I think what I'm gonna do I didn't I didn't rip out my RGB cable So but I do have an s video cable so I figured I just start off with some s videos see how it looks Yeah, that'd be a good idea. I Know people watching are like really you get this thing and hey That's that matches actually what you're the the one that I'm playing on the Revenge is on an s video right now to on a PVM. Oh It's as video night. That's what it is. All right That's how the n64 was supposed to be displayed man. It's how it originally was so let me see if I can See if I can get rid of the moray pattern here No, that makes it worse. This is so interesting All right, so I'm waiting to see a visual from your From your purchase yet. I see no sink down there You got it on the right input. Oh That's right. That's videos line C. Okay. Yeah And I'm gonna be honest with you this this s video cable is About the cheapest thing I found You need to get the good one from I know insurrection industries now this yeah, that's the the fun thing about s video on These monitors as you can use all the little knobs even chroma and phase and aperture Yeah, I don't think it it's overly sharp. I don't think you really lose a lot when you You know step down from RGB to it I mean, it's definitely on some screens, but on a PVM especially it's I'll hang on an M series Is there a digital analog button? No, no normally You get something on the screen. Oh, you got Oh Yeah, I'm gonna I'm not gonna here wait. Is it say over scan or no? No, it so I don't can you you can't really see it that way. I can see a little bit. Can you turn the So Yeah, look at this. Okay, and and I have got a super loud Ceiling sound Yeah, all right Oh, I think we got a dud here, buddy Damage Just set this one to the side. Yeah, all right, and while you're setting this one to the side we'll move on here to the To look at why don't you try to fight why don't you try to get the I don't try to get I try to get a little further in the story mode. There you go. Yeah, I I Don't know now. There's still a possibility that It's not I Don't know I would think it would still take that signal That's video normally. All right. I don't know anyone about that M1 J Hold on. Let me let me try composite. I didn't even try. Yeah, maybe try composite just to see if it's I Mean, but if you push if there's nothing plugged into it Can you pull that menu up and does it look garbled or does it look? Well, then it may just be something that's That's definitely wrong with it. All right. We got we got here Stevie Ray Stevie Ray gosh, there was the when I the Hollywood videos you remember those of course, so Hollywood videos the Went out of out of business and I went in there when they were going out of business and I bought I wish I didn't get rid of them, but I bought every wrestling WCW pay-per-view VHS tape they had For like 50 cents a piece And and I used to go just live in him you paid you paid too much Yeah My house for a while after that store closed you could still come in it would find like The little bargain stickers on the bottom of VHS tapes. They'd have a thousand previews on them because they're rentals Yeah, and it's still like 699 for VHS tape back in the day used one You know it's wild though is is WWE pretty much put every single WCW pay-per-view match on YouTube for free I mean, it's I mean you can go through. I mean, yeah, I mean I made the joke like my right now it's like nothing but Like late 80s early 90s late 90s wrestling pay-per-view matches and I'm totally fine Yeah, it's good stuff, man. That's I was obsessed with putting like the revenge and no mercy music and As background music for a lot of my yeah, you did you did it's still one of my favorites Sometimes I'll bust them out man It's a good good background music for like because it you know when you're sitting there playing these Wrestling matches they go for like five to 20 minutes or something if you play exactly and I always thought that was really good background music Box number two. Yeah box number two. Let's so first one was a dud First one. We got terrible. We've got some issues. I Don't know quick diagnosis. Mr. Nutter. What do you think you got you got a high-pitched squealing sound coming from the coming from the back Powers on but you definitely have some scrambled Yeah, to me Yeah, see to me I'd have to open it up and see probably what was good if anything was happening looking funny Inside and start seeing I don't know, you know start looking around the shell even turning it upside down See if anything looks like it was cracked or damaged from Something happening like a dropping I Mean shit if I was gonna ship it to you I could use these boxes. I mean either I know it probably be fine Yeah, you could just ship it to me if they're gonna But I don't know what what are they gonna do? Are they gonna? Like can you claim Damage for it. Well, no, so you got it You have to you have to be able to actually demonstrate that there's damage from the shipping process if you just say it doesn't work Oh, man, that it's not enough because they'll say. Oh, well, it's a junk item. It was listed as junk so Sorry it is what it is. Oh, so maybe did it did it did it look like I mean it could see that kind of thing where it has That scrambled Text is also signs of a diode failure on the board Okay, so if it's that's what I mean if it's if it's somewhere. It's possibly been there The day or the problem then you would just need to remove that or repair that diode right, which is something that I could do but Or it could be caps. I've seen caps go bad and do that too If it were from shipping damage, like you say, you know, you'd have to show it Probably so you'd have to open it up and show where like something is broken inside. I guess If it if you could do anything. Oh You James do you did replace the belt so your VCR and it worked. I've got a VCR here. I think I need to do that with its Sony That's a real intimidating piece of electronics to try to get into Oh God inside. Yeah, VCR I mean, I opened up a Famicom disk system, and I was like walk this no way All right, you know what? All right, it's number two Number two is looking pretty solid Good Number two. I mean number one locally solid, so who knows what that well It might have been that diode problem along along if it was Here's a let's see and is this the same model Same model. Okay. Yeah, he had two of them He had two of them and Steve if I if memory serves I think I got one for 60 bucks and another one for maybe a little more than 50 So, you know part of me was like Look if even one of these works it's worth it I mean the shipping was kind of a bitch, but at least I know You know what to expect as far as the shipping cost goes Yeah All right, so it's plugged in let's fire it up. Oh man Let's go. Oh, come on. Let's go. This one. I heard it. This one looks better than the last one The last one looks really bloomed and bright. I've got I've got uh Oh, there we go. No sink. This one looks good. Oh, this is this is solid this morning. Here we go Let's hope we can get some So I take it to van hammer. Oh here. I've got a uh, I tell you what I've got a super nintendo here. I'll throw on some Maybe we'll do some What should we do? What should we play? We'll play a little uh, uh steel cage. I think wwf steel cage for the Yeah, the best the uh prior to the it's 64 games. The best one was the midway game That crazy arcade game Yeah, you know, I wasn't a huge fan of that. I don't know why well It was mortal combat in a wrestling. Yeah, it was it was some goofy stuff in it, man Macho man has awful specials in this game. It's like a rope a dope punch or a roll-up pen And that's his special maneuvers. I just All right, let's check this out. All right Here's the moment we've all been waiting for we had one no go no sink Right, or is it going you got some going it wants to go You're gonna have to reset your thing Oh Come here van hammer here try to reset. Yeah your system I mean the monitor looks like it's working. So that's a good thing There you go. I think I just saw a flash. Oh, no. Oh, no, we got some lines up top. Uh-oh Uh-oh, it's black and white. Hang on now. There's a blue only mode Oh, and it wonder if it's uh No, it shouldn't be hold on. All right. The lines are gone. I just got them in black and white. Hang on You're gonna probably have to get rgb I wonder if it's color if it's having problems processing the color because it's got to do with Maybe it's region able that I'm using. Oh, you know, it could be you're right If it's if it if that particular one doesn't do ntsc, I don't know Because I've never looked up the specifics on it. Hold on Let me get a uh, I've got a bnc to rca's their hands. I'll try out the composite Okay What was that our uh s video I was s video. Yeah, like I said, this this cable This was the first one I found and it's just a fucking garbage cable. So Oh, man too cute We got to see something you're gonna have to go rip your whole setup apart I mean For a good cause, I guess All right, here we go If it's on black, is it No, it's Okay, then it was your crappy cable, right? It was my crappy cable. It was just my crappy cable. I wish it was there a way I can get this Yay, I see the fx pack. Yeah, man. Hang on. Let's see. Um, All right, let me apologize to your audience here. That's uh Uh What's up belmont, oh belmont. So what's up belmont? I see that guy around a lot. All right, there we go Uh, what do we what do we play another? What are we doing? Excuse me. Oh, this looks great Good This is in great shape Uh, let's do uh, let's do uh, rumble. Why not? Let's check that one out Let's run through here and test some stuff out. Let's let it Let's let it do its magic now and uh, since Since the first one oh ljn, baby legendary ljm Hold on, let me get the audio and let me test the speed db yasi macho man Oh, I can't tell who that was. I missed it. Oh I saw that one Heart Brett the hit man. So yeah, I was looking Man, I was looking at some stuff and I was thinking about we were talking when we started to say that you were into 80s and 90s wrestling and I was Starting to think about when I was growing up and how I would have beaten up My own best friend and every kid I knew in my school if I could have had a chance to be the kid that got Brett Hart to put his His glasses on their head As he walked around the ring. Do you remember what he used to do that? Of course, man. Of course. I knew I knew a kid. I went to I went to uh, god I was oh, yeah, there we go And a girl I went to school with actually she went to a house show and Brett Hart gave her His glasses she brought him to school the next day. Oh my gosh. Yeah Okay Did you ever get Mr. Perfect like just as a wrestler like did you ever Understand the appeal like I understand he was a good heel, but he wasn't even a good heel like I like he just Just fucking white trash with a Mullet, you know, I just yeah, I never got I never got he was you know, he was perfect, man Yeah, he's What do you remember when he went to wcw and he was in the like redneck group like with uh, Barry Wendham and he had he came out with that video that he Rap is crap Rap is crap. I think that's that's like how like the video went Oh to Tonka. You got to Tonka here. You got uh, you got crush Yeah, I remember this there he is So You were telling me That you got to tell me more about this you were at the wrestle media or I mean the royal rumble you said Oh, no, no, no, dude. It just it just popped up on my algorithm and you're watching that Yeah, dude, I'm watching all of the 92 royal rumble with Ric Flair comes in I think the first guy. Yeah. Yeah Ric flair comes out He's the third guy and you know, they keep going on and on about the uh, I can't remember who had the ringside call But they kept going on and on about who had the actual record for length of time in a royal rumble and Ric flair won the thing and the dude worked man for like an hour that time or like Do me a favor turn turn the uh Brightness and the contrast just to touch down and let's see if that oh, yeah, look at there. Oh, yeah Well, turn it back down a little bit All right, there we go. Yeah, right there. I know it's gonna look darker. It looks a lot darker Impersonation. Oh, that's great, man. Yeah, there you go. Okay. So there we go Well, so that like what's the uh, then Is that like mission accomplished for you because you got to get one? I mean, I think we can fix that other one If you want, you know, I got one. I'm pretty happy with that. Um, I can uh Yeah, I could figure out a way to ship out the other one to you to take a look at it I don't know what I'm gonna do with these I think What I'll do is I guess I don't know this will be a for my youtube channel. This will be a uh, your video wall Yeah, no, what I'll do is I'm gonna do one. I'm gonna do a video where I put pvms on trial And I'm gonna talk about the good. I'm gonna talk about the bad talk about if they're overrated and um I'll bring on a special guest To talk about it. We got some convergence issues here. I can tell already. Oh, no, no, that's supposed to be yellow Yeah, and plus you're on composites It's it could look a little bit bloomed out That's true. Um So what I might do is after I'm done with that video, I might Do a giveaway. I might give this away to a lucky viewer. We'll see. Oh my gosh. You're crazy Yeah, I mean what what the fuck do I care? I mean, I've already got one look Look, I've got my retro tech certified inspected and service. Yeah, but come on man, you know You're gonna want one 14 inch. You can't have just one unless you well Unless you're not allowed to have more than one you're out of space Well, there I am out of space But what I was thinking about doing is maybe I give one of my boys I could put it in their bedroom They could play. Yeah, see there you go Play with the knobs Why not um Oh, yeah, here we go This is nice. So let me um So this is the first time I've ever actually looked at a 600 line Tube on a 14 inch and it's it is sharp man. It looks really nice. Yeah, that's that's a good compact Uh line count Whoa, hey nerdy Sean with a big huge super chat 50 bucks, man. Thank you very much. Oh, how about that? I Said he enjoyed my my increases he enjoyed my increased acting range in the recent Problem with retro video. Thanks for sharing the repair knowledge. Here's to shipping and handling. Yeah, that's right. Thanks, Sean Yeah, if you liked that one wait to you Wait till you just see the next ones. I've been I spent all day For a two minute a two minute clip Roger I have to ask you Did you so you did what do you do you barely watch that clip I sent you? No, I did I watched them all. Okay. I'm not fucking around with you. No, I like uh, I like No, no, no, so did you get did you get the uh, did you get one the beginning of that when I did the rosanne? Where like it's the sitcom opening from the 90s where it's like I started with oh, yeah the house And then like the jazz the jazz I was like whose house is that? You know, I literally stole that from an opening of a rosanne episode That house I was like, I'm not putting my real house in the front So next time I'm gonna do it like the x files where it's like right or something where it shows like a smoky old motel and And something there you go. Yeah, it says some Stuff so yeah, I think uh, so let's go through all the different steves. We've got We've got a little retro steve Little steve little steve retro steve retro. We've got a luminati steve And well, yeah, I think I'm going with big fat steve. I told lewis. I'm not sure yet like the He's like, uh, I got that other jacket and I was like it's more like the tony soprano jacket Right, so the jogger jacket. So I'm not right I'm not like I I want to do that But so like I have another idea which I'll talk about where little steve retro just totally loses his mind And he's like speaking to the other dogs At this point and and he's got the like crazy man's chalkboard behind him or you know cardboard with with pictures Of right. We've got the red. You got the red string going all over the plate and like pictures. They're all going to bob Yeah, but the pick and it'll be like weeks before actually shows bob because it's going to be I'll be like arguing about how we got a like sketch artist who has This new lead for us if we get it in on a fax machine and like it just looks like shit The the fax rendering and I was like if I could get it to print out like that and just be like look, we don't even have you know so I don't know and it's it's I was I'm more interested now and going with two minute clips and then I figure that maybe if I do this for like a year or two Then I'll have like a 20 minute video that might be funny of just the intros Well, this what you could do. No, you could you could do like a pulp fiction type tarantino deal We're like we're like each little vignette is like a short And they you you publish the shorts and they you know if you put them along chronologically It doesn't make any sense, but then at the end you have like a big reveal and it's like a you know You've got like a 15 minute 20 minute little sketch and put it all together. I don't know. Yeah You've got you've got a concept. It works man. That's nice Well, it's I think that yeah, you just got to be you know, I'm having more fun And and I always say if you're if you're having fun and it's like authentic Go with it. That's what I really like about your new concept man Yeah, you you said you said some really nice things and I I appreciated that the last uh, it was like the live stream you and you and louis had and uh And yeah, man, I really appreciate that like I did I genuinely had fun making it and I just wanted to do something I just wanted to do something different. I just wanted to do um I kind of I don't know if you ever watched john oliver, but I was like what if john oliver did Stuff about retro gaming. What would that what would that look like? And it would just be you know, I would dress up I I'd crack jokes and have little sketches kind of weaved in here and there and um And I had a lot of fun making it. Um, yeah, it was just yeah, it just it came together really easily and I have a structure now, uh to where it's I could just Make new content, uh pretty easily and I just got to find the the topic and find a guest star every week. So Well, so I've got I've got one going right now. It's in production I've got a pretty pretty famous guest star that's coming up on it. So I'm I'm really excited about that one So hopefully hopefully the stars align. I'll be able to get it published this weekend. So oh you're going that quickly Yeah, I mean, well, but it's not that hard like the hardest part. Oh, come on now. You're you're you're Revealing the card on all of us in our laziness now The hardest part is it's the editing the editing is the hardest part, but um, but shooting the a-roll shooting the b-roll Um, you know getting the game footage. I shoot all the game footage right off right off my pvm With a with uh, just an iphone with the dslr app and it it looked it turned out pretty good Yeah I got a really nice message from volt are just saying dude that keep doing that because it's really authentic I don't like capture cards You know it just you know because when you do it a capture card you have to You can't use any of the scanline filters. So it just it just looks off Um, you know, so I I just want to it didn't take all that long to put it together It was just editing and then when you get editing plus what I do for a living plus Having two little kids. Yeah, it's just a lot. So but yeah, it's I'm I'm surprised. Yeah, I was For a while especially The first couple years of youtube man, there were some stretches where I would try to get so many I think a one month I got 18 edited videos out and that was the most I ever done And a lot of like shorter videos like three minutes or less on like a trick Or tips or quick tricks quick tips. I did these things for a while And yeah, like you you just I was at the end of the month. I was like, man, I'm never doing Doing that again That's a lot man. And yeah, and now, um Yeah, I don't and and I don't know Sometimes you definitely go through these highs and lows. So I feel like if you're definitely feeling You know creatively good and you got the time and you want to keep pushing. It's always cool to do that absolutely And now it's like trying to I laugh at how many times like how many times I talk about a crt And so now I'm like, well, I need to try to even make it more Different or reinventing almost my own stuff Yeah, and you gotta like I periodically do that myself, but But I Steve I don't care like you could put out the same thing over and over again Like you could put out, you know, it doesn't have to be a look at this top of the line, you know bvm f1 that I'm you know doing something on it. It that doesn't It doesn't Matter to me you could you could you could work on that little red samsung like just it's just you Taking apart a crt And doing just the routine maintenance and putting it all together like i'm just fascinated by it and I think it just works like you could just do the same thing over and over again And you're still gonna get viewers. I mean I like I don't know if you caught I was on Louis's podcast and I was just like man, I could just doze off like just So relaxing and soothing and then here's the end product. Look he's playing outrun on the genesis. It looks terrific It's fantastic. You know, it's like it's like it's like home renovation shows you watch on hgtv It's like it's the same shit. Oh, what are you gonna do? Well, we're gonna redo our kitchen. Oh, okay What are you gonna do now? Well, we're gonna put in uh, I don't know this type of backsplash and these counters and these cabinets I mean, you've seen it a hundred times, but you still watch it because you like seeing the big reveal at the end And you like to see the process and and somebody describing to you what they're doing and that's your niche in it I love it. That's how I that's how I came onto your channel. I mean, I just found it Well before I ever even thought about buying A pvm or or some crts or having your service anything I was just like I don't know what this guy's doing, but I love it like It's just fun to watch. It's entertaining. I mean, well, thanks I appreciate those kind words. Yeah, I don't I don't know that sometimes It's it's It's surreal to think about that that you can almost create. I mean, that's the good thing is you find a niche and That's kind of what I had hoped that you could I could do with it be able to just show off different repairs or different um Yeah, like insides of different monitors just a more of a documentation style with a lot of things and uh Be helpful with that and to be able to pay, you know get paid to do it Something you love to do is a great thing even even though it's um It's tricky, but Everything good really is I think the I think the best part about it too is that No, let's say you are somebody who's looking to pick up a crt or somebody's You know looking to spend some money and get a professional monitor and you just google You know you find a I don't know you find an l2. Hey, I found an l2. I type in 14 l2 boom Here's retro text video where he services a 14 l2. So you're like, oh, okay Now I know the ins and outs of this particular You know monitor that's for sale near me. Now I want it and You know, I just think it's cool. You could put in any type of model and Here's the one of the first things I see off google is is your video because you're the only guy doing it Well, you know, and I think that's great, you know I I have to laugh that that's that's a funny thing you say that because that's what I was kind of I went out to dinner and and uh stuff this week with my wife and she had a colleague with us and she Was asking about what I did and that's what I was kind of explaining I was I was just talking about that aspect of it, you know That Well that but not that the fact that Five years ago when I started there was nothing Like you go look up crt stuff and there wasn't nothing but There wasn't as much nearly, you know, like anything on pvms very much if it was it was a little bit The phone dork videos were great. They still are great But that was yeah, but that was uh about it that in retro rob and like, uh, you know bob had a couple things about it But nobody really dove in head first into him Right. Yeah, and for a longest time their people were just for no joke straight up When I started they were straight up scared of them Like they thought just open in the shell itself was going to kill them, which is fine. It'll keep you alive But it's not necessarily the truth I mean, I'm one of those guys too. I mean, I I don't I mean my little, uh My little wooden uh 12 17 that I've got back there. I mean, I've I took it apart and cleaned it and everything like that, but I I don't want to get Pour into that. That's that's about my limit man. I know my limitations and I've got a lot of them, uh, so I'll let leave that to the experts But uh, but no man, your videos are great and they're obviously your your audience is a lot more technically savvy than mine And I'm sure they're learning a lot of stuff off of it. I mean just keep doing what you're doing I mean, I like the skits though. I think you should keep that up too. I think that's gonna be, uh I don't know. I I I want to see what you're doing with the retro illuminati Yeah, I I have a lot of I was trying to sit down like right right ideas and storyboards but The hard thing to have like a spoof you gotta have like a spoof of like all the metal jesus characters You should do that too all their characters all all his friends, but the problem is they're real people Yeah, they aren't gonna go out and like I have already been to places where I have to interact with them like I don't And and I'm like, hey man, I saw that video you did to me. That was pretty funny Literally the oh, yeah, maybe then they'll remember me, right? So like only interaction I ever had with metal jesus was I was In like a bathroom at a convention And I just looked up and we're both like standing right in front of each other and I'm like, what's up, man And he's like, hey, and then that was it and that was so I was like, okay, but I'm not gonna go like, hey What's up? I'm the retro tech guy. You ever heard of me? Right, you know, I'm like, hey, how's it going? That's really all it was But this see you my friend you put out a tweet that you were Teasing bit on billy mitchell Oh, yeah, I mean so no no, but billy mitchell Goes to the convention this same convention. I'm telling you about so I've met him there the last two years and he he he uh There's like some of the clips from the carl yost Videos where he's doing something in nashville. That's the convention that I was at where he was He's always there running around, you know acting like everything's like legit and it's a it's super odd like um So the first guy The this was two years ago I went to this convention And they were like billy mitchell's the headliner But the funny thing is it's like there's two different sides of this. There's people that are in arcade That just for some reason have no idea about the shady side They only know him as a good They believe it all Right They don't even know there's this other side of the story That's This all conspiracy and all these lawsuits and You know what I mean like that. Yeah, so that crowd is like there and then like I'm there and I'm like, what the hell Why would you put billy mitchell as the guy like headliner? And then and I'm laughing because I go and like I don't charge this guy money. I've been doing his show for a long time I uh I go and I put on a good show at these at this show at this thing. I mean I'll have I mean, I'm I'll have 25 30 people show up because they get to see me screw around the crt and it's But then like they'll put they the first year they put billy mitchell in this huge room like four times as big as mine And I don't think but like three people went in there Yeah at his time to go listen to him What is he gonna talk about? Right, so Like I'm looking I'm out in the floor just hanging out While his conversation his talks going on and next thing I know it's like 10 minutes after it's supposed to be going I see billy walking around the main ballroom floor Try it to like Get people's attention to say oh come on you got to come in and didn't watch my Watch me talk And he's like trying to get the from the the showrunner to to basically get corral people in there So I'm not going to go out into anything too, you know online because I know the guy's crazy kind of about Anything you you know people will say you know and I don't You know personally I don't have any interaction or ill you know ill anything so No, but you got to think about it too like he was probably paid a substantial amount of money if he was the headliner for this convention We just paid something. I'm sure right. Yeah. I'm sure he was I mean, I don't really care for me. I usually get a lot of comps at the show that Like that's what I do. So um, and bob Bless bob he goodness he had it wasn't even one of the main videos. It was a patreon q&a video he did a few a few weeks ago And he kind of explained the convention process for a lot of us Where we are kind of it's we're like the second or third tier acts for a lot of these shows kind of and We don't you know, they don't pay us anything like I mean all these conventions are ones that we're We're paying our own money to go to organizing our own costs And I'm just somebody who's fortunate enough that I can usually find a way to Incorporate a A way for my business to make money, right? Whether it's servicing some stuff that are in that area Or you know offering monitors to people in that area while I'm there but Sure, it's not It's not that simple for a lot of people, you know, they don't have a high price item to just sell off to pay for the whole Like convention Right exactly and you know, I mean you got to consider airfare hotel all that stuff. It's like what am I actually I'm not going to Just sell games while I'm there like, you know, you're not going to make any money doing that. What exactly? I don't know. I always I always think it's great though that that a lot of guys go out to those things and And I I'm kind of envious. I'd like to go to one of these things one of these days find a weekend where I can Actually do it but But yeah, I mean it's it's a lot of money and you're definitely not covering your nut By going out there. I mean, I'm sure you do you drum up business there, but I'm sure you're probably in the minority there Yeah, I'm just watching What do you got going on? So you got randy savage. He keeps pinning. Yeah, it's just Is that the stevie ray match This this is that stevie ray. This is uh van hammer Oh van ham fan hammer. Oh my god That's fucking All right, give me Of course, we got this creep The canadian crippler kitt chris benoit Give me your give me your top five Oh my goodness rug Drug infested wrestlers. Give me your top five. Oh, Ben was probably Yeah, he was more in yeah, I think alcohol guy. I'm not sure about ben was you know So I definitely would put High on that list I mean, I don't know about I think that my like favorite or the top one for me would have to be jake the snake Jake's up there. Oh my gosh. Have you listened to that poor man's story? Yes, about like his abusive father and oh Yeah, oh dude. Okay. So my number one. I shouldn't go number one. Let's go. Let's go in reverse order. I'll go so number five Number five would probably have to be Lex Luger man. I was just thinking about that Yeah, he's probably number five Number four. You're probably looking at I'd go jake there jake the snake probably at four three you're probably at Maybe scott steiner. I think I'm there with scott steiner. He's uh, he was coked out of his mind for a period of time Oh, what about buff bag? Well, he was like Yeah Guilt by association buff bag. Well, I think number two is gonna be razor ramone. Yeah Number one's texas tornado, man. I mean texas tornado is legendary. That's uh You know his story, right? You know his whole family That's the is that the von eric Yeah, the von eric family. Yeah, dude those guys. Holy crap. Holy. I mean texas tornado got picked up Four drugs. He knew he'd go back in the slammer Uh, because of it. It was like his third drug possession charge He knew he wouldn't be able to do more drugs. So he ended up killing himself Uh, I mean that's some fucked up addiction that I mean that's It's the darkest recesses of addiction that is really really tragic Uh, but yeah, he's he's up there. I mean, there's guys that are like did drugs But I just considered them guys who partied like You know, you're under the giants and you're you know, you're rick flares and and all that but uh Yeah, some of the guys who keep you just can't stay sober. Oh, I'd put I'd put davie boy smith in there Oh, yeah, he was bad He he uh, and which is a shame because that dude had tons of talent, uh, but just couldn't stay sober Um Anyway, so what do you got now? You got chris benoit. You got the macho man Yeah, I don't know how many more I got to go before a belt. I can't if I stopped for a while We were at the bash at the beach. That's a big deal I can't tell how far of a how far of a delay this is so I'll this is what I'll do. I'm watching on your youtube Well, no, so you just let's see. I'm gonna see what move you got. All right, so you just did a little whip Did I throw him I throw him in the corner and then uh Punched his face a few times All right, so you just did you just did like a suplex there. So let's see how long ago was that Oh, that's that's a good delay So they Just whip them in the corner and now you're giving them some punches. Yeah, that's like 15 seconds Yeah, let's not talk like that. So I I will tell you that when I went out to houston um When I just count I just got him when I went out to houston like it was uh back last may uh, one of the things I did with the main media contact that I was working with out there at the museum is he had Or they had tna or not tna. I'm sorry aew Which is the new wrestling organization That's out now Yeah, that's the jericho project, right? Yeah, that's what I was gonna say and that's where so I went to that and that was a pretty fun show. It was crazy I mean Like way crazier than Any other wrestling like they they used like cinemax level language, you know Oh, yeah in front of like kid like there's people brought their like six year olds and they're like My balls. Yeah, it's even worse than that. It's like, you know what you can do Jericho, you can eat a big old pile of my shit and it's just like what So there was crowds is uh, what is aew? Yeah, I was actually impressed. I mean it was houston It was at the place where the houston houston university of houston where they play basketball So I want to say it's probably like six seven thousand at the most Wow, and then say it was a good and it was probably a good size crowd. I mean five six at least there's it was full And that's pretty good. So we'll see they do it right at the aew. She was at least this one I went to so you would go there and you could go and they they have I think an hour Or two Of matches that they just play on an a youtube show like that's not on a channel It's like they're they're a lower-end show and it's once a week on youtube Well, what they do is you go to the main show that you bought the ticket for And the first hour is this show right? So you're getting this extra show But then after the main show that's the live show They tape another hour after that or hour and a half show That's a taped one that's on like tbs on fridays. So it's taped But it's at all stuff to happen storyline after the live show And what happens is it's crazy because I bought like a nosebleed seat in this place last minute And by the time it was the third show like the last show Um where they were taping I was able to go down and get front row seats Like right behind the metal like the steels because people just get up and leave because they can't stay for five hours I was about to say this must take all day. It's it's like we got out of there like 11 30 And again, it's a week night And right so there's a lot of kids that just their parents like all right I mean there's some people like a good portion of the people just straight up left After the main show that was live was done And so then you'd go down you're like, all right, let's go get some good seats and The guy that um, like I said, he was really into it. He liked wrestling a lot. So I told him, you know, I was like Oh, yeah, I'll go I haven't seen it, you know, they have They have dusty road or they had dusty roads kid not He just went back to wwe not uh Cody the old man now Used to be gold dust right, right and um So I'm so I guess I'm trying to figure that so they do the live show and then they tape two subsequent shows all in the same spot Yeah, all at the same and they say basically tape an entire week's worth of their programming in one location and and Which is smart because then they don't have to they don't tear up and like set everything up and down Right It's super efficient, but at the same time it's like if you're gonna catch that third end of whatever you went to You're gonna watch and you're like, damn, there's nobody there. There's like a thousand people Well, they really they really do um turn the lights down Do they so you can't really see and uh There's definitely some You know the most the stuff you see is actually um Filled with people. They don't like show you too much. They don't like show you the back of the crowd You know like when right like at the beginning of Nitro when it was hot or right ww or monday raw it'd be like fireworks Yeah, it'd be like we're here live in The smoking balls arena and we've got 15,000 crazy red necks hooked up To IVs of jr's barbecue sauce on drip So we've got That uh, lovely picture to think about Uh, i'm trying i'm just going through some of the chat. I feel like we haven't I haven't talked to any of this Yeah, no, yeah, we can bust through some chat stuff. I still can't believe somebody gave you 50 bucks. That's awesome I know Thank you. Yeah, he's still hanging out. That's cool um Yeah, there's some more talks about Pricing on crts. Uh, and it's it's always fun subject. I I keep posting my weekly now two weeks in a row of crts that will never sell Yeah listings and I still can't could you but I just somebody was still trying to justify a 49 thousand dollar listing for The ikigami Like an ikigami 20 inch it's it's on ebay right now if you go look up. Was it like Is it like new old stock or something? I'm just trying to understand. It's listed. It's listed as new old stock But okay, but even I mean that's not even fair because it's it's still an old It's still 20 years old It's just been in a box and never used so I don't know if that's actually better for it I'm just pulling up some of the ones that you had listed here. Yeah, you've got this this 20 This 20 fv 300 35 hundred dollars. I don't what what the hell's the story behind that? That's a These are all dollar tv. It's all what happens when you put in um When you put in like retro crt retro Gaming In the ebay and you put most expensive 27 27 fv 300 Well, at least it's best offer. I mean it's $1,100 for best offer He's got some room to move steve Okay Yeah, but these guys don't even know what you know, they just thought that I mean, what would these people are crazy? They thought they have gold But I don't know see I've seen some bigger youtubers That go into places and they will actually Talk about like a 27 inch example of like the one in the chat a 27 inch trinitron And they'll walk up to it and say, oh, this is the sony. This is the grail crt And it's just like a regular You know one of the flat screen It's like an fs 100 or something and it's nothing special again, right? And it's like this is the and then the guys are like, I don't know man I saw an ebay where that's listed for $500 And yeah What's hey, you were um If i'm mistaken I sent a a listing because you know, I post this shit all the time like because I yeah I I look just because I want to see what's out there. I want to see if you could still get You know decent crt's for Nothing or next to nothing and you still can at least in my area. You still can Um because you know grandma died and and now everybody's cleaning out her shit, but um But you know, my goal is just I want somebody to get it. I want to go I wanted to go to You know good hands. I want somebody to get some use out of it. So I find this uh I see if I can I share my screen on this Um Maybe but then I if it if it's something that I I'll share my screen. Okay. Hang on. Yeah, here we go. Let me see Uh All right go lot Yeah, there you go. Yeah, it's it's starting to load. Okay. Yeah, it's loaded Okay, so so I found this listing. Maybe you can help me out with this. Yeah, so it's a 25 inch g e okay g e's Is it g e or is it rca that has Essentially the the crt that you could just swap into like an mvs cabinet. This is probably that same tube And it's I think so and I mean it's that g e I guarantee you that's ours. I mean, there's such a that's probably rca Right inside. Yeah Yeah, that's the same And that one even comes with a nice piece of furniture. There you go So that that's a good question and that brings me to kind of a real quick point about this. Why is it? I was thinking about how everybody loves candy cabs, right Right and the sit-down why and maybe there is why isn't there like a mdf or not even mdf But some kind of plans to build a wooden version of that of your own almost right the same and then like if we could go and find a You could go take that 25 inch tube. You go find a kv Chassis that's for an uh, um an old machine that somebody's thrown out They think the tubes bad so they throw out the chassis also Right And then you could use you'd have a fresh tube to put in and then you just rebuild all the other stuff with wiring and fresh buttons Right. I mean that It's the thing like it's the thing with arcade one-ups, right? Like everybody bags on arcade one-ups and they should because It's shitty emulation and it's seven hundred dollars and it's not worth it, right? But If you could just sell the cabinet, you know, because the concept is is good It's it's a it's a smaller cabinet for people who don't have a lot of space, but they want some sort of Arcade experience and you could probably stuff a 19 inch crt 20 inch crt into these things You probably could i'm looking at mine right now You probably could so could you get good quality mdf? You could sell like You know just sell the shell For like 200 bucks, you know the control panel you could put in all your own sandwall sticks your own your own buttons You know whatever you want you could trick it out. However, you want to make it look You know like a good arcade cabinet if you want to have an lcd fine If you want to have a crt chassis you can hook that up to if you want a mr. Cade you could put that in there, but just sell You know just sell the the cabinet or like you said like you could have like a bigger candy cab Uh type design, um, I think there's a I think there's a market for that You know because I don't think people want to buy Nobody wants to buy an arcade one up for 800 dollars and just have two games. It doesn't It's stupid. Yeah. Yeah, that's I mean well, it's it's I just sit there and think about it so many people are fighting over like these rusty Beat up shells of the You know astro city and everything and there's paying thousands of dollars for these units to ship them over And I just didn't I mean it surprised me that we don't see in like those custom arcade Uh, I'm in a lot of those facebook groups. I don't do much on there, but I'll look at those in like sales groups And I don't ever see anybody making like they all just make these stand-up like main machines with a big flat screen in it They never they're never making like a reap. Well, there there are some I've seen some new more modern You know sit down machines That are using the flat screen, but my my goal would be more or less to be able to Insert um a crt into it really and I think most of our crowd would want that obviously Yeah, it would but at least like have a have it to where you have some flexibility if you want to have You know your lcd because it's easy for you to find, you know to source it from like a computer monitor or whatever Cool if you but but it has like the rigidity if you want to You know put in a crt chassis you can do that too. Um, I don't know. I think that'd be I'm trying to find it's funny because you just mentioned that these guys who make these these massive arcades with these flat panels uh Try to find the listing I always come across and it's just the most god-awful shit Uh Where the hell is that? Yeah, here. Oh god This is so fucking bad, and I'm sorry if this if the guys happens to be watching. I'm sorry Uh, I'm sure he is. He's probably one of the 20 25 people here. I mean, it's really fucking Fucking body. I mean look I mean look at this thing. I mean look look It's got and I say this as a michigan fan. I mean look at this. Oh Are you gonna do a screen share? Yeah, you see it. No, you're you're off-screen share now. You turned off screen. I thought I put no I put it back on No, it's not on anymore What the fuck? No share no share your screen. Okay, I don't know uh go Streaming channel. Yep. There we go. All right. We got a five dollar super chat again here from belmont now loving the discussion of the vibe gentleman Well, thanks I'm glad someone's enjoying it. Oh, oh my goodness. I forgot I got a new match here against somebody who's good Big big sexy kevin nash. All right Oh, I think uh, I think he just disconnected from us Hold on wait. No. No. No there you are in my back. Yeah, you're back I was I I was sharing my screen I swear to god I was that I shut it off and I hit the damn the wrong button. I know Yeah, it was shared that it was we saw the um the 25 dollar Oh, yeah, you that one worked. I don't know why this other one didn't whatever Who you fight now? You got sting. No, this is kevin nash, man I don't know why it's not I always the coolest thing I thought about with with this silly game was that you could walk out after you Want a belt and like you'd walk out to the ring with it on That's right. That's right continuity. Oh, yeah What's your favorite non and 64 wrestling game? Well, I mean if I are we talking to an old school one And I really like some I really like some of the arcade games, you know Like the one, um, I'm not as good at it, but I like that. Have you ever done the neo geo? Wrestling yeah four count. Oh three three count about three count about yeah, that's a good one count bout that one's fun Um, what about what about like licensed wwe wcw goodness gracious You know those games I always just remember the most of them sucked the only one I ever really liked besides Uh, the only one like I said that was barely playable was the one by midway, but It was the problem with it was it had it had only a few characters And you know, you'd get really tired of that game super quick Well, it only had a few characters, but like half the characters you didn't want to play with like, you don't want to play with doing right like Big bam bam bigelow like you're just gonna be bigelow or you're gonna be I mean, I'm not yeah You're gonna be undertaker Sean michaels or bret the hitman heart and maybe remone or luger, you know, maybe luger. Yeah Ramona was cool in that game But but again, it's like why the thing that always sucked with the most of the majority of wrestling games was the lack of Characters I felt like I used to play a crap ton of the games that came out on like playstation before this one That were really sub par and But but they would have like full rosters, you know, right it was like bad versions of this like this You can go at least and grab a A uh controller and just start playing but The best the best was um, they had wcw Nitro on ps1 And you can the game was so fucking bad and you could you could just highlight the characters and they'd play like a little Like a like a like a five second video clip of them of them cutting a promo And they have and the best was like the best was booker teas. Oh my god Booker tea and stevie. Right. They had the best ones Uh, who else had a good one? Oh, I remember like a good one alex alex right remember that alex right would show up doing this You know, I remember that see that was one of the games. I remember too because because you would you would like If if you would beat the matches you could unlock new people's Right videos and I remember sitting there like written that game and I was like, man, I'm looking I'm unlocking every one of these fucking guys videos. I'm getting disco inferno tonight, baby. Let's do it Disco inferno now. Was it true was disco inferno really uh Is he really but he's really bishoffs like brother-in-law or something or step brother or something I have no idea. I I didn't I didn't do the disco inferno rabbit hole I don't know Somebody had in here the chat james boon. He said sarah night slam masters. That's a good one too That's oh, yeah, that's right. Just a regular. That's generic Yeah, just a generic wrestling game. That's probably the best that three count bout was a good call too Fire pro on saturn shadow mask. Good call. That's a good one too. Yeah, I haven't played Have you so the where I was going with that question steve was the the ps2 had a lot of really good wrestling games like, um Smackdown here comes the pain was probably the best Yeah, that's the one with uh with rock lessoner on the cover and you had um That was back when you started getting the whole wcw roster started, you know, you you were able to play like you could play as golberg you could play as Um, you know eddie guerrero ray mysterio all those guys were in the wwf games now, which was really cool um That if you don't have that one, I'd suggest picking it up. That one's probably the best one There was actually like story there was like story lines and stuff too You know, you'd finish a match and then you know They'd set up a feud for you with somebody and you could choose what you want to do Okay, do I'm gonna jump this guy after his match? Do I want to help him out? What do I want to do? You know, yeah, I remember that one I remember playing that one on like the maybe the a different one on the game cube similar something like that, but yeah, um my My favorite character when I was like playing that game I remember would have been uh or that time period Was rvd Oh, yeah, man. I used to I used to really Be intrigued by the craziness of ecw like when it was first When it was first coming out and right Um, I say first coming out because the only thing that we I ever heard About it would be If you turned it to that channel on cable box That would show you the previews for paper views, you know, yeah, and it was like what the heck is this Insane and it was only been like a couple of paper views that they'd had And it was just the most insane wrestling stuff Um, and I believe we convinced my dad to just let us order one because we would do the wcw sometimes And then he was just like what uh, you know Because it was like guys you know talk about bad language. Holy crap compared to like, you know wcw and uh blood and just like Guys that looked like they were just, you know razor bladed up They were just dude like sand man, right like sand man sand man looked like he was on parole And like his you know, his officer was just like, okay, I'll let you uh on the side. You can wrestle as well Yeah, yeah, they they just looked they just looked like This is their last chance Like they were really like that. Yeah, this is our last chance. We're gonna die in that ring tonight Like literally that's right. That's right. That's right. And and I I'm gonna fucking eat breathe shit piss wrestling Like yeah, this is all I know and and the crowd was just it was like a cult the crowd was so fucking into it They knew like everybody was over Like everybody knew everybody's moves everybody had their own chant like it was just a different experience I think I would get I think ecw would show up like at 12 30 in the morning on like some cable access show like Where I lived at the time like it would just they would get taped stuff from from a week prior and I think ecw most of it was Most of it was in the east coast. I want to say it was like the northeast. Yeah, it was it was a lot around that east coast area northeast Yeah, like like philly new york, boston like all that that was the only stuff that would carry ecw But then it would like migrate its way over to me in the midwest and I'd watch it I'd be like, wow, man. This is fucking intense Like these guys These guys have issues. Yeah Well, I remember another thing that I really really thought was cool was that you would have those guys and they'd have real Like music as their entrance songs, right and for example rob van damme. I'll never forget. He came out to pantera Yeah, and like those song walk and I was like just like what? and it and then uh There's so many guys, but there's just so iconic Sandman would come out to enter sandman. Yeah, it was exactly and he would and he would show up like in the He'd be in like the the the 50th row in section 208 Start chugging beers and hitting them with a shugging beers and smashing them against his head and shit. I'm like, what the fuck is going on over here You know just hanging out with a bunch of dudes, uh, I don't know. Yeah ecw as well. They had a game too. They uh, yeah They had a I think when when a claim lost the, um, wwf license, uh, they picked up ecw that game was trash too Yeah, we're losing james boon. Thanks james for hanging out. Yeah, thanks everybody. I don't know how much uh, what do you got? You got uh, you got no trial this week, huh? No, I won I won Wait a second Now you are really are an attorney who's gone to trial this you might be the first one I've met who's actually gone to trials Yeah, I've gone to many trials. Uh, I've I've won most of them. It's uh Yeah, yeah, I try cases It's so you but uh, but how often are these going to On average a year I mean the majority of them go and get settled out. Yeah 99 of my cases settle I'd say a busy year would be three Okay, yeah Yeah, it's it's mostly maybe one or two a year um And it's you know, it's just cases where somebody wants Way more money than they think their case is worth and um End up going to trial so It only takes one unreasonable party to set to uh try a case so So So if you won that person did us person didn't get all that money they would thought they had Oh, yeah, they already spent that money. They were thinking of all the money. They were yeah They were thinking of all the pvms. They were going to import Yeah Well, so I got one man. I'm glad I got no, that's good. And I think that that other one We'll be able to figure out something else. I'll ship it out to you. I'll ship it out to you You can take a look. You know, it's not a height It's not that expensive in that box because you've already got the box Right if you repack it in the best box that you have there I bet you that you could ship it to me uh Through fedex or ups for 50 bucks to 60 dude. I'm not doing ups again after what we do ups either You talk about stupid stuff the algorithm does I was on the algorithms wrestling For a while and then recently I've been getting all these uh videos about like people that and this is this is It's you really get on these youtube trains when you've been in them multiple times I'm now i'm in the the uh the shot callers and x you know cons Uh pages on youtube. So it's like all these guys that are making Making like food out of all the crap that they're allowed, you know that you can get through commissary And it'll be like them mixing pickles and Fritos hot lays and and bacon them under their mattress or something and then And then it's like again guys that have just been uh locked up and they're just like is it real what's what really happens What's the worst thing you've ever seen and all this stuff? and The only reason I brought this up is because the last guy I was watching was on some podcast and he uh He was talking about how good of the or how he shipped just tons of copious amounts of Drugs through the regular mail system, right and that was his way And uh he never got busted for that like that version that wasn't what got him caught like he would But he was saying ups was the worst they would steal more of his his drugs than anybody He said that ups would like He said ups would do awful stuff They would they would like go and take the box and then like uh just ship the box empty Like he would steal the drugs out of it And I said well, why didn't you get they said well, why didn't you get busted? He said look you just set up stuff where it's like you have a shipping company, right? You can't control what you're shipping. You're just shipping stuff for customers So it's like it's really elusive to you know get in there and then you have You're almost like anonymity, right? You don't know you pretend like you don't know what you're shipping and you're shipping a bunch of stuff and uh You just happen to be smuggling drugs in the middle of that and I think uh fedex is uh They actually kind of interrogate you a little bit when you're shipping stuff They just they just want to make sure you're not shipping booze. That's all they care about As long as it's not booze they could give a shit less The best is to yeah that that's if you could get if you could be a rich baller and just pay You ship Then that's cool, but But it's uh No, I'll I'll ship this um, I'll send it to fedex. I mean because it's a 14, right? So it's not What's it way like in that box? It will be fine if it's if the foam goes all the way around it Yeah, so I wouldn't I wouldn't be too worried about the foam or that if you can if you can get it in there Or you could just ship it and then say hey, man, you guys broke it It's me motherfucker. You remember me Yeah, I put it was a fucking wooden crate on a pallet. You still fucking broke it. Oh my gosh. Yeah Well, see that's the only good thing is now and you ship I just tell people and this has worked great to not even pack it Don't even pack it Oh, yeah, if it's just if it's like a small carrier. Yeah, that's not gonna move it No, like as long as he's got some bungee ties He could just you know put it in the back of his van. It's gonna be fine you know Yeah, I wish and now if I ever had to go to jail. Do you think that I wonder if they let me retake my Uh, like clear crt in there If it has to be yeah, I wonder if what if they said like you're not allowed to bring in crt's anymore And you have to only take the flat screens. Then you'd have to get Mike chi to make a clear Retro you've been pretty set with retro consoles now though. You know, yeah, you get everything in clear Yeah pretty much Imagine the but I the it's funny when you you did that uh that prison tv Yeah That video all I thought about the whole time was like imagine the fucking desperation like Someone at some point said You know what? I got an idea I'm gonna put the dope in the fucking tv and you know when when the when the Corrections officer's not looking my guy will be able to go in there. He'll be able to get it out Like someone actually did that like that's like The depths that people had to go into to Smuggle fucking drugs into prisons Like putting it into a television. Who would have actually thought of that? You know and it happened clearly it happened because the workaround was okay Well, we got to make a clear shell for these tv so we could see whether or not there's any dope in these Oh, it's clear. Yeah, everything that was the thing. It was clear everything And the um But you know the american prison system is made off of making you know making money off of all that It's like all the so those were these are specialty companies that literally bought the crappiest like crts and just manufactured clear plastic around them and made them like Prison tech, you know and then They stripped him man, wasn't it wasn't it? It's all it is. It's a zenith. You can see right through the inside It's a zenith All right. I got a question here from david karmichael real quick. Does you ship shipping cost one way only? Yeah Yes, it's only the one trip and it's not you don't like book it both ways if you want to save money on you ship Then you just basically get in there and do the name the price Tool and name it right at whatever their recommended price. I don't think anybody's doing it for probably less than that You know, yeah, you've got you've got to do you basically got to quote it at the top end of whatever that is Or you're just not going to get any the way it works david is is um You you put in your commodity what you're shipping You put in where the intended destination is you put in how much it weighs and and all of that stuff And then you you could you have the choice of doing one of two ways You could either accept bids you could just let all these drivers just bid on your load Or you could just set the price yourself and you ship like steve is talking about You ship kind of gives you a range of what they think it would cost To ship your item and no matter what they tell you it's always too low Because it no one's going to want to do it So you always have to pick kind of the higher end just to attract a driver to take it Unless you're in like a if you're in like a super Uh Accessible area that gets you're only shipping if you're like Like I did a job where I shipped one to a dc I think which is only two hours from here And I live right next to a major interstate that's shipping. And so I had somebody Give me right on the recommended price just because they were doing this like all the time and they're picking up a dozen things Right, but that's not typical Yeah, if you live like in a like steve said a high traffic area like if you live in You know any st. Louis any city really any city really? I mean except for detroit because we're kind of like in our own little Pocket, you know But if you're in a place where a lot of interstate traffic intersects, then yeah, you're gonna have an easier time Uh, it really depends on where you live unfortunately, but So do you you're so michigan guy, right? Yeah, oh there. Oh, yeah, man. Oh there So How much do you love jim harbaugh? Uh, I have a love hate relationship with jim harbaugh The best way I could describe it I get tired of the same shit every off season You know is he gonna go to the nfl? Of course Yeah, you know and it's just i'm just tired of it every year. It's the same bullshit, but he's doing a great job Because he beat Ohio State twice two years in a row Going to two college football playoffs So This year will be a good one this year. They they have actual expectations this year like yeah If they're not in the championship game this year, then it's a failure of the season like that's For the first time in probably 25 years Michigan football has legitimate expectations and it's kind of weird It's kind of weird to uh think about that, but yeah since man it would have been since like So it's Charles Woodson. I was going to say that since Peyton Manning was playing Because that's where I was was down in Tennessee where everybody was Everybody but the funny thing was when when I was growing up in Tennessee in the 90s People back then were complaining about Peyton Manning Because he could never beat florida And the guys before him were like Heath Shuler And he could beat florida and all these other guys. Well hell That I don't I think the guy before yeah, it was the guy who went and played baseball Who was the real smart guy for the Rockies helton Todd held right Todd Helton. He played father And then he went and made a billion dollars swinging balls out in the course field, you know just So in in in michigan, do you go? Where do you like where are you are you what are like? Do you go on the lakes? Um Yeah, I mean, yeah, usually I mean we're surrounded by lakes, right? We're surrounded by more fresh water than any other state in the country so So yeah, usually in the summer times we like to go on the the shore of Lake michigan. It's got beautiful beachfront It's you'd swear you could squint you'd think you're in florida or california something like that. It's You know lake michigan is so big it it almost looks like an ocean when you're there Um, but then you got you know lake eerie to the south you've got You know Up north you got lake superior up in the up really good fishing up there if you're if you're a big fisherman Um, I I mean, I'm you know, I'm biased. I live here, but I think this is great. I mean it is it's it's got You've got a little bit of everything here like if you want if you Like we have wine country. We have uh beach property. We've got a couple big cities Like we've got you know big concerts big sporting events big everything it all comes here. So it's like You kind of you know and you get four seasons. It's it's you know, it's been a it's been a brutal winter so far But but in the summertime it gets up in the high 90s sometimes. I mean it's you get a little bit of everything here Um, the good and the bad Um, but yeah, have you ever been up here? You've probably never been up to michigan, right southern border That's actually something a place. No, I've been a lot of places. I don't really think I've been to michigan at all Not really anywhere in the area. I know you could you could always crash here for free steve Oh, thanks. Me cause me casa su casa, man You're already you're already treating me better than the conventions, you know, we'll just have a convention in rogers basement 8-bit esquire convention You've got to fix my kv-12. Yeah Is there all there's there's something wrong with that one? I don't think so. It's just it's just a fucking You know 40 year old Rf only it's just yeah, it looks like shit Yeah, Bob Bob's been like, oh, I want to get one of those things, you know, and I He brought me one and the darn he he's like I can't get this to work And it was and I got it to work and I was like, you know after I got to work. I was like So I got he's like I can't get it to turn on and I'm fooling with it And I finally get it to just pop on by messing around with it Not even having to open it yet But I can't I can't get any volume to work on it. So But I get the picture on it and of course I turn it on and it's black and white and And I'm looking around I make sure and it's definitely a black and white set, you know No color adjustment on it. Nothing like that. It's for sure black and white says so on the label But it's from the mid 80s. So it's not even as old. It just looks. Oh, wow Kind of looks old. It's got dials on it. What? It's magna magna box magna box. Okay, but anyway, I got back with Bob and I was like Bob I got this thing turned on but it's it's black and white and I was like, do you really care about it anymore? He said no, damn it. No, and I said good because I didn't want to waste any time trying to fix the speaker on it, too You know before I turned toward open it fixed the speaker so that I just The funny thing is is I brought it back to him and he forgot to take it. So he just left it in my car So it's up there in the junk pile He didn't pay any money for that, did he? I don't know. I think it was something he man he gave me some like I read when I went up there to see him. He gave me a bunch of just random CRTs that he had and a couple of them One of them looks like a damn like grizzly bear shat it out like It's kind of this weird brown stuff on it. Like it literally Or or like the ace ventura scene where he pops out the fake rhinos, but you know in two That's that's like what this that's what it looks like this this crt got pushed through um Speaking of so that that one Like I've got all of he's just like here you want this one and I'm like, yeah, sure I don't know what I'm gonna do with it. It's like so what's he doing? He's just stockpiling crt's like Well, yeah, he had uh, you know, he has a big his huge wall that you see. Yeah, I know Well, so he had a bunch of these CRTs that were not so great on that wall and uh He's been upgrading them so When he gets otherwise like yeah, you take this one Yeah, he's like, I don't have anything to do with this one And some of them I can't take because I don't have space and they don't work but if they do work and They're 13 inches. I don't even care if it looks like they did come out of a rhinos, but I'll still take them Well, roger, I don't know how long you got you got No, man. I gotta go to bed. Yeah, I know I'm up at like five every morning. So but no, I'm uh No, man, this is this is good. I'm glad I got these opened up Yeah, me too. I'm glad uh glad we got to have a little bit of an audience here too. Um, yeah, I'll I'll box this this bad one up and uh I'll probably ship it out your way. I don't know. I don't know what I'm gonna do with these things. I don't need them I don't want to sell them. I might get I might give them away. Um, as like a is like a contest I'll see what I figure out what to do with that, but um, or maybe I'll give them to my kids I don't know. I'll figure it out. You're gonna want to keep me for your kids because your kids are gonna be mad at you One day when they're like looking bad at the back at this stuff They're like dad had one of these and he just gave it away He was too busy talking about the texas tornado. That's it All right, everybody. We appreciate you joining us tonight Please if you haven't already go over and check out eight bid Esquire's channel on youtube And uh, be ready for the next trial And uh, thanks for hanging out with me tonight, man. I appreciate it. Yeah. Hey, thanks for having me. We'll do it again sometime Absolutely. All right, everybody guys. Have a good evening. We'll see you next time Be well