 What's going on guys? Patriot Prime here once again with another episode of The Sit Rep. And my guest tonight is Jacob from the channel Soundwave 8084. Jacob, how are you doing tonight? I'm doing good. How you doing? Doing very well. It's late. I'm ready to go to bed. Long day, but hey, holiday weekend coming up. Looking forward to it. Same here. I got four kids, so they'll be excited. I've only got one. He turns five Monday. So we got, we're going out town this weekend. We'll have Easter than his birthday Monday and then his party on Tuesday. So he's going to have a hell of a time turning five. All right, my friend. Well, first off, tell us a little bit about yourself. Oh, God, I have. From Alabama and the South. So I wasn't afraid of my, it's not coming out too much, but yeah, 39 with four kids. I work in merchandise and route, which I do a lot of work in Walmart's and Target. So that helps me toy hunt. That explains your quick videos on some of your figures I see you pop up real. Yeah. I'll go, I can do three Walmart's on my route and a Target. And then I'm like, okay, well I get to hit them all and search for them. So it helps elevate my wife also works in Walmart's doing a merchandising for another company. So she can look for me as well. And so I found my reissue gears and Warpath. Excellent. Congrats. I have one Walmart and then 30 minutes away is another Walmart. Then another 40 minutes from that's another Walmart. I mean, that's it. My nearest target's two hours, but we're going out of town this weekend. We'll have a target. So I might be able to do some hunting there. I got three targets around me, three Walmart's right around me. Then I got like 10 Walmart's within the city. So one Walmart, Amazon.com. That's what I got. I got kids. I guess I mentioned that. I got four kids and a lovely wife. I mentioned that. She's probably gonna watch this. I don't think mines ever watch this. I sit there and promote it. I said, honey, I've talked to people from all over the United States. I've talked to people from the UK, Canada. She's like, eh, you boys and your toys. Yeah. All right. Well, how the SITREP works is I've got 10 questions for you, five questions regarding you as a Transformers Collector and five questions regarding you as a YouTuber. So if you're ready to go, we'll do this. Sure. Excellent. Question number one. What's the appeal of Transformers for you? Ah, I said I was a kid. This is the wow factor of having a robot and a vehicle. You know, you can change them up. I guess that's probably it. What got me into it is robots. Not every kid loves robots, so. You can't go wrong with them. I mean, when you were growing up, I mean, of course you're, I was a child of the 70s, and that's when the robots really came out. So I've been a fan of those, you know, even when the Flash Gordon era and Buck Rogers and all that, I always loved the robots. All right, sir. Question number two. Aside from G1, which is always the number one answer, what's your favorite Transformers fiction? That's a tough one. I have a tie between those. I love Beast Wars. I got into that when I was in college. I come home from work in my morning. And before I go to college, go to school, I had this little gap and then it came on, I think it was UPN or something back then. I think it was USA Network. It was on like at eight o'clock or 730 in the morning. It had something. I started recording them and I'd watch them. And I got a little bit into Beast Wars. And then with the Dreamwave comics came around. Naturally, I really got back into it in the early 2000s. And it was a slow build in those. And it started getting good just when they went bankrupt. I love the art in those books. I did too. Did you get the mini series, the More Than Meets the Ice series, or kind of went over all the bios of every Transformer? Yeah, I still got those books. I sold off most of my Dreamwave after that, which I can't regret now. But I kept all those books. Oh, those are great. I got them, I guess the graphic novel for the big thick ones. And I actually grabbed those when I was in Iraq. So those have a special place in my heart. They're still on the shelf. All right, question number three. Do you have a favorite figure or grail? This is one toy you will never let go of. I like Masterpiece Soundwave. My wife got it for me for my birthday. It was the first Transformer Masterpiece that she bought me. So it's got a sentimental value there. It's a gift from my wife. And obviously, it's my favorite character. So throwing up as a kid. Oh, you just answered number five. All right, yeah, that's a great figure. I actually sold mine. I really regret doing it. But it was just one of those moments where I need money. We got to take care of some things. What can I live without? Now that I got rid of him, I'm like, I couldn't live without him. So maybe one of these days I'll find another. All right, number four is what figure is your white whale, your most wanted toy? Well, I've got most of those. As a kid, I was jet-firing to make Supreme. Then about five, six years ago, I got those. But now it'd be a G1 Overlord. Oh, you and I are just saying about it. I started looking into that one, and he is just outrageously expensive for just a, just to buy a junker on eBay, like $200 or more. I'm like, no, I just buy a box. It's 200 bucks, his box. I'd have to, one day, strike it rich, win the lottery, something. I'm hoping, I mean, when they were doing the Encore line, that's how I got my Fort Max. I was hoping maybe that line would continue and we could get him. But I think it's, I don't know if that's ever gonna happen. Maybe for the 40th anniversary. Yeah, I like the Encore line because that's how I got Skylinks and Omega Supreme, finally. Jet-firing was originally G1 I bought off eBay. Someone was selling. Well, I got Fort Max as a kid and I was lucky. One Christmas morning, go in there and he's sitting in a box and I was excited. They didn't even wrap him up, he's just too big. Let him unwrapped, put a big bow on him. Do you still have your original? Oh yeah. That's awesome. I never got that thing. I was a dumbass in the 90s. I sold or didn't sell. I traded my entire Transformers G1 collection for a Super Nintendo. Oh. Granted, I've made up for it now. Yeah, you've made up for it, that's for sure. Now my shelves are empty. You'll fill them up, I have faith in you. I'm moving rooms, because we're doing moving around in the house. So I've got to go another room so everything's just kind of moving out. Gotcha, yeah. And the problem with moving rooms, when I moved into this one, you end up playing with your stuff more than actually moving it because like, man, I haven't fooled with this guy in years. Yeah, I've been doing that. All right, well, you've kind of answered number five already, but what is your favorite Transformer character? Well, Sam Waver's mine and my channel's named after him. I got a shirt on, you know, but there's other characters in the fiction that they do more personality with and all the comics. I kind of like IDW's Ratchet for a while in the comic books, but overall, yeah, I love what they were doing with them, but then I kind of got out of the comics when money got tight and kids got plentiful. So I was about 2015, I started easing out and I was like, I got to cut back and want to buy, want to collect. So I sold a lot of my stuff and kind of regret selling some of it now, but I get a lot of my G1, so. Comics are ridiculous anymore. I remember complaining when they upped the price to a dollar. Yeah, it was 75 cents and then a dollar my kid, I was a child and then by the dollar, $50, $25, they went and I was like, man, the dollar, $50, $75, two, I'm like, they got a star. Now it's like $5 for a comic. I'm like, easy. Yeah, they don't even have as many pages. I think everything's like splash pages. Yeah, it's like digital. Yeah, they got the big old splash pages. Sometimes they'll take like two, the whole, like both pages when you open it, and it's just a waste. I waited until a lot of them came out in graphic novel form and then IDW started to get really weird. And so I just kind of, I think I ended, I quick reading after the All Hail Megatron series when it kind of happened up. Yeah, I enjoyed that one a little bit. Then I kind of got into it a little bit when they had to have the lost way, split them up a little bit and I started, I was into it and then I started getting out of it a little bit and they started going a little bit, I don't know, I don't say crossing the line or anything, but they went a little bit far with it and I was just, what has into it? And they rebooted them now and I bought the first two issues, so I'm gonna try to get back into it. I'm debating on grabbing those. Of course, I don't have a comic shop around me. If I get them, I'm gonna have to order them or do the Comixology digital. Yeah, I started doing that. Is this a slow bill so far? I bought the first two issues and it's a slow bill. Most of them are, unfortunately, that's how they get your money. Oh, hell yeah. See what the next issue brings. All right, well that does it for all of our Transformers questions. So the last five are about you as a YouTuber. So question number six is what possessed you, a grown ass man, to do toy reviews on YouTube? I guess cause I live in a house full of women. Yeah. All your kids are women? Yeah, they're all girls. Oh, yeah, girls. My youngest is two years old, so she's a little young still, but my oldest, I always try to get her in Transformers. She would never pick into it. My twins, I started when they were young and they would watch the animated movie and then as they got older, they just, no, no, no. But every now and then on the background, I'll sip on some on the Roku, I'm gonna put on Transformers G1, and they'll watch it a little bit and then I'll put it in the animated movie and then Prime dies and they're like, is he come back? I'm like, yeah, he comes back and when they watched the rest of the movie, they're like, he didn't come back. I was like, you gotta watch the cartoon there. But. I've tried with my little one. He knows who the characters are. He likes, he loves the music to Transformers the movie. We listen to the soundtrack all the time and he's watched Bumblebee probably seven times. But as far as the toys, he wants Batman Imagine X and Ben 10. Yeah. If I get my oldest to go see Transformers the last night, which. I'm sorry. Yeah. All the other Transformers, I saw them a couple times in theaters. I bought the DVDs, Blu-rays and I would watch them. Now, the last night I bought the Blu-ray. I watched special features. I have yet to watch the movie again. I've seen it once. And I'll look, I'll think back on it. It's got some cool scenes, but the movie all as a whole is just crap. It took me, I want to say about four days to watch it. I just could not get invested in it. I mean, it's like. It's like in theaters. Oh. Now it's the only one I didn't see in this theaters. Everybody, I heard so many bad things about it. I was like, well, I'll save my money on this one. I should have. I don't know why, but the Blu-ray now I'm stuck with it. You know, no one else going to buy it from me. I actually saw it, a used Blu-ray of it that Dollar General was like $4 and I held it up for a second. I thought, no, not supporting this movie. And I said, I always put towards the figure. Exactly. I did. I think I bought the Dollar General Megatron instead. I bought those little cheap toys. Oh God, they're pathetic. Yeah. They look good on the shelf though. Okay. Question number seven, what keeps inspiring you to get in front of your camera? I don't like getting in front of the camera, I guess. I'm camera shy. I put my hands in front of the camera. No, I'm sorry. What inspires you to keep doing these videos? I need to word that a little better. No, I understand what you meant. Just trying to, like again, I've got a house full of girls. And if I want to talk about my hobby, passion, you know, I pretty much got to do it this way because my work and four kids, I don't have much of an outside life, so. No, I feel you. I got a desk job with a bunch of ladies. I mean, they're great ladies to work with, but we don't have nothing in common to talk about. Then I come home, I got Dylan and whatever he does. And this is it. I've really enjoyed doing this. I love talking to people face to face. I mean, I see you on Facebook and we comment back and forth on each other's videos, but I really dig doing this. It's like hanging out the bar and talking to bots. Yeah, I don't get to hang out with anybody because between work, family, this has got to sleep. All right, question number eight. There are thousands of toy reviewers on YouTube. What makes you different than the rest? Not really anything makes me any different, I guess. Not as good as most of them, I would say. I don't know, I've watched people doing it and I was like, you know, I want to talk about it. I'll do it too. No, like this, give a different opinion, maybe. Because there's a lot that just, I don't, I'm not gonna say any names, but they like every single figure they review. Pretty much as though if I own it, I'm pretty much going to like it. I don't really buy anything. I don't think I'm going to not like. Since I spend my hard-earned money on this stuff, I'm gonna buy what I want and what I'm going to like, but. That's where I've gotten to the point of watching guys like us, is we go out with our own money and we buy it and then say we don't like the figure. We're not gonna lie about it. It's like, hey, I spent 12 bucks on this thing and it fell apart on me, so do not get it. Here's your warning, don't buy this piece of junk. And it's like, hey, I spent 12 bucks on it, I would have spent 20. So I would trust our opinions more than somebody that's just giving the toys. Yeah, they get them early, they can review them early and be like the test shots, prototypes, and like. But if I spent $50 on a seed shockwave, which is an excellent figure, this is not worth 50 bucks. I still can't break myself to do it. It's like, one of these days he'll go, he may drop to 30. He's hard to find around here, so I don't know. That's like Ultra Magnus. I got him on Hasbro Pulse because I never saw him around here. My Walmart does not carry leader class or the small ones. Everything I do, I have to go on Amazon.com or Pulse. That's a half my Walmart. They have a certain setup where they have siege studio series and they'll have the cyber burst and then I go to another Walmart and there's like two rows and there'd be one row for siege, one row for studio series, there'd be no class, none of the legends or the battle masters or anything. It's just deluxe and Voyager, that's it. Yeah, that's all mine is. It's like a two foot wide, four foot tall section. The only thing about Walmart's stocks is disappointment. Yeah, that's the one closest to me and they don't stock crap, but then the one that's further from me, they'll stock everything. I'm like, I gotta drive this far. This is a waste of gas. That's why I try ordering stuff because I was like, I'll just order it, save my gas, but then when I go do my work, I'm driving around. I'll just run into it and I'm like, well now I've already ordered it and now I've found it. So I'm like, do I just buy this and then cancel that, buy this one, get that one in, just take it back to the store, get my money back that way. I'll see, there's where I'll see, there's what calls I had pre-ordered sound wave, ravage and laser beak on pulse, along with six shots, not six shot, six gun. And so then I ran into sound wave in my Walmart. So I was shocked. So I picked him up and canceled the pre-order. But then I forgot that ravage and laser beak was attached to that pre-order. And then I went to find them and all, they're like 20 bucks on Amazon and nowhere to be found in my store. But fortunately, a buddy on Facebook hooked me up for him at cost. So I did get them. They just started showing up around here, laser beak and ravage. I found them by, I guess, like a week ago and it was last Wednesday. They're nice, ravage could use some work though. Yeah, he's for the size, he's just too small. Laser beak's fine. Well, laser beak's great. He's the best one. I can't wait for a buzz saw come out of that. They gotta make one. Okay, question number nine. What's your thoughts on the Transformers social community? IE, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, et cetera. And do you have any special shout outs? Uh, thoughts. As long as you're not a fan of the Bayformers, you're good. It's dependent, it's, I don't know, a lot of the Transformers and such Facebook group, they're really good. There's some groups I'm a member of and those of them just argue all, and these constant on my Facebook feed, those of you arguing about the Bayformers movie, the Bumblebee movie, G1 this, Bayformers this, you know, that's just like, you know, they're so cruel with each other. I'm like, dude, it's movie. Yeah. I've left a couple groups because of that. If you don't mind. The fact I'm, it's, it's ridiculous. And going back to it, there was one group, I forget what it was, but I actually took a picture of that $4 last night, Blu-ray, put it on the group and I just had a simple quote, this is still too much. This dude freaking cussed me out like I had offended his mother. Just because, oh, if it wasn't for Michael Bay, Transformers with me, like, Jesus, dude. I can see the point in that. Cause I guess 2007 movie, you know, it brought people back into it. But, you know, I don't know if you're a true fan, you never left, but I guess you brought new people into it. I guess, but as his, he was fine for the first movie. The second movie was a mess. The third movie was better than that fourth movie. It started going, lockdown was the best thing on the fourth movie, Age of Extinction. I liked his character. If you take him out, put him in one of the other movies, that'd be fine. I actually liked Galvatron, but I hated that whole digitized transformation crap. Yeah, that was. That was just stupid. I didn't like that either. It's like, this is like Legos flying around the screen or something. Like the Thanos just snapped him. Yeah. But other than that, I know I used to be on the forums for like TFW and them, but it's the same way. I just, I got to where I just go on the sightings page and say, hey, I saw this in this store or this in this store for the Alabama sightings. So that's about all I do now on those. Yeah, you and I are on the same boat with that. Cause I used to be on those too, but that's all it is, is arguing back and forth. I'm like, I deal with enough of that in the real world. I'm here to have a good time. I'm 45. Let's talk about toys. That's why I'm afraid to read my comments sometimes in my YouTube videos. I'm afraid I'm gonna see somebody that's, you know, being on a troll or something. I'm just like, I don't got past a few comments before there just, no, there's just left to be mean and wouldn't anything but transformers in my video. Oh, I get it all the time because of the name of my channel. Yeah. It's, I got my filter set to high. So I usually catch a lot of them quick and I'll actually screenshot them sharing with some buddies of mine and we'll laugh about it. Yeah. You post them on the Facebook group and stuff. I'll see it and I'll laugh at them. It's like, I'll shake my head. It's that word, Patriot, that gets a lot of them angry. Yeah, everything I do has the American flag on it. And oh gosh, how dare I, but. I mean, yeah, I'm not gonna go, I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna rant that way, but yeah. Me neither, but everybody thinks I do. All right, last question. Do you have any channel goals for yourself and where can our viewers find you? It's time for you to plug yourself and congratulations, by the way, you hit a thousand not too long ago, correct? Yeah, I think the last day of March, I hit a thousand. Finally, I got in the 700 pretty fast and then I just stalled. I was like, I'm not doing anything any different. And I couldn't figure out why. And then all of a sudden I went to 800, went to 900 really fast, got to a thousand pretty fast and I slowed back down a little bit, that's what happened to me. I was stuck at 700 and God, I was in the 750s forever. And then I did a top 10 transformers of 2018 video, got like 500 views within the first 12 hours and my subs just shot through the roof. And of course, right then is where I changed my whole format around a little bit. Yeah, I'm still trying to find my right format. I think that's my problem and I'm still experimenting. I'll do a video one way and then next one I'll do a different way. I'm just trying to find my comfort zones still on this. It's been almost two years and I still haven't found it. Well, I've tried different things. I dabbled in the movie reviews and YouTube actually flagged me on one. How dare I use copyrighted materials? Like, well, how the hell do these other guys do it? Yeah, I don't want to have my stuff. They do these reactions to the trailers. I'm like, how can you put the whole trailer in there? Yeah, I did one too. I think the last night a couple of years ago and I got flagged six months later on it. Well, that was, I did a movie review of the movie Overlord, that World War II zombie movie. I thought, hey, I was really looking forward to it. I filmed the review as soon as I got home. Like two weeks ago, that movie came out in November. So two weeks ago I got hit for it. Like there's hundreds of reviews on this movie. How come I get it? And I had it there in the corner, just a little segment. I don't know how they do it, but I wish I could find their secret. Somebody knows the algorithm. Apparently. All right, well, now plug yourself. What's your channel's name? What do you do for the video? Channel's name is Soundwave Space 8084. I'm on Instagram at soundwave underscore 8084 underscore reviews. I'm on Facebook, Soundwave, I'm on 8084, toy reviews or something. I don't know. What did it gave me? I lose track of what I'm onto. Yeah, I'm on Twitter, but I don't really use it. I don't even know what my name is on there. I can't figure out Twitter for the life of me, which is maybe a good thing, because that's what gets everybody in trouble. I know I have a Twitter page, but I couldn't tell you the last time I posted on it. I have one. I'll go ahead. I had one I connected to the YouTube, because it used to upload a video, it automatically posted through your Twitter, and they stopped doing that. Yeah, that's the only reason I made a Twitter. Yeah, that's the only reason I had one. I don't even know what it is. I couldn't log in if I wanted to. I get emails. I'm like, yeah, I don't care enough to go over there and find it out. I know, kid. That's what Facebook's for. I'll be the old man. I'll stick to Facebook. Yeah, that's me. And just to let everybody know who's watching, I will put Jacob's link to his YouTube channel in the description of this video, and you'll have a link to one of his videos and his channel at the end when I have Optimus Prime waving that flag. And that is all for the sit-rep, Jacob. I really appreciate you stopping by and talking to me tonight. Thank you for having me. Excellent. And guys, I want to thank you for watching. If you like what you see, don't forget to like, don't forget to subscribe. I try to put out videos at least once or twice a week. Just depends on my schedule. And I usually put out sit-reps on Mondays and Fridays. This is Patriot Prime, signing out. Hua!