 Hey, what's going on guys? Patriot Prime here once again with another episode of the Sitrep and my special guest, Anthony from H&E Games. Anthony, how are you doing this evening, sir? I'm surprised I'm special. It's just nobody ever tells me that. But man, how are you doing? You're out in the weather. Yeah. So it's it's I'm in north central Ohio. It is 16 degrees out here. It is actually so cold that my watch broke. So, you know, that sucked. And there's a foot of snow behind me. I let yesterday I have a truck. I got stuck in my own driveway. Yeah. Now I want a Jeep, a Jeep. You can read a review or read watch a review of that said truck on my channel. Anyway, speaking of that truck, let's just transition a little bit. Let me just switch on over there. Oh, there we go. Nice and warm. We have had this thing running for the last 10 minutes. Now, the situation in this truck is a little cold, but I've heated seats. So, you know, and paid less than 20 grand for this truck. So, awesome. Now, I figure we're going to go visit a couple of people. Let's see where we end up. Oh, look where we're at. Yeah. If this was full screen, you could see the main thing that tells you where we are. Hold on. I'm making full screen. The tell tale is, of course, the Patriot Prime statue behind me. We are at Kato's. Does he know that? I hope so because he gave me the picture. But in Kato's, it's nice and warm. There's just a lot of toys around and he has no organization. You see all this stuff boxed here to my left. It is like, okay, so here is, I'm going to show you Inferno and Dino Altweight. I can't physically touch them. This is imaginary. Okay. On to the next location. Here we go. Okay. Now, I realize there's like a whole bunch of like, what is that? There's your turtles behind me and Optimus Prime's and Voltron's. And I bet you love that toy. So, this is Bert the Stormtroopers. And here, I can't tell if it's knowing us that or not. The blinds are closed. Not in Florida. He's in Florida. I think he's the one escaping all this. He's laughing at us. Right. Because if I mentioned in Texas, they are so unfamiliar with snow, my brother lives there, a $600 heating bill for the last month. That is just nuts when it's snowing that bad in Texas. But let's return back to my place so I can get out of this gear. Ah, much better. I'm just going to take all this stuff off. Okay. There we go. So, that was the situation report. Thanks for watching, everybody. Remember to, you know, like and subscribe to my channel. See ya. All right. Well, that was a different intro than I normally do. So, H&E Games, other than playing around with green screen programs and home invading our fellow YouTubers, what can you tell us about yourself? Introduce yourself to my viewers. So, my name is Anthony Hasledge. I am the Chief Operations Officer of HasledgeNet Enterprises, which the H&E stands for in H&E Games. We started in 1988. We started as like lawnmower services, plowing snow, you know, shoveling, you know, I was like 12 years old. Anyway, and then we moved up to computer stuff. So, like as early 90s, we had a community development corporation we got in touch with. I think I'm in junior high school at this point and my brother and I start creating flyers and stuff for local businesses. So, we did that for a while. I also took your dino bot and your inferno. So, you know, anyway. So, we would do stuff for local businesses and when the internet finally got here in 1996, we started switching to websites. And then in 2007, we spun off our websites on the YouTube. Now, by this point, I had already had two seasons on a TV show locally. I also had a number of years of being a radio DJ locally. I had been printed in magazines. I was an active newspaper writer editor. So, I was super busy into media. And when I enrolled in college in 2002, I had convinced the heads of the college or at least the heads of student life, which is the department of the college, to start a radio station, which led to me doing the TV shows and the DJing. And I wish I had money. I actually have the four issues of the magazine that I was an editor on as well. If you go to my personal website, which is AR Haslidge, or no, let me easy. It's Tony.Haslidge.net. If you go to that, you can actually see cuttings from the magazines and the website of articles and stuff I did. Because I basically put all my professional stuff, like my portfolio online. So, back to YouTube. In 2007, my brother had permission from Warner Brothers to remaster and publish onto YouTube some media. If you've ever heard of Animal Olympics or Gotham Girls. So, he cleaned those up through my online. And it worked. Back then, you just get views. There weren't subscribers. You didn't have to worry about that stuff. Phenomenal hit. So then, by the time 2008 hits, you know Larry Flint died, right? Yeah, he's taken over. It's KDo's magazine now. I just found out that Hustler X, it was multiple magazines, not just the one. But anyway, off topic. Apparently, we are now in Patriot Prime after dark. So, in 2008, we just started to set up a Prime Haslidge net entertainment or enterprises channel. And we were posting basically audio of the TV show. We were posting the audio, the red audio of, at the time, my brother and I were both writers for a number of game magazines. So, we would just, after the magazine had been to print and had been out for a little while, we would just audio record the reviews and throw them onto YouTube if you wanted to listen to them rather than just read them on our website. And that was what the first part of YouTube was the first couple of years. And then every couple of years, I come back with some ideas. If it doesn't work out, I just screw it. About two years ago, I started working for Nintendo. Actually, right before I started working for Nintendo, I had given up pretty much doing, because I was really big into the Pokemon training card game. I wasn't playing, as I was saying, the Yu-Gi, I wasn't doing that much. I never really got into magic. There was a couple other like Dragon Ball Super. I ended up selling my Pokemon collection for a whole bunch of money. So, then I started buying streaming equipment, transformers to review, sometimes electronics would come in. Like, I have a sponsorship, I'm going to say sponsorship air quotes, from Linksys, so occasionally they'll send me products. So, I figured, well, since this was all kind of converging on this one point, where I'm between one job and I had yet to know I was going to get hired by Nintendo, I figured I would just give this a spin. Well, Nintendo, don't let anybody tell you otherwise, Nintendo pays very well, okay? I worked for five months last year because of COVID, and I still made more than my little brother, who worked an entire year. So, yeah, and I do his taxes. Yeah, I do his taxes. So, yeah, which is funny because this is praise for Nintendo. This past holiday season, they said, you know what, we're going to risk it, we're going to bring you all back, but at the time, like most everywhere in the country was like level two COVID. So, what happened was they go, well, we're going to basically tell you to stay home if your area is level three or level four, and we'll still pay you for the entire season. So, yeah, I worked two weeks one day, and still got paid for the entire three months. Yeah, exactly. So, Nintendo, if you have an opportunity to work for Nintendo, work for Nintendo. Okay, it was spectacular. But as you can tell then, like probably with a number of other people, I had so much free time in 2020, and that little bit at the end of 2019 that it just made sense to go on to do this. And I'm kind of happy I sold my trading cards because who was I going to play with last year? Like, I couldn't touch anybody, see anybody, and then I still got COVID in December. Like, I was sick for an entire month and ended up in the hospital, but this was the one thing I really tried to do the entire time. I was, how bad is it when you get exhausted editing a video? I'm just sitting there moving a mouse, and I just needed to take a nap after one video. It was so bad. Oh, so anyway, that's how we ended up where we are now. We just evolved with the times and tried to find new interests. We treat, and I say we because my brother's technically the CEO and my sister-in-law is something, I forget where her position is. If you go to our Discord for Haslidge.net, which you can find on our website, haslidge.net, our Discord is basically my two brothers, my sister-in-law, and me plus Transformers reviewers in there, plus my friends from back in the early or late 80s through the mid 90s. I was a programmer, so I still have friends from back then that hang out in the Discord. It's not very active, mind you, but if you ever need to talk to us, check out our Discord. But going back to YouTube, it's basically I have time and money, and that is basically where we ended up doing Transformers because that's what I'm really interested in. And this is very long, I know, it caught me off whenever. Let's not say this is the longest, tell us a little bit about yourself I've had yet. Yes, okay, so I'm going to continue on then. He's going to answer everything before I even ask. You know what? That happens to me too. So, which is funny, I'm going to segue for a sec. I've been doing the 10 questions things since the late 90s. People who now work for Activision Blizzard, Microsoft, Fuji, Adobe, I've interviewed them before they got there. So, I've been doing interviewing because I actually went to school for journalism for about 20 plus years. So when I found out you were doing this, when you did the Rodimus review, because I didn't understand you were doing a format, I thought it was just a BS session. I was like, I was talking to Inu Ta because I was interviewing him at the time. I was like, what would it be funny if we did 10 questions versus sit-rep? We just asked each other questions for an hour, you know? Yeah, I thought it would be funny. Funny idea. It just probably wouldn't execute well. But so when I was a kid, we were poor. We lived on welfare. My mom was just going to school for being a nurse. My grandma and mom, technically my grandparents, who my grandpa worked for GMC, would buy our Christmas presents and then say they're from mom and grandma. But for the first 30 years of my life, the only transformers I had were the G2 Optimus Prime, Scattershot, SnapTrap, and Four Throttle Butts. That was it. That's all we could afford. And when I was working the game companies, I probably had some money. That's when I started investing in Titan's Return. They're talking about the movie Street Fighter in the comments. I had just talked to somebody else about that scene today. Yeah, so I picked up transformers again with Titan's Return, then went back and started grabbing Goodbiner Wars and Power of the Primes when it came out. And then here we are today, me reviewing this new stuff. I have a box of the Prime Wars trilogy that I probably should review if I lose material. But yeah. So that's how I got where I'm at. And I think that answers your first question plus some. I think so. Well, that's it. That's a little bit about you. That's a little bit. That's an awesome backstory. You got a lot of history, man. That's really cool. Look, I'm your age. So of course I do. The only difference is I'm a rare animal and you're like a staff sergeant or something. I blew stuff up for a living. A demolition expert. Artillery. I was going to say, I used to play. I teach you some of the distance. Yeah, I picked legends. I think I did that. All right. Well, now for those of you who don't know how the set rep works is I don't I ruined it. What's that? I didn't know how it worked. I ruined it. Hell, train just derailed again. Anyhow, I have 10 questions that I ask my guest five questions regarding the transformer toys and five questions regarding him as a YouTuber. So, Anthony, if you're ready to tell us some more information, we'll get this thing started. Oh, I thought I already finished already. Oh, pretty much. I think you got down to number eight. Well, let's do it in order. And then I'll try to be a little bit more brief. I think 14 minutes is a little too long. So yeah, like I said, a little bit about yourself. 14 minutes is a little bit derail. So by by all means. All right. Question number one, what's the appeal of transformers for you? Okay, so my my dad and my mom say the family, both of my grandpas or car guys, most of my uncles are car guys. So I like, I like cars. I like vehicles. I hate motorcycles because I once drove, rode a motorcycle and burnt myself and fell over. But otherwise, I like like nice cars. And I like big trucks. I used to work for a company where I had to look into trucks to make sure people weren't hauling anything illegal, getting into a cab or a real nice semi truck that's like a quarter million dollars. Oh, muscle cars spectacular. But not Jeeps. I had in a zoo zoo. Yes, it's not technically a Jeep, but it could roll over just like a Jeep. Wrangler. So I like cars. And then the fact that the vehicle, the car could transform into a robot and fight. I mean, any any red blooded American boy should love the concept of a hot car and a robot could then destroy things. It just right. That's why there are video games about this stuff because it's popular. That's why I like transformers. Nice. Amen. All right. Question number two, aside from G1, which is always the number one answer. What's your favorite transformers fiction? Survey set. Okay. No whammy stop. Boy, we are dating ourselves. No whammy, no whammy, no whammy. So, okay, G1 is the number one answer because that's my answer. If I had to rank it, I think it would be Beast Wars next, which makes the kingdom line now just I missed out on so many of them. I got my first job when the final season of Beast Wars was out. My first, like real good paying job. And I was able to get Transmetal Megatron and also was Optimal Optimus Primal. That was the only two Beast Wars figures I ever had. Megatron suffered from Gold Plastic Syndrome. GPS. I have one over there. I want to review him so bad, but I'm afraid to touch him. He's been in the same pose for probably 15 years. Yeah. So, my Megatron had been stored for 15 years or so, 20 years, whatever. In dinosaur mode, I went to transform him both his arms and his waist broke. So, he's glued together and in a bin under my bed because where else am I going to stick him? Because it's not even a good glue job. It makes me sad. A glue job. Okay. Yeah. After Dark of Patriot Prime. Okay. It's my channel. So, I just put him away. Optimus, more or less, works. His springs on his arm shields, they kind of don't stick very well. But he still has the laser beam, the firm mechanics, so that's all good. And legit, the only one. So, now I finally have Primal. I have Rat Trab, I have Cheetor, Black Arachnia. I cannot wait for Dino Bot. Air Razor, you know, she's not one of my favorite characters, but I think she would be awesome. So, she's the only one I haven't pre-ordered. Yeah, me too. I haven't pre-ordered for little Starscream. I don't care for that. Yeah. I don't care about the core figure. Unless it's a unique character, I don't care. I pre-ordered all of them. Well, Huff would be nice too. From Target and Hasbro Pulse, and when everyone comes in first, I cancel the other. But I save money doing this through Target. I just got an email from Hasbro Pulse today that they're canceling my premium membership that was promised to me, you know, like a lifetime membership if you're one of the first people that signed up. But they're going to cancel it, and I have to pay $50 if I want to keep my free shipping and all that. And I'm like, I'll go to Amazon. Wow, that sucks. Yeah, I'm not paying them $50 considering all the problems I've had with them lately. And yeah, they're tough. I'll get it from Amazon. Yeah, see, the funny thing is I got the membership too. And free shipping is great. But when I order so much, that it always is free shipping anyway. It just, it doesn't seem worth it, I guess. I think when I pulled up how many figures I bought for the year 2020, I'd only ordered like six things from Pulse. And two of them got turned back into them or refunded. Yeah, because they asked me to review my purchase of the membership and I was like, well, it sucks. Like, there's exclusives, quote unquote. But like the exclusives I would want is the clear standy things but for Transformers. But they only make them for the Jaxman G.I. Joe's. And I talked to Rodimus Primal and he was like, yeah, he got some from his father-in-law and they were special order for Transformers. I was like, I really would love to get something like that. It isn't too expensive just so I can do some pose or something. But then I'm like, am I even motivated to do that? Like, do I want to do stop motion? Do I want to do, like, I keep going back like, let's do the comic thing where you take pictures of them in a pose and you put thought bubbles above the head and that's it. You know, you don't have to animate anything. You just take picture, you repose them, take a picture, have a script written first. That is probably the most I'll ever do. So like, if I have the standy things are probably because somebody's kicking somebody else, action scene, I'm done. Yeah, I have a hard enough time doing a regular review. Right. It's just like, when you're putting out, I do up to five things a week. So on Mondays, typically anything special, I feel like on Tuesday on my personal channel, the Internet Politician, I will do something. Wednesday is my usual review. Thursday is back on the Internet Politician. I'll do something else. And then Friday is either a live stream like this or a, what was it, or, or an interview. So that my whole five days are planned and recorded. And I do things like, and people complain about it. I post upwards of three months in advance. That's what Bert does. He'll knock out reviews and just schedule them on YouTube and they'll just pop out automatically. I'll do mine. I shoot the review and throw it up right now. Yeah, I can't be a last minute Johnny. And I don't know what it'll like, if I had not done the advanced thing back in November, I would have had nothing out in December because I was so sick. So there's been a number of times where I just didn't have the time or whatever, but I pumped out videos so well in advance that no one ever knew that no one was ever the wiser that there was just a period of time I couldn't get anything done. Well, I just got five toy hacks sets in. So that'll be my next projects for the next few days. All right, well, we went off on a tangent once again. Where are we going to keep doing? I don't need to point it out. Do you have a favorite figure or holy grail, a figure you will never let go of? Say you have to sell your whole collection. This one's not going anywhere. Well, it was the Transmetal Megatron, but now he's a pile of burning garbage. F for respects, people, F for respects. So ruin your wood floor. Right now I'm torn because there's Skylinks Grimlock from Studio Series and Beast Megatron because I will try. Let's see how far I can get because I love dinosaurs. When I was little, I was really into dinosaurs. So like when I first saw the DinoBots on the cartoon, I was like, holy crap, they're dinosaur transformers. And we could never have the money for medium and get one of them. And that is why I have the entire volcanic is set now. But here's speaking of Grimlock from Studio Series. I think he's a cheap piece of crap. Yeah, that's a hot take there, people. So if you have Megatron on one hand and Grimlock on the other hand, Megatron is solid. He's heavy. He's weighty. Yeah, his fake skin doesn't really cover everything up. But he looks like he's supposed to. That's fine. But he feels like he has substance. You take Studio Series Grimlock. He feels like a cheap piece of plastic. He looks like the movie representation. Don't get me wrong. But it doesn't fit entirely correct. Maybe the pegs don't stay in, at least in my version. Wheelie, I wish Wheelie was a little bit more. It's just, but if you lift him up, he is so light that you feel like he's going to float away. And when you're getting Studio Series items, I expect the quality to be there. Not that I expect him to throw like a two pound weight in it. They'll weigh it down. But I just, but I still love the way he looks. So it's kind of a mixed bag. So if it's a dinosaur and it's a transformer, pretty much those are what I like. So that's kind of, now if I, if I had to pick the one of the three, it would be Skylinks because Skylinks is perfect in every way. And he would say so. Yes. Yes, he would. All right. Number four, what is your white whale, your most wanted toy? Funny fact, today I got it here in the mail. I've been for two years trying to get, oh, actually three years. When did the Combiner Wars, Combiner Wars was five years ago, right? I've been trying for upwards of five years to get off road for Minnesota. Oh, the pickup truck. Yeah. Like I keep finding them on Amazon for like $60 plus $20 shipping and handling. I'm like, oh, heck no. That's highway robbery. But you know, it's a combat icon. So I, you know, um, so I got lucky on eBay about two weeks ago and found them for 40 and then I jumped on it. So I got them today and now I have the complete Minnesota set. Now I have the G2 recolor Minnesota, which means he has a replacement piece. So technically my Minnesota now has six pieces rather than just five. I can interchange, you know, I mean, it's scramble city combiners. You can change it anything, but you know what I'm saying, right? I have all six cannon pieces of Minnesota. So yeah, Minnesota was so disappointing when he first came out because I'm a huge Minnesota fan and I didn't like how they made Motor Master just a cab. But you know, I can accept that because when he transformed, it was still pretty G one-ish, but the Minnesota was just so misproportioned. Of course, once you get some add-on pieces, he looks all right. But that was like the weakest of the entire combiner wars, combiners in my opinion. Well, I, I liked, excuse me, I liked Minnesota enough that I was willing to frigo the, oh wait, we just ended up in Canada. I don't know how he got here. Getting away from the weather, I guess. I imagine Canada is probably worse. I, oh, okay. All right. How do I get back home? Oh, there we go. Okay. I just had to stop into Canada for some health insurance or whatever. Okay. Yeah, I, I, I, most G2 stuff I hate the color of, but I looked at Minnesota and there was the original version and then the G2 repaint. And I just, I dug the color scheme for the G2. Like I hate, as I said, I like G2 Megatron, I hate the color scheme, but the purple one or the green one? The purple and green one. The purple one or the green one? Well, it's purple and green. I don't know what to tell you. There's two Megatrons in G2. There's a purple tank and there's the big green one. Okay. Well, they're both ugly. So, I don't dare you. But I say that knowing that I also have the G2 Optimus Prime, but he was a, he was a re-release with a different trailer. So the trailer is black instead of gray, which I'm okay with. It always cracked me up how the G2 figures had their name stamped on them. Like they're going into battle. Here's Optimus Prime on my leg, Megatron across his chest. It's, it's like, where's the secrecy? Like now you're basically advertising all the humans as you drive down the road. Hey, it's a transformer and not just some guy calling some stuff. All right. We're all right. Here are number five. What is your favorite Transformers character? Any fiction, any media? This isn't the toy. This is a character. Yes. Oh, crap. Because it is, it is torn between Megatron and Grimlock. And I mean Beast Megatron. And of course, the Beast Megatron from Beast Wars, because I just like the way he speaks. But then I also, again, I love the Transmetal ones. It feels like, I, okay. Beast Megatron, he was the same character all the way through the entire series. Right. It's just different. Right. I'm just trying to decide which one to pick. Like is it Grimlock or Megatron? Okay. Can I pick the Grimlock that can also merge to become Volcanicus, which is from the the Prime Wars trilogy series? You can pick whatever you want. This is a free country. You're back from Canada, right? Yeah, I'm back. You can pick whoever you want. Yeah, I'm going to go with Grimlock then. Which one? Greg Berger Grimlock. Classic G1 Grimlock. Yep. All right. Well, that wraps up the Transformers toy questions. Now we're going into YouTube land. So question number six. What possessed you? A grown ass man to do toy reviews on YouTube? The ghost of some dead guy from 100 years ago? Reflect on your question and then you'll understand my answer. It's late, man. Don't be hitting me with intelligent shit. Well, it goes back to, I was deprived of like Transformers as a kid. So when I had the opportunity, I jumped on it. I mean, wasn't wasn't fully my intention to dive into Transformers as much as I have, because if you go through the history of the YouTube channel for H&A, I did a lot of tech and video game stuff. And so I think I found Rodimus Primal's channel, your channel and Kato's channel. And I was watching you guys and I'm like, well, I can do my own spin on that. And so I figured what the heck I had just acquired. I remember it was at the end. I think it was Power of the Primes. I had a couple of things. I was like, well, let's see how I can do. Now at the time I had a crap computer, which is now in my bedroom. And I was using free software. And I had a crap camera with, and I did this weird thing. So he expected it to be over a half an hour. He was wrong. Okay. So here's how my setup was on my original computer. I had a, I have a mic stand. So what I would do is drink them the mic stands as high as it can go. You're the feeling in his life. You're the inspiration for Chronic Kid Part 2. So I raised the mic span up and then I would turn the extension piece sideways and mount the camera at the top facing downwards. So it would look at the top of my desk. And then I would lay down the transformer and transform it under the camera with the monitor straight in front of me. And that was how I did the reviews. And I was like, well, that wasn't too bad. Now what really bothers me is that Nakedo uses these excellent backgrounds for his reviews. And I, you know, I like, I see Tori Hex has them. And I'm like, do I want to spend $35 on something like that? Because I bought this Transformers Trading Card Game Playmat, which you'll see at the bottom of my Transformers reviews. And I think the white background with it, because it's a white playmat with transformer characters on it, kind of goes nicely unless you see all the detail. The one thing I've come with and Kato, this is where your inspiration ends. When you show a picture of gray weapons on a gray background, I had to look at the picture and zoom in and go, what the heck am I looking at? Dude, change the background if you're going to have gray weapon. It was this video from like two days ago, I think. I could not, I watch YouTube on my TV. I'm sitting eight feet away and had no idea what I was looking at. Okay. Always assume your audience is blind and deaf. I'm just going to give you guys Kato and Rodimus. Yeah, I was just, it looked like fun. And I figured what the heck I had time and money. So. Oh, here's the man deluxe right here. I absolutely loved your throwback review on your review. Reminded me of Mystery Science Theater 3000. I laughed so hard watching that. I missed your live stream, but I'm a terrible insomniac. So I got up at like two o'clock in the morning and watched that. And I laughed so hard. I was like, I've got to do that. Oh, yo, get the wrong thing. Yo, you new topic. But that was so funny. It's the way you're had your wife filming everything like, here it is. Here I am. Here it is. Kudos, man. That was great. Yeah. Hey, I'm deluxe while you're here. I think you were reviewing or interviewing Rodimus Prime or whatever. Was that not today? I thought it was today. And now it's the awkward pause as we wait for him to reply. Right. Well, I mean, you can move on to your next question. I mean. What keeps inspiring you to get in front of the camera? The assholes you meet online? No, you're fine. Well, as I said, in 2000 and 2000, I think it was 2003, 2004, maybe I have to look. I was a TV personality. So I had two seasons of a TV show. So I was used to it. Oh, so the internet politician thing is actually what came out of that. The TV show was called Politically Crowded. So it was politics. Yeah. Well, it was a little less politicky and more comedy. But I had two seasons of that. And you can actually go to my Tony dot Hatch was dot net website. And it is in there politically crowded somewhere. And you can actually listen to the episodes. Fun fact, the TV station used because BHS tapes are record still. And they reuse tapes over and over and over again. So when I requested the video of the of the episodes of which there's like 26, they could only recover like 22 or three of them. And they were only able to give me the audio because of the video quality had degraded so much in 10 years. I was like, Oh, that was horrible. But I got the audio quality on some of the if you go to my thing and listen to them sucks, because the tape was so bad. But there's nothing I can do about it. So it is what it is. And I hate that saying. And I've already railed. Oh, so why do I go in the camera? I mean, other than the previous experience, there was probably a little bit of time where I was like, adverse. Thank you, Delex Baldwin. I subscribed to you last week. Where were you then? Anyway, I wasn't interviewing you then. No, because I wanted to I sent Delex Baldwin the message to say, Hey, dude, you want to join T Transformers reviewers? Nothing dead air. I'm like, Whatever, fine. I'm gonna move on my life. So but thanks for the subscribe. Check your email. I think I sent your gmail or Facebook or something. Yes. Yeah, so I ran for office like five times. I got elected twice. So I was constantly in front of cameras and news people. Nothing makes you feel as good as the Democratic Party carrying you down. But then so it wasn't unnatural. It's just for a while. I just I didn't feel like it. And then I ended up in a situation where I have nothing better to do. So I allow people to admire this vis vintage purely out of ego. Just I'm okay with it if you're okay with it. It works. All right, let's see question. Oh, wait a minute. What's that? Kato, it's Mountain Dew. It's not coffee. Dude, have you tried the watermelon zero? Yeah, I tried both the full full sugar one and diet one. I actually like the diet one better. But the day one's hard to find. Oh, you can only get it in cans or unless you buy one of the big bottles. And here we go from transformers to Mountain Dew. Real reality. All right. Question number eight. There are thousands of transformer reviewers on YouTube. What makes you any different from the rest? You're shorter in your screen. I'll give you that. I do. I when we started doing TV, the idea was that your head was always center. Unless you were doing something from a desk and then the desk would be what is it one fifth the bottom of the screen and then you're upwards and then you're at still center. So that's where I get used to like if I go and play with this. Not on my show. Funny. You can see my desk and then I have to pull the camera forward. And now I'm up the level with you. But I feel like there's less there's less background for you to look at because I don't mind if you look around as long as you're hearing my voice. Yeah. Like and then you ask a question and I think to myself. I'm just going to just change where I'm not unique at all. I'm just copying other people. What was it? There was a comment. I was watching the live stream the other day and somebody made a comment about how there's all these reviewers. And the fact is everything we do almost everything we do is something copied from somebody else anyway. Like Walter Concrete was the example I use in the chat. Nobody thought it was funny. I thought it was hilarious. But no idea is wholly original anymore. So my only spin really is that I don't do a solid like fully detailed review. I do what here's what the guy looks like here you can transform into here's that transformation looks like. And then I'll do a second guy because I want to get through the review in about 15 minutes. Although I did just review eight little figures in 15 minutes in a video I'm going to be posting for Monday. But yeah, my thing was if you don't want to stay for a full video of 26 minutes long about one figure and then I'm offering you two figures for the price of one and half the time. So and you can't be the deal like that. Yes, efficiency man is efficiency. Kai Zen. I have a master's degree and went to law school. So you figure it out. All right question number nine. What's your thoughts on the Transformers social community such as YouTube, Facebook? And do you have any special shout outs? I think you shouted out a lot of people today already. So I was like, so I asked Rodimus Primal for a background too. And I think he thinks I'm abusing of that. Oh, he gave me an idea. What I'm going to do is I'm going to start doing reviews with you guys's backgrounds. And I'm going to just copy the opening of your videos and see how that works. No, I'm not going to do that. Plus, I was just using it for the bit at the opening. I am not going to do reviews in your name. Because the last thing I wanted anybody else to make more money than me. So shout outs. Well, I mean, obviously, Kato, you and Rodimus, although I felt like the last couple of days, Rodimus has been non talkative with me. But I feel like I did something bad. And I had this weird because I had this guilt thing going on. But it actually had to pet, you know, the house I was raised in. So, yeah, if you did anything where somebody stopped talking to you, it means something went wrong. Other people, I really like George over at Lazy eyebrow. I didn't start watching his videos until recently, like last six months. And I started watching all his overloads. And dude is talented. And then a couple of weeks ago, he started doing the how to do stop motion. And dude knows his stuff. Like it is spectacular. So Lazy eyebrow. Thanks to Mark's appreciate that. What was the who else do I think really I dig the the method in which Brian over TF fan page 101 does it like he he's kind of like always near the computer or on his phone. And every single thing comes he's like a news channel for transformers. So like, yeah, like you think protoman does a lot. Brian at TF fan page 101, like legit at three o'clock in the morning, I'm trying to sleep. He puts out a video. And I'll end up watching the video and then going to sleep. Right. I dig the 24 hour CNN approach that he's going for. Let's see what else. I had somebody real quick. They asked me, I think it was in my jazz review, because usually when I find these, these guys out in the wild, I'll take a picture of it and put them on my social media pages. And somebody made a comment says, why are you just reviewing this now? You took a picture of it, you know, last week. And I told him, I said, for me, it's a pain in the butt to review. Because the first thing I do is when I get home, I shoot the package, the intro, me in the package, so I can get the figure out of the box. And then it all depends on what's going on at the house with my son not going to school or homeschooling at night. Got to get him to bed. My office is right over the kitchen. So if they're downstairs, I can't do anything cause the noise carries over. There's some mornings now we got this new puppy. I can't be in here and talking. He hears me early in the morning. He's scratching on the door in my V review where I'm talking about the V Funko pops. If you hear all this noise, that's cause the puppy is under my desk and I'm trying to talk as fast as I can and bet the dog at the same time. It ran out of breath. But for me, it's just finding all the time. That's why there's so many edits in my video. Each edit could be like a day. So it's very rare that I can knock out a review in one day like that. Yeah. I have a similar issue with a cat. So I've gotten into the habit of, yeah, I thought that was funny. I had the habit of locking him out, but he'll start scratching at the door. What I learned to do to get him to stop scratching at the door. He went cheaper and we got 99 cents. He's got 99 cents, calm down. So this may help you. When Dylan was a kid, did you guys have baby cages like keep them going up and stuff and stuff? Thanks, Kate. We'll do what? Yeah. We have baby cages, baby gates, play pants, leashes. So what I did was I took a baby gate and put it in front of the door and it stopped from scratching because there's no surface scratching anymore. 99 cents. Whoo. I'm cheaper than the Dollar Tree. This cat is paid for itself because, I mean, he paid me $20 to be here. So it works out nicely. Oh, sorry. I didn't know the NDA. I didn't sign it yet. So who else? Bert, you know, I saw Bert on one of your live streams and I was like, dude, got an intertotal collection. Like when I was little, it was Transformers Ninja Turtles or like my big two. And I don't know, the screen's too cropped, but like there's four Ninja Turtles like sitting on the bookcase behind me, just the little guys that were candy in them. So I always keep them, yeah, you're not going to see them, they're on the bookcase where they're over. Anyway, there's candy, they were candy things and I keep the little Ninja Turtles whenever I do anything because it's a reminder I love Ninja Turtles. But yeah, Bert the Stormtrooper. Larkin, I enjoy Larkin. I'm jealous of Larkin because he gets so many figures early. Like being in Hawaii is like, I mean, first off, it's not snowing there. Second, it's probably in the 70s. Right. So jealous of the weather and jealous of his excess to toys. I live in New Cleveland, Ohio, and it is so difficult to get anything here. Although I went into a Meijer, I actually went into two different Meijers and they each had six skylinks sitting on a shelf. So I think people don't know that Meijer sells transformers in this area, but they always are like a series behind. So they're still working on on siege and earth rise when we're all in kingdom everywhere else. But yeah, that's the top notable names that come to my head with that and look at the website. Definitely a good group of people. I have said this over and over again. I am so amazed by the people I've met doing this. I never in a million years would imagine all the friends I've made talking about these plastic robots, especially being a dude in your 40s talking about plastic robots. I mean, these are some great people and I wish I wish we could all get together and not do the online thing. But it is what it is your favorite saying. But man, you guys, it's awesome. I want to toss an Inuit hobby and bacon for just throw them in there. What is that? I'm trying to remember the term where you have a top 10 list and honorable mentions. Yes. So bacon and Inuit hobby there. I admire. Okay, first off, bacon's collection in my interview with them, which posted I think last Friday. His entire basement is Transformers. Like in the video, he actually turns his camera around and you can see entire wall lined of bookcases. Then the area he sits by, like his computer, is against the wall in between bookcases. It is holy crap. I think he said he had 6,000 different Optimus Prime figures. Wow. Right. And I'm here thinking I have 317 just total Transformers, 6,000. He hits every variation, every country. When I started collecting again, I was buying, well, I started collecting during the Beast Wars era and I only collected the Predacons because I like the Predacons beast better than the Autobot beast or Maximal beast. And then, of course, went into beast machines, robot in disguise, all this stuff. And then I sold the whole collection, except for a few things. Then I got back into it. And the problem now is as the newer stuff comes in, I start selling the older stuff. And a lot of people is like, oh my, how can you do that? And I was like, well, I need money for the new stuff. You got to get it from somewhere. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Inuit hobby, his backlog is just impressive. So like when I interviewed him, on the table behind him, first off, he has a game room, like a setup with just the lines of walls and stuff. But then in his den, he has this table full of stuff that he may never get to, but it's still very impressive stuff nonetheless. Although what I consider when you have a, when you have a collection room, I think that is actually hoarding. I think that's what they call it clinically. So you and Larkin and Bert, you're all hoarders. Bacon is a hoarder. I'm clinically diagnosing you. I'm not a doctor. All right. Question number 10. And here's the big one because this is, I want you to talk about your new baby here. Tell us about TF reviewers. And where are the viewers can find you? Okay. So I don't want to stir up controversy. I'm not going to say certain names. So basically, last year, summer-ish time, I was talking to, I think it was talking to you, Kato and Rodimus, after a live stream, and we were talking about some questionable characters in the community who acquire product, let's say... Shadily? Yeah. Shadily. It's not a word, but we'll go with it. And I thought to myself, well, if you guys think like this, I wonder if other people think like this too. We can't do anything about it, but at least we can be against it without causing anybody any problem. It's none of our business, what they do, because if Hasbro wants to enforce it, it's entirely their thing to do. But we won't endorse it. We won't support it. What if we did a collective where we all agree to this one term, but then we also agree to help each other, join together for things like this panel. You may be familiar with the live streams that I've been doing with upwards of 10 different reviewers. You were the first one, and I think you were in the next, the last one. And then I have another one coming up Friday after next. Fellow truck reviews, yes. We don't support those, but we do support people who don't support them and want to work with others. So that's what Transformers Reviewers is about. And after talking to, I think it was you, Rodimus, Larkin, Kato Inutabi, or was it Inutabi? I think so. It was kind of like, well, this is a no-brainer. Why don't we just create a community for ourselves within the broader community to provide that support that maybe we need somebody for a panel, or we need to run some ideas by, plus it offers some opportunities for some promotion. So members get access to the Facebook so they can post. I offered people access to the website, but no takers, because the website, if you post something, the website also posts to Twitter and Facebook. I wish there was a way to share Instagram that just isn't, but everybody has it on Instagram pretty much anyway. So you get access to some utilities too. And so if you're watching right now, live or recorded, I don't know why I put the qualifier on it, because I guess it doesn't matter, go to YouTube, type in TF Space Reviewers, and you'll find the page. It has a purposely off-centered half-autobot, half-decepticon logo, because everybody does them perfectly matched. That is not how I work. And then you go subscribe to it, because what happens is, as people update their playlists, the feed, the playlist set up I have on the page, actually updates. So because it's their active playlist, as your guys' active playlist, we have 43 channels. We have 41 channels, and then we also have Transformers, Trivia, and T-Formers. So 41 channels and two affiliate members. So the ones who actually update their YouTube edit will reflect in the channel information and playlists on the YouTube. So I try to do as much as I can with what free resources are available, because I'm not making money off of this. Transformers Reviewers is not being made for profit. I mean, not for me anyway. If people find you from it and you make money on those ads from your videos, then that is how it's supposed to work. So I will never post a video or something on Transformers Reviewers with the intent that I'm going to somehow profit. So that is not the goal of that. If I want money, I will get it from H&E Games. That's right. H&E Games on YouTube, subscribe to that. Okay. So yeah, we're doing pretty good. The Facebook is somewhat active. I think it was Brian, or no, it comes in Raptors. He says, why don't you create a Discord channel, whatever. We actually are on Larkin's Discord for general everything. So we have, you can go to Transformers Reviewers' website, which is TFReviewers.wordpress.com, and you can go to the, you can go to the Discord and join that Discord and you can talk to us. Most of the, or actually say half the reviewers are on Larkin's Discord, and you can, you can talk to us there. And then of course, people post their videos. So that's just another avenue of getting into the community as far as being involved. And that is generally how it started. I, maybe, is this where we start taking off clothes? I feel like we owe them something, but no? Okay. We're still ready. Gee, I don't remember. Is that a swear one? Are we PG now? I don't, it's show the super car. You enjoy the great weather. Stay warm. Has the snowstorm hit you yet, Anthony, in Ohio? We have a, we have a foot of snow right now. It, so it snowed on Monday night, and it was like about an inch, maybe two. And then the night before last, which I guess would be Tuesday night, Tuesday night, it just dropped on us. Now, the thing is, it's this weird, very light snow. It's not like, there's like no water. No, it's like no moisture in the snow other than the fact that it's snow. And it's super dry, huh? You had dry ice then. I don't know what, it's just super powdery. But I got stuck in it in the truck yesterday. So we had to have somebody plow the driveway out. So I can even park in the driveway. Four wheel drive. What the hell is it good for? If it can't get you out or in your driveway. We, the day was a beautiful day here. It was like 40 degrees, nice and sunny, but apparently at 2 a.m., Sub-Zero is unleashing his full force upon us. And we're supposed to get anywhere from five to eight inches by morning. That's what she said. Ha! Wow. Were you from Big Rod? That, what a snow, man. I just, I, because then we talk about this, I go back to my brother paying $600 for heating just for this last month because of how cold Texas is. I haven't used that in years because they're talking about all this power outage possibly tonight. I am so used to the cold that I don't even dress for it most of the time. I wear like, like right now I'm wearing a t-shirt, this over shirt because I like a collar when I'm on stream and a pair of shorts and some footy socks because I, we have cats and I prefer not to have bare feet on the floor. Deluxe is upgrading to Voyager Baldwin. He's gonna start going shirtless. Oh yeah, stole my joke. That was from the last live stream. Hey everybody. You pay him $10. He goes Voyager, pay him 20 more dollars. He goes a leader class, a leader Baldwin, and then you pay him, what is it, $80 and he'll be, what is, no, $80 is the commander class. Yeah, commander Baldwin at $80. Oh, if he does a paycheck, that's what he should do. That should be exactly what he does. If you're, you pay $1, you're a deluxe Baldwin, you'll pay $5, you're a Voyager Baldwin, you know, work the way up. I need to chat with deluxe again. I haven't sat down with him in a long time. He's actually the one that inspired me to do all this crap. I was gonna say, like, invite him onto the chat when we're finished doing the questions, unless we are done. Titan Baldwin, yes. Oh, hold on, hold on. Where'd he get here? Ah, get up here. That's not the one. There you are. $600 Haslab Baldwin. Oh, minus three degrees in Texas. That is not right. I don't think it even fell below zero here in Ohio yet, but at least not where I'm at. I'm two miles south of Lake Erie. So we get Lake Effect, but it also keeps us a little warmer than people maybe in Medina to the south. I'm three blocks from the Greenbrier River. I don't know anything about the area in which you are, so I don't know the relevance. There's nothing to the area which I are. Tell me it's Chesapeake Bay, although, oh, yeah, yeah, I know Southern New Jersey. Yep, definitely know where that at. I mean, familiar with the Greenbrier Resort. I've heard of it, but I don't know where it's at. I'm 15 miles from there. That helps me nothing. I just worked at the casino there at the Greenbrier and got to toss out rich people for a living. Yeah, because I'm six foot four. At the time, I was a football player or a former football player, 265 pounds, like seven to 10% body fat. People just had me around to scare other people away. It was a great time. Great time. Okay, so I did the next question. That was it. We wrapped it up. Oh, cool. So Peanut Gallery, anybody have any questions for me or Patriot Year? Yep, we're just shooting, shooting now. But I had a Pawtucket Patriot Prime. That would be your beer. Now, the problem with neck a bald one is you can't move unless you soak him in hot water first. What do you guys think of the laziness of Kingdom Prime? I guess where they're re-releasing Earthrise? Because I did that in Siege with Astro Train. Yeah. It's a money grab. Just, hey, let's throw this figure out again. Yeah, you don't want the trailer. Put it in a new box. Right. And if you don't want the trailer, get the Voyager class and save 20 bucks. Yep. They've re-released the same Earthrise Bull three times. Hey, Grant. Yes, Deluxe is the reason I started buying neck a horror figures. Granted, only Jason. But of course, now I've got Jason figures, Terminator figures, Predator figures, back to the future. I almost grabbed Doc Brown at Walmart today. Hey, I'm directly behind you on the Blow-Darth-Failers helmet. One, two, three. For the third shelf down, is that the Voyager Devastator or off-brand one? That is a KO Devastator and Voyager size. Okay. Because I got the big Devastator, same down there in the corner. Yeah. Okay. Because it looked eerily close to the parts of the one I have sitting behind me. I was like, oh, okay. That there's my whole shelf of, I'm not sure where to put them yet. Everything else is organized. Let me blow up, sir. You might see what, well, that didn't help. Everything is organized. I'm surprised you don't got labels on your shelves. You know, like, this is what's on this, like a museum. And then you go around and just show people with hand movement, like a presentation. Here's, it's on this shelf. You'd be surprised if I told you I used to have that. Used to do tour guides. Like $5, see the museum of transformers. No, it's funny. We'll have people over the house and they're just sitting there and goes, what do you do? You want to see? I play with toys. I can't say too much. I have a pleasure room. Do you want to see it? Starting in 2002, I was doing stuff for Pokemon. So, like, the only reason why I stopped Pokemon, other than getting bored with the card game, was Nintendo told me I had to because I was working for them instead now. So, yeah, I used to have the somebody come over and go, hey, you want to play Pokemon? So, you know, Transformers Pokemon is interchangeable, I guess. I've pre-ordered part seven, Jason, but I've heard that they're running into legal problems again. We may not getting. Rodimus, thanks for stopping by as always. Looking forward to the next time we can all get together and chat. Don't forget Deluxe Baldwin tomorrow at 9 p.m. He is with Rodimus Primal. So, you know, don't forget to check that out tomorrow at 9. Eastern time. It'll be Deluxe Baldwin. I don't think he's going to Voyager out yet. No, no. Maybe that's where Rodimus is coming in for. Since Rodimus Primal is a prime, he's going to upgrade Deluxe. Hold on, Delmus. So, his answer is no. I've got the Alpha Predator, two city hunters, the Jungle Hunter and another one with a sword with an electronic helmet. That's weird. My phone is my webcam. It's kind of weird to maneuver around. Yeah, because for anybody who wants to do this stuff, there is a program called the Xplit Broadcaster. And there is also an app and now you can get these free or you can get a premium version. I have the premium version of this Xplit Vcam. And what it can enable you to do is you can hook up your cell phone wirelessly and basically feed it into the Xplit Broadcaster. And then you can still use the backgrounds that you saw me use earlier. So, it integrates everything very nicely. So, I'm not chilling for them, though I am an affiliate of theirs. I'll be just saying, if you're interested in doing a higher level of just using your cell phone and then, check out Xplit. And then because I promoted Xplit, I'm going to promote Toy Hacks. So, if you like stickers and backgrounds, check out Toy Hacks, mention that Patriot Prime sends you and then I Xplit, click my affiliate link. Yeah, don't forget to check toyhacks.com. Let's see, we had somebody asked, what's our thoughts on the Titan class arc coming out? I can't afford it. I can care less. That's my opinion. I can care less. Yeah, I'm not getting it. Here's the thing. When you have only so much space, I need figures that will break apart. Like the combiners behind me, I can take them apart and put them away in a box. When things are that big, it's really hard to find places to store them. I don't know if you were in on this. This guy just randomly asked me that he wanted to place an order for Toy Hacks. He had $50 worth of stuff in his cart and just out of the blue asked me, hey, can I have a $25 off gift certificate? I'm like, what? He says, can I have $25 off coupon? I was like, I don't have $25 off coupon. I don't get $25 off. Just out of the blue and he's like, I don't want to buy it. He popped a number out of his head, said $25 off, Patriot Prime must have that $25 coupon. Yeah, just out of the blue. He's like, I don't have gift certificates. So you're telling me that Toy Hacks does not give you discount coupon codes? No. Yeah, I don't get any from anybody either. They do not. I purchase everything. Yeah, like the Nintendo sends me free stuff, Link says sends me free stuff, but they don't give me anything to give anybody else discounts for free stuff. Now I've asked them, there's a couple of anytime I asked like if I do some kind of special, they were very generous and gave me a Scorponok set to give away, the Seeker set to give away, and I forget what the other one was. But I mean, they're great to work for very, very nice people. I know I have to give some credit to the Big Bad Toy Store, myself and four other guys. We teamed up to try the affiliate thing as a group. And it was a nice experiment for all of us. And Big Bad Toy Store got some interesting numbers. And we had established a baseline for Big Bad Toy Store to do advertising on a channel. And so now they know what their minimum is. And it definitely was not us. We were way below what possibly would be a good working between the five of us, we put out like 20 videos with the affiliate link in the description. And I think they said in one month, we got a whole eight clicks. And I was like, our total subscriber numbers were somewhere around 1400. So they established based on 1400 and eight clicks, how many they need to basically make $20 a month in advertising payments feasible. I don't know what their number is. But it definitely was not us. So I think it's somewhere in like 14,000 or something. I get free stuff occasionally, like every quarter, I'll get something free from Linksys. Because of the virus, Nintendo didn't send me anything this year. Last year, they sent me a switch in two games. I didn't, I didn't, I did other things with them. I didn't review them like on here. But after I was done with those, they got, I gave away the switch and one of the games, I kept the other one, because it was Mario Kart. I'm going to keep Mario Kart. My son get one of those for Christmas last year, absolutely loves it. Yeah, I bought my mom, my, I would say my brother's sister in law and I bought my mom a switch. She loved, she, first off, she's addicted to Tetris. She's never had Tetris before. I showed her Tetris 99. I have a paid version. I load it under her system. She spends most of her time playing Tetris 99 and solitaire on her, on her switch. And I'm like, well, okay, you know what? It wasn't a waste, because I was always afraid when I buy my mom, who's obviously much older than I am, a piece of technology. I'm always worried that she will never use it. I played, there was a Beast Wars fighting game. I remember that one. Funny fact, I'm actually working on a Transformers video game documentary video, whatever. So hopefully I'll have that done in a couple of weeks. It'll probably come out the Monday after next, if I get it done. And I actually go through the history of Transformers video games in that video. Scripts written, I just have to put it together. Nice. All right. Well, guys, I think we are going to wrap this up. It's been an hour and I need to go home and make sure my family's still there. Wait a minute, you're not home? What's that? Is your background fake too? No, if I was real, it's real. I'd throw something at it, but my luck, it would dominate the whole thing. Oh, that would be hilarious. Please do it. Somebody pay him to do it. $100 right now. Somebody do a Super Chat for $100, just knock over your stuff on the shelf. Those are G1s, no way. Where's my dollar store figures? Yeah, you know, like this one. Yeah, I did feel it. No. All right. Well, guys, I appreciate each and every one of you that stopped by to watch us ramble on about things. That's what we do. And don't forget to check out Anthony at H&E Games and TF reviewers, where you can find all of us, this large cabal of TF reviewers who can't get Big Bed Toy Store any points. But we're all there and that's pretty much it. That's a wrap. I have nothing to close this way. He has nothing to close out. Anyway, wrap up and roll out. There you go. If you enjoyed the video, don't forget to like, don't forget to subscribe, and don't forget to click that bell icon. Where's my hand? To get notified when I upload new reviews. Once again, this is Patriot Prime and H&E Games signing out. Ha-duh-ah! Pulse for effect, and then it hit in broccoli-ist.