 Hey, what's going on guys, Patriot Prime here once again with another episode of The Sit Rep. And my guest tonight hails from the Great White North, M from Transformers and Video Games. M, how are you now? Good, and you? Not so bad. So, M, tell us a little bit about yourself. Well, I'm M from Transformers and Video Games, the YouTube channel. I started collecting Transformers back in 1984 and when I say, you know, I'm an old guy like you, when I say collecting Transformers, I mean, I was always interested in them. I, you know, I'd ask for them for Christmas, birthdays. I had a pittance of an allowance that I used to save up back then and, you know, unfortunately money was tight when I was a kid, so I tended to pick up mini-bots, micro, you know, the Sand Waves, micro cassettes, go-bots, didn't have a lot of money for anything really major or substantial. But anyway, I've been a fan since 1984, stopped collecting pretty much around the same time. Everybody else says, you know, hey, I got into girls and this and that. I'd love to tell you something cool like that. I totally caved into the peer pressure. All of my friends that must have been at like 11 or 12 had decided they were young men at that point and had given up on toys. And quite honestly, I still like to play with them, but I more or less caved and probably played with them a little bit in secret for a bit. And then I totally gave up on it at that point, I'd moved on and I guess I thought I was too cool for them. Jump ahead, got married in 2005. It's funny, what sort of got me back into the Transformers was and I'm, you know, dating myself, I'll be dating myself throughout this whole video. These days, when people think of cell phones and smartphones, I mean, it's just a no-brainer. My first smartphone was an iPhone 3GS. And the power that gave me at the time was I was able to discover Google and YouTube. So what I would do is I started off like everybody else, you know, anything that pops into your mind, you're Googling and, you know, reading up on it. What I would do on my way to and from work is I would start doing that sort of thing. I started looking up old toys that I used to collect when I was a kid. Naturally that led to Transformers. So when I exhausted Google- I love it, yes, Ebay Next. Well it was Google, then it was YouTube. Then I stumbled on people like the Collector 75, Tanimus Prime, and it opened a world of interest, you know, back in Transformers again, that, like you pointed out, led to Ebay and I was hooked. Pretty much I got back into actually collecting, I want to say 2007, 2008. My memory is a little foggy around then, but I mean, I know what I was collecting. Like the first, I want to say the first Transformer I brought back into my collection as an adult was the, I want to say it was the San Diego Comic Con blaster reissue. Do you remember that came in a shiny orange box? I do. He came with like three cassettes, right? Correct, yeah. So that was my first one. And I remember sort of, I didn't think I was going to go full tilt like I am now, but I remember bringing it home, mentioning to my wife who didn't, you know, I mean, I wasn't collecting at the time, this was new. Just explaining to her, you know, I used to collect this stuff as a kid, I thought I'd pick this up and she was like, yeah, I guess that's kind of cool, that's fine. So I got into G1 reissues and that was right around the time of the classics line. So unfortunately I'd missed the boat on walking into Walmart or Toys R Us and buying those figures, but there was a lot of local resellers. There was one right close to where I lived who was selling the Henkei or the Japanese versions of those figures. So I got in pretty deep for a while with the classics line and G1 reissues. Naturally that expanded into learning more about the franchise. I got in pretty deep with G1. Like I didn't know about things like Targetmasters, Headmasters, Micromasters, Actionmasters. I mean, if you'd mentioned that to me at the time, I mean, it would have gone right over my head. When I thought Transformers, I thought up to and including the movie maybe and that was it. Well, it's funny. When I started doing my G1 reviews, the first ones I did was the oddball characters. I think the pretenders was on my first ones and a lot of the comments I got was people like, I never even knew these existed. Yeah. And that's totally me. I had no idea about that. I mean, but I mean, as I did my quote unquote research on my way to and from work. I have a world where I learned about all that stuff. Started a podcast with a buddy of mine called the Transformers and Beer Podcast. This is a good friend of mine. I'll mention him again a little later. But he's a good friend of mine. We've been buddies for over 20 years. So essentially it started out, it was an excuse, it was his idea. He's the tech guru, as I'm sure you figured out with us trying to do this. We're going to that. That's a whole new video right there. Yeah. Yeah. Especially our one outtake, which I hope you didn't save. But so he's the tech guy. He said, listen, why don't we get together? We'll do this. We'll do a Transformers podcast and it'll just give us an excuse to get together, crack a beer open, catch up with each other for an hour and we'll record. It's an audio podcast. Right. So you can't watch it anywhere. But it's, again, I'll plug myself at the end. I'll mention where people can listen to it, but I've heard of that before. I don't think I've listened to it. It does sound familiar. So today is March 6th. I know you're going to be uploading this on March 8th, which coincidentally is my one year anniversary to the day of this channel on YouTube. Oh, outstanding. So this was very timely and, you know, to bring me a rate to current before you get into the questions. I feel like I've made it. I'm sitting here talking on the sit wrap with one of my favorite YouTubers, Patriot Prime. Well, thank you so much. And yeah, it's funny how that's how we met. We met via YouTube in the comments section. And it's funny how YouTube has brought so many people together. I've met so many new friends doing this, which runs into question number nine. Well, of course, I want to thank you for taking the time and talking with me and willing to do this and introduce yourself to my community. So we can kind of share the viewers, if you will. Yeah, the pleasure is all mine. Thanks again. Excellent. Well, how the sit rep works, if those of you who this is your first episode or if you just need a refresher is I ask my guests 10 questions, five questions regarding transformers and five questions regarding my guest as a YouTuber. So if you're ready, we will kick this off. I'm ready, brother. Peter Patter, let's get at it. Question number one, sir. What is the appeal of transformers to you? To me, I'm going to say the main appeal is nostalgia. And that may or may not make a lot of sense because I'm not just talking from a G1 perspective. I love the cartoon as a kid. It was my absolute favorite toy line as a kid, although I was I was in pretty deep with G.I. Joe as well. But the toys have just always appealed to me. And I'm guessing it was that age old 80s marketing where they got us eating sugary cereals and stuff, you know, with a cool jingle, you know, all that stuff. I mean, I guess they can't do that anymore, right? They can't market to kids that way. And that's why we don't have, you know, the same sort of Saturday morning cartoons, as far as I'm aware, but it's actually something I read about and that's true. That's why our animation now is so simple and well, I have a four year I watch some stupid cartoons and I know the show called Uncle Grandpa, if that makes any sense, you know, like the Transformers cartoon was a brilliant, what, 22 minute advertisement for toys. And I guess they just can't do it anymore, which is a shame. But that's why I think we grew up in the best era when it comes to I mean, I get the Transformers are more sophisticated now and a lot more posable and cool in a lot of ways. But when you look at the whole package of what we had back then with the toys, the cartoons, the marketing and even the other toy lines that people don't talk about that often in the 80s, you know, like Sectors and Mask Bravestar Bravestar, the Rambo figures, all that stuff. I mean, it was an awesome time to be a kid, in my opinion. But no, when I say nostalgia, I mean, I even get nostalgic feelings. I mean, particularly now I walk in a Walmart and I just bought an Optimus Prime last week, a G1 Optimus Prime, no trailer. But, you know, even if it's not a G1 reissue, just going in there and seeing the names I recognize, take the Siege Line, for example, I walk in there and, yeah, Megatron's not a gun, but he looks a lot like the Megatron robot. That I mean, I shouldn't say that because, you know, G1 Megatron had his issues as much as I love the figure. But you get that nostalgic feeling from let's just say even the cartoon. That's like me walking my son through an aisle, granted, he doesn't really get it yet, but it's so cool that I'm walking through a toy aisle with my son seeing the same figures or the same brand that was on that shelf when I was a kid walking through that same aisle with my dad. Exactly. Yeah, it's pretty awesome. So nostalgia is the key for me, I think. Excellent. All right, sir. Number two, aside from G1, which is always the number one answer, what is your favorite Transformers fiction, comic, cartoon, movie? Now, this is going to surprise a lot of people, but believe it or not, Beast Wars. Dude, I'm there with you. Well, I know, I know you're a Beast Wars fan. And like I said, I went into Beast Wars. I watched that me and my buddy on Transformers and beer. We actually watched every episode of the entire series one week at a time and talked about each each episode after we watched it and just broke it down. And it was my first time seeing it. So that show, I mean, this was last year. So that shows what, 20 years old, 25 years old now. So I watched it and I'm like, I'm a total G1er, right? And that includes Masterpiece and the whole G1 look and all that. So I thought, there's no way I'm going to like this. You know, Optimus Primal turning into a, you know, a primate. What was it, Truck Not Monkey? Yeah, yeah, I thought I'm just not going to be into this. And I went in thinking this is garbage, like, you know, the first time. I mean, in fairness, I thought it was, it was a bit of a shaky start with that one. But I think most series are because they're introducing the characters. But, man, my buddy Joe, I think even after we watched it, still isn't a believer and he watched it back in the day, I think it had the opposite effect on him. Like my podcast partner, I think he thought it was pretty ridiculous. He I don't think he really knew why he sat down to watch it back in the day. But I actually really enjoyed it. I enjoyed it for everything that wasn't G1 about it, if that makes sense. It was a it was a new thing. It was very well written and I loved the character development. I mean, look at look at DinoBot, look at the, you know, I mean, I don't have to worry about spoilers after what, two and a half decades, right? But I mean, changes from the Predacons to the Maximals. And during the whole series, I was sort of doubting, like, you know, are these his true intentions? Is there more to it here? You know, maybe I was reading into it a bit, but there was a struggle with him that you saw in the show. The death of DinoBot, I thought was a powerful episode. And Black Arachnia, I thought was a fantastic character. And she had a bit of a switch later on as well, when it came to I don't remember now, just because I've only seen it once. If it was a full and complete switch or if it just tied into the love story with her and she got into a full switch because there was an episode where there was a booby trap program in her, and they had to go in and remove the program and she got turned into a trans metal spider. That was like one of the very last episodes of the third season, but she did the full switcheroo because of that. So I was I was fully accepting, like I said, the writing was excellent. I love the tie into G1 in the last couple of episodes or last season. Anyways, remember, you know, we actually saw the G1 transformers from the original cartoon in one or two of the episodes. Remember, they were in stasis or something like that. I'm not sure what the term is, but I love the tie into G1. And like I said, I thought it was a really solid series. And I don't want to get into it just because I don't want to. I don't want this to be a one hour set wrap. But a big honorable mention goes to Transformers Prime. I've only watched one season of it. I'm kicking myself for not watching. I don't think it's on Netflix anymore, so I've either got to buy it or maybe I can find it on YouTube somewhere. But the first season, I thought was great. I had some some dark elements that certainly the G1 cartoon didn't go there until everybody died in the 86 movie. But I mean, wasn't it the first episode we saw Cliff Jumper get killed? I recommend getting it on Blu-ray, if you can. I bought them all on Blu-ray. It's a fantastic transfer. I mean, beautiful, beautiful show on Blu-ray. To be completely transparent, the one beef I had with the show was I didn't. Yes. And fair enough. I mean, I don't think it was being marketed to my demographic. So there's going to be kids there. Jack, not so not so bad. I can't remember the kid, Niko, I think, and there was somebody else if I'm remembering right. Raph, Raph was the glasses kid. Was there a Niko? Niko was the girl. Niko, yeah. Now, guys, but like, yeah. I've heard they phased them out a little bit. I mean, they didn't phase them out, but they became a lot less pivotal to the storylines later on. So each of those shows I've noticed because I've tried to watch them all as they always start off real kiddie-fied. And then they realized, well, the parents are watching with the kids. All the kids aren't interested anymore, but mom and dad are dad still watching primarily. And that's what I noticed with Beast Wars. It was very childish at first. Then it grew into its own thing. Transformers Prime, same way. I mean, these newer ones haven't gotten into those at all. I haven't watched the new ones. I forget where people are watching them now, but I know there was a Titan's Return and stuff. And I'm interested, but it's just hard for me to always get. The animation was very is like every character talked like Captain Kirk very slow and the animation was weird. So I didn't get into it. Maybe I'll try again, but it just wasn't my thing. Yeah, I'll pick it up at some point. All right, let's see. Question number three. Do you have a favorite figure or grail one that you will never let go of? Say you have to sell your collection. Is there that one figure that you will not let go of? There is one figure. And if we have time, I'll throw in an honorable mention. The one main figure and there's a little bit of a story behind it. I've got a really nice go figure Canadian issue. G1 Megatron, I'd love to get a US boxed one. I've actually got two Canadian ones, but. I absolutely love that figure. I love the character. For me, the story behind it was and it almost became like I'm not an obsession, but I mean, like I said in the beginning, funds were tight, you know, with my family. We didn't have a lot of money for toys like that. But I remember distinctly remember being in a Kmart with my mother. And I don't remember the circumstances, but she said to me, I could go and pick out a transformer of my choice from the toy aisle. And I couldn't believe it. So I went along and believe it or not, G1 Megatron was there in all his Wolther P38 glory, grabbed that, walked over to my mother. She took one look at it and said, No, no, no, no, you put this back and pick up something else. She was worried about me getting like, I don't know, playing with it outside and getting shot by a police officer. I don't know if that really happened or if it's some urban legend. But I remember being really disappointed about that. I ended up buying or she bought me G1 Sunstreaker instead, which I still have complete. I've got the the actual specimen from when I was a kid. But I was disappointed about that for years. And for me, when I finally got my hands on a really crisp, minty box specimen, that's never leaving my possession. That's awesome. I love that. So that's that's my grail. That's why and if I if I'm going to give a real quick honorable mention, and we chatted about this during our little test session yesterday, but I managed to get a three hour test, a three hour screen test. Yes, interview, medical examination. No, I managed to get lucky. I got a really nice mint box for Max. And I actually bought it after the encore came out. So I've got the encore one as well. But you can get for Max's. You can get vintage for Max's, but to find them in the condition I found this one in with a box and all the Styrofoam bits. No discoloration. I sort of think I feel like I'd be a fool to get rid of that. If I had to lose, if I'd sort of lessen the load, it'd make a lot more sense for me to dump the encore one, which I have no intention of doing either. But yeah, the for Max, I think that was kind of everybody's holy grail for the longest time, because it was it was way too expensive at the time for most people to be able to afford. And then even now that, you know, most, you know, when most adults were gainfully employed and can buy it, who's going to spend a thousand bucks on a toy? Right. And if you do, who's going to tell their wife about it? Not me. Not me either. All right, then. Well, that leads us into question number four. Tatum has actually really went over this on his channel. What figure is your white whale? What is your most wanted toy? This is the one if you get this sucker, I'm done collecting. I mean, my mission is complete. I've got two of them and they're linked. So I'll mention them both. I don't know how familiar it's G1 related. How familiar are you with the Japanese exclusive G1 box sets? About a mill of the road. OK. Have you heard of the Goodbye Convoy and Goodbye Megatron? Yes, I have. I know that's it. So for for viewers that maybe haven't heard of them, these didn't come out in North America. These were Japanese exclusives. The Goodbye Convoy set Convoy set Convoy is just with the Japanese fans or market call Optimus Prime. I believe the whole Goodbye tie in was I think that was the last time in the G1 version of both toys were released after I think that the death of Prime and I think the reformatting of Megatron in the 86 movie, if I'm not mistaken, I think that's the whole Goodbye. I think that was the idea, too, because I'm picturing a box in my head right now. I was writing down the timestamp that we're talking about it. So I'm going to put put a picture up for people to see what we're talking about. Goodbye Convoy for anybody not familiar with it. It came with Optimus G1 Optimus Prime, Red Alert and Mirage and the Goodbye Megatron set came with Megatron and Starscream. I actually had the Goodbye Megatron set in my hands at TF Con 2018. The guy wanted eight hundred dollars Canadian for it, which I had in my pocket and I was debating. I was actually debating pulling the trigger. I just won't be telling my wife that part. She won't watch your channel, does she? No, I don't think so. No, I couldn't have spent that kind of money on it in that condition. It was missing the tech. Sorry, it was missing, I think, the robot points and the tech specs were cut out to drop that kind of coin. The box needed to be better. And I think there was some discoloration with, I want to say, Starscream. So I had to pass on it for eight hundred bucks. If I was actually going to spend that money, which I likely wouldn't, it would need to be pretty crispy. The figures would have to be really nice, too. Oh, without a doubt. That's something I think a lot of these times you go to conventions and sales is these guys, you know, they they're looking for suckers. It's the educated ones that gives them a run for their money, so to speak. Yeah, I've dealt with that a few times myself at different sales I've been to. Well, those sets are pretty rare. I mean, they're worth a lot. I mean, in a nice box, I'm going to say those are worth well over a thousand bucks. But in that condition, I thought eight hundred bucks was a bit ambitious. And again, for me, I mean, even if it was mint, I mean, I just can't justify spending a thousand bucks on toys. Right. Not on one toy. Anyways, it may be a whole cart full there. Sure. All right. Here we go. This is our last Transformers question. What is your favorite transformer character, any fiction, any media? I think you and I have something else in common here, my friend. G1 Megatron. I don't have the tattoo to prove it, but. Well, actually, mine's prime. I didn't get Megatron. No, I know that any thoughts on doing Megatron on the other arm? Actually, not many people have seen this one. There is my 90s tribal with the Decepticon insignia kind of hit in. It's kind of the horrible 90s tattoo that all the Jim Brows got, you know, during the day before before my son was born. The plan was optimist for this arm, a Megatron cover up on this arm. So yeah, I don't know, possibly not. Like Megatron is my favorite. I loved him in the cartoon, although I thought he should have blown away Starscream years ago. I don't know why you would have somebody like that stick around in your ranks so long. Obviously, he rectified that when he was reformatted into Galatron in the movie. But it was a long time coming. I love the toy. I love the Walther P38 alt mode and a little known fact. Sort of a goal of mine in collecting is I'd love to have every licensed version of G1 Megatron that was ever produced, including rare. So that means Japanese Black Megatron. It means the non-chromed Japanese exclusive version of Megatron. You know, the one with the the if I'm not mistaken, the inside of his legs and arms are blue. Don't quote me on that. I know the black one has the blue inside. Like inside arms and inside legs, all the G1 reissues. You know what I mean? I want the encore one. I want the blacky hobby repaint. Believe it or not, I'm most of the way there. I recently picked up the. Do you remember the I want to call it the Chronicles version? Came with Dark of the Moon Megatron and it came with a non a non-chromed Megatron. I got that one. I think a TF Con last year because the price was right. They could pay 80 bucks for that. And I figured even if I wasn't collecting Megatrons, I can't turn down a seal G1 Megatron reissue for 80 bucks Canadian. I don't know. I always wanted to get the Megatron that was in the book like this. I've got that one. Yeah, that's I love these. I used to have a whole bunch of these figures and there was a purge at one point when I really wasn't into this like I am now. And this is the only one I kept. And I'll get into that as I complete my Insecticon reviews. There's a reason I've got this box. I I sold off a lot of my reissues when I replaced them with like nice boxed vintage figures. I just didn't see the point in having doubles of all this stuff. So I mean, I guess you could say that me selling them off. Some of that money meant went towards the vintage purchases. But you know what I mean? Like I had almost the whole run of that that book that Takara book style set. I think I was missing Optimus Prime and maybe one other one. And I might only have about five of them left at this point. All right. Well, here comes the hard stuff. We are done with Transformer questions. Now we're going into the YouTube questions. It's number six. What possessed you a grown ass man to do toy reviews on YouTube? Quite honestly, for me, if I'm being honest, I mean, I'm a natural introvert. So I think for me, I thought to put myself now, I'm normally sometimes I'm on this side of the camera, sometimes for the whole video, sometimes for an intro or an outro. Sometimes not at all. But I honestly did it because I thought it would sort of challenge me in a different kind of way. It would sort of push me outside of my comfort zone. The best analogy I can make for somebody that maybe isn't naturally introverted would be I did the same thing when I before I met my wife. I thought, what is the most awkward thing I can do in the dating world? Let's do blind dates. So I would meet these women. I'd maybe seen a picture of them and exchanged a few emails. And I mean, I don't think it gets much more awkward than that. A lot of them, a number of them went well. There were a few not so good. But I've got some stories myself. Yeah, it's just it's just stuff like that. I mean, I don't love being uncomfortable, but I think sometimes it's it's worthwhile to push yourself a little bit outside your comfort zone. And I know we we chatted about this a little bit yesterday. When I started this channel a year ago, nobody was really there was no G1 reissues on the market, no new ones. We hadn't seen, I think, a G1 reissue. I want to say since the trypticon platinum G1 release, which was several years ago. So when I looked at the landscape on YouTube, I know Graham, the collector 75, was doing G1 reviews. You've been doing a lot of G1 reviews, but there wasn't a lot of representation. And I thought the last thing I wanted would be for the history of transformers to be lost when it comes to the YouTube collecting community. Sadly, the videos that guys were doing 10 years ago aren't high death. Some guys were shooting in portrait mode. You know what I mean? Like people aren't going to watch those reviews. But when when you get guys like you or Graham shooting at high death, showing these cool figures from back in the day, I just think it's that kind of thing that's going to, you know, it's going to keep these things top of mind and keep interest. And I mean, now six months after I started the channel, Walmart started doing their G1 reissues. So once again, G1 is back top of mind. People are buying it. And I think people are appreciating it. So I think that's really good. Excellent. All right, sir. Number seven, what keeps inspiring you to get in front of your camera? For me, I mean, most of us, I think have, you know, nine to five jobs with some degree of stress. I'm certainly no different. For me, getting in front of the camera and shooting a video, doing something like this, it's just a stress relief. It's an escape for me from kind of what I have to do. Five, you know, five days a week, day in, day out, and I have no choice but to do it. So for the most part, there's that. And I think a big thing for me is the the interaction with my friends and people in the community. And when I say my friends, I mean, like, you know, guys like you, guys that have met on YouTube, I mean, I spoke to you for the first time yesterday as in we were looking at each other face to face and exchanging words, but I feel like you're an old friend, man. We've been chatting in the comments for the better part of a year. And to me, I don't know, like, I can't go to work and talk about farmers with my coworkers because nobody collects. Nobody's into it. So for me, it's like this is a this is a corner of the internet where, you know, there's like-minded, cool people out there doing the same thing. And for me, it's just it's kind of that, quite honestly, you know, it's a great way to chat with friends and like-minded people about it. Great. Excellent. Good answer. All right. Question number eight. There are thousands of toy reviewers on YouTube. What makes you any different from the rest? Other than the shades? Other than the shades, OK. Well, that takes care of my answer, man. No, I think for me, I mean, I cover two two pretty major collecting hobbies. Transformers is the main focus on my channel. I think most people that are subbed to me are there for the Transformers. I'm I'm a gamer as well. I mean, I like modern video games, retro games. I've got a playlist on my channel just called Video Games. And what it what it basically is, it started out what I started doing this past summer is I would go garage sale hunting and I was looking for vintage like old school, you know, vintage games are, you know, original Nintendo, Super Nintendo, PlayStation, all that stuff, Atari, whatever I could find cheap. So when I first started doing the video game portion on my channel, it was just pickup videos. It wasn't this room. This isn't. This is actually my basement. I'm not in my main collecting room. The backdrop people normally see with the glass cases is actually a Transformers dedicated room, and it's awesome. There is awesome. Thank you. But as I got more comfortable with the video game pickups or I sort of got bored doing them in that format, I took the camera on the road with me and I was doing pickups like I was showing what I was getting in the car first person. I was walking around showing what I was seeing at the garage sales and talking about it. So I don't have the I don't have the technical expertise to start doing video captures and reviewing games. But for me, it's pickups, it's garage sale halls, you know, first person video game hunting, that sort of thing. I've seen some of your haul videos and I've commented them on you make me so jealous with what you find at frigging yard sales. Well, the video game stuff. Yeah, I found a Clico vision last summer in about 15 games. I think I paid 20 bucks for it. But so I've got the video game side of things that makes me different. You know, and I do, I think I think my content is very different than a lot of other people. Like, yeah, you'll see me review Siege Optimus Prime and other things that other guys are doing. But I mean, I do toy hunts. I thoroughly covered TF Con 2018 here in Canada, which takes place in the greater Toronto area, Mississauga, actually. So I have three videos on that that got a lot of traction. I've got a pretty substantial collection. I mean, people see my G1 stuff. And I mean, I know recently I did the giant Lewin third party Optimus Prime that's like a meter tall or whatever. But I mean, I've got some rare figures that I think people haven't seen. You know, and I'm talking about legitimate, you know, Japanese exclusive G1 stuff like the black Megatron that I was mentioning earlier. I've reviewed that on my channel. Oh, you've got some outstanding stuff. I highly recommend anybody check out M's channel. I've seen some stuff. I didn't even know existed. So you got some cool stuff. I think we really bonded that time. You showed that go bot rifle. That's right. I remember I'm like, well, I got the gun. So I did the video just for you. I literally just casually said, hey, if it's ever in the cards, I'd love to see the little cap gun. And it must have been two days later. You've done the video. You dedicated it to me and my video. And I thought, this is awesome. I've actually been looking on eBay for the larger one, but I can't find it for a decent enough price for me to give you a heads up about it. But there's two people looking out for that for you. Thanks. But no, I mean, I think I've got some rare figures. I've got some things that I think people haven't seen. And I mean, another thing is I think I'm pretty accessible. I don't know if anybody else has ever had the frustration of leaving a YouTuber who you respect and you follow like five or six comments and they ignore you. No, not even a light. I mean, I get it. If you get a thousand comments, hey man, you know, we're all busy. But even a like is better than just being completely ignored. I mean, for me, I respond to everybody with the exception of people that are being jokes. If somebody's trolling me, I'm probably just gonna ignore them. But anybody that wants a legitimate exchange with me or has an interest in the figures, I am there, man. I respond to everything. And I've met a lot of cool people that way. I've seen a lot, you know, you and I both watch a lot of different YouTubers. And I think I run into your comments a lot. So I think we all kind of are in the same big circle together. We definitely are. And that kind of leads me into question number nine. What is your thoughts on the Transformers social community? YouTube, Facebook, et cetera. I know you don't do Facebook, Instagram. But what is your thoughts on us as a collective within our little group? See, Instagram, Instagram and YouTube, a lot of that I'm only exposed to people that I wanna be exposed to. Certainly, I mean, I've got an open profile. If anybody wants to follow me on Instagram, it's there. So I could attract trolls, I suppose. But I mean, who's gonna do that? I think the circle of friends I've got on YouTube, everybody's really cool. I've actually never had one negative comment on this channel, which I find surprising at this point. I mean, I've put myself out there enough. I've opened the door for negative comments. I know that on numerous occasions, I'm sure. And just nobody's bit, which is great. I mean, I'm not looking for that kind of interaction. Yes, because you see this now, doesn't mean go on this channel and start getting it. Yeah, I'd rather not have the trolls. But so I'm gonna say YouTube, Instagram, very positive. I'm gonna say I've limited exposure on part of two forums, TFW 2005. I haven't interacted too much with people on there. My experience on there has been very positive. On the Canadian wing of that, I don't know if they're related or if it just happens to be whatever. But the Cybertron.ca one, I actually stopped going on that site. Nobody was bothering me ever. But I would read guys that would just troll one another. And I mean, they would go round and round. And guys just wanted to be left alone. Like guys would say, man, just, you don't have to comment on my stuff, like leave me alone. And you get the same guy coming around again and again. I had to stop going on Cybertron.ca for that reason. I dabble on it a little bit now, just for topics for the Transformers podcast that I've got if I wanna see that week, if there's something maybe I didn't hear about, some news. But the comments got pretty negative for a while. So I just sort of took myself out of it. Again, I've never had a bad experience personally, but I've seen some pretty disgusting behavior. So, mixed feelings about the social committee, to be honest with you, like the social Transformers world. Yeah, I think my favorite feature on Facebook is the block button. Cause I couldn't tell you how many times I'll try to do something, just make a comment. And don't ever say anything negative about a Bay movie. My God. I remember hearing that story. Yeah, it's like, man, buddy, relax. It's your opinion. Yeah, but I was wrong. And you know, keyboard warriors and such. Oh yeah. All right, my friend. Last question. Do you have any channel goals for yourself? And where can our viewers find you? Plug yourself. This is all about you. Goals for myself. My key goal right now is I wanna hit 1,000 subscribers because I'd like to be monetized. But I don't wanna be monetized for the traditional reason that I think most people think about. And we touched on this a little bit yesterday. I don't see a point in me making videos that people aren't gonna watch. Like I've got limited time. I'm married. I've got friends. So this is, I've only got maybe, I can only maybe release one video a week, two if I'm really lucky. So I know that when you're not monetized, YouTube doesn't have much of an incentive to promote your videos. In fact, I've got subscribers that tell me that my videos don't even appear in their feed. And they say they're subscribed and they've got the notifications turned on. So from my perspective, if I hit that $1,000 threshold and I've got the minutes logged that are needed to be monetized and if they approve me, I just think YouTube will then give my channel a bit of a push so that more people will watch my content. But I've got no intention of trying to quit my day job and make money on YouTube. It's not gonna happen. I mean, even if I made 20 bucks a year or whatever it is people make, I mean, you know what I mean? It's negligible. I mean, that would be a couple of Starbucks coffees, really. Maybe I could, I mean, I was gonna say I could treat myself to a deluxe figure. But here in Canada, the Siege line, the 30 bucks. The 30 bucks is wow. Yeah, 30 Canadian. So I mean, like the money wouldn't amount to much. I don't need the money. I just, I wouldn't mind having the push from YouTube. That's all. Well, that's a good one. As far as plugging myself, I mean, people can find, I mean, you can check out my YouTube channel, Transformers and Video Games. You can find me on Instagram, Transformers and Video Games. And check out my podcast. I'm not sure if I skipped this or are we getting to the shadow it's part or did I already miss that? That was in question nine, but we can backtrack. No, no, this is kind of, this sort of folds into that a little bit nicely, I think. So a check of the podcast is Transformers and Beer. You can find it on iTunes. If you're not an Apple guy or person, check it out on Podbean. So you can just Google Podbean and in the search engine, look for Transformers and Beer. And I think you just click on one of them. The order is kind of messed up. I looked at it recently, but it'll put it in chronological order. On your YouTube channel, do you have links to these other, your podcasts and stuff on your main YouTube channel? I actually don't have any links in my videos. I need to take care of that and I just haven't done it, but... Well, what I can do for you here is at the end of the sit-rep at the end during my little outro, I will link Em's channel. I'll put it in the description of this sit-rep. And at the very end will be a little box you can click on. I'll have his subscriber page and I'll put up your latest video. Awesome, man, thank you. You're welcome. Real quick about the shout-outs and here's the thing, man, like I'd love to sit here, grab my phone and shout out everybody who I'm subscribed to because there's a lot of great people out there. And I quite honestly think that there's a lot of people that could use my help and your help and the community's help in promoting them. There's guys that I think have way better content than I do and they've got a fraction of the subs and I just don't get how the algorithms work. But those people can rest assured over time I'm gonna try to be more active with giving other guys and people in the community shout-outs on my channel. But there are two that I do wanna give. My buddy Joe, he's my podcast partner from Transformers and Beer. Again, friends with him for the last 20 years, more than 20 years, he's got a YouTube channel called My Life in Collecting. So check him out. If you check him out and if you like what you see and subscribe, let him know and send you. And the only other person who I haven't known over 20 years that I wanna give a shout-out to is Cyber Tiger Retro Toy Showcase and Reviews. So say that three times fast. No, write it down, hold it up. Cyber Tiger Retro Toy Showcase and Reviews. Really nice guy. Um, this one's kind of a, he's got his own circle of friends in the YouTube community which I'm part of as well called the International Nerd Team, the INT. He's sort of the founding father of that. But I don't wanna get into it right now but I dealt with a real setback on YouTube about a year ago. And when I started Transformers and Video Games I had no subs, I was starting over again. And he actually, he had actually stopped making videos. He had decided he was done with it for a little while. He actually came out of retirement for lack of a better term and really plugged my channel telling all of his subscribers, check this guy out. Something's gone on here. He's starting over again. If you were subbed to him, check him out. You know, subscribe to him again. And quite honestly, it's stuff like that that really touches me being part of this community. It's easy for people that, I mean, there's guys out there that wanna do sub or sub or they'll only watch your videos if you watch theirs and comment, all this nonsense. Here's a guy that was done making videos on his channel for the time being. He's actually back now and making content again. But he came out of his YouTube retirement and put a really heartfelt message up there for all of his subscribers and all the people that are part of this circle. And it really helped me and it really touched me. So if honestly, if it's not a traditional channel in the sense that, you know, he's not necessarily doing reviews in your format or mine, but he does a lot of just, you know, topical videos. You know, he'll talk about his experiences you know, growing up, watching the movies, things that might have been going on with his family at the time. Honestly, like I've never been a big fan of the Bayverse, but he put a spin on it when I watched his channel where I thought, you know what? I mean, I can exist in that universe. It's not my thing. But I mean, you know, there's some positive in there. I can accept it for what it is. But like I said, I was really touched by what he had done for me. So that's the one person. I will slowly get around to giving everybody all shout outs and do time, but those are two guys that I did want to mention in this video. And you, of course, Patriot Prime for reaching out to me to do the sit-wrap. I really appreciate it. Message me those names. And since I'm putting this video up in a couple of days, that'll give me time. I can find the links to them and I'll put them in my description as well. Awesome. Well, my friend, that wraps up our sit-wrap. Once again, I wanna thank you for taking the time, talking to me, talking to my audience, and hopefully we'll bring more of an audience to your channel and maybe get you that thousands, getting talk, that thousand subscribers really soon. That would be awesome, man. Thanks again for having me. Like I said, it's been a blast. You know, chatted with you, what was supposed to be a 10-minute test. We chatted for, I looked, I think we clocked in at two hours and 17 minutes or something like that. We started at like nine o'clock. It was just this random test to see if this would work because I've done Facebook Messenger before for sit-wrap. I'm going Skype tonight. None of us has used it before. So I'm talking to him here. We're chatting for like an hour and all of a sudden, Tatumus Prime's ringing me on Facebook. I was like, hey, you got Skype? Next thing I know, we got a three-way conversation going on Skype. It's just like three guys sitting at the bar talking to transformers from nine o'clock to 1140. That was awesome, man. Love to do it again. Oh, anytime, my friend, anytime. And guys, I want to thank you for tuning in. Don't forget to like and subscribe if you like what you see. This is Patriot Prime, signing out. Hoorah! 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