 Hey, what's going on guys? Patriot Prime here once again with another episode of the sit rep and my guest tonight I've gone over the border the the north one and Introducing you to Papa G the Canadian Santa Claus Papa G. How are you doing tonight? I am doing excellent? Thank thanks for having me. I've been I've been really looking forward to this all week So I've been dealing with a migraine most of the week and just I'm behind on putting some video stuff out And I'm like at least I got something to look forward to Saturday night So yeah, and this work very last week because my last guest every time we go to do it Something come up and I had to hit a delay, but this one worked out pretty good. Yeah. Well before we get started I know you're you're fairly new to the game. Well, now you said you've been doing this for about two years, right? Yeah, just just oh, I think two years Beginning of January and then I monetize I think a week after so just over two years So about two and a half years now on YouTube. So yeah, nice Well, if you want to give my guys a quick head up heads up about who you are and then we'll get going and Just to let you know that your channel's link is in the description of this video So if you guys want to follow Papa G check him out. He's got some great live streams I hopped off I was able to hop on one one day and I had a blast just in the chat messing with you Yes Yeah, I know I know in in the questions will get down to that part of it But yo, this is yeah, I guess Papa Gord the Canadian Santa Claus Those that know who my case is I That's who I am so I was the weird Canadian guy that was like can I send you something because I really enjoy your content I'd like to show my appreciation because prior to that. I had no idea really what YouTube was I've got an almost 15 year old so I'm thinking oh, it's Minecraft stuff and I don't I don't know whatever else it is. Maybe a little kid stuff So I didn't know there was this whole genre of Guys our age talking about our childhood which apparently is now mainstream. You just got years later Oh, thank you very much. That's excellent. So yeah, so I mostly is it mostly can see some of my collection I'm primarily a Star Wars guy, but I grew up in the 80s. I am 47 years old I believe you and I are the same age. So we are So you had the gold it was the golden age of cartoons You had masters of the universe and you had GI Joe and you had transformers and you know thunder cats and Whoa, it was sensory overload. So now to see that everything's kind of Come full circle again So yeah, so I again, like I said, I primarily do Star Wars reviews I do a little bit of unboxings here and there and yet my live streams definitely every time I say And we're only gonna do a short one maybe a couple hours five and a half hours later. Then I'm finally gone Okay guys, I think it's time to call it a day and then I'll exit out Yeah, you never know how these are gonna be I mean I have have one now and then under the desk is another cold one just in case there you go I just I just smuggled in some Aguasso Uh-oh, I just saw this Kato won something Kato won a Joe tank Excellent, Mr. Kato wasn't the mobat have they brought the mobat tank back Wait for his answer. Remember the mobat that was like the first GI Joe tank You pushed the turret forward and it went forward Yes, yes Yeah, it wasn't a Joe guy back in in the 80s. That was like my fourth Line it was Star Wars masters of the universe Transformers and ms masters of the universe were kind of always fought back and forth the two and three And then Joe was four because my neighbor across the street. He had All of it. So if I just wanted to play with the flag I just high-tailed my butt over across street. We just go play there So he had more space than I did so I had a brother or I have I have a brother and a sister and they're both We're all four years apart. I'm four years from my sister. My sister is four years from my brother and so in the 80s I started off with a couple GI Joe things and I got in the masters of the universe and then the transformers came out That was all she wrote. Of course. I was into Star Wars 2 Of course that ended by the time transformers came out So I was collecting transformers. My brother was collecting GI Joe. My sister was collecting the She-ra Nice, nice. Yeah, I loved cross playing all the time. My sister's three years younger than I am and I I remember seeing pictures every once while of Luke Skywalker and Chewbacca Storming castle grayskull to save I think it was like strawberry shortcake from the centurions or something So it was always just some big massive grouping all the time so Now another cool line my brother had for what he had He had quite a few of the figures in and didn't have any of the play sets was bravestar remember that bravestar Yes, yeah, I think I had a couple not a lot, but I think I had bravest I think probably just bravestar probably so Basically all the hype about diversity. You'd think they'd bring bravestar back You would absolutely think that yes. Yeah, that was a great show and a good morals to it Yeah, cool villains too. Yeah. Oh for sure. Absolutely. Yeah Let's see and one more thing I want you to explain to my viewers because I know most of my guys are here In the states and we talked earlier what you're running into With your videos now You want to be a reviewer, but the way things are in Canada right now It's a little difficult so explain to my people why you're not reviewing as much as you'd like to What you told me when we first started sure. Yeah, you're all shed a tear for this guys. This is ridiculous It's it is really kind of bad right now. So so in in Canada in As far as I know, it might just be Ontario right now, which is the province that I live. I'm just outside of Toronto and uh, we've been in Lockdown so to speak like if you need to go to work go to work you do your thing, but uh, if you you can't travel outside of your Designated area like the the province actually gave police more power that if they wanted to pull you over Just a double check to see where you were going. Um, I'd always make sure I had my work ID with me all the time But all the cops were like You know what? I think we'll pass on this extra power that we really don't need the fall down any of this garbage with this stuff so If it's not essential you can't buy it. I have Walmart across the street And I can look down the toy aisles because they've they've put big Palates in the way, but I can look a little bit here I've never seen toy aisles so full in my entire life And I can't touch them because you can't buy it if it's not food or medicine Or diapers or whatever like essential like, you know, I know they don't consider this stuff essential But for some people it is it's very therapeutic So I can't review things if I can't go out and buy stuff and then if I have pre-ordered which is the way I usually go now because it's turned into such a third-party sellers market lately or the last couple of years now that this has been more mainstream That I'm just not willing to pay Those prices so I'll just put a pre-order in and if it comes in it comes in eventually But by that time sometimes that window of reviewing opportunity is missed but So right now it's just kind of live streams and you know one offs here and there so So yeah, it is disappointing. They just extended the order by another two weeks. So june the second Technically is supposed to be when the order is supposed to lift Do you guys have I mean up there? Do you follow the cdc guidelines too? Like we're finally, you know, if you got your shot, so we can tell our masks to kiss our ass Yes, so yeah, so that's another thing too. So with our shot with the with getting the vaccinations They have decided that canadians can go four months between both doses So I had mine about probably a month ago I guess almost now and I don't get mine again until the second dose till mid august so it's still You know, they're not making it mandatory that if I soon as I go out the door I got to put a mask on my face But as soon as you're going into a store if you're in a public Like a provincial park or any of that stuff They've got signs up whether or not you use your brain And you you cover up to look after yourself and other people It just depends. So it's it's disappointing I took a shot in the face by a guy because I just Was frustrated shopping one time and I'm like, why are the arrows even there? Like is our arrows that difficult to understand it's a direction So if I'm walking the way the arrow points, why are you coming down the same way? So I said something one time guy weighed out in the parking lot said something and I turned my head and Got a little got a little sock in the side a little bit there. So it's just like You know what I just I got nothing for it So I just I'd like I love things to go back to the way they are and Hopefully with now with vaccinations and them getting things for kids to finally Be able to get their inoculations as well and stuff. So I'm I'm hopeful so My god, I don't know how much longer I could take stand at home so much. So man And I thought like I told you I thought we had it rough. I had no ideals like it for you guys Yeah Well, and I hate the sound like you know, like my wife and I we do like watching our saturday night live and watching especially the whole the trump stuff and like the the political Satire and Just to go and go man like the states are banging out those inoculations like they're just set in pace And look at us like a sad little, you know moose ridings sad canadians drinking our maple syrup sitting on a log going Yeah, when's it going to be our turn now? Like this is ridiculous. So uh, you would really rub it in My state is one of the best ones to get those inoculations out and we're west virginia. You know the hillbilly's dating her own cousins Yeah Well enough of the world as it is right now, let's get to the transformers So guys, if you know how the sit rep works, I have 10 questions for my guest. We're already 10 minutes into the show Uh, the first five questions are regarding him as a transformers collector And the last five regarding you as a youtuber. So if you are ready to rock and roll, we will do this Fireway. All right question number one What's the appeal of transformers for you? Oh I can I think like I touched upon just a few minutes ago. Um 1984 like star wars was done and giant robots that turned into cars and trucks and airplanes and other things was just like Wow That's so and I mean and that that includes go-bots as well I don't know how how people take go-bots nowadays, but you know what wasn't wasn't the best But it was still something that transformed. It was still something completely out of the norm because it wasn't military or it wasn't Space cowboys or any of that stuff. So it it piqued my interest. I remember Going opening night to see the the feature film In the theater with my buddy and we were probably besides like the grandparents and the parents Probably the oldest people in there. Everybody else was like six seven whatever And then when spike drops his famous curse word in the film and It just I can I remember it clear as day and then the grandparents Covering the kids ears going. Oh my god. This is a cartoon. Why is there swearing in this? We're going That was the raddest thing I've ever seen So it just yeah, it just I don't know it was The colors it was die cast it was It was a puzzle you got to two modes to play with them Like it's just ideals just ideal toys And I think it was the story behind it That's what's kept me into it for so long because when they came out You had Marvel comics on one hand with their universe and then you had the cartoon on the other I can't see my hands on the other with their universe and though they were the same Each one was different. So it was so cool. Just getting All these unique takes on your characters. Yes. Yes All right question number two Aside from g1, which is always the number one answer What is your favorite transformers fiction? Okay, so I have to say I I've barely read any of the comics. I do remember the original Marvel I don't think your wafaa is essential And they own the They're on at some point, but there we go. Oh, good. God. It's the weather I tell you someday. So um, so yeah I would say edit out of like tv like cartoons and that Probably prime and I haven't watched all of it So I'm really bad because I I get into something and then something else kind of jumps in so I still have to finish prime I wasn't a big beast wars guy, but I think prime probably was my second favorite out of any media form for it I got prime. I never really saw it all on tv I ended up getting prime. It was like a sale. I got the whole complete blu-ray series And that's when I watched it in order. Man, that was sharp Yeah, yeah, yeah, nothing netflix still has it up here in canada. So my son bugs me all the time. Oh, you should finish watching I'm like, yeah, there's a lot of things I need to finish watching Kato explained what's going on with your internet right now the prime minister heard you complaining Uh, it's ruto. Trudeau and Doug Ford can just go suck on lemon. So I All right, do you have a favorite figure or grail? This is a figure a transform figure you will never let go of so you gotta sell your entire transformer collection This one's not going anywhere Well, because my transformer collection is about a dozen pieces. I wouldn't say I have a particular Grail right now. Like I said, I'm I'm loving the 86 studio series had I not come across that grimlock Physically in the store. I probably wouldn't have continued at all. I wouldn't have even started um, so me maybe studio series grimlock right now So, um, like I said, I do have a couple of really nice pieces from from uh, from mike So I think eventually I've got a brutacus and I can't remember what What company made it so and I'd be dying to put it out somewhere. I just don't trust the cats or the kids so You haven't trained your kids like I have trained mine Yeah, they're not bad. They know to respect Whatever but sometimes like even my wife she'll come down. She hasn't done it in recently But she'll come down and she'll move my figures around a little bit and I'm very ocd So I'll come down and I'll I'll I'll stare at my collection for hours going I think my stormtroopers in the wrong place, but all along it's not gone anywhere. So she just gets a laugh out of it on me so I came up here one time up This was before this room is the way it was as stuff set up somewhere else And I walked in immediately noticed a weapon was missing and I asked the wife And she says yeah, I was cleaning and it fell and I didn't know which one it went to So I just laid it on the shelf. How did you? It's like I pinpointed 10 minutes into walking into the room. Yeah Oh, jeez. Almost gave me a heart attack. I almost let it turn into carpet the carpet spotters So as a kid, how many vacuum bags did you have your mom open up to look for weapons? You she might have sucked up Oh, I would say Probably on a pretty regular basis. So especially with a lot of the More of the auto bots. I think a lot of the cars Like prowl and those ones I think with the extra little blasters where ones I'd lose consistently I had so many. No, I didn't use ziploc bags when I was a kid. I had I think there were these little Tupperware containers that They look like Tupperware containers that Kleenexes came in or something And that's why I had my bad guy box and my good guy box And now you know out of my entire collection I'm only missing one accessory from everything And that's the spear to chop shop the deluxe insecticon Wow Is damn near impossible to find for some reason Jesus that's damn near impossible to hear. They're only missing one piece. Holy jumping. That's excellent Now i'm one of these guys when I would buy a g1 or something I would either buy it complete or once I bought it It was like my mission in life to make sure I completed it as soon as possible because my ocd That's like, uh, which one drove me nuts You have decided to piece together a trypticon right before he started getting reissued but I have two original tryptocons because I bought one bare bones and then over a year I started getting all the accessories And then there was a guy who had a trypticon Locally just a box of transformers. He had a trypticon with that extra piece that I needed So I was like, well, hell I just bought another trypticon for that one piece So now I have trypticon in dino mode and he's displayed another one displayed in city mode with my micro masters Excellent You love it when a plan comes together, right? So that's okay. I get I would have It took me a year and then I think later on it was about Three months later when we're like, oh, here's the new platinum edition reissue a trypticon. I'm like Nice All right question number four What is your white whale say this is a transformer figure if you could buy this one you could be done collecting transformers Okay, I I've got I've got two so um the fans toys phoenix is a particular Favorite of mine that I drew Over whenever I see it whenever mike's doing a view or a bots and shots and I see him in the background there Fire was always one of my Yes, I'm not sky fire. Yeah, jet fire. Yes. So, uh, yeah, so that would be one and then the rolling thunder um the The the sd commander, uh, the prime Yeah, the nuclear blast commander It's I would be that would probably be the piece if I could get my hands on that either the regular or the camo version And I think I could probably be done. I think I'm looking so forward to tf con. I really have nothing I'm after So other than hanging out with all the boys I cannot wait to see some of these things in person Yeah, all right No, yeah, go ahead I was gonna say I was gonna go Oh Get to the next one. Yeah. Well, I just I'm jealous of you guys being able to get into conventions now too because that's still Something that they're not even talking about uh right now. No toy shows. You can't no garage sales You can't go to plea markets None none of that stuff's a thing right now. So when I see people talking about tf con and some other stuff, I'm like Man, I just Just See people again, you know and and talking circles about things I like to talk about so Well, we'll keep our fingers crossed for you. I mean you wait you got one more month so Hopefully And this one for us just came right out of the blue. Of course, everybody around here just gets pissed off at it Anyway, and It's just all of a sudden yesterday cdc. Hey, you got your shots screw your mask because like hell. Yeah All right I go depress you. Let's get back to some bots Question number five. What is your favorite transformer character? Any fiction any media? smoke screen Without hands down. He was my first transformer. I had as a kid and I don't know But just the blue and the red and the white Just in any form that he's ever been in I just yeah, if I see one I have to get him so smoke screen is except for the armada smoke screen that figure made no sense to me whatsoever Okay with certain exceptions exactly I remember when I first saw it I was like, okay, he's an orange crane and his name is smoke screen Y'all y'all are reaching Yep No All right, well, we'll scroll down now. We're going to talk youtube questions Uh number six now you've already went over this with me earlier, but you know for those in the audience What possessed you a grown man to do toy reviews on youtube? Uh Simply enough it was honestly my kids bugged me for a number of years Can we start a youtube channel? Can we start a youtube channel? I'm like, no You should wait you should wait and like I said earlier I didn't know anything of the whole youtube culture or anything like that and I just I don't know What's the very first thing I kind of google search? But again, I'm just Plugging him crazy, but but my and He was the first sheet or whatever and I was like, oh that that seems kind of interesting Okay, you're talking about really you can sit there and make videos about Action figures and other things maybe we'll try doing that So I did some videos with the kids and I figure you know what it's going to be theirs I'll pop on I have no idea what I'm doing still two and a half years later I'm surprised I'm able to put videos up without just wanting to put my fist through the computer screen sometimes Because I'm not super technology. Just the technology has just Gone past me so editing and whatever my videos are one take Straight through I don't care if it's a 25 minute video. I don't stop. I don't edit it I start from beginning to end with the ums the os the canadian in me comes out And then when kappa hit we were like Oh What are we gonna do now and then the kid's kind of on me and two and a half years later? I'm like, how how how did this happen? So and I love every minute of it The people I've met so far, uh, and none of them have physically been a meeting but to To have any friends in multiple countries all over the world and what have you? It just blows my mind So Yeah, it's funny, you know, even when I'm doing the reviews now You think you're you you have a pattern set up, but I'm always forgetting something I can't tell you how many galvatrons I've learned about knee joints here lately It's funny. I look back on all my reviews when I go over the articulation I always forget to do the arm lifting up this way. I don't know why but every time I forget to do that one Everybody's laughing. They say you with the way your internet's jacking up right now. You sound like the computer for war games Oh, really the whopper really I sound like the whopper You have to say shall we play a game shall we play a game? Are you getting there too, uh, just a bit that's a bit so at least there's a few of us that know what movie that is so All right, sir question number seven. What keeps inspiring you to get in front of the camera? Oh Well, unfortunately right now like I said reviews just aren't happening the views just aren't there I've never really been a guy to worry about the numbers Um, I've always said when I started when we started the channel I just wanted to monetize for the community posting. That was the only thing I was like I want the community posting. I don't care about the couple of pennies I might possibly make but the money I spend does not counterbalance to what is coming in or whatever And uh, I was like, yeah, I hit a thousand. I I'm I'm very happy with that 1200 subscribers later things are Still going but I just kind of do with the live streams right now and um You know, it's more It's more a community thing. I've I've talked about my depression My anxiety my OCD and it really struck a chord I know a lot of people go through a lot of stuff like that and it struck a chord with a lot of my real core community from my my channel and I think not out of obligation But I I feel that I need them to check in with me and that I need to check in with them regularly to make sure that we're doing okay and Especially with what's been happening the last year plus and some people being in bubbles of one and not being able to To to see and interact with people and stuff like that. So it's it's it the channel has become something I don't think I ever thought it was ever going to become I can agree with that whole hardly, you know, especially with the little group that I became part of We just have this tight-knit circle Of youtubers. I mean we're on here talking we're on facebook instagram talking We got each other's numbers. We can text each other. It's just it's funny and like you said that never in a million years What I imagine doing this, you know Throwing a plastic robot on the screen and talking about it would led to all of this. Yes. Yes blows my mind Yep. All right question number eight And once again, we talked about this earlier. There are thousands of toy reviewers on youtuber We try us again Beer's kicking in there are thousands of toy reviewers on youtube. What makes you any different from the rest? First off, I have to ask the where did you get poppa gourd the canadian santa claus from So that that is that's a hundred percent my case right there I believe he when he did the sit rep with you he Mentioned me in that that he had this guy up in canada's poppa gourd So it became I was his the canadian santa claus because I would just send him mystery boxes just as appreciation for his content and then it was it was The canadian santa claus and it was poppa gourd then it became pop gourd the canadian santa claus and it was like poppa g so i'm just like Sure, let's just go with that and then I lucked out. I had a great local guy That was looking for some overwatch Figures, um, and I was getting I was clearing some out and he did the graphic for me He did my introduction for me as well and i'm like I guess i'm kind of feeling like an actual proper youtuber now So i'm not just going on the internet and finding pictures to throw up on the page and go Yeah, okay, let's just do this thing. So uh, so yeah because Yeah, it's all all might and I mean, you know, I know he's very he can be modest at times or whatever And but we've developed such a A great big friendship and we've never You know, we've never met yet face to face, but one day i'm hoping to be able to get that with the california to uh Meet him, but uh, he's Again, and he's he's done more for me than anybody that I met through youtube. Um Mentally and and whatever he he came into my life at the perfect time So I kind of feel that I kind of still need to be out in youtube and kind of pay for so to speak Yeah, he is a great guy. I like I said, I've talked to him a couple times and then Luckily, I've snagged a few chats. I always have a blast kind of like with you that one day We're just in the chat having A hoot and I need to get and talk to him again, but he's got that bad time difference Okay That three hours definitely makes it makes for a bit of a gap at day So for sure. Yep, definitely a pain to but you're trying to talk to somebody from the uk Last guest I had from over there. He had to stay up till 2 a.m. In the morning to talk to me at 10 All right Number nine and you just touched base on this a little bit What's your thoughts on the transformer social community youtube facebook and other than mike case? Do you have any special shout outs? Uh, well, I see I see kato's in here yourself, um, you know, I think honestly yours was probably the second channel that came up after mike's and I was just like, you know what? Why not? Let's see. I again, I'm not a huge transformers guy, but I I do appreciate them a lot because they were a part of my childhood and I will say yeah, definitely, uh, kato Inutabi those guys Um as well, um for being younger channels at the same time, um You know, if I if I'm looking for a quick review or something like that You know, you guys come up in my stuff all the time. So I'm like, okay, great I'll put that one in my save. I'll put that one in my save. Ooh hot ride. I kind of like hot ride Okay, I'm kind of curious to see what's going on. Um, I'm I'm belonging to transformers and such on facebook I don't ever post because I just like seeing what everybody else is getting because you know, my star wars is my thing but I I'm in awe of some people's collections out there and seeing some of the fantastic pieces And how transformers have evolved from the original g ones to the masterpiece that you know that we see today that That unicron for god's sakes like you couldn't have told the 11 year old me Or the 13 or 14 year old. Yeah Look at that. I would have never thought that would have ever ever come to fruition ever in my entire life So can you believe that I've had that in here for a month of yet not opened it yet? I have a hard time when I get mail and I'm like, oh, I gotta wait two days until I can open it up on a live stream I get the sweats all the time All right last one Do you have any channel goals for yourself and where can our viewers find you? This is where you have a chance to brag about your channel and as I said earlier A link to your channel is in the description of this video Oh, good. God. I always have such a hard time. I I was never wanted to Be out in front of the public eye ever so this every time I do something like this if it's a live stream If it's a video it's it's outside of my comfort zone and I would say being Closer to 50 then I would prefer not to be but It's such a weird And it is a wonderful feeling. I know you get the nerves you get the sweats It's almost like asking a girl out for the first time or something like that when the camera goes on and it's like Uh, you know and I think my channel I've been referred to kind of as a as a cult Following because again, I don't have a huge amount of subscribers But everybody that either has heard of me or has come across me. They're like I've heard of you That's all the views that you're the subscribers you have right now I thought you would have been in the tens of thousands. I I appreciate that but no, it's it, you know I I like how small the channel is My community is very tight-knit. Um, you know, there's usually at least the same 30 to 40 people that are in there again touching base with one another. We know about each other's family if somebody's sick or you know going through some stuff or what have you, um, it's Like I said, it's something that Again, I never figured was gonna happen ever As far as a goal, I I'd like to see I was hoping to shoot for 2000 subs by the end of the year I think because How slow things have gotten for me up here right now that I'm You know that goal might be a little out of reach. So if I could maybe pull 1500 by the the end of the year or so I I'd be ecstatic with that because Um, you know, I'm able to interact with everybody on my streams and stuff still right now without You know, like I had robo and I'm not trying to tone horn too much But I had robo from the fwoosh On my channel on a live stream and he did over three hours with me. Wow I honestly couldn't tell you a damn thing that we talked about the entire time I haven't watched it back or any of that right now But I was like because I felt the guys in the chat were like you should see if robo will come on I'm like, yeah, yeah, sure. So I on live stream got on my phone and I sent him a message. I'm like, okay We'll uh, we'll we'll we'll see what's going on with that and um And he responded back in a few weeks later. He came on and I was like, holy jumping That's over a hundred plus thousand subscribers and he come and do my little channel, but um That's how I felt when stan bush agreed to hop on mine. Oh Uh, yeah that man. I've enjoyed that between him being on your channel a kato having him on I'm just like wow like that's that's a that's a guy. He's you know put holy that Yeah, I I was speechless watching All those interviews um hold on there for a half hour with him before we got started. So all my giving us got out No, that's in just incredible like, um I don't know what else to see with the channel. Honestly, um, I'm I mean, I'm on instagram Um at papa underscore Gored the csc or whatever. I believe Twitter i'm there. I don't really tweet very often because it's I don't know, um, but it's at audio twitter. I hate twitter Yeah, twitter's a cesspool Yeah, yeah, there's a few guys some of the uk guys use twitter quite a bit So that's where I get a lot of messages Is uh from them through that form but and then facebook. I do have a facebook page I'm pretty regular on updating I just don't actually really facebook facebook because again, it's just You know, oh look look at the the plate of food. I just you know, I just I don't care to see what people are making to eat for for dinner Well, I'm I show off transformers. I show off to me. That's why they See and that's okay. I'll show off. We got a new kitten that um made the force So I've been putting kitten pictures up on my instagram lately. So you know, I don't know it's it's it's a little odd But but yeah, that's where I'm at. Um my live stream still, you know, I live stream every sunday night at eight o'clock When my work schedule is normal I usually do a wednesday stream at like midnight to help out for the west coast people So it's not too early for them but then it's maybe a little later for the east coasters but um But that's been kind of fluctuating a little bit here and there because again, I work in the school School board so no kids are in school right now. So work is very slow So um, so my schedule has changed a little bit, but um, but yeah, that's kind of where I'm at right now I I seem to pop up in a lot of other people's streams here and there and uh Like I said, it's it's it's a great thing. There's been some fantastic people Out there a great community Um And I wouldn't do it. I don't think I'd do it differently anymore. So I think this has just been Just been a fantastic ride so far. I can't wait to see where it's gonna go Yeah, excellent. Well that pretty much wraps up my 10 questions and usually I like to keep these at about an hour So we've got 20 minutes left if anybody in the chat wants to ask anything. We'll uh Go with you guys for a while and I saw something right off. This is from inutabi What do you think about the bad batch if you watch that bad batch? I've seen the first two episodes. Um Um, I'm optimistic. I guess. Um I want to see where it's going. So the omega character. I think her voice is just weighing on me a little bit that new zealand accent is just but um So far the first two episodes have been great. Um, I think as long as Dave Filoni Has his fingers in star wars We should be safe So that's I think that's a safe answer. So I haven't I haven't seen it yet. I keep forgetting about it I am stuck on Hbo max right now Watching boardwalk empire I've just been tearing through that. I think I'm on my last season. We got like five episodes left So if I'm not if my reviews have slowed down, it's because I'm watching these gangsters from the 20s Tommy getting people Oh Didn't watch it. I haven't watched He needs one bad. Oh, I tell you That's killing you the night. Uh, I apologize guys. Usually my my my connections a heck of a lot better Uh, we must be because we're crossing the border. I tell you I voice my Optination review asked what is the best website to Optination says what's the best website to get g1's at? Well, for me, it's always been ebay mercury Or facebook marketplace That's pretty much it mercury Yeah, we don't have mercury in canada. We've got um kijiji. So I think it's pretty well the same almost the same thing So, yeah, I would agree with uh, yeah ebay for sure, especially g1 stuff. Yeah And I'm down to I have every american decepticon release and I only like the headmasters and Autobots from all of the american Autobot releases, but man, those are the ones that cost the most especially those latter year headmasters Yeah, those were some of actually my favorite cartoons I loved when they got into doing the headmasters and the target masters and in that type thing I was like, oh, it would have been great to kind of See after that season was kind of done But to see I love to see the re-releases with the with the repro boxes and and stuff like that I mean, it's you'd almost think it should be a cheaper thing But I can't believe how much money they charge for those For those g1 re issues at walmart now. I'm just like that's crazy Those weren't even that much when we were growing up So man and it it was hard for me not to buy those because as big of a g1 or as I am I have those figures already And being a transformers fan you're already buying so many repaints I mean the seekers the the prowl mold. I mean Yeah Side swipe mode mode. I think these are my seventh versions of that mold I just had to draw the line especially because I'm the thing was I want this just for the box So I'm not spending the 20 bucks on just the box Yes, yeah, yeah, they were going for I think the headmasters were Four I want to say there were 49 99 canadian up here for the head There was reissue headmasters and then to see them On the third, you know on third third guys Scalper selling the damn things and they're and they're asking 90 to 100 bucks for them they're going double and I'm like no no no sorry not happening You know that is a hard question But for me because I grew up on marvel comics. I have to go with marvel I mean the cartoon was great, but the comics just fleshed out So many more characters. I mean if it wasn't for marvel comics, we wouldn't have the epic backstory of Scorponok and bludgeon and characters like that that the cartoon never really touched Touched on and though the cartoons so cool. They still maintain that Kitty kitty atmosphere to them. Yeah, but the comics grew with the audience I mean, there's a big difference you read the first 10 issues of marvel g1 compared to the last 10 issues of marvel g1, but so I gotta get a marvel on that Yeah, like I said, I I I haven't read a lot of you know New stuff or whatever, but yeah, I think from what I can recall You know, I mean there's always more areas you could go with so and instead of just Whatever all the decepticons are here. They need to enter john so they can get back to cybertron and But the books yeah just to get in and they can get more intricate details and and all that stuff I think was fantastic And he knew toby brings up a good point. You look at shockwave in the cartoon He was a lapdog for megatron. You know, he's a bootlicker Shockwave a marvel comic who is a completely different character He kicked megatron's ass took over leadership of the decepticons and then he had a character like ratbat Who took over leadership of the decepticons? Yes, that's right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah Then he had grimlock who was more or less a psychopath in the comics And then he got dumbed him down again later on That's right. He took over leadership of the autobots and he just snapped He was willing to kill kids to get blaster during that one issue Yeah, you're hitting the nerves now. Good. Yeah, now you're gonna grab it. Well, I'm gonna have to start looking at stuff up again now so Here we go. Where are Nope, not that one issue where scorpionock fights shockwave You know, that's the one thing too with marvel all the characters were the same size Scorpionock could go toe to toe with power master prime They could also go toe to toe with fortress maximus I would love to have like voyager sized versions of scorpionock And like fortress maximus just that marvel comics style Yeah Where was there was another question I was going to okay. Here we go What was the most expensive transformer you bought besides unicorn? Well, not to make you jealous, but unicorn was not bought by me that was sent to me by a subscriber who sent it to me because he's out of town And he said he'd rather me have it and keep it and review it or whatever until he can get it so Which is very surprising for me, but I think my most expensive would probably be my Fort max Okay Uh Mine proud is probable The studio series grimlock that would be the most expensive one. I don't I said I haven't gone I started getting into a little bit here and there, but I don't have anybody I lean on might quite a bit especially when it comes to optimist prime stuff and um, you know, I don't If it's something I see and if I can't get a hold of him right away Then I second guess myself because I'm not super educated with a lot of the mp and In all the way zheng and and all that stuff or whatever. So I've missed out on some really some really nice pieces Computron's always been my favorite combiner and I'd love to have him represented in my collection somewhere, but If you got an extra send him over so but I'd loved I you know, that would probably I would say if if I was going to add a new piece um, that would probably Be maybe my next one is to find a good computron. I think maybe yeah Well, nick, you know the answer to uh, this question overlord Of the japanese g1 continuity Oh overlord. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I'll go with overlord. So I do know that one. So yeah All right, here we go. Uh, there was one for you papa. Let me find it. No Oh, here we are from fire talks. What lines do you collect? Oh, I see the star. I see star wars there It's majority. So I mean Hasbro's got me by the short and curlies because they own so many bloody properties. Um, So I am right now A figure completionist for star wars the black series I've got at least one of every figure that's been put out so far including the convention exclusives and Whatever have you, um I've got Oh, good lord. So a little bit of batman. I've always been a been a big batman guy It was always more dc than marvel But I mean the marvel films have definitely Swung me the other way because the dc stuff is just an abomination Except for bat fleck. I really enjoy bat fleck. I wish he would have got his own movie, but now dc animated rocks Animated is great. Yes. Yes. Uh that I will give you fair point on that. So, uh, what else masters of the universe I've been getting back into the The origins line. So I found faker and, uh Evil lin that light skin version or whatever. So, oh, that's just a thing of beauty. I tell you I'll never find a flock one up here ever. So Uh gi joe classified So far i'm complete except for major blood I don't know how much longer i'm going to go with that line because that's just been a nightmare to find that stuff And the studio series. Um, I've really loved what they put out. Uh, tron. I collect some tron Um, it's a one of my favorite films Uh pineapple on pizza ionicus It depends It depends on what kind of um if i've had enough alcohol, maybe the pay that pineapple would be better My new favorite mexican dishes at our local restaurants have pineapple and chorizo in them I love pineapple Ooh, the chorizo. Okay. I give you a pineapple and chorizo ham. I'm not a big ham guy. So But chorizo let's cause you call it bacon up there Well backbacons is a little bit different than regular bacon. So and I don't even I don't even get regular bacon The wave gets me to eat low fat turkey bacon now like what a shame. I tell you I would love new pretenders And I think they could do them easily they could do them And not there's a little tiny Power of the primes ones we got there was another one somebody asks a question about g1 if I could find it again Nobody asked anything and then they all hit it once of course Somebody was talking about g1. I mean, what's the appeal of g1 like buying the toys? Is it just the nostalgia of it or For me it's a combination of the nostalgia and still some of those g1 gimmicks are awesome and we've never seen them redo those I mean when like when the titan returns came out with their headmaster gimmick It didn't hold a candle to the original g1 The titan returns you'd sit there and struggle to pop the heads in G1 you pop it in you get the little tumblers that spun and there's just so many so much interactivity with the g1 figures And plus I mean you hated them back in the day, but the pretenders are really cool gimmick the power masters all the I loved it. I just I think it's awesome. I love revisiting those old characters and figures Yeah, I mean it's it's one thing, you know like You know with with transformers you're always going to get your optimist primes You're always going to get your megatrons. It's the same with star wars You're always going to get another friggin luke skywalker Even if you don't want another luke skywalker Or they're going to take that old stormtrooper mold and they're going to repaint the crap out of it and shove it down your throat until you're finally like I can't take another damn stormtrooper like but to see Like to see like sky links like that last sky links that came out. I don't have that and I want that like I thought was a great looking piece um You know omega supreme like to see some of these ones that have maybe yeah, see I know I'm I'm just preaching right to everything You've got sitting besides you probably He's been sitting there waiting on his repra labels forever See and I love that's what that's probably my favorite thing is to watch your stuff to see you know Taking something like this and then putting the repros on there and what a bloody difference A sticker set makes like Holy crap, so I really enjoy those videos a lot. Thank you All right, what else what else am I missing updated monstructor that'd be nice. That's a character. They haven't touched since 89 when he came out He's one of those ones always you ask Can I pull him out There you go Touching but still And I've got so much stuff on pre-order right now. I collect necka, too I'm waiting on my part seven jason figure. I love friday the 13th My brother-in-law is a massive michael meyers. He's any Film format you need laser disc beta max whatever he's got All of it so I don't mind that the 80s horror stuff is okay. It just never I don't know it's it's all right I like I think if I had to go I would prefer jason over michael meyers A holy grail. Yeah, and this is not transformers. This is your figures Um, uh, I wonder I'll see if I can get him I remember I saw you lazy. I just couldn't find your question again So this is my one and only hot toy. This is commander cody Who is my absolute favorite uh troop commander? Um, he if I I've already got a thing on he comes with a bunch of different holograms of jedi and Darth Sidious and what have you he's got his helmet. I mean that face sculpt alone is just gorgeous and this was a gift from my uncle mike and and brian uh tk 6 to 8 70s a member of the 500 and first out West um, so they chipped in together and uh and had this guy sent to me so he Um, he would probably be in the coffin with me when I take my breath So and I love him he and I just I want to review him, but I'm still very nervous about Moving him a lot because there is a few little just delicate pieces on him, but that's that was my grail As as a pointer I reviewed monstructor and I told told him flat out. I said listen This is a figure that I have him, of course When I was buying monstructure. I pieced him together So I've got a lot of little individual bots and I just told him in the review. I said this is a rare figure This is a figure that I'm not going to transform But I'm going to go into details. I pulled up pictures and stuff And it still was a fairly popular review and your viewers should understand that if they're wanting to see a monstructor video They're going to understand. Okay. That figure is plagued with gps He's probably not going to do this and I just I told him flat out. Listen. I'm not just transforming this on camera Yeah, no, yeah without a doubt. I there will be a day that I will Really, you know, I've ordered a second one. I don't know. I don't want to go too deep With the hot toys line because that is an expensive rabbit hole to fall into um So we'll see I have ordered another one to come next year. It'll be my second and uh We'll we'll go from there. But yeah, they are some of these things are just I don't know you look at the stuff that we had growing up and just to see how it's evolved over Almost 40 years really and Again, you know, you go to the he-man stuff on how well This looks almost identical to When we were kids Just they put articulation on it because we couldn't bend them at The knees or bend them at the elbows before like Just it just something Simple like that, man Thank you lazy jedi. I appreciate it. He's the one that asks is g1 just nostalgia for us old guys or something more Oh, I think it's always going to be nostalgia But it's always going to be there's always going to be just that little bit more there. So Regardless, we we've all seen some Abysmal stuff that's happened some of our favorite lines, you know, there's there's some transformers that are just jack Same with star wars, you know power of the force figures because everybody's like I got to buy all these up because they're going to be worth something and they're worth Less than what you paid for the me. So, you know what that line was so funny because every figure was just jacked up Like they didn't be hitting the roids Like how's this arm true for getting that armor for god sakes and princess leah if I came across her in a dark alley I would have turned and just run the other way. I've never seen her that buff before Now what's funny is I may have told you before but half of this collection room used to be star wars And then I just went gangbusters with the transformers Yeah, you've probably seen over the course of my videos how everything's kind of shifted away Oh, definitely. I mean I like I said I Whenever going to like the wall murder twice or us I I wouldn't go down action figures because I honestly didn't really know that that was still Kind of a thing like when my my son was growing up It would be you know, like the fisher priced up imagine next and like the little play sets and hot wheels and And then and once he was old enough to get into lego So we kind of bypassed a lot of that and again Finding youtube and finding other people that talk about this I was like really and my first three star wars figures Were probably three of the worst ones to come out. I paid five bucks each for them and it's led to I mean again, you can only see a small fraction of what's behind me now, but it's trying to just Holy Jesus, how did this happen and it's only been I've only been collecting Three years three years. That's it for me. So That's it. I gotta get him up to show him. He's this is this has been the troublemaker who's been Driving me nuts for the last hour. So, hey There you go, buddy. Oh kick it. That's it. Oh, he's a brown blur Oh, yeah, here we go the neck of Goliath. I agree. I've got him pre-ordered Of course everything I have from pre-order right now. Nothing's budging though. I know Goliath's not do for a while yet Yeah, I can't wait for that figure. Of course, you know, they're gonna do the other ones Yes, I only think with that Goliath. I wish they would have done the wings All the K. Yes. Yeah where the claws look like this. Yeah Yeah, that needs it. It needs it That's the only thing just that just to push that figure just that little bit more Oh, it's neck. You know, they're gonna come up with an ultimate version next year that'll do that Absolutely. Yeah convention exclusive or it'll glow in the dark or something weird. So yeah But yeah, that's gonna be a that's gonna be a big line because there's so many characters Not only the mainline gargoyles. You got the villains and the robots and Oh Well, I see the ninja turtles line I was like, I'm so glad that I avoided Either the the movie stuff or the animated stuff because Seeing what people are going through to try to track that stuff down. It's great looking but I just like I can't that's just a line. I had to just kind of admire from the distance Well, fortunately, I'm here safe and sound behind my keyboard But I was never that into turtles. So I could care less I just never I watched the cartoon, but they just never appealed to me. It must have hit just at that time When uh, I don't know I was getting out all that stuff Yeah, I would I'd say the same thing. I like the first film and then after like the second one the third I'm like, yeah, you know, it's kind of neat to see that they were able to pull it off I still like the look of them In the first film to the the updates that they've done in the last few years recently or whatever But um, but yeah, it's yeah, they never really struck a solid telecourt That was a neat concept. Anyways, and it's worked for many many years So I'd like to see an updated mask if somebody would do mask again I would I would probably clear out a part of my collection to put masks back in there. So Yeah, I'm really surprised that one hadn't taken off yet, especially the way everybody talks about it Yeah, yeah leave the size alone. Don't don't make it bigger like just You know put it out there maybe better articulation and maybe you can do a better You know actual faces now with the technology that's out there now, but oh, but you know, they're gonna nerf the gimmicks That's what takes me off. Yeah, like I just we said earlier You can't beat the 80s gimmicks. They just don't hold a candle to what we've got now Yeah, and then of course I look at the figures like I just reviewed this guy Even him from early 2000 Loaded with gimmicks and he paid like 20 bucks for this guy Yeah, the launching rockets the flip out weaponry Beautiful bot mode beautiful vehicle mode and now it's he got a 30 figure Yeah, he looks good, but he doesn't do anything. Yeah, don't be hating on us too. He's a great figure, but just yes No, and and and that's true and that's where um, I think the ending of my Star Wars completionist is is coming to an end now because It's that's the exact same thing that hasbro's doing right now is you look at marvel legends You know the price point is the same. Sometimes they come with extra hands. You look at star wars It's it's a guy in a box with usually a gun You look at the power rangers power rangers. You get the helmet you get the unmasked head You usually get two or four sets of hands You get a couple of different weapons and it's the same price as the star wars line And it's easier to find and the holy Jesus. It was oh just I that's where I don't understand and then hasbro puts $38 price tags on exclusive figures because you can only get them at certain stores So they killed that part of the business for me. So they Something else that hurt. I'll show you this guy earlier. I was I'm gonna do this comparison in my video But here you've got earth rise or kingdom optimus prime Customized of course, but this is your $50 leader class figure. Yes in 2005 Here's your $50 leader class figure Yeah, you know with electronics and firing missiles and cool sounds Oh, it's just gonna get worse and worse, you know, it's gonna be legends class. They're gonna be running us 20 bucks before too long Like I get I I love I love how like some of the transformations that are out there nowadays for the hasbro line They're ingenious, but Just yeah, like you said with the side plate molds and stuff like that like oh that he's yellow He'll be dark blue. Let's throw some purple on that guy. Maybe a little bit of green for him Yeah Exactly. So, you know, we got red alert just hold man, but It's it's has where they'll milk the molds until they can't milk them anymore And then maybe we'll see a reissue in a couple of years saying You know, I don't know and then we run out and buy it. So Exactly. We're just enabling so yes That's like I had no intention of getting either one of these And then I saw a review and I was like, well, this one looks really good. I love the paint apps And I'm like, well, wait a minute if I'm gonna get this one, I might as well get this one to show it off and compare you and I try to say that there's a lot of stuff I try not to buy toys specifically to review, but then there's sometimes you just you can't help it But that being said all these masters the universe figures I bought they're all still in the package I haven't reviewed one of those I bought the entire figure wave About three months ago And then I bought battle cat and then I found the sky sled on clearance and then just Random luck of the draw I'll find in this guy And they're all still in the box Yeah, I With the with the masters of the universe stuff I found I found the he-man the skeletor man arms and evil in when the first wave dropped I bought all of them except for evil in because I wasn't sure about it And then as soon as I got to the parking lot, I cracked one out. I went. Oh my god. You can bend the arms. You can bend the knees um Hmm Maybe I should go back in evil Lynn was gone Never saw beast man. I never saw teela Orco any of that stuff. So then it was that point again How can I collect something if I can't find it and if I'm not gonna pay 45 to 60 dollars for a 15 dollar figure So I sold a few things up I sent battle cat to mic Because he was he was looking for one and I'm like that's what I got my wal-mart has 20 of them And now I see them all the time now, but when they first came out. So I've got battle cat I've got the battle armor damage he-man And skeletor and then now those faker and evil in that I just got a pre-order castle gray skull That'll be early next month to come in for me And now I'm gonna like now I need banded arms again. Now. I got to find orco. Oh try Oh trap jaws. Oh, and so it's just I've opened myself up to Just issue. So I think gi joe is gonna suffer and I think star wars is gonna slow down And I think masters of the universe as long as I can get it It's gonna be my priority for the time being I think now my luck with masters of the universe There's only certain characters. I like I mean if this wave comes out and here's this guy I mean, I don't care about him. I never liked him in the original show. I'm not gonna go buy him now But you know, I'm getting the main line ones and the more popular ones stuff like that Uh, you're looking forward to kevin smith's new masters of the universe I am a big kevin smith fan I've I've met him a few times and I've got I've got a couple a bunch of his bunkos And whatever so I'm all in for kevin smith regardless of how goofy any of his stuff ever gets It looks great so far. So The animation just looks exactly like the animation from the 2000 series. Yes. Yeah, I'm down with that My biggest concern and I don't want to offend anybody in the chat. I'm really hoping this show isn't woke I don't want any of that crap in my masters of the universe. I want barbarians In sci-fi clashing Yep, yeah, no I I hope so I hope so I I think the first thing that kind of concerned me when they first announced it was gonna happen was the fact that What's his name robert opemeier or whatever the guy just skeletor's voice Was it voicing skeletor and that mark hamill is voicing skeletor and I was like Uh, you broke my brain. I don't I don't understand what because that's such an iconic Just I can just hear that cackle in my brain all the time I love mark hamill when he does voiceover. Don't get me wrong. I think his joker's phenomenal, but I was like I would have still preferred the original guy. So I have a feeling we're gonna hear a lot of joker and skeletor because anytime mark hamill does a character You can always tell joker Always. Yeah. Yeah, I think once once everybody knew that that was him Yeah, any other voice, uh, you can you can always just hear that little bit. Mr. J Just sneaking in the background just a bit. So Hey, hello, papa Excellent I feel that I could do a joker the other day I was messing around with dylan and I was trying to do a dinobot voice Because he'll he gets cracked up because I'll do these voices and I'll play with him And I was trying to do dinobot and it came out more like joker And I was like holy crap. I can do the joker I like that. That is good. So hey, if you know if the if the transformer reviews really starts to Soften you go go uh go stick a resume over at dc there and Yeah, we'll see I haven't nailed the laugh yet Yeah, that's a little that's a little course and crazy for sure. Yeah Yeah mad respect for any of those voiceover guys. I tell you There we go, uh jlee hit me on the head because I remember we were watching the spider-man the animated animated series on disney plus and hub goblin. I was like that's the joker Yes I that I didn't know and I just rewatched that before I think it's been taken off at disney plus again Or some damn thing but uh It's disney. Who knows? Oh good god They really know how to Not monopolize franchises the right way that's one thing I got to say with disney So they got it all but they just don't know what what they don't know what they've got so Yeah, it worries me with what they they've got fox now But you know, they they did great with marvel. I mean I had my doubts, but they did great with marvel I don't want to get into star wars I like the shows. I hate what they did to the movies. I mean as far as i'm concerned return to the jedi was the end Thank you. Yeah, I I believe me. I'm in Much agreement with that. I didn't mind episode seven because it was a nice way to reintroduce star wars to the younger fans Eight I don't even That's oh, that's such a sore spot with me and then nine Like a lot of the visuals I would say that the last trilogy was visually stunning And that one shot in episode eight when they went to the hyper jump and went through That big starship towards. Yeah, that was cool Wow, I was just like Whoo, you can do that but the rest of it I was just like Yeah, you know what you should have maybe thought of the story before you you did the movies But um, but yeah, I totally agree. Um, I don't mind the prequels not my favorites solo Not bad considering it had to follow episode eight in order of release Um, but rogue one I could all day I could sit there and watch rogue episodes four five and six Anytime All right. Well, we are at an hour and nine minutes and I kept it longer than I told you So I I'm gonna wrap this up because it's 11 o'clock now and I want to get some Sleepy time in enjoy my final day before the weekend kicks So yes, and I am so sorry your internet was such a jackoff tonight And that's always the case right I'm looking forward to it and then all of a sudden So and I hardly anybody On the plus side most people don't even watch these they listen to them. So there you go Okay, that's all I'm not all that great to look at too And I don't know why I ever put myself out in front of the camera since day one, but then I couldn't go back So you had to get used to this I've got a little background and being from the camera. So I've done bother me a bit There's like I said the head All right, well guys, please if you have not subscribed to pop of gourd His uh, link to his channel is in the description of this video. He has just recently hit 1,200 subscribers, I believe And if you haven't subscribed to me yet, I'm at last count 1,025 from 10,000 subscribers and I would love to be able to hit that by tf con in october So for everybody in the chat, I really appreciate you hanging out with us Papa, thank you so much for hanging out with me as well And that's pretty much it Oh, that was Uh, have a good one. Hey You made my week, so I hope everybody enjoys uh enjoys your sunday Um, hopefully I see some new faces in uh in some of the streams and then Definitely have to get mr. Patriot prime to coming out on my channel when I can get my stupid wife Just let me know buddy. I'll be more than happy to All right, guys, don't forget to like don't forget to subscribe and don't forget to click that bell icon to get notified when I upload new reviews My next one Will be cybertron optimus prime with his awesome 90s or early 2000 sound effects Guys have a great night And in broadcast