 electors and may not be suitable for children under 13 years of age. Viewer discretion is advised. Hey, what's going on guys? Patriot Prime here once again with the very first sit rep of 2022. And my guest tonight is casual toy collector casual. How are you doing this evening, sir? Doing great, bro. How about yourself, man? I'm doing good. It's blustery and a winter wonderland here in West Virginia. And as I told you in the green room just a while ago, it's snowing so bad that my work called me a couple of hours ago and said, you got the day off tomorrow. You got a snow day. So me and the kid are going to be hanging out tomorrow. Well, that's cool, man. Excellent. Well, for those of you that don't know, what the sit rep is is me interviewing another YouTuber about him being a transformer collector and being a YouTuber. I've got 10 questions for you, casual five regarding you as a transformer collector and five regarding you as a YouTuber. And so you and I will do our questions back and forth. And then at the end, we'll leave it wide open for anybody in the chat. And of course, if it's a good one, I'll just throw the chat up right now because these things derail and I love when they derail. So yeah, camera gold. Well, first off, tell my people a little bit about you. All right, casual toy collector. Transformers was the first love. Buddy of mine got me got me a transformer. God, it's got to be like 20, 25 years back now. Got me a transformer for my birthday. I had, you know, bailed out of toys in the teenage years. Dad said it was time to worry about girls and jobs and money. And so I had to sell the whole collection. And and when my buddy gave it back to me, it just reignited a flame in me, man. And the YouTube thing kind of jumped off because my my son, James Ferris or simply daydog on on YouTube as well. He suggested that's one of my questions. Don't go answered everything before you go. I'm plugging too far ahead. I'm sorry. You're excited. I understand. Oh, and hardcore darkness. A new channel member. Thank you so much. Any time anybody gives me a super chat or becomes a channel member, I have a special weird award for them. And this is one of our favorites. So thank you. Oh, dear Jesus. That's right. I told you about that. They're pretty authentic. Is that a deep fake? No, that was the real thing I got deep fakes to that happened during TF Con. We were all hanging out in the room doing a live stream being burnt. You're not playing that again. Pay attention to Cato in the background going, I see him. He's joking. Oh, good time. I swear that was the best thing about going to TF Con was hanging out with all the fans and all the fellow YouTubers. And it was like two hours. I mean, I'm already on the road heading home that Sunday. And I'm like, man, I miss those guys so much already. Yeah, I was supposed to go, man. I was supposed to go, but life changing events occurred. Oh, yeah, always happens, brother. Well, let's go ahead and get this started. First off, question number one, what's the appeal of transformers for you? Man, it just makes sense to me. First of all, their machines, like we're human. You know what I mean? Like an organic life form is not going to be able to explore space because we're limited by life. So a robot transformers are living beings. Well, they're robots, but they're robots, though. Their machines, they can be repaired. They like the numerous times we've seen prime dropped and come back. Yeah, I know their machines. So they're they're able to explore space. And I just thought that it made sense, man, that they would if they came here, they might hide right under our noses, you know, riding around mom and dad, looking at cars, imagining if that was a little secret spy robot Oh, my God, I did that so much when I was a kid in the 80s, especially we'd be going on like road trips to Florida to see my grandparents are driving around. Of course, dad, he'd hop right on. He'd see a weird car go by and be like, hey, you think that's an Autobot? Or he'd be like, Autocon. It's an Autobot, dad. And you know how cool it was? You drive by a construction site and there'd be green construction vehicles. You're just like, oh, yes. Yeah, I know the feeling, yes. Oh, there's fire. Somebody's already asking fire talks about the chips. Do you see our one chip challenge? When I did that, one of the hot those hot chips, man. Oh, yes. Yes. So we do those. Oh, God. Poor fire talks had a hard time. I recommend that video when this is over and done with. I don't know why people torture themselves. I can't do the hot stuff, man. Well, challenges are not hot. Fire talks couldn't eat. Oh, I said he couldn't eat a crumb of it. Oh, he ate the whole chip and that was funny, because it's better with him telling the story was he couldn't hang. He felt like he was going to throw up and he ran to the bathroom. Now, this is the bathroom in a hotel. T.F. Conn also is hosting a football game. And he said when he went there to kind of relieve himself, puking the toilet, there was more piss on piss on the toilet than there was in the toilet. And it's just his story is hilarious. So yeah, he said it again. Y'all got to lift the top, man. Y'all got to remember to lift the top. Where the hell were? OK, let's get a question number two. We're already derailed aside from Generation One, which is always the number one answer. What is your favorite transformer fiction? I love to say siege, I guess. Yeah, it's a fiction. Yeah, yeah, I'll take siege, I think. Yeah, that'd be my next one. Seeds or Earthrise. Yeah, one of those two. War for Cybertron trilogy. There you go. Yeah, we'll just put that all in the same. Yeah, we got to admit that has been the best line of figures we've got in a while. These guys are just perfect. It's like picking G1. It's popping out and still kind of picking G1. Go ahead, grab it, grab it. Man, man, will you grab him some cookies, please? I didn't see that trip you were calling there behind your head. Yeah, I got all the Titans back there. Metroplex, Fortress Maximus, Omega Supreme, the art. See, I didn't get Metro or I didn't get Fortress Maximus. I thought he was just too much. He was too much like Metroplex. Oh, fishy, two two point eight. Thank you so much for the super chat. Sir, let's give you something nice. Very fishy. Let's see. Here we go. Hey, oh, man, that's so bad. I've been smoking since I was born, man. I could smoke anything, man. Better light it in here, man. Right. It's gas fumes, man. Oh, man. That looks like one of our weekend shows. I know I've been on one. You know, it's funny when I deep faked that. I had Bert and I switched at first and you couldn't tell us apart. I mean, we looked. It's just the way it blended. All right, it's a war for Cybertron, your favorite transformer fiction. So now, number three, do you have a favorite figure or holy grail? This is a figure. Say you have to sell your whole collection again. This is one figure that's not going anywhere. Oh, oh, oh, oh, God, what would? Dang, down it down to one. Wow. My questions are just ridiculous. Wow. There's thousands of them. Uh, uh, what do I name? Good God. Oh, Robison. Robison out from his prime. Oh, you got that? Yes, that's not going anywhere. The house is burning down. I'm getting that. I'm trying to grab as much as I can, but that's definitely not right. See, I'm on the second story. I'd be like, fly Jet Fire, fly. Yeah, you guys, those wings better work now. But yeah, Robison would be the one. Robison's the one that ain't going anywhere. Can't go, cannot go. That's good. You just get one. I know some people bought two of them. Just one, man. And I was blessed to have a really, really sweet, like I can't afford it normally, but I got a real sweet opportunity to get a hold of one, man. Nice. God bless Sam for giving me a chance to own something so epic, man. Sam Newsman helped me get it. That's awesome. Yeah, I've looked at it. So many people asked me if I was going to get it, but I was like, I just, I can't. I mean, usually I'll draw the line as a $200 figure, and that's just, that's pushing information. It's so awesome, Patriot. I promise you, man, if you muster up the courage to spend that kind of money, man, it's awesome, man. Well, it depends. I mean, I like to save up between cons. Yeah. I'm not sure if I'll be able to make Chicago this year because of my job. Yeah. If not, I might take that con money and treat myself. Of course, it'll probably triple the price by then. Oh, yeah, you're not lying. It's going up fast, but it's awesome. I mean, you look at the way things are now. I just got Shattered Glass Jet Fire. Just got it, and he's already sold out and selling for double right now. Man, I've lost track of all my pre-orders. I've got it pre-ordered somewhere, but I don't remember what's going on anymore. I'm just waiting for my bank account to just. That's why I like most of my pre-orders. I know everybody hates getting stuff from them, but I like pre-ordering from Amazon because they don't take your money at first. And then what I do every week when I go grocery shopping, I buy like a $25 Amazon card, which also gives me extra points for my Kroger fuel. And I just put that $25 toward my pre-orders. And by the time they're ready to come out, I've already paid them off. Right, right. Thank you. Yeah, yeah. Asia, will you get him some cookies, please? Somebody. Cookies at 10 o'clock at night? Get this man some cookies. See, there's one thing I would like to do, Botcon, but those hotel rooms are ridiculous. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. You rap? Yeah. You rap? I'm calling you that. Now, I'm a metal guy, but I can listen to some rap. All right, so in fair warning, I've got my wingman on the weekend is Bruce Banner in the chat. And we're very unique personalities to get together. And like, there you go. So, yeah, yeah. Bruce is saying in the chat, oh yeah, we rap. You have to check us out. To each his own, you have to check it out. I think we're pretty damn decent, man. To be two dudes over 30 that will probably never get a record deal. We're still pretty young. I'm well way over 30. I just said that as a basis for both of us to fit in. He's younger than me. I'm way over 30. Well, well being where I'm at, and of course with my hic accent, I despise it, not a big fan, but I can sing some good country. Nothing wrong with it, nothing wrong with it. All of me is beautiful. True, true, I guess. All right, well, let's go ahead and go to question number four. What figure is your white whale, your most wanted toy? Say if you've got this one, you could quit collecting. You achieved your goal. Whoa. Like right at this point, it kind of feels like Unicron, the house of Unicron, I guess, would be the top of my wish list right now. I doubt it's ever gonna happen, but it's at the top of the wish list. I have one in a box that was sent to me by a subscriber. He was going to be out of town for a long time. And I still haven't taken it out of the box because I have nowhere to put it. He wanted me to film it. I have no way to film it. So it's just, it's sitting there. And I'm just like, but it's not mine. And I hate to be the guy to open him up and do something and break it. Right, yeah, it's a big responsibility. That's like when I was lent Generation One Overlord, just out of the blue, a subscriber who I've never really met with before. And he just said, hey, I have a G1 Overlord. I know it's one of your most wanted figures. I'll send it to you, review it, send him back. And if you're familiar with G1 and the Overlord figure, that's an expensive figure. And I think he was only missing one thing. He was missing the missiles. And I discovered that G1 Metroplex's missiles fit in G1 Overlord. It's the same missile. So I was able to do a complete figure review, but man, I was scared to death the whole time. And as soon as I shot the review, I put him back in the box and mailed him back to the next day. Yeah. That's awesome though, man. That's awesome people. And I still won't want, I had the opportunity to get one at TFCon, but he wasn't complete. I wouldn't even mind if it wasn't completely complete, as long as I could make robot mode in the tank and the jet. I could care less about the city mode because do you display your Titans in city mode? They're all in bot mode. There's a difference. I got doubles. Some of them are in alt mode and robot mode. I do have one duplicate. I have a G1, two G1 tryptokons. I got one in city mode that all my G1 MicroMasters are displayed on. Now I've got one over there in dinosaur mode. I don't do, the city modes are just a little too large. None of the city stuff. That's where it kind of takes you off if you're a G1 collector and you do want to complete a figure. Yeah. The city parts are what's so expensive. And then you get them and where do they go in a plastic baggie in your parts bin? Yeah. Yeah. A Ziploc bag for eternity. All right, man, you got somebody murdering somebody in your house. Yeah. They're bouncing around on, they've got a bed on the ground and they're jumping around like trampoline, I guess. Oh, there you go. All right, well, this is the last question regarding you as a transformer collector. What's your favorite character across all media? What's your favorite character? Well, these are some tough ones. Man, I kind of like Hot Rod, man. I know, weird as hell, a lot of people hate him, but I kind of like Hot Rod. The young, the young brash, like, I don't know. I like Hot Rod. That's my son's favorite, so I can't fault you. I mean, really cool alt mode, really cool character. It's a good toy. I mean, for Generation I, one of the best. And then he upgrades the ride of us. That's a terrible toy, to be honest. That's the bad part about Hot Rod was a cool character. I kind of, I like him a lot. You know, so funny, remember a couple of years ago when they re-released him at Walmart and they just had so many. I think I picked up three or four of them because they were on clearance for $7 each. Man, we got them for $3 and $4 here. Really? Wow, I've got one full in the box in my office. I got one in car mode sitting right there and then I got another one on the shelf with my original G1. Yeah, I bought, I probably got five or six of them. I was giving them away as gifts at one point, even, I think. I hope they continue on. I'd like to see more G1 reissues, but the problem is they price them so high and then they just shelf warm. All the Beast Wars reissues aside from Megatron. My Walmart has all of them just stocked and they're not going anywhere, but all the Megatron sold out. They were gone by Christmas time. Yeah. All right, well, let's go ahead and get into some YouTube questions. You started to answer this earlier, but what possessed you a grown-ass man to do toy reviews on YouTube? All right, so I did a couple of other tight videos before that and then my son James suggested that I record every time I... Hey, you guys, can we stop Mortal Kombat? For a little while, it's kind of loud back there. Thank you. Okay. Hey, be quiet! I have the world to hear. Thanks, Chad, appreciate that. Yeah, I was... So, on it real quick, how many times are you shooting a review and that kicks off in the background? Zero. I bailed on the reviews and I just went the whole live route. I open up toys on live and we talk about it for that moment real quick. I can't tell you how many times I review and all of a sudden I hear Dylan scream as he's playing with the dog or the wife's down there cooking and doing dishes because my office, this is right over the kitchen. And I try to sneak up here when they're watching TV or something. I'll be right in the middle of the review and you hear, dinner coming! It's like, oh, I'm gonna go back to Rewind. But yeah, my son has suggested I record opening up the toys. He was like, dad, you're never in home videos. So it gives us a chance to kind of see you at your happiest moments. And I got invited on another show and that's what really just kicked off me going live every night. I go live every night. Week, weeknight. Every night. 10 o'clock every weeknight. Weekends, 10 30 until two. Two o'clock in the morning. Sometimes three or four. We've been on until five in the morning before. Wow. Depends on where the conversation goes. I think the longest I've been on with my guys was about three hours. And it's so funny. We were on one stream one night and then another stream the next night. And it's the same guys, you know, Rodimus, Bert, Kato and me. And we're still, it's just like we never stop. We could talk forever. And it's great. It's awesome when you make friends like that. Yeah, we do that often on the show. I'll say, all right, y'all, I gotta go. I gotta go to sleep. And then we'll go an hour and a half, another hour and a half after I've said that, like, all right. So at one o'clock, I said, don't go have the shirt down. But I love it, man. I love it. It is cool. Nice. Right people. Well, what next question is what keeps inspiring you to get in front of the camera? The people. The people. I love the family. I love the family. And it's gotten large enough now that there's always somebody to hop on and interact with. And it nips a whole bunch of phone conversations in the bud. If you think it would be individual conversations all day long, instead, I just get all 40 people to jump on there and we all just exchange what we gotta exchange. I still get a lot of text messages during the day. Wow, that's impressive. That's impressive. All right. I do a lot of stuff, man. I do a lot of stuff. I'm a landlord for 51 homes. Really? Wow. Seven kids. Got seven kids all across the age ranges. Man, I have a rough time on just one. Of course, I had my just one at the age of 40. I started away early. Next question. There are thousands of toy reviewers on YouTube. What makes you any different from the rest? Probably your five-hour live streams. The every night shows, yep, every night shows. I can't thank anybody that does it every night. There's a lot of stuff that makes it different, man. We wrap on the intros. What toy channel wraps on new songs on the intros? Not just the same static song every night. Like you hear, it changes almost every night. And the open invite, that's different. It's heavily custom based. Like everybody on there is talented. So the guys jumping in, you got guys that do t-shirts. You got guys that know how to do digital, like graphic design for logos or stuff like that. They got the pretty design. It's just really, the family is really diverse at this point. It started off with just two or three guys popping in, you know, watching this talk about a couple of toys. And it just kept evolving. It got longer and longer and longer. And that was to the point that if I missed a daily show, I got people checking on me. Like, yo, guys, are you all right? Wow. Awesome, man. I love it. I love it. I love the family. Well, man, for this one is, what's the one thing you find hardest about being a YouTuber? For me, it's the time to film. Nothing, man. Nothing. I mean, obviously I'd like, I don't know, I'd love to be like Jake Paul or whoever the guy is making millions of dollars on YouTube. But I'm happy with just a few people. There's nothing really wrong about it, man. It just is what it is, taking it in stride. It'll grow. If it's something that it might grow, it'll grow. Well, speaking of that and our final question, do you have any channel goals for yourself? As big as possible, as big as possible. The family gets as big as possible. And that we keep the harmony that we got going on right now. We've had some outs, we've had, there's been a lot that's going on in the past year. It's been a year and some change that I've been doing this, like as far as the hardcore live streams all the time. So there's been a couple of moments people popped in and tried to mess up the vibe and things, but we've come through a pretty good harmony, I guess. And you're a brave man with your channel because you open in bike, anybody can hop in, right? Yep, blanks out there, blanks out there. You're clicking out. Of course I can see, we see before we add you officially to the stream, so don't come out there with your stuff out. I guess you won't get added. Oh, yes, what kind of transport channel is this? No. Well, that is it for my questions. We'll wrap, I know we'll wrap this up. I got Dylan waiting in the wings because he didn't have school tomorrow and he's wanting to stay up with me and the wife's got to get to bed because she's got to go to work. We got snow days, but does anybody in the chat have anything they want to add to this before we wrap up? Let's see what's chat talking about here, scroll up. I see, oh, man. Somebody's asking me if I collect G.I. Joe, I do not. I collect Transformers and Masters of the Universe Origins right now. And that line's starting to take me off because I can never find anything. I do, though, and let me grab something to show you. Hold on. I'm glad the camera's not facing the kids. I'm afraid to see what might be going on. Sick, this shit. Oh, that's, oh, oh. Cato was telling me you make those, right? Yeah, hold on, I'm trying to get this one. Here we go. That is sick. Yeah, this is a Ghostbuster, a Ghostbuster, his tank for G.I. Joe classified. Let me get this one. Oh, Curtis, thank you so much for the super chat. I appreciate it. Let's see, what can I give, Curtis? Oh, there's always a fun one. Curtis, I will give you another one because I left your super chat up the whole time. You missed it. Let's see. Da, da, da, da, da. Ooh, child things are get brighter than bring it down hard. Solid day. What are you doing? Dance off, bro. So are you done with that? Are you gonna paint on it or? No, I don't really, I don't really do the painting. Some of the guys that they get them, they sand them up and paint them. This is a glow in the dark, though. Really? Yeah, it's actually a glow in the dark, and the Echo Warrior Hiss. It was that and then I did, added a little sight, the little viewfinder up there for it. And I left the book bag. It's fixing to get shipped out tomorrow. There's a little clip on the side that the Proton Packs. There's a little Proton Packs on the side just for, it's for Trans-Aron, actually. Trans-Aron. Larkin's asking, are the treads TPU? I don't know what that means. Yeah, they are, they are. See how. Okay, that's awesome. Those are 3D printers? Yeah, yeah, I know. Like, I got it at home, man. I thought you 3D printing guys just amazed me. I can do toy hacks, that's about it. Man, it is so, it's so awesome, man. I tell everybody to get a 3D printer, man. To be able to create something, to be able to, man, I love it, man, I love it. I've got a bunch of them. It's hard to keep up with keeping them running. They clog and stuff. It's gonna be a learning experience, but it is so worth it. I'll tell you, one of my favorites that I have, Firetox made this for me, the replica visitor blaster from Vee. Yes, yes. I love this thing. This is something I always wanted as a kid. I loved Vee, I loved Vee, man. I loved Vee. It's about time for them to do something else with it. It'd be nice to run and make a TV show like that. Well, they butchered the 2009 reboot. They went too far from what it should be. It needs to stick with the original story. Right, yeah. I guess everybody's afraid of offending somebody this day and age to have those type of bad guys, but, you know. Yeah, well, they want to be able to sell, they want to sell merchandise for a new story and it still piques interest in the retro too. So maybe they'll be able to sell two lines instead of one, you know, it's all about it. What's sad is, is great is that original series was, they only made one figure. Yeah. I got one of these in the box and the box was beat to shit and I thought, I'm not gonna feel bad about taking this guy out. I can't thank his name. That was a guy that, he was trade, like he was working with the humans. Oh, this is just a random, this one is actually based on the poster. From the promotional material. So this is just a random visitor trooper. I guess not a trooper, he's like an officer. I wish they made the troopers with the helmets. Oh yeah, yeah. That'll be awesome. See, you can print it. Somebody can print it. I never thought of that. I gotta get those dimensions, a visit. Yeah, cause all he would need is the black vest in the helmet. Somebody can print it, man. You got copper, measure there, measure there. We'll figure it out, man. Get your helmet for your visitor. Oh, that'd be sweet. I want to take his face off. All right. 3D printing, that was awesome, man. Cause the scenarios like that, you could just, you know, if you think it's something like, oh shit, I can make that out of plastic. And once that door is open, you just figure out how to make it. I love it. I love 3D printing. Now real quick, before we wrap this up, didn't you have Sergeant Slaughter autographed one of your 3D printed items? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I want to see that. I want to see that. Where's the, let me get the Slaughter toy out here too. I don't like this one though. This is a Salmon Slaughter, or what did they say it was? The color's like a pink color. Salmon Slaughter, that's what we were calling them cause it's like a pink color pants. It's a new army. It's not, yeah, a new army. Oh, that is too cool. That is awesome. Eddie's casual, Sergeant Slaughter, yo Joe, yo Joe. Eddie's disease. Man, that was awesome. That was so awesome to be standing there with him to get to shake his hand. He was talking with us and stuff. We interviewed him and everything. Where'd you meet him at? At RetroToyCon. Where was that? I was, oh my God, Greenville, South Carolina. Greensville, Greensboro, South and Green, South Carolina. But yeah, that's where we're going. I'm going to a big lit Comic Con next month with Dylan and I am looking so forward to meeting Michael Bean. Where's that at? Where's that going? Ronok. Oh, okay, okay. I'll find something for him to autograph. One of my Terminator DVDs, maybe my Tombstone Blu-ray. I don't have any figures of him. Aliens, be a good one. I'm going to one in Richmond, Richmond, Virginia, March 18th through the 20th, I think it is. And that's what Sam Newsman's going to be up there. So I'm going up to that one with him. And I'm actually forfeiting my Atlanta Toy Con is the same weekend. I'm going to go up there instead to hang out with Sam instead of just going to Atlanta in my state, which is probably going to be dope too, man. The Toy Lantern is what they call it, I believe. Yeah, I want to do more cons, especially Dylan's getting older and it's going to be he and I going to this one. He's excited. I have to go to Walmart and find a rescue bot heat wave because the voice of heat wave is going to be there. So Dylan will get his first autographed toy. Awesome, man. Awesome. That's cool that he likes toys, man. My kids don't too much care for the Nerf guns. They're boys. Dylan, he's in and out. He likes some action figures. What's funny? The ones he plays with all the time are those Ollie's ripoff GI Joes. He plays with those. He plays, he likes Funko Pops every now and then. And of course, right now, he's all about the switch. Oh yeah. That is what it is. I might rekindle some of that nerd in him. All right, brother. Well, I really appreciate you hopping on with me tonight. Always enjoying meeting another Transformers fan. I've seen you on Facebook. We've chatted before, but never really had a one-on-one. So absolute pleasure having you on the show and I really appreciate it. Yeah, likewise. Thank you for having me on, man. Oh, not a problem. And everybody in the chat. Thank you so much for joining us and wasting your Monday night list to us ramble on about toys. And for everybody in the suit or gave super chats, thank you so much. And my new member, I appreciate it. I'll get you. I got a new review coming out tomorrow. So I'll go ahead and add your name to the membership list and you'll appear in my very next video. So with that being said, let me find my ending here cause I never get to. I got one more time to plug y'all. Leave it over my channel for the after-party. Oh, you got an after-party. Ha! Seriously. Well, in the frame. No, not till 3 a.m. I gotta get up at 6 to take the kids to school. But it's gonna be cool. Oh yeah, real quick, tell my people where to meet you or where to find you. Instagram, casual toy collector, YouTube, casual toy collector, Facebook William Branch, but we all know I'm the casual toy collector And there we go So and I also have a link to your channel in the description of this video So if you need to find him that way knock it out Hey, no problem. I want to get guys don't forget to like don't forget to subscribe. This is patriot prime signing out