 Hey, what's going on guys? Shit. What the hell am I doing? Sitrep. You got it. I'm glad that other people have to do this too, because it takes me about eight tries to get going. Man, it took me seven tries to do this little son of a bitch. I kept screwing his transformation up. I was like, how do you do that? Hey, what's going on guys? Patriot Prime here once again with another episode of the Sitrep. And my guest tonight is Mike Case from the YouTube channel. Mike Case. Mike, how are you doing tonight? Great. Hi. Thanks for having me on. Man, I am glad to have you. I always appreciate the guests that come on, so my people can get to know new reviewers. And if I'm not mistaken, I think you were one of the first guys that I met when I got on a Transformer Facebook page. I think you're the admin of Transformers and such, correct? That's true. Yeah, it sounds like me. That was one of the first Transformer Facebook groups I joined. And remember, I did the take a movie scene and add the Transformers, the movie quote to it that ended up going like for 400 posts. I do remember that. It was, that was a lot of fun. That was a lot of fun. That was a hit. I think it was one for coffee too, if I remember right? Yep. That was a lot of fun. Excellent. Well, how the, just to let everybody know, I know you know, but how the sit rep works is I have 10 questions for you, 10 regarding Transformers, no, excuse me, five regarding Transformers and five regarding you as a YouTuber. This is my own damn show. You'd think I'd have an idea what I'm doing by now. You are episode number 11. Awesome. All right, we're going to start off with question number one, sir. What is the appeal of Transformers for you? Well, it's definitely nostalgia at this point being almost 37 years old. Like I was at that age. I was at that multiple age that when I saw that stupid red truck on the screen, my eyes bugged out and so the cartoon was definitely it for me. So it's just, it's never left me. I basically just never grew up from being a kid. So as a kid, I loved anything that changed. I like mask. The Ninja Turtles even had mutation things, anything that could transform from something to another. I wasn't picky. Go-Bots, Transformers. I wasn't that kid that was too good for Go-Bots. Like if it could go from a robot into something, I was all about it. Hey man, my very first transforming robot was a Go-Bot. Yeah, there we go. And I just want to let you know how many minds you probably blew by saying Optimus Prime was that stupid red truck. People are just tricking right now. Nothing sacred to me. Nothing sacred. I love Optimus Prime. I would die for Optimus Prime, but I'll call him a stupid red truck. Hell yeah. Hell yeah. I love it. All right. Number two, aside from G1, which is always the number one answer, what's your favorite Transformers fiction? G2. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. Well, there was a fiction. There was the Marvel Comics fiction. There was. Well, and then the cartoon, they just replay G1 with some weird CGI stuff added in. But now I think if I had to choose, I know everyone, like, pretty much all the cool people except for Tony say Beast Wars. And I'm very similar to you. I didn't watch Beast Wars when I was on. I didn't watch Beast Wars until I worked at an electronic store and I got the DVDs for cheap and I bought them all because I was a nerd and I wanted all the Transformers sets and I watched them all. I fell in love with Beast Wars then. But I think my favorite is still there. Yeah, you're still there. You was dying. I was like, Oh, no. I was like, Oh, the wife and son are watching Hulu. It's it's not. Yeah. So I think Transformers Prime takes the cake for me because it's it's what I blame for getting me back into Transformers now at the level that I'm at. Prime was a good series. It was. I got all those on Blu-ray. They're nice. Got a little buttons popping up here at the bottom again. Technology. Technology. I can edit this later. Probably. You can send it to me. I can edit it down. All right. Question number three, sir. Do you have a favorite figure or grail? This is the figure you will never let go of. You have to sell your entire collection. This one's not going anywhere. You know, there's an interesting conversation today on Transformers and such about Grails and what's on the rail. Yeah. I thought about that question when when that was going on. And I think I definitely think the Grail has to be special. So I would say no, I don't have a Grail. My favorite Transformer is usually whatever the last Transformer I got. I'm not super picky. I'm basically still a child. So whatever the newest one I have is the coolest one. I don't really have any for my childhood. Like I look behind you and I see all these amazing G1 Transformers and I love each and every one of those, but I also love my new ones. I love my masterpiece. I love I want to feel like Transformers grew up with me. So while the G1's cool, I like kind of the newer bots. I love the Siege line. I love third party stuff. I put the TF Con recently. I dropped some big bucks and I think my favorite is probably my favorite. Yeah. Yeah. So this is the TFC ST commander, but it's basically they took the G.I. Joe Rolling Thunder a property I love from from my childhood and turned it into Optimus Prime. And he is currently my absolute favorite Transformer. And I honestly don't know what it would take to knock him off that throne. Wow. That thing's impressive. I can't remember. Yeah. Have you done a review on that one yet? No, but this is going to be. So I've been getting a lot of, I've been, I took a break from Transformers reviews because a lot of Star Wars stuff was coming out and frankly on my channel, that's what's getting views. So that's kind of what I focused on, but I've been getting a lot of requests to do Transformers, more Transformers. So other than this side of me. Yeah. About the Star Wars. There's a little bit of Star Wars there. Yeah. I definitely, I felt the kindred spirit here. Star Wars, Transformers. Same thing behind me. I've got a shelf of Transformers and Star Wars mixed here. I just can't decide which one I like the best. But when this throne was first designed, it was half and half. And then as I started really getting into G1, I kind of shoved all the Star Wars to the back. Of course it's over here and there's something over there that the camera can't save. Yeah. We got to make the decisions. I'm still one with the force. That's good. That's good. I mean, something's got to hold all my pins and gadgets here. My Autobot repellent shelf. What is that? That is a screwdriver. Oh, I use it for Transformer repairs. So you have R2 repairing Optimus Prime? Exactly. That's stupid. You have that stupid little blue droid repairing the stupid red truck. I got it. I got it. That's good. I like that. What are you talking about? I love everything. I love nerd stuff. But oh yeah. So I've been, I've been, I'm going to do a review of this on my channel. It's probably soon. But it's, it's good. There's a lot more work reviewing Transformers and there is Star Wars figures because it's like two reviews in one. You've got an alt mode. You've got a robot mode and you even got to show off how you get there for the most part because people want to see that. Whereas we were just talking, that can be such a pain. You don't realize how hard it is. I am working on Ravage and Laserbeak for the Siege line. I screwed up Ravage five times while doing the review. And I'm only got up here. I'm only four minutes into my review and I've spent since seven o'clock on it. Yeah. Yeah. So it can be very time consuming. And then the filming for me is only half the fight. I go back in and I edit out a lot of stuff. I, I get things together. I add stuff. So it's, it's a, I have for every hour that I film, it's usually about two hours of editing that I put into all my videos. So it's basically like a second job for me, even though it pays a lot less than my actual job does. I think I earned enough finally to buy a Siege figure. Nice. I will see that till I hit a hundred. You know, you talk about editing and all the work that goes into it. That's like when I do the G1 figures, you've seen my G1 reviews. I do that whole history. And man, I'm usually three or four. What I can't pull from my mind like a figure I know so well, you know, I'm going back and researching because I want to make sure at least hit the main point. So there is a lot of work that goes into this. So a lot of people really don't understand is like, Hey, we're a bunch of man children that grab our toys and throw it in front of a camera. Absolutely not. Because if you miss something or if you get something wrong, you'll get called out on that and you can't change it. So not only will you get called out at one time, you'll probably get called out like five or six times for messing up one little thing in your video. And it's cool getting that comment over and over again. Oh, you said this, but actually you meant this. And like, yeah, I get it. Thanks. Thanks for coming. You don't have to let me know anymore. Yeah. But there's no way for them to do that because most of those people don't even read the comments before they comment. They think that their comment is a comment no one's ever made before. So yeah, it's I definitely you have to research. You have to make sure what you're saying is right because there are people out there that are a thousand times nerdier than you are. And they do have all this stuff memorized. They've got everything memorized down to a T. They can quote their favorite episode word for word. I've met them at conventions. Those are the ones that they don't believe in speed stick. No. Oh my God. So yeah, I just went to TF con and that was definitely an issue. And I'm always cognizant of how I come across because like, I mean, I'll fanboy. I walked by David K. Oh, I know you do a fantastic impression of and you know, I wanted to say something, but I don't want to bug him, but he's there to be bugged at the same time, you know, so I'm like, oh, hey, David K. I like you. I'm not just your Megatron, but I like all the other stuff you do because I want to, you know, I'm not just a fan, like a light fan. I like David K. A lot. I'm not weird, not sexually or anything, but you know, I like going off the rails. Yeah, I know. I'm trying to convey to him how much I appreciate him, but it starts coming off awkwardly. You know what? I'm like, you know what? I'm just going to check out of this guy. You have a great day and just like walk away, but he was super nice. He did because he does the John Oliver voiceover stuff or goes and now stuff like that, but he did that like Megatron. So he did a lot of different things that he does as Megatron. It was a lot. It was it was really cool seeing him do that in person. Dylan is a huge fan of Teen Titans Go. Oh, yeah. Yeah. In one of his favorite episodes, it's like a movie that's a real, it's a these flashbacks called the night begins and there's an evil dragon in this episode. And the first time I'm watching it, I'm like, I know that dragon. It's David K. It's David K. It's Megatron is this dragon. And I was telling Dylan tonight if I go, not if, when I go to TF Con and DC, I'm really hoping to meet him and I'll see if I can get him to autograph all these Teen Titan things. Yeah, he'll do it. He's super nice. He's super great things. Yeah. I can talk to him and say, I'm David. See if you can make it. So he feels like he's talking to himself. I'll be great. Yeah. When Graham mentioned that there, that was one of my favorite quotes of Beast Wars Megatron. I do that anytime I'm wanting to do that voice. That's what I quote. I'll fuck in the Omega. The beginning. At the end. Yeah. That's the phrase that gets you into that mindset, that Megatron mindset. And then I walk around the house. Yes. Yes. All right. Where the hell were we? Oh, question. I have no idea. I don't know. Ah, number four. Yeah. You probably answered this. No, you can't answer because you don't have it yet. What figure is your white whale, your most wanted toy? Right now. Oh, man. Dang. That's that. I mean, I could definitely answer that. I even thought about it. But well, before, before it was the one that I just got. So now it's going to be something new. And I'm looking, I'm looking at my, my bots here. I'm going to go. Right now it's Masterpiece Dinobot actually, because it's just, it's just too expensive. It's just, I refuse to pay $250 for a transformer. As cool as it is as much as I want it. It's like, it pains me knowing that I want it, but I'm never going to buy it. It's not that I can't afford it. I just don't think I should pay that much money for a transformer. Well, it's going to be my turn to piss off some Transformer fans right now. Oh, I waited and got the knockoff MP 36 Megatron. That is damn near perfect. I do. I paid $90 to it. The same company is coming out. Dinobot. I just saw that yesterday. And I'm very excited for it. So that's, it's still my white whale until I get on my, my, my, yeah. So it's still that until I get it. But once I get it, I think that will pass. Like I'll feel better inside. But maybe it's going to be there. I don't know. That's sad. And for everybody flipping out right now, this is our money we're spending to put in our collection that I'm not passing off as original. So that's true. Come at me. I don't have any problem with buying a KO. I know there are a lot of people that are. But as long as you're not trying to pass it off as an original, um, I say it's fair game personally. If you can buy it, buy it. Yep. Exactly. I don't know. I'm not going to buy it. Yep. Exactly. All right. This is our final Transformers question. What is your favorite Transformer character? Any fiction? Any media? I won't judge. It's, uh, I was going to say rescue bots. Optimus Prime. But that's that's Tony's answer. So, uh, I'm going to say just regular Optimus Prime. Uh, I have an Optimus Prime shelf. Something about those colors that shape the head. It's always appealed to me. I don't even like trucks, but as a kid, every truck I saw like passing, I'm like, Optimus Prime. I just, I love the character. I love how he looks. I love everything on the bottom. Hell, man, I'm 45 years old. I see car carrier go by. Oh, it's Ultra Magnus. Here comes a fly. It's Ultra Magnus. I know. I'm so fine. I'm not, I'm not alone there. That makes me feel good. Oh, not at all. And being a Star Wars fan, when you walk up to the automatic door, do you use the force? Oh, yeah. I, I open it with the force. Like it's definitely not some sensor. There's definitely not science behind this. It's, it's me and everyone's walking. I knew I wasn't alone, man. I knew it. Kindred spirits. All right. Now we're on to the YouTube questions. What possesses you a grown ass man to do toy reviews on YouTube? Oh, man. Is it, uh, is it awful to do toy reviews on YouTube? Oh, man. Is it, uh, is it awful to do toy reviews on YouTube? Oh, man. Is it, uh, is it awful to do toy reviews on YouTube? Is it awful to say? I don't want to say that. That's pretty mean. Um, I don't know. No, no, no, no, no. Say it. I was just going to say a light amount of autism just a little bit. But, uh, uh, in reality, I don't know. Every, like growing up in my room, I had all my toys on shelves. They were lined up and I would, in my brain, tell some imaginary person sitting in my room about those toys. So I've been telling people about toys. I've been telling people about toys. I've been telling people about toys. I've been telling people about toys. I've been telling people about toys. I've been telling people about toys alone without anyone knowing for a long time. Uh, and then when, about 10 years ago, I, uh, I had this whole situation where I was kind of homeless and I didn't have any possessions whatsoever. And I would use YouTube to sort of compensate for not having anything. I would watch Peog and Clutter75 and all these guys that I found on, on YouTube. Actually, this is not 10 years ago. It was probably nine. But anyway, through all those, I would watch them and like they would transform the figure and I would be like, oh man, that does look cool. And it wasn't until, you know, like I kind of came on my own that I could start buying my own. And then, uh, it sort of went out of control. But then for my job, I, there's a lot of media stuff involved, which I'm not really allowed to talk about. It's not cool. I'm just not allowed to talk about it. Um, but I kind of got into doing video and photography stuff naturally as part of that. And so I, I thought, ah, I could, I could do this. I can, I can be a Transformers guy. And I've left all my original, like really awful videos of unboxings and reviews on my channel because I want people to see that like what I am right now is not how I was, you know, what, what, what 2014 says five years ago that I've been doing this. Like I've had a visible progression. If you go back and watch my originals, you can see me get a little better each time. You can see me upgrade my equipment each time. You can see me change my styles as I'm figuring out who I am. So it's been very therapeutic for me to kind of do that. It's been fun to share my passion for toys with people that share my passion with toys. I met a lot of really cool people doing this and the more cool people I meet like yourself, like Chris, um, it just kind of spawns that even got a guy in Canada. I call him Papa Gord. Uh, but he, he started just sending me stuff like randomly one day. So like little things like that. It's really been great for me. It's been fantastic. And it's been good to kind of use it to be a better person and actually get used to maybe a lot of negativity. Like you have to have a thick skin to be on YouTube. So every, yeah. So every time I get one of those comments, like someone on a chat one time when I was doing a live chat, uh, they called me weaponized autism. And I was like, you know what? That's pretty funny. Like I'm not even mad. That's legitimately pretty funny. So like, you know, I felt, I feel like it's helped me become a better person. It's helped me get guarded against, you know, are used to being on the real world. Um, and it's just kind of helped me be who I am today. I wouldn't be who I am today if it weren't for making YouTube videos. Dude, that's awesome. It's funny. I started this whole thing out from buddies of mine wanting to do gaming channels. That was a big scene back before. I was like, well, I'm not that good at games. And besides, I like to play in my t-shirt and boxer shorts on my couch. And nobody wants to watch that. Nobody wants to. Actually, I know some people that might, but I don't. I wouldn't watch it. There's the same guys that hunt David K. Now, nobody else. My buddy says, well, if you don't want to do that, why don't you talk about transformers? You know about those and it's like, ding. It gives me a new way to show off my collection because there's nobody around here that collects. I mean, somebody is because somebody's buying the stuff at Walmart, but I don't know of anybody personally. All right. I think you just and I didn't go ahead. Oh, I didn't really know anybody either. Until I met my co-host who does boxing shots with me, Zach, he was dating we, everyone, all my friends with karaoke every Tuesday night and the daughter of the owner of the karaoke place. She's she's a very attractive girl and all the guys sort of would either fun over her or treat her like a little sister and kind of protective of her. And this guy started dating her and no one really knew or liked him. And then one day he was at my house for a party and he stopped by my room and looked in. He goes, those bots over there and like instantly we became like best friends because he had very similar collection than us and then we both have used our love of transformers to become very unhealthily addicted to buying buying more. Yeah. I've seen it. I've seen your look. I'll send there. I've seen thıll I says I'm sorry if you watch as I screw up. And I wanna do that so bad I have to wait until the wife and kid are gone. And I definitely have to put some It won't be a hurting because it's been a long time since I got And it거�in. It's always the light of heart. My look I'd snap my Megatron my G1 Megatron I'd have a heart attack Tony would have a heart attack. There's your fourth ball Tony think about it it's okay it's not broken don't worry. I think you kind of answered question seven which is what keeps inspiring you to get in front of that dang well I mean yeah so I guess I did answer it but I can expound on it well right now it's it's a hobby and it's one that I absolutely loved doing and that's I mean I guess a lot of people ask me advice because obviously I've got a few subscribers and I'm not making a lot of money but I'm making some money and a lot of people will ask me like what did you do like what do I need to do and my the only thing I really tell people is do it because you like it and just keep doing it that's it like I don't when I made a video I would put hours into it and I'd get 70 views out of it and for me like I didn't care how many views as I got because I did it because I enjoyed doing it and eventually it just starts to grow it just starts to happen so I kind of want to see now where this takes me like I wanted I want to know like it's already opened up a lot of doors for me in terms of people I met the kind of stuff that I've got the skill set that I have I've learned a lot about video production and things like that from doing this so I want to keep doing it to see where I go like am I eventually gonna be one of those big like mega reviewers like through or piogg or toy galaxy or am I just gonna be mediocre and I don't know as long as it gets me in a couple conventions for free like I'm cool with that like so far getting this small amount of money each month from YouTube ads has been enough to keep a couple bots on my shelf or I'll buy I just used my last one to do a renew my PO box that's something I don't have to pay for because it just comes straight out of YouTube and it's a fun tax write-off so little things like that now talking about conventions when you went to TF on do people recognize you I did I got recognized both from bots and shots and then also just as a solo kind of transformers slash Star Wars reviewer it's very weird it's it never I will never get used to people coming up to be being like hey I watch your channel like why oh like I I'm never gonna use to it and I hope I never do because I don't want to be that guy I don't be like the too big first britches kind of guy and if I start talking in my southern comes out because I was born in South Carolina so where britches sometimes the thing I say people might not that's why I wanted here I'm drinking a soda pop oh see I don't do I don't do soda pop but where I'm from where I'm from everything's a coke well take everything no matter what it is it's coke flavored water oh from Kroger that's good that's good so there's no Kroger's around here I miss Kroger's Kroger's awesome I'm there every day my wife sends me a Kroger list 10 minutes before I leave work every day every day every day okay I'm lucky because I have a target right next to my work so it's the same for me but I also get to check out toys see it sucks where I live you probably heard I've got one Walmart and Amazon yeah that's it huh that's it yeah I mean I'm also God's in now so that's where I've got some on the way from that sure I mean yeah I don't know if you've seen my my toy hunt videos but around me within a 20-minute driving distance I've got about five targets and like six Walmart so that I could I can go to I used to have two toys or uses but you know that they're gone so that's sad yeah I know right I know I tell you every time I watch these toy hunt videos I just want to sit in the corner and drink I say every time I go toy hunting I might find an imagine next toy for Dylan he doesn't have or I just just disappointment it's they always got disappointment in stock yep they always have disappointment in stock that or like weird stares from parents like why are you here and I'm always like looking for a toy for my son here let's see I think my son likes these are these called transformers you say oh okay yes Optimus Prime I don't think my child has that one yes yes one of these please oh yes I do need a gift receipt absolutely it's very embarrassing sometimes they want $50 for this stupid red truck what is this a red vehicle this is dumb with no trailer I know oh that's ridiculous Walmart what are you thinking but I just had a I just had a viewer a fan it's weird to be condom fans but I'm gonna send that to me like someone just sent that to me in the mail yeah I just did it my last unboxing he's like hey I was literally talking to him on the way up to TF con and he's he messages me on Facebook and he says hey you really helped me a lot I just wanted to send you something and I was like okay like let's find it's a PO box for it up and it's a it's in the box that the Walmart reissue G1 Optimus Prime so that is cool yeah I have got a gift on the way I'm saving it as a surprise but I was very very thrilled very humbled and very excited for what it is on the what this this is my first gift I've won yeah I've won a lot of lottery shit raffle I've won raffles on YouTube but I've never just a gift Dylan has yeah these little shows but this is my first one I'm really excited I'm tracking it Thursday yeah it is humbling though right like someone someone likes you enough to want to send you something with nothing in return other than something you've already done yeah it's bizarre to me the people are like that but I I had a conversation with Gord the guy that started who started sending me stuff and he says that he got so much out of the videos that I make that he feels like it's paying me back I don't see it that way but like I'm not gonna complain I'm not gonna send it back that's for sure yeah you just gave a shout out here's the review yeah pretty yeah that and that will always be that special figure to you it is I was never gonna buy that G1 Optimus Prime unless I saw it dirt cheap $50 again it's that price points too much but now it went from being a figure I would never buy to one of my favorite figures in my collection because of how I got it for sure I like Graham and all of his figures being from like family members and has that nostalgia it's a little bit like that but not as old okay where are we where we're at see we're not as off the rails as Tony shout out but you know we're we're doing pretty good that's because I'm sober if I do these on Friday night yeah all right there you are there are thousands of toy reviewers on YouTube what makes you different than the rest other than that epic beard which if you watch my sit reps you can see how mine's been growing since they want I actually just trimmed mine up today for this for this I wanted to look good on here so I was all the gray is right yeah but Dylan refuses to let me shake well you probably wouldn't look like his dad anymore yeah just some dude yeah who is this gentleman what is this stupid red truck what what makes me different I don't I don't know man I would say what initially one of the transformers is because at the time I didn't I think I'm calling out other transformers I didn't like many other big transformers I felt like they were long winded and they would just talk about stuff and I'm like dude just get get to the bot tell me thoughts about the bot just get to it and I remember I remember who it was but I was looking at the time for the video and we're like three minutes into the video and he hadn't even started talking about the transformer yet and I was like are we actually gonna get to review or just gonna be talking so I just my head I was like I could do this better and then I realized now I probably can't actually but but yeah I don't really have anything that makes me different other than me I'm not anyone else and when I make a video I'm not trying to a per parody anybody else I'm just this is the way that I make a video this is way it makes sense to me and I like to think that my passion for toys sort of comes out because I do genuinely love toys I had a period where I would dream about going to toy stores and looking at toys I may have psychological issues now that I think about it yeah I could see that you know Graham after you after we usually do the sit-rep I'm talking to you guys for a while kind of like we carried on before I didn't start recording sure but Graham really humbled me because I at the end I thanked him I explained how you know you're the guy that I watched for years and years as I was getting to do this and I think it was I may have been doing it three months when he subscribed to me and I told him I was I was floored that you subscribe to me and he said well after watching a couple videos I liked your personality it's you that people want to watch it's not necessarily the robot which kind of goes into what you were saying when I first started doing my review like I said I do the intro of the character it's history first and I've done that since my very first G1 and I remember one time there was a guy that got on there was one of the negative comments now I'm brand new and fresh to this and he's like if I wanted to watch somebody talk about Transformers I won't watch that get get to the point and it was at that point I was like okay this isn't what people want they just want to look at your hands and fool with the toy but then I thought again I said no I'm not gonna let this one negative comment stop what I've been doing that other people have enjoyed so I just I roll with it how I would get everybody a G1 toys going to get the history modern toy will I'll show the box get right to the figure toy hacks rep you see my toy hacks is a totally different way to do it so I'm kind of like you said slowly fell into my own so I'm hoping that that's what differentiates me for everybody well it is and I don't I don't subscribe to just anybody if I subscribe to somebody it's cuz I like the personality there are a lot of big youtubers I don't subscribe to I'll watch them if I need to get information on a figure like a transformation process or something I'll go to like Mgo or Bobby skull face or something but I actually don't subscribe to any of those guys because I don't really like their personalities I don't really like I'm this I don't like them as people but when they when they're reviewing their personality doesn't really mesh with me but yours just for instance since I'm talking to you I can butter you up a little bit I actually like that because you do have like not a lot of the anecdotes you have in the history you're not just saying that because you research did a lot of that stuff that you know like when the comics when you've got into talking about the comics and appearances I never got into the comics as a kid I don't know why I was always the cartoon so it was interesting seeing these comics like in knowing the history of the comics behind the toy because talking about the toys especially these old G ones there's not a lot to those like it's flip out the feet pull out the arms you got is now a robot instead of a truck or whatever you know that that's it so it's not like today where it's like pull this out turn it halfway flip this whole thing around flip this inside out close this up you know it's a lot more complicated now so getting straight to the figure is probably more important but back then I don't like optimum G1 Optimus Prime because he's a great toy I mean he's a fine toy but for me it's the nostalgia it's the history like where did all this come from I have this you know great masterpiece Optimus Prime right here but what why do I have this like what was the original source of this and going back and finding out about those it's something I genuinely like enjoying watching your channel for well thank you thank you yeah I appreciate that that's kind of what got me started was I love talking about the old figures yeah especially any more when somebody walks up like in my office I have decorated with transformers and Star Wars will be good oh I love that first Transformers movie and I'm like which first transformers there was a cartoon oh yeah yeah that's always awkward when someone oh I love Transformers yeah I like Sam I'm like what what no okay okay like it's fine if you that's if that's if the Dave formers are your G1 like that's that's good I'm glad you got into Transformers but it's it definitely dictates the rest of my conversations with you that's for sure definitely yeah all right well number nine what is your thoughts on the Transformers social community YouTube Facebook Instagram do you have any special shout outs well I mean so I'm a I'm a member of a lot of online Facebook groups and whatnot Transformers and such is a little dear near and dear to my heart because I am an admin there and it was my first one that I kind of joined and committed to like this is kind of my home so definitely that but I would say as a whole I mean Transformers isn't really different from any other nerd community you got your good people you got your bad people you got your toxicity Star Wars has it no Star Wars horrible yeah Star Wars is awful I love Star Wars but I hate I hate talking about Star Wars now because it's either gonna be like the new movies are the only the old movie like I mean like it's fine it's fine I just like whatever like I don't this week like it's fine calm down it's just movies like you know like I get it but it's also just movies like I said beginning nothing to me is sacred so that means that I don't mind making fun of something a little bit but also means I don't hold anything as like this is immutable this is unchangeable and if it's different it's garbage I'll give it a chance sometimes it is garbage though the new movies are garbage yes but yeah I did like are we talking about Star Wars Transformers still yeah I like the Force Awakens actually and one of the few people I feel like that likes the last Jedi I think I can acknowledge the fact that it has problems but I genuinely like some of the things in the last Jedi and I think it's a fun movie that I think the people that like oh they ruined Luke Skywalker and I'm like yeah but you know what there were a bunch of books that were just as bad beforehand just differently like some of those some of Star Wars Legends books are god-awful and anytime I start talking about that they go well those don't count like well I mean they do and they don't they're still there like you know so I just like things I like that's the way to be that's the last way yeah all right here we are last question I think oh I got shutouts shut up shut up shut up shut up let's drink my drink yeah there you go I got Patriot Prime wherever if you're watching right now it good let's see Toy Galaxy I just hit a button did I hit a button we're good okay I'm not strong I'm just hyper if he's a big YouTuber now but I've been following him since we were at one point he and I were like closest and subscribers and then he just took off and I toy galaxy toy galaxy he he does Dan's fantastic and if I could ever be friends with anybody on YouTube like more than anyone else I want to be friends with Dan because I feel like I feel like we could be friends but it's also weird because now it just sounds like I want to suck up the damn I genuinely think that we could be friends you know there's also like a six-shot and all the blur the two other admins from TF sort of TF source not a website transformers and such you forgot the name of your own face I know right it's no big deal it's I'm just an admin to it but Chris and Nat were instrumental in getting me kind of in the in the YouTube community not just on Facebook but actually encouraging me and doing YouTube stuff so I definitely have a close kinship with them and I definitely appreciate them man I could go on and on there's a lot of people a new up-and-comer Gord Phillips Papa Gord shout out to his YouTube channel he he started doing stuff because he started sending me stuff and I sent him stuff back so he started making his own videos and they're genuinely pretty good he does a really good job again I like him well we're friends but I just like watching him talk about stuff he's got a nice calming voice and I could I go to sleep to it sometimes and I use YouTube a lot for that if I can't go to sleep I've got some go-to channels that I used to go to sleep I have to say the collector 75 was actually one of the earliest like if I need that relaxing English voice to kind of lull me into dreamland I want to talk about Star Wars and there's no better than the collector 75 I use actually to if I'm feeling anxious about something your videos are you just transforming the the megatron like you did and a couple others where it's just you transforming the bot like I love watching those because it's just calming watching you like just transforming like it's fun do more of those I only did three and it was to test out a new app on my camera for videos yeah I tried doing that it's tough it's tough just sitting down and transforming a bot I think I've got one or two on my channel but it's really tough but I it's very calming to me to sit and just watch someone no talking just going from point A to point B maybe even back to point A but it's fun just watching that process it's like playing with the toy but not you know yeah nice I might do many bots they were pretty easy super easy flip it out all right my friend last question all right you have any channel goals and where can our viewers find you this is your time this is your time to plug yourself yeah so I'm very creative with my name it's just my name my case it was originally I think my channel name was originally just in Cacer Lake because the first video I ever posted was me singing bye bye bye at karaoke and I thought no one would ever see it so I did that and then YouTube made you change your YouTube name to your actual name when you linked it to Google plus at the time so it's just my case that's just that's my name my channel goal right now is to hit 10,000 subscribers I'm about a thousand away or so from that and when I do I'm definitely gonna have a giant giveaway on my channel I've been squirreling away toys in that closet right back here it's open I've got so I've got about I probably have about 200 or $300 with the toys to give away so when I hit 10,000 subscribers I'll figure out a way to do that I don't know how I'm gonna do it yet I can at least maybe send you two or three from this yeah why not every cool I mean honestly I hope I send you some from this I'm sure a lot of the people that watch my channel would like to watch yours as well I've definitely shied you out during my my live streams I do those once a month on the first Saturday of every month I do a live stream just to kind of connect with people on a more real-time basis instead of just replying to comments and that that's another thing I do I reply to every comment and that's tough man that's that it takes a lot of time but I feel like they took the time to comment so I kind of I want to let them know that at least read it exactly and the only way to really do that is to at least respond with the thanks or something like that that's what it's starting to because he gets all kinds of comments and he'll always hop down and give him a you know thanks for watching I appreciate yeah he has cracked me up I don't know if you follow his channel or not but I do he made the announcement that he had filmed he finished filming all of his Optimus primes so he made the announcement said I'm done with these guys so I can't film my weekly show but I'm going to move on to other figures so everybody starts boo hoo and on his page oh I can't believe you're quitting YouTube so that's not that I remember that I totally remember that so then he makes another video this morning explaining it again I've filmed all my Optimus primes I'm going to move on to turtles and ghostbusters and everything else the that's just prime show is over oh we're so sorry you're leaving and quitting YouTube so he made another video tonight explaining that he wasn't quitting I am rolling at this poor guy. Yeah I heard from some of the turtles and ghostbusters quitting I'm like he's not quitting did you did you watch the same video I watched like what's wrong with you he was on message he was on messenger with me earlier today and he take photo you screenshots as this guy saying we're always laughing back and forth we're sure we found out we're army vets together so we kind of bond that connection for sure well Mike that is it that is all the questions I have you were talking about plugging yourself I will put a link to your channel in my description and at the end of my video where Patriot Prime is holding that flag up I will have a link to your channel there and a link to one of your other videos I think I may link the general grievous video because I love that okay yeah it's a fantastic figure he was one my one my favorite figures of the prequels I like the prequels me too in my perfect world Darth Maul and Grievous would have been introduced in episode one and carried through to episode three it would make them a lot more impactful story telling wise that's for sure killing Darth Maul in episode one was a huge mistake yeah he came back as a cyborg I have a cyborg figure of him over there yep the Clone Wars that's one of the best things about the prequels the Clone Wars cartoon the CGI cartoon basically fixed the prequels for a lot of people it made Anakin better brought Darth Maul back and you know what for it was surprisingly very like adult like there are a lot of people dying from lightsabers like it reminded me of some of these Transformers shows like I was telling Graham in our last set rep a lot of these cartoons start off really kitty but then they realize it's the adults that are watching them and the next thing you know you got people being decapitated with lightsabers so yep I love it I can't complain I'm not complaining I loved it well Mike I really appreciate you coming on board I'm glad I got a hold of you I really enjoyed talking with you tonight so thanks again buddy it was a pleasure yeah and I want to thank you guys for watching if you like what you see don't forget to like don't forget to subscribe I tried to put out a set rep at least now maybe twice a week and once again thanks for watching check out Mike's channel and I'll catch you next time this is Patriot Prime signing out hey I really appreciate you guys stopping by my channel don't forget to like and don't forget to subscribe also check out some of my other videos that I've done on generation one Transformers modern era transformers and toy hacks reprolabel sex once again this is Patriot Prime who are