 Well, hello again. Here, Brutus and I have just been blown away with the amount of growth of this lovely little CRT channel. And now we would like to say a heartfelt and grateful thank you to you for helping us grow to the now 13,635 subscribers. But more importantly, we have some other milestones that were recently achieved for the channel, including 100,000 hours of watch time, which proves to us that there is a wonderful audience out there that wants to know more about CRTs and likes to watch them be restored, repaired, diagnosed, and all around has an appreciation for retro technology. Thanks again for helping us get to that six million minute mark of watch time, some other cool statistics about the channel is this will be the 324th upload that we have produced. Now to celebrate these achievements, let's open something. But before we do that, I wanted to announce the Cathode Ray podcast and that is a podcast I will be doing with my friend, Lewis from Zezcast Retro. I will put a link to his channel. We had a great time doing a Get to Know You podcast a couple of weeks ago and we decided that there were so many cool topics going on right now in the retro gaming community that we really had a fun time talking about those things and wanted to talk more about up and coming things, things that we don't get to talk about here in every little video we make for YouTube. And also, I wanted to have your feedback and input in this show a lot. So go check out the first episode, which again, I'll have links to the channel in the description below. And I'll also make an announcement on the community tab when the first episode is available. And I want you to go there and ask any of those questions that you leave for me in the comments of all the videos that we've had before. If you've never had a question actually answered by me, please go and put your question in the comments of that video on the podcast. And then Lewis can ask me these questions in the next episode and upcoming episodes. That way you'll have an opportunity to get answered those questions, which I'm sorry, I have not really been able to return a lot of the questions I've been sent on social media as far as Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter, not all of them. I don't have time to answer everybody's service with questions by typing them out. However, if you do send the questions to Lewis in the comments section, we will get as many of them answered as possible. So once again, thanks from us to you for all the support in the channel, especially thank you to anybody who's been a Patreon member. I really do appreciate all the help and support you guys have provided. And please do not forget to check us out on the CRP. That's the Cathode Ray podcast starting next week. I really look forward to your questions. Now let's jump over and go check out that unboxing. All right, first off, welcome to my CRT offloading area. And this is also what I call the bone yard kind of back storage of CRT parts monitors and just ones that really have a lot of issues that are almost unrepairable. They're being kept here for their parts mostly. And if we look over here, this is our box we're looking at today. And if you look at this, now you can kind of understand why we're calling this video hot dogs and CRTs because I thought I ordered a CRT off of eBay, but I'm not quite sure because what I've got here is a shaky, shady box from what appears to be, if I look at this. Yep, that says it's from a 7-Eleven in Beaver, Pennsylvania. So this box is a single layer box and it's a hot dog box and it might be good for shipping hot dogs once, but something tells me that it will not be good for CRT shipping. And just so you know, I do have this side flipped up because my address is on the other side of there and I don't want to be a fool and dox myself. So that's the only side I've cut open. I haven't looked inside this at all yet. So I've no idea. I just don't give it a high opportunity or chance to actually survive. So let's just move around and get set up and open up this box and see what's happened. I'm just gonna wheel this over to the camera a little bit better and we'll just slip this down and see what we've got. Now I do have to tell you I get some grief sometimes from people for buying CRTs like this online and they say, well, you shouldn't even buy them and have them shipped, but ultimately it's not my responsibility, obviously to make sure that the people selling them will not only ship them properly, but we'll know what they're doing. This was just a silly, silly way to pack this. Nothing really between. Look at this. This is our, I'm guessing the top side or bottom side of our monitor and we've already got the big crack over here on this edge. Just as I thought, I didn't think this had a good chance of surviving. I bet even a hot dog would have come busted up if it would have been in here. So I'm gonna have to start a return on this thing again. So it's just a bunch of rubbish. Let me get something to put all these peanuts in, maybe a bag and we'll actually pull this thing out and see how bad the entire damage is because it was in a nice shape. It's a retro PC monitor and it's definitely rubbish. I removed enough of the inner packing materials, there's really nothing more than just some foam peanuts and a couple of pieces of used styrofoam. I've removed those out of the way, so I'm gonna put the box down and hopefully lift the monitor and put it back up here on the cart and it's just absolutely destroyed, not even a little bit dangerous is what it is mostly. Yeah, and it's, I mean, inside the box is really nothing more than some packing peanuts. So you might as well have used the hot dog buns and packed the monitor and that they would have done probably just as good. And a little closer look here and let you see this beautiful destroyed Apple monitor. So just trashed and there's the tube, bezel frame destroyed and I get to start another lovely eBay claim. So I really wanted to test this. This is an Apple composite monitor. I think it just had, yeah, composite video in. Might have had a Trinitron tube in it. Maybe we can tell from just looking in the side here. So guys, let's, no, maybe not. It's a Samsung tube, actually. That's cool, Samsung picture tube. But obviously this is trashed and unsavable probably. That's really unfortunate, but hey, just remember to do your due diligence when it comes to packing. If you happen to see this and you're gonna pack a CRT, don't do what this person did. Also, make sure to get your questions ready about any CRTs and CRT repairs or anything retro and get them ready for the Cathode Ray podcast, which again, there will be links to in the description for the video. And just know that's my, I'm sorry, I haven't been able to answer everybody's questions. Please go send them over there so we can do videos and talk about it and have fun with me and Lewis. But this isn't fun, but that will be fun. Thanks again, everybody. Curtis and I will see you all next time with some more retro content.