 Hello. Welcome to my second live chat. I did it about three weeks ago, and prior to that it was a disaster many years ago when I tried to do this, but I'm happy to be back. It seems that the first one that I did, which was like three weeks ago, it went pretty well. A lot of people said they liked this format, so it gives me a chance to reach out to the viewers and get an idea of what you guys are thinking and various ways to move the channel, and I can let you know some of the things that are going on behind the scenes, which is very interesting. There's a big difference with what goes on behind the scenes and what people think they know and what they actually know. Let me give you an example. I would say every day I get hit with certain offers, a lot of offers. We want to send you this to review. Affiliates, we will pay you. We want you to review this stuff. I turned down 98% of them. The only ones that I will accept are the ones that I think I would actually like to use. A lot of it is Chinese. You can tell by the way they write the email, but a lot of it is Amazon stuff where they say, hey, we have this and they want to ship it to you through Amazon. If I am not going to use it myself, why would I pump it for a few bucks? That's a little bit of what goes on behind the scenes. I get a lot of offers every single day because they just search here and that looking for somebody that would review and offer 200 bucks or so for a review of their products and everybody wants you to be an affiliate. But there's a deadly trap with that because if I were to agree with these, then these people think that I'm working for them. They think that like they just hired an employee and so in order to really pump out the, they want to take over the channel essentially and say, you know what, you need to do more to pump our product. And I refuse to do that. You know, the TFG is not for sale. It's not going to be a, and I will review products on occasion, but it's not for sale. It's never going to be, hey, look, I want to do this so that I can benefit personally when I don't think it would be advantageous for the viewers. But you know that I mentioned Beretta. Why would I put Beretta in the thumbnail or the title? Well, it goes hand in hand with Shot Show this year because I reviewed the Beretta APX-A1 Compact Tactical and it actually viewed pretty well. Beretta invited me in Las Vegas to an event that is on the Sunday before the week of the show and it's an all day event and it's going to be at an arrange and they're going to provide transportation and this and that. And I really wanted to attend that event because I wasn't even going to go to Shot Show this year to be honest. I've gone for nine or ten years in a row and I just don't think that the reviews are that great. It's cool to be there and talk to the people who are innovating. It's cool to be there and see the new stuff and you always leave, feel like you missed a whole bunch, but sometimes and I don't make appointments. I don't necessarily make appointments, maybe one or two, but once you start making appointments, now you have to search around for where you want to go and it becomes rather stressful and it becomes stressful quick and there's always that one thing that you have to go see. But getting back to Beretta, they invited me to an all day range event on the Sunday prior to Shot Show. So I'm flying in on Saturday and I'm going to go with them to this range event. At this event, I am hoping they have new products. Now I took some time, studied the website, wanted to see some of the inner workings of Beretta. Like I've been to the website several times, but I never took a deep dive into it because their shotguns, which seem very cool, are over a grand. And for a semi-auto shotgun these days, that is right about par to be honest. You know, when I showed the Remington V3 tactical, that's about a grand. And so I looked at the A300, that looks super cool. Some of their new handguns, they are really pumping out the 92 series. And now they have the 92X performance airy with a red dot. I have the 92X, but it's $1800. They also have the 92X RDO. I think that is red dot optic, okay? Because that's red dot ready too. That is $800. Big difference there. Wants a steel frame, wants an aluminum frame, both full size, but the 92X performance is their main handgun. Like that is such a nice handgun. And I got it. I've had it for about three or four years now and I really enjoy that handgun. But I like that RDO too and what that has to offer. So I want to shoot that. I want to check out some of those shotguns. And would you believe this? I was shocked because when I took a deep dive into the Beretta website, I saw they make revolvers. Did you know Beretta made revolvers? I had no clue. Now here's the thing that we need to know. The revolvers are four grand, all right? They're like of the fourth price range. And they have one with a five and a quarter inch barrel, one with a four inch barrel. And they have another one that's like 10 or 11 grand. So they are extremely expensive. But man, would I like to shoot that a rage day? When I don't have to pay for the ammo, when I get usage of their firearms, I hope they have the revolvers there because those look super cool. And I would love to check those out. But Beretta has quite a few things going on. I do like their handguns. A couple years ago, I had a problem with their customer service. I made a video on that. I'm hoping they have done a good job revamping that and make it better. I actually had a person after I made that video reach out to me and say thank you. Thank you for making that video because this is the stuff I've been telling the people all along. We need to redo the way we do things. And you basically said what I was telling them we need to do. And that confirmed my thoughts. And I thought that was cool. You know, you make a video and you rip a company's customer service and all of a sudden they're thanking you for it. So I am looking forward to that. That also means that at the shot show, I'm only going to spend one day at the show itself, which is Tuesday. It's open Tuesday through Friday. Friday, people kind of clean up and get ready to take off. But I'm only going for one day at the show. And I'm going to try to pack in everything I can. And I'm not going to run around trying to just record everything because then you feel kind of stupid because you really don't spend the time necessary to do a review. You're just quickly trying to get something on video for the viewers. And I remember my very first shot show. I was so video driven. I was so excited to be there. I was just, I reviewed everything I possibly could. And in the end, I said, did I really review this? Or did I just showcase it and let the person say how great everything was? And I said, I really didn't review it. This is about 10 years ago. So anyways, that's what's going on there. You also saw on the title, Car Arms. Now it was less than a year ago. I made a video and I said, Car Arms is coming out with a double stack by high demand. I've been hearing this for years. If car would just make a double stack, I would buy it. People have said that. Now I also have a lot of people that say, I've never even shot a car handgun. With our handguns, they are built extremely well. They are, they're tight. That's why they say, you know, it helps to break it in a little bit, get some rounds. But once you do that, and the last couple years, the cars that I've gotten have performed great. But once you do that, it's a fine performing handgun. And it it really softens the recoil. Now it has a heavy recoil spring, but the recoil is like minimal. And the car double stack, I'm going to show you very shortly. And I'm hoping that it will be received well because they put a lot of time and energy and engineering and money into making this happen. I think the reason they avoided it for many years is because they had the Magnum Research Line or they have the Magnum Research Line and they made double stacks. You look at the Baby Desert Eagle lines, both in polymer and steel frame in 940 and 45. You look at, they used to have the MR9 Eagle. They used to have the real small little 380. And car arms, like I think they said, you know, we got the double stacks in the Magnum Research Line. We own it. We're sticking with single stacks with the car line. Okay, so that makes sense. But the demand kept coming and coming and coming. And they finally came out with a double stack. I have it in my possession now. It's a pre-production handgun. And I'm going to be showing it very soon. I don't know if I'm going to get much range time with it prior to the review. I'm hoping to. I tried to avoid going to an indoor range if I can help it because it's, I just don't like it. I like being around. I like to see my surroundings. I don't, I don't know. I've seen too many things where or too many times where people were just so dangerous with their firearms at an indoor range. So car arms is coming out with a double stack. I have a pre-production model right now. Stay tuned. If you're not a car arms fan or you've never shot one, I think you're missing out because they make a very nice, well-built handgun. And I have several, I featured them. People said, you're like one of the only people that feature car arms. Well, I've been a fan of them prior to making videos many years ago. I've been a fan and have carried car arms way before I even thought about making videos. So that's what's happening there. I think you will like what there is to see. Another topic that I want to touch on. Actually, let me go out to the chat. We have shooting gallery. Hey, bro. I talked to him on the phone once. Kurt Smith, J.H. Space Daddy is in the house. We have Mike from many Mike of many Mike's. Let's see Lance. Lance has been an incredible TFG follower. I really appreciate all you guys. We have been here. TAB. I was on his live chat last night. Formerly known as trees are blowing. Now he's TAB videos. Let's see. I hope I got everybody. I got the people. Romans is out there. Okay. Romans six, two, three. No Bible scripture. We have Dale in the house. Crack of Lachus. Crack of Jackus. All right. Good to see everybody. Thanks for joining me tonight. On my second real live chat. I enjoyed it. It gave me a chance. And Bob Eugene's out there. Thanks, Bob. Yeah, that's what Bob said. He said 200 after 200 rounds at the break in. It became reliable. I found it to be reliable. The last couple anyways right out of the box. So I thought that was great. And I really do like their handguns. It's like, you know, you take some time with the handgun and you fall in love with the handgun. That's been my experience. I want to touch on something else because I took a lot of grief for this about a year ago, maybe not even a year ago. And it has to do with the fake YouTube channels. Now, what do I mean by fake? I made a video talking about how there are fake YouTube channels using AI as their voiceovers, which it's not a voiceover, it's a copy and paste. They live in foreign countries where they don't have access to their handguns. They make incredible thumbnails. They have incredible topics. And because I made a big stink over it, I learned a lot more about them. Let me explain. I had people telling me so-and-so is using your content. This happens all the time. Okay, they're using your content. They claim they have a right to it. I don't know. But people say, hey, so-and-so, they're using your content. And it is irritating to me because these people don't own these guns. I do my ammo, my range time, everything, and then they just take it. So I started submitting copyright claims. And this was happening on a regular basis. And there was one specifically, Mad Man Reviews, was using my stuff left and right. So I started submitting copyright claims. This took me hours to find the specific spots where I was in the video. And then I had to find those exact same specific spots in my video. So when it was manually reviewed, they would see that, yes, that is the exact same spot. And they would use a five or six second spot. So I had to look all this up. And I kept doing it because I was so angry about it. Well, what ended up happening was, Mad Man Reviews got a strike. Mad Man Reviews got another strike. So I said, okay, this is working. So the guy from Mad Man Reviews contacts me and says, please take those off. I said, no, why should I take those off? You didn't ask me to use my stuff. Now you're asking me for a favor, but yet you've used all my stuff. I'm getting to the part where I caught a lot of grief from some of the viewers. And they said, well, you know, we can't have these strikes. They shared with me. Now let me tell you how this operates. These are YouTube videos that are AI generated. They steal the content from the people who actually worked to make the content. They copy and paste a description out of a website or a review, put it in AI, come up with a voiceover, incredible thumbnails, incredible titles. There is a whole team of people on this, a whole team. Mad Man Reviews is from Vietnam. I took heat by a lot of the viewers because they said, don't be jealous. You know, you're just jealous because they're out viewing you. They're out working you. They're out performing you. Big deal. So they use the shooting scene. Well, it's more than that. They are conning the American public. Trust me on that. They are totally conning. So through all this, I'm watching this, a guy from Vietnam. He doesn't have access to have this stuff, but yet he's saying the five handguns that are better than Glock. You're a jerk if you don't get this handgun. If you don't purchase this or these handguns are the ones to avoid, they didn't come up with that content. Somebody else did. They put it in AI, stole other people's footage and acted as if they're own. It's their own. And then they bank thousands and thousands of views, but it's not real. It's fake. They have zero experience with this. It's a con job. And that's why I made that video. So the heat that I got was from many people saying, you're just jealous. I'm not jealous, but the channel's not for sale either. You can't just take my stuff and expect me to be like, oh, cool. You featured me on your video when you yourself are a con. That was my issue with it. And I have a big issue with it even to this day. Another one that I started doing the same thing. I'm telling you, this was labor intensive because you had to find all the stuff from theirs where they stole it, find it all on my side, submit the timestamps and everything else. I did it again with another person. They were from another foreign country that does not allow the citizens to have firearms. So how can we say that this is legitimate? I had people say, how do you know that they've never touched a firearm? Because in that video I said these people, they don't even touch a firearm. They have no idea what they're talking about. Actually, they're not doing any talking. AI is doing the talking. They have these voice overs and the editing is so crisp and clear because they have a team. How did you know? Well, I know. I know it's a fact and they keep popping up. And why does it bother me? Yeah, it bothers me that there's competition out there that's ripping off the American public with fancy thumbnails and titles. That bothers me because so many of us that are working our tail off trying to give good information and good reviews with a real human being behind the trigger, a real human being given their thoughts and opinions and experiences with a firearm. That takes work. When you have to come up with something to open up the video, how you're going to present it, how you're going to, the camera angles, everything else, that takes work and it takes money. These clowns steal it and they bank thousands of thousands of views and it gets old. And then when I look at their channels, I have people that follow me who I know. You guys don't understand. I know you guys. I look at sneaky peats here. I can see that Alan who else hook waggy fitness. I think I said that wrong. But these are people that have been following me. I see them in the comment section and I couldn't resist it. I had to say, hey, bro, why are you watching this? It's all fake. Okay. It's not real. And then people question me. So that's what is going on there. And that was pretty bothersome to me and it still is because they're not doing the work. They have a team. I have this guy right here. Most people do. When I do a video, I have specific lighting. I have different lighting right now when I'm in front of my safe compared to when I'm at the table. I look for different kind of lighting when I go to the range. A very sunny day with the sun rays coming down is bad for video because it's very shaded. You want an overcast day. So if I find an overcast day, I want to do that, especially if I'm going to record that day. I want to make a range of view because that way you can see the detail of the firearm versus the sunny day. And so I'm a one man show. I do all that. I purchase my ammo. I don't have an ammo sponsor. I purchase handguns. I purchase camera equipment. Everybody does this who makes videos. I don't want a cookie or a metal but it's just a reality behind it and that's why I get upset when somebody else shows up out of nowhere and steals it. So they have a team of people think about this. If you're running a primarily an American targeted channel, which it is for guns for the most part, then think about how much money that is in Vietnamese dollars and how many people they could have do this. They have editors. They have people make specific thumbnails. They have people come up with all types of ideas. Every idea you see on this channel comes from me or you guys. You guys give me some great ideas. And so anyhow, that's my rant with that and it's bothersome to me and I wanted to clarify that because I've learned so much about how they operate. I do all my own editing. I do all my own everything from beginning to end. And then if the gun happens to sweep across the camera, they said, oh, you're sweeping the cameraman. There is no cameraman. Okay, there's a tripod. So that's what happens with TFG and just about most of the people that I hang out with because you will see the people with teams at Chacho because when they walk around, there are five to seven guys following this person. It's almost like when you go to the hospital and you see all these interns following around a doctor, that's what it's like at Chacho with some of these big channels. Hey, thanks, Mike. Thanks, Mike. I appreciate that. That was a very encouraging comment and I certainly appreciate it. One of the things, the best compliment that I can receive from doing this channel is when people tell me your followers are loyal and I hear that. They say your followers are very, very loyal and I don't know that it's all me. It's not all me. Like every channel, they get into conversations with each other. They get into arguments with each other. They get to name calling and all that. But they say the people who watch you are very loyal. That is a phenomenal compliment to me because from the very beginning and I've said this so many times, I have learned more than I have given back and I try to continue to do that. Now, I recently featured the Palmetto State Arms 5.7 Rock. Pretty cool gun. I found it interesting that the ammo that did not work well was PSA's ammo, AAC, the steel case. Everything else fired great but the main response back I got from that was the ammo is too expensive and I'm 100% in agreement with that. It is way, way too expensive. But the gun's not. So if you offset a little bit and you want to shoot 5.7 by 28mm, you're going to pay on the back end for a cheaper gun on the front end. If you go with the FN 5.7, you pay a lot. Whichever end you end up on, let me tell you something. Whichever way you go, you will be paying a lot. What's up, Buttercup, King Arthur's in the house, Barfos here, Bradley, Jay Mock. Wow, it's great to see you guys. Eric, Kurt Still in there, Brew Daddy. I've got some people that I see their comments from now all the way from years back. I've been at this since 2011 and even back then it was very, very, very competitive. Very, very competitive and I'm not out to compete against anybody. Like, I have no competition as far as I'm concerned. I don't like those fake channels. I don't want to get back on that again. I don't like those fake channels and they're ripping off the American public with fake knowledge that they did not create. And man, if you've ever seen them, the first thing you can do is notice that when the voice is fake and here's a good way to tell. If you don't hear a breath before they talk, then you know it's fake, okay? Because a real human being breathes. We breathe and sometimes when I'm really into something, I actually hold my breath and I'm like, I got to get this out. I got to share this before I forget it. That's a human being. The AI-generated voices are not human beings and they don't, they don't, I'm looking at the comments here. Boy, I really appreciate that. Just fly low. Let's see. We'll throw that up there. I really appreciate that. Those are, they're not real. It's fake. And so we just need to understand that. And I, my suggestion is just avoid them. Don't don't support them. When you're supporting somebody that did nothing but copy and paste and have an editing team put together the video, it's, it's not real. And they just steal other people's content. But that's what's going on. Those, those that are entering, we spoke about Beretta. We spoke about Carr Arms, who is coming out with a double stack. And we spoke about Shot Show. I'm going to take suggestions for Shot Show. I, I want suggestions. I typically take a pencil and paper and write stuff down and stuff it in my pocket that I'm going to, that with the pants I'm going to wear to the show and then pull it out. And it's pretty hard to find everything. But it's, you know, I try my best. Yes. Dudesbin said he saw a Spanish language from the firearm guy episode. Are those genuine? Yes, they are. I put a community post out. It had to be three months ago that I started a Spanish speaking channel. And the way this developed was it always seemed cool, but it was always something that somebody else was going to do. You know, it's, but this company who is a startup company at their US based, they said, Hey, we think that you would do very well with a Spanish speaking channel. And so we had a little zoom chat and we talked about it. And I pay for the videos to be translated by a human. I made sure that was the case, not some AI generated crap that I've been complaining about. And the Spanish channel really took off. Now, what's most interesting about that though, and I've got about, I think 75,000 subscribers, maybe a little less. But what's most interesting is the majority of the views are coming from the US. Almost 30% of the views are coming from the US Spanish speaking channels. Maybe Biden's board of board of policy is helping the Spanish channel. I hope not. I don't support that. People coming in our country. It's almost like the fake channels I was telling you about stealing content. People show up out of nowhere, break our laws, and then reap the benefits of the people that have been working hard to build this country from the beginning. And I'm not talking just about me and you. I'm talking about our forefathers way back who worked their tails off to build this. And now all of a sudden they just show up and reap the benefits and not sacrificing a dang thing, much like those fake channels, but I don't want to get too deep into that. But another thing that I've been looking for, and I'm going to look for it at the Beretta event, the Sunday before a shot show, are some of the optic ready models. Before optics became a real thing, I should say real thing. A real thing for me, something that interested me because I avoided them as much as I possibly could. As I said, I don't need it. And then I shot a couple and said, wow, that is really amazing. Now I picked up a bunch of guns without optics. Okay. I was like, I don't want it. I don't want to mess with the plates. I don't want to spend, at that point, there weren't all these other $200 optics. They were like RMRs and shields and shields were $400 back in the day. I said, I don't want to do that. But I caught the bug. And when you learn how to shoot with a red dot, you have to, it's almost like you're re-learning. You have to unlearn what you know and how you have trained and relearn how to pick up the dot and fire away. And once you do that, and you have a gun that performs well, like I tried it on a sky, it was hard. That was not a great experience. But once you learn it, it becomes very addictive. There are a lot of people who say, I don't want anything to do with red dots. I completely understand. I was like that. But what I learned is that it does make you a better shooter. If you can relearn what you have to for a red dot, if you can relearn it. GB Guns in the house. Good friend of mine. Good friend of mine. I saw a smash time in the house. King Arthur. Great people here. So happy you guys came and joined me tonight. For those just joining, this is my second live chat. I did one about three weeks ago. And my goal is never to make it a series and to do live chats all the time. I have seen people who used to work hard to make videos turn their channel into a live chat channel and their channels just sunk. And I also saw with the explosion of Instagram that a lot of people that used to work hard to make videos got very good at taking pictures without half the energy effort or expense. And they pretty much tailed off too. So I want to avoid that and not go down that path where live chats become the premier essence of a channel. I have over 2,000 videos and if I turn this into a live chat channel, then I'm just shooting myself in the foot if that's still a saying. But anyhow, that's why I'm doing this once every three weeks just to reach out and talk and say a few things and say hi to everybody and see what's going on. I said I didn't want to make this a series once every three weeks is really not a series. But I do have a couple of series going on right now. One is think about a Thursday and that actually view either really well or not so well and it replicates the performance of a video. If you do a good video, people like it, it's going to view well. And the reason why it does well is because they share it because they like it. If they don't like it, the topic is not that good or whatever. It doesn't do well. That's normal. So I just learned to accept it and move on for the ones that don't perform well. And then another one that I started, you guys let me know if you like that think about a Thursday thing. I don't know if I'll make every Thursday but I'm going to try anyhow. CopperjacketTV said something. Let me put that up. I tell you what, the readers are necessary for a old dude like me. Where'd it go? I guess I can't find it. Chibi guns. Thanks man. Okay, I'll buy you a beard shot. You got it. I'd do that anyways. All right, there it is. All right. Where are the future fuzz? You're not wrong. You are not wrong. Thanks, Chibi. I'll see you at shop, brother. We have Brent in the house, Kurt Smith, Lance Kelly. A lot of people came and joined me tonight. I certainly appreciate it. I try to keep this right around an hour so it doesn't seem like it gets too redundant. It's not something that I want to just sit here and blab and not be any informative or at least a little bit entertaining, if you will. But anyhow, it's been a lot of fun for me all these years. I've been at this for a long time. Chibi guns, CopperjacketTV, those guys have been at it a long time. I will tell you, to those two guys that are in the chat and anybody else who was in the chat who is not commenting, if you've been at this through all the hate, through all the fear, if you recall, there was fear that YouTube was going to remove every gun channel. This was probably eight to 10 years ago. We were expecting at any moment for our channel to be removed and some people in here got demonetized. Chibi guns got his channel stolen. CopperjacketTV had his channel demonetized like three times. This is back when YouTube would strike a channel with content that was produced four or five years prior to entering the community guidelines. And it was common thought that, hey, our time here is limited. And then there were all these other platforms that said, hey, join us. We won't censor you. We won't do this. And it occurred to me the other day that that was a long time ago and we're still here. And are they fair all the time? No, they're not fair all the time. There are people that will say they did the exact same video. I can testify to this. I can do the exact same video somewhat, you know, it's the same kind of format. Similar content. This is typical in my case of TFG review. And one gets demonetized and one doesn't. What's not fair is that the person looking at one says, yeah, that's fine. The other person who resides in the Philippines does not know what they're looking at. And they said, oh, no, no, no, no, that's very dangerous. We can't have that here. And they monetize it. And so we say, well, there was once a time nobody got monetization on YouTube. Why do you care so much? Well, let me explain that. People think and in some cases it's true. I'm not denying that. In some cases it is true, but people think that others are making videos solely for money. Okay. Madman review is, but I don't want to go down that again, those fake videos for people from Vietnam producing them. Fact. That's a fact. If you're just joining, it's a fact. I talked about it. It's more than that. Once a video gets demonetized, let's say you have video A and video B. Video A gets monetized. Video B does not. And you put them up at the same time with the same audience, same channel. Okay. Video A will perform much, much, much better because YouTube is going to push it. Video B will sit flat. I've had videos that were performing pretty well. I'm like, okay, I'm happy with the performance of the video. You know, put some work into it. People seem to like it. Okay, good. And then bam, I could get the yellow icon and then the views go down, down to the floor level and it barely moves. That is why monetization is important. And it helps fund the channel. It does. It helps fund the channel because to run a YouTube channel costs money. And some of the viewers don't want to hear it, but I told you some other things that happen behind the scenes. Behind the scenes also is paying out money because unless you have a sponsor for everything you do, which is a, could be a trap. Could be a trap. You never want to let somebody try to take over your channel and become the Chinese product channel where they say, oh, you didn't push our stuff. And I'll tell you also one other thing, products. I'm careful with products because when you review a product, I don't care if it's an optic holster, any product, not a firearm, a product. The product marketing manager, if you will, or whatever, they will nitpick what you said or what you did not say. They'll say, oh, you forgot to talk about the coding that we have on our screws that is, it's resistant and it won't rust. And it's, it's the best coding you could possibly have on our screws. Can you do another one? It's like that all the time. It's like I lived up to my end of the bargain. I actually like your product. That's why I agreed to do it in the first place because if I did like your product, I would not respond to your email, but they always want more and more and more and more. And they're about enough to drive you crazy half the time. They really are. And there was an optic company that I said, I cannot work with you. Okay. It's not Siley. It's not Vortex. It's not Shield. It's not Burris. See Burris? Okay. It's none of those because these are pretty polite people. They're very polite people. But once, once I start hearing feedback to say, well, you go ahead and do, we want to prove it before you run it live. What, what exactly does that mean? Does that mean that I need your permission to put it in front of my audience? If I gave an honest review, I need, I need you to approve it? No, that it'll never work that way. So I mean to sound like a tough guy here. You know, I'm not, I'm just saying there, there, there are certain product producers that kind of, they want to take over your channel. Some affiliates, when you get involved with their affiliates, they want to take over your channel. I'm a good example that I saw it, it, it died out, but Oley, Oley was a big one. They, they were offer, I don't even know what they're offering, but they email Bob me all the time. And I didn't want anything to do with it because I felt like, you know, if you probably make a good light, okay, I've never owned an Oley. I'm sure it's fine. It might be like everything else. Some people say they're garbage. Other people say they're great. Okay, I can live with that, whatever. But to constantly push this stuff and say, well, they're, they're, they're offering a special deal or whatever. If you want to do that, great. Do it. I just don't want to do that because once you start pushing and pushing and pushing, I'm not talking about a gun review. I'm talking about products. Then I don't think it bodes well for the audience in the long term. So let me see what else is going on out there. I really appreciate you guys coming in. You didn't need anyone's permission yourself. I appreciate it. I'm going to share that. He says I'm a solid reviewer. If you watch a TFG video and you watch a GB guns video, I will tell you that he will get deeper in to the specifics and the feedback that I've gotten through that throughout the years is that people want the nuts and bolts. Okay, this is what it offers. This is what it has six to nine minutes, perhaps. And that would be the standard video for me. GB gets really deep into it. Everything from showing the manual to the tightness to the specifics of the gun. I think his audience loves it. I could up my game and talk about the twist rate and some of the engineering and how the mechanics operate and things like that. I'm not great at it, but I can do it. That's just not my style. I think one of the things that makes YouTube special is that you have different personalities working with different styles and that it comes together in a channel that people either love or they dislike. I had a person tell me many years ago. He said, if everybody loves you, you're probably doing something wrong. And I agree with that because when I make a video, I need to give you me, my thoughts, my opinions. Everybody who makes videos has to give, you're there to hear their thoughts, their opinions. If it's political and they rip out liberals, and they, which I do all the time, and they put up the woke society and cancel culture and everything else, that's what you signed up for when you hit that subscribe button. That's that person. I don't want to say what you paid for. You didn't pay anything, but that's what you get. And the, what does that say, limp wrist and idiot in a gun store the best. Oh, thanks, Mickey. I appreciate that. But anyways, you have to get or I feel an obligation to give the people me who I am. I can't be somebody else. And that's something that a lot of new YouTubers eventually learned because when I, I would watch Hickok. I would watch other people, many of which who are not around any longer and I would watch them and say, man, I really liked the way they laid that out. Then when I tried to lay it out similar, it just didn't flow because that style was them. It wasn't me. It took me a long time to come up with a style in which I can articulate my thoughts and put it with a video and put it all together and make it somewhat decent. And I will tell you, I'll tell you a little secret about me. It's no longer a secret, but this is true. I do a lot of talking in my profession and what I've done for a long time. I do a lot of talking. I do a lot of talking on YouTube. I'm doing a lot of talking now. Okay. And you can see I'm not at a loss for words, but there was a time in my life when I just could not talk. I had these thoughts and ideas going through my brain and my mind was just moving, moving. But to get it from here and out was impossible for me. And I had a very strict but loving dad. And my dad was the mouthpiece of the family. So if there was an issue, if there was something that needed to be solved, he didn't say come here, son, I want to, I want to show you my approach with this. So I can, he was old school. Very old school. Old school is good. I will tell you, old school is good. Look, he threw me up against the garage wall once. I, man, I learned a stern lesson that day. But today, today, somebody could get arrested. But back then it was, it was just good parenting, I will tell you. Where was I going with this? Oh, so I was never really encouraged to, to speak up and share things. And I remember, you know, the teacher would ask me to read in the class. I'd be like, good grief. I had a vision impairment. I had a speech impediment. I'm a wreck. And I knew I couldn't do any of this stuff. And my confidence level was at a zero. But I had to work very, very hard to get past that. When I was in college, before I graduated, they said, you have a serious speech impediment. You, you, you can't say your S's very well. You slur constantly. Sounds like you're drunk. And I knew this all along. I had people tell me, little kids say stuff when I was growing up, whatever. Always had kind of thick skin, but I couldn't talk. And I had to learn how to talk. I had to learn how to express my thoughts and ideas and opinions. I had to learn how to speak in a way that doesn't involve foul language to make my point. And so that was the little thing about me that I wanted to share. Old school was good, though. Old school parenting was good. I tell you what, if there was a problem, my dad was, he was such a loving and awesome man. But he was what I would call a great leader because when, when there was something wrong, he would say, we're going to solve it. And once the kid down the street was, was, was picking on me, and I was like, I was like in sixth grade. And I was, I was really, I was, I was scared. And the, I went home and told my dad, I said, dad, you know, I haven't said anything, but this kid's been picking on me and really bother me. He said, how bad is it? I said, it was so bad today that we're supposed to fight after school and I came home. I came home. I didn't, I didn't show up because all of his buddies were taught me and everything. I got scared. So my dad said, okay, so you, you're mailed. I'm like, yeah, I bailed. Okay. Here's what you're going to do. You're going to wait for this kid the first thing in the morning. I expect to see you after you get suspended from school. That's where I'm going to see you back after about an hour. Did I tell you how horrible you are? I will see you after you get suspended. I'm going to, I'm going to wait for you. I'm not going to go with you, but this is what's going to happen. And he coached me and he taught me if he says this, you do this. If he says this, you do this. And he said, son, once you, once you start hitting, don't stop. Don't give another inch because if they get up and get a second wind and they have all that adrenaline, you can lose all the momentum you had. And he had me so fired up. I got up and ate my Wheaties. I got all, I stretched out. I was ready. I went to the corner of the block and there that kid was with his buddies taught me and I said exactly what my dad told me what to say. And I will tell you, and I'm not a tough guy. I'm not trying to pretend a tough guy. I'm giving a little illustration of what my dad was like. And he, and I did everything that he told me. I was some sixth grade kid. I was like that kid on the Christmas story. You know, he had it with the bullies and I beat the living Tara, this kid and some cop drove by the cop jumps out of his car because they would patrol the, the schools and everything. He jumped out of his car, pulled me off, said, can't get off him. You're going to kill him. And there was a pile of snow there and the cop pulled me off and the kid lifted up and that whole pile of snow was red. And I didn't even know it was red. This kid was bleeding everywhere because I just remembered my dad telling me if, if you stop, you may have to start all over. And so that's the kind of dad I had and I miss him dearly. He's been gone quite a while. But anyways, I hope that, hope that's not boring. Just a little, you know, part of this is, is reaching out to the people and giving a little more of you, your personality and everything. That's why I don't have guests on. I love, I love being on other people's chats. I love being, being a guest, but I just feel that this is a nice way to get a, a live, not a video that could be edited by the way and an opportunity just to let everybody see me and I could read the comments. I've been reading the comments. I'm trying to look here, but also read the comments and what's your PX Storm special duty? I'd like to PX Storms. I never fell in love with them early on. They were always kind of bulky and I think the rotating barrels cool, but they, they were heavy. They came out with carry models eventually. I picked one up used. I have a type D which is double action only and it shoots great. It's got a real heavy trigger, but it shoots really well, extremely reliable, 17 round mags back when everything was 15 rounds. Okay. And so it, I like it, but I never fell in love with the PX form series. Cool, cool, uh, cool gun. And then we have Gary here that says, Hey, there friend, let me tell you a little something about that. Many years ago, I wanted to come up with an opening. I've tried to walk away from it. I wanted to do something different or just start the video. And I did that a couple of times, probably five years ago. I'm like, let me, let me, let me get away from this. And I had all these people who've been following me for years say, that's not it. It's not a TFG video. If you don't do that, we expect that. And when you do a banner, when you have a logo, when you have an opening, that's what people expect to see and hear on the video. And so I, I thought about it and said, yeah, you know, I originally started that because I wanted to be kind of uniform to set apart from other people. So they know they're getting a video from me and other people have their things. You know, the Limpris test is another one. I get a lot of feedback with the Limpris test. People say, you need to do a co-operation of all these videos and put them all together. Do you know how long that would take to go through all these reviews and figure out which ones I did a Limpris test on? I think like over 2,200 videos. Now, not all of them have it, but it would, it's just something that I was really never, never really interested in. Hey, thanks, Mad Dog. I appreciate that. Great, great comments. They're flying through, hard to read all at one occasion, but it's really cool. Glad to see everybody here. Looks like we have 93 people in the chat. I appreciate each and every one of them. If you weren't here earlier to hear this, I said the greatest compliment I could get is when people tell me that your followers, and I don't even like the way that sounds, your followers, it sounds kind of self-loathing. I don't want to sound that way, but in this case, I'm going to say it anyways. They say your followers are so loyal. We can see it. We can see it in the comments. And that's not just like, oh, you're great. I don't mind at all, one bit. Someone says, you are wrong, and this is why. That's how we learn. That is how we learn. And I might think you're wrong, and that's totally fine. It's the internet. That's how this thing works. But when I hear that, your followers are so loyal. I feel like that's the best compliment that I could receive, seriously, because they are, and you guys are, and I appreciate that. And I appreciate it very, very much. There would be no TFG without motivation. There would be none of this without feeling a duty to produce, because this stuff takes a lot of time. And I will tell you, I've been putting out a lot of content lately. I don't know if you've noticed. I've been putting out a lot of stuff, and I don't know how long. I did that during COVID, actually. I did it during COVID. I went 60 days with 62 videos, 60 days. That was so much work. And I defied all of Gretchen Whitmer's laws during COVID, by the way, every once. Hey, Fluffy, Mickey, I appreciate that. Good luck, and stay safe, and Chacho, I will. I appreciate that. If you weren't here, I'm going to be there for only one day at the show itself. I'm attending a Beretta event, the Sunday before, so I'm going to have nothing to do Monday. I'm going to go up. I stay away from the strip, by the way. I stay away from the strip, and I stay at this people call it a dumpy hotel, but they have a great bacon double cheeseburger with the crispy fries that are all salty. Love the food there. I actually like the room. I don't even think about it. I go to this place. It's called Mardi Gras, and it's a big place, but it's way off the strip, so I walk about a mile there. Hey, thanks Midwest. I appreciate that. Green just popped out at me, and I saw that. I really appreciate that, man. I need to pick up some more ammo before things get out of control, so thank you for that. Anyways, I stay away intentionally because I don't want to be... Well, when you get on the strip, it gets very expensive. I'm not sponsored. I pay my own way to go there, and that's what I've been doing for years, and so I'd stay at this place. It's very inexpensive, great food, good internet, and well, I wasn't even getting out here. Anyhow, it's about a mile walk, so I go there, and it's fine. I like it. It's cheap, though. It's cheap. Oh, on Monday, I have off. I don't have anything going on Monday, so I'm going to Weasel Lynn, one of the nearby hotels, and go in their fitness room and get a workout, because this is the place taken, does not have a fitness room. Good bacon double cheeseburgers, top shelf, but no fitness room, so I'll end up hitting the gym, getting a good workout in, going to the show, spend all day on Tuesday, fly back Wednesday morning. Plus, I don't like burying the channel with a bunch of shot show videos that are not real awesome. Not stating that my videos are awesome, but if I could say it this way, a little less decent. How about that? But we're at an hour or three, guys. I just want to say I appreciate you guys. I thank you. You guys give me motivation, seriously. I'm not saying this. These aren't code words that I wrote. You guys give me motivation when I see and hear people say that your followers are loyal, and then I put up a video and I'm like, I don't know. I put my work and energy into it, but I don't know how it's going to do, and I get the comments back and I read every one. I try to respond to as many as I can, and when I hear the viewers are loyal, and it's a great compliment, but then it actually happens when I'm feeling down and out, and I go out and read some of the comments and I said, man, these guys motivate me. These guys really inspire me to do as well as I possibly can do, and there are so many firearm-related channels that you guys could go watch, but you come back here, and that means a lot to me. So I'm going to close it there. I love you guys. I want to produce great stuff. I always take suggestions. I will listen. Some of them are impossible. Can you review a Corth Pistol? I wish, but it's not worth it. It's too much money, but the money is... Here's my man. Did I get that? Whoever put that first one in there, I don't mean to disrespect, but that's Lance. He's at everyone. I appreciate you, Lance. Thank you, but anyhow, it means a lot to me, and it's not the monetization. It's not the free guns that everybody thinks happens, and it does happen on occasion. I'm not going to lie. It does happen on occasion. Many times it's a discount, similar to a dealer's cost, and you actually lose money with the transfer and the ammo and everything else, but you can discount on a gun, so it's worth it. Plus, you get to share it, but my point in saying this is it makes it worth it, when I know that I've got a bunch of guys out there that actually think I'm a decent human being, which is pretty cool. Thanks, Radda. Stay humble at Shot Show. That's what I do. People go out, they do these things and everything, and that's fine. Maybe if I was 25, I would do that stuff. I'm not interested. I'm just not interested. I do my thing. I meet up with friends, which I really enjoy, and then I go back to the hotel, get myself a bacon double cheeseburger, a couple cold ones, and then get ready for the next day, but we'll see how it goes. Not spend a lot of time at the show, but I'm really interested what you guys have found out, what's out there that I'm not aware of, and let me know, and I will certainly try to find it. You should see the size of these showrooms. My goodness, they're huge, but I will try to find it and capture some on video if it's a super awesome product or firearm or whatever. Anyways, I'm going to close out, guys. Thanks so much for joining me. I'll pop back on after three weeks or so, and I'm hoping to see you guys again. You are amazing people. We're all TFG. We're all the firearm guy because without this community, this guy would not be here right now. God bless you all. Thanks for stopping by. You guys take care.