Welcome to the wide world of eSports, a show devoted to all things eSports. I'm your host, Catherine Norr. Today, we're celebrating the second year anniversary of the show. And my guests are Micah Maderos, owner of Empire Gaming and Nathaniel Davidson and Alex Martin, players for Empire Gaming. Our topic is Empire Gaming, building an eSports team. Welcome, guys. Thank you for allowing us. Micah, you're the person who started this all. Tell us about it. Yeah, sure, no problem. So Empire eSports is right now based only in Warzone. We are going to hopefully go to more titles later, but we started off with Warzone. Warzone is what I grew with, what I kind of started my competing in. And then once I decided, you know what, I'm getting a little older for competing, started to find some young talent, went out and found some talented individuals that are up and coming. Fantastic. So Nathaniel, what's your gamer tag? Reese WZ. All right. And where did that come from? Reese is my middle name. So just kind of easy. Okay. How about you, Alex? What's your gamer tag? My gamer tag is Astro Boy Hero. I'm really into music. And so I derived a little bit from it from a couple of artists that I liked. And I put Hero in it just because I just felt like anybody could be their own hero. And that was kind of what I wanted my message to be, that you could just be your own hero. Okay, fantastic. And of course, Micah, you have a gamer tag. What is it? I do. Mine is Hoi and Tunda. I actually made that when I was really young. I don't even remember. But I've been carrying it ever since, never changed it. So I've been Hoi and Tunda for a long time. So I think that that's kind of normal that people come up with their gamer tag when they're pretty young and then they stick with it. Nathaniel, how old were you when you created yours? I created that one about a year ago. My old ones I just couldn't use anymore. Okay. Really? How about you? I wasn't good for Klitsch. Right, right, right. How about you, Alex? I think I've had mine for a little bit, about two years. Oh, okay. Okay.  It's just Micah, who has the one since he was a kid. So what led you? What was your inspiration for putting this group together, Micah? Yeah, so, you know, when I was growing up, I used to watch a lot of CDL, so Professional Call of Duty. And I was a big fan of Optic Gaming. I watched them. I still watch them to today. And that was like my goal to, even when I was kind of feeling stressed or I needed a break. I've always just watched Optic Gaming things from their content to their competition. And, you know, at the time, I wanted to compete. You know, I had the dreams of like, okay, you know, one day I could join that org, one day I could be something with them. And then I slowly started to realize that I kind of wanted more of the ownership role. I kind of wanted more to create another Optic Gaming, if you will. And in Hawaii, Esports was never really super big. It's never really been a popular thing. I think a lot of people play video games casually. But as far as a professional Esports organization, it wasn't a thing. And I wanted to kind of be one of the first to take a Esports team that I created, and me being from Hawaii, and be able to make it something national or international. And that's kind of where everything began. It was that inspiration from watching Optic Gaming to today being able to have my own team, be fully licensed, and take this journey. Sure. And you guys are in different places in the country. Where are you today, Nathaniel? I'm in Kentucky, far away from the US. I'm in Nevada. So, Alex, how do three people, and I know you have more people on your team, how do you get together from all over the country? That's kind of just the tricky part. You kind of just got to see who's on, maybe even schedule it if we're even that on top of it. But you just kind of got to go with the flow. Whoever's on, you just kind of grab and go. So, Nathaniel, have you ever met any of the guys on the team in person? No, I have not. I've not met any of them. All right. But you know what? Nowadays, it seems like we have met people. Because I mean, even though actually Micah lives pretty much next door to my office, I feel like I've met him. Yeah, or neighbors, or neighbors. Right, exactly. Yeah, I guess Kaneo has a small place. Exactly. So, Micah, what games do you play nowadays? So, I still play Warzone. I'm not nearly as good as these guys. I try and hang with them. I'll hop on. And if any of these guys are playing, I've played a little bit with Astro. I haven't played Reese yet, but just watching them play and then getting in, my mind tells me yes, but my body says no. So, that's kind of what I do. I still try and play Warzone. I like to keep active in the Warzone scene. I like to watch a lot of competition now in the Warzone scene. If there's anything that I can take from it and share with these guys, then why not? And these guys are all really good at listening, hearing me out. If I do have suggestions, maybe play something a little different or go into the game a little bit different. These guys are all open years, so I try and play Warzone as much as I can still. How many people are on the Empire team? So, right now I'm currently at four. The reason I started with four is that Warzone at the most can go quads, which is a format team. So, I wanted to get four individuals who are passionate, who could put in the time and wanted to put in the time to grow. So, I found these four and there's a whole story to finding these four guys. It's not easy, but I was able to find these four guys and hoping to grow eventually. But right now, I want to stick with these four and put everything I can into these four guys. So, Nathaniel, for those people who have never played Warzone, can you explain it to us? Yeah, it's a battle royale game, kind of like a realistic version of Fortnite. That's what I tell people that have never played before with no building. It's just boots on the ground, realistic Fortnite in a way. And, Astro, what is your position with the team? As far as being a player? Yeah, like what is your maybe specialty strength or position? Mostly just like a running gunner. I'll be point man. I'll sniff them out for everybody. And how about you, Nathaniel? I don't even know. That's kind of a tough one to answer in Warzone. I'm pretty aggressive, so I like that teammate that can buy me back because I do a lot of dumb stuff. And I know your team is pretty new. So, Micah, have you played any competitions yet? Yeah, so we are new. We just started in July. So, really, not even a month yet, but we have had a few competitions. Everything is online now with COVID and everything. So, all of the competition is online. As far as bigger tournaments, a lot of those bigger tournaments that are online are slowly kind of dwindling. The State of Warzone right now isn't the best, but there's a lot of hosts that will run small tournaments. So, all these guys have participated in the smaller tournaments. We just had a bigger organization hold a tournament again. And Astro was able to play in that. And Nathaniel here has gone to a LAN. He's one of the few players to say that he has competed in a Warzone LAN and he actually took first place. So, he's the real deal. Fantastic. So, Nathaniel, what it was like to be in a LAN instead of playing remotely? It was different. Definitely different playing from your own setup because I also used to play it on that for a year and a half and then just randomly switching to somebody else's stuff. That was definitely different, but it was really fun. It was cool playing against the people that were right beside me. It was cool. Sure. So, Alex, do you mostly play at home or are you hoping to get out there in real life? Yeah, most definitely. I definitely want to be able to be part of a LAN. I'm on the West Coast. So, most of the LANs that have come up most recently have been on the East Coast, but I would love to go and just experience LAN, get the energy, maybe even have a crowd or whatever it looks like. But I definitely would love to be part of a LAN. Sure. So, Micah, what do you think about the Ping in Hawaii and how that impacts us here? Yeah, Ping has always been a problem. I hate to say it, but for Hawaii gamers, it'll always be difficult with the Ping issue.  If you move towards Texas, these guys are playing on less than 10. At minimum, if I'm playing on a West Coast server, I'm playing on 66 or 67. If I'm playing on an East Coast server, I'm playing at about 124. So, it's always a disadvantage, especially with Ping. You know, with Ping, guys who are closer and getting less Ping, they're seeing things a little bit faster. And although it's just really slight, it makes a big difference in a competitive game like Call of Duty. So, does Ping impact you at all, Nathaniel? Yeah, my Ping is not very good either. Because I'm kind of like, Turkey's kind of in the middle of the East. It's kind of like, it's the West of the East. It's kind of in the middle. So, I play on about 60 constantly. How about you, Alex? I have Fiverr, thank God. So, it's not too bad. I think my Ping can get as low, if I get a West Coast server and get as low as like 19. So, it's not too bad. Sure. So, you might be in the better situation. Yeah, just a little bit. I'm lucky. Yeah. Yeah. So, what's the future of Empire gaming, Micah? So, right now, we're really focused on the Warzone scene. There's a lot of things going on. Warzone 2 is coming out. A lot of people are putting their hopes into Warzone 2, saving the Warzone scene. When I say that, because everything is online, Warzone has a lot of problems with cheating, with hacking. So, with Warzone 2, we're hoping that anti-cheat will work. And then we're also hoping with COVID and protocols, we'll be able to get to LANs. LANs will be a big one. So, that's kind of my plan with Empire is to get these guys to LANs. Let them show their talent online where we don't have these hackers or these cheaters. We have these guys all playing there. We can see it firsthand. And I want to get these guys so that they can show their talent. And like I said, with Nathaniel, he's been there. So, he's already proved himself that, hey, I can play on a LAN. And I have no doubt that the other guys can as well. Astral is super talented. Some of our other guys, Draco, Johnny, they're all very talented Warzone players. So, to get all these guys out to a LAN will be my main priority for Empire. After that, I do want to expand the roster a little bit. I do want to pick up more Warzone players. And then I kind of want to head into Challengers, which is like the one division under being professional in the CDL, the Call of Duty League. So, that's where multiplayer Call of Duty. So, I kind of want to pick up a Challengers squad and have them play out. And then from there, maybe a content team and then slowly we'll work into other titles. I have been keeping my eye out on Rocket League, League of Legends. Those are the kind of bigger venues, bigger tournaments, but that's hopefully on the horizon. Sure. So, Nathaniel, how do you think gaming impacts you in other areas of your life? Well, I'm a super competitive person. I've played sports my whole life. I played football in college. So, I just had to have something that I could do that was competitive in my life. If I'm not competing, I don't know. I couldn't live without competing. I got to do something. Well, that's great for your teammates to know how competitive you are that you just want to win at no cost, right? Yes. I love winning. Fantastic. All right. So, how about you, Alex? Do you feel that gaming gives you skills for other areas in your life? Yeah, most definitely. I think that being a team and understanding even yourself, like being able to diagnose what you need to get better, a lot of self-reflection, I feel like comes with competitive gaming, being honest with yourself, and others. Even with your teammate having to be honest with other people is huge. Sure. Sure. That makes sense. I mean, communication with your team that would definitely help you in any kind of area of your life. Micah, what kind of skills do you think are transferable in gaming to other areas? I think one of the biggest ones, especially for me when I learned from gaming and these guys as well, is that social skills. More like how to talk to people, how to network. When you play this game and you play these tournaments, you're constantly joining lobbies with other people. You have to talk to these strangers who you've never met. And sometimes you have to discuss something that happened in the game. Hey, there's a hacker in that game. We've got to reset this or whatever it may be. And you're dealing with a lot of personalities. Sometimes you have people that aren't very nice. Sometimes you have people that don't want to do something. And being able to learn how to approach these people, how to talk to these people. You learn a lot of social skills, believe it or not, from gaming. So, Nathaniel, you're the competitive guy.  Or do you have particular skills that you're looking for in teammates? Yeah, I would say just I just want somebody that is as competitive as me and wants to win. If they want to win as bad as I do, then I'm perfectly fine. I'm playing with them. That sounds fantastic. So, have you guys, and I'll let whoever has had this experience kind of answer, have any of you had problems with like when you were younger with parents or relatives not appreciating your gaming? Have you guys want to take that one? I mean, yeah, I'll take it. I kind of grew up in a little bit more of a traditional household. They wanted me to get a job and just work. Construction is really what it was. I was always competitive. I just wanted to compete into something, whether it was sports when I was younger and Call of Duty just really had me at a young, young age and they just never understood like why would yell so loud. They never understood any of it. So, they would just always get on me and I'm like, well, it's like life or death right here. Like my ego is on the line guys, you don't get it. But no, I mean, they didn't really understand like why I was competing.   They kind of come around now and they've definitely become more accepting about all of it. But at first they really didn't get the young gamer in me. Anyone else want to tackle that question? No, I think he covered it. I think that's a lot of parents. Nowadays it's a little bit easier like Astra said to show them, you know, look at these people who are successful. But I mean, I mean, growing up was the same way. I used to have bad internet. So I'd have to wait into the middle of the night on a school night and plug in the internet. And it's like, what are you doing up? Why are you gaming? You know, it's not going to get you anywhere. And it's like, well, if you look at today's world, it will get you somewhere. Oh, fantastic. So Nathaniel, did COVID impact your gaming at all? Um, not really, because I still worked during the pandemic. So I really didn't didn't affect Mon. I'm still going to play the same amount. Sure. Sure. How about you, Micah? Oh, it was kind of the same for me. We had to work. So my gaming was still the same amount. But I think at the same time it opened the door for gaming. So I mean, I can appreciate it for that. Sure. Absolutely. And how about you, Alex? So originally, when the, when I first, the pandemic had first hit, I had two weeks off. And that was the first two weeks of Warzone. It definitely impacted into where I just, I got back into gaming because I had Fortnite was kind of falling off and I wasn't really gaming anymore at the time. So I think it affected it into the path where I am today. Okay. Sure. So Nathaniel, what do you think the biggest challenges for esports athletes are? Biggest challenge. Sleep, honestly. I'm not kidding.  It's hard to have a life outside of gaming and still play at the level that you want to play at. Like there's some weeks where I'll sleep five, six hours a week. Sure. Yeah, that's, that is pretty rough and you're trying to be healthy. So you can Exactly. Sharp, right? So, Alex, what do you think? What do you, Yeah, I think, I think that time management would just probably be the biggest thing.  And on top of that, especially in this kind of scene, you need to be able to like maybe do content creation or something like that. So there's a lot of different ways that just time management is probably the biggest key and all that is the biggest challenge. Well, you actually read my mind. The next question I had was content creation and streaming. So are you doing a lot of that, Alex? I'm a little bit, a little bit. I have the TikTok, I have the YouTube. I used to have an Instagram and all that stuff, but it's, it's, I think it's TikTok and YouTube mainly for me right now is just be a short form of content and then maybe a little bit more of a longer form.  Yep, I got a TikTok and stream. I do both. Sure.  I stopped. I used to stream a lot. I stopped. I try and go in these guys streams and support. I can kind of tell when they're going to be on. Well, Nathaniel lives on stream. So Nathaniel is always on. Nathaniel will stream and when he says he sees five to six hours a week, he's not joking. I see him at stream at 40 hours and, and just still going. Astro, I know he streams twice a day. I'll see him in the morning and at night for me. So I try and just support the guys in stream though. All right, fantastic. So how about practice? Are you guys able to practice together, Nathaniel? Kind of like he said, if we get on and one of us is on, we'll play. It's just, I mean, it's hard. Sure. Sure. So what advice would you give to young people who are interested in being players? How about you, Alex? I would just say, just have fun with it. You know, listen to yourself. You know what you need. I felt like when I was younger, I just kind of, if you're trying to take it seriously, I didn't take myself seriously. So my opponents that I surrounded myself was always just kind of my friends. I felt like the more when I took myself seriously and like, you know, the group you hang out with is who you're going to be. If you start hanging out with other people that want to be challengers, like you got to see yourself as those kind of people. Right. Right. So how about you, Nathaniel? What advice would you give? Kind of like he said, have fun, just be yourself. When you find a game that you love, then you'll know. Right. That makes sense. And Micah? I think the biggest advice, especially for people in Hawaii, I would say don't give up. It's going to get challenging, especially with, and I say especially Hawaii only because of what we deal with with ping issues and stuff like that. Don't give up. It'll be hard. I promise it'll be hard. But if you just put in the time and you put in the work, you'll get there. You'll get there for sure. So Micah, a little word about Hawaii. We've seen some changes lately. I mean, there was a e-sports tournament at Waipahu Library where the governor attended. That was a tournament between HPU and UH athletes. And you know, that made a lot of news. That was a couple of weeks ago. And we had Overwatch here at UH. Are you with those kind of things? Are you seeing their changes in Hawaii where it's getting a little bit bigger? I see those. I see a lot of the collegiate e-sports. I think that's a big help. It's really opening the door for e-sports competitions here in the islands, especially because of our ping issues. I think land tournaments will be our biggest positive here in Hawaii. We have Hawaii to offer. So a lot of people are going to want to play land tournaments here. And I think that will be our biggest opening into the e-sports scene, as far as getting there. I think it's a long road. One good example is in the war zone scene with online tournaments for a while, it was Hawaii lobbies. They used to call them Hawaii lobbies. And what that meant was when people had Hawaii lobbies or they played somebody from Hawaii, they believed that it was less skilled lobbies. And when I first got into the war zone scene, even these bigger tournament hosts were like, oh, no Hawaii hosts. That's not a thing. You can't play these Hawaii lobbies. And I had to actually teach them and tell them that there's no such thing. There's no servers in Hawaii. We don't host here. We connect to a West server. We connect to an East server. We don't connect to our own server. And it took a few competitions. It actually played with one of the tournament organizers. And just to show him that, hey, this is not a Hawaii lobby that you're thinking. I'm playing on a West Coast lobby right now. And that's your connection as well. And it worked. They removed the rule. Hawaii players can host now in war zone. So it was a big accomplishment. But I think that's just a small step. We got a lot of work to do to get lands here. Once we get out of COVID and the protocols, I think they'd be really good to try and get Call of Duty here and maybe a little bias because I'm a Call of Duty guy, but Call of Duty has a big scene and it's growing. And I think it'd be great for us to get a Call of Duty event here for sure. Sure. So Alex, have you been able to play with or against people from other countries as well as the U.S.? Oh yeah. A lot of Europe people are or wherever they're from in the EU. I played quite a bit of them. The Pings are, I think I get like 150 Pings when I'm over in their lobby. It's doable. It's not ideal. It's not my favorite. But yeah, I have. Sure. How about you, Nathaniel? Yeah. I've played against a lot of EU people too. It's not that bad for me. I play on 110 Pings when I'm on their lobbies. I'm more towards the east side. So it's not that bad, but I do like to host when EU are in my games. Sure. Absolutely. Well, you know what? I'm going to give Micah the last word in terms of telling us about where to find your team, Empire, and kind of where you're going in the near future. Okay, cool. Yeah. So right now we are on social media, so you can find us on Instagram. We don't use the Instagram too much, but we are on Instagram as Empire Gaming. If you go onto Twitter, that is our main form, twitter.com, and it is gaming underscore empire. And then if you go to YouTube, I host a podcast on YouTube for the empire team. It's called the Empress podcast. So on YouTube, if you go on to Empire Gaming on YouTube, we're also there. What was the other half about the question? Sorry. Oh, okay. So yeah, that's fine. And let me just ask each of you the next tournament that you're playing, and then we'll wrap it up. Nathaniel, what's your next tournament? I think there's one tomorrow. Am I correct on that? Yes. Yes, he's playing in the Empire tournament tomorrow. Okay. And you're playing to Alex? I'm actually not. I will actually be visiting one of your lovely islands in Hawaii. I will be actually, yeah, over there. I'm leaving tomorrow morning. Oh, fantastic. So you're getting on a plane? Yes, I will be on a plane. Well, Aloha. Aloha. Well, thank you, gentlemen. I really appreciate you being my guest today. Thank you for having us. Thank you for having us. Yes, thank you. All right. So thank you to our viewers for joining us today. See you in two weeks. Mahal. Thank you so much for watching Think Tech Hawaii. If you like what we do, please like us and click the subscribe button on YouTube and the follow button on Vimeo. You can also follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn, and donate to us at thinktechhawaii.com. Mahalo.


So I've just ridden the Felt AR on the Kona Ironman course, about 180 kilometers, and I thought I'd just give you my impressions a bit of a review. Now I haven't had the opportunity to do much research on this bike, I've only ridden it once and picked it up yesterday so I didn't even know what high bike I was getting. And the thing about Felt is they're not a very popular brand in Australia, I don't see many of them, I know their American company been around since 91 and I had a quick look at their website last night, they really focus on aerodynamics and the frame itself, it does, it really resembles a time trial bike, more so than a road bike in my opinion and I remember 10 years ago when I started to get into road cycling, I remember Felt's were, the road bikes were super aero back then, so I'm not sure if they were a pioneer in the aero road frame, but if you look at this frame right here, everything is pretty much aerodynamic, the front end, the forks, the down tube, super skinny, super aero, even the bottom bracket is really aero, seat tube aero, seat stay aero, I think this is a bit thicker here to maybe to help manage the shock and vibrations in the rear of the rider, and really the only parts of the frame that are non-aeros is seat stay, as you can see there, there's a bit of girth in there and also the top tube, the top tube kind of reminds me of the specialized tarmac top tube, but actually a bit thicker, now what I actually noticed on this bike when I first picked it up was the head tube looked quite sizable for a aero road bike and I looked up the stack and the head tube and compared it to the Venge and you've actually got about over 10, this is a 54 centimeter, over 10 mil more stack, which is from here to here up to here on the felt AR, which means a rider can get up a bit higher and I reckon from a riding experience, what I noted today was I felt definitely this bike fills the road bumps and vibrations, it's an aero road bike, really aero, in fact if anything this bike's number one trait would be, I definitely felt the way it cut through the wind was elite, this bike normally comes with some 50 mil carbon wheels, as you can see they've got some 30 mil alloy clinches on this and as a higher bike you wouldn't want to be giving people 50 mil carbon wheels riding around on these roads, so I think those in addition this would be a super aero proposition, but because it is so aero, the comfort factor, you're feeling the road, you're feeling the vibrations, but because you've got more stack you can get the rider considered a bit high and you can take the pressure off your neck and shoulders and I certainly felt that today, but I did feel the road shock and vibrations in the rear of the bike, which was going into my lower back, certainly a stiff bike, but the responsiveness I got out of the bottom bracket, a little disappointing. Lastly on the bits and pieces, my subscribers will know I typically like to talk more about the frame, Ultegra Mechanical, one of my favorite groups that you can't go wrong, super reliable, gear changes are perfect, it's very robust and also durable groupset as well and the cockpit area you can see you've got an eastern stem and an aero eastern handlebar here, so overall for the ride I did today in Kona, really nice sealed roads, relatively flat, this bike was perfect and I think for a rider that's looking for an aero road bike, but perhaps isn't you know super flexible, doesn't ride a lot, but wants to go pretty quick, wants to ride fast bunch rides with their mates, this would be a great bike. Quick little review here, thanks for watching and I'll catch you all in the next video.


Check out all these grand rapid Griffin's fans having a good time dancing in the crowd.  No, not what happened. Not at all what took place. For shame on these people. Having such a good time when their team is losing two nothing, three minutes to go in the third. That's one, okay. All right, mounting a comeback, only one more to go, 39 seconds, the shot, the pass, the goal, tied up. And they're excited as all get out. Look at this pass and then delivers and that's a tie game. And they're so excited that they're celebrating and cheering on their team by throwing pucks onto the ice, which isn't that cool. And there are tons and tons and tons of pucks being thrown onto the ice by the Griffin fans here. These can't be real pucks. Must be phone pucks. Yeah, and now correctly, correctly so, I believe the Griffin's are gonna be assessed at Delaya Game Penalty because their fans don't realize that you can't throw things on the ice. So they're being admonished right now, the Griffin fans by the public address announcer. He just mentioned it, Delaya Game Penalty. I don't know if that's been assessed or if that's a warning of sorts, but I mean, look, you're hampering your own team here if you're the Griffin fans. You scored a tie the game. You still have 26 seconds left. Presumably a huge burst of momentum comes from that goal. And now that is completely sapped away because these fans insist on throwing things onto the ice. We've seen it repeatedly. Repeatedly throwing things onto the ice. Now they go into overtime down a player on a kill. And I mean, what are you doing fans? Look at this guy. Trying to hold his stick takes himself out of the play. What are you doing?  There's only three of you. No need to hold in his stick. And then this guy takes the shot to the leg. So he's out of the play, which leaves the back door wide open and they score with ease. The Cleveland Barons score with ease. They win the game and they're out of there because they don't want to get pucks thrown at them. Nuh-uh. And the fans, what are you doing? For shame. And the fans deal the Griffin's a loss all on their own here in their own home building. Who will never know what could have happened as the monsters took advantage of the delay of game penalty due to fans throwing pucks onto the ice at the end of regulation after the Griffin's tied it to use that power play and win.


Hey, what's going on guys? Patriot Prime here once again with another impromptu live stream with the cronies I'm always with Bert the stormtrooper over here. We got K Special guest fire talks. What's up guys? Happy Friday We're going to We're pulling the DM coming up. Thank you here myself. It's so meta Best echo ever Okay, I'm breaking characters I'll mute myself It's almost like we don't know what we're doing it's not me not me They're muted it's not me. It's the new guy The new guy Well, nope, I'm muted. We'll sit there and I'll go ahead and say it now. We're waiting on Rodimus primal We're waiting on deluxe, but what's going on is just everything seemed to fall in place this week for TF con I was originally up in the air about going. I wasn't sure at all then I was talking the other day that You know Rodimus was going he said on the last live stream then Kato. He messaged me what the next day booked He's room then Let's turn that up. All right. This is your fault. It's not my fault. It is your fault Everybody keeps blaming everybody you messaged me and said man, I'm so tempted to go to TF con right I said I did but I didn't book a room you booked the damn room Then I wouldn't even yeah, okay It's your fault. He booked the room Which made me booked the room and I'm sitting there talking to Bert Bert didn't really want to go Because you know, he lives in Florida and TF cons in Baltimore But the God that smiled upon him as much a man would say He gets to go for a $12 ticket my plane tickets cost me $12 my the insurance cost me more My plane tickets only cost me $12 Insurance cost me more the insurance cost me $26 on a $12 ticket And then fire talks was going anyway because he only lives like a block away Why are we staying in hotels? I'm staying in a hotel. I don't want to drive back You've ever been up here and try to make that that drive says it's an hour It's like Tampa it's it takes an hour to get from Tampa to Tampa Yeah, that's right All right, put some perspective on it the traffic here gets so bad that I I work 13 miles from my house And if a drop of rain hits the ground it takes me 45 minutes to get home It's like I for in Orlando, it's been under construction since 1963 still I think the whole state of North Carolina is on We go down there In lower, Georgia also when I when I moved forward or 16 years ago I drove through construction on I 75 in lower, Georgia and Two years ago. I went up to Georgia and they were still in the construction same area There we go. Crimson Raptors gonna be there The Raptors come in at the end come to dig it He knew Toby told me to swing by and pick him up It's gonna be like a year to their smorgasbord apparently 3m is paying millions of dollars. Okay With the clouds separating the lightning both flat because we're going at the end Yeah, it's gonna be a blast. I'm just you know the funny thing is I'm gonna end up like I'm sure it'll be fun Right, but I'm gonna end up not paying attention to anything that's going on at the show and just Okay, I could take it I've been to plenty of cons. It's just it's just burnt the stormtrooper cosplay at that point I'll be honest when I went to the last one.   I Come from a long line of alcoholics. I'm good to go It's in the blood Whatever they have we start out with a beer or two and then it just depends Let's see We have absolutely nothing planned before tonight other than we all decided to go to TF con and we decided let's get together and Celebrate that and that's literally the topic tonight. That's it. There's no discussion. We guys want to ask questions Asked questions that kind of says there's somebody else gonna meet us John Doe 4880 How will we know what you have? Well, there's a side of his face. He's got a beard. He's gonna have a toe tag Crumble zone I don't have that finger so I can't really do anything John So we find a John Doe and I guess that's a cookie crumbles Well, I need to make a new that's just prime t-shirt my god dirt you need a haircut I'm gonna take you guys remember the real Ghostbusters cartoon Yes, great. Remember how I had the little writing that it said the real right above the logo I'm gonna have that that's just prime logo made with the real right on top of it Michael Michael Rogers two words a lot.  I'm just kind of walking around and you know Like I said, the main reason I'm going is right here. Yeah. Yeah, like, you know, I don't years And in fact, we're all gonna be able to meet. I don't know what the exclusives will be but I don't really I mean, I did like the last little exclusive that Batman one, but Yeah, I don't I unless they announced something really awesome. I don't particularly care about Hey, Dylan Dylan Macho man was here macho man remember his macho man Hell's watching man. Thank you Dylan Look, there's those things you found him. Remember awesome. That's the guy gave you the money. Go show you what you bought with the money he gave you You know Tommy's got the right idea bringing 500 bucks 25 for bots and 475 for food and drinks. Yeah Hey, Kato, have you seen you said you were talking about Batman? Did you see that new battle rang they got a Walmart exclusive? Yes, I did and I almost got it It's like the magnetic one. Yeah holds up magnetic. Yeah, the battle rang is awesome The stand the display stand is garbage. Well, I picked it up. I was like this thing doesn't feel like it weighs Anything it's it the battle rang is really cool The what it is is that most of that packaging is taken up by the display stand Which is super thin piece of plastic that will You could crumple it in one hand a buddy of mine is actually going to pour resin over it and try to make like a nice proper stand for it But the battering itself is really cool. It folds in four And then it's magnetic so you can take it by the wingtip and flick it and it opens up. I got it in my game room It's so cool See, well, I didn't know it was magnetic until I tried to pull one off the shelf and another one came with it There is there is my thing show Hang on we'll grab one just that little pop Oh, that's awesome I keep telling him when he's gonna do his review He wants to do review with To review a dipper. Is it a regular pop or is it got the spring and it's a bobblehead. Oh, it's not a bobble The dc ones aren't bobbleheads. It's just a marble and star wars Oh, yeah, that is really cheap Oh While you're getting this you're getting this to this Yeah, it looks like what the old happy mill vehicles were made out of remember when you would get like a happy mill boat Yeah, it was like a happy mill shape like a boat or a train. Is that plastic? Cool And it's sharp too Michael Rogers all of it all the cash I'm I'm I'm wasting all my cash to get there. I'm not gonna have anything to spam when I get there I'm a little worried about the exclusives after I saw what they're doing for the um, the customization class It's not even a transformer. It's a furai model Oh, really one of those flame toy models. Yeah I thought what it looks like it was when it was in Florida the one that canceled because I thought about signing up the The daughter that designed the logo for that But when I saw it was one of those model kits, I'm like, I've got those Yeah, I'm really curious what they'll do for exclusives. Who knows I mean What uh chosen prime toy dojo Uh, what TF source may have one that's I'm I'm excited. I am excited to meet some of the retailers. I want to You wanted to be here. Hey Jay Lee right there proves that the joker got away That might be a lost tail the joker got away We got dipper we got bill bow Yeah, we got dipper and he's with his pet chronic chronic the hemp hog It's patriot prime and pets.  He was like I haven't heard when is it and I was I told him And he said I'll let you know if I'm going I was like Bro, if I I said if I get a chance to shake hands or Uh stan bush. I'm going to lose my mind or what stan bush. You didn't say anything. You just made this motion. What are you going to do to stan? Okay, it's called a fist bump It's dap You know somebody else mentioned that uh in the comments that would be awesome. It'd be weird. It'd be awesome What well, I told you we're just going to find an empty table someone's going to get up to go to the bathroom We're just going to sit down Just sit down and everybody set their chairs facing up Tire talks can make us all little plaques and we'll just find some empty table in the lobby bar. Here we go. Oh, yeah I found it Oh, sweet. Oh, man, that looks good Oh I'm just going to put a little bit of red a little bit of blue good to go Yeah, see your white one Oh, I'm still working on yours Man, don't dare me. We'll just put our placards up at the bar We will put our placards up Stan bush I don't really think that was what I did but all right. That's what you do. That's what you did We're going to put our placards up on the bar just at the bar. We'll set them up right there. That's that's our uh, that's our table If they still have them and I can find them. I will bring one chip challenge chips for everybody in the group Yes And we can do a group one chip challenge altogether. I just don't know if I can make it That's okay.  Just yeah, this is really good. It's got it had kick. It was good Uh dog asked how long are we gonna be on? Yes, I I I saw it and I watched the movie and I saw the figures at Game stop last year while I was seeing jason actually I saw the figures at game stop And I was so tempted to buy them. I I love those turtle figures. Thanks. Delmas appreciate it Nice Delmas is awesome. Me and him are gonna do something live when I when I get back from work We're gonna Delmas is going we're gonna be able to meet this guy Oh, very cool Did you talk to deluxe we're gonna be on here probably about an hour guys Kato's got to go on a trip in the morning. Bert's got to go on a trip in the morning I don't know what we're gonna do He's got my joker roller my pink roller My blue roller with my blue roller with the Autobots and balloon with the Autobots and I put a toy hex on it He's got my award roller Of the golden the golden roller golden roller Is deluxe hopping on He's eating, but then he's gonna hop on after that As far as I know I know crimson raptors is going I don't know if dany or input or any of the other tells from teletran true or going I want to get together with dany and talk video games I want to see I I need to talk to her offline and see if we can do like a live stream like this And maybe get a third person in and just do like video games and arcade machines talk Hey j lead just just waited out man because where I'm at every store I go to there's five or six grimlocks Every store the only thing they have See I saw he went on hasbro pulse again today and sold out like that Is anybody you're gonna re-up their hasbro pulse No, I canceled mine or I didn't I'm gonna let it run out. I mean it's not worth 50. I didn't order enough stuff last year to I think the only Off the top of my head the only noticeable purchase that I can think of was the spendler one Even the stuff I ordered with the free shipping I would have got the only way it helped me I guess would be with the joe stuff that I ordered from there Because you had like one day early access or something to order But I mean it got here at the same time as everybody else's It seemed like when they first that first couple of weeks that website was live It was awesome and then they very quickly Just didn't offer anything to compete against anybody else Well, you get these generation selects figures that come out and pulse will announce them all of a sudden all these other websites got them too They may be three dollars more, but it's the same thing and then they sell out of stuff. They don't read I mean, I've been waiting for that. Um The star convoy the power of the primes Uh, I'm rich uh re re told in the star convoy I've been waiting for for a reassure that figure doesn't look like it's gonna happen They don't restock and then look at how many times they screwed patriot frame over this year. Oh my god, and that was all there Super exclusives it wouldn't get anywhere else.  They wouldn't even send me a replacement Yeah, the uh crimson raptor air The worst thing is that they and I understand they want to fill the retailers up and that's where all they're They're gonna make all their money at retailers anyway But she also wants to know what the name of your dog is He's seven months old. His name is dipper Why don't you matrix out of prime and that's it? Dipper he named it off the character from gravity falls And he's a baby puppy Any choose on everything He's a dog A laugh I told Jill in the other day because his his ears have fell down They're supposed to stick up but he's in he's teething right now So their ears flopped and I love pugs and I told him he looks like a pug now.  He hit. He's 100 subscribers, but he's yet to put up a new video every time I say I know I've been waiting Listen to these guys. They want to see new stuff Time for a new video man. You can't you can't leave your Right now after this you can't we can't leave your fans waiting Can't leave the fans waiting What's this? I've already told I've already told deluxe that if uh tf con gets canceled just switches flight and come Dipper says hello, hello dipper now burr what uh What's your time frame for your flight? I mean we're still seven months out, but we're all excited Yeah, so So originally I was going to take a flight thursday night And then I saw what the schedule was and and nothing is happening friday till like four or five p.m So there's zero pointing and getting there they early and paying for another night at the hotel So i'm just going to leave um friday morning. I'll probably be getting there somewhere around noon If I remember correctly somewhere between 11 and 12 and you guys are rooming together. Yep. Yep That's where the party's at. That's where the party's at We we know that military thing we'll come rolling in with coolers I got I got I can bring a I got a couple of army cars can bring one So if somebody needs to crash that's a thought too. So if we need somebody else to crash See last year that's where I met engineer hoist. I met him at tf con Captain kyle from toy spotlight. I don't know if you guys have watched that really good show. He's a really cool guy Oh, yeah Uh, engineer hoist or ghost prime if they're coming Ghost primes all the way from california. So I don't know if he'll make it or not I'm all the way in florida and i'm making it military. He might not have a 12-dollar fight flight, but It's shoving the dog of my mouth Clinical asked if we're gonna lot going to go live from tf con almost certainly more than likely. Yes.  So you're gonna have to watch them all at the same time We're we're gonna take down the the hotels and internet Yeah, we're gonna every time we're gonna say something very important But right before we get to the important thing switch to another channel. So you got to watch all of them Now keep hitting the right problem. What does he say he says he's talking about Custom made usb blaster Did I make a usb blaster? No They sold one No, the only cut um, I mean I've made a couple of customs Not many uh, and they're mostly primes. Uh, I did the alligator con optimus prime out of a g1 score cruncher I made a g2 go box Optimus prime out of one of the rid. I think it was rev And then I made a uh a lio convoy Out of um beast war second uh prowl the little lion dude And then I mean though I think those are the only three like complete custom figures that I've made All my other customs are like what you call light repaints, you know just touching up like They figure with black wheels. I'll paint the wheels so stuff like that. All of my animated dino bots I painted all the weapons up that kind of stuff my um, my rangel fallen devastator, um, I gave them actual dirt and and made them look worn out and that kind of stuff Uh like that question is for you Don't don't go with ebay He only gives him two front teeth. It looks like bug's bunny fire. Tox has got you hooked up. Yeah Dylan's throwing my 86 figures in the floor Three teeth Jay lee says don't have taken that apart either. It just clips in Patriot primal sounds like a good nickname for dipper Patriot primal dipstick Nick That dog is falling asleep already look at him That dog is either tired or high both Let's do the fire top I don't know. I don't have a patreon. I don't have a picture. I don't have uh channel members I have channel members So and I'll be honest with you. I haven't done for I don't know how to do anything special for the ones I already have So, yeah, I I don't I haven't done it because I don't know what to offer. I have I have literally nothing to offer I've done I'll be like uh the little little green man on toy story. I'll be eternally grateful. That's that's about it. Yeah, that's um Very grateful for the look at it.  I'm not gonna give him new arms because the ball joints are too Like that is too little to try to put Did you give them the pegs and the ports for uh to connect on the ground walk? No, not yet. Okay. This I I set these up just to see if I can get the ball joints to work Dude Fantastic Yeah, that's awesome. You know that we need to stand up straight that wheelie It's it's Perfectly understood and I don't think anybody expected that we need to transform It's perfectly expected That he's just gonna be an accessory But at least make him a mini figure that you can stand up next to grimlock You know Would you quit dropping my stuff? Just got real Does he still sit Engineer hoist is on here.  Oh, I just I wanted to he's up here about it He can't commit yet I think gherky asked if we have anything we're we got to make a list of at least one figure to hunt There you go There's no telling what's gonna be out between now and then that we're gonna be going. Okay. I want to get this I want to get that. I'll tell you what I'm always on the hunt for is g1 pretenders G1 pretenders and g1 headmasters. I'm always on the lookout for those Well, uh, patry primes had a tease already. He wants that. Uh, he wants to find a g1 overlord. Yeah I tell you what boys I shed a tear when I handed it back to the post office. I bet you did I I gotta be honest with you. I I I honest I'm gonna tell you what man. I don't know how you got through that review I would have been so scared to be messing with somebody else's figure Especially that one expensive. Yeah, I would have been so scared to break it and and I don't know how you did it I I don't think I could have done that That's insane It I was nervous the whole time I mean when you see me all you know, I was excited and smiling It was it was nervousness because right there during that review Was also the first time I messed with him So you're experiencing my first time experiencing overlord in that review because I didn't want to mess with him a lot Yeah, so here he is for the review I'm gonna look at him. I'm gonna take some pictures and he's going right in the box He's going back to the box still a good-looking figure It really reminded me of how awesome double evil looks double evil. Yeah phenomenal Yeah I'm biting my nails because uh, I'm I'm I just I just edited my um My uh, what's the call it the video that I got claimed on and uh, so I'm re-uploaded it and I'm It's saying processing will begin shortly. I'm like, oh boy I got claimed on the faceplate video by paramount. Um, yeah Yeah, I read the post but I was driving so What exactly did they claim you on they claimed me on the sector of the video that uses the live action films And I when I looked at it when I looked at the video in and of itself. There was no breaks between um video and And like still images So it was just like clip of movie clip of movie clip of movie clip of movie clip of movie clip of movie But it was kind of necessary because it was talking about the mouth the mouths of Of different transformers. It was talking about the faceplates and stuff like that. So um, I I needed to like Go in there and I just basically really uh, um Like cut like still images in places and put a lot of still images Uh in between the video clips so that you know because I I think that the system tagged it for Being so many video clips all at once and not having any one video clip Right, but the thing is is that it's from all five movies, right, you know what I mean? So like it's not like I'm being tagged on something specific and I know it's automated because it said it was Content ID picked up on it. So it tells me right But then it says oh manual reviewed and I said No one checks this stuff. It's all automated. It's all yeah If they do they're always going to side with a big name, right? And so I disputed it and and literally within 24 hours. They just kicked it back and said nope. Nope. Nope. It's not fair use And the lux is here where I made he click the wrong link Yeah So right now it's it's process. I'm gonna see I'll wait. I'll give it a few minutes and hopefully I'll make it go live. Maybe I don't know if I'm gonna go live tomorrow I want it and I'm halfway done with the trail breaker video too. So That's gonna be fine. I can did you just swap out the video for just a lot of still that just sits there for the whole time or No, no, no, I I I put a lot of still images in between video clips so When I the the original video that it's just it's from 11 minutes and 47 seconds to 12 minutes and 38 seconds of the video Because video is like 17 minutes long And it's just like that one section was completely live action The lux has appeared Hey there everybody we can start rolling this. Can you can you do picture in picture? Can I do picture in picture? Yeah What do you mean? So like like have you ever seen toy galaxy? Um, I don't know how he like I've seen Like he'll be he'll be here talking like this And then the cliff will appear here in a smaller window. You mean share screen Right in that way. It's still your video and the clip is just over here Oh, I see what you're saying. In other words, what you're saying is to share a little window right here showing the video While you're on channel Another thing if possible, I've seen a lot on the clip shows I watch is they'll take whatever clip and flip it I haven't figured out how to do that, but they'll flip the clip. So I've done registry Yeah, everybody welcome deluxe to the chat last time deluxe and I talked live He had no beer just to give you an idea how long White too you dip your chin and paint like I do don't you? Well, it's something else, but uh, there's kids around and um, you know Could be something else something else. I've heard some people say it's something else, but you know I love y'all's dog. Is it a frenchie? Was it a french bulldog or something? Tell deluxe about your dog Why did you cover my ears? Because we were fooling around if you don't hang with us you need to understand us That's our little french bulldog. Awesome. Well him and uh, they need to meet gator. He that's what I said He loves you when I'm saying she loves squeaky balls Yeah, how we all I can do that He's really tired right now You know I'll be right back guys Okay, every time I play one of my videos I get an advertisement from dr. Squatch.   I give her take her an hour I guess this one was my spirit animal Exactly we'll get my dogs.   Let me see what the will you grab one of those pops off the thing behind you? I want to see how we are.  See He licking my hand I don't know where he gets that southern drawl from. Oh, yeah, where'd you get the red hair from too though? I don't know I've asked questions He got you your life Yeah, okay Aaron I enjoyed the time that you sung for my video That was great We all thought you sang for my video Yeah, yeah, that's that's why it was for you. It was for uh, Three year anniversary you you you end the show. Oh, that's right. Yay I sang for him too, but it wasn't as impressive You as well are confirmed for tf con. You've got your room booked and ready to go Yeah, I uh got my room when they put them up, which uh was last year actually I think around november December or something like that Yeah, they uh Once I think once it's over they start working on the next one and they put up the hotel block They put up the hotel block about a month or something. So I I had to go back and look. I think I I got my room in like november. I think So I didn't book mine through the tf con website So i'm gonna end up being on like some completely other end of the hotel you want You Show everybody who you have That's the way it works She's like deal, I love to look at myself Okay What is that? Oh nice That thing as big as him godly that's not a pop. That's like a I don't know That's another child for you He could you pop at gangsta Jesus, I don't know that's big. I don't know. I've been looking.  I always I like to have one figure or something You know important things and superman has always been my favorite dc character So I I reached out to him and um, he said there's a new madefix coming out one with one right now Um, I may look into it But I want one like I have one Godzilla You know a couple things here and there and I like to have one of the superman figures as well I gotta show you this deluxe cool Remember the anime Look at that big old chest But check this out. He's got a little fan Okay, that's an eight out here Yeah, you hang him from a string.  Oh, I'll just fly right Yeah, oh, that's cool. That's pretty cool You turn it on the fan starts going he starts flying around in circles. Yeah, that's nato. Yeah, that's nato This is my old my 21 year old This was hers when she was a She had I don't know what happened to buzz but I kept this That's cool. I like that. That's neat. It's pretty awesome. He's got a big old chest. Yeah Yep, that big uh, bruce tim chest Awesome I have so enjoyed hbo max or lpc animated stuff that they do I gotta watch a one division. I got three episodes to watch and get done I might watch it now and I can binge it all So I found out this the other day my daughter told me I still got to watch the episode that came out today is the only episode But apparently we got it my wife and I got to go back and watch the whole thing now Because you're supposed to watch it with subtitles Because the subtitles on the show is not what the dialogue that you're hearing is The subtitles are one does internal monologue Is the whole thing so now we got to go back and watch a whole thing all over again with subtitles That's some pretty smart, um That's some pretty smart like what math writing Yeah, good writing or something they must have embedded in the subtitles so that the closed captioning would still work Yeah Okay, so they messed around with their own. Well, thank you for telling me that I would have never known about that Everybody's mind right now. I have I have not watched it and it Like first of all time frame and all that kind of fun stuff, but um, but also But also, um What's the call it uh, like I'm kind of bummed because like mandalorian is like you know Disney kind of ticked me off about that whole thing Well, now the if you do watch wind of vision, though, I'm going to tell you right now the first two three episodes are really slow It gets good on the fourth one and done. So the first especially the first two the third one is I was kind of expecting that to be weird and and and quirky and Well, yeah, I mean, it's weird quirky, but it's just kind of slow. It don't really get it don't really amp up until About the third or fourth episode the first two episodes you are wondering what the heck is going on and yeah Yeah, I love you for one to quit watching it when they first watched the first two episodes like what is this crap When you go back and once you get to the fourth episode and you understand what's happening You realize the things that happened in the first two episodes that were oh, yeah Yeah, definitely That's what that meant. They were telling me from the beginning Yeah, but I'm just saying the first two episodes are going to be really slow.  It's really I'm excited for uh The other stuff come low key, uh, you know captain america And saw me like this and used to see the look at her face right now Look at her face, yeah Real quick it's king inside clonus a good figure I hope so Yeah, that's car me She's in a position that she'd never not be here, but the cream rises Oh, yeah, my dad is What This place You get this type this quality entertainment That was all cocaine and steroids Loved it. I loved it, man When him and hogan when they got together. Oh my god That was just pure.  Oh my god, that's a crack fast That's just I don't know what they had. I don't think they had any blood running through their system It was just cocaine and steroids all it was Oh, but it's it's classic man. He's up in heaven dropping some elbows on everybody. It was quality entertainment. That's awesome That's cool. I never got to meet macho man. I've met hogan, but I mean I live like 30 minutes away from him Like everybody in my area has met hogan. So I've met hogan, but I never got to meet macho, man I've heard he's like an awesome dude to meet in person like You know if you actually get an opportunity to talk to him Yes, we're howling We're howling about us all meeting in person. That's going to be something else man.  What who is This is the guy This is the guy who let me overlord Oh, okay. Nice. Good. Good choices. You let him borrow overlord and you're wondering if we're high You're getting your decision now. Yeah My name is Dylan. He took the overlord in a box and entrusted it to the united states post office Post office to send it to west virginia Wow And back at the same time the new wrong turn movie comes out Oh, I remember that movie they have they made like my name is Dylan. Okay. No, it's not No, it's not Stop line My family's not starting to wonder what the hell is going on up here right now Fortunately, my family's not watching because we're not on my channel. So Well, there you go. These these group chats are the only thing my wife watches Any of my reviews any of that stuff My wife don't watch anything of mine either. My wife will turn her phone on and she'll watch Um, what she'll do is she'll she'll put it on and then turn the volume all the way down Then leave the phone sitting there to continue watching. She doesn't watch anything on my channel But she'll watch these group chats that we do I'll lurk in the background During these yeah during these live chats. I've seen kato's kato's been on When me and kato gone live, uh, she'll be in there and she'll be like, you know, telling me to Why are you hanging out? Why do you talk to this dude kato's like? I don't know man. He's all right. I guess But my wife never she never watches anything. She don't support me. So actually deluxe she said that she is Most excited to meet you Really?   She's not coming again. She's not coming with you this time either My wife would like to come if not for the two kids This is this is the second con in my entire life that I go to without my life We we always go to these shows together My brain is not invited Damn Well, there that is damn i'm bringing i'm bringing lisa But you know, she's she went with me to the one in chicago about Two or three years ago and uh, she stayed in the room most of time. She came down like one time with me So it's fine.  I think I can't remember what year but we met Now that's a con. That's a con. Yeah, but we went to We actually did a photo op with peter corpaldi um, oh nice and It was cosplaying a super girl. So um, so it was fun times I'm actually excited to wear a mask This time just because of the con smell. I'm not wearing a mask. I'm going Raw dog The world can get back to normal by then Yeah, me too.  They have they have breathing issues anyways And uh, I don't want to bring them anyway. So if we have to he's not coming You know, I got my optimist mask here. There you go. That's right You know, you can buy it. I do it at right store Bert, you look like you need to tell me what your safe word is If I wear my best great What is your safe word though? Really? No, what is banana? Nice banana split banana better be Puerto Rican Batman Once everybody's gonna be there, I'm I'm flying in uh thursday and flying out sunday I'm driving up friday, uh leaving sunday I worse we're we're going driving the entire way Me? Yeah. Yeah, it's only seven. It's only seven hours. Well that bad I think it's like three hours for me because I live in I can't drive that long anymore I learned that last year when I went up to West Virginia How long are you coming up Rodimus? I think I'm going thursday night okay, uh You know, so we're gonna go like thursday afternoon and then like, you know drive down there and then because I think the reason why is because it was cheaper for the for the hotel stay believe it or not to actually do an extra day Which makes no sense And um It's only like a couple hours drive like it's like I think it's like the same distance from my house to go to Baltimore as it is for oaks pennsylvania Which you know oaks pennsylvania is where retro con is and retro con. I can't that one I'm also eager to go to So I've always heard good things about a lot of So bad There's a podcast that I've been listening to for well a good 10 years now the mediocre show Those guys go to retro con every year Okay, I might have run into them. You know, I don't know I might have run into them So a lot of a lot of the roc the rim of collectors. There are another uh podcast everything enter the realm They got a lot of them go to the retro con is it's it's a good. They said it's really fun. It's bat dillon Batman you say Yeah, tf cons in october, I think somebody was asking what month it is clean and uh retro cons in in september Oh, is it okay? Nice and then uh The other the other con that like I think is also in october that that um, I I don't know if it's in october I believe It's in october. I'm not I don't I'm This year. I don't think I'm going to go to new york comic con because new york city is like No, uh, baltimore baltimore comic con is in october as well. I think it's like a week before The other one was uh too many games Which I don't know if I'm gonna end up going to that one There's nothing that's in the same convention hall is retro con so Now where's your con at? Rico red star said he met me At I got to watch the cybertronic spree cool Oaks, I think retro cons in philadelphia somewhere. Okay. Yeah Oaks, yeah, when I looked it up it said the philadelphia expo center. Yep. Yep. That's it But they call it the philadelphia, you know, the philadelphia expo center is because it's in very close vicinity of philly, so Yeah There you go. Rico's got it. Oh, so nobody wants to call it the oak center Just yeah, I know right If you guys have ever heard of valley torch Yeah, yeah, that's literally the next town over is oaks Oh, okay Like you have I actually I think when my my gps drove me there the first time I went there It drove me through valley forge And like I actually like pulled over and like I was sort of looking at the mountains. I was like, dude, this is awesome I can live off like an alley. That would be really cool. Yeah So it's just like a beautiful view So how many this is gonna be my seventh, uh, I think it's gonna be my sixth or seventh, uh, tf con I know patrick, you've been to one. I met you at one Kato, they'll be your first how you write us. Have you been to one or fire talks or a bird? It'll be my first I was at the tf con. It'll be my first tf con. I've been the bot. Oh, he's interested.  Yeah, he likes it I've never been to tf con. I've been I've been to bot con the one in orlando and that was it Which one in 2011 The one that we have in orlando that was the only one. Yeah, I went to well, I went to the one in 2010 I went to the one in orlando That's probably the one you say hi to me, man Yeah, yeah, I got you guys. I was around time.  I went to one of the tables at uh at retro con And like I was just like looking at some of the stuff at the table And I'm just like looking at and I thought it was cool and some of it like I thought a little too expensive and like Like the guy the vendor was like, dude, I love your channel and I'm like Yeah, I love it I'm just gonna make an I'm bobby skullface shirt He'll be there. He'll be there selling the stuff. But yeah, I mean I don't I don't usually when I walk when I used to I go through what tf con people know me from sharecast uncut But now a lot of people come up to me like man, I love your stuff or anything. It kind of feels good You know, I have I went to the new jersey comic con whatever one year and Cheerio Yeah, cheerio. Yeah, we've talked about that. We've we've talked about that earlier and um a kid just came up to me and said Deluxe I love your channel and he just walked away like he didn't want to talk about they just said I love your channel and just turned away. I was like, dude We could talk if you want to man. He's like no good. I'm like, all right. Well, thank you So what's the example of you on halloween? You're like, man Halloween is those were at the new house and this past halloween was the first time that we've actually like given You know been at home giving candy and whatnot. Yeah, and I had kids actually come up and recognize me from the channel and Oh, that's awesome. Yeah, that's really awesome. But now they know where you live. So Yeah Kind of weird too, though It was surreal for me because that was my first con and I think I had just hit like 2,000 subscribers and have people coming up to me. It was just weird. I wouldn't used to anything like that before Yeah, it is weird because we're just normal people. We're just normal people, you know, just like for yourself I'm completely. I can't wait to be around kato when we're gonna have to he's gonna have entourage around him And he's just going to be pimping. He's gonna have a Um, it'll be it'll be security My dad's my cameraman, so We might have some clear heels around here somewhere Uh, who's the shortest guy fired your five five fire talk. Oh, it's me. I'm five four I'm sure they're nervous. I might just have you deluxe by like this much No matter how tall any of us think we are we are all gonna look tiny standing next to pager bro That's true.  I just checked in Uh, and he's one of the guys I was just talking about he's on the mediocre show and he goes to the uh that the retricon show Hey lazy We don't want to go so bad I want to respond to I want to respond to nick and everything. I know you just said you want to get bobby Skullface on stit rip if you want to go back I've had him on around 30 if you want to go back a little late You can check that out and I was on the he was uh A good friend of mine. We were actually on a share cast uncut together And uh, so yeah, I've had him on a couple of times for around 30. So if you want to go check it out, you know Go check it out. Curtis. Curtis. I asked I'll comment. Yeah, Curtis. Who's gonna roll around? Oh, that's me. I'm gonna run a scooter.  I'm just hopping around the luxe is back I'll tell you Yeah I'm six two And you're what six four. Yep, right?  I met um, what's his name? Uh bobby skull face. I met him at new jersey collectors convention Uh, he and I literally talked for an hour about rc Oh, yeah, cool. How about this from bobby's tf gone? Hold on a second. I need to show you guys something You guys see that? Oh Are you sure there by that? What do you say bar? Did you guys see that post uh the rc post floating around facebook today? No, it's the it's the masterpiece rc and it's like a comic strip Oh, because it wasn't in the street and she opens up her chest and goes there's nothing down here That's what he got by the circle there so people can put their own Plink there if they wanted Yeah, you know, I'm not designing those.  Nope Don't do it Did you guys pick up the one for the fans toys? Did anybody pick up the uh the chest accessories for uh fans toys? Uh, I never did the little squishies M3 did No, what's it like being on youtube? Oh, what like this? Yeah Relax, what you like being on youtube is like this. Just don't get don't get uh Don't get overwhelmed by people. Uh, is engineer hoist having a stroke Not only have I seen it. I've applied them and reviewed it.  It's exactly like this Everybody talking over each other.  Yeah, I never say that to anybody I'm a youtuber. I say like I have a youtube channel. I don't think I've ever said.  I already told kato if we if uh Tia kahn didn't work out. I'm going out to us. I'll uh where he lives I don't want to say where he lives, but I'm I'm going out to where he lives. Hey, good kato. We're gonna go Don't hang out. Oh digato. Uh asked about the cyclonus stickers. I don't know Most of the time I find out about their new stickers when everybody else does I don't think cyclonus needs stickers. It doesn't even look so good There are earth rise seeker the cone heads those decals are processing now So those will be out soon. I still haven't put my stickers on Sky warp and thundercracker, you know This guy He needs a handle set because he needs the red on the sides You know He needs some work He needs some work Actually, you know what I would like for earth rise uh megatron. I want a better head Like I want sculpt on this Like I I'm like I want more one that's a little bit more cartoon accurate. I don't have that one. I've got the green one Yeah I want a better megatron I want a garden megatron. I can't believe I bought five. I think I have five or six of that mold I can't believe I have that many of that mold. Oh at the sea Yeah, four. I have four of that mold. I think I only bought half of them Okay, that would be two that would be two mark. Good job first siege and I have earth rise and I didn't buy the earth rise so Yeah, that's what I didn't I I bought two and I was gifted to Now the netflix one has a really good paint. It's got a nice paint job to it. Yes You ever saw here the netflix was the best You know, I have yet to see a netflix sound wave on shelf anymore. I I've never saw that figure on shelves I saw prime a lot of people I never saw prime. I saw sound wave a lot of people are having problems in Tampa It's a second time I ever saw prime Megatron. Hey, uh, gabatron a six. I do not have the combiner words come trying. I have uh, the leader, uh I bought one he they bought him or they made him separately. I bought him but I did not buy the uh I'm not a big fan of the combiner wars T-formers news I found these guys today I never saw I've never seen on either fire tops. I've yet to see the headmasters the new headmaster stuff I guess I don't know why she doesn't just spend the night there. I don't know Whatever she said she's on her way home. She texted me about 10 minutes ago to say she'll be leaving soon Well, I don't want to hear any shit Hey, hey now Yeah, I saw the I saw the sound wave one time I never saw the problem this video is now not for kids No By this day a lot of the netflix I saw a lot of the deluxe is like a Red alert, uh, will jack I saw a lot of those Those are collecting dust in my Walmart RC wheel jack and red alert are collecting dust Impact the impactor was part of that way too Actor and I kind of want him but he's not like my my shelves are bare and uh, like PR after dark Impactor a hardly knower later on Impactor a hardly knower Our target is pretty it's getting a little better now We're getting a lot of kingdom stuff has been shown up the 86 movie stuff has been showing up Has been a minutes has been to walmart But yeah, like I said, I thought so far till I've yet to see the headmasters even waiting one You know, I went because I went to walmart this morning not because I wasn't looking for toys I went there to look for the hedgehog supplier And I just happened to walk by and see the the three headmaster on the shelf by Kanye reviews Kanye reviews And yeah, yeah, razzelle razzle razziel Okay, I said razzle Really good razzle everyone go check out his channel. He does awesome like He does uh bios and docs on voice actors. I thought you were gonna check my articles Oh Brian's not here today. Yeah, that's right Somebody barked that's differ. We locked him up. Okay. Let him out. Yeah, no, why are you saying now? Is he is he said Because mentioning the answer the bad word your bedroom is bedtime. Wow. He just said your bedroom right across the room. Wow I don't see if can take care of you have a wonderful night. Thank you for dropping by It's on my channel, but thanks for stopping by Everybody's checking out Got this bad today. Why are you even saying I'm sad? Sad store and I'm staying storm. That's good. What I get I didn't get anything today Uh, patriot prime of our couple things. I got that uh fans hobby armada prom coming uh tomorrow. I think oh my god I want that so bad. It's very tempting I got him and I got um, uh purple potato And now I can't buy anything until October now Just because of that I'm on a seven month hiatus Oh Yeah, I tell y'all man my wife sent me a text a text message today and like grimlock was the only grimlock cheetor and Optimus primal were at target and I'm like, ah We just paid rent. We just paid bills Uh, that'll be there. He'll be around Definitely get primal primal's really good. He's he's one of them. He's a good one on that one I'm hoping that the netflix, uh, Optimus primal is a little bit inaccurate. Yeah, I'm sure it will be. I'm sure they'll do the megatron too as well They're gonna make me buy another primal again, aren't they? Yeah, Mark had already turned him into a silverback. He customized one.  Did you guys see that it looked so good? I know he's amazing that He does a great job that dry brush they did on the fur looked amazing. It looks so good. Wow When I when I saw a picture of it, I thought it was a third party figure and then I realized it was Thanks Princeton It's pronounced influencer. Thank you. Yeah influence Crimson. That's how you lay down your the law as a dad That might be for kata, but for bertha stormtroopers to pronounce superstar There you go. Trans air in 38. Does anybody have the x-men transformers crossover? I don't have never touched that thing again ever. Yeah, I don't have expanse, but I'm not wearing any Hey I passed on that one. I mean, I the the girl's personal one didn't really do it for me I left the back to the future one was good, but I didn't do I I have never seen him This is the most annoying thing about this figure Other than trying to get these legs to work and without cracking them off There's no reason for that. I'm a little teapot. There is no reason for that pin other than it used to be the uh star Yeah, there's a giant pin right here. That is the only thing that connects the top and bottom and it just Yeah, yeah, the studio series jeff iran. Yeah. Oh, I'm interested in that figure And it's I'm a little teapot sure The images when I saw expanse was like the wolverine the cyclops and the siloq blast effects Yeah, these blast effects work, but the the the blast effect that looks like it should Like It doesn't attach to him you put it around their waist Rico, did you not watch our whole review at the very end? I showed how it's done Yes, it came off. Oh, yeah You have to watch all the way to the end. There was a a record scratch and more All of that at the last minute Yeah, I've been itching to do that to mine all day I think Every time I try to type de gato it can't be auto-correcting to deluxe gato.  Yeah, the uh the knees are I don't know if yeah, it's kind of hard to see No blurry, but it's fine our orange And you can kind of see they blend in microphone You are deluxe to gato Yeah, see it Thank you for your I got a good red on this part here like that's good. Yeah Thank you.    Uh, rodamus looks good. How long I promise what else you got left to do on it You know, I thought that comment was going to go in a completely different direction You all do hard work for burt and then the last line. I thought I was gonna go to the but first sucks I have to check the post office. Yeah, definitely. Um, I also painted the roof of the car If you can see it I don't understand why in the world they won't do that in orange that there's there was yeah Um, and also right now the arms are still apart because I had painted the elbows So the same color red that you see there and the same color red here Um, let me go get the parts real quick And say don't show for will Got stress marks on the uh on the blade attachment No, I haven't The blade attachment I put it on this back and it started getting stretch marks. So I uh, I flipped it over stretch marks And then stress marks always this stretch marks. I put it on You can see on the inside you can kind of still see some of the yellow on the inside a little bit Um, oh, yeah, yeah, it's all yellow plastic But I painted it and I now I put the mod podge on there. So it won't scratch off The same thing on the elbows on the arms So like there's hot rods on And you can see the the red So it matches the plastic pretty well So you guys I'm gonna show you mine too.  I took it away. Hold on deluxe. We'll get to you I'm just playing I don't What'd you do that's just from putting it on here. That's it. No, what'd you do, man? Bart, would you do higher talks? You cannot cut pizza with this Yeah, you're not supposed to be doing it like that, man Why are you getting stress marks on there, man? Oh, you're touching it back there. Oh Is it really that's where it's supposed to go A big backpack, man, you know how you got the the tabs on the guns. Yeah, that's for the two slots on the But if you haven't figured that out don't start doing it now because you see how mine is all uh, stressed mark now Yeah, I'm not gonna do that And here's the back of the legs for uh, I don't know. It's kind of hard to see Uh, the back of the legs on rc are filled in You show me that on real 30. I thought that looks really good. It's hard. It was hard to get them in Yeah, they were really tight If you need to like scrape some of them down to smooth them out a little bit Because they were like the parts like right here Let's stick them out a little bit But when I when I put mine in I put I took um I had to file them down just a bit because no matter what size I made them If they were going to be tight enough to fill in the hole They had to the overextrusion messed them up a little bit and when I file them down I would take a pair of needle nose pliers and put rubber over the tips and then I used those to press them into place Uh, yeah, it was a tightened up her legs too I better do For her back Hey Pamela, I do like the kingdom class rat trap. I think it's a really great figure And other thing is is that your um, your your hoverboard doesn't work with her anymore If you know why Oh Are you cut her feet off? I cut her feet off. Yeah The only thing I don't like about rat trap is the shoulders don't pin don't they don't tab in they're lucid goosey They don't let they just you know just go up against there. They drop down from transformation Yeah, so other than that uh, rat trap is a really great figure. I think for what it is. Yeah, it's awesome Yeah, yeah, I like I like mine in pink. So it looks like Laces who doesn't like there's in pink Come on now Look at my hot rod the other day and I was kind of surprised that they included his pistols because in the movie He never used pistols. He always used his wrist blasters Yeah, I think they were both masterpiece with him well, it's it was it was weird because Like a lot of people have complained that grimlock didn't come with a sword. Well, grimlock didn't have a sword in the movie Right, so that that you know that that line of thinking goes studio series is going for the look in the movie He didn't have a certain movie. He doesn't come with a sword in the figure He didn't use a sword in the cartoon a lot either It comes with two guns that he didn't use in the movie So In the cartoon It rodimus or hot rod did use one of the guns in the cartoon not in the movie though No, right. You're right. Not a movie. But that's that's that's what i'm saying is the line of thinking Was when grimlock didn't come with a sword was well grimlock didn't use a sword in the movie So he doesn't the the movie figure doesn't come with one Right, but then hot rod comes with two guns that he didn't use in the movie either He's got cannons for the for the arms Did grimlock use the blaster was it when he used it on unicron or did he ever use the blaster in the movie either? Yeah, yeah, he he was carrying his blaster. Yeah When they're flying around the around unicron when they're flying I think when he when there were bottom Okay, but I don't think he ever used it. I think they just transformed and started tail whipping In hot rod If you remember grimlock didn't have that nice translucent cover on his plate on his that is true That is true too. Yeah When I did my review of grimlock, I didn't I didn't even know I didn't even mention it until somebody, you know I think I watched kato everything. I watched them. I was like now I just can't even see it and then grimlock or donobot Grimlock our beast wars donobot is the same way as well I'm just like you don't even see it now. Oh the orange on his legs Well, no the teeth.  Yeah, they just clip on you don't have to pull the head apart and it's three teeth And it goes in how well did they stay? Oh, I stay perfect once they go in they're good Is it for the top is just for the top ones? Okay, I can't do the bottoms I I've tried to try the dynamite dentist if I had a resin printer I could probably do the bottom but like trying to do that with a normal printer. It's just not working Grimlock shot blast from his hands against unicron I don't remember that what like a go-by. I thought he was holding I thought he was holding his blaster when he's when they're all flying around in robot mode Transformers the movie tonight That's four. That's right. He was he was firing his blaster and then He came around and then said me grimlock your butt and then transformed in a robot mode. That's right. Yeah That's a lot Yeah, I knew he was carrying the gun. I knew he was carrying his glove. Oh, let's walk. Heck. Yeah, man went Virginia fireball This is fire drive repainted into fireball nice.  Let me tell you a bit Getting in there had a bit of pain. Oh, yeah, I had to use a toothpick That's how I painted when so when when I sent patriot prime the american flag the one that you have Um, I went and painted one for him and that's what I used to paint it with the whole thing Because the stars are so small because when I made the american flag I used the um the official It's not a diagram. I don't know what you call it There's an there's an actual official like this should be this far from this point and everything else So when I painted when I printed it, it's the exact size and dimensions of american flag Yeah, I had to ink it with the tip of any uh, you could you could tell mine is not perfect Oh mine wasn't yeah But from a distance Yeah, you know, and that's the whole point So I take those I always take I always took the butt tires off of the earth rise from It looks better Yeah, but with a butt tire.  I just took them off. I just took them off anyways I think I lost them too. So that's really crappy of me though. I'll find them later Put them in the trailer Yeah Well, as you said fire trucks, you're gonna start using trailers as a form of measurement now I had five of them I was going overlord. I thought for sure. I had my tape measure on my desk and I didn't but there's prime trailers are easy reach I'll take one of those trailers off your hand. I have 15 matrixes. I know at least I had 15 I'm just laying around those little matrixes. I have all those They come with everything Past my bedtime. I have a very Very Bob art TF con in seven months we may talk about it a little bit It might come up. Yeah, I'll say it earlier. We're talking about it like it was next week.  It's reasons to be around. We'll definitely talk about probably around september You know early october. We'll we'll definitely Yeah, start ramping up for it. If you think this is the last time you're gonna hear of it. Oh, yeah All right, guys, I gotta get out of here. I gotta get a bed. I gotta Take care man I'm supposed to be in Um, it's I just supposed to be out every time I see what we out. Let's be out I don't know every time I see stockings. We got it out like this. Okay. So we'll we'll do it that way If I'm wrong, I'm sure I'm sure that the hardcore YouTube would never let us know. I know YouTube would never correct us Yeah, my uh video just got demonetized, you know copyright All right guys. See you. Bye.  He is bored to death. He will not go play in his room That's why you elbow him, man. You gotta drop the bows Trans the night. So I'm in charge of watching him anyway. Oh, okay an hour and I know it's driving me nuts I didn't know about that when I planned this Well, hey, uh, thank you for having on it was it was an honor. I appreciate it.  So Um, if you guys want to watch it once it's it goes back up You know, I'm gonna take the one that's currently on there and unlist it for a few you know for a little bit and then You make sure I copy all the files and stuff or all the information over And then make it just go up And I haven't had a uh copyright thing yet. So it's a good thing I'll be at my desk for the next several hours working on the Captain hierarchy shield. So Dino dancers I got I got an evolution of inferno coming up tonight. So, um That's what I got I still got to get this guy reviewed And I want it. I got the toy hex decal upgrade set for generation one scorpionock. So i'm looking forward to getting that All right, well, we have a drill breaker coming soon. Yeah Inspired me. I gotta get to work on mine I actually painted in the the shoulder cannon online Oh, that looks good So much better. Yeah Okay, you know very light color but So All right guys the awkward uh End of session or whatever See everybody just cuts out. Well, thank you for hopping back on you and I definitely need to chat again Like I said, I talked to you your beard was as big as mine. Yeah, man He's on man. Just have me on. I'll be around. Awesome. Sounds great. Mike. Thanks for hopping in the last minute Of course always. Thank you very much And everyone watching make sure you subscribe to everybody. I think kato you have a goal of 5 000 by tfcon I'm going bigger going to tfcon. That's it. There you go My goal 100 by tfcon from my youtube channel Oh Just start rolling. I'm hoping for 5 000 by tfcon as well All right, Dylan wants to say something. He wants to promote his channel real fast My name is Dylan and my youtube channels My youtube channel's name is Dylan's toy box and I would really like you to subscribe to my channel Yeah, all right. All right. I think we're all subscribed. I think you have Putting out content again Yeah, you gotta put out content. You gotta get us to keep us entertained I gotta see a superman review bud. Yeah You gotta do that superman All right, well, we are going to end it now guys. Thank Everyone so much you guys in the chat. Thank you so much. We missed your question. Sorry. You saw utter chaos Preview of the entire weekend of tfcon. Yes All right, you guys have a good weekend We're going out tomorrow night because our state finally opened 100 percent. Yay. Oh good About time But at least the state's open Y'all take care. You can borrow mine All right guys have a good night Patriot prime signing out That's kind of There you go. I think you're right Don't forget to what What is it? Don't forget. Yeah, like share to subscribe and Stunning out All right, whatever next time. All right, all our one All my birthday said to number 14th Everybody's like June keats it is the 16th So good Do I just leave studio or you're gonna kick me out