and may not be suitable for children under 13 years of age viewer discretion is advised hey what's going on guys pager prime here once again with another episode of the sitrep and i am crossing the northern border tonight to interview this gentleman right here brian from t-fan page 101 darth brian how are you doing tonight hi i had a little skit going but then the video played so i had to pause it yeah well and i apologize i have technical difficulties i think i've mentioned over and over again that my phone is my webcam so yeah i know so i'm talking to brian and i reach over to adjust my settings and it hits something and just shuts down everything it is what it is hey my buddy brett falls is in the chat tonight hello brett brett and i worked together years and years ago welcome to the live stream uh i there's no telling what'll happen in one of these these trains derail often and i do have bad news for everybody i did get copyright struck for some of my dancing burt thank you so we lost uh sexy and i know it burt we lost dancing queen burt and touched myself burt so sorry but i got no stuff oh no not the last one that you said oh i know all right well for those of you who do not know how the set rep works is i have 10 questions for my guest five questions regarding him as a transformer collector collector and five questions regarding him as a youtuber i have not been drinking tonight i swear just tea so first of all this is pepsi i'm sure of it hey pepsi products rock man well brian first things first why don't you tell my people a little bit about you hi i'm brian i'm definitely not gonna put out my american flag and and stuff that and make it weird instead of god connect you like that's what where's my my flag's flying back here right there yeah a little custom guy that i did painted him up and getting the colors i did that today add some neons and snow on the boots that's awesome so uh hey i'm brian i make content on youtube uh that's unfortunate uh so yeah i i don't know i just talk about transformers because i like transformers if you can figure that out so yeah that's just just one of them things you have plastic crack and brian just a question i have for you just on my thought of earlier how long have you been doing youtube you've been at this for a while haven't you it's gonna be 10 and a half years now wow all right imma memo says cat farted says this stream starting off normal how could you say something so controversial yet so true at the same time can there are canadian canadians prime canadians prime canadier reviewer there's lark and gretan is all the way from hawaii people from all over the place plastic robots just bond the world together we need more people with plastic robots you say plastic robots yet one of these is a plastic robot the other two are cardboard and paper okay robots robots yeah i mean can they technically be well i guess nintendo did the cardboard robot thing so i guess yeah it'll work it'll work smells like peas oh my god all right well question number one let's get right to it is what is the appeal of transformers for you there are action figures that could turn into a car and i go boom uh well what appeals to me is if i have to narrow down yeah if i have to narrow it down uh well with most action figures in marvel and stuff like that i i could never really get into them it's not that i hate the marvel stuff or anything i mean i just saw the recent what if i'm trying to watch uh shang chi so i don't know when i'm gonna see that but um i i think what the figures themselves it just now i'm not really an expert especially with stars and marvel and whatever but it just kind of feels like if you buy one iron man figure you have so many other iron man figures already with transformers they try to engineer different things for different figures so like you know the earth rise opt in this prime is like the prime you know the pun not intended to opt in this prime now but think about how many different versions we've had of him you know we got the robots in disguise which is 20 years now by the way we have this is white right here we have the cybertron design armada you know we have one that's a monkey now so and even with those toys you get different versions of those toys so and you know just the fact that they can convert into cars and trucks it just means that no matter which one you're getting you're getting a gimmick out of it you're getting something out of it it's not just the action figure it's not just opt in this prime it could be a truck it could transform in a different way it could be a fire truck could be a monkey you know that's kind of why i got out of star wars i mean i was huge into collecting star wars but like you said how many darth vaders can one get you get a darth vader with a closed fist a pointy finger is just and of course this made it with a pointy finger now yeah i mean he was exclusive oh i missed it but yeah because half of this wall it used to be half transformers half star wars now star wars is in one little corner over there and everything else is boxed up and in the closet i got a few on the floor that's it that's it for star wars except for lego star wars i've gotten a bin and then one set out now i found a vintage toy store about an hour from here yesterday we was out just riding around the jeep and if i was still collecting star wars this was a star wars haven they had like figures from the return the original return of the jedi figures the cases lego just great stuff uh-oh i don't mind right from elites reviews now elites real quick do you want a burt or you want one of my new ones he asked for he asked for a burt we'll give him a burt right off the bat we'll give him the original oh yes you haven't experienced these yet have you that's about the rodamus primal reaction all right that was a good i mean it's a perfect answer for while we were into transformers uh question number two aside from g1 which is always the number one answer what's your favorite transformers fiction i got a whole shelf just for prime all the whole middle section right there got a little bit of robot from the skies we kind of tied in and then we've got cyberverse in the back there just because i got little pieces of it that near to go somewhere but yeah prime all the way i i think the main reason why i like transformers prime is i know a lot of people don't like the stories is now uh more people are coming out for that are coming out saying that but sorry uh but uh i think the reason why i like it so much is with the designs you can go so many different ways and it could still fit into its own universe like you could go for a more g1 style or movie style or um or create something new with the characters in mind but there's a whole world to that element as well like you know it separates itself from g1 with its aesthetics but with the aesthetics in mind the the overall shape or the inspiration can go in many different ways and i like the dark tone i like the characters i like the voice acting i love knockout one of my favorite characters now so yeah that was a great series it was one i i've mentioned before is one that started out really kittified i i thought other when you see zombified cliff jumper getting ripped in half back when i saw that at first the first episodes were kind of kid friendly and then it didn't take long for it to realize who was actually watching it and like you said it got dark quick and i loved that but i did feel that the finale it was rushed a little bit but when they i think they did a made for i can't remember if it was a made for dvd movie they kind of wrapped it all up it was a protocol rising right so i got the whole series on blu-ray and man i loved it i watched it from start to finish if you got to be you can watch it i believe it's on the movie all right question number three do you have a favorite figure or grail in your collection this is one you would never get rid of say you have to sell your whole collection god forbid you have that one figure you're never gonna get rid of see here's the thing i don't know because i've got so many different figures i would love to get around for different reasons people have been asking me all week actually this question it's popped up multiple times i don't know why all of a sudden but but there's i don't think i can really pinpoint a figure i could just like picture a few that i'd be like yeah i really hope to keep that okay top five top five um probably my nightmare unicorn just because i have some pretty good stories with that like to keep that around uh let's see there might be a oh masterpiece shock wait i have to keep him obviously uh one of my mascot characters uh probably one of the cardboard figures and uh i don't know let's just say top three right now i can't okay there we go it's like saying what's your favorite child yeah exactly all right number four it's steven but don't tell him what figure is your white whale what is your most wanted figure why don't you don't have it in your collection yet every time i say this one people are surprised because i'm canadian and everyone got told oh yeah canada had them all over the place no they didn't uh the first edition optoms prime first edition g1 are you talking about the no the the prime first edition optoms prime when they were okay starting to come out with transformers prime yeah that's what i only but yeah we never at least i never saw that one here i've got the the regular release prime i've got the regular release prime shark to con megatron and dark megatron he's like a dark purple megatron yeah but yeah i never never found that thing uh except for that uh toy fair but i was kind of stupid to not buy it because it was 75 and i was thinking oh if i really want to pay that price then just when i'm like yeah i got more expensive case i'm gonna go after it they sold it that's always the case there's so many i've looked at and i thought i'm gonna get that and then it's like eh i'm not gonna get in and later on you realize what they go for now is just and it doesn't take long for a figure to shoot up now yeah i mean you look at like uh siege figures there's some of those that go for 200 plus dollars right now oh has that thing been out for a month 300 dollars yeah oh you missed it at target too bad you missed that target on the first day now you're probably never gonna find it yeah at least find you at the toy fair because uh there's been certain instances like uh the battle ops bumblebee or was it battle ops no battle blade bumblebee from hunt for the septicons i finally decided yeah i'm gonna go ahead and pick that up because usually at the toy fair they have you can find at least 10 of them right right at the floor and then the the day i decided to get it nobody sold it did someone just go and grab all of them that's like for tf con coming up i have nothing on a one list i'm just gonna go to something sparks my interest i'll probably pick it up though when i did my g1 ultramagnus review i found out i have um commemorative addition meant the fist for the interrobot i need to find the original g1 fists because i pieced him together over the years and that those fists right there came off of the uh later release that's always a rest release i need my g1 optimus fists i don't have any and yet i got the because i bought the optimus for 10 bucks i found an optimus prime cab and trailer at a flea market and they sold it to me for five dollars and i was amazed that the fists were still in it they put the fists in the cab you know when you fold down the front the gun was gone all the inside pieces to the trailer was gone oh i wouldn't complain at that point so i was so happy to find those fists and burnt the stormtrooper hooked me up with the gun all right fire tox has like a 3d printed version oh he's got quite a few i've got i've got a fire tox armory all right what is your favorite transformer character any fiction any media uh i have two that come to mind and it's shockwave and knockout shockwave because i can mostly do the voice and it's the only one i could really do i mean enough said knockout knockout was awesome yeah such a great carry that's what i liked about that show too kind of like beast wars the only picked a few figures to actually focus on in that way they were able to develop the characters exactly and that was that was sweet figures of the rest of the characters in saktikon you know now all right well now we're going to get into some youtube questions oh no yes what inspired you or what possessed you a grown man to do toy reviews uh actually before i answer that i just want to mention with fire tox i'm reviewing this guy next month and i've got everything filmed and ready and i saw that you were making the little tank thing that would attach to him like that is uh that's larkin lair larkin oh i need to re-edit that i think he's in here somewhere he was man i cannot believe larkin lair hello nanomat 08 i don't like that anyways um sorry what was the question again where are we all fire tox he's sorry about youtube youtube yes what possessed you a grown man to do toy reviews on youtube well mostly i was kid when i started youtube so i guess i just didn't get off from that um but uh yeah he wasn't old like me um i just thought you know why not you know i'm enjoying this why not continue it there's you know reviews i wanted to do toys i wanted to talk about and uh it shows i wanted to develop uh one show i wanted to develop it in this month soon so that's actually the main reason why i'm working on this in october or for october is because i've reviewed stuff for this month and so i'm just going ahead of the game so i can work on that but anyways um and i think that's what's good about transformers is i'm also into bionicle which is over there and some other things but uh they don't really keep as up to date as transformers so there's always generally something to talk about if not every day every week or every month there's something to discuss so there's something to keep on your toes and and you know do content about because i do news videos whenever they feel like i feel like talking about it you know i won't talk about every news source or whatever but if it's something i find kind of neat 199 from alice reviews if it's something that i find kind of neat i will talk about you might like it he knows i'm gonna do something i'm gonna give a let's do this yeah you don't know what's gonna happen on this channel next question all right yes we're worried oh oh are yours i mean i know you do bionicles i know you do transformers along with the new do you you cover a lot of different things too don't you i mean you do like other random figures uh well it might not be a ton like i'm not in the he-man or uh gi joe but uh help and he just got some of these recently if i can find one there we go i'm into hot wheels got a whole lot of those i'm like 1700 hot wheels so yeah i've got so many halo sets i've got a lot of sets uh probably about 250 sets but the many figures themselves i'm probably closing into a thousand i well i have to check again but uh yeah and then transformers i got a thousand so you know i'll do on my told me dune channel i've got halo reviews and i'm trying to work on bionicle stuff but i don't know it's just do they even make bionicles anymore no that's why just kind of stopped is because i'm still buying bionicle if anyone shows me a bionicle i'm going to be happy about it no matter what but you know they they don't really do anything relevant anymore uh except for the guy who created it constantly teases people and it's just annoying at this point but um for halo you know they're constantly making new sets and you know i like doing those reviews and i know a lot of people in that community that still goes on so yeah i keep doing content with that that's why you know dylan's kind of off and on into lego as you go down the lego aisle and of course all you see is marvel and of course now it's Jurassic park and star wars and you just don't see the figures or original sets anymore i think ninjago was the last original lego created set i saw yeah uh we'll come out once in a while with a new theme but it just doesn't seem that often anymore oh they got that video whatever thing i don't care for that oh there's one lisa has now uh because my wife collects lego the hidden side it's like a hidden side apparently is good yeah supernatural because she liked years ago it was this haunted castle i forget what it was called but she had a big haunted house and haunted all kinds of creepy stuff it was awesome yeah i i got in the bin here a bunch of my old lego thanks i got in here a bunch of old lego sets that uh i'm trying to rebuild like i've got lego star wars cloud city pod thing right here but i have also got uh there's a bunch of barnacle instructions these catalogs for 2002 and 2003 lego sets so they show all the upcoming stuff for like summer waves 2002 wow i didn't realize they were that old yeah uh let's see if i could find the one that i'm looking for that where is it come on uh yeah there it is there's an old bionicle set so i remember still on the shelf then with uh let's see 2002 oh shit it's a page i've flipped to here you go those are the first bionicle sets nice yes that that was a monster hunter because they had they had like the the hunters with the monster theme that was exactly it yeah there was that huge museum set that came out that was like all these references to i think it was orient express and it was just like but there's a moth flying around get out of here all right well um number seven no i beamer thank you i beamer is a new member to the channel oh god thank you so much i really don't have a special channel well let's see i'll give you this one and that wasn't bad thanks when i dodge you put that one yeah i beamer thank you i think i remember has been with me since i started he was one of my fledgling subscribers back when i didn't know what the hell i was doing a moth nearly flew right into my mouth oh that'd be awesome if i would get a video of you eating a moth you would be a that would be the next one that would be a super chat reward that hasn't happened i feel like i could taste it in my mouth but i know it's not there and i'm not a moth would taste chalky yep just a casual yep all right question number seven sir what keeps inspiring you to get in front of the camera well like i mentioned you know talking about transformers you know it's more relevant and stuff but um not only that uh i don't know how to explain it i i guess it's just you know having something to talk to with people because you know how many people do i know right here who are into transformers who are willing to talk about hey youtube ramjet looks pretty cool let's talk about that for like 14 hours straight i'm just like man i'm tired but you know i got uh because of the new stuff that i talk about you know now for me it's it's like part of the hobby now i mean not you buy a new figure okay we'll mess around with it then we'll show it off to everybody else so it enhances the hobby at least that's the way i look at it yeah because there was a long time where you wouldn't even think there's a community you know that that thought didn't even come to mind and it's not that you don't think other people were into transformers but an actual place for people to talk to you you just you didn't really picture it in your mind another thing that keeps me going is that when i make a series that people enjoy you know that kind of boosts morale for it like uh recently i've been doing the quick reviews on my youtube story and a lot of people not to toot my own horn seem to be coming forward and saying hey i love those videos uh you know they're they're quick and you know straight to the point or they have a joke that like and and that's pretty much it and that's all i need i'm just like yeah i'll keep doing them when people like that and that's a great feeling when somebody actually gets on there and gives you one of those good comments like hey man i really enjoyed that i you know i like how you approached this figure i had this figure as a kid so on so forth that that really gets to you it makes you really enjoy what you do i mean i know we all get the dumbass comments i like to call them and you know those are few and far in between but man when you get those ones it just really more or less congrats you know congratulates you thank you for such an awesome video you really got me here i love that it really makes me want to continue what i did by the way i just figured out that we're wearing our logos for our shirts oh yeah and i got my on my back too oh fancy huh that's pretty i love your logo that's awesome god it took me so long to do this and then to get the i just spin for the intro it was a disaster to get it all wind up yeah i just ordered new shirts for tfcon so hopefully they'll get here in time get out of my house month i'm sorry hey man apparently now i need some kind of graphic to come up with a moth battle and i'm from west virginia this is where the moth man's from so it's kind of fitting we got bigfoot out here we got moth man and pillbillies that's the scariest all right well there are thousands of toy reviewers on youtube maybe even more now what makes you any different from the rest what makes your channel stand out uh this is gonna sound bad but the the fact that i tried to put in the effort for it and what i mean by that is this moth is now climbing up my g2 ramjet and now it's gonna distract me it's literally on the body now um but i i take a couple of days to write a review before i start filming and i'll spend the whole day filming it and then i'll spend a couple of days editing and and and work on it it's not just pointing the camera and shooting whatnot that one attacked me uh but yeah i'll i'll i'll spend the time doing that and i got a flow going on now but even then it's still a lot to do like people don't might not realize that when i do the did someone say articulation type skit thing for for the reviews the whole point of that was i try to figure out what other people aren't doing um and try to work off that and that that's kind of what inspired transformers misfortune was it was like a red versus blue type thing for transformers i didn't really see that going around a lot so i thought hey that might be fun to to kind of poke around but with the articulation portion of the the review so many people and i don't i don't mean this is a bad way you know people do different things and that's fine but some people will spend 20 minutes talking about articulation for a figure and it's sometimes a basic figure and and obviously i'm that's not a real number but um they'll spend a lot of time basically and so i just thought what if i just quickly i'm just like ball joint ahead shoulders forward and back out and in elbow bends uh hips forward and back out and in knee joints uh foot tilt you know and and just quickly brush through everything but even when i do that that is the most amount of time i spend editing and it's the quickest skit out of the entire review and it's because there's so much being done behind the scenes for that part and so i i tried to put in the effort i tried to you know see what other people are doing and how can i you know change things up or or i guess do better but in in my own way i guess um and i'm not saying i i've always liked how snappy your articulation section is thank you but like you know i i don't mind people who just have a camera pointed out a figure and they're just talking you know there's no issue with that but sometimes i feel like you know you just want to get to the point or sometimes you want to you know jokes and review or you know something and so i i i try to look into that and you know try to rework that i guess so i gotta give you props for writing out your reviews i i just shoot from the hip except for my g1 stuff because i do that history recap at the beginning that's one g1 review so always research one episode or what issue the comic was in and fly into it i i tried to do that with my so my reviews are in portions you know you got the intro you got the editorial you got the you got the alt mode transformation robot mode and outro i always edit the individual parts but with my editorial it's very similar it's the the portion where i talk about the history of the character or the toy or whatever and also i want to point out that my biggest review my most ambitious review as of recent has to be the devastation review not only because the whole intro skit which i absolutely loved i know some people didn't like it but i loved editing that i loved working on it and i'm glad to have done it with my friends and i hope to do it again someday but the actual review part was really hard to do uh devastator my devastator the the copy especially scavenger has stress marks on the shoulders that i constantly worry is gonna snap off and break now i got an extra scavenger but i don't want the original one to break off because i don't want to have to replace it with something else to potentially break so it was really tricky for me to make sure that everything was right and then you're transforming eight figures i had to do the transformation in a different way it was just a lot of work but i feel like it's worth doing because i enjoy doing it i enjoy you know people watching it and i i want to entertain people that's kind of the whole point of why i do it honestly exactly we were talking about this last weekend it was like do you see yourself anymore as just a reviewer or do you like to think of yourself as an entertainer and i've kind of embraced both i mean i like to entertain with my intro and my outro and be you know try to be as exact and knowledgeable as i can with my figures so you know kind of give you the best of both worlds and i understand your pain with editing i actually love editing uh the other day i spent all day editing filming and editing my g1 ultramagnus review i thought the thing was perfect i got everything in there i needed and then when i set up the premiere i realized i didn't extend the forearms on the figure now of course everybody in the comments make sure let me know about that i actually didn't know that you can extend the arms on the g1 warpath at all and someone came to me oh you can do that which was always an annoyance because the arms would hit the turret so then it would pull down and collapse the whole thing but i didn't know you could do that and then fix the whole thing well let's see what's there anything in the chat oh so i think for the compliment on the the cardboard figures i don't know if anyone could see no i just saw it where was it cardboard figure elites hit you up now that's a cardboard figure yep all cardboard it's got all the joints and everything able to transform dude that's sweet and uh yeah i got like a rack and ruin i've got a red alert and stuff like that i would love to do more i'm trying to do a broad side that's massive um but it kind of got stuck on that also just a quick note here's the paper i'm a crab yeah i like those you can actually print these off by the way i i'm sorry for the the um the little advert there but hey man you do what you gotta do this this is your time so go for it it's all about me not you moth but yeah i just want to kind of get them off the ground a little bit more because you know i do put on a lot of work but they usually take me about a day or two to make a new one have you ever done one of those metal earth models transformer kits oh god don't you remind me oh god i did optimus prime and that took me probably four days i mean not non-stop i would just get frustrated and have to leave i have a life got prime done i got half a megatron and i haven't touched him since i just they there's something else i have a live stream where i did optimus as i also had like another ship thing never again now the first one i ever did was a star destroyer and that wasn't too bad and then i got to add ads and i was like holy crap is that it's horrible and then i got optimus prime and man that about not to mention how many cuts you get on that thin metal that was like freddy kruger shook my hand i uh did a beetle beforehand before any of those and i got it from a thrift store but it took like five minutes to do all right question number nine what's your thoughts on the transformer social community youtube can we kind of hit on it youtube facebook all that other stuff of course i think you you could do a more social sites than i do i just do instagram facebook instagram facebook youtube that's about it for me yeah i got uh facebook which is where i started off on because with the transformer spam pages and that led to youtube uh then i got twitter instagram i had to make a reddit page just to clarify some of my song reddit and that was it um but uh i don't even know if they're called pages at this point well you got elites back here he won't don't hide don't hide you don't know what what it'll be yeah that's the scary part oh fire talks hit me too here you go fire talks all he's hiding again that's awesome yeah i got the all the social medias now i was hesitant on getting into twitter and now i'm on twitter pretty much every day and i don't know if i like it i mean i booted twitter and i'll never go back to twitter um but it's interesting because i feel like this is gonna sound kind of bad but i feel like beforehand it was more about you know coming together and people talking about transformers and whatnot because we could all do it but now because everyone wants to get popular on youtube and and all of them it kind of feels like more people are and it's not for it's not everyone of course but more people are like i want attention on me on this thing and that thing and whatnot more more than anything and you know that's just the general thing and it's not like specific to the transformers community but uh you know it does have its ups and downs i actually talked about it recently where uh in my own group chat that you know everyone keeps saying that there's toxic communities i i think there's no community that's just solely toxic or solely good i i think you're gonna get a mixture of everything even if you just look at the worst of it there's going to be you know people in that same community that's going to be like yeah i'm not i'm not a part of that toxic side of that um and i i've definitely seen both sides with this but with transformers you know it it has definitely gotten better as far as the toxic side if you were to ask me because beforehand if you weren't into either the masterpiece or g1 people would say yeah get out go oh no i want nothing to do with you and you're a terrible person and i need to bully you that's the only reason why i'm allowed to bully you now but nowadays uh especially with generations so many people are into it because they're making more obscure characters they're making more characters from not just g1 but beast wars you got that galaxy upgrade optimus prime now and other things and with some of the quality of with some of the quality of current figures um in the generations line masterpieces nowadays in afterthought at this point and it's not like you know people are completely devoid of masterpiece but especially with third party although people kind of wrap that around as kind of one thing but now generations is top tier and and and you know the people who complain that yeah if it's not masterpiece or g1 i don't like it are now really getting into generations and even some of the other companies now you know yeah i uh always like masterpiece i thought they were awesome i just can't afford them exactly to be honest and i've got i've got mp01 optimus prime and i've got mp36 megatron and i've got the fourth party version ko of the beast wars megatron and don't hate me it's from my collection i'm not selling it but i can get four or five generations figures for the price of one mp but that's just me and they just work better for my collection which is like a thirty dollar twenty dollar hound or a hundred twenty hundred and fifty dollar hound of the same character you know exactly but then again like i said with the quality control too it's been so ify especially with kingdom i didn't have any problems with any siege figures and it also kingdom i'm getting loose figures and good lord how many ones have i opened straight out of the package it was broke or missing pieces yeah let me out on you had to do the shoulder fix okay i'll have the postings for kingdom rodimus now yeah and he for an eighty dollar figure you couldn't even tab his trailer together i had to super glue the edges of the tabs to get to stick well not only that there's people who are reporting that they're missing uh a rodimus now really yeah there was a i don't know how true it is but i saw that someone was posting that their rodimus was missing entirely wow i can't remember who though my three wheeled tracks i finally got a new tracks i got my tracks you know what's surprising no problems online really now i need to try larkin's fix to push the pin all the way through so mine will tab together a little better let's say i had because it is a little loose but it still stays i don't know how i got lucky with that hey you ever know i mean i got the first one i got warpath he was broke then i got super megatron and they gave me two left treads then tracks had three wheels oh i had to return my dino because the bottom part of the door had two left sides i couldn't even transform the thing which other one did well it wasn't a qc issue but i couldn't stand rinox i just hated his transformation and that's one thing i noticed with the kingdom figures what the hell's up with all the wild leg transformations i mean every almost every kingdom figure the whole lower half the leg transformation is just out out there i know it's like hopper megatron late no those those are bad examples uh warpath had a bad one warpath warpath i got into after a while but yeah he's he's just unnecessary i couldn't tell you how many times i've just popped the legs off trying to transform that damn thing yep galvatron shoulders i don't even have a galvatron so i don't know all right let's hit our last question it'll just be how you like keep these about an hour that way we have 15 minutes to interact with the audience uh do you have any channel goals for yourself and where can our viewers find you i mean what are you listed under instagram twitter and everything well uh i'm mostly listed as tfan page one one if not it's usually total doom so toa of ultimate doom but it's all one word um so that that's my other major channel but mostly if you go around it's tfan page one one uh my current goals is to get some sort of sponsorship from some company i've been contacted but it's like how do you know if they're legitimate or not you know um but my current goal right now is i really want to reach 100 000 subscribers and i know that's going to be impossible i just really want that plaque that's the main thing um but even with that said like my current goal right now at the very least is 25 000 subscribers 21 now 21 000 probably 21 300 because i had a huge jump recently like nice two months ago i reached 20 000 and then a month later i was at 21 000 i don't know how that but yeah i would love to at least reach you know about that or 30 000 so i want to change up my content try to make different content as well uh i've said this before but i've worked on all the reviews i need to do for september of this year obviously not next year uh but that's a whole no story uh but and then g2 ramjet is october the reason why is because i'm going to start doing them biweekly so that uh in the middle of them i could work on other content i'm trying to get off the ground all hail star scream which is a five-part mini series and uh with a special guest cameo that i'm not going to say and then uh we've also got uh transformers misfortune season two i really want to you know wrap up because my friend scott worked on that with me you know he's credited for season one he helped me throughout the entire script of season one he unfortunately passed away uh in january um he had problems with co-bed kidneys failed sorry to hear that uh really kind of sucked so um i definitely want to get season two off the ground so that i can just you know finish that because kind of should by now honestly it's been years since the first season came out so should really finish that um the reason why i'm working on all hail star scream first is so that i can get into the group to do misfortune season two so yeah all right well that pretty much oh i'm sorry i was left pretty much wraps up the set reps so now i'm gonna leave the chat open for questions so we see a question here i'll highlight it and entertain you guys at least for another 15 minutes uh hold here's one for you what was the worst and best figure you ever reviewed uh best figure i've reviewed god i don't even know honestly there's just there's so many i'm up to i i think it's 400 reviews now this is really hard to pinpoint what's the best uh the worst i've got a couple of ideas of the worst uh earth rice rc studio series barricade but they're probably not the worst in general i will say though one of the upcoming reviews is probably the absolute worst the red series prime rc i have yet to see a red series figure in my store of course fire talks you're lucky you're lucky you're lucky they are bad like i i said in the review how does a company that's been developing toys for 37 years feel like a toy that's been made from a third car third party company that doesn't know what they're doing yeah i was going to get at least the megatron because i'm a big megatron fan fire talks is like nope don't hey your moth is back i see it now yeah the demon moth that's a dark souls boss hey input i'm looking at my shelf trying to think uh what's the best thing i've reviewed i mean i've got my warfare sub-tron collection in the other room so i couldn't really pinpoint from that but uh i don't know i haven't reviewed mp10 yet and i would love to review that at some point yeah that's a really hard question to figure out i got a lot of good figures though so now larkin i know some people that bought red cheetor just for the cheater peter or you can contact fire talks yeah fire talks larkin all these guys they got hooked up let's see anybody else get anything i will be right back i'll just be a minute i need okay i'll be here let's see we got fire talks h rinox i will never transform that bastard again in kingdom has been it's either they're great or they suck it's it's no happy median with them and i can't like a studio series 86 for example you've got some figures that look like they stepped right out of the movie and then you've got blur and cup blurs got that freaking horse face and cup looks like a prune juice ad he might have had to pee i don't know probably that boring it is a wednesday use i'm drinking alcohol beast man we are doing fine well i guess brine's doing fine he's doing so fine he had to go in the room be fine somewhere else uh i'm just i'm keeping on keeping on surviving the apocalypse i am currently working on the toy hacks decals for earth rise megatron which is already improving his pretty bland tank mode i always do vehicle mode decals first and then do the decals for the robot mode is that the ram jet repaint because that's an awesome one 44 days not that i'm counting i'm sure they are they've done all the titans sorry i haven't been entertaining people i think entertainment i had to do uh insulin i'm a diabetic hmm see and now you know no one's half the battle depression that's a little guy captain canada or something i like that i've never camped in canada what yeah yeah there is like a marvel i know there was a captain britain uh yeah because wasn't that wasn't that technically captain carter or something i don't know was an x factor there was some canadian marvel to i know wolverine was part of it x factor x force x extreme xx triple x marvel you got you got shang chi or shang chi however you pronounce alpha flight that was hell where was i getting the x from thanks benjamin i knew there was one you got shang chi you got um uh david harbour and black widow i can't remember come on cap the captain canada you got captain carter now that'll work that'd be awesome yeah alpha everybody's hit me alpha flight you know i was a huge comic guy in the 90s 80s and 90s and then once comics got to be about six bucks a comic i was like screw that i'll do something cheaper yeah definitely especially when you get the third party in g ones favorite x-men characters mine was always of course wolverine and cyclops i don't think i have a favorite x-men character i just never really got into x-men um what's this when does the secret two pack from earth rise available it's available now i put a link on my channel i don't know when you guys still need to get the shy glass star screen although i am working with someone i'm getting up hopefully i don't understand why they won't really you and i talked about this earlier why they won't release or re-release the cone heads they sold out immediately you'd think they'd release them again because people want them thrust never came out here really yep uh there is like a url page for that on toys or us it was meant to be an exclusive there i even went to toys or us because we got the physical store nothing didn't have a runabout didn't have the seekers didn't have the decepticon clones two pack all they had were that four pack of cyberverse seekers and then the four pack with the one step of them the three tiny turbos my always has tons of those cyberverse seekers bps bps bts has the thundercracker and skywarp up to i think they're coming out october ibeamer i really wish we had always out here because man i could really go for that selects uh combat megatron there was the studio series hot rod the old one that was the world war two one and then i think there were a couple of earth rise figures there's like tons of those at mine uh a k ksi drone he's like a blue car yeah i got that tons of the hot rod patrol which suck find how often my trip up trips up yeah they don't stand for nothing usually micromasters are the only figures i have in alt mode display yeah apparently they didn't sell well either from way here oh god he swallowed them all finally probably what questions do you have uh he's dying we got five minutes left so here we go putting your questions oh by the way i completely forgot to mention uh you actually interviewed one of my friends who have been on the podcast multiple times in fact is one of the co-hosts for it uh didn't you do a video with zero one transplant a long time ago dakota yes yes yes it's funny i've gotten to know people through facebook i can't remember what their youtube names are yeah i sure did yeah we uh i'm in his minecraft let's play it's all the time too uh i've been in a lot of his videos he's been in mine so how long start to finish does it take you to oh god well it's really hard to pin for him because usually i'll just stop part way through within six months later i'll be like yeah let's keep working on it i'll stop again so it could take years could take a month uh the fastest i've done is probably a week and it's a tiny thing it looks like i'm like that tall of a thing so that that one right there that pink when you held up how long did that take to make because that thing's awesome i thought a month a month good god i have that dream that i know took a month because i posted images of like the process of building that what uh let's see i guess we will wrap things up it is almost 11 o'clock my time it is 11 o'clock my time i forgot we started late because my damn camera so well brian it was an absolute pleasure to get you on here i know we've been wanting to do it for a long time and appreciate it and everyone in the chat thanks for you guys joining us tonight and um brian any any final words um just uh you know i'll be here making reviews i'm gonna be working on all hail star stream this month hopefully if everything works out and then also uh here's a little preview on something that i want to do but not entirely sure how i'm gonna do it i might do uh just a bonus video because someone got me this it's a knockoff of the one of the one step changers oh neat how many six figures in there no it's just the one it's like a surprise box thing or or no it's just a generic box because you see the check marks that oh god it's just optimus prime but uh yeah it's just uh might be a random video where i compare this to the original because i got the original and uh i thought you know i i haven't done a comparison video for that that's pretty slick now for those of you in the chat who are not subscribed to brian there is a link to to his youtube channel in the description of this video once again brian thank you so much for joining me you guys in the chat thank you so much don't forget to like don't forget subscribe this is patriot prime signing out smash that merch store yeah who are


Hi everyone, Joe for jaskiescasebrakes.com doing the recon basketball pick your team to filler. This is a team random Basically, we took out the the remaining teams All right, and then we turned into a random team break basically So we just gather up your names and just randomize your names not the team So the name on top will get the hornets second name will get the T will so on and so forth But everyone's guaranteed a team even the bottom name will get the Pacers and we'll be still be involved in that full case break We're just coming up in a separate video. There was also a giveaway So there'll be two different dice rolls here one where we're giving away the three extra spots Which means an extra team basically and the second dice roll will be to line you up with a team So let's give away those spots. So we only ended up selling 16 spots outright. So here's the first dice roll Let's roll it randomize it five and a four and a five nine times top three after nine Good luck one two three four five six seven eight And ninth and final time top three is Alex Sean and Josh Congrats to The the three of you After nine times the rest of you don't worry. You're still involved. You're still involved in the team random part itself It's just that Alex Sean and Josh just have slightly better odds To maybe get some of the nicer teams basically. I mean you want a team outright. You're saving yourself a lot of money, too All right, so congrats now Let's match you up with a team here second dice roll and all the names this time Good luck. Let's roll it randomize it four and a four eight times hard eight one two three four five six Seven and good luck eighth and final time name on top after eight is gonna be Alex Alex down to David after eight Nice, so Alex and Josh Brian a lot of great teams at that top there So we'll put a rooftop next to your name Alex you've got the Hornets Josh with the T Wolves So we can probably do this right now Brian with the Kings Travis with the Celtics Josh with the spot that you won gets the pistons Josh with the Knicks Julian with the Thunder Sean with the Hawks Alex with the Sixers and the Cavs Sean with the Heat Brian with the Nets bow with the Nuggets Alex with the Rockets Josh with the Suns Brian with the Blazers Anthony with The Spurs Josh with the Clippers and David with the Pacers So congrats to all of you. We'll see you in the next video for the break itself to ask these case breaks.com. Bye. Bye


Live from Boston, Massachusetts. Extracting the signal from the noise. It's theCUBE, covering HB Big Data Conference 2015. Brought to you by HP Software. Now your hosts, John Furrier and Dave Vellante. Okay, welcome back everyone. We're live here in Boston for HB's Big Data Conference here in theCUBE. Our flagship program, we go out to the events and expect to see the noise. I'm John Furrier, the founder. Let's look at it. I'm John Vellante, founder of wikibond.org. Best research in the business and in tech. Our next guest is Sean Darty, director of digital and social media engagement at NASCAR. Super excited to have you on. Big fan, love what you guys do. You guys are really creative. Absolutely have a great brand and great audience. So welcome to theCUBE. Thanks, thanks for having me. So we love engagement. We talk about systems of engagement, systems of intelligence. We actually have the crowd chat out there. We are in love, social media. Cause that's what people are doing. They're dialing in what their friends are doing. That's right. And they need something to talk about. So what about NASCAR? That's right. It's really popular. Well it's really, you know, social has become such a key to the second screen experience. Like people just don't watch TV anymore. They watch TV and talk about what they're watching with their friends or with people they only even know possibly online. So at NASCAR, we want to be part of that conversation. But we also want to keep tabs on trends around our race events and what people are saying specific to the race broadcast. And so we built a solution that enables us to get a better handle on the social conversation around our sport, which will enable us to be faster and more efficient at responding and answering fan questions. But then also something that will allow us to deliver insights back to our whole industry. So our racetracks, our teams and our drivers, they can all leverage and take advantage of this platform. You know, we've interviewed sailors and we've interviewed NASCAR drivers on theCUBE where they use big data for instrumentation, specifically cars, right? Because there's so much edge they can get if they have the data. Tire pressure, wear and tear, all kinds of stats and they run that in and helps them. Now when you look at you guys are doing some cool stuff because now it's the fan experience. That's right. That's interesting, right? Talk about that. How do you guys manage the franchise and the fan experience and the role that digital is now playing? I mean, digital was great, websites, we put up email marketing, landing pages, promotional pages, but now it's so real time and you have so many awesome events. How are you guys transitioning to all that? Because it's super cool. So we monitor a lot of the real time trends and what the fans are saying around our race event. And so what we look at the overall picture, we're taking in the entire conversation around the sport. So if somebody uses the word NASCAR or mentions a driver or a track or one of the race hashtags, we'll be able to see those trends. And so what we, in our fan and media engagement center room in Charlotte, North Carolina, we have a system that is set up to just to see what's trending at any given moment. And so to help with that fan perspective, what we do is see what's trending and then possibly deliver them additional social content that will help complement that race experience. So if it's a great save or a great pass made by a driver, we can cut that up and include that video highlight in our social feed and give that additional experience to the fan. And the data is changing to the format, right? So you said in the second screen, Facebook's got a lot of traffic lately on video. Highlights are great, Snapchat's booming, Vine kind of quietly, but they're still there. They're still there. They're bigger than Snapchat. I saw a stat on that. So these are all new channels. How do you manage that?  I have a great team. Give us some color into what's happening there because you're just doing it right. Yeah, well thank you. Our team is roughly split. I managed a team of about nine people. So it's including me four on the content side, content strategy, four on the analytics side and the live engagement side. But they work very closely together to figure out what kind of content is working, what kind of content is not working. What is trending in real time during our race? What do fans want to talk about? What is on the mind of our partners? Because our partners are such a key part of our industry and our ecosystem. We want to make sure that we're delivering value for them as well. So what's the tech behind this media center? Maybe talk about the peace parts. How are you bringing it all together? It's an HP solution. It is based on the Haven platform. So we have a bunch of disparate data sources from the social web and from online media that we take in. We use Hadoop to collect that and ingest it. And then JBoss will analyze and perform some what we call entity extraction. So we know if somebody says, for instance, I hope the 24 wins today. We know that they're talking about Jeff Gordon, even though they might not reference him by name. And then we use Vertica for data access searching. And then on top of that, we have a tipco spot fire as a BI tool and then a Raven, which is our kind of query and search tool. And the visualization comes from- That's from a tipco spot fire. How was that all utilized? You're yourself and your team of eight others. Sort of consume that in real time. During our live events, we'll usually have two people in the command center room and it really starts with the overall conversation. So we can see of all the people that are all the social buzz that's going on around NASCAR, when do spikes in top social moments occur over the course of the race? So a specific event like the green flag, start engine commands, a save, a pass or a wreck on the racetrack, culminating in the checkered flag, all those specific events will drive an uptick in conversation and then from there, we can drive in and we can dive in and get additional details to what that sentiment and what that buzz is in the moment. And then what's the next step? I mean, sort of the post event, is there a post event engagement strategy? Yeah. What's the objective there? We segment the, while the live events going on, we do segment the data based on specific topics of interest. So we can look at fan sentiment around broadcast. So what people are saying about on-air talent, pre-race segments, volume of commercials, even the on-screen graphics and the chyrons people have opinions about, and we can package all that information up and show that to a broadcast partner like a Fox or an NBC. And that's the real-time fan sentiment about their specific broadcast. We can do the same thing for tracks and help them manage that event experience, people tweeting photos from the track, people expressing excitement or maybe even issues with concessions. We can help track that and help our track partners manage that event experience as well. And then for drivers and teams, we can analyze fan sentiment around both the race in real-time, whether fans thought it was exciting or not exciting, or fan sentiment around specific drivers and kind of what's the brand around that driver?  Yeah, this will be year three of the platform. Yeah, okay. So we launched in January of 2013. So it's starting to get pretty mature. What can you tell us about sort of, how are the metrics look? What are you tracking? What's the business result? It's funny, it is getting mature, but there's still so much potential with the system and then new social platforms are coming to the forefront. It's like every single year. Yeah, it's like Snapchat and Meerkat and Periscope. So it's a constantly evolving platform. We've seen tremendous growth in the first three years of our operation. It's been immensely valuable for us, not only to provide analytics and research back to our industry, but our own internal business units who might be managing like a marketing campaign or a local attract activation. Just having something that allows us to measure empirically what's going on in our industry has been hugely valuable. We got a question from the crowd here. Hey, Furry, you're asked about mobile and their experience there. Yeah. What's your experience with mobile? Obviously, mobile's hot. Yeah.  We have a suite. Our NASCAR.com site is responsive. It acts more like a news platform, like Monday through Thursday, but Friday, Saturday, Sunday, once the cars are on the track, that's right. And we offer a live event experience where fans can check out a live leaderboard with live commentary from our digital editorial staff. We also offer a couple of mobile apps, NASCAR mobile for the phone and iPad, and then NASCAR RaceView for the iPad as well. Did you see Twitter had a deal with the NFL recently? Yes. You're starting to see that. Yeah. The hashtags on TV, direct response vehicle opportunity. Yeah, and they're doing a lot with live video in stream as well. And so that's a huge area of interest for us, for both Twitter and Facebook, because we want to meet the fans where they are, where they spend more time. And our social vehicles are a way for us to reach new fans that might not have considered NASCAR. Are you seeing any patterns in terms of consumption of different media by demographics? I mean, I'm sure you do, but maybe can you share any of those with us? I mean, are millennials more or less likely to be on Facebook or Twitter? What do you see? It's a mix. Across the board? Yeah, I think it is. Our fan base, like most digital fan bases are, they tend to skew pretty young, although we see a lot of engagement with our older fans as well, particularly on Facebook. The hardcore fans? Yes, yeah. So that's the challenge with digital is appealing to the hardcore fan while trying to reach the new one at the same time, yeah.   You know I'm bullish on Twitter. And I know you are, but that's why I'm asking. And we use it a lot because it's more real time. I'm wondering what you're seeing in terms of where do you see the utility of the different platforms, you know, from your perspective? Sure, Twitter for us is real time. It is capturing the conversation of what is happening in that moment. And that moment can be a sporting event, a concert, a news event as well. Facebook, we see a lot of interactivity and a lot of engagement, but because of the way that the Facebook algorithm works, the content typically has a longer shelf life. And so we will post less frequently on Facebook than we would on Twitter. But then there's other platforms that we're on as well where we have a vine where we're getting very creative with generating excitement leading into the race, showing clips from practice or qualifying. And Instagram as well is one of our fastest growing platforms in terms of user base, but that's where we have that iconic imagery of the driver celebrating in Victory Lane, for the more lasting imagery. Photojourn, photo, that's exactly it. Millennials are all over Instagram. And obviously they're on Twitter too. But it makes sense what you're saying about Facebook's algorithm. How do you serve, I mean this is kind of, we're kind of inside baseball now at this point with the media business kind of inside of it. You're your own media business. Vertical media is booming. We've seen NFL, MLB, they're all doing a great job. You guys have a distinct user audience, you know. That's addressable now, certainly measurable. How do you sell advertising and promotional? What's the new native, if any, but whatever word they're calling? I mean it's the word's native advertising, but basically it's just you have an audience and you have supporters, advertisers. We do some promoted content now for tune in and just try and reach, you know, kind of look-alike audience. We're working with Twitter and Facebook is still pretty early stages, but you know we're talking with them about getting more native video, which I think that those sites are trying to monetize against that as well. And then we do monetize our digital platform as well.  I mean there's so many of them. You talked earlier before about just keeping up with the various social platforms, but what's the one big thing you wish you could have that you just don't have today that would change, you know, move the needle for your business? We have so many race events over the course of the year. We run from February to November. It's one of the longest seasons in professional sports. It's a huge ton of content. Yeah, there is no office. It's me. Yeah. Because after the championship race, we have the awards banquet in the next year and we're already getting ready for Daytona 500, which it's great. It's always exciting. Really being able to support and grow by having great content. You know, I think that that's our next area of growth for us as a social team, which will help us grow as a fan base, help us reach new audience, you know, bringing on people that do, you know, graphics, like graphic design, graphic artists, you know, even animators. I've seen some of the best social content. The storytelling. Exactly. Social is so much more, or these days, so much about storytelling and less about kind of that conventional marketing direct response. I think there's enough utility in digital, where it's going in my mind. Things you're talking on really show, like, digital is a utility, it's value, and the audiences understand what it is when they see it. So you can elegantly have a solution. And the 49ers are doing this with Levi Stadium. They built a whole new in fan experience concept that they align with. So it's really not the old way of jamming, messaging at people. It's really a new way of telling the story, provide value. Can you tell their story? It's pretty interesting. They don't have people looking at the big giant screen. They get trying to get the second screen experience, which sounds similar to what you were talking about at the top of this. Yeah, that's right. And that's something that we're also looking to do as well. And the 49ers have done a great job. They've been following those guys. Yeah, I do follow them on social. Six second touchdown, every camera. Yeah, that's awesome. It's really cool. They can't distribute outside of the venue because of Comcast. Right. Hello, Snapchat. But we're trying to do that as well. Authorize camera holders in those stands. Right. Distruptive technology. It is interesting. And we've launched this year on Snapchat and partnered with them on their live story. So that shows the fan perspective for what it's like to be at a race. And that's something that, you know. It's great in the moment program. It is great in the moment. It's awesome. One of the clips was the car's going by and the fan was taking the video and his hat was literally blown off like as the car was just, you know, zoomed by. And it's just the roar of the engine. Snapchat is like the bottle and still my story. Yeah. And then they're putting in now, I was watching the Outside Lands concert. My daughter was at this weekend. I wasn't there just seeing if she would pop up. She didn't. But you know, you're in the moment and the shaky camera is the production value. That's right. That's right. Whoa. Yeah. And it's a little bit of curation. That's nice content. It is. It is. And we hope to do more of that with them.  I think they've done a great job. You know, we're also trying to, or we are in the process of completely revamping our crown jewel, if you will, Daytona International Speedway. It's a project called Daytona Rising. It's going to be ready for Daytona 500 next year where they have completely built up stands, modern amenities, wider concourses, lounge areas, you know, things that... What's your relationship? Yes. What's the relationship that you guys have to the stadiums? Ownership, co-ownership? Well, NASCAR is a private entity. And then the stadium or the tracks, the 29 that we raced at for our national series are roughly owned by two public companies. And then there's there a few independent companies as well. The venue activity. Yeah, we work pretty closely with them. But the NASCAR ecosystem is unique in that it's not like other professional sports leagues where the leagues collectively own the team, like everybody's an independent entity. So the tracks are independent of the sanctioning body and the race teams are independent of the tracks. The drivers are even independent of the race teams. They're all, everybody's an independent contractor. So, you know, back to our original story with big data, you know, trying to develop a solution that meets everybody's needs has been an interesting process because a lot of times the goals are different and their key metrics are different as well. It's an MLB what 15 years to pull off their move. I mean, an MLB advanced media unit started in 2001, really. That's right. Trying to get it rolling. And now they have HBO now. Like they've done it. They've done a great job. Well, right now you have a very political system franchise as you get. I mean, it's kind of like independent owners. So that's great stuff. We'd love to hear more.  I'm in Charlotte, North Carolina. Great. Keep in touch. Absolutely. Sharing your story in the queue. That's right. We can look forward to collaborating and getting more information. Thanks so much. Sharing the NASCAR, social media story, digital, the future of digital is really about a whole new set of experiences in the moment, real time, diverse content elements, crowdsource, you name it's all happening. The sharing economy meets consumer generated media meets everything. So it's the queue bringing all that to you. We'll be right back after this short break.