Collectors Discuss Hasbro, Ghostbusters, and YouTube

for the War for Cybertron video game and I've

already had two people bitched because it's late

and I'm just like okay you know one of them was

like well I was just joking and I'm like you

know nothing you said was a joke you know and

then he says that I'm an asshole and yeah I'm

like okay first of all you saying that it's late

is being a douchebag first and then you know

that's just dumb and then this other guy leaves

a comment you know saying you know saying a little

late don't you think and of course my reply to

him you know is like oh goody another person

to bitch about it being late and then he just

naturally says would he's like wow buddy don't

call me a bitch just for one fucking question

and i told him i said i didn't call you a bitch

i said you're bitching there's a difference You

know, but, it's people like that, it's like...

I don't understand why everything has to be so

fucking brand new with them. It's like, oh, you

know, this review, it's late, you should have

did this months ago. Well, fuck you, so what?

I didn't do it months ago, because I don't do

video game reviews. I've done, this is my second

one, and the reason I don't do video game reviews

is because it's a pain in the ass. the YouTube

partner to do it because I actually look this

up I I have to have in order to have like revenue

sharing on my videos I can still have the video

off but I didn't have any ads on my video because

I don't have permission from the video game company

and that's impossible to get it's never gonna

happen so if if I think the grand scheme of it

is if 90 % of your video is no no granted You

can do it, and you can fight it if your video

is instructional and not just focusing on gameplay.

But my video is really not all that instructional.

I'm not showing anybody how to play the game.

I'm just kind of going through it. Now, if you

do do that, you can get revenue enabled on it,

but it's a little bit more of a lengthy process.

I don't - I don't waste my time with them. Plus

I don't play a lot of video games. I'm not -

I'm not a video game reviewer. Somebody bitched

because my review style for toys doesn't really

translate well to video games. And that I - he

recommends that I watch other people that do,

uh, video game reviews. First of all, I'm not

gonna watch anybody else's fucking review of

a video game and copy them. That's ignorant.

And stupid, that's not me. My style is the way

it is, whether it's a toy review, a Transformer

review, a Ghostbuster review, or a video game.

And that's just the way it is. If people can't

deal with it, then they're retarded. I mean,

I've been, you know, so, so I'm bitching at this

other guy. Or, I'm yelling at him. And, now here's,

I'm gonna read to you the comments. He says,

or I said, I didn't bitch you, blah blah blah

blah blah. But I said, let me ask you this though.

By your rather ignorant logic, am I only allowed

to review things that are brand spanking new?

What if I did a review of some G1 toys? Those

would be a little late too, wouldn't they? It's

a valid point. Now he replies to me, yes, but

no. Excuse me. He says yes, but no. Sure, there

are all s - He can't even I'm gonna have to translate

because he says there as in like it's over there

Mm -hmm that of you know, they are so it's like

sure They are old but some people might have

seen them when they were young while others might

think it's new because they are young and they

don't Know about it instead. It's oh my god.

I don't even know I'm I'm not gonna talk to this

guy anymore because apparently no in terms of

What do you know is spelled N -O, apparently,

okay. And you may think I'm ignorant when it

comes to my logic. Now I just think you're ignorant

because you don't know proper fucking grammar.

But, are you recording this? Just keep going.

This is good shit. Just keep going. I think I'm

ignorant when it comes to logic. But I don't

give a fuck, in big capital letters, what you

think about me. Yet, it's hilarious, but okay,

so anyhow, I reply and says, okay, so then based

off that, isn't it safe to assume that not everyone

has played War for Cybertron yet, and a review

might still give a good look and help them decide

if they like the game or not? Same as reviewing

some old toys. So again, I'm only allowed to

review new stuff and not older stuff that people

might still never have seen before? That's that's

what I'm asking him and I said, okay Thanks,

glad to know that you're sharing your amazing

video review success with me It should be great

or it should greatly help my own stuff. Of course.

I'm being sarcastic and then he replies Okay,

who gives a fuck if it's new or old? He's the

one bitching about it being late So he's the

one who cares Of course then he picks up on the

last one he said do you or any say and what the

fuck do you mean by? Your you're sharing your

amazing video review success with me. He apparently

can't pick up the fact that I'm making fun of

them, so I mean Has he said anything back? Oh,

no he did he said no not really don't care I

just want to know what you mean um It means means

you're a moron who's Trying to give me who's

been on YouTube for almost four years And almost

has 30 ,000 subscribers advice Okay, yeah, that

makes sense I'm sorry. Oh, wait, no. Oh, wait.

Okay. I mean, obviously, this is a little bit

more of an extreme rant than I normally do. And

another person, you're a little late. So was

your mom. Oh, please tell me you're not posting

that on the video. Oh, I did. Oh, my God. I know

it's your video. Oh, my God. oh wow ladies and

gentlemen do not ever piss off the optobotomist

because you will get eviscerated oh you know

i mean and people people complain they're like

why are you such an asshole in your comments

when i was young maybe kids nowadays in the 21st

century are not taught this anymore but if you

ask a stupid question you get a stupid answer

I'm killing, I'm killing PFG and Mike. I mean,

are kids not taught this anymore? Honestly, why

is, why, you know, is common sense no longer

common? I don't understand it. You know what

I blame it on? I blame it on all these crazy

growth hormones that they're putting in food.

Kids are coming out retarded now. Oh my God.

I mean, it's, you know, but people, they're like,

you know, you know, somebody the other day, or

not the other day, just yesterday, what was it,

on the review of my Dark of the Moon Darksteel,

which I did my advertisement for the Apple TV.

The guy asked me, he said, how much does Apple

pay you to do this? And I replied that it's none

of your business. I'm sorry, but it's not. You

know, I mean, you know, so now someone else who's

completely not even part of the conversation

comes in and is like Oh another rude response

from opthamotomous. How did I not see that coming?

I'm like what what? Why am I the one who's a

rude and an asshole because somebody asks me

a rude and asshole douchey question like how

much money do you get paid? I mean, that's none

of your business. It's none of your business.

Oh, man I just don't understand it. There are

reasons why, in the workplace, if you work at

Walmart, you sign papers that say that you will

not discuss how much you get paid with anyone

else. Otherwise, you get fired! Why is it okay

to ask people how much they make outside of anything

else? I mean, people don't ask me, and that's

the other thing. They don't ever ask me how much

I get paid for the normal ads that Google and

YouTube put on my channel. Why is it, why is

it I only get, you know, shit? You know, I mean,

people ask me questions, they, you know, like,

oh, I don't like that you're doing reviews, you're

selling out. I've had reviews, I've had ads on

my videos for like three years now. Why is it

now all of a sudden? Because I choose to do some

of my own little commercials. Is it me selling

out? Kiss my ass or what? Oh. Man. I don't know.

Don't know I Just it just doesn't make any sense

to me it really really doesn't there's I'm to

the point now where I Just delete and block people.

I will delete and it like like if I don't feel

like responding to a comment. I'll delete it

uh... somebody commented on when i get one out

when my mom last year got me the the pc that

i have now it was at the time it was a brand

new pc because i just bought it and i was living

at my other apartment at the time and i had just

got my new mike the one that i've had for over

a year or whatever somebody commented on that

video nice setup does the mike stand come with

the mike This is on the video for the actual

computer tower that I bought and and the fucked

up the problem I have with YouTube on comments

is say you want to comment back to a person and

Say here. Here's this link to this video YouTube

does not allow links in comments Why the hell

not especially if you're linking of like say

they're asking about a certain thing that they

see in a video if you'd like Like say you do

it a house tour or or department center for a

room set up video or whatever and slight why

won't you to allow you to link that person in

a comment to the video of hey here's the video

this was like are you fucking kidding me no i

i i yeah you know it's just this is why i this

is why i don't do any kind of youtube stuff anymore

i think the only thing i've put up anytime recently

as i do a lot of podcast video image mashups

right and i do a lot of uh... like all i've done

the uh... the unboxing of the jim dvd said that

i got from shell factory but this is exactly

why i don't ever go on camera i don't care uh...

you know the point of being on youtube or showing

something off is to show the product office not

to show my face you know and You know, I've done

video rants, I've done on -camera stuff, and

that's all well and good, but this is exactly

why I don't do a lot of YouTube videos anymore,

because of all the stupid fucking people on YouTube,

I've said it plenty of times on Twitter and Facebook,

YouTube is the fucking 4chan of the video uploading

world. It really kind of is. Now, I mean, now

grant it. There are, you know, for as many bad

morons... that are out there. There are more

good people. I mean, but it's that old saying

that, you know, one rotten apple ruins the bunch.

I mean, that's... Exactly, yeah. That's really

what it breaks down to. I mean, it's... Everybody

is... Well, not everybody. You know, 98 % of

the people that leave me comments, I don't have

problems with them. It's just stupid. Like this

idiot that I'm bitching about, he's like, let

me ask you a question. Well, did he even reply

to my other question? I don't know. You probably

didn't. So he's like, so he just, let me ask

you a question then. I'm a guy with dyslexia

and ADD. Does it look like I care what you think

or what other people think of me? What does that

have to do with him leaving a stupid comment

about my video being a little late? You want

me to feel sorry for you because you were born

retarded? Because, I mean, I'm not even, and

I'm not even referring to the dyslexia and ADD.

Yeah. Cause he obviously, he's got some kind

of mental retardation thing going on. I just,

this guy, there's just, not even, I mean, I shouldn't,

you know what, I've seen him leave questions

before. I mean, I recognize the name. I don't

remember what he's said before if he's said stupid

stuff, but. Yeah. It's like, you know, I'm surprised

he hasn't been like, well, I'm unsubscribing

to you. Do you really think that that hurts my

feelings? I don't care. I honestly do not care.

Oh. It's just, it's just, it's, you know, and

like I said, most people are decent, good people,

but then you just come across the ones that you

just want to smack your forehead and, like, sleep.

Are you that dumb? That other guy hasn't replied

to anything about my mom comment. This is why

people should be allowed to have abortions. Holy

God. We are not going down that road. Holy shit.

You know what? Honestly, for me back and forth

commenting through YouTube stuff, I only watch

a handful. I know some people watch Almost everything

they can on YouTube. They watch all these different

series They watch all this and all that and they

are YouTube junkies and that's all well and good

I watch a certain amount of people I watch maybe

15 20 different people's videos the sad thing

is I have and I'm not counting stuff like a Disney

Channel official showing clips of upcoming. I'm

not counting that kind of stuff on specific people

you spada Pia JT Mitchell Pop Culture Network,

you know toy world order like specific people

that do video reviews and stuff like that I watch

a handful of those people and that is my for

me that is my YouTube community is those people

I don't watch Sean long I don't watch all these

other video reviewers that are out there because

I just Don't care to watch them You know There's

the amount of stuff that I've watched is greatly

reduced most most of my time and it's I The the

amount of time that I spend watching people is

directly proportionate to the amount of Well,

no, I can't that's that's not even the right

way because because I don't want to make this

sound you know more egotistical than it already

is because people already think that about me

but the amount of time that I have or the amount

of time that I spend on YouTube because of my

my success with it has taken away from my ability

to watch random other stuff because when I log

in I go through my comments I go through my messages

you know things like that I'm checking stuff

I'm legitimately doing things YouTube I don't

I mean you know so if I have to sit there and

you know people ask me Why why do you you know

that's another reason why? I don't watch like

trans homers prime or Thundercats or anything

on YouTube number one I don't like watching that

on a small TV screen or on my small monitor number

two is I don't want to spend any more time on

YouTube I spend You know so many hours already

a day on the damn thing I just want to get away

from it sometimes and I don't want to watch something

that I'm gonna enjoy, more than likely, on something

that I've already just spent hours playing with.

I mean, it's just, that's just not my style.

So, I don't really get to watch a lot of people's

stuff. There are some people that, you know,

I'll watch on a fairly regular basis, but not

even at that. I mean, I feel bad when, you know,

somebody like, I mean, I'm looking at my subscription

list right now, and I have, I still don't know

why I'm... Subscribe to articulation times. I

mean, I like I unsubscribe from them I like I

like them before they split into like different

segments Yeah, I mean, uh, I mean for example,

I mean I have you subscribed I actually for some

reason it still shows up on here But your video

for when shout factory sent you Jim that I watched

that but for some reason it still shows up here.

Yeah It's funny on the main page like Because

when you sign into YouTube, it has, it gives

you, let me pull up my page, it gives you three

options. All activity, which if you click that,

it's gonna show people's what they've liked,

recommended videos, it's gonna show you all that.

You can just click on subscriptions, which will

just show you like the 10 most recent people

that have done videos. And sometimes it'll say

like, uh... let's see uh... technical reviews

tcc sideburn if which i i i i i i i i i i i i

i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i

i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i

i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i

i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i

i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i

i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i

i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i

i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i

i i i i i i i i i i i i i Yeah, it's Gilmer.

Sorry, Bob. I don't know. For some strange reason,

I confuse him with Glimmer from She -Ra. Oops.

Never mind. But I watched that video of his,

and instead of, like, I can X that video out

of it, but instead of YouTube automatically saying

that, oh, this video has been watched, what they

do is they mark it as you've watched it. Right.

and they still leave it in there so in case you

want to watch it again it's really really weird

but i mean there are some times where you can

just bought you yourself can go in and just x

out the ones that you've already watched i don't

know youtube constantly changes crap just like

face book constantly changes crap and i don't

want to turn this into a face book right cuz

i'm gonna be doing that next week uh... but uh...

no it's it's just The I mean there's like I said,

I mean I have I watched I actually watched Bob

Did a video of the the new Burger King toys that

are out right now The Simpsons Halloween toys

I haven't gotten a chance though to watch his

RC. I haven't watched General Techno's Cyburn

I'm subscribed to the review spot and there's

a bunch of videos. I haven't seen from him yet,

but you know, it's There's a lot of people that

I do like watching And this kind of goes into

what we were kind of planning on talking about

anyhow. There's a lot of people that I really

don't care to watch. And they're fairly prominent

people. You know, you and I have kind of talked

about this, that if you review something that

I really don't have an interest in, I'm not going

to watch it. And one person that has really started

doing that is Piaw. He's doing a lot of reviews

for... Tom and Ryder and I have no interest in

that whatsoever and he's dumb hoe I mean if you

go to his channel and look as of right now He's

got like 20 damn things that he's scheduled to

review from Tom and Ryder and I just I don't

care about Tom and Ryder You know the thing about

him the way his style is the way he does stuff

depending on when he gets the stuff in He'll

film the videos He'll film six videos in one

night and put them all up. Oh, yeah So so I mean

him having 20 things listed that he's gonna be

reviewing to me. It doesn't really affect anything

because He's one of those people that does mass

Mass uploads and that's fine. That's his style

and he's more than welcome to do that. But yeah,

I mean I mean generally speak, you know and and

and This this is this is kind of you know rant

ish But you know, we were gonna talk about this

stuff anyhow, but you know in terms of subscriber

Reviewers and things of that nature that we don't

particularly care for honestly, I don't particularly

care for Ben's videos I mean, I'll probably get

flack for that, but... And I've said this to

you before, and I'm in the mood right now that

I'm just gonna say whatever and I don't really

care. But it's... It's... The only reason why

people watch him is because he gets stuff so

damn early. That's the only reason. I mean, there's...

I mean, he doesn't really put as much time...

I mean, he talks about editing his videos. His

editing consists of taking whatever he's shot,

putting it in a video, and putting an intro and

an outro. which is very easy to do when you just

do your reviews on your iPhone. I mean, when

you have your iPhone, you can download iMovie,

and that's actually what I think he uses, because

the music that comes from it is just the default

music in that program. That's not editing. I

just watched his video for the Deluxe Class Left

Foot. Now, I mean, I talk about not watching

people, but I mean, I do watch his because he

does get this stuff so early. So I'm curious

to see what it looks like. I wouldn't watch him

other, you know, any other reason besides that.

So I watched the review of the Dark in the Moon

Deluxe class Ledfoot. I actually timed it. It

was like 35 seconds. He took the figure off camera,

tried to figure out how to transform it, and

then brought it back in. And he didn't say anything.

He wasn't talking. And I'm like, okay, you know,

later on in the video, I don't know if you've

seen it, but later on in the video... He has

to do something for work. He's got to go push

a button for the radio that takes up like another

10 -15 seconds or something and He should have

edited that stuff out. I mean, it's it's kind

of funny I mean and people come to expect that

with his videos, but that that's not that's not

good quality to me I I just I don't think that's

You know any good. I'm sorry. I mean, I love

that. I mean, he's a friend of mine. He's He's

coming to my wedding, although his opinion of

me has changed, but that's a different story.

Let's not go there. Yeah, yeah, that's a whole

different kind of thing, you know. So, I mean,

but this is something that I felt with Ben, you

know, for a very long time, that he only does

these videos just to get these views, and he

gets them, and that's why people subscribe to

him, because they think that he's gonna... I

mean, I've gotten people that have bitched at

me, again, you know, the whole, you know, you're

a little late. You know, where I've reviewed

something before and they're like, oh my god,

I'm so surprised to see this review from you.

I'm like, why? And they replied to me, well,

I expected P .O. to get it first. I'm like, okay,

I mean, do, I mean, people don't realize this,

but in terms of the Transformers, you know, the

big Transformer reviewers and things of that

nature, I was the one who got the very first

early Transformer figures, not - Ben, not Sean

Long, nobody. It was during Transformers animated

and it was of lockdown and foul. I got those

before anybody else and that started the whole

early review crap. So it's my fault, apparently.

But I mean, I love Ben. I love Ben. I think he's

a terrific guy. I have no problems with him.

I just personally don't like his review style,

I suppose. And see that's the thing for me it's

like first of all it comes down to style I've

been watching Ben for god knows I think the first

video I ever watched of his was one of the animated

ones or it might have been one of the BotCon

2008 ones I know it was sometime in early 2008

because that's when I got back into collecting

and I subscribed to him and I've been watching

him ever since and there are some videos that

Okay, that's that's cool. It's not my thing I

just may not watch it But you know and that's

and that's the same thing for me with anyone

that I'm subscribed to if they have a video that

oh I'd like to see that I'll watch it if I like

it or if I want to promote that video for that

person I'll click the little like button or I'll

make a comment or whatever You know, they're

all you know, I think there are only two people

that I click the like button for almost every

time and here we go with the ego stroking uh...

it's hard to do you involve matrix are pretty

much the only two people on youtube that every

time i watch a video i automatically hit the

like button so i mean it for me it uh... you

know what like you said it depends on if you

want to know what that figure is or what what

that marvel universe or kotobukiya or mega man

or common rider or like me me in common I had

known I had known nothing about common rider

and everybody like on Twitter and stuff goes

on and on and on about oh KR this KR that well

when I hear people say KR the fucking thing I

think of is Knight Rider god damn it you know

and it's like What the fuck people um, but you

know, hey people have their interests and that's

fine You know, that's all well and good honestly

because I'm not currently collecting any transformers

at this time When I watch transformers reviews,

I skip the transformation parts I just watched

the the opinions of the opinion of the alt mode

the opinion of the of the robot mode And that

makes sense. I mean what I mean Video, you know,

transformer reviews in general by their nature

are part review, part instruction. Yeah, and

I mean that's the point. But again, because I'm

someone at this point now where I'm not, you

know, I'm not going out and buying Generation

Skull Grand or, you know. transformers prime

rc which is not yet but you know i i'm not going

out buying these toys i'd say one thing i can

stand it's not really anything about the reviewers

but i cannot stand the saturation third -party

crap yeah i'm so sick of it yeah i i'm so late

when's the last time If there has been any time

that we got a Hasbro or Takara release of the

Insecticons that was like a generations like

a universe type release because I don't remember

if we've ever gotten one if we have that's fine.

That's awesome, but it's like This is it TFC

toys not well TFC toys does the Hercules Devastator

thing? Who does the not insecticons? Oh, that's

our fans project fans. Yeah fans project Like

I love fans project doing the armor sets like

for City Commander on that. That was awesome.

And even though I don't really care for the character

of Springer and Transformers G1, the Springer

figure that it was great. Right. I'm tired of

seeing, oh, these are the not insecticons. These

are not their real net. Like Hasbro, get off

your asses and make us bombshell shrapnel and

kickback in, you know, updated toy form. Don't

just have a commemorative series re -release

of the G1 figures. I don't know That's really

is kind of pushing me away from Transformers

at this point is all this third party bullshit.

It's you know The third party stuff is is filling

a niche in the collect or in the collectors Collections,

you know, I mean We do want, you know, Hasbro

versions of the Insecticons. We do want Hasbro

versions of, you know, a classic Constructicons

and Devastator. We want that sort of stuff. Why

Hasbro doesn't do it? I don't know. I'm sure

logistically there's a reason why they don't.

Yeah, it's probably cost -effectiveness and stuff

like that. And Hasbro, at this point, they don't

care. See, that's the problem with Hasbro. They

don't they their first mission is to cater to

the kids of this generation So you have stuff

like power core combiners you have stuff like

power bots you have stuff like rescue bots And

those are all great for the children What about

us people that have been you know fans of the

fucking brand for 30 plus fucking years? You

know it's like start making stuff. You know have

a separate division within the company that specifically

caters to collectors that would be awesome yeah

well what one would say their collector division

is Takara Tomy but I mean well yeah but I mean

still unless and I know you don't really particularly

care for this place or you don't really like

their their markups but unless you're going to

the the only way to really do something like

that is to pay the overinflated import prices

right through stores like you know and i'm not

saying anything bad about any of these stores

that i'm about to list i like these stores you

know you know thirty three uh... what was it

uh... for united gold bugger yet there was something

There was something that Takara did. It was a

gold bumblebee. I forget what it was. I think

it was the animated version. Yeah. Yeah, it was

TF animated. The golden version of the animated

bumblebee figure. The Hydrodive one? The Hydrodive

one that came with the... No, no, no, no, no.

The original bumblebee. But Takara did it in

gold. It's a gold finish. Hold on, I'll find

it. I believe you. I know you believe me, but

when I went to Big Bad Toy Store and I looked

at this... Actually, you know what? A better

example would be Rodimus Miner. Okay, that's

the exclusive version? What the hell? Oh, that's

the Hasbro version. Okay, well, he's still a

better example because I remember this. the Takara

version of Animated Rodimus Minor. It's that

maroonish, purplish, darker, pink, you know,

glossy, superfine scheme. Right. At the time,

I was gonna get that. Before shipping, through

Big Bad Toy Store, and I know that they do markup

and that's fine, they have to do markup, whatever,

they wanted $33 .99 for a deluxe Transformers

figure that was made by Takara. That's ridiculous.

It is, but there is a reasoning behind that.

There's the cost of the figure, which they get

for cheaper because they buy in mass quantities.

I know there's a reason for it, but what I'm

saying is as far as stuff that Hasbro is offering

us, or stuff that they could be offering us to

the collectors... You know stuff that Takara

does the problem is it's Takara doing it because

they are a Japanese based company and You have

to go through stuff like big bad toy store TF

source stuff like that And you have if you want

that figure you have to pay those inflated prices

That's that's my point here is that the problem

is Hasbro is relying on Takara to cater to us

collectors, and I just think that Hasbro USA

needs to Do something for the collectors? Yeah,

I mean I Don't know why I honestly I don't have

a I don't have an answer as to why they don't

do certain things I mean, I don't know that that'd

be a very good question to ask the Hasbro panel

at BotCon But I don't know your comic on this

coming next month. Yeah, you know And a lot of

people I mean there's a lot of new third party

stuff that's coming out that a lot of people

are reviewing but yeah it's the saturation is

is massive right now but you know conversely

it's also because all these companies are aren't

getting any flack and I honestly don't know if

if they could get in trouble I mean obviously

they're not if if they constantly keep making

obvious you know shrapnel yeah I mean shrapnel

and bombshell I mean it looks just like I mean

the the robot mode on on on storm bomb looks

just like bombshell almost I mean there are a

few key differences but I mean the face and all

that stuff looks just like G1 bombshell obviously

based off of it you know but I don't know what

You know, the legality of it is I don't know

if it would cost too much to go after these people.

I don't know if they can go after them because

they're based overseas and Hasbro's based over

here. I mean, I don't know. There's so much that's

involved in it that I would imagine the legal

department for Hasbro probably has looked at

before. So I don't know. I really couldn't tell

you, but there's a lot. And by that, there's

a lot that's coming out that's not very good

-looking. Yeah. Well, I mean, there's a few standout

companies, but some of them just don't look very

good. I mean, you can look at Eyegear, who straight

up completely KOs masterpiece figures and puts

them in a different, you know, like you get the

seekers. Yeah. You know or you know like the

faith leader Optimus Prime, which is just a scaled

-down knockoff Optimus Prime Yeah, I mean I could

see where maybe fans project would get away with

you know making that not Insecticons, but how

the hell can a company like I gear get away with

completely knocking off Optimus Prime? You're

just making them smaller. Yeah, it makes no sense

to me, but So we're just this is this is the

we're bitching about people Yes of the team bottom

is variety our the next person that I kind of

want to mention I know you know we're talking

about Getting back on track. We're talking about

Youtubers that we don't particularly care for

I guess The next big one in and this this is

you know, I know you like them for a particular

reason I oh no. Oh, no, we cannot we cannot go

into this on air Oh my god, you are seriously

wanting to stir the pot on this? We have to!

It's, I'm just, ladies and gentlemen, I'm just

here, I'm just the producer of the Team Bottomless

Variety Hour. I take no consequence in what's

about to happen whatsoever. I do not like Pixel

Dan -er -early? What's his last name? Early I

I don't know I I'm not sure how to pronounce

his last name just say pixel then people know

you're talking about or or on YouTube he's all

Mandalorian 30 or something like that now he

is I Don't have a problem with first off again.

I don't have a problem with him as a person I

mean, I don't know him whatever. I this is just

his style and stuff. I this guy gets figures

from Mattel and he does reviews for them and

every single time going all the way back to when

I was doing reviews of the Masters of the Universe

classic stuff obviously he was a big part of

it and I didn't like him even back then and I'm

not the only person who thinks he's a cocky little

sucker he acts like he's better than everybody

else he does his reviews and they're always planted

and skewed to make the product look good. I remember,

I mean, and people are like, oh, he always points

out negative things. Barely, I mean, the biggest

one that I can mention is, and this was very

big for me because I love Ghostbusters. He did

the review of the Gigantic State Puff Marshmallow

Man, of which his version of the figure, the

arms and legs popped off very easily. He barely

touched the leg and it popped off. Now a normal

person would be like this is this is not good.

This is bad blah blah blah He's like he he attributes

it to having the limbs come off for easy storage

That the limbs of a figure can come off for ease

of storage And I'm sitting here watching this

and I'm shaking my head Most normal people that

give a review of something would be like this

is bad. This is not a good product You know,

and she just, oh yeah, it's just, you know, it's

easy to store the figure now if you take the

arms and legs off. Ugh. Oh my god. And then,

right after that, he did the review for the San

Diego Comic Con Lionel. Of which, he did not

like. And I didn't really like it either. I gave

pretty much the same review, but people bitched

at me because I was bitching about him in it.

And, I - They're like, you know, I don't understand

why he's got such a hard time with this figure.

He gave him the exact same review. They don't

realize that I have a problem with them from

the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man review. That's

where it all carried over from. But, you know,

he gives a review of the, of the San Diego Comic

Con Lionel, and he just sits there and trashes

it. And he basically says that, you know, we've,

we've wanted this figure for so long that they

should have done a better job, blah, blah, blah,

blah, blah. I'm like... Give me a freaking break!

You know, you're gonna bitch about this, and

you're not gonna bitch about the Stay Puft Marshmallow

Land, which, at the time, I did not know this,

but I thought he only got stuff for free from

Mattel and Maddie Collector. He apparently gets

free stuff from other people, such as Bandai.

And if I was Bandai, I wouldn't send him anything

else anymore ever again! Because he's a tool!

That's my that's my point, you know, even going

back to when he was doing Masters in the universe

stuff You know figures that would have weak ankles

or all the female figures that had bobble heads,

you know And they couldn't hello hold their own

heads up. He would still give these things glowing

reviews Okay now I really don't want to turn

this into the whole you know Just coming down

on somebody. I don't I don't want team bottomless

Friday hour to be that but I will say one of

the reasons why I started watching Dan's reviews

was because at the time I Had heard about that.

There was a new toilet like I like I was so into

Transformers at the time I don't even know when

I started watching him. I think I found his Weekly

video series that new toy smell and I started

watching that I started looking into other stuff

he did on his channel and he had master stuff.

I'm like wait Well, there's a new masters line

because I didn't know anything about it at the

time right this was like almost year and a half

two years ago and I started watching him and

this that the other thing and everything else

and Every time I would look up Masters universe

classics, whatever else his was the first thing

to pop up. There'd be a couple others But really

his is the only one his his masters videos were

really the only ones that were honestly any good

at the time because After the fact and after

you and I started talking and everything else

he's like you're like, oh I have masters reviews.

I used to do those i don't know anymore because

uh... you know battle cat never showed up whatever

else and you had made all your master's videos

private so i was like very fine for whatever

but at the time it it's kinda it's kinda like

pia you know that you enter anything transformers

transformers animated leader megatron russia

along with the first two that are probably a

pop -up And out of whatever YouTube choices of

links that you have, whatever one you want to

click on first, obviously, is the one that you're

going to watch. And that's kind of how I got

into watching him. I've talked to him a couple

of times. I've podcasted with him a couple of

times. He is a good guy. I do like him. I don't

interact with him as much as I say you or Ben

or Spader or like that. everybody has their own

review style, not everybody's going to like everybody's

review style. He does put a lot of work into

his videos. I will say that. And I do not, I

do not belittle him for that. I don't, I mean,

people have different review styles. I don't

have a problem so much with his review style.

It's his principles that I have an issue with.

I think he only gives positive reviews for things

because he's getting the stuff for free. He does

a lot of work. He has great production quality.

I don't disparage any work that he does. I just

think that the ethics that he goes about doing

it are a little bit different. He doesn't give

an honest opinion of them. they you know be you

know, so now people buy the state pub marshmallow

man and They have an opinion that the figure

is is gonna fall apart I almost didn't buy it

because I didn't want mine falling apart now

luckily when I got mine It was the quality was

perfect. I had no problems with mine at all.

I couldn't even pull the arms off I tried I yeah,

I remember you showed me no and That's that's

good now a good reviewer would have mentioned.

Okay my version of this obviously Hopefully other

ones that come out don't have the same problem

But now he does he does say that in a lot of

his videos Maybe this day I think honestly what

it was with stay puff and I think the problem

with all the videos He had done that weekend

was the companies sent him all that stuff Right

before he was leaving for San Diego Comic -Con

this year So he put out all those videos the

Friday that he was flying out to sin Thursday

or Friday or whenever it was Wednesday that that

week that Comic -Con happened I don't remember

what day it was but all the videos he put out

that week that were of SDCC 2011 stuff They apparently

had just sent him that stuff and he wanted to

get the videos up before he went to the convention

That's so and that's fine. And you know, I mean

now for me, I wouldn't have done it That's just

my if you're gonna rush me. I'm I'm not gonna

do something, you know, so Well, I don't I don't

I don't think it was I don't think it was anybody

rushing him I remember him saying in a couple

of the videos because I've watched those videos

that He it was he that wanted to get them up

and get them so people could see them now me

personally I like say Say BotCon happens from

now until Monday. I know that's unrealistic,

but say BotCon happens. Right. I personally want

to wait until next week The following week of

like after the convention is over I want to wait

and I want to see people doing videos coming

back From the convention saying oh this happened

this happened and this happened here are the

toys that I got here's my hall Here's the videos.

I'm gonna be doing over the next week. I don't

want to see Convention exclusive toys before

the convention happens I did I know I don't know

I did just it for me watching videos like that

it took away from the surprise of What did people

get from the convention? I like seeing him before

because it lets me decide whether or not I actually

want to spend the money to get I Mean It's it's

not it's not too terribly bad But and like I

said, I mean, I'm not I don't want to say I mean,

I'm not I don't want to pick on Dan This this

is just the thing where you know, I don't like

and this goes back to his master's reviews. I

didn't like them It they never were really reviews

in my opinion. They were just kind of Previews

and this is what it is. I mean, I so I never

really liked it now. There was some some internal

drama, you know with with he man org me him and

and JT Mitchell that I don't want to get too

much into but But that's where I mean, I just

don't think in general. I just don't think he

likes competition And every single time that

I'll say something, you know, where people say

that I'm jealous of him. Like, jealous of what?

I mean, honestly, my videos would pass his in

a fraction of the time in terms of views. But

then they would always come in like, well, he

doesn't always put his videos on YouTube. He

puts them on some other website. I don't remember

the name of it, but it... It doesn't show how

many views that it that the video has So I was

like, okay if that's the case Well, then tell

me how many views he has on there and nobody

ever gives that information to me So, you know,

I think what it is is what it comes down to is

that pop culture network Which is what he is

a part of? He helped create it They put a lot

of their videos on blip tv blip tv that's it

what and blip tv is much less uh broomstick up

the butt about you putting music or you putting

video imagery in your in your videos yeah say

say i wanted to do a stan bush tribute and i

use Like two minutes of four of Stan Bush's songs.

Blip TV is not gonna make a stink about it like

YouTube makes a stink about content ID bullshit.

What I've also heard is that Blip actually pays

better on the views. I've heard that from several

people. I understand people like you, people

like... Sean long people like Pia that have 20

,000 30 ,000 50 ,000 a million subscribers, whatever

it is, you know, I understand that you guys don't

you know, you guys have that that number and

you have that fandom and you probably don't want

to You know move away from that or not use that

anymore and I get that that's that's part of

the popularity of YouTube But blip is much more

Laid back when it comes to using actual stuff

in the videos. I think that's again why Pop culture

network uses them more rather than YouTube. I

mean they still put their stuff on YouTube. They

just Don't put all the The the the additional

per it's almost like they make two separate versions

one for blip and one for YouTube one with you

know and now honestly you know what I mean while

blip sounds all well and good that again just

to me speaks to the the ethics that some of them

have because using using music that you're not

supposed to use is illegal and You know, so just

avoiding it and going to somewhere else that

lets you use it That doesn't impress me I'm not

saying pop culture uses copyrighted stuff. I

don't know I don't you know they do They do he

I mean that's why that's why Dan doesn't he like

he was using the masses of the universe theme

in his YouTube videos Yeah, stop because you

can't use that You know, but now I mean so I

mean it's You know, I just, I have issues, like

I said, with the principles behind, you know,

certain things that they do. And I don't like

watching his stuff. But that, it was from well

before any other problems that I had with him,

you know, prior or anything. So, never a big

fan of Pixel Dan. We still need to cut the last...

35 minutes of this. No, we don't. God. Oh, this

is good stuff. I got another one that I want

to bitch about. Uh -oh. TJ Omega. Stop being

a pussy and bitching about people wanting to

see stuff from you. It aggravates me. He'll spend

20 to 25 minutes. Bitching about people asking

when your next video review gonna be I don't

have time if I'm not doing videos I'm busy doing

other stuff yet You can sit there and make a

20 minute long video about not being able to

do videos Honestly oh The only reason why he's

even I Don't want to say popular or whatever,

but um Known are because of his quick reviews.

I forgot what they're called. He would do like

30 second video reviews. Yeah now His problem

is they would always they would be like they

rhymed whenever he would do them and apparently

It's too hard to make a 30 second video where

you're rhyming stuff Get a thesaurus Look up

different words You can rhyme I mean So now that

show as he calls it the show of like quick reviews

Rushed reviews, that's what he calls them rushed

reviews, right is on hiatus That's why people

watched you in the first place TJ Honestly, one

of the reasons why I watched him at the time

was he did a video and I still think it's one

of the best videos ever top five most inappropriate

transformers and at the end of the video he has

supreme cheetor Masturbating to black arachnia.

Oh lovely Or you know that that that arm action

of you know moving the arm back and forth everything

and I thought that was so hilarious But yeah,

I you know I liked some of his reviews, I liked

some of his opinions at the time, and then he

just kind of stopped. He started his whole TJTV

thing, and then I don't know what happened with

that. I'm assuming he's still doing episodes

of TJTV. And that's another thing. He does TJTV

because he can't put copyrighted material on

YouTube. Yeah. So he started this whole other

thing. I don't have nothing against him. other

than the fact that you know he's like as old

as we are and he still lives with his parents

um but it's like you know my dad lost his job

so i can't do video all he does is whine and

bitch that's all he does that's all he ever does

yeah you know there was a time where he was doing

videos of you know he was he was showing people

what he was i think it wasn't last it wasn't

this year i think it was last year i don't know

It was one of the BotCons, and I think it was

either 2010 or 2011. I think it was 2011. It

was last year's BotCon, the 2010 BotCon, where

he did a video of what he was selling, and that's

all well and fine and good. And then he did videos

of convention prep, what he's taking, stuff like

that. And after the convention, he came back

and said, OK, I'm going to do reviews of all

this stuff. And then I don't know if something

happened in his personal life or whatever it

was, but he put up a 20 minute video of why he's

not doing videos. And it's like, okay, so if

you're telling us you're not going to be doing

videos, why am I still subscribed to you if you're

not going to be putting out content? Yeah, exactly.

You know, and I think I said to you at the time,

I said, you know, I, because I think you pointed

that video out to me and I said, Okay, I'll watch

it and see what he says. I think I watched like

11 minutes of it and I was like, okay Yeah, you

get he's not doing anything. Yeah, you can't

unsubscribe Yeah, it's simple. I mean if you

don't want to do videos, that's fine. Just stop

doing videos You don't have to make a video announcing

you're not doing videos Because if you make a

video announcing you're not doing videos guess

what that's gonna guess what that's gonna get

you That's gonna get you as people asking. When

are you doing more videos? When are you doing

this? When are you doing that? And it's like

oh god fucking hell All he does is he bitches

and he whines and he complains and he gets more

free shit sent to him from other people that

I've ever seen Oh, I know it Ridiculous people

just send them boxes of stuff. I Mean I've gotten

I mean some close friends of mine have sent me

some stuff but I Mean I could probably count

You know the number of times that I've gotten

stuff given to me from people on one hand and

I've been doing this longer than TJ has it's

just You know, but he sits there and he makes

such a whiny sob story out of this, you know

Oh my dad lost his job. I have to help pay the

bills I'm 30 years old, I live at home. And I'm

like, this is the kid that I would have beat

up in high school. And I feel bad admitting that,

but he's just so damn annoying. And he's another

guy that puts a lot of time and production into

his videos. When he does do videos, they're usually

pretty good. I mean... He puts a lot of effort

into them. One thing that I don't particularly

like is when people are doing reviews and they

want to turn it into some kind of a show. Now,

he does it. He copies Vangelis like there's no

tomorrow. I mean, it's ridiculous. Now Vangelis,

I don't necessarily say is a reviewer. He's an

entertainer and I'm entertained by his stuff.

But it's people that start off as reviewers that

are like, well, I want to be like Vangelis. And

TJ Omega does that. And I don't like it. And

there's someone else that I wanted to bitch about.

Well, not even bitch. But the third person that

I have on my list also falls in this category.

And that's mgo316. Now, I like him. He's a good

guy. He's one of those guys that I think likes

eating early Transformers just so he can get

the views for it. Yeah. And, you know, because

he's made comments... Kind of like, you know

smart ass comments about how or you know, I can't

be like the big boys like Optimus and P y 'all,

you know And it's like why do you even need to

say that? I mean, that's just kind of pointless.

I mean whatever, you know, but he feels like

he's got to compete with us and I mean, he's

got mascot which people love people love mascot

and that's fine But again, it's one of those

things where now he's doing these you know, he'll

do a video review and the video will be 10 minutes

and then he does a 10 minute skit. And at least

with Vangelis, Vangelis incorporates everything

into the review itself and it's entertaining.

Emgo is just trying too hard. And that's how

I see a lot of his stuff. Well, with Emgo, what

I've noticed is, is that honestly, when I was

like, you know, God, I hate to put it this way

because it's gonna make me sound so gay for for

a certain transformer When I had you know certain

feelings about all the animated rata Mai coming

out the crystal version the black version the

the Takara version that I mentioned earlier the

US version all this and all that How I found

mgo was actually Pia had You know the little

copy link thing and promote via your channel

for however long I saw mgo's video review of

the Crystal Rodimus and I was like, okay, cool.

This, you know, this guy, I like his opinions.

I like, you know, how he did his video and I

like his little setup there and whatever else.

As I've been watching him over the, over the

time and period, what I've noticed is he'll do

like, he'll have a little intro gag with mascot.

Right. He'll do his review. He'll show transformation.

He'll show whatever, but at the end. He'll have

the cutaway gag now where he's got Dark of the

Moon Shockwave and Dark of the Moon Megatron

sitting on a little Barbie painted couch. Right,

yeah. And it's almost like, you've seen the Muppet

Studio stuff, right, where Statler and Waldorf

click on the thing at the end? Right. It's kind

of like that. And I like that, that's okay, that's

cool. I think the last video, the video series

that... and go did at this point in time when

we're recording this was he did the arkham asylum

figures uh... i haven't been seeing too much

stuff from him and i know recently he had said

in his videos that he had been uh... he had been

moving you have a month ago so so i understand

you know you do you know if life ifs shit in

life happens you have to put the internet down

you just have to uh... you know i mean i mean

look at me when i uh... when i injured my foot

There were no podcasts from geek cat I mean there

were there were a couple but like the regular

stuff that we do at geek cast radio network That

wasn't happening that week that I injured my

foot obviously because I couldn't sit here For

two and a half three hours or however long I

sit here to do and you know record and edit and

all this and all that so You know when when things

in your life come up You know the internet podcasting

YouTube videos they're not that fucking important

they really aren't absolutely you know i mean

and i'd be just look at the last episode we did

when you were talking about you know your uh...

your health stuff right here but you know that's

something that you have to you know it's something

that is front and fucking center you have to

focus on it you have to get yourself better and

damn the fucking internet right status it is

i mean i'm i'm looking at it right here you know

my last video uh... I don't even I mean my last

actual video I did was the burger video and that

was on the night So you're looking at two weeks

now. I mean That my last actual review was about

two and a half weeks ago, right? You know it's

Now in that time I should have already had like

four other videos then that were off and Because

my health thing, you know, I mean there's a lot

of stuff that I do have to get to I mean people

have sent me stuff I've got stuff from head robots

Hey, we're talking about, you know doing third

party stuff They sent me some stuff and I actually

know the guy who runs head robots So and that's

fine. I you know, just it's just me personally.

I It's not that I don't like that. The third

party stuff is there It just seems to me right

now at this very moment in the Transformers fandom,

third party is oversaturating the market because

of Hasbro not really doing anything right now.

Yeah, there's still Dark of the Moon stuff, but

that stuff's been out for months now. I mentioned

in the most recent episode of All Things Transformers

that ... You know, you know the whole Dark of

the Moon giant campaign TV print and you know

radio all this and all that I am probably Not

gonna buy Dark of the Moon until sometime next

year because I see the same TV spot at least

three times a day on television of Dark of the

Moon TF3 Friday best action movie ever Yeah,

okay. I'm sorry Dark of the moon is great. I

love it. It's the best movie in the franchise

in my opinion I like the first movie as well

revenge of the falling and go to hell, but I

Did there yeah, you know but I'm sorry There's

there are really there are so many other awesome

action movies. I'm not trying to take anything

away from dark and blue but how can these people

that put these trailers together to put these

tb spots together how did how can paramount paramount

or any of these other companies allow them to

tag this film as the best action movie ever diehard

diehard two diehard three uh... terminator one

two three and salvation or whatever now robo

cop uh... well spevely hills cop was a good series

of action movies uh... i guess we can go back

to the future future action i don't know uh...

you know one of my favorite action movies yeah

one of my favorite action movies tango and cash

i mean you know that's a fun movie i really like

that yeah there are a lot of really great action

movies and it just it sickens me Seeing this

TV spot for Dark of the Moon's DVD and blu -ray

release saying that it's the best action movie

ever It's like really Seriously, but you know,

it's good that might be that I mean that might

just be you know certain reviewers opinions that

they It's a TV spotted it's kind of like the

trailers. Oh, it's the official advertisement

that Hasbro and Paramount is doing for the DVD

release of the movie on DVD. It's the TV spots.

You know how you see stuff like, you'll see a

really quick TV spot. You'll see maybe two or

three action scenes, and it'll say, Transformers

Dark of the Moon in theaters today, or whatever.

It's that type of TV spot, but it's for the DVD.

And it says in there, best action movie ever.

It's a great action movie. Don't get me wrong,

but... Is it the best ever of all time? I don't

know about that because there are a lot of good

ones. I mean, there's, there's, there's, there's,

I would, you know, in terms of best action movies,

I mean, you could sit here and say that the damn

Schindler's List is an action movie. I mean,

there's action in it. I mean, but yeah, I mean,

it's, it's pretty bad. It's pretty bad. But I

mean, it's, You know, I mean, that's just the

way it goes. I mean, they're trying to sell stuff,

which that's what us as reviewers try to do anyhow.

We try to sell things. You know, I just don't

like it when people try to take, you know, something

and make it into something else. I don't know.

I mean, so that's where I have, I mean... Issues

with em go and I mean like I said, I mean he

does he does I again I I don't know what kind

of work he puts into his videos, but um I mean

decent decent guy. I like talking to him, but

I'm just not a fan of his stuff and I don't mean

that I mean and I'll be I'll be the first one

who meant that I'm not a fan of my stuff I don't

I mean people ask me all the time You know, everyone,

you know, like, give me advice, you know, blah,

blah, blah. I don't like my stuff. Why do, why

do you people, not, not you specifically, Mike,

but I don't understand why people, you know,

don't get this. Why do you think I spent so much

time working on my, my videos? Because I don't

like them. I don't think they're very good. I

don't know why you people watch them. I honestly

don't. I honestly don't. I watch them and I sit

there and I criticize them up the ass. Especially

when I'm editing things. I can't tell you how

many times I'll sit there and We'll be like man.

I should go reshoot that because it sounded stupid,

but then I'm like I'm too fucking lazy I don't

want to set up my lights. I don't want us. I'm

like I'm just gonna put it up there, but you

know people you know It's hilarious. I mean I'm

not so I mean don't think I'm just trashing other

people and making myself out to be better than

them I do not I do not, let me re -emphasize

that I do not like my own stuff and I don't understand

at all why people watch me. I mean Pia, I can

understand why people watch Pia because he does

his stuff early. I mean I can understand why

people watch Pixel Dan. He does early stuff as

well. TJ Omega, he's entertaining. Mgo's, entertaining.

Vangelis is entertaining. I don't really think

I'm all that entertaining. I just, I honestly

don't know. Honestly don't know and and and it's

not me trying to Get people to you know stroke

my ego or You know like those girls that walk

around like all my boobs don't look as good as

hers. They're fishing for compliments Yeah, I

mean this isn't me fishing for compliments. This

is me honestly. I mean I'll sit here and part

of you know some of the times when I'm sitting

there doing videos and I'm like, I just don't

wanna do this because I'm frustrated because

I don't think it sounds good. I don't think it

looks good. I don't like how, I mean, I'm such

a perfectionist with the stuff that I can't even

go back and people have asked me to re -review

the old stuff that I did. I don't wanna do that

because then I gotta go back and I gotta re -watch

that crap and see what I said and then try to

say it again. Mean my opinions don't change,

so I'm not gonna redo it. I mean granted the

videos would probably look better But I have

no desire to ever go back and rewatch those things.

I think they're pathetic Absolutely pathetic

I was back in the day. I was using a really cheap.

I think it was maybe $20 like a $20 Logitech

web camera that I set up on a Dinner tray like

a TV dinner tray that I was doing it in my living

room. Now I have this whole production thing

with lights and umbrellas and HD cameras. It's

so much different and really the only reason

why it's changed is because I think the other

stuff was so bad that I had to, otherwise it

was gonna drive me nuts. Now some people, Ben,

he just takes his iPhone and he records it. That's

that's good enough for him Well, I mean, you

know the iPhone has consistently progressed So

and I know specifically he has an iPhone 4. Yeah.

Yeah, that's a pretty good camera Like you watch

some of his videos the problem with the iPhone

4 is it has fucked up white balancing So yeah

times you're watching the video and the color

doesn't come across very well Like he'll review

a figure and it looks a completely different

color than it actually is, and that's just because

of the lighting that he uses and stuff. But yeah,

the iPhone 4 camera is a very good camera, and

I can't wait for the new one that's supposed

to have an even better camera. So this isn't

me just trashing other people. Like I said, I'll

pick myself. All of this, I can translate all

of your hatred for your own videos because you

want it. You don't think it sounds great or you

don't think it. I can translate it to me as far

as podcasting because when I started out, I started

out with a $40 USB headset at the time. That's

what was working. That is what I was able to

afford. That was what I was just starting out.

11 or 12 episodes of the TFG1 podcast, which

is my Transformers review show on the Generation

1 cartoon. The first 10 or 12 episodes of that,

the audio sucks. It doesn't suck so bad, but

it was just... It's more so my way of conveying

my thoughts at the time because I was new to

it. I was going through long drawn out synopsises

of each episode and I've changed my style over

the time. Obviously I've also got, you know,

I now have a condenser microphone. I don't use,

you know, headsets anymore. And I'm not saying

that headsets are bad. There are a lot of really

great headsets out there, but it just depends

on what your style is now and what you... Prefer

to do and I prefer using an actual microphone

over a headset sure I could you know Go to Bose

and I could get some of their headphones from

to actually have headphones, but I prefer not

having headphones You know when we started our

cartoon podcast tune cast classic at this point

episode 2 we talked about Tiny tune adventures

and the first recording of it the audio at the

time we had what program we had to record the

audio the audio quality was so horrible i said

we we spent like i don't know an hour hour and

a half on and i said guys i'm sorry the audio

quality in the record it it's not it's not even

worth putting online it's that The audio was

all distorted people were talking over each other.

There was no real chemistry You know and over

my time from 2008 to now in the last four years

that I've been podcasting in general It's I've

learned a lot I've learned my style and how I

present a podcast and I and I do all that translate

that back to YouTube is I now instead of Like

you were saying, you know, should I go back and

reshoot that or should I go back and re -record

that or should I go back and re -say that or

say that differently? I'll just record the podcast

because I'm so to the point now where I've got

my style set. I've got what I want to say set

and I don't care because we at GeekCast Radio

Network are explicit. I do not make podcasts

for children. Right. You know, so I'll take like

our Transformers animated show, Transformation

Intermission Podcast. I'll take that, say it's

an hour and a half. I'll take that clip, I'll

put it up against images from those episodes

that we talked about in the pod. Say we talked

about, let's see, episode nine we talked about

a fistful of energon, SUV, auto boot camp, and

Black Friday. So when I go to make that... video

mashup, I'll take images from each of those episodes

in accordance with the podcast image for that

podcast episode, I'll put that in the video mashup,

I'll put the audio under it, and I'll just slap

it on YouTube there. There's my video for the

week. I don't do reviews anymore because I just

don't enjoy it. Yeah. I've kind of slowed down

on mine mostly because of the health thing. I

mean, it really doesn't affect me. It doesn't

affect my health. I mean, it's not like I'm sitting

there with cancer or something. I mean, I'm not

trying to make it sound worse than it actually

is. But, you know, it's just nicer to not have

to worry about that stress. So yeah, I mean that's

that does the thing anything that makes you famous

Any kind of fame you get from anything whether

it's YouTube whether it's podcasting whether

it's you know Your Sigourney Weaver, you know,

whatever you're gonna have stress from being

famous Yeah, and if you need to step away from

that and and just you know, take a step back

and just reevaluate shit That's what you need

to do And if people don't if your audience or

if your fans don't understand that Then obviously

they don't care about you as much as you know

as they say they do Exactly exactly, you know,

and that's I mean somebody I've posted the day

I mean I did my war for Cybertron game because

that really was easy to do I mean I literally

stood in front of the camera I talked a little

bit and I played the game. I mean it was very

easy to do so I was bored and I did it You know,

now... Oh wow, Katy Perry, Rihanna, and Elton

John streaming live from Rock in Rio Festival

today at 5 o 'clock. Oh, that's interesting.

That's another person I don't care about. Who?

Katy Perry. Oh, I don't care. I don't really

care about her either, but I like Elton John.

But, you know, so what were we talking about?

Oh god. Let's move on. What's next? Oh, actually

let's uh, let's take a break because uh, we have

a voicemail from the land of the Irish. Oh! Hey

Paul, just thought I'd send in a little message

saying you want people to leave you voicemails

and everything. Just come in and say thanks for

being a friend. friends me like you don't know

how much it means just for you to be a friend

to me like I just love all my friends but it's

just great that you're you're part of it you

and Mike being friends with me I just it just

means a lot to me like the amounts the times

we talk on Twitter could be and in between transformers

tundra cats or just and something completely

random it just means a whole lot to me and I

just want to say, thanks for that. By the way,

my name is James Heen -hen, not Henanigan, or

Henan -hen -hen, whatever. It's Heen -hen. Get

it right, fool! Hey, sir! It's the Cali! Hello!

Hi, sorry, my TV was on. What were you watching?

News. News? Anything happen? Anything good happen?

No, I just like to keep myself informed. Da -da.

Did a bear steal another Prius? No, not this

time. What? A bear stole a Prius? A bear stole

a Prius in California, I think. Yep. Yeah. I

live in California, why don't I know about this?

I'll send you the link, hold on. Where in California

did this happen? Up in, um... Oh crap, I don't

even remember now. The bear got into the car,

I guess with food or something. It was like in

the middle of the night. then the people in the

house heard the rockets woke up and saw that

the bear was stuck in the car unable to get itself

out had somehow hit the gear shift that that's

the only thing they can figure and then the car

starts to roll backwards down the hill the police

had no idea how the hell to uh to really put

down what had happened because the bear did eventually

get out but the car was trashed hit a couple

rocks hit a couple trees um the inside was just

completely ruined so they rode down theft by

bear Bear steals trashes Northern California

families Toyota Prius during vacation a Northern

California family has a summer vacation story

That's almost too much to believe a bear stole

their car The McCarthy family says that they

were on vacation in Lake Tahoe when a bear broke

into their vehicle California Okay, it didn't

happen in California, but they are from California

Lake Tahoe's not in Northern - I know, I know,

it's in Nevada. Yeah. Brian said he called 911

when he looked out the window again. The Prius

was gone. The frustrated bear in the front seat

went in reverse down the steep 25 foot driveway,

slamming the Prius into a neighbor's front yard.

Several boulders in the lawn stopped the car

from hitting the home. The McCarthy family said

somehow the bear was able to free himself from

the car never to be seen again. You know what

lesson that needs to be learned from this? apparently

bears are not very good at backwards driving

there isn't a video in in this link as well that

actually shows the story it's hilarious that

they recorded the bear doing this no it's a it's

a news story like a it's a news clip It's News

Station interviewing the family about how it

happened, and they show pictures of the destroyed

car. It seems shocking. The upholstery tore up

the whole inside of the car. What did you think

was going to happen? It's a bear. It's stuck

inside the car. It's not even the most marshmallows.

This is not The Great Outdoors with John Candy,

where everything is... My friends can hear you.

uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh...

uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... to have you make

a guest appearance. Yay! Oh, you're making puggle

hats, huh? They barely take any time at all,

so I'm making a couple hats for her. Oh, cool.

Are they like beanies? No, just tiny little felt

top hats with the puggles. Yep. I have one for

the mage that I bought from her. It's kind of

like a witch's hat. Well, the one that I have

is... Hold on, let me find the hat. All these

700 pound person upstairs crashes through my

ceiling. I hate living on the first floor. Mike,

I love you, but when you're 400 pounds, you can't

bitch about other people. Yes. Yes, I can. OK.

Because he's almost twice you. Whatever. I love

you. Let me find the top hat. Oh my lord. And

here's lockdown in a top hat. How did you do

lockdown in a top hat? Oh, a top hat! Okay, yeah,

that's awesome. More top hats. There you go,

now I'm done. He almost looks Irish in that picture.

They wanted a brown top hat and it had one of

that special embossed felt that kind of makes

it look like scales or something. Oh, those are

very interesting. Oh, those are the Autocon 2009

Puggles. Okay. Yeah, but they're still good No,

no, I was looking at the design of the one on

the left of the Autocon 2009 I'm like, I haven't

seen that design before of the actual puzzle

and I was like, oh That's what those are from

Oh, that's kind of sad Yeah Very cool, very cool.

Fabric comes and goes, new stuff comes in, old

stuff comes out, stuff gets discontinued. Yep.

I don't know anything about fabric. Damn. Got

nothing. It's a pain in the ass. So it's a pain

in the ass. I am not. No, no, fabric is a pain

in the ass. Not you, the fabric. I know. So,

how are the kitty Puggles, Optobotamus? Wait,

what? You cut out. How are the kitty Puggles?

Um, uh, Gracie is sitting on top of the DeLorean,

and, uh, and Burger and Louie are just hanging

out next to it. Awesome. You should make a video,

uh, you should make a video, Paul, of... You

showing the Puggles to the cats just to see what

they do. Louie just smelled his. You should still

get it on video. Burger and Gracie don't really

care. Louie's the one that always wants to like

smell shit. Better than me smelling my cat. I'm

gonna pick this on plotter. That's what I call

it. It's dirty. Yes, so so Callie is making me

the the BotCon Puggles and Dead End came out

so awesome. I love like I'm not I'm not having

like 20 % done am I? Well, no it is still good.

No, I'm just saying that they're coming out Amazingly

because Dead End was Dead End looks so awesome

Dead End so far is my favorite. I like Breakdown

as well You got pictures of these? Yeah, hold

on. Share and share alike. That's what I always

say. I put both of them up on DeviantArt. Here's

Breakdown. This is the most recent one that she

did. This is the one she just finished today.

Thank you very much. I still say he needs FML

cannons, but anyway. Okay, where is Dead End?

Dead End, Dead End, Dead End. I need the link

for Dead End, Callie. I don't have it on me.

I'm wondering why I have mysterious bags on my

desk. Mysterious bags on your desk? There's a

whole bunch of ziplock bags on my pile of fabric

scraps and I have no idea where they came from.

The grocery store. The grocery store. Yeah, that's

where you normally get ziplock bags. Yeah. You

know, I bet you that Mr. Derek J. Wyatt would

like some of this. He's seen the Dead End one?

I don't know if he's seen... He's seen Break

It Down. He actually likes it more than Dead

End. Oh, does he? Okay, cool. Yeah, that's the

thing. Every time she puts up a new one for the

BotCon stuff, I always retweet it, and I tag

BotCon in it to see if BotCon says anything.

So far they haven't, but I think they've been

busy. They said something about Dead End, because

I got a retweet from them about Dead End. Yeah,

and I was kind of surprised. Um, but yeah, um...

dead end looks so cool very very awesome oh wow

that does look cool yeah someone said in the

comments on there that he almost looks like he

has hair like the black part on on the front

of his on the front of his head it's kind of

a visor thing that was supposed to be like that

you know what i was trying to do yeah yeah but

it's very very very cool i like that that's pretty

neat i'm looking up I'm trying to look. The only

thing that might've made it better would be a

little mustache. Well, he does have a tiny mustache.

He does? It's very tiny. It's a tiny goatee.

Oh, you mean a mustache as in like an actual

mustache, mustache above the heart face? Yeah.

Yeah. No, it's okay though. That was my best.

What? Nothing. What'd you say? That was my best.

it's okay no no no it's not no no no i'm not

no i'm not i'm not saying it's not good i'm saying

it's awesome i love it but what paul is saying

is like the lines that come out of the side of

his face that are like right there on the black

part. I thought it was going to be more of the

way that the toy has the little mustache handlebar

thing. But the way you did it is fine. It's really,

really cool. When we first saw pictures of Dead

End when it first came out, everybody was bitching

and complaining because he had a little goatee

thing. Yeah. I thought that would have been funny

just to make fun of him. You know, I might need

some of those. Uh -oh. I've created a monster.

I'm sorry, Cali. I have all the stuff that I

got from BotCon nicely displayed on my wall over

here. And those might look cute up there. I'm

looking over at my shelf right now, figuring

out how I can rearrange stuff. I've created a

monster, I'm sorry Callie. It's okay. I didn't

mean to. Don't worry. What about, what about,

could you do one of the uh, the autotroopers?

I only actually uh, did um, damn it, what's his

name? Ironfist? Fizzatron. Fizzatron? Ironfist,

yeah. Yeah I already did him and it's generally

the same, same layout I think. Yeah it would

just, it would just have to be, it would just

have to be white. with blue huh what about what

about toxitron yep she's doing toxitron for me

yeah that works out he's gonna be face plated

too oh are you gonna do motor master i don't

know how she's gonna do motor master yeah i have

a couple ideas but i haven't quite figured it

out yet i mean are you gonna have it be kind

of square i have ideas oh okay i'm sorry i'm

sorry no i'm just a little After I eat I get

into like food comas, so yeah, she's she's a

little distracted so Yes, so yes, this was just

a little guest appearance by Cali on what? He

always records We'll be back after this So yesterday

Thursday. I get a call. From a plus zero zero

zero zero zero zero zero number. That's a hang

-up. They do not leave a voicemail I don't know

if it's not that I really give out my Skype phone

number the 502 -526 -5821 not that I really give

that out to anybody in general So I seriously

doubt it was a bill collector or anything like

that. I don't know what the fuck it is Don't

stop I don't know what it is, but Skype will

not let the notification go away that I missed

the call, and it will not let me select on the

thing to delete the fact that I got the call

from the recent menu. I've been emailing them

back and forth, back and forth, showing them

different screenshots of the fact that the only

time I can actually click on the thing is if

I hold my mouse on it and hold the left mouse

button down, so it shows up blue. But even when

I do that, whoever's window I'm in at the time,

like I've got your window pulled up, whoever's

window I'm in at the time, if I just try to click

on this little zero, zero, zero, zero, zero thing,

it just goes right back to whoever the current

window is. It doesn't even show a missed call

window. like when I miss a call from a phone

number it'll go to I can click on 502 -555 -2525

I can click on that that listing I can click

on an unknown number and it'll say sorry because

there is no number there is no this there is

no that whatever else but this shit it won't

fucking go away and it's pissing me off Skype

sent me instructions on how to Obviously, you

know, to uninstall and to remove the Skype folder

and this, that, and the other thing and everything

else, and I knew all that, but they also sent

me instructions to remove Skype from my registry

to completely erase the program and the files

from the computer that I have. And I did all

that, and they said, okay, now after you do that,

reinstall it, whatever else, did that, the fucking

thing is still there. So... I'm hoping if and

when they update from 5 .5 or 5 .6 or 10 .9 or

whatever the fuck it is. I have 5 .5. That's

the current version. Whenever they update to

like five point five point seven seven nine five

eighty seven twenty whatever the fuck Hopefully

next time they do an update this will disappear

But as of right now I constantly have in the

background a notification saying that I have

a missed call You know for the longest time I

would get because a lot of times people like

Adding me. I don't know if it's like they just

get on Skype And I don't even know who these

people are because I don't give out my Skype

at all I don't talk to anybody on here. I mean,

we're I don't even know where the hell's the

You know, I don't like Skype cuz it's like I

can't ever see anything like I have your window

up right now, but I don't know where the actual

Thing oh here it is. Okay. Um, I have I don't

even talk to him So I can I'm gonna delete him

right now. I don't know who that is. I'm removing

that one Right now I have I don't know who this

is. So you're gone. Um, I literally have probably

I don't know I mean a bunch of people probably

have me added but like right now I only show

five people is being online. Yeah, I mean, you

know the thing for me is is I get that you don't

like it and that's fine. Skype for me, obviously,

is what I started podcasting with. It's what

I will always podcast with because it is the

most reliable messenger service at this juncture

in time. Well, reliable in terms of the audio

quality. In terms of an instant messaging system,

they're all pretty much the same. Yeah, the instant

message thing, they're all pretty much the same.

But the thing about Skype is, and I'm sure Yahoo

or MSN or AOL, I'm sure they all have the same

services, but I pay... $60 a year for the online

number and my US Canada subscription. The only

reason why I even have those is so people can

call into the voicemail line if they so choose

to. And so I can call those interviews that I

get that may not have Skype, that only have a

phone number. I remember one interview I did

with Stan, one of the times I've talked to Stan

Bush. We did the interview, he actually pulled

over to the side of the road and sat there in

his car for like 20 minutes. I remember you telling

me about that. Yeah, that's pretty cool. So I

mean, that's the good thing about, there are

certain good things about it, but I can understand,

you don't use it that much. And I understand

that, and that's fine. But it's like, why can't

they resolve this issue of this notification

going away? Oh, that's what I was going to say.

So yeah, I mean, I don't use it very much, but

when I would use it, I would... constantly get

notices that I would be invited into calls or

chat rooms or whatever. I would constantly have

to leave the room and then leave the conversation.

It was annoying because I would see these notifications

up there and it would constantly just drive me

nuts just there. There are some people that use

Skype as a massive group. Like meetup type of

thing and that's fine. That's all well and good

I've actually done a couple of them I've done

a couple of them with a lot of the people that

are on Twitter actually general techno Nitro

streak, you know a lot of those people at the

time they you know It was big on late night conversations

on Skype, right? You know this that and the other

thing and everything else and that's all well

and good but at the same time people have to

understand that For me, and this is the way I've

always been with it, sometimes I've let this

lapse, I use Skype almost as a business tool.

It is for podcast, for me, it is for podcasting.

It is not for general chat. It is not for, you

know, that's why I'm on Facebook and Twitter.

Twitter, I will talk to anybody on Twitter that

has half a brain cell. You know, that's where

I only a half of brings up. Exactly. But it's

like, you know, I have boundaries in the way

I interact online and Skype is a boundary that

I reserve for podcasting because podcasting essentially

is, is my vocation, even though I don't get paid

for it. But I mean, you know, it's, it's one

of those things where that's what I do. Right.

And that, you know, that's, that makes total

sense. I mean, that's something that you should

use. My own my only complaint, you know, and

I use it really When I when I need to talk to

you, that's the only yeah, I mean and that's

fine I still see now why people on Twitter are

like Chuckdog99 and all them, call us an old

married couple. Well, if they're not calling

you and I an old married couple, they're calling

me and Pia an old married couple. Oh no, Chuck

has specifically said that you and I fight, when

we fought on Twitter and crap, that you and I

are like an old married couple. It's like we're

the grumpy old men of the 2000s. Which is...

I love those movies. I do too. Those are so good.

Actually, I can't... What's the guy's name? Not

Walter Macau. What's that? Jack Lemmon. Yeah,

Jack Lemmon. My... I almost said girlfriend.

My wife's grandfather... actually was best friends

with him and when he died he was he went to his

uh his funeral and all that stuff and gave some

kind of a speech there it's actually pretty cool

they lived they lived in the same kind of area

i just found out this not too long ago her her

grandpa uh is a is a what is he he's like a chemist

or something he actually he actually invented

a part like this dude is like he he's got Borderline

Alzheimer's so does so does his wife. Well, she's

a whole lot worse Like literally she'll I mean

she'll come up and she'll be introduced to me

or whatever because she does she doesn't ever

remember me Yeah, literally five minutes later.

She'll be like, who are you again? And I'm like,

you know, and it's really bad, you know, I mean

it's to the point now where it's really laughable

but um Her grandfather's kind of like that as

well, but he's like a chemist or something like

he had his own lab He all this stuff and dude's

got like a shit ton of money. It's disgusting

but um Apparently and I just found this out that

he actually worked on the Manhattan Project And

was working on I'm trying to remember where it

was she told me where it was I think it was somewhere

here in California because the manhand project

was like spread out across the country and the

actual tests were done in like New Mexico or

something, but he was actually partially responsible

for Doing something with the uranium that was

used You know, I mean that's I'm like because

what were you watching? We were watching a documentary

on Netflix about Hiroshima, you know, which had

the bombs and stuff dropped on it, you know,

she was telling that I'm like, are you serious?

And she's like, yeah, I'm like, that's kind of

kind of creepy, you know, I'm like, how did he

feel about that? And she's like, you know, honestly,

because a lot of people felt bad about developing

all that stuff, knowing that it was going to

kill so many people. And she said that Back then,

it was of the mindset that if they didn't build

this thing, then a lot more people would die.

So, while they felt bad that they were gonna

use this, you know, terrible weapon, it was like

a means to an end, and he didn't feel all that

guilty about it. I'm like, wow, that's pretty

crazy. I know I feel pretty bad. At least, you

know, after the fact, but, you know, he still

maintains that, you know, if they didn't do it,

it would, it would, uh... You know, you know

millions of people could have died as opposed

to thousands, but I don't know I watched that

I watched that the documentary on it and we did

it to them, you know, so it's like I'm like wow,

and I'm seeing the the after effects that the

bomb had on all these people You know, I'm just

sitting here and I'm looking at I'm like these

were innocent people I mean, they weren't, it

wasn't military that we targeted or anything.

I mean, it was, you know, the city had like a

military base, but I mean, it wasn't that, I

mean, it wasn't anything special or anything.

And I'm like, I'm watching this. And honestly,

I'm like, and I was telling her, I said, you

know, I know this isn't, doesn't really sound

right, but this must, you know, I mean, it's

like during that time, we became Al Qaeda. And

I know, I'm like, I'm like, that doesn't even

make sense to say, but that's the only thing

that I can think of. That they were over there,

we were at war with them, you know, and we, you

know, we celebrated, you know, when we killed

all these people, and everybody was having a

fun time, and it was like, yay, we did it. And

I'm like, that must be what Al Qaeda was thinking,

you know, at 9 -11, when they blew us up. You

know, and I, because I'm sitting here and watching

this, and... you know, they were telling all

these stories and there was this one story where

this mom was sitting there and she had survived

and she was telling how her daughter was trapped

under some rubble and was burning to death and

crying and screaming for her mom to save her

and her mom couldn't she couldn't get to her

because the heat was so intense and the mom was

sitting there and just sat outside where listening

to her daughter cry for help and beg for her

mom to help her and the mom was sitting there

just outside of the reach of this kid and just

sat there and was crying and was apologizing

saying I'm so sorry I'm such a bad mom going

on and on and on about this and I'm sitting here

and I'm like God that's terrible Yeah, you know,

I mean all these people they had no idea what

was going on all these people, you know All these

Japanese people they had no clue what was going

on. They weren't part of the war I mean, I mean

like I said, I mean most of them were civilians

and I'm like And and then you know in hindsight,

I'm like that's how we were You know on 9 -eleven

we were you know, all these terrible stories,

you know, I mean the people were trapped We couldn't

get to them. We're all feeling bad and I'm like

But we did that exact same thing to Japanese

people years ago. But didn't they? I really don't

want to get too far into this, but didn't they

attack Pearl Harbor first? They did. They did.

You know, I mean, and it was, you know, and I'm

not saying but, you know, the biggest, I mean,

and obviously, I mean, I'm trying I don't want

to compare the two tragedies. Right, yeah, we're

not getting into that. That was the only thing

that entered my mind. That I was like, I mean,

watching how we reacted, you know, we attacked

these big evil people in Japan, you know, and

we got back at them for what they did to us.

And, you know, in hindsight, you know, it's like,

look how much other stuff that we've done to

Al -Qaeda. I mean, we've made them hate us. they

believe that they're doing something for the

benefit of humanity by attacking us and You know

bring bringing down because we're infidels and

you know, we're evil You know, well, that's what

we did with the Japanese. We thought they were

evil and yeah, they attacked us at Pearl Harbor

and You know, I mean in hindsight though. I I

don't know how much of a Comparison this is but

Pearl Harbor was a very important naval base

for us Yeah, you know, you know Hiroshima or

was it Nagasaki? I think it was Hiroshima was

the first one. Yeah, he's not exactly was the

second one. Um It really from what from what

I was seeing it wasn't really that big of a military

base They all they did was train soldiers there.

It wasn't like it was a strategic important place.

Yeah, but Don't know. I just I just thought that

was amazing. And then like I said My wife told

me that her grandfather worked on the Manhattan

project. I was like, oh, that's kind of cool

also conversely. He apparently created Something

that goes along with something in a in a car.

Um, Um, a semiflange Probably that's probably

what it is. Yeah It's like something it's something

that like And if you said it I would instantly

know what it is, but it's a Drive shaft No, it's

something that hooks up to like the like the

oxygen intake or something something like that

You know, but I mean he's got a patent on it

and gets like a shit ton of money from it The

other thing that we were going to lastly on this

episode of team bottom us we were going to bring

up was Sadly, sadly in the toy world. I love

the sarcasm that's in your voice. For those of

you who are huge fans of those proton pack carrying

mofo ghostbusters, you no longer have a subscription.

And I just got my email that my My refund has

been processed and it's complete, but I still

don't have the money back in my account. It'll

probably show up Monday or Tuesday. Yeah, probably.

So I'm going to read directly from mattycollector

.com about their news article that they posted

on September 19th. Update on the Ghostbusters

subscription in 2012 news. Ghostbusters fans,

you know how much we... You know how much, uh,

wait, wait, wait, hold on. You know how much

you love... This makes no sense. It's, it's,

oh my god. I want - I don't know how much you

love the Maddie team. You know how much love

the Maddie team has for Ghostbusters and all

that? There it is. Ready to support a subscription

in 2012? Sales were lower than we expected. We

regret to announce that we have to cancel the

2012 Club Act 01 subscription. All 2012 orders

will be promptly refunded if you purchase a 2012

subscription. You should see the refund in your

account within five to seven business days of

your refund being processed depending on your

bank. All 2011 subscriptions will continue to

ship as scheduled. Like you, we were disappointed

that the subscription will be going away for

2012, but to show our appreciation for you fans

who stepped up and bought a 2012 subscription,

we're working on a quote unquote thank you just

for you. Stay tuned and we'll have something

special coming for you in appreciation for your

support. Please note that the Ghostbusters line

isn't over. To do right by all Ghostbusters fans,

we are still moving forward with the previously

announced figures for 2012. Ready to believe

you, Peter? With Taxi Cab Ghost and the rookie

Dana Azul, and a fourth figure in the fall to

be announced, these figures will be available

at our regular monthly sales, like are the lines.

Costs have risen since the brand was launched,

and the price of the 6 -inch figures will increase

to $22 each. Now on to brighter news in celebration

of the boo busting boys favorite time of the

year We're going to re -release some of your

favorite figures during a special Ghostbusters

Halloween sale the sale will run from 10 17 through

10 31 and It is a perfect time to fill in any

missing characters in your collection and stock

up on favorites, but wait Yes, there's more not

only will we have a great selection of characters

the October 17th sale will also bring the long

-awaited ghost trap prop plus the return of the

say puffed marshmallow man again on behalf of

the team thanks for being a loyal fan long live

the ghostbusters maddie okay there's several

things wrong with this okay first of all when

they announced subscriptions this year i was

all gung -ho because obviously i'm clubaternia

that's really all i care about at this point

in time but when they announced subscriptions

they announced let me go up here and look here

with the uh... let's see store Okay, they announced

2012 DC Universe Club Infinite Earths was one

of the new ones Club Eternia 2012 Voltron Lion

Force Club was a new club and they and also announced

Ghostbusters at the time They had a certain percentage

that they had to fill for Club Infinite Earths

if it didn't meet the the full -on percentage

that they You know the number of subscriptions

that they required to even go forward with the

line, right? They weren't going to do the Club

Infinite Earths at all They made what 60 % of

sales of what their goal was. Yeah, it was it

was up there Yeah, yeah, I think I heard Again,

we've mentioned him plenty of times before, why

not? I listened to Pixel Dan's It Figures podcast,

and I think I heard Dan say they hit 60 % of

the Club Infinite Earth's sales. Right. So they

didn't make their goal, but yet they're still

going ahead with the line that makes no sense

to me whatsoever. And yet they say that there's

a lack of sales for Ghostbusters. For the subscriptions

for Ghostbusters, but you're losing out all those

subscriptions you people just refunded You're

losing out on all those sales. So how is there

a lack of sales? Oh Yeah, this is this is giving

me a headache now, it's really a big mess and

You know There there isn't any reason that I

can think of Now actually if you head on over

to mattycollector .com's forum There are there's

one thing that they didn't mention in their In

their little release they mentioned the courtroom

Peter or not courtroom Peter ready to believe

you Peter they also listed the rookie who was

initially going to be the club Ecto subscription

figure the exclusive figure that you've got which

in my opinion is a big giant waste of a figure

also, you're getting Dana Barrett as Jewel which

was another one that I was kind of iffy about

and a lot of people have asked about Vigo They're

like nobody mentioned Vigo yet. We've seen Vigo.

I mean pixel Dan reviewed them And Toy Guru did

confirm on the forums over at Maddie Collector

that Vigo was still coming in late 2011 as announced

at San Diego Comic Con. So that's very good.

I'm very happy that they're still doing that

figure. Now, I'm kind of on the fence about this,

but this is what he basically said. Again, this

comes from Toy Guru over on the forums. He said,

if we had more subscribers, we would have more

tooling and could do different figures that did

not need to share as many parts. As is, our tooling

is based on sales. And while Ghostbuster fans

are very loud online, there are just not enough

sales overall to expand tooling beyond one or

two fully tooled figures a year, along with a

few low tooling figures, such as used in the

2011 line. Fans want the majority of the figures

to be original characters like the ghosts and

Dana, but at the end of the day we need to run

a business as well, and that means banking some

high tool figures with a majority of low tool

figures. It is simply the economics and logistics

of running a low quota collector line, no different

from what we do with Masters of the Universe,

only Masters of the Universe has more subscribers,

so we have more tooling. as I was reading this

basically what I got from it and there was another

one that I read somewhere else and I've been

trying to find it and I can't find it basically

the way that they explained it is that the the

retooled figures and the sales for them are what

they use to pay for the new tooled stuff and

because there's you know the sales are so low

on the retooled stuff or the, you know, the reused

stuff, they don't have enough money basically

to make new stuff. So we don't get much new stuff,

you know, like new ghosts or whatever, and that's

really what people wanted. And then he talks

about how, you know, they retool the Masters

of the Universe stuff. They don't do a lot of

retooling, I mean, or new tools on the Masters

of the Universe figures. By the very nature of

it, they basically just reuse parts and then

repaint them. Look at all the heads that we've

gotten from Masters. They include at least an

extra head with almost every figure. accessories,

look at all this, that, and the other thing.

Yes, there are a lot of reused parts. I mean,

the male buck is the male buck. I mean, if you

have the male buck for Skeletor, it can be repainted

as Keldor, it can be repainted as this, that,

and the other thing, so. Right. You know, but,

you know, so there's already two, you know, I

just, you know, in the first year, and I could

see this happening. because in the first year

there were six figures and this year we were

only going to get um four or well four and then

the uh rookie would have made it five so they

were already scaling this back and i already

had a feeling and you know i think we i mean

i think i've actually bitched about it on this

very show where you know we have or i don't know

maybe i didn't you know we're we're basically

you know we basically have the same figures over

and over and over again and this line got cancelled

for whatever reason but you know I just don't

understand why like you said why did you go ahead

and cancel the subscription now I got it honestly

because I just want to kind of support the Ghostbuster

line I mean I I'm happy with the Ghostbuster

stuff it's you know and I figured I'm gonna buy

them all anyhow I might as well do it so but

now it's like they're going to charge you two

dollars more per figure because cost has increased

so yeah i'm like okay and that's not including

the 895 1095 shipping cost that's 22 dollars

i was going to get that okay hold on hold on

all right all right now it's like i want to get

the peter with the, you know, Ready to Believe

You Peter, because I already have Rey and Egon,

so I don't necessarily need it. I really honestly

don't, because when the Ready to Believe You

Rey figure came out, I bought two extra, and

I had extra heads, because I bought two of those

Ghostbuster 2 four packs. I opened one, and I

kept one in box. Well, the one in box is what

I have on display. I opened the other ones, and

I popped the heads off. And I popped the heads

off of Ray, and I made my own custom. I already

got a Ready to Believe You Peter sitting up on

my display shelf right now. So really, all I

want is the taxicab ghost. Again, something else

that now we're paying $22 basically for a taxicab

ghost. I paid $20 for the Ready to Believe You

Egon so I could have the library ghost, which

really isn't all that good looking in the first

place. Now let me ask you this, though. Why if

there are if you know companies in general all

about making money, that's that's the point here,

right? Why wouldn't they just say okay for those

of you who woman? Maybe it's because nobody would

buy ready to believe you Peter My question is

why wouldn't they just take all the ghosts that

they've released? So far library goes and just

whatever else you pack. Yeah a ghost multi pack

or release them individually at 15 bucks a pop

or you know, whatever you'd still be paying,

you'd be paying, you know, the same $20 for a

Peter figure if you wanted that Peter figure

and you'd be paying an additional $15 for the

ghosts. Yeah, I don't know. I couldn't tell you,

you know, but it's like when it comes to it though,

I never really wanted the rookie. I thought the

rookie was stupid. That's so fucking stupid.

Now, now I have the option. to not give them

money. Before, they were getting money for it,

because when you sign up for the figure, or when

you sign up for the subscription, you pay $20,

which covers the cost of that figure. So now

you're giving me my $20 back. I'm not going to

use it to buy the rookie. I mean, I probably

will anyhow, just because I'm a completionist.

But there's people that won't do it. I triple

dog dare you to not buy the rookie. I'll probably

do it just to see how it looks. You know, I mean,

it's very sad because they screwed up this line

from the very beginning. Number one, and I found

this out that the four horsemen are not tooling

these figures. So they're having their own in

-house people do it, which means it should be

cheaper for them to do already anyhow. It doesn't

make any sense why it's so expensive. But they

constantly gave us figures. Now, For example,

we've got the courtroom Peter figure, which came

with Nunzio Scaleri, one of the Scaleri brothers.

Now we don't know if we're gonna get a Tony Scaleri.

It's the Scaleri brothers. You need to have two

of them. So now we're getting, and there's a

fourth figure in the fall that's gonna be announced.

Maybe it'll be that, but we don't know. Now,

the other thing is we also don't have the slime

blower Rey figure. Wait, that comes out... Actually,

I think that comes out in October. You know,

so I mean... I honestly am very disappointed.

I mean, we'll probably never get a Louis Tully

as the gatekeeper. You know, I mean, we're getting

Dana Barrett as Zul, which is nice, but... you

know there's just so much with this that they

did so wrong just so so wrong with it i mean

just constantly reusing the same stuff making

people have to buy figures when they really didn't

want them just because they wanted to get certain

things you know like i i wouldn't care about

having the ready to believe you any of them i

would yeah ghosts that they came with and that's

that's really it You know, I know this probably

won't happen, but I'm almost hoping that Mattel

will just let the license lapse on Ghostbusters

so NECA can pick it up. That would be wonderful.

I mean, you're not the only person that has mentioned

that, and I would absolutely love to see that

happen. But who knows? I can ask... I forgot

the guy's name. The who what I don't know the

guy who um God I can't remember I can't remember

he's like the brand manager for NECA Randy something

is his name I mean I talked I talked to him fairly

often on Twitter, but I Could ask him I mean

that would be something I would love to see NECA

used to have the license for Ghostbusters they

did some of the the uh, terror dogs, and um,

um, and, oh, uh, uh, big ugly chick at the end

of the movie, um. Yeah, Zool. No, that's not

Zool, was it? Big ugly chick. No, that, Gozer!

Gozer! Oh, Gozer, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay,

yeah, yeah. You know, I mean, so they, they did

those, and I would love to see them get them

again so that they can get them and I could finally

get those because they did look really cool.

You know Mattel also dropped the ball with the

Ghostbusters line with only Releasing like they

could do they could keep subscriptions up if

they would do this What they should have done

is though, you know those retro action figures.

Oh, yeah yeah those are great for whatever you

know for the people that like those types of

figures they should have after doing all the

Ghostbusters one and two stuff right they should

have moved on to the real Ghostbusters and made

six inch figures out of those characters oh yeah

i would love to you know but again um and actually

he said something about that let me let me find

um the the wonderful toy guru scott blah blah

We'll just call him asshole. Oh, come on. I know

I'm sorry I I I don't really believe for one

second that he cares about this Like like he

says he does okay, so here So they were asking

fans have been asking this was the question since

the beginning of the line fans have been asking

for real Ghostbusters in the six inch line and

more ghosts yet that hasn't changed and now the

line is in danger and Us the fans that have supported

it basically get punished with higher prices

Less figures, no sub. I mean, really, that's

the question. And the other thing that nobody

is mentioning is that, as you said, buying all

of these subscriptions at the same time meant

you got a discounted price on your shipping.

Because for some reason, unlike every other online

company in the universe, Mattel or Manicollector

can't do combined shipping. Which is stupid.

Now, I have, for example, I have, uh, I signed

up for three of the four clubs. I signed up for

Clubecto, Voltron, and Masters of the Universe.

All of them were gonna get shipped to me at the

same time, and it was gonna be a discounted price.

Now, I'm gonna get two separate packages. I'm

gonna get my Masters of the Universe, and my

Voltron stuff, assuming that they come out in

the same month. I'm gonna get that in one package,

at a discounted price. But then I'm gonna have

to pay another, like you said, between eight

and ten dollars, to have my Ghostbuster figures

in 2012 shipped to me. So now I have to pay more,

plus I'm getting ripped off on my shipping. And

that's something else that people aren't really

complaining about. Now, that obviously aggravates

me. That's another total fuck -up in terms of

Maddie Collector. But Toy Guru's response was...

to the real Ghostbusters was the difficulty in

doing the real Ghostbusters in the 6 inch is

because each figure would be a 100 % tool. We

don't want to do the cheap thing and paint the

movie box in animated colors. Same goes for the

ghosts. Lots of tooling there. The sales just

aren't there to get enough tooling. We use the

low tool figures like lab coats or courtroom

scenes to help pay for the fully tooled figures

like Dana. It all rolls up into an annual tooling

budget over annual sales, with their sales with

where sales are, we have to balance the line

with low -tool figures to pay for the fully -tooled

figures. We know the demand is there, but when

compared to sale numbers, even if you look at

the better -selling figures, like the movie One

Peter, the fans are louder through posts online

than they are numerous. Which basically means

people are all talk and not action, which that's

fine, but, you know, they're not giving us really

what we want. Why do well, you know, you know

this goes this also goes back to a conversation

I think we had I don't think we had it on there.

Um, I Get so confused now when when what's on

air and what isn't I know I know I know it's

okay You know, I think you and I were talking

about the other day about You know buying online

versus toy hunting right, right and for me toy

hunting It's not fun anymore. It's not like there's

nothing out right now in stores that I actually

want to go out and look for I would much rather

just sit here in my chair go to Insert store

name here and you know Amazon big red toy store

TF source, whatever, you know go to them pay

whatever I have to pay to get it Yeah, I have

to wait for it. But honestly if Mattel Would

go back to Walmart Toys R Us Target and say hey

Let's have exclusive deals with each of these

stores right to Release exclusive figures like

say you can only find ready to believe you Egon

at targets and ready believe you Ray is that

at Walmart? You know whatever you know put them

in stores Yeah, people have to go out and spend

gas to get to the stores, but you can still charge

You know 1699 1599 right first six inch figure

that has all this tooling. You're still making

your money, you know, I Mean and I don't know

exactly what stuff they're looking at You know

that is is comparing You know where they're drawing

their numbers, I'm sure that I'm sure they're

getting it from somewhere I'm sure they're not

just making up the stuff but Oh, yeah, I know

they're not making up this stuff, but... I just

think, you know, when Scott, whatever his name

is... Toy Guru, yeah. Sure. When he comes out

and he says this stuff about how, you know, like,

the very first thing in his, like, you know,

you know how much the Maddie team loves Ghostbusters.

Bullshit! If you loved it as much as you claimed

to, you wouldn't let it... I mean, you would

figure out a way to make this line survive. And

as it is right now, I'm going on air right now

in record saying that after 2012 We're not gonna

get any more Ghostbusters stuff Probably not

it's it's it's done. It's done. They're not gonna

They're not gonna waste time, you know now all

their money now they can focus on you know DCUC

and You know which which probably DCUC sells

probably better than Ghostbusters But again,

you know, you're not putting them in stores.

You're not giving it that chance Well DCUC wasn't

see see that's what that's the thing the DCUC

club the Club Infinite Earths DCUC through with

I think they've said this DCUC through wave 20

will still be in stores the club is specifically

for and again this goes back to Hasbro versus

Mattel whereas Mattel is more collector based

and Hasbro is more consumer based DCUC Club Infinite

Earths is specifically for the characters That

are like almost truly exclusives like all the

stores After I think wave 17 all the stores are

just gonna have the generic The characters that

sell the most superman's batman's wonder, you

know those type characters the club is for all

the fan collectible Figures, but they're see

that's the thing. They're both gonna be in stores

and you're also gonna have a club So you're still

giving them all this freaking money. Yeah Yeah,

and I don't understand why they can't use some

of that money and actually make decent Ghostbusters

stuff, but It's I don't know it's It was fun

while it lasted I guess I just kind of think

it's pointless that they Go forward they create

this you know and you know they they make it

sound like they're doing us a favor by continuing

to make the figures that they announced well

they probably have like legally because people

already signed up for it they probably legally

have to still make those because they were promised

to us you know so I would say they probably have

to still give us those figures not that they're

doing us any favors or anything but I mean it's

just so sad because I think that this is definitely

a line that could be a whole lot better than

it is and handle the whole lot better and I think

Toyru has handled it terribly. See, I don't even

know if he's... I don't know if it's... He's

the brand manager. He's the brand manager. He's

a brand manager, but I thought he was specifically

for Masters. I didn't know... Yeah, he's the

brand manager for a lot of their stuff. Oh. You

know, it's just... It's pathetic. Honestly, I'm

just gonna sit back. I'm going to enjoy my my

master's stuff and and that's it. I'm trying

out 2011 Ghostbuster I'm trying to see what we

still have coming out. I know I Know I I think

I want to say in October Okay, here we go WonderCon

This is your intermission Okay, yeah, so here's

here's the The slime blower ray figure which

is nice. I'm glad that we're actually gonna get

that that'll complete You know the whole yeah,

yeah. Yeah, the only thing for October that's

coming out for For Ghostbusters is slime blow

array in the prop replica ghost trap. Yeah, which

I'm totally gonna buy that too because that thing

looks awesome But that's October And then I think

is it November December that beagle comes out

I'm not sure it's always such a pain in the ass

trying to find out Release stuff for this damn

thing because they don't show anything Let me

see And see this is another thing that pisses

me off about like like I don't mind the Masters

being a subscription Right because that's that's

the way it needs to be and I understand that

but they can have only at Toys R Us WWE figures

Exclusive to Toys R Us, but they can't move the

Ghostbusters line to stores to have stores. Oh

god. Yeah, that's yeah, that's the other thing

that their whole Ghostbusters, the whole WWE

figures. And you know what they should honestly

do? Mattel's store, Matty Collector, it should

just be a store instead of like... Instead of

doing subscriptions. I know that's how they kind

of make their money and all this and yes It's

great that we have like subscription exclusive

stuff, right? It's like Shadow Weaver and stuff

like that. It's awesome that they have that but

honestly for the people that Maybe just getting

into the line That go to the store and like oh,

this is sold out. This is so they should instead

of doing subscriptions They should just keep

manufacturing Like, manufacture 10 ,000 of each

figure and keep them in stock so people can fucking

buy them. Right. That's a whole other thing.

Oh, I know. That's a whole other thing. Yeah.

Yeah. Did you find anything else out for November,

December for gross books? It says that there's

another one, but... There's supposed to be one

in December Update schedule August October. Yes,

it's fine blower ray. You gotta have something

I want to say that it's Vigo. I think it's Vigo

that comes out in November Yeah, yeah. Yeah.

Oh, no that it's December. Okay, so nothing in

November December is gonna be Vigo. Yeah, you

know so oh well So yeah Continuing the Matty

rant here, a buddy of mine, Ender, who used to

be on Radio Free Cybertron, he actually, back

when there was still a bunch of ordering issues

on Matty Collector, he did a rant, so you'll

hear that next and we'll come back and close

the show. This is Radio Free Cybertron. Thank

God Hasbro isn't Mattel, Ender. The floor is

yours. Oh. Mattel's Masters of the Universe has

gotten to be, like, the most malignant, moronic,

mishandled line in history. Not since Hasbro

creative meeting, when one executive blurted

out, let's kill the red truck guy, has a franchise

been handled worse. The Masters of the Universe

classics are an amazing line. They use modern

toy -making techniques to bring out the best

of a vintage figure, retaining its charm and

essence while consistently exceeding modern quality

standards and delivering fan -driven fun for

the adult collector at a price that, while higher

than average, is altogether reasonable. Sadly,

the He -Man Genius Falcon reaches its apex at

this conceptual stage and then careens out of

the sky with the aerodynamic grace of a quadriplegic

hippo with an inner ear infection, plummets through

a sky of inept customer service, plows straight

and through a swamp of incompetent planning and

rests broken and ruptured in a bedrock of useless

management. Mattyscalper .com's inability to

even handle its monthly server load, much less

the demand for its product, has settled into

a comfortable pattern of letting itself be milked

by scalpers at a rate of 10 figures in order

while the real customers wait in error screens.

Meanwhile, scalpers, who are, by the way, the

most worthless scum on earth, have already posted

their overpriced rip -off auctions on the well

-oiled servers of eBay. counting items rarity

due to a false scarcity they themselves have

created with the foolish help of Mattel. Nothing

endears fans to a brand like having legal tender

slapped out of their hands as they attempt to

exchange it for your product. The Band -Aid of

a club was offered, seemingly a reasonable fix.

You commit to buying the figures and they guarantee

you one. Simple enough until the line branches

out into non -club figures and the cycle begins

again as battle cat is snapped up by the scalping

horde and he man fans get shackled with one dar

a not remake of a never was exclusive Now underestimating

demand for a fan line or miscalibrating your

limits is not an unreasonable error They have

to make a profit and have to hedge their bets.

However, one might think that after One and a

half to two f***ing years might be enough time

to calibrate well enough that your servers don't

crash every full moon and your product will last

more than half a f***ing hour! Mattel, get your

s*** together, fire everyone on this project

who is not a designer, and sell us our f***ing

toys! We give you money, you give us stuff! You

give us stuff! That's right. Oh, that was under

ladies and gentlemen from Radio Free Cybertron

That was actually a couple years ago that Ender

did that and oh my god You know now in Maddie

collectors defense This year for 2012. We're

getting a pretty sweet Club exclusive figure

for club eternity. Yeah. Well, like I said the

the ender rant that I just played He read he

did that like back when the original hordak was

getting released back Relevant it's still very

relevant. I mean because I mean obviously it

back then it was the red screen of death Now

it's the white screen of death, but I mean it's

everything in there is pretty relevant the only

thing is you know by having shadow weaver as

club exclusive this year, it probably guaranteed

more sales of their subscription just because

there's no other way to get that figure. Yeah.

Hell, I bought two subscriptions. See? There

you go. And you didn't even buy one last year.

Well, I didn't know a buy. I didn't have the

money last year at the time. Yeah. So. Yeah.

It's still very relevant. Maddie Collector is

pretty much the retarded child. of toy collecting

companies. Yes. So the other thing we wanted

to close out the show with is we wanted to professely

thank Jimmy Boy for sending in that heartfelt

voicemail you heard earlier in the show. James

Hinehan again. Yeah. I think it's James Hinehan.

I think that's the way it's said. I don't know.

I'm going to have to have him... like enunciated

on twitter or spell it out on twitter like h

e n dash whatever you know i told him after listening

to that voicemail i i told him on twitter i said

i'm still gonna call you um james hannigan what

did he say something he's like well at least

you know how it said now i'm like no i i i'll

probably refuse to believe it i'm like i still

i i've forgotten You know, honestly, I don't

know what what Jimmy Boy's Computer type of things

are I don't know what kind of setup he has But

honestly if he has Skype he can be on the show

at one point It's not gonna cost him anything

cuz Skype to Skype calls are free. So Tomorrow's

on tomorrow's you stream I'll ask him. You know,

the only problem is like he's eight hours ahead

of us. Yeah, you know, so like right now It's

like eight o 'clock in the morning for him. Yeah.

Yeah. Well, you know. Yeah. Okay. No, but yes.

Thank you, Jamie, for the voicemail. If anyone

else wants to call in and leave us voicemails,

I know this episode is kind of going to be a

long one. I'm betting it's even without any additional

audio that might put in like maybe the Ghostbusters

theme or anything like that. I know this episode

is going to be at least an hour and 45, an hour

and 50 minutes. But if anyone wants to call into

the voicemail line to leave voicemails, for those

of you in the United States or Canada, it's 502

-526 -5821. You can follow us on Twitter. I am

at TF2 and Mike, and you are? I am up to bottomess.

Yes, that's right. So I think we're gonna end

this show, folks. He is Optibonomus. I am TF2

and Mike. Do you have any parting words for the

listeners? Kiss my ass or what? Kiss my ass or

what, Abert? Hey, Abert. Don't fuck with the

podcasters and we'll see you next time.