2/8/26 Sam Healey update and clearification , Reply to dumb emails and Go Seahawks!

0:07 All right, let's see if we are live here on Sunday. Yep, Super Bowl Sunday. All right, I'm on a little early today because as you saw, I broke everything up into three things and I want to cover all three things. And I got a feeling I'm going to use up an hour easy. And I got a lot to do today. Uh, first of all, I got to just get into the fetal position and start crying over this game that I'm a wreck over. And I'll explain why. I'm just checking a few things. Okay, there we go. [snorts] Uh, let me pull this up. How are you?

0:55 I'm okay. How are you? Uh, let's pull that up. Okay, that's there. That's there. All right, we're pretty good. All right, so [clears throat] let me take a sip of water. I've already walked the dogs, got the paper, you know, all the usual stuff. I had a cold during the week. Oh god, it killed me.

1:24 So, let's start off with the Sam Healey thing, okay? Because I want to talk a little bit about um some things that happened there and I want to clarify some things because I misstep when I said something. So, I I I do want to be fair. So, I did that video [snorts] saying I don't give a [ __ ] and I still don't. Okay. And I think people misinterpreted what I don't care about and but I I don't even care about that. But I did get a text, a very long text from from Sam um apologizing for me getting dragged into this dumb dumb thing, which I mean, okay, you know, that's fine and everything, okay, and I appreciate it, okay? Um, I started going, you see, I have two phones. I work for the military, so I have my military phone, which I I try to use just that phone. So, I I have my emails attached, my email address attached to it most of the time. But my phone will circle through certain things, and if they flag it, they just won't push it through. I have a personal one which I don't carry around that much, but um he a couple years ago when I had the tumor in my back um Sam did reach out to me and was hoping

2:57 um that I was okay. Um, yeah, he asked how how the treatments were going and things like that, which I I I I appreciate. And from time to time, I would I would write him in, you know, wish him merry Christmas, you know, happy father's day, this, that, the other. You know, we just, you know, the last time I heard from him was November 2023. So, I wasn't wrong. you know, we we don't communicate much. Um, the time I was talking when I was sick, when I nearly died, um, when I dropped down to likeund what was that, 118 pounds, you guys saw it and I still kept on streaming like an idiot.

3:46 Um, [clears throat] and um, you know, I almost got beat up about five years ago and you know, I used up my nine lives. Um, I never heard from anybody. a couple people. Um, but when, you know, I was really worried about that tumor in my back and we thought the worst and they were able to take care of it and, you know, get rid of it, which was weird because, you know, we were all worried about me and it turned out my son who had a who had cancer in his back, believe it or not. Mine was in the shoulder for some reason. Then we could never figure out how something like that would happen, but who knows? could be whatever you eat and all the other goofy stuff that goes on in um in the on the planet.

4:36 But um no, I never never heard from Sam then. And you know, like I said, you know, and you know, I'll stick to it. you know, he uh I'm I'm I'm looking through the, you know, making sure I don't miss anything here, so forgive me because I I want to be fair, you know, I don't want I I don't want to say, "Ah, well, the guy this this this this and you know, I can I I can apologize for something. I mean, um I promised him I was going to call him. I got so busy this week I I didn't call him. I may try to call him next week and just talk to him, you know, see how he's doing and this that and the other. You know, the other thing is is um [clears throat] you know I I you know because I I want to be fair. You know, I I don't dislike Sam. You know what I don't care about is, you know, and I I feel bad about is I thought we were better friends then.

5:40 And you know, I would drive, you know, especially with the Dice Tower, you know, twice a month I would drive from here to Miami. I would have to leave at 3:00 in the morning, get to Ma Miami by 7 or Homestead uh by by 7 7:30. Okay. Tape all day, then drive all the way back home the same the same time. And I was doing that twice, three times a month to film stuff and, you know, do Battling Brushes and all the other stuff that Sam and I used to do together and and, you know, tape and be part of the the Dice Tower. It was a lot not living near them and and trying to keep my production up and stuff like that.

6:28 [cough]

6:28 This is another reason why I kind of went, you know, I'm going to try to do this on my own because, you know, the that drive would kill you after a while. You know, especially trying to go down I 95. It's I don't care where you are in the United States. All of I 95 is a nightmare in construction. But, you know, I really, you know, took to heart the things that that I did and I thought we would talk more, you know, about gaming and stuff like that, you know, we talk about families and stuff like that. We never talk politics or anything like that. Who gives a [ __ ] about [ __ ] politics?

7:16 [snorts] And and that's the thing that people don't seem to care. Like I um again I I wanted to clear that up with the Sam stuff. Do I care about the argument between the Dice Tower and Sam Healey? No, I do not. I do not give a [ __ ] And I will continue to say that. Okay. Whatever the issue is, it has nothing to do with me uh as far as the political issue itself. Guess what? I'm going to tell you something and I'm going to give you a little bit of an opinion here. Okay? All right. You are all lemmings. You are all idiots. Okay? The ones that take all this stuff so goddamn serious. I'm going to tell you why. Okay? Divide and conquer. Okay? Because there's something out there that's controlling everything and putting all kinds of money into its pocket. Okay? And we're so busy fighting against each other about stupid little issues. Most of the time stupid issues.

8:17 There are bigger issues, but all the the corruption and and and and and murder and and and and and things done for money is disgusting. And you're always going to point across the other guy instead of talking. Okay. The problem is, okay, and I'm going to make I'm going to make this real short because I'm not a political person, but this is what I believe. Okay.

8:45 [snorts]

8:47 Neither side is right and neither side is wrong. And I'm going to tell you why. Okay? It's the generations. The problem is you grew up and you don't know how to lose, okay? At halftime of your little soccer games when your parents were ignoring you, okay, and would just drop you off for an activity and were busy with their lives and not worried about yours, okay? And everybody won. Nobody ever won. Nobody ever lost a game, so you don't know how to lose. Okay? Or you don't know how to negotiate with each other. You can't talk. You can't have somebody uh you can't have somebody have a different opinion. If they have a different opinion, you are so freaking offended instead of listening and maybe taking something from it and making them understand why you believe what you believe. Okay? Even though what they may believe makes your blood boil, okay?

9:44 and maybe come to some agreement and maybe going, you know, there's got to be some common ground here. Nobody does that anymore. Okay, that's why we have shutdowns. That's why we have all these other things because like spoiled children. Okay, why don't you guys come together and go and say, "Hey, Congress, Senate, government, Illuminati, whoever. How come people don't eat? How come people don't have jobs? How come this one, we're holding you all accountable, not just this guy or that guy or this section or that?" They make you deflect. It's 300 Maple Street, folks. Okay, if you and and some of you are too young to understand. And what I mean by that, go watch that Twilight Zone episode and try to figure out why we we don't have the good shows that we do now because they don't want you to think, okay, back when I was younger, the Twilight Zone, Martians come, okay, and just enough to to everybody saw something in the sky and then all the power goes out, okay?

11:00 And then they would turn, you know, the Martians would turn on a light or but the people all came together and in the beginning they're trying to figure out what's going on. Why did we lose all the power? Okay. But all of a sudden a light will go on. Why's Charlie's house got a light on? Okay. [clears throat] Oh, hey, how come this happened? Or how come his car starts? And how come this that who's that guy walking down the street? and they and they feed upon each other and they eat each other because that's what they wanted because we'll destroy ourselves. We'll prevent ourselves from ever making things better because we'll be attacking ourselves instead of the real problem. And I'll never forget the end of it and they go, "Yeah, we do this in every town. We don't even have to do a thing.

11:52 They do it all for us." And that's what we are doing as a people. Go back watch Soilent Green. go back, watch all these the these intelligent and and everything from Rod Serling, from Harlon Ellison, Ray Bradberry, um you know, I can go on and on and on about how power and technology, this thing right here, okay, the greatest invention in the world, and I'm on it right now, the internet, the most disastrous invention in the world, the internet. Okay. And why? You know, I've been to a lot of places.

12:38 Okay. In my career, I've been around the world about three times and I've got to see these things. There are people that never leave their town that can watch how a Russian town deals with minus 80 degrees and how they survive. And it's fascinating to see how other people live. But also this thing is used as a propaganda machine. Okay? And the internet is used that to fill you full of false stuff or point you a certain way and make you believe what they believe or which no matter what side it is and divide and conquer and destroy you. Okay? That's why I don't get involved with it because I see it. Because I grew through it and it's only going to get worse with this next generation.

13:31 Because, you know, when when when cowards sit there and email me, okay, and [snorts] say all kinds of things, well, you you know, you're a veteran, so you shouldn't you care more. Why should I Why should I conform to what you think? Okay. Give me the reasons why. Oh, you're just sad. I'm sad. Really, you're sad. You're sitting in your mom's basement with your Batman shirt on and your purple hair and waiting for her to come down with the pizza rolls, okay, at 11:30. And if she doesn't do your laundry, you're just going to wear that same Batman shirt for the next week. And you're going to sit on the internet and comment about everybody else because that's when you're brave is behind a keyboard. That's what it's about. Okay?

14:20 And if you get in in front of somebody and you decide to voice your opinion, you can't voice it. You got to scream it. You got to [ __ ] somebody. You got to spit on somebody. You can't sit and talk like a human being

14:35 because you're so unhappy with your lives and you don't know what to do next. Okay? You feed and you point and you blame it on somebody else instead of looking in the mirror and going, "You know what? I've got to fix myself before I can How do I save the world if I can't save myself? Okay. Old Todd Ron Green song. Listen to music. Listen to music and how people used to talk about things. Okay. Okay. Listen to how people used to make music. Queens Reich. Brother killed brother for a profit of another.

15:20 Okay. And some of the songs that talked about, hey, come together. Come together. Love each other. You can be different and yet come together for a common gold. This isn't political. What I'm saying, what I'm telling you is nobody is right if everyone is wrong. That's right. But if you can't come together and find out what everybody needs, you have to give a little in life, folks. Okay? Nothing's 100% victory, okay? Life's tough. You have your ups and downs. You're going to take your wins.

16:06 You're going to take your losses. I [snorts] always tell the story, okay? I always tell the story about how I learned how how I drove myself. I want to win. I want to win and how hard it is to lose. Okay? But if you don't know how to lose, you don't know how to win either. Okay? And you know, I I talk about they've heard it before, so I'm not going to dredge it up again, but I just keep on saying, you know, the same thing. We have we have to give to get. We have to understand and try to see through someone else's eyes, even though we may not agree with things. And I'm talking on on all sides of the fence that in order for us to be great, we have to come together as a people and care about each other. There are families that because of politics, they won't talk to each other.

17:11 Why? Really? And meanwhile, politicians, all of them are stuffing money in there. You have a $150,000 job and somebody all of a sudden comes up with $35 million within a couple of years. How does that happen? And it's only politicians that get that lucky. Okay. [snorts] Deals, back doors, all kinds of things. People a great movie. And even though it is a very Democratic movie, okay, against the Republicans, but the message is the same. It doesn't matter. You could flip the script 15 different times and and stuff was the American president. It was a love story, but some of the things that that were said in that and how it was said, you know, when he when the guy gave the speech at the end and he says they make you think they they try to remind you of a better time when things were simpler and easier. Things never get Things never get easier. They get harder.

18:23 Okay? Because the more technology, the more this, the more that, the more we use this than that and that, the problems become different and harder. And then they want they want to deflect it. And in order to win elections, they got to make you fear it and point and try to say who's to blame for it. Okay? Instead of saying how they're going to fix it. And I always took that and I always watched that and I that that always meant a lot with me to me. And I always said, you know something, it's right. We need to come together as a people. Okay. Simple as that. That is as far as I'm going to go because I'm not going to get in pissing matches of whether who what bathrooms people should use and stuff like that because that stuff is really so minuscule. And if they're going to deflect you with that and you don't see the bigger issue, h it is what it is, okay?

19:22 Because I don't think anybody's right a lot of times. I really don't. Until we can come together and and work together and care about each other as human beings and start acting human, it's just going to go down this path. And I'm okay because I'm on my 20something acre farm, okay? Isolated, self-sufficient, and I'm protecting mine, okay? And that's that's that's what it's going to come down to, folks. And it's simple as that. It's as simple as that. So, as far as the Sam Healey thing, you know, I may call him at some point. I may try to uh this week, you know, the the first of all.

20:13 And on my other phone, I want to clear one thing up. He went to a Seahawk preseason game and he sent me some pictures and I missed those. I didn't see that. So, essentially, I think I don't know if it was this year or last year he went yet. I think it was last year and I found them, of course, but I hadn't hear the guy from the guy in years. And all a sudden I get flooded with all these emails. So yeah, I am frustrated because it's it's now well what do you got to say? I don't got nothing to say. I don't f freaking care. And then you know everybody wants to go after the dice tower. Okay. Well, you're the big dog. And when you're the big dog in the yard, okay, one of the big dogs in the yard, you are going the people are going to nitpick and the people that don't like you are going to attack you and the people that love you are going to stick by you. Figure it out. I don't give a [ __ ] Okay? It ain't my problem.

21:11 Okay? You know there people want to be marks and follow the the the Dice Tower with and and and go to their conventions just to see them, okay? Pay all kinds of money to go on cruises and stuff like that. Hey, more power to you. If it makes you happy, if it makes you, you know, uh take away some of the stresses in life and stuff like that, go ahead, enjoy yourself, okay? Have the best time in the world. I have no problem with it. Okay? It's what you do with your money and things like that. Go ahead. Okay. I don't care. All right. You want You want to die on a sword for him, go ahead. Do it. It's not for me. I don't care. Okay? And that's why I said I just don't care. It doesn't matter. It doesn't affect me. What I do hate though is there's this little rinky dink ch channel. Okay, who puts up this AI picture of this girl, okay, and wants to comment on everything and wants to bash every don't trust any reviewers going for those hot takes, okay? Views. It's all about views and trying to get subs, okay? No matter what you say, but you hide yourself. you never showed yourself on camera and you can comment particularly on the Sam thing and some other things and stuff like that and nobody's good and we shouldn't listen to anybody well and even us you know trying

22:42 to deflect a little never saw their faces okay I think that's cowardism okay and trying to get you know a little rinky dict just trying to get get hey hey I'm over here okay instead of doing good business I'm going to tell you something do I I get free stuff. Sure do. Okay. I write companies, hey, can you send me a copy of this? 90% they tell me to go piss in a barrel. Okay. Because they only want to do business with the big big boys. That's fine. Okay. Do I have sponsors on this channel? Sure do. Trading Card Market. Don't forget my boys. Trading Card Market. Okay. Are they very good to me? Yeah. Steve and I have been friends for 15 years.

23:28 [snorts] Am I doing Magic and Pokemon? No. I don't like those games. Okay. All right. My grandkids love Pokemon. Do I play Pokemon? I think it's boring. Magic. I think it's been diluted into a pile of crap. That's the main stuff that he sells. And I won't make videos of it. I'll make a couple of videos if some interest me. [snorts] We've done some box openings here for it. I told you to get the cards. If you're going to if you're going to follow those games, go get those games at Trading Card Market. And I probably would get more views and help him more. But he knows that I'm going to be true to who I am. And I'm going to do Godzilla. Okay. Renaissance of Rivals, which comes out this week, a video I did a box opening of that. And and and Holo Life, which is a game that I've really enjoyed, and Saucery, I'm enjoying. and Gundam, you know, games that are off the track that I'm not going to get a lot of views for, but I'm going to do it because I like the game.

24:33 I don't write a company and ask them to send me a game if I don't think I'm going to like it. And I'm going to tell you something. I've lost a lot of people because they sent me the game and I told them, "I don't like this game and I'm not going to do a video for it because I don't want to hurt you." Okay. and they go, "Okay, I understand that." You know, thinking maybe then I just wrote them for a free game. But you know something, I'd rather be honest with them. And I have been honest with you. I've come on here and said, you know, this game [ __ ] you know, especially if I paid a ton of money for it, I get pissed because I lost money. If it's sent to me, I'm pissed because and and and you know, I'll talk about the game, but you know, I'm not going to give it a glow on review.

25:31 I've always been pretty honest about that stuff. I pay for a a majority of this stuff, you know, and thankful for me. I get credit from Miniature Market over the years. I try to bring stuff in. There's stuff stuff I bring in and it's not good. I don't want to make a video of it. I don't want to hurt anybody. I really don't. You know, it's hard enough. You don't want to hurt somebody's business. But I also have to be honest, but if I'm very excited about something and it's good and I like it, I'm going to come on here. I'm going to sing about it all the time. I'm I've been loving loving Free League Publishing, okay? And all the stuff that they've been saying. I'm so excited about that. Osprey, uh, you're going to see some videos on that. I went, "Holy cow." Oh, no. You saw that uh the um Warriors of Athena, which is really really cool.

26:22 All right. Lot of a lot of great stuff. You played Gundam Assembled? No, I have not gotten it yet. Uh I'm hoping to get it. Um I've been playing Gundam the card game and I do have over here. I'm going to kind of show you guys real quick. Whoa. Knocking stuff over. I've got to do a box opening of uh Steel Reququum. The card game is a lot of fun. I really am enjoying it. And I've been enjoying, you know, off-the cuff games. World of Tanks. Um and Sorcery. Oh, this is this is good. I wrote the guy to see if he would send me a copy of this. Never heard from him.

27:07 So, I said, "Hey, Steve, can can can you give me a discount on this?" He goes, "Yeah, well, I'll send you a couple things." And I bought some stuff, too. And uh and uh he uh and even though I never heard from the guy or anything like that, you know, I could be I could be a spoiled brat and go, "Well, I'm not going to do this." You know, the guy wouldn't even say, "No thanks. We got people that do it." You know, I wouldn't answer my emails or anything like that. I could be a little brat or a little whiny whiny [ __ ] but no. No. It's about the game. It's not about the company, the guy, this that and the other. It's about the game. Is the game fun? Is it something I'm interested in? Yeah. Well, guess what? I'm going to pass that information on to you. Do with it what you want. Okay? Because there's a lot of things I lot like, a lot of people hate, and there's a lot of things that people love. I don't like Azul. No, I don't care about that.

28:06 All right. And some other games, just not not in my my wheelhouse. I don't like them. I talk about things that are in my wheelhouse that I like. There's certain companies I really like. There's a lot of thing a lot of companies that people don't like. Don't care. [snorts] Don't care. Don't care. I'm going to do things my way. So when these other people want to get political and all this other stuff, I just heard from from I just saw this thing. You see, I'm going to save this for a little later because this is part three of uh this thing, but I I'll talk about the the little text I just got and uh all the people that have been reaching out. But um you know to get back to my train of thought, but these guys want to enter the political arena and and and talk about Sam and the Dice Tower and and give all their supposedly uh objective views when it was very one-sided and they were just idiots. And I just went, "Okay, so you guys are stirring shit." And I started seeing people trying to capitalize on the Sam and Dice Tower thing. You want to know something? Again, don't don't care. Oh, wait a minute. Hold on here. What am I doing here? Hold on. Okay. I was just making sure you guys can even hear me or else I've been talking for no reason.

29:30 Um, and like I said, I'm going to finish it by saying I don't give a [ __ ] All right. So, when I start keep on getting emails, which I I I think because I made that video was probably the stupidest thing I ever did because I ended up getting even more emails about, oh, you should care, you should care, blah, blah, blah. This, that, and the other. And I think I just explained to you why I don't, okay? Because, you know, you're your marks, okay? and you're going to mark out for whatever side you want. And you don't care if your side's wrong as long as you win because that's all you ever did was win with your juice boxes and your and and and your orange slices at at halftime of playing soccer in a game that nobody wins even though the other team scored nine goals on you. And you you know, Johnny got a pitcher with with a little participation trophy. Yeah, that's that's teaching your kids a lot. Keep that up. I'll tell you what, my grandson wrestles me every day. He hasn't won once, nor is he.

30:38 Get bigger. Keep eating. You know something? When grandpa's in a When grandpa's in a wheelchair, roll him down the hill. Then you won. Okay. All right. Throw dirt on him and laugh at him, you know, when you're doing it. Then you won. Okay. Beat me up when I'm old. All right. throw me around. Guess what? You deserve it for all the times I stretched you. But he's going to learn and so is she. We were playing and I'm going to talk a little bit about this because it's what I'm talking about isn't political, but it's kind of talking about how the people the people that write their mentality versus how I try to raise my kids. Am I right? No. The worst thing, the hardest thing about being a parent, okay, and I think this is where a lot of things go wrong. And this is why I get a ton of these emails, okay, is because of a couple of things here. Okay?

31:42 Parenting is a 247 job. Okay? Before you had kids, guess what? You worked your job. You came home tired. you were able to rest, get your things ready, get ready to go to work next day, those of you that have jobs, okay, and that was all fine. Okay? But you add kids into it and the difference is is now you come home from your job, your job doesn't end. Now it just starts but a different job. Okay? You've got to manage your children. Okay. Easy to make them, really hard, really, really hard to keep them from doing the wrong things. And you want to know something as a parent?

32:34 Parenting is one of the hardest hardest jobs in the world because kids are going to put you into a position that no matter which way you choose, it could be wrong. And you're going to make a lot of decisions throughout your child's life and you're gonna go, "Man, I wonder if I just did this differently or that differently." They may turn out fine. They may get themselves into trouble, but you always wonder, "Did I do them right?" Okay, if you care. The problem with a lot of parents today, they have the kids, both of them are focused on their jobs, they come home, they look at at their Instagram, their ex and everything else, and they're not putting their time into their kids.

33:27 Okay? They're, you know, doing this, doing that, you know, I don't I need a break, too. I need a mental health day. I need this. No. If you're going to have kids, if you're going to have a family, if you're going to have people, interact. Give everything that you have. Leave it all on the table. So when you leave this earth and you're ready to go, you go, you know, I did everything, everything I possibly could. I don't think I have it in me to be a parent for for that reason. That's fine. Nobody says you have to be a parent, but if you were going to be a parent and you want to have these gender reveals, which I think are the most cringiest things in the world. Okay?

34:21 You know, when you knew it was a girl or boy, what you cutting there, Doc? That's the umbilical cord. Damn. Little joke there, but but uh [snorts] um you know, my wife Lyn found out, but we didn't go running around throwing parties and stuff like that. And hey, look at us. We're going to have No, we're having a kid and let's prepare. Let's start figuring out how we're going to do this. Okay, my kids. Okay, my son. My daughter-in-law wasn't supposed to have children. Okay, wasn't at all. She's a C. She has CF. She's been sick all her life. And she had two little miracles. Okay. First, she had my little Emory. Okay. And then a year and a half later, we had Robin. Who's that?

35:15 It's me.

35:16 Okay. Trying to make sure I don't get you in camera.

35:21 Sorry. Just grabbing some food.

35:23 Please don't tell me you got a shirt on.

35:25 Of course.

35:26 Okay. I don't want to scare anybody.

35:28 Okay. He's been training. He's a big boy. Come here.

35:32 What?

35:33 Just come here. You [ __ ] listen to me. I'm your father.

35:36 What's up?

35:37 Yeah, he's gotten bigger. Yeah. Well, you got that [ __ ] on. Okay. All right. Get the hell out of here.

35:43 No, you got you have I mean, what a comeback from being sick the way he was. Had cancer. Came back, lost all kinds of weight, put on all kinds of muscle. Why? Because I pushed him. Did I Did I ever let you win anything?

36:01 Not for free.

36:02 There you go, my man. Perfect example. Now I can kid win them. But you know something? If you're going to bring kids into this world, all right? And I don't care what you want them to believe, but make sure that that you give them all the necessary that they have, the love, the compassion, your heart. Give your all. Okay? It's not about you anymore. You have a life to to defend. Okay? Be a parent. Okay? Don't go, "Hey, let me turn on Coco Melon and you could sit there and watch that." Listen, there's times when, hey, do me a favor. Watch this for a half hour. I need a break. I got to do this.

36:53 I got to do that. Okay, I get it. But when their whole lives are sitting in front of a a TV, sitting in, you know, watching these shows that that become the parent. That's not what it is. They need your interaction. They need your time. Okay. Is it going to be easy? No. Is it going to be rewarding? Sometimes. It's like if you buy a ticket to Disney World, you're all hyped up. You get on that plane. It's going to be the best trip in the world. We're going to have so much fun. And it is miserable for 80% of it. Who's crying? Who's dropping ice cream? Who's with this one? It's too hot. It's this. We an hour to wait on the line to go on a ride. But then all of a sudden you have that little window where you just have that Disney moment and that's what keeps you coming back.

37:48 It can be also put to if you're a golfer. Okay, you can stink all day, but you make that one shot three inches from the hole and you go, "Man, wow, that was a great shot." And you forget about everything else. You really do. Okay. And it keeps you coming back. Wins, losses, it's all part of life. And you got to learn how to do it with grace. Okay? And that's why I'm getting a lot of these emails is these kids, they're never taught anything. They sit behind a computer and they can attack anybody and say anything they want. I've got I was written some of the most vile things ever. Okay. And I returned to every one of them. I go, "Okay.

38:43 All right. I mean, you're behind the keyboard. You want to find me? Let me know. Let me know. Let me know. We can talk about it in person. See how it ends up." They don't want to hear that. And they never respond to it. And I'll stay with my stance. I don't give a [ __ ] Okay? I really don't. Am I on here to get more views? No. I'm here to make sure that everything I say is the truth from my heart. And if I misstep, like I did, like I said, when I had that thing on my back, Sam did reach out. And I failed to mention that. And I have to be fair to Sam.

39:30 I do. Do I hate the dice tower? Oh, somebody wrote me. Is there a problem between you and the dice tower? No, I haven't been there in eight, nine years. I see Tom from time to time. I do some things, you know, every once in a while ask me, "Hey, hey, Rob, can you film this and tell me what your top or or introduce these three games?" Yeah, sure. Because I was part of the Dice Tower when was I left out of Dice Tower history? Yeah, I was there for three years. Do I care? No. Am I going to whine about it? No, I don't care. That's their thing. Okay. And I don't care.

40:18 Sam has his life, has his channel, has his wife. I wish him the best. But am I worried about him and the Dice Tower fighting? No. I don't care. Do I care what they're fighting about? No, I don't care about that either. So, you want to keep sending emails. I'll keep reading them and laughing and I reply. Oh, I reply. I reply. I sure do. But I wanted to make sure that my telling of everything is cons consistent and truthful. And if I'm wrong, I'm wrong. I c how many times have I come on on here about a game? I go h Slate Aspire. I'm looking right at it. Didn't like it because I was playing the video game and I go, "Why do I want to set all this up? This is stupid." And everything. Then then when I got tired of the video game and started playing the board game, I go, you know, some of this pretty pretty good. I went on camera. I said, "This is dumb." And I came back on and I said, "Guess what?

41:18 I'm wrong." And I felt bad, you know, because I did the company injustice. I didn't give it enough time. Can you admit you're wrong? A lot of people can't again juice boxes and the orange slices. I'm going to read the comments in a minute so bear with me. Lot a lot of amazing amazing amazing things. We are in a time of technology. We are in a time of of of divide and and and just we have to find a way that all these gifts that we have and start using our brains and start being human and come together and that's the end of it as far as I'm concerned and that is my opinion and that's as that's as much as you'll get out of me and that's it. Okay.

42:12 You want to know something? You know the the guy, the clown? Oh, you're a veteran. You should, you know, I'm I'm still working with the military. I've been for 40 years doing something with the military, okay? In some function, some way, okay? I'm proud of what I'm doing. I'm an old man and I'm still working and I'm going to have to work for a while because I want everything for my kids. Should I be on some some wearing some stupid Hawaiian shirt and sitting back and doing nothing? No, I'm not that that type of guy. Can't even get people to to to get a job. They're too busy trying to to to fraud everybody so they can stay home and and and and and watch the prices, right? Or Bob Barker AI. Uh those things are funny. I have to admit it. As scary as AI is, the wrestling things with Bob Barker and Stephven Hawking and the Queen and Abe Lincoln and George Washington. Oh god, Mr. Rogers and Tupac.

43:22 Check it out. Sometime you get a good a laugh. Sometimes it's good to laugh. All right, [clears throat] let's see. I'm going to read some of these things. I hate how politics have invaded everything now. Can't take a break from it. Yeah, you can't. Okay, Super Bowl, my beloved Seahawks. I'm telling you, I I could feel the fixes in. So many people are, you know, all the betting is for the Seahawks, and I didn't want that because that's when they put the fix in every single time. Underdog, you know, the underdogs last six years have won that game. Okay. And this is a huge betting margin. And sure, watch. They'll hand it to the Patriot because the minute you involve money, okay, in gambling and legalize it, you can also twist and turn the games. We've seen it all season.

44:24 And I'm just I'm hopeful. I really am. And go Seahawks, go. But uh I ain't feeling good about it. But we'll see. We'll see. I'm I'm hoping and I just want this one more than anything. And then I can just I can finish out my life a happy man. Just give me this one. [snorts] Uh and a maple leaf one someday maybe. But I don't think that's coming anytime soon. Oh god. So stuffy.

45:04 And uh [snorts] oh, excuse me. And I just hope you know that we do all right and everybody's reaching out to me. Herman Herman Lutman, the great Herman Lutman, maker of so many great games. Good luck to your Seahawks today and hope all is well. And I've gotten a lot of things from my friends because they know for 50 years I've been nothing but a a Seahawk fan [clears throat] and uh I send a picture my my my friend Steve from Trading Card Market is at the Super Bowl today. He's been there since uh Friday. He's been going to the all high-end parties and stuff like that and he's picked me up some swag. So um let's hope so. I have this thing from 1978 poster. Well, it's it's a 1978 poster and it's signed by Jack Peter, Jim Zorn, Steve Larent, and Sherman Smith.

46:07 I don't know if I can angle it the right way. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Oh, come on. Yeah. Well, yeah. And it's hanging in my closet. My wife We have a thing. This is the very first banner I ever got. It's been hanging in there. I got that in 1976. It was my mom sent away for it. And um I've had it for 50 years. The thing is older than dirt. and uh you know been through a lot of stuff, a lot of losing seasons, had a lot of winning seasons, had a lot of different things happen. Um always the weird stuff in Super Bowls, so you know, I'm kind of snake bitten.

46:58 So, we'll see. Can Sam do it? I hope so. I hope so, kid. Go Hawks. I'm taking this shirt off when when I get off this this channel, okay? And I'm going and I'm wearing my beat up shirt that is I have this t-shirt that is just destroyed. I'm going to wear that again today. I wore it yesterday. Um I haven't cut my hair. I need to cut my hair even though I'm bald. But but I look like uh Hold on. Oh no. It's [snorts] not bad today. But when you're old like this and you look like Marty. Hey [clears throat] Marty. Um, so I won't get my haircut till tomorrow and she's dying for me, you know, cuz I just try to keep it at least whatever's left of my lettuce decent.

47:53 Uh, this hat needs to be washed. Hasn't been washed in uh for the entire season. And it's sweaty and it's got all sweatpants. So, she'll wash this afterwards. All right. So, I just wanted to be over. All right. And what is it? 8:30. We'll have a pretty good idea 12 hours from now. And then I'm I'm hoping it's going the right way. And that's what I'm hoping for. Go Hawks. Go Hawks. Go Hawks. Go. Um. All right. So, let me answer some of these things. Okay. Uh, we were talking about the the 300 Maple Street. Yep. keep people busy fighting each other while they are lying in their pockets.

48:41 It's true. That's a hilariously descript descriptive. Well, I try to be. Uh, nobody is right if everyone is wrong. That's right. Another great song. Uh, lyrics, by the way. Yeah, very true. Dinner with Andre. I don't I've never seen that. You know, I just might watch it today. Hello. [clears throat] Hello. Hello. I am Mom Gamer, but changed my name and lost my subs. Miss you, brother. Oh no, Mom Gamer. I'm so sorry. How could you change your name and lose your subs? Oh, no. Chapter Chaser BC. Oh, cool. All right. Well, go everybody that that used to follow Mom Gamer, go check out Chapter Chasers BC.

49:32 Uh, you played Gundam Ascendable. that's supposed to be out soon. I haven't seen it. I can't wait to get it. I do have models for it and I am because I I do have the starter boxes and they they sent models, so I put those together which go together real easy and I'm working on a couple of them here. I started painting them. I've got to finish them with my grandson. Uh I don't think I have it in me to be a parent making the wrong decisions for them. I I agree with that. I do agree with you though putting everything into your family and I have. I can go to my grave knowing that I did the best I could. Was I perfect? No. You know, kids are always going to give you and I just want to jump back to this real quick and and finish a couple thoughts there.

50:21 You know, my son gave me a hard time for a couple years and a lot of people would give up. I think I parented harder than than than than ever before. And I always felt, especially with my children, that there were decisions that I made that if I just did something differently, it would have been better. I grew up, you know, my mom, it's funny, and and I want to go back to a couple other points. You know, growing up was was [clears throat] was tough, all right? But I don't blame my mom. I don't blame my dad. They did the best they could. My mom was a nurse for a long time, and we were always getting dumped at my grandmother's who lived in the inner city. Okay? And this kind of ties everything together a little bit. And I I want I want to let you know how things really were. Um my father was a cop and was always working. This guy worked some insane hours. Try to He wasn't an emotional guy where [snorts] he would give you affection or talk to you and parent you. He tried to show how he cared by working hard and bringing money in to make sure that you had whatever you needed.

51:52 Okay, I get it. He did the best he could. All right. But we spent a lot of time with my grandmother. Um Polish grandmother. She lived in her city, New Haven. And and um [clears throat] you know, we were there from from Friday, you know, a lot of times all weekend. And so we get out of school, get dropped off, mother go and do whatever she was going to do. They also there there were also some issues there and I don't want to get into that, you know, where you know, you know, I start crying, oh, mommy and daddy didn't love me, that kind of thing. Um but um they had some issues. Um and they would dump us off. It was it was easier to do. And it was amazing because we would go out sit on the porch and they're all different types of kids, but they were just kids. You didn't worry about race. You didn't worry about uh upbringing. You know, you you learned each other, you liked each other, you fought, you played, you you tried to stay out of trouble. We were all bored.

53:08 Okay. But so and and so we would find things to do. Playing stick ball, playing football, okay, in the street until a car would come. Um [clears throat] God, uh you know, doing all kinds of things, you know, and and you know, seeing everybody have different upbringings. um some of the kids hadn't didn't have parents and you know that that cared or anything like that or they were so busy drinking and fighting with each other sometimes they would knock on my grandmother's door. Hey, is is Rob and and my brothers there, you know, can can I come here and watch TV with you guys? Yeah. and they would sit and we would watch and then when they would go look for their kid and they always knew where pretty much they were. They were with us and we were doing different things, you know, and you know, a lot of these kids had tough upbringings, but we always had fun. We made our own fun. We didn't sit there with the technology and stuff like that. We found things to do. It was funny because I always think about Saturday nights and a lot of them when we when they knew we were there, my grandmother would go into her room in [snorts] this apartment and it was a big apartment. It was two floor apartment and uh she she would watch Lawrence Welk, Carol Bernett, this is going way back and then

54:41 probably fall asleep. But we were out in the living room and we used to sleep in a pull out sofa c couch. But we'd have a couple of the guys, the kids over uh because of the lineup of of of TV shows we watch. Chiller. Uh well, it would start with uh UFO, Outer Limits. Uh we would go break up, go eat dinner, then everybody come back over. It was chiller creature double feature. depending which movie we liked better. Then at 11 o'clock. Okay. No. Uh 11 o'clock it was always some kind of half hour show we would find. Oh god. It depended what frequency we got because we only got four channels. But usually on UF UHF it was either Second City TV or it was there was Tales of the Dark Side in the 80s, but there was oh they would show a Twilight Zone on a channel or you know there was always something we watch that but at 11:30 the Monopol monopoly money was out.

55:57 Okay. because Racing from Yonkers was on for a half hour before professional wrestling at 12:00 and we would get ready and everybody would have a certain amount of uh of of Monopoly money and we would bet on the horses and one guy would be the banker and whoever at the at the end of the half hour had the most money won for that night. And it was funny. We would go over results. You had to make sure that you had everything in before post. It was crazy. But we laughed that that's how we got through that half hour and waiting for what was going to happen on wrestling. Then we watch wrestling. And then right after wrestling there was another monster thing that would go on till 2:30 in the morning and everybody pass out and then we wake up Sunday morning and then you know get through Sunday whether it was football day or if it was the summer we were out doing something or or you know just you know spending time together.

57:04 And I remember those those days and you didn't worry about, you know what, we were just kids. We did things. We spent time. We learned. We saw rights and wrongs. There was there were some kids that weren't the best at kids, but you know, they they would come around, but we all would find a common ground and do something. You know, kids stealing stuff and things like that. Well, we stayed out of that stuff. You know, we were smart enough. You know, would we get in trouble? Yeah, we'd do something stupid at some point, but we learned from it. We get taught a lesson. And, you know, it was just it was different.

57:50 It was growing up. It was growing up. People don't do that now. They don't It's too busy hate. Too much hate. But that that was my that's that's where I took things and that's where I went. Uh, okay. I just make sure there's no other comments. But I just wanted to clear all those things up and put everything to bed and go back to just, you know, I talk about things like this every Sunday, you know, but, you know, during the week you're going to get a ton of gaming videos and things like that. So, I'm going to tell you again. Go Hawks, go. Let's hope Well, I you know, it was I'm going to tell this story. Oh god, I'm going to go over an hour. I know it. [snorts] So, yesterday we went out to Daytona. I took my daughter out and uh we go to the Polish place cuz we're Polish and uh we we had lunch together and stuff like that. And then we went to the outlets cuz she needed some boots. And I'm walking around and I got my my Seahawk t-shirt and I see these Patriot fans and they are all decked out and they see me with the Seahawk thing because I'm probably the only stupid Seahawk fan in Florida at times. And I'm walking and they bow up. They bow like they wanted to say something and I go, you know, oh my god, just grow up. You want to know something? I hope to God they're all

59:20 crying in their nacho cheese tonight because I don't even think I could watch the game to be honest with you to a degree. But I'll tell you this much. Um it's funny how arrogant especially Patriot fans are. They've won everything. They deserve everything. They're a great team. You know, I'm afraid, you know, Vable is a very great coach. He I think he's a more seasoned coach than our coach. young guy, a lot of ideas, can do a lot of things with them. You know, that team's, you know, they got an offensive coordinator that's been in nine Super Bowls. He's going to know how to deal with our defense. It's going to be hard. I'm not too, you know, I'm hopeful. Uh I'm praying, but you know, if we lost, I wouldn't be shocked.

1:00:09 So, you know, but I'm just hoping that I can just get this one. So, there you go. That's all I got to say about Super Bowl. Hi Rob. Had a great time last week at the War Game Trade Show here in UK. Picked up a few things and popped into an Americanstyle diner and had a meal. Was very nice treat. Oh, that's cool. John, I hope you had a great time. I think Recon's coming up in February. I got to see. I think I might try to go to it. I may not. It depends what kind of time I have. [snorts] We'll see. You know, my life isn't the farm, my job, my family, my grandkids. Oh, and I started to tell you about the video game thing that we him and I play. He loves Gremlins, so we're playing Gremlins. And you know, the NES games are hard hard.

1:01:02 But I said, "You got to keep on trying." He kept on dying, dying, dying, dying because it's too hard. I go, "That's right. It's too hard." I go, [snorts] "If if you won easy, what's the point? It ain't fun, is it? You just win and that's it." But he got through the first level and he was so proud of himself. And then uh you know, I was sitting there, you know, I think video games are okay if you interact like I interact with them. I do things with them and I talk them through things. If they get stuck someplace, I help them with something or something. I There's certain games that are just fun. I grew up on video games, but am I going to make it my life? No. Am I not going to socialize and and still go out and play ball, go to the gym, and do all the things I like to do, even at this age?

1:01:59 No. Balance, folks. It's all about balance. Compassion. Balance. and listening and love. If we can have those things, I think we'll be I think we'll we'll be all right. I think we'll be all right. There's still hope. Never give up hope. Hope is the greatest of things, you know. I got that from Shaw Shank Redemption, you know. I hope you're well. Hope this. I hope you all have a great Sunday. I hope the Seahawks win because hope is the greatest of things and if you have hope, you can always keep moving forward and I think that's a beautiful thing. My dear friends, hopefully I'm not sad the next time I see you. Okay, I wish you all the best today and I hope I cleared up a lot of things. And uh if I keep on getting emails, I'll just keep getting emails.

1:03:02 If you think you hurt me, you don't. You don't because like I've said a million times before, I don't give a [ __ ] I really don't. And all I care about is what I do here. Staying in my lane and enjoying myself. And for those channels that want to stir [ __ ] well, keep doing it because you're always going to find marks that are going to follow you. But you're not helping the problem. You're making it worse. Okay? All for some cheap views. Well, if that's the way you want to do it, you have every right to because it is a free country. Okay? You do have a right and that's the thing. People have rights. Okay?

1:03:49 So, uh, by Ron, keep up the good job. I keep following you. Well, thank you, my brother. You're a good man and uh I'm very blessed with all the people that follow. Yes, my favorite games were click point andclick adventures or text. Yeah, they were so much fun. You had to think, you had to problem solve. You had to pubble. You know, it wasn't just what first person shooting somebody, which was fun at times, but have things challenge you. Think, play chess, play open open your horizons, open your world. It's a big world. We've just made it small, but once you experience it and get out and experience it, it's a lot better than looking at a screen, you know.

1:04:43 My two cents, my dear friends. Until next time. Hello from Texas, Lord Yavi. Until next time, my dear friends. It's your old old old and I am old and I'm feeling it. Pal Rob, we'll see you soon everybody. God bless and we'll see you next week. This video is brought to you by Miniature Market. Thousands of board games, miniatures, and paints. Discount prices at miniaturearket.com.