The Cologne Podcast
EVERY MONDAY: Join best friends Myke and Ryan as they take on the world of fragrances with unfiltered humor and uneducated opinions. Each episode, they'll sniff out a new scent and give their honest, foul-mouthed review. From high-end colognes to drugstore bargains, no fragrance is off-limits. Brace yourself for an irreverent, no-holds-barred approach to fragrance reviews.
The Cologne Podcast
#296 - Boss Bottled Absolu With TLTG Reviews
Fragrance enthusiasts, prepare for an aromatic journey as Ross from TLTG Reviews joins us to share his expert insights on the world of scents. Ever wondered why some leather notes captivate while others fall flat? Ross delves into the intriguing contrast between Boss Bottled Absolute and the somewhat disappointing Spicebomb. We take you through a reminiscence of memorable fragrances like Infrared Eau de Parfum, and explore how new releases continue to shape the landscape of olfactory delights.
hello everybody, welcome to the clone podcast I'm mike, I'm ryan and we're two best friends usually. But we've got another best friend in the studio, ross. You guys know him as tltg reviews. Welcome to the show again, pal, it's a pleasure to be back.
Ross (TLTG Reviews):It's been a little while since we did anything together when you guys reached out. I'm not going to sit here and act like I wasn't thrilled. Conversation's always fun. I love what you guys do and what you guys bring to the space.
Myke:Well, you're chiseled and sculpted now, my friend.
Ryan:Yes, my God dude, we went the opposite route. We just started to get really sad.
Myke:Yeah, we're in a bulking phase right now. I'm bulking right now as well, but I think it's a little bit different. Yeah, yeah. Well, hey, as of two days ago, we've ended our bulking phase. We're, you know, back on the horse again. We're watching each other's caloric intake, Uh-oh. But today's episode is one that you recommended. We were kind of chatting back and forth on Instagram and you said we should check out Boss Bottled Absolute Indeed.
Ross (TLTG Reviews):I have my bottle handy.
Myke:There we go. We've got a carded sample we got from Dillard's, so we're going to be smelling that.
Ryan:Also shout out to Felicia for giving us Absolutely. She was super sweet about it.
Myke:Also shout out to Abbott Ter who says on fragrantica, this is just a leather scent for me, nothing more. Sorry, but I'm not a fan of leather and this one is all about it. Be cautious now, ross. You've smelled this before. Is this crazy leather forward? Or?
Ross (TLTG Reviews):I think that's an interesting take. They might just not be fans of leather and the things they've heard, because no one's speaking on it being a leather accord bomb. Okay, they probably didn't expect it. That's what my takeaway is from that, because there is prominent leather, but it's not dominant leather. Okay, gotcha, it's prominent but not dominant I like that.
Myke:To me, that should be a t-shirt.
Ryan:Alright. Do you think we're going to be disappointed like we were with dark leather from Spicebomb this year?
Ross (TLTG Reviews):No, no, this is far superior to that, gentlemen. Okay, if you're a fan of their last several flankers anything from the vegan leather take of bottled parfum to the incense dominant elixir, or even the addition of violet leaf to triumph elixir to the elixir DNA If you're a fan of any of their last three releases I don't see how you could not like this. This is basically a sweeter take on the evolution they've been going through More leather and a little bit more sweetness.
Myke:Okay, that's what we were looking for with dark leather was just like a sweet leathery fragrance and it was garbage, absolute garbage yeah.
Ross (TLTG Reviews):You know I've had a lot of people say that and I don't think it's total garbage, but I do think it's a disappointment Huge. I think it's literally the worst fragrance they've released in the line. Yeah, absolutely.
Myke:And you know, if literally every single human that's tried it says it's a weak performer, it's definitely not nose fatigue yeah, well, not only that, but I think it was the build-up to it too, because we knew it was coming out for so long with a name like dark leather. You just have so much you're expecting out of that fragrance for then it to just kind of smell like a kind of spice, balmy, not so leathery.
Ross (TLTG Reviews):You know, I hate it ever my issue with it was when they first announced it, because my favorite designer release of 23 was infrared eau de parfum. Oh yeah, that was great coming off such a great effort. That was based around leather already spices and leather and resins. Yeah, it's like okay, why are you following this up with a leather dominant fragrance? It's like it can't. I doubt it's going to be better. Your best bet is it's a linear move or it's going to be worse. Well, it's speaking of linear because it's a linear fragrance that doesn't offer near what the previous release had. It was destined to flop because anybody that's tried the previous it just it can't measure up right, yeah, infrared edp.
Myke:We were blown away with that one.
Ross (TLTG Reviews):We love that one I think of what's on the market. It's their best fragrance right now really I'd agree with that. Yeah, they're at least tied with available in their library.
Myke:I think it's their best yeah, for me it might be tied with, uh, spice bomb extreme, just because that one is just such like a you know prevalent fragrance. Everybody, everybody, loves it. I've had a couple bottles of it and enjoyed it. I haven't owned the Infrared EDP yet, but I'd be happy to because it was pretty juicy.
Ross (TLTG Reviews):I think all of them, even Night Vision EDT, for the kind of flack it got years ago when it came out. I still think it's a solid fragrance, just not their best fragrance.
Myke:I had that one before. It was pretty good.
Ross (TLTG Reviews):They never disappointed me, until this newest release.
Myke:I had a bottle of the Night Vision one far before we got into doing which one though? The EDT or the EDP? The EDT it first got released. I was new to it. Ryan had just told me about Spice Bomb. I'd went through maybe three bottles of that. That's the only thing I wore, and then, you know, I go to get another bottle of that. And of course, I got suckered into. Hey, this is the new release and I went through an entire bottle of it and I don't even remember it. Wow, wow, yeah.
Ross (TLTG Reviews):So, but that's been five, six years well, I have to throw this out there because I'm a big fan of its Eau de Parfum Flanker and if you enjoy the EDT enough to go through an entire bottle, you owe it to yourself to try the EDP, because it is a deeper, more nuanced and stronger fragrance based around that EDT formula. We'll have to give it a try. Man Got pistachio and nutty notes that's literally how they list it. It's a very creamy, nutty type of opening with that DNA it's really good.
Ryan:I got a random question to ask before we get into our one-night stand review. It just hit me Absolutely how many fragrances do you think you smell a day? Do I smell a day? Yeah, because I feel like you do this so much.
Ross (TLTG Reviews):You've got probably more than us, for sure I mean it depends on the day, but if I had to average it out, some days it can be high single digits to mid single digits and some days it's double digits. It all depends on what's going on. Yeah, what all? Did I get a bundle of things in at once? Am I, am I doing a fragrance haul? Am I, am I doing a live stream with five or six fragrances that I just got? It all depends. I would say, on a given day, let's take content out of it. Yeah, yeah, just pulling a cap and sniffing stuff close to double digits, damn man that is fun, though, right, that's.
Ross (TLTG Reviews):That's on the light end. Now, if I go to getting in the mood to start spraying stuff that does happen almost every day it could be easily a dozen plus, not counting content god, that is just insane.
Ryan:I asked it's me just asking because we were kind of talking today. I was just like you know, we sit on a lot of decants and we should just be smelling them. I was like ross probably smells a fucking thousand fragrances in a month. It's like, yeah, he's not like he's losing out on content and you're just gaining more knowledge about it.
Ross (TLTG Reviews):That's a safe take. It's a little exaggerated with the number, but it's in the hundreds every month for sure. Now, some of that being repetitive, like I might be sniffing a couple of the same things for several days in a row, but on a day-to-day basis, if you just look at the sheer number of grabbing a fragrance and using my nose with it.
Myke:The principle is right, ryan. Okay, yeah, for sure, all right. Well, let's get into our one night stand review of LeBeau, because we know you've smelled it, ross, and we've kind of started talking before we pressed record. We're like wait, wait, wait, we got to press record. This is some good stuff. So, without further ado, todd, hit that music, yeah.
Ryan:One night stand review. Well, mike and Ross, after laying in bed with John Paul Godier, lamar LeBeau, edt, what do you guys think about it?
Ross (TLTG Reviews):Well, I think it's a really good base dna for them. I think they have a lot of avenues to explore. I think, with it being so basic yet so commonplace, like there's a lot of fragrances it's it's gotten to the point of almost folklore where when you get a citrus coconut fragrance from some other brand, they immediately compare it to laboe. Oh, it's. It's to that point where things, yeah, are being said they smell like laboe. So it's got that level of popularity. So, overall, pretty beloved as its naysayers. Because it comes down to do you mind chemically synthetic? Because that's one thing I have to give it is it is chemically synthetic but out in the air and that's. It's really only bothersome if you're sniffing it up close, if you let the magic happen out in your sillage, it is really enjoyable. As long as you like that beachy coconut, tropical type of thing, where it's not a creamy coconut so you don't get the sunscreen smell, it's more of a coconut water kind of thing going on With some powdered tonka bean. You get that sweetness and it's one of those dnas, because if you like designer fragrances, especially modern stuff, more than likely you're okay with sweet fragrances, because this is a tropical sweet fragrance at its core and so far, so good.
Ross (TLTG Reviews):With the two flankers, in my opinion, I feel like they, just they. They keep doing better than what the original is. The original is my least favorite of the three, but I have a lot of respect for the original because without it I wouldn't have the Le Parfum, I wouldn't have Paradise Garden, I wouldn't have, potentially, the. I don't know if it's make believe or not, but I've seen an absolute bottle work up. I'd love to see that. I'd love to see an elixir.
Myke:I feel like there's only two that I knew of well, the paradise garden is like a flanker of it, right? Is that what you were saying?
Ross (TLTG Reviews):yeah, that came out at the beginning of the year.
Myke:That's the third, okay yeah, and I've heard a lot of great uh words about that we have a Patreon member.
Ryan:I think that's sending us a thing of that for us to smell. So I can't wait. But for me personally, it was just kind of eh, I don't know, I just didn't feel it. It felt I don't know, I just did not vibe whatsoever. No, I'm not giving like in-depth critique here, but it just felt too generic. It felt so generic for all the hype that me and him have heard for so long. We've had so many fans of the podcast ask us can you guys do LeBeau? Can you do LeBeau? They're so excited. And I was just like I'm not feeling this. I don't know, maybe I just went into it thinking too highly or think it was going to be something unique, because it just wasn't.
Myke:Plus that original LeMall is just fantastic.
Ryan:Yes, because it just wasn't. Plus, that original Lamal is just fantastic. Yes, me and him both love the original so much and, honestly, the golden, whatever bottle that just came out.
Ross (TLTG Reviews):The Lamal Elixir.
Ryan:Yeah, that one's actually pretty good too, for real I agree.
Myke:But yeah, I just didn't feel this one man, I don't know, ross, did you get like a saltiness off of it, Not aquatic, but like just a saltiness. That's what I kept getting off of it too, which I did think was unique about it, because I was like it's not for me. I have to watch out for aquatic fragrances, because they kind of smell a little weird on my skin.
Ross (TLTG Reviews):Are you one of those that when?
Myke:it comes to modern synthetic aquatics, you get the rotten egg smell, I get, yeah, I get, like the wet dog, like lake water smell yeah, so so the culprit that I've narrowed it down to, because a lot of people have told me about this, I don't experience it.
Ross (TLTG Reviews):I think it comes down to either a specific synthetic ambergris or the amberwood note. I think it's because all the ones that I see they say that about your bulgari aqua atlantiques, your dolce gabbana light blue owen tints they all have those particular notes that tie them together. So I'm kind of thinking it's a skin chemistry issue with those synthetic amberwoods or ambergris. Potentially. That's just. This is an assumption, but it's me gathering info over the years.
Myke:Yeah, for sure no it's bringing it up to me especially as, as you smell more and more fragrances, you kind of build that rolodex of of different kind of uh, common commonalities between them. But, uh, that's the one thing I did like about it, that it gave it. That's the unique part about it. I haven't smelled a fragrance that did that. That did the saltiness that didn't go aquatic on the skin, yeah, but where it kind of fell flat, was it? Was that plus just kind of your typical designer sweetness, that, um, that makes a lot of people love it.
Myke:And look, we've since brought friends in and let them smell $500, $600 niche fragrances versus the $80 discounted designers and they go gaga over the designer stuff, absolutely. So it's like I know we can be niche heads and we can get all pumped up about these special fragrances, but when it comes down to just smelling good and smelling appealing, they figured it out with the designer fragrances. The approachability of it, absolutely yeah. So there is something in it that I did feel like made it unique but also kind of kept that around. But that being said, comparing it to some of my favorite fragrances that have more personality, it still wasn't enough to push me, push me over to go.
Ryan:I gotta buy this thing yeah, I think I'm good on that take but I definitely want to smell the paradise garden.
Ross (TLTG Reviews):It's my least favorite of what they've done so far, but, like I said before, at the same time, without it I wouldn't have the two that I prefer. Right, because the two that I prefer are deeper fragrances. Yes, they have added a lot to them. Well, I can understand where you're coming from with generic. I think of the three, it's definitely the most generic well, well, there you go.
Ryan:That's our takes on that. I'm ready to actually get into this next one, because today we were having our back and forth. You know, hey, what fragrance have you done? You know we know you smelled everything, but have you not smelled this? And you recommended this one. Yeah, and you also recommended after you dog walked super allegria.
Ross (TLTG Reviews):So now I won't feel bad if I don't like this but I am curious if this is gonna be good like you want, to not like it, because exactly that on your chanel fragrance.
Myke:Look, I love ryan like a brother, but this guy will hold a grudge to his death. So we're, we're gonna find out. Uh, we're gonna spray this bad boy on. Let's see, let's do it. I'll do it right along with you guys, all right guys, I'm excited.
Ross (TLTG Reviews):Oh, gentlemen, gentlemen, no, no, no, no, we got to do skin guys. Oh, I'm doing skin too, don't worry. Okay, I was about to say you're not going to get up the full story without it.
Ryan:There we go, you know what, in the air, out the gate. I don't think Ross steered us wrong for a second here.
Ross (TLTG Reviews):Guys, for a designer it's actually pretty damn impressive. It's hard to think when you look at the last 15 years of Hugo Boss. The last three years make up for all of it.
Ryan:Well, let me actually say something really quick, because we, or at least I, have not experienced any of the Hugo.
Myke:Boss line line. It's true. Actually, this is our first time to ever smell a boss fragrance. This is the first time yeah, personal.
Ross (TLTG Reviews):If you listen on spotify, my jaw would drop none of them.
Ryan:We haven't smelled a single one and, and to go with your sentiment, I was reading some reviews of this earlier and everybody was basically saying how weak the other stuff was and they couldn't believe that this just came out of nowhere. Being this badass.
Ross (TLTG Reviews):Like if I was to blind test this with you, you would not tell me it's a Hugo Boss bottled flanker. There's no way you could tell me, even if you were familiar with the line.
Myke:I would almost say I wouldn't guess that it was designer. It smells so woodsy and boozy on my skin.
Ross (TLTG Reviews):And it's so resinous too. Oh, that's the best part for me. It's leathery, like the comment spoke of, very resinous. It's smoky. There's a sweetness that balances it. Like you said, it has this booziness to it. It's ambery, it's a rich fragrance, you can tell I love it. I'm just going into cutting a promo no, dude, we're, we're about it.
Myke:Man, this is, uh, this is one to to start on, for sure you didn't lead us astray on this this is honestly what spice bomb dark leather should have fucking been I didn't say it, you said it.
Ross (TLTG Reviews):This is what it should have fucking been, man what the hell yeah, this is much more impressive than something that we expected to be impressive yeah, for sure it's got some real attitude to it.
Myke:You don't? You kind of don't expect that I, if I'm being real, what I expected this fragrance to smell like was going to be warm, sweet yeah you know a little spiciness but but overall you know kind of down the middle generic dude, it smells great.
Ryan:It's got a little bit. Might may hate me saying this, but it's like it's got a little bit of that, not as harsh, but like that vitamin kind of vibe, kind of going on.
Myke:He's talking about, like the intro to red tobacco, that kind of light bite the way that pungence is it kind of has that pungent sweet smoke dude. If red tobacco started like this, I'd I'd have 10 bottles of it this is way smoother on the intro.
Ross (TLTG Reviews):You know for sure it smells fucking good wow, I have a question, since you clearly don't like red tobacco have you tried the intense we?
Myke:did. I liked it better I did like it way better yeah same. It's the wrong name I've been saying red tobacco privé yeah, okay, there you go see, that's what I've been saying. Yeah, it's red tobacco for people who don't like red tobacco.
Ross (TLTG Reviews):And I like red tobacco. But that opening it's great that you mentioned that. That's the people that don't like it. That's why it's the opening that's so pungent and in your face. This mutes that sweetness. And it's more about the oriental stuff, the spices, the woods. It really brings out the depth of the profile. Yeah, and this kind of does remind me of it a little bit.
Myke:It's funny that I could yeah, I could kind of see it like the similarity, but it's definitely not like a clone of it or a one to one.
Ryan:No, no, not at all, but man, I do it though.
Ross (TLTG Reviews):For sure yeah.
Myke:Yeah, I mean hands down. I prefer this, just like right out of the you know atomizer.
Ryan:I know this is our bottle of it. I'm like it's a good and a bad for me right now, just because I'm happy that this does smell good, but I genuinely do feel like dark leather should have been this. This is 100% what it should have been like. Do better, victor and Rolf. Sir man, I love it. I was wanting to hate this again.
Ross (TLTG Reviews):I know you were yeah, based on our conversation earlier, I had a feeling that was in your mind he preached probably a 45 minute sermon.
Myke:when we got in the truck after we got this about what y'all were saying and I was just like dude for real and of course he's agreeing, but he's like I kind of see Superlegger being kind of whack.
Ryan:I was like what?
Ross (TLTG Reviews):Well he went to. It's not even that, it's whack. It's that. My argument for those of you that obviously didn't hear our private conversation is if you can sit here and tell me that it's better than any of the flankers, I'll apologize. Any Aloram flanker. Yeah, and I'm apparently outside of our conversation. I'm calling the MFs 10 ways a Sunday, apparently.
Myke:I'm like I'm ready to go get my fucking pump on right now, yeah well, I mean he, I was telling him too, like all of the Aloram stuff is, he's got to try, but he went to like I was basically reaming him up and down as he was pressing record and he had to stop because he was like it sounds like you're ripping into Ross, but I was like I was staring into Ryan because he's throwing a bitch fit over the fact that you didn't like that.
Ross (TLTG Reviews):No, and it's not that I don't like it, I just I wouldn't take it over. Yeah right Sport, the Cologne, yeah the Edition Blanche, or especially the O Extreme I think it's a stripped down version of the O Extreme.
Myke:For sure I can't ever get my hands on the Edition Blanche. I'll look for it, but I think they did they re, they re-release it in a different way. Was it like discontinued for a?
Ross (TLTG Reviews):So it was an EDT initially. Then they re-released it as an EDP. Okay, I've only tried the EDP.
Myke:I want to try that one for sure.
Ross (TLTG Reviews):The whole line's good and sadly I've never tried the original. Shame on me. Yeah, I hear it's a timeless classic. I just have that. For some reason I've never gotten around to it.
Ryan:Now let me hit you guys with the price and trend of this Hugo Boss bottle.
Ross (TLTG Reviews):Absolutely yeah, we're all over the place.
Myke:No, no, no. This is every episode we ever do. By the way, I'm not going to help the situation.
Ryan:Price 140 bucks for 3.3 ml and popularity is like a 4 point. I want to for 3.3 ml and popularity is like a four point. I want to say three. Yeah, 4.31 out of five on fragrantica, but that's only like 300 something votes, so I'm assuming this is fairly new, right? New?
Ross (TLTG Reviews):though. Yeah, brand new release. This just came out recently. Um, now, I would strongly encourage shopping around. I picked up my 50 ml from Fragrance Buy. They're currently out of stock. They had 50 and 100 milliliter a few weeks ago. That's how I got it. Just to let the audience know what I paid, let me log into my Fragrance Buy account real quick. That's what the keyboard clicking is, as you guys know. It's just to give an idea what you can kind of hope to pay for it on the discount market when they come back in stock. I paid $65.18 US for my 50 ml. Wow, that's not bad. And it came out like two months ago. Wow, that's great. Yeah, it's well worth the money. At that point, and I have so many fragrances, the only way I'd buy a 100-milliliter bottle is if that's my only option.
Ryan:Yeah, what else is it doing, though? It's doing something here that I'm trying to figure out. I'm not going to say gourmand, but there's something in there.
Myke:There's a sweet edibleness to it, for sure.
Ross (TLTG Reviews):It's getting creamier as it settles down. Yeah, that's probably with the sweet accord that they have. It's probably with the sweet accord that they have.
Myke:It's probably giving you that feel. Yeah, it's sweeter, it's warmer, as it's kind of drying down on the skin, which is great. This is a sharp fragrance. Now, as a man who frequents the gym, are you wearing this to the gym, or what? What do you typically wear?
Ross (TLTG Reviews):Not at all. I know a lot of people like to wear ouds and montals and I smell Ultramel and Eros often. Oh, really, specifically those two. Yeah, I can see Eros. And not long ago there was a gentleman walking ahead of me. We were going to the same set of cables and I was trailing him and I was like, well, there's Ultramel. And I was like, well, there's Ultramail, we do it. So I was like, oh, you bet, like he saw me, he's like, oh, you wanted this. I'm like no big deal, do your thing. I said. But while I got you I said 9 pm or Ultramail. He looked at me like I was crazy. Then he smirked and said 9 pm and I laughed it off.
Ryan:I was like yeah, man, I smell your trail.
Ross (TLTG Reviews):You're filling the whole gym. You smell good man.
Ryan:Yeah, that was the interaction. Do you ever get recognized?
Ross (TLTG Reviews):You can stop and talk about somebody's fragrance. Tell them they smell good.
Ryan:Yeah. Do you ever get recognized when you go out? Anytime, it has happened, yeah. How is that starting to?
Ross (TLTG Reviews):feel I live in a vacation tourist area, okay, and I had a guy that was vacationing from Georgia it was the most recent time. And then David Isley I don't know how many of you are old school wrestling fans. He's an AWA wrestler. He's wrestled Flair and Harley Race and all these guys. He walked up to me randomly. Now look when you look at me tattoos, normally flat bill potty mouth. You don't think you know. 60 plus year old white guy watches me right.
Ross (TLTG Reviews):Yeah, it's like just a nice. You know past middle age, you know relaxing in retirement in the Florida panhandle. Nice white guy. Hey, how are you? That guy walks up to me. He's like you know. I wasn't sure it was you, but then I saw the hand tattoos. Man, I love your channel. I just wanted to come tell you and just blew me away. Good man, I love your channel. I just wanted to come tell you.
Ryan:It just blew me away, good Lord.
Ross (TLTG Reviews):It doesn't happen often, but on occasion I do get recognized once in a while. Now I have these distinctive outliers.
Myke:There we go. Yeah the hand tattoos.
Ross (TLTG Reviews):It floors me every time because I don't think I'm any damn body, but it's sure nice to have a conversation.
Ryan:Are you going to be able to handle the fame when people start coming to you? Just want to just take random selfies with you, like jeremy france or some show outside of people that are really into perfume.
Ross (TLTG Reviews):I don't think that's going to be the issue. I need to concern myself. We're such a small hobby worldwide, uh, that you know, even though the online community is a few hundred thousand people. When you spread, spread that across all the countries, it's a drop in the bucket. It's not getting any people, so it's awesome when it does happen, but it's not something that happens often.
Myke:Do you ever plan on doing conventions or anything like that Assance or SynthExplorer or anything?
Ross (TLTG Reviews):I did SynthExplorer in 2019, the first year Every year, because it's Novembermber, december I travel a lot, yeah, every year, and that's when it is, so it's never like I've just pretty much exited off as it's not going to be a thing. Yeah, yeah now exxon's. I did want to do this past year, just didn't shake out, and now I have competitions going on during exxon's next year, so it's not going to happen next year either. Eventually I will get will get to Italy for this, yeah man, I will, that was.
Ryan:I don't fly, but he says it's fucking amazing over there, so you should definitely try to check it out.
Ross (TLTG Reviews):Well, I know Mike that you were hanging with Chris doing little scooters and everything.
Myke:Yeah, oh yeah, yeah. We did scooters the first year Dinner with George. Yes, yeah, which, again, I will always talk about how great of a human he was. In fact, a little funny story about him this past year we briefly just brushed up against each other and he said hi, and he was busy running around. And then later, smell of truth, ran up to me and said, hey, uh, george zaharoff is looking for you and I was like I wanted to apologize.
Ross (TLTG Reviews):He didn't have time and he was busy.
Myke:Yes, and I was like I said I said, no, he's not looking for me, I think you're missing, he goes. No, he's looking for you. And then he came up and, yeah, sure enough, he was like was like hey, I just wanted to tell you I'm. I'm sorry. We didn't really get to connect Like I wanted to earlier and I was like he didn't have to do that. He went out of his way to do that he is such a rare person.
Ross (TLTG Reviews):Yeah, he never wants anybody to feel that he looks at them as less than or unimportant in any way. Yeah, and that's just who george is. George is a wonderful, wonderful person yeah, I this, that's exact. You see, I I could have finished.
Myke:Yeah, a hundred percent, yeah, yeah, yeah. So it's such a nice guy and it's. It's cool that it's so weird that it's over there. I mean, I guess all our connections are primarily either in the states or uk, but uh, and then over there it's just like uh, it's all glued together. Everybody you've seen from all the channels and stuff like that they're all kind of in one place, which is pretty fun, but you kind of lead the pack up there too, so you know you'd probably be swamped the whole time just taking selfies with people?
Ross (TLTG Reviews):I doubt it, man. I'm not saying I wouldn't see some people. I'm sure you know, a couple people might want to talk to me, a couple people I'd want to talk to and all that stuff, being friendly and cordial with everyone. But outside of that, again, I never view myself as anybody special man. I'm just. I'm just another guy that's really into this weird hobby of perfume. Treat the wardrobe item as a hobby.
Ryan:Well, back on this really quick. What would you guys or who would you think wears this fragrance In your mind? Who do you envision? This really fits well. What do they look like, what do they do? What are they wearing when you wear this fragrance?
Ross (TLTG Reviews):I think this is somebody with an abrasive side. Okay, this is not necessarily heavy attitude, but there's a particular presence, an edgier presence, to someone that wears this Normally. I'm for the yin to the yang. If you're going to have an outgoing fragrance, it's more for the introverted. Yeah, if you're more outgoing, you want a softer fragrance, but this is one that paints a picture of out on the town bomber jacket, leather jacket, evenings.
Ross (TLTG Reviews):So I think this is one where the attitude pairs well in both instances, with your personality as well as the personality of the fragrance. I think it pairs well like that.
Myke:I see that it's like, just like the fragrance, it's a little more abrasive up front, but as you kind of get to know it, as you're like, oh, he's sweeter, he's a sweeter guy, you know. Yeah, he just looks, he's got the shaved head and the tattoos, but he's really just a sweetheart.
Ryan:What age do we think this person is that can wear this? We think this is 30s and up. We think it's a little bit younger. I think 25s and up.
Ross (TLTG Reviews):Because it still has that approachability for being a deeper fragrance and kind of a bordering niche type of blend, even though it's not necessarily on par with the level of oils. But it still doesn't smell like a basic synthetic designer either, Right. I would put this upper tier for these middle level, mid-level designers, for sure, I think. Because of that, I think a younger man will enjoy it, but not very young, not teenagers and early 20s, I think 25 plus.
Ross (TLTG Reviews):that's maybe got his stuff together, yeah, active more mature five-year-old is still waiting tables, you know, hitting the bars at night, that's still partying. But maybe the guy that's kind of settling in after college, he's you know, he's going out on the weekends, maybe with with his girl going to have drinks. Maybe that guy. Or, if we start going 30 plus, maybe the single guy 30 plus, because this smells like it could be on the prowl for a single guy as well, but not the younger ladies. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I feel that. Does that make sense?
Ryan:Oh no, it makes perfect sense. I was about to say I want to save the rest that we have because I would love for Ricky or Nikki to smell this. Get a female's perspective. I have a feeling that a lot of women would like this. I really do.
Ross (TLTG Reviews):Women, not girls.
Ryan:Yeah, a hundred percent.
Myke:Yeah, because this does have. I'm with you, it has a maturity to it, but the sweetness, like you're saying, the approachability of it, it does make it a little bit more palatable than something that's that's just going to stay. With that opening, that boozy, woodsy you know sort of thing, the sweetness that this kind of has, it's almost like, uh, yeah, we're so, we say this wrong, but that with that warm caramel base that has got to it, that, just that ooey gooeyness, that that makes you go, makes sense Makes sense.
Ryan:I like it. Okay, are you going to skip it, sample it or buy it? What are you going to do, ross?
Ross (TLTG Reviews):I mean, clearly it's a buy. Yeah, absolutely.
Ross (TLTG Reviews):And look, I went into it blindly, I just liked the line, okay yeah they've been really, really doing a great job with both the scent line and the bottled line with their last three releases each okay. They've been contenders, top three designers of the year for me in both lines, like this year boss the scent elixir, and boss bottle absolute two of my top three wow released this year. So I got two hugo boss fragrances from two different lines that I think are just the upper echelon of what's come out this year I gotta have to.
Ross (TLTG Reviews):I went into this with that expectation. I give brands an opportunity when they start impressing me. I'll keep giving you the benefit of the doubt until you disappoint me. So this was a blind buy this was a blind buy.
Ross (TLTG Reviews):Wow, this was a blind buy. Wow, this was a blind buy. And I had looked at the notes, obviously, and they only give you so much in the notes. They kind of hide what's really the full formula these days. Right, they'll give you just a few, but again, it's the trust I have in what they've been doing over there that I was willing to take the blind leap of faith. And boy did they deliver.
Myke:Did you get to smell Old Fashioned by Killian?
Ross (TLTG Reviews):Not yet.
Myke:Oh man, I can't wait for it. Please message us when you smell that one.
Ross (TLTG Reviews):Okay, so high hopes here.
Myke:I think so. If you're rating ones that you smelled released this year, I really want you to smell that one For sure.
Ross (TLTG Reviews):I do need to get my nose on it so I can fairly assess it, because I do my annual stuff in in december where it's best best of the year, most worn of the year, worst of the year for the different categories, niche designer, cheap, all that yeah, it's definitely one of the top ones for us.
Myke:I know that chris was saying it's either his top or one of his top ones this year as well released this year. So, man, I'm with you on this, though this is as especially for a designer, this is such a strong release. I'm blown away and I'm mad at myself that I haven't smelled more of the boss bottled stuff well, this is what I'm gonna ask, though.
Ryan:Going off this, though, did we fuck up by starting here with hugo boss?
Ross (TLTG Reviews):yes, we're just downhill from me. Well, it depends if you're gonna look at boss bottled elixir, boss bottled triumph elixir. Boss bottled parfum. No, that it just depends on your taste. The parfum got a little flat because not everybody, I think, could really appreciate the vegan leather. It's a green leather, okay, with some iris. I really like it personally, uh. But the elixir seems like like that's the battle. The argument is this, or the elixir seems like that's the battle. The argument is this, or the elixir for everybody. Until this came out, it's like that's the unquestioned best thing they've put out. Now it's like, okay, there's the. I'm on this team, you're on that team because they're just both so good.
Ross (TLTG Reviews):I would suggest checking out the last couple of years releases. The only problem with that is if you start going with the classics, some of the stuff can be a little disappointing. But the main thing I would suggest is smell boss bottled. Okay. Boss number six, the original release, it's not what it was in 96. Okay, but it's that sharp dress man, gray suit kind of fragrance. Okay, apple pie, wood spice, it's a classic. Vanilla, it's a classic. It's what started all. It was actually called Boss no 6. It got the nickname Boss Bottled and it kind of caught on. Now they've named the line. Oh, that's no 1, boss no 5. It was.
Myke:Boss no 6. You're teaching us something we didn't know, that we didn't know anything. Yeah, still keeping it uneducated over here.
Ryan:Well, I will say this really quick. I would have to say for the price that you told me earlier, because that is juicy. Yeah, was that? 65 is what you said you paid for?
Ross (TLTG Reviews):Yeah, because that is juicy. Was that? 65 is what you said you paid for. I think the 100 milliliter was around 90. Okay.
Myke:Right around that.
Ross (TLTG Reviews):Like 50 bucks off of retail.
Ryan:If you are somebody that you don't like red tobacco, but there's like something there that kind of intrigues you, I feel like this is good. This is really fucking good. It's not red tobacco, obviously, but it has certain pieces that just remind me. But man for sure it's not a. It's not a, it's not red tobacco, obviously, but it has certain pieces that just remind me.
Ross (TLTG Reviews):But man for sure it's like a distant cousin. I feel like it's closer to Carlisle than it is to red tobacco.
Ryan:I could agree with that, I agree, yeah.
Ross (TLTG Reviews):And stuff like that. And the sweetness it's not real earthy, yeah, like that tobacco right like dried tobacco I think this is closer to something like Carl wow.
Ryan:I'm genuinely impressed with this. I seriously thought me and Mike would be able to take our pants and just I mean, it's no little room, sport super leggero yeah now, ross, I gotta ask this what was, what was the scent of the day at the competition?
Myke:oh nothing, oh nothing.
Ross (TLTG Reviews):What was the scent of the day at the competition? Oh nothing, oh nothing really. A lot of people ask me that because you don't want to spray alcohol on a spray tank. Oh yeah, that's true, it would have made it splotchy. What would it have been? It definitely would have been Evening Mystique or Business Over. Oh yeah, that's true, I brought them with me just in case, because I did wear evening mystique that evening after for dinner and stuff like that uh, just creating memories. It was a very special day for me.
Myke:so the right move was, you know, one of my creations with george and uh, hey, I wore that the other day and ryan was like what the hell are you wearing?
Ross (TLTG Reviews):and I was like just gets better over time evening mystique.
Ryan:It is seriously, god. I hope I'm not causing like uh, inner fight with anybody over there, but I think of those releases that was probably my favorite, one for sure, like without even questioning, it is really good, it's shocking, shocking.
Myke:Well it fits us probably most out of it. It was definitely. I remember this was before we even had you on the episode, but I wore it to a shoot that I did photography shoot, and it was a group of moms and every single one of them was like, oh, that's the smell good guy, that's the guy that smells good. And I was like Ryan, we're buying a bottle of this. No need I sent them your way. That's the guy that smells good. And I was like Ryan, we're buying a bottle of this. No need, I sent him your way. That's right, you sure did, man, and yeah, we appreciate it. I appreciate you guys. Let's get personal just a little bit, because I want to know what it felt like. Obviously, you spent years kind of building up to the competition, because I, I think, was it 2021? You posted kind of like your before photo, ish. And then the competition what? Because you, you took home the gold that day right in your division.
Ross (TLTG Reviews):So I did four classes in classic physique.
Ross (TLTG Reviews):Classic physique was the division it's the in between physiques with the board shorts and like they're on the beach. It's the in-between physiques with the board shorts, you can like they're on the beach. It's all about aesthetics and abs. Why the heck they got like two poses? Yeah, legs aren't as important. Um, a lot of them still work on their legs. They want mainly the calves, you know, yeah, classic physiques, the in-between. It's not the over the top mass monsters, it's a more aesthetic yet massive physique overall. Like it's the happy medium, yeah, between physique and open weight bodybuilding. Um, that's where it's all about. You know, shredded, peeled to the gills and as big as you can possibly be right uh, with the colorful bikinis and classic physique, everybody's got to wear black.
Ross (TLTG Reviews):It's very structured, okay. Um, just to give you a little idea of what the division is specifically. So I was in true novice, because you can only do that when it's your first show.
Myke:So a true novice.
Ross (TLTG Reviews):Then I did novice class A because for my height and weight I was in class A. I did the open, which is for any level of experience. I did open class A and then I did master's over 35 because apparently I'm old enough to be in a master's.
Ross (TLTG Reviews):Hey, we all are here in this room when my dad was doing it, they had masters 40 plus masters 50 plus. Now it's 35 and 40, 40 I don't know if they do 45, but I know 50 and 60. Yeah, sure, because there's different levels to it. I mean there's hey man, there's some 60 year old men that'll come in there and wipe the floor with some 38-year-olds.
Myke:Man dude. I've seen there's a couple guys on YouTube. He's like in his 50s, all natural Dude is freaking shredded. I can't even remember his name. There's a bunch of them, yeah, but he's, yeah, freaking crazy.
Ross (TLTG Reviews):But with True Novice I took first first and then I took um, so bo was his name, was my main competition for the other classes and uh, so once I took the first second place to him, I knew it was the rest of the way, so I got second place finishes after that, right, because it was me and him and me and him were were the two. They were the biggest comparison because I was in a class where it was two of us, four of us, five of us and three of us, five of us and three of us.
Myke:Yeah.
Ross (TLTG Reviews):As far as the number of competitors in that class and then the winner of Open A goes against the winner of each other class in Open B, c, d, depending on the height and weights that, the bigger the guys got Right and the winners of each of those go for an overall. Guys got, you know, the winners of each of those go for an overall. So, uh, you know, I wouldn't, even if I would have won first. I was not going to beat the guy that. He was always going to be the guy that took the overall boat and stand a chance against him either. Yeah, but it was. I was mainly there for the experience of it and but to have a really good showing like that, a first and three second place finishes, was absolutely, absolutely yeah. I mean, I don't think I really could have asked for better in my first outing.
Myke:For sure, and that's what I was going to ask. Man, you've spent a lot of time working up to this, and at times with great opposition, honestly, so how did it feel when you got that first place?
Ross (TLTG Reviews):If you look at some of the footage on my instagram page, um, it was one of the videos that I think it was either george and my wife had filmed from because they were in the front row. Yeah, um, from the angle, I just have this shit eating grin on. You know, because it? Because the first thing we did was true, novice, it was the first class when we got to my division gotcha, yeah, and I won right out the gate, so it was just I was happier than a pig and shit.
Ross (TLTG Reviews):No matter what happened after that, I at least got one first place absolutely, man, yeah I was very happy with it. Just yeah, you know it, it's a, it's gratifying and satisfying, yeah, to know that the hard work and effort you put in, because there's a lot of sacrifice that goes into it. Enhanced or not, natural or enhanced, it doesn't matter. Well, dude, the diet has to be crazy it's still a real day-to-day, long-term sacrifice nutritionally, physically and mentally. Yeah, To go through that from months on end to get to that point, to do that.
Myke:And you kind of have to dehydrate before those shows too right.
Ross (TLTG Reviews):You do, yeah, we do so. You water load leading up and then you dehydrate right before, literally right before, like the morning of right before prejudging was the best my abs looked. It's like a pinned picture on my page.
Myke:So proud of that picture, yeah, Well, dude, a bunch of hard work into it and if I had to guess, you're probably like us where we're cursed, where it's like, once you hit that from there, it's like it's still you, you're still judging things you could have done better, and then you're constantly, you know, it's like on to the next feedback, and it's if you want to pursue doing more, here's the things you need to work on.
Ross (TLTG Reviews):More here's the things you need to work on, so you can do even better next round or at an even bigger show regional shows or the bigger shows. So I got the judges' feedback. I'm with a different coach locally which my first coach was great. She's known as the queen of bodybuilding in. My posing coach won his class and almost turned pro at the Olympia this year.
Myke:Wow man.
Ross (TLTG Reviews):At the amateur Olympia. They go on stage two days before the pros do.
Myke:Yeah, yeah.
Ross (TLTG Reviews):Dylan did. I was so proud of Dylan, but it's just point being like I had a really good because I wanted to do my first show in my home state. I wanted to do it in Louisiana. So I got with who my friends use, who just happens to be the best bodybuilding coach. She's a former IFBB pro in women's bodybuilding herself Shout out to Lacey, I doubt she'll hear this, but she's phenomenal, great human and she knows her shit man hey, send her a link Produces winners and then so there's someone I built a bond with that I see every day at the gym I go to here because I'm in Florida, yeah, and I had it in my mind because me and John really get along.
Ross (TLTG Reviews):Big sneaker head, he watches my sneaker channel and all this stuff and he produces winners here. He's kind of like her counterpart here. So, as heartbreaking as it was because I didn't want to upset her, she was very professional I broke away from her and then just recently got with John because I wanted to. You know, this is more in person this way, yeah, I'm doing everything over the phone and virtual checkings. So I like literally day after tomorrow I have an in-person check in in my trunk so we can evaluate any adjustments we need to make. It's a it's a week to week thing, even in the off season real quick.
Ryan:Uh, you, you, you also do a channel for sneakers, right? Yeah, how's that been going?
Ross (TLTG Reviews):uh, doing really well. It's. It's starting to, you know, have some decent earnings um it's rapidly growing. It just uh, just hit 5350 subscribers today, okay around 100 000 views a month. I mean it's nothing compared to what the fragrance channel does, but it's. It's climbing. That's another one of my hobbies. It's. It's literally what I wanted to do years before the fragrance channel, when I was still too nervous to just press record and be on camera.
Ryan:I've been wanting to do a sneaker channel for like 10 years I used to be like really big into I still kind of am, I just I have kids so I can't but but I was really big into it. You know, while there I collected. I still have some of my old collection, but it's not big, I mean nothing crazy, but what has been like your all-time favorite sneaker. I've got to know.
Ross (TLTG Reviews):I'm a Jordan 12 guy. That's my number one. Okay, I'm a nostalgia act when it comes to the Jordan 12. 12 through 14 is my favorite model Models in general. But if I model models in general, but uh, if I had to pick one silhouette, that's like if.
Ryan:As long as I can have jordan 12s, I'm good. God, I never got a pair, but I wish I would have got a pair of the. Uh, dr doom, uh, what do you call like foam posit shoes, man, don't fucking do it, don't you fucking do it there went my plaque don't you dare look how slick this shoe is fuck yeah, this is my number two phone number one is the unc and white foam posit pros from 2000.
Ryan:They've never re-released them, but this is the 2016 release of the doctor that literally I never got it, but I was so tempted that is probably my favorite shoe. As far as like the overall look, I love this?
Ross (TLTG Reviews):yeah, I got them not long ago.
Ryan:They've been on the bucket list do you, do you have a pair of nike sb? Uh, gibsons, do you have those? No, I don't. I got I got those. I'm still proud of those. It's like a. It was like a brown leather nike dunk but it's got like pink fur on the inside.
Ross (TLTG Reviews):It looks like the inside.
Ryan:Inside looks like yeah, it looks like inside of a guitar case. That's like one of my favorite ones, so it's funny that you bring up pink.
Ross (TLTG Reviews):Uh, the jordan 4 orchids they haven't released yet. I just got them in at the video yesterday. They're like a pale pink suede. Damn, look like an oreo print cement on them. Thank the jordan 4 silhouette. I picked them up. They were out yesterday. But oh man, god man, god damn it. I'm a sucker for pink.
Ryan:I can't believe you just dropped that phone positive on there.
Ross (TLTG Reviews):I had it right there, I knocked over my silver play button.
Myke:Well, I've got a question then about that. You hit 100,000 and you get first in your first showing. What was the bigger moment of satisfaction? Because they both take a shitload of hard work.
Ross (TLTG Reviews):That's a hard question because I've put in way more time, day in and day out, for years longer for the Silver Playbook. For sure, yeah, I think I have to say that there's a lot of different sacrifice that went into that. Yeah, no doubt that's a hard question, though.
Myke:And you're about to lap it again. You're at like 140 last night.
Ryan:Good Lord, dude, I'm going to be up there before you know it. One day you'll probably have a million dude.
Ross (TLTG Reviews):I don't know about all that I'm not saying it's impossible. I just don't think it's realistic, at least not right now. If it ever does happen we're talking many years down the line I would think if and when. I think it's more of an if than when, but I appreciate the compliment.
Myke:Nothing else. Well, on closing, what do you see as the direction for the channel? Do you, what do you have coming up, or what are your your big long-term goals for the tltg reviews fragrance channel?
Ross (TLTG Reviews):so in particular. It's just you know our, our hobby is a bit of a revolving door. You have people that stick around for years and years but you have your come and goes. For a few months they get into it for a little bit, realize they they spent too much money. Then they disappear. That happens a lot. That's the revolving door side of it. So you'll have bursts where all of a sudden the views are up, the subscribers are up, then you'll have a low, then you'll have a burst, peaks and valleys, right.
Ross (TLTG Reviews):Yeah. Yeah, we got caught in that door a couple times. I expect it to be similar to that long term because there's always new people coming into it as a hobby, more so than just getting a quote unquote clone to wear every day. Yeah, people get into it. Everybody's a hobbyist for something these days and I think the space's growth has shown that over the last five years I've been in it for five and a half years now, that over the last five years I've been in it for five and a half years now and I've seen exponential growth from my first video to now, not just for me, just for the space in general.
Ross (TLTG Reviews):We have so many content creators across so many profiles from people that could care less to know a thing about a fragrance. They just want you to buy through their TikTok link on to the most technical of the tech. You've got every end of the spectrum at this point, and the more you can have kind of a very authentic presentation where you're really bringing you to the forefront, I think that's the people that will continue to thrive. Yeah, which I try to do. You know I'm very unfiltered at this point. I'm 100% on camera at all times now.
Myke:Well, once you go live, man, it's a whole new beast right.
Ross (TLTG Reviews):That's really what it is. The live stream crowd's only so big on YouTube, but you create a loyal live stream base. I call them my core audience, yeah for sure.
Ross (TLTG Reviews):And, point being, to answer your question, I'm getting kind of long winded and kind of circling around it a bit. Hey, it's a podcast. Basically, what I'm looking at currently will be the pretty similar path for the next several years, because I don't really see a whole lot to change. Because I'm not the fancy editing type. Yeah, I'm very much the you know, outspoken, opinionated type. It's all about personality and emotion with me. So it's when you come to my channel you know you're not getting all the fancy graphics and cuts and edits, because I don't personally feel like I need it. Yeah, so as far as channel evolving, I don't think it's going to evolve a whole lot beyond what it is now, at least for the time being. Yeah, so I guess kind of it's kind of a boring answer.
Myke:It got a long time to get here, but more of the same yeah, you know and I think that's probably the right answer, though, because that's the answer to people who know what it takes to stick around a long time is just consistency over time, right? Yeah for sure. Yeah, there's no like magic bullet of oh, if I put lower thirds in every video, then I'll get bigger. You know, it's really just doing the damn thing over and over and over and over and over again hundreds of times, thousands of times.
Ross (TLTG Reviews):You want to try different things from time to time, sure, but never anything major. Yeah, this is the old saying if it ain't broke, don't fix it, yeah, but if you feel like you're stale, the audience already feels that way if you feel it. So anytime you feel that, coming on, try something to freshen things up. That's how I've always done it. But if it doesn't seem necessary, it's not.
Myke:Well said. Yeah, and Ross, we look forward to seeing many more years of you tackling a lot of stuff, man, because I feel like you got a great fragrance channel. You're also very inspirational with the bodybuilding stuff. I mean just showing that you did it. I mean gives mean, gives me hope, you know, because I've been called the dollar store version of you multiple times by the fragrance community.
Ross (TLTG Reviews):So really, yeah, I'm like the, I'm like the cheap, you know the well, there's some unflattering things that get said about me, so that might not be the compliment that you.
Myke:Hey, we've made our ode jerks debut as well, so we're good, we get. We got chewed up a little bit, but uh, now of honor fellas that's it that's what we said. I was, I think, the first time it popped up. I was like, finally. I was like come on, we're out here, guys. You know something?
Ross (TLTG Reviews):yeah, you get hated on for make-believe reasons, because that's what the reasons always are.
Myke:Yeah it's somebody that just screenshotted a thumbnail that you know didn't watch anything and just you know they they got triggered by something.
Ross (TLTG Reviews):But uh, those, those guys always be out there as weird as it is to say it's the truth, it's actually a good thing. Yeah, for sure you know, because if the mentally ill side of every community wasn't talking about you, you're not really making any weight.
Myke:I forget who said it, but it's like, if, only, if. What is it like they only have good things to say about you? You're not reaching a large enough audience, no so and if everybody likes you, you're fake.
Ross (TLTG Reviews):Yeah, yeah, for sure. That's just the guys on the street. If everybody likes you, you're being fake.
Myke:Mike Tyson said if you're a friend to everybody, you're an enemy to yourself damn valid point, yeah, so there you go well, you know what?
Ryan:Okay, well, on that note, ross, again, thank you so much for coming on this podcast a second time. It was a blast. I hope it was fun for you and definitely a great recommendation. I wanted to hate this, but I can't. This smells really good and for that price, man, that's a buy man Just quickly.
Myke:what would you say out of what we've smelled this year? Where do you think this would rank? Because I feel like it's pretty high for me. I feel like I'm very impressed with this.
Ryan:I would probably say can I do top 10 to make it safe? Yeah, It'd be in my top 10. I don't want to say top 5, but top 10 this year so far. And it might get narrowed down to top. Yeah, yeah, I think I, I definitely think it's. It's probably top five for me. I mean it's shocking that it smells this good and it's kind of designer you know I wasn't expecting to kind of have a niche quality, but man, this thing's pretty fucking nice.
Ross (TLTG Reviews):Man for real yeah, what a great recommendation. I'm glad you both enjoyed it. Man, it's never fun when you recommend something and somebody thinks it's terrible. I try to minimize that as best I can.
Myke:Well, this was absolutely a great direction to send us, man, and with that you've earned your, your invitation for another episode. We'll have to get with you sometime and set that up.
Ross (TLTG Reviews):Gentlemen, thank you so much for having me. It's always a pleasure. I can't believe an hour has flown by that quickly. I feel like we've been doing this for 10 minutes, I know. I'm looking at the timer, we're over 56 minutes.
Myke:Well, we appreciate your time and you hanging out with us, for sure, man.
Ross (TLTG Reviews):The pleasure has been mine.
Ryan:gentlemen, and until next time, spray it up y'all.