We're Taking Our Biggest Step Yet 

Hey everyone, Jesse here. I think I missed the mark on explaining something in the video so I wanted to clear it up here. This is the biggest step we've ever taken and we need to give it everything we've got. But we are not putting our content behind a paywall. For years now, we've been posting free content on RU-vid and IG / FB; along with exclusive content on Patreon - all of which takes a ton of time, energy, and resources. So for a temporary period, we're simply putting a pause on our free content while keeping our Patreon going as it has been. My goal with this video was to invite you to come along for the journey, but if you’re not able to, I COMPLETELY understand. We'll see you soon and we'll absolutely share what we learn during this period! 🤘🏻 J.

I believe in Trash Panda and their mission! Y'all got this, you guys are making a difference and terraforming the landscape of the sport and what's possible in the name of sustainability! Keep believing in yourselves!

Excited to see y'all again when the lights come back on!

This is so epic!!! So cool to watch this journey unfold! Can’t wait for the day of Trashpanda sponsored players - pushing what is possible in the sport!

I applaud the effort over the years and the successful products. I understand the business decision here. But even if you "go dark" I hope you still have a plan to document the development and learning process even if you can't share it until many months from now. I was drawn to this channel by a guy trying to make something from nothing out of his garage. The successes, failures, and learning moments were your best content. If content has to be delayed no worries. But it would be a huge missed opportunity to not capture that learning process in the coming months and share it freely down the road. The journey is just as valuable to us as the destination. Even if its delayed don't hide the journey.

Keep fighting the good fight! Be well, and always, take good care.

I work in plastic injection molding for (Mostly) RVs. That being said I love the process, learning about problems and solutions, the ways different plastics work (never knew you had to dry certain plastics until 4 years ago). Now with all of that love for this industry that i have, the main thing that upsets me is the the one way ticket that is plastics. Raw material to product, product to consumer, consumer to landfill. and the amount of waste is astronomical just from the plant. So I dont see just a guy working for a simple dream to make recycled discs. I see a dedicated man making the first stepping stone for the whole industry. First recycle a disc, then the world. Youve proven it is possible, and i am happy to be both a patron and to help hang on that lever for years to come. You are a true inspiration.

Good luck to your nocturnal era! Keep up the great work!👍🏻

LETS GOOOOO!!! I’m on the lever with you guys!

Go Jesse, and the team! I'm super excited for you and the next chapter in your story. I'm not sure I can afford the Patreon, but I'm still rooting for you. All the best! Looking to see what you can do with your new toy. "Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the [disc golf] world." -Archimedes

I sincerely hope this works out for you. At the same time, I can't help but think keeping people in the dark while you are making your biggest steps forward might be counter-productive. I was one of those folks who was clicking refresh the day the Inner Core was launched because I believed in what you were doing. The only reason I was that committed was because I was able to be invested in your progress and vision. I know you said explicitly this wasn't a case where you were saying you were going dark and then would post again in a week or two, but I hope you will reconsider... especially considering you will already have content available for your patreon folks.

Really enjoy your videos and the effort that goes into them, and love your mission. It's a crucial one, no doubt about it. But this "going dark" thing isn't the move. Trash Panda and its cause needs all the attention and exposure it can get. The time and effort spent creating these great videos is the cost of making people notice, follow and become engaged. Telling a story while also selling people on an idea. I'd never even thought of recycled discs until I found your channel, and now I follow the journey closely. "Free content" is a relative term here since your viewers buy your discs, watch ads and spend their time watching and engaging. It feels bad being left in the dark when we know you could post the occasional short update, since you're doing it elsewhere. I really hope you can hype people up again in 2-3 months or however long this work will take. Anyways, I sincerely wish you good luck with the new machine!

We’re going dark… but not really going dark. Just going dark for the people who don’t pay us directly to watch videos and completely abandoning the very aspect that gained you followers to begin with. Hope it works out for you guys

Good luck! I've enjoyed following your content on RU-vid.

"This isnt clickbait. It isnt a goodbye and next week post another video" "....except to Patreon"

Keep going team Trash Panda! Super proud of you all.

I'm "on the lever" by buying the product. I don't want to pay for product updates though. It's a shame, I like seeing this story unfold on RU-vid. Good luck Jessie and all the rest.

Inspiring stuff, so eager to see what's on the other side for Trash Panda!

finally, the Trash Panda Particle Accelerator

Beyond thrilled for you and the future of Trash Panda Jesse!! You have a small little Jo on that lever with you- proud to call you a bud 🫶

Funny how i just watched the video you featured. Now i see this. Good Luck and let the haters hate. None of them are on the end of that lever.

the head of experience with a green flannel, Green Day shirt, green hair, green eyes, greenish tattoos, in a green room was delightful.

Jesse you showed great courage and vulnerability and I love it! I love what you and your team are building with sustainable discs! I’m excited for you and your team!

Congratulations Jesse and team!! This is awesome!!

Very Very cool. Thanks to curiosity and initiative (and your garage for the start). Bravo.

right on guys. i am stoked for this new adventure!

That lever's getting longer and longer by the day - keep pushing, you're doing great work!

Congrats on Jesse and the team at Trash Panda for taking these bold new steps! Best of luck to you this year!

Weekly videos on Patreon is not ''saying Goodbye''. Best of luck monetizing your content. Legitimately pulling for you, just not a fan of this Patreon exclusivity reveal.

F's in the chat for TP going dark

Best of luck, you have all of our best wishes!

Congrats Jesse! Best of luck to you

This made me feel so great!! So happy for y'all at trash panda this is amazing!!!

Right on! Super stoked for you all! I have been here from the get go, but just joined patreon today!

Congratulations. This is a huge step forward. Make it happen!

I am stoked for this next big chapter!!

You got this brother. You are making disc golf and the world a better place. Keep doing you and can't wait to see what the future holds. You are awesome and an inspiration.

So cool man. I know it’s going to work out awesome. Prayers for you and your team. I will certainly be buying your new fairway driver when it comes out. This time I won’t be getting it in snow white though. 😂

Would have preferred to hear about this a few months out and given an opportunity to contribute to TP's success by signing up to Patreon. Instead, it makes it sound like they spent a bunch of money and need to herd their fanbase behind a paywall to make up for it. I value honesty over the inspirational storytelling. This was clickbait with a sad plot twist.

Congratulations on your FiRST injection machine!!! Stoked to see your success in the sport!! Keep up the great work and best of luck on the next chapter!!!!

Had to peek the patreon prices and was surprised with the pricing to be a tester. Appreciate not asking for an arm and a leg, will consider.

Keep it pushin" &/or pullin' Y'all! We are all here for the long haul!

Nothing says going dark and working hard. Like saying you will post even more, a place where people pay monthly to watch it 😅

For every person saying “you can’t do it” I hope there are five saying you can. Love the mission, love the discs, love the commitment. See you in 2-3 months!

How cool is that! Congrats on the hard work and betting on yourself.

It was the next logical step man! Grats, and I can't wait to see you all succeed even more!

Best of luck, Jesse! That's a nice looking machine.

This is a very interesting video… If there’s any confusion on Trash Panda’s end as a company regarding why this doesn’t sit well with most consumers: I think the problem with the whole thing is that the *choice* of “going nocturnal” genuinely seems pointless. It doesn’t make logical sense. In my mind and as an average disc golfer, Trash Panda doesn’t post on RU-vid very often in the first place. There is an occasional video updating us on random different stuff. So coming from the consumer perspective, I feel like I’m hearing “Okay so *we won’t be able to* make any of our normal free content because we need to focus ONE HUNDRED PERCENT OF OUR EFFORTS on figuring out this injection molding machine thing, but if you want to support our patreon we’ll STILL be posting on there WEEKLY AND MORE THAN EVER BEFORE as if nothing ever happened to distract our time, energy, and talent elsewhere in the first place.” *There is obviously still time, energy, and focus being given to those who are paying for it.* So in reality, the burden of creating content isn’t really changing at all. You’re redirecting whatever little effort that was coming to RU-vid, all over to patreon behind a paywall. TP as a company is choosing to do that. My problem is that it doesn’t take THAT much effort to make one video a month updating the world for free, while still doing your normal paid patreon content. We can understand saying “overall social media interaction is going to be reduced.” We don’t understand “free content is pausing temporarily, paid content is increasing - because we need to focus.” I hope that is being made loud and clear, and TP learns from this. Genuinely not trying to be a hater. I’ve enjoyed following Trash Panda for the last couple of years, but this channel can come across as over-dramatic when it hyper focuses on different developments like this. The significance feels exaggerated to the average person. Obviously this has never been done before in terms of recycled discs. We get it. But if so many other disc manufacturers have figured out injection molding, there’s no reason TP can’t.

Goodbye and good luck!

I am through the roof right now for you guys and gals this is epic!!!

This is crazy good 🤯

Couldn't be more proud of you guys!

What a cool adventure for you! Excited for all of you.

you got this!

I know the feeling of getting new machine. Coming from a CNC lathe and milling background it was super exciting when we moved into a bigger shop. And we went BIG!!! From a 16k sq ft shop to 100k sq ft(80K shop floor). Seeing those new machines coming in was super exciting.

Hope to see yall in the future. Have enjoyed your journey on youtube. Gratz on getting the injection machine

So happy for y’all, keep up the great work.

With a lever arm long enough you can change the world should be written on the walls of your office ❤

The day I become a pro disc golfer, I will be sponsored by Trash Panda. I hope! You guys are going to change the world one disc at a time. This will be the first patreon I will be joining

Very strange way to frame this up. Good luck, but this was most definitely clickbait heavy. It sort of sucks to sub/like/view videos while supporting your come up, and then throwing money your way for merch and discs, only to be gated from future content that’s being already created. This will be it for me.

Bro openly exposed himself as a grifter with an overly dramatic “goodbye” video 😂

So excited to see the future you guys have Also love the Knee Deep hoodie

2nd time watching this and it's still tugging on the heart strings. ❤

TLDR: same content we used to post for free will now be behind a paywall...

Bad move. You didn’t have to remind me I was in coach. (The cheap seats. I own seven of your discs. 4 markers. I put your sticker on my motorhome, and my Facebook feed for years. I don’t need extra Contant. I don’t even need contact every month. I’m in support of the concept. I still hope you figure it out. Tom recently put a thank you on my motorhome in Scottsdale. I appreciated that. But Tom, this seems a little off.

So to sum it up: You are moving away from your partnership will a local injection business to fully funtion on your own. And that requires you to own your own injection machine, that you have now received, and will take some time for you and your staff to learn to use it without external assistance? Happy for your companies growth. It will really help our planet.

Clear some room on that lever arm Jesse. Ive been meaning to do this for way too long. I've been watching since somewhere in the first 10 to 20 videos but have never taken the plunge. I'm so excited for you and trash panda as a whole!

there's no need to be hesitant to show your emotions. you're doing amazing stuff and that should make you feel something.

Been a fan of what you guys are trying to do since 2022 when I first started playing. Since I bagged it, the inner core has been my go to putter, both for putting and throwing. It is easily the most thrown disk in my bag. And now, I find out they’re going to be made in the US? Just when I thought things couldn’t get better. I was already pulling hard on that lever, but it sounds like it’s time to double down.

For those saying it can't be done. There is even more believing in you. The growth you guys have seen in the last two years has been exponential. I could not be happier to be a part of this community.

Can't wait to see what the future holds

We are so proud of you! Yay TrashPanda!

Bro is a salesman for sure, lol.

Plastic injection is such fun! Although also a crazy beast! Congratulations to Jesse and the entirety of trash panda! 🎉 excited to get to see what’s next!

Holy confusion, Batman. I just watched this in late April of 2024 because it came up as a RU-vid notification, I thought it was a just-now-upload, so I watched it, yes saw the note at the beginning about it being recorded Jan. 4th, but I thought it was like a look-back and now record thing. But then I see the machine, think, “Hm, that’s familiar,” recall recent videos from the channel, video ends, I check the date, and world’s biggest facepalm…this was posted in January. 🤦🏼‍♂️😂😂

we love u jesse, keep it up!

I hope the new disc gets a short video announcement here, not just on Patreon... It's the only way I'll hear that it's available. I'm pulling for you, but i'm only good for monetizing a company once, by buying the product. 😊

Very excited for you! I'm a process technician. I commented on a lot of your early videos. Have you hired someone(s) with injection molding experience or are you gonna try to work it out and learn yourself? If only you were based in PA. PS: I haven't heard much good about Haitians 😬 But it looks new enough to be decent.

Congrats!! 🎉

Can’t wait to see what you do

Archemedes baby!

That machine looks awesome!

Time to become a patron. Where you spend your money, matters.

Good luck! I imagine you'll post here when you release another disc, so I'll see you then

Please name that thing the “Trash Can” because it “CAN” change “TRASH”. I’ll also accept meal ticket or dinner table. 😂 So excited for this next step. I’m on the lever as much as I can afford which is buying your products for now. Can’t wait til the next one releases off this machine. I’ll miss your updates, but I will remain expectant for the next phase to come into being. Keep changing the world.

It's working!

This whole going dark thing seems like a stretch to say the least. I don't mind Patreon, people supporting you and all that, I am super happy for your succes but... this kinda feels like " hey, look at this dope new machine, you wonder how we gonna pay for it? well check this out, all content is paid now ;] ". Like I get it but just... don't be like a politician. One second you say everyone has to focus on something else right now and next second you say "we goona do everything on patreon, behinde the scenes, thought procces, tours" or whatever I'm paraphrasing to make a point obviously.

This is so cool Jesse!❤

As soon as one of my local shops stocks them, I'm planning to buy all 3 discs

A sixteen minute video to say "we're still making videos, but now you have to pay for them." Super deluxe!

This company is gonna be one of the biggest in the game.

I don't see the purpose of these videos, content creators are sometimes ignorant on behalf of how much time the viewers spend watching content. So if you a content creator, and you feel it's taking up your resources, the same can be said with viewers, as we have other things going on also

"Greed is a real thing"

Love everything about this. Dont let haters tell you what is or isnt possible. Definitely dont let drive-by RU-vid commenters tell you what you should or shouldnt do with your YT and Patreon community that YOU built with YOUR content either. LFG Jesse!! 🎉

Let's Glow!

I understand your thoughts on taking time to learn the new equipment. I think the posting more then ever on patreon is not the way to go. You need to look at the “free” mediums as advertising. They aren’t free. Think of them as a cost (time) invested by your company. I purchased the Trash Panda discs that I have because even more so than in the goal of a sustainable sport, I saw your passion for this goal and wanted to support “you”. Without the videos I have a feeling that there will be a lot of people (disc buying customers) that will be less emotionally invested in your product. I guess I just wanted to remind you not to think of the RU-vid and socials as something you’re giving people for free but instead as a marketing and advertising business expense. Finally I wanted to point out something: If your goal is to reduce plastic waste, the top patreon perk of a disc every month doesn’t make sense. I just feel that the majority don’t need or will not be throwing them so even recycled/recyclable that actually might be increasing the amount of unused plastic out there. Best of luck to the future of Trash Panda

You rock. I totally yelled "YES !" when you said "NO!". I've got personal experience with the "experts" saying something was impossible. For them. But it was possible ! I wish you mega-success and luck. And thinking big picture here.....if we can make discs from 100% recycled plastic, couldn't we make ANYTHING ???? Plastic is great, but it's also terrible. Perhaps once you learn you'll become the EXPERTS and can go teach other companies how to make their plastic products from 100% recycled plastic. Oh, your team rocks too !

Respect 🙏

I get buildup, but good fucking lord this could have been a 2 minute video

New injection molding machine is going to be sweet!!!!!