 Okay, I believe it is activated. We have activized the live stream. Hello, everyone. Hello, WJD 85. Hello, Rob Vegas. Hello, comic tropes and Matt and Joshua. Hi, everyone. How do you do? Welcome to Tuesday. I have confirmed it this Tuesday. I thought it was Monday for a large part of the day really messed me up. You know, and you know what, you don't want to have two Mondays. One Monday is enough. But for a while, I thought I thought it was still Monday. I've confirmed. Check the calendar is in fact Tuesday. Good evening, everyone. Nice to see you. Hello, McCleary dear and Cyclonus and Josiah and Joe fan 84. If Mr. S is watching. Hello, Mr. S. So, since the last time we talked, the Cobra convergence calendar has gone up. Hey, look, it's check this out. It's Mary Ann and she's waving and you know where she is right over here. So she was up. We're at the couch and see this. See this. I push buttons on her phone. Mr. S isn't watching right now. He said, well, that's okay. That's okay. In fact, since he's not here, you know, I don't have to be clean. So this is going to be the dirtiest show I've ever done. Hello, Bart. I think I saw Bart up there. Hello, Bart. Hello. Alright. Hi, everyone. What the heck am I doing? It's Cobra convergence time. So in this, in this episode, in this, in this episode, I'm going to I'm going to go over the calendar for Cobra convergence. I have that over in this other tab. First, I want to remind everyone. I want to remind everyone that it's Tuesday. I had to remind myself that it's Tuesday. So that means there's a new episode of half the battle with Timmer. This time he covered the super seven reaction figure of Raven, the animated character, the female. The female strato wiper. So that's a new review for Timmer. I always keep up with what Timmer is doing and he does his new videos on Tuesdays. Oh, yeah, Green Yeti is hello. It has been a minute. Hello, Green Yeti. How do you do? Good to see you. Welcome. Nice to see you back. Also, and maybe Green Yeti doesn't know this because, you know, it's been it's been a minute since since you've been here. What's on Joe mind is now doing Tuesday nights so they will be on right after this show. There are links. I put links in the description. I remember to do that this time. I put links in the description of this video. So as soon as you're done with this, you can roll over and watch. Watch, watch on Joe mind. My hair is a my hair is kind of my hair is kind of sticking up. It's a bit of a mess. But anyway, hi everyone. And Curtis. Curtis says hi from Detroit. It's been a minute. Hello, Detroit from the United States. Thank you so much for joining. Hello, Stonegate. Stonegate creations. We have much, much to talk about. And you know what I just noticed. And I didn't notice this before, but this the shirt seems to have some some writing on it. Look at this. What. Who might have done this. What you know what what Vandal might have written written on this on this shirt. I don't know that's that's pretty wild. Curtis says what did you do without internet board games or board games. Well, both. A lot has happened. Oh, yeah, yeah, gung ho. Where did gung ho go. Oh, gung ho is somewhere. Oh, yeah, right here. Yeah. I don't know. I don't know that we can get to gung ho this time because we've got a lot to cover. If, if, if we get through everything we need to do, then we can try to open gung ho if we have time. I know that's been waiting for a long time. We'll see we'll see what you do. Hello Raymond. Oh, it sparks there is a sparkster is here and he's sorry that he's late but I'm just glad you're here. So, what was I saying. What's on Joe mine. Timmer. It's Tuesday. Cobra conversions. So a few days ago what was it. I guess it would have been Saturday night. A really strong storm blew through here blew through my town. And reached havoc. And a large part of the town is still without electricity as you can see, I have electricity so that's covered. However, my internet was down for an unreasonable amount of time. But it did come up and it popped back up last night. Before it popped up, I was on the show audible interlude. I hope some of you were able to join me for that. But I had to go over to my parents place and use their internet, which is not ideal. It's not ideal. But yeah, the storm. It like it wasn't we didn't have tornadoes it was just like straight line winds. Very strong straight line winds. But for a 20 minute storm. We have days or potentially a week of outages. Because that's that's how we do it in our modern society. So cyclone is nice to see you wreak havoc. Yes it. What does the havoc smell like it reeks. Let me tell you the the havoc it it it reeks. And that's what it smells like to well, you know with a lot of power out people's hot water tanks are not working so people are not showering as much as they used to so you know it kind of does reek. This the store the storm has wreaked havoc for a 20 minute storm. It's like the apocalypse happened here. And now we have gasoline shortages. I can't I can't get gas in my car. There's there's hardly any gasoline in this town. Total apocalypse 20 minute storm. And we have a total apocalypse. So I was supposed to have posted stuff about covert convergence but that was difficult with no regular with no regular internet service. Mary Ann says her what hot water tank is gas that's fantastic my car needs gas. Can I can I use that. I don't I don't know how things work. Oh thank you for the super chat comic tropes did you order a classified deal I know you love him. Good question, and thank you for the super chat actually that is on my list of things to talk about. So we did get some some classified figure reveals. And there's so like, it's hit and miss it's hit and miss. There was a desert uniform snake eyes, which was, I don't know, kind of plain, not too exciting. There was a tunnel rat, which looks good is very keeps very close to the design of version one tunnel rat really adds very little. But you know the the design of version one tunnel rat is good so they don't really have to add very much that that looks nice. But they also gave us a cobra eel in the classified scale. Now the cobra eel is my favorite army builder I wouldn't say it's necessarily my favorite figure even my favorite cobra figure. But I really like the way the cobra eel looks on a shelf with in a group or on the cobra more when all the guns are manned by cobra eels I just think that looks really cool. And I like the gray and the red and the black I just think it looks really nice. So I'm a fan of the cobra eel. So yes, absolutely. I jumped right on. And, well, first of all, the on the Hasbro site that those sold out really quickly. So I went to Amazon, and I ordered one immediately when it went available and yeah so I am definitely getting a cobra eel I'm very eager to see what they have done with the cobra eel in that scale now. As with torpedo. They seem to have kept very close to the version one design. In the case of the eels that may not be a bad thing because the version one design had a lot of really nice elements that I think would translate to a larger scale. So we'll see but yes, yes I jumped on that thank you comic tropes for the super chat and absolutely I did. That was one that took us by surprise. That's not one that we expected right that we kind of knew that the desert snake eyes we was coming we knew that the tunnel right was coming. Nobody knew that the eel was coming and yeah I jumped jumped right on that there's another figure. There's another figure that that was announced sort of. The next stretch goal for the has lab dragon fly has been announced and it is Glenda Glenda international character based on scarlet and comic tropes again is right on top of it. No I did not expect Glenda so let's talk about that. There are no peanuts in the drink. It's been a while since I've put peanuts in my Pepsi I'll do that you know what I'll do that next time I guarantee next time I will put peanuts in my Pepsi for this live show and less I forget. What did I expect Glenda I did not expect Glenda let me let me. So we thought there's been a lot of discussion right there's going to be a lot of discussion. We thought that it might be airborne. So we're getting a night force. Ripcord. And we were thinking we think there are two other unlocked figures were thinking airborne and a new character based on the name that's on the canopy of the dragon fly, which again I've forgotten I know I can't trust my memory for it. I should have the dragon fly like sitting in front of me. But anyway, the dragon fly canopy has the name of a character that does not match any known GI Joe character and with the with the the has lab sky striker. Well right here this one is right in front of me with the has lab sky striker. The original sky striker also had Wayne Ruthle on the canopy. Well they gave us a new character for that name so that's nice I thought that was really cool and we were kind of expecting them to do that with with the has lab dragon fly in fact I kind of still expect them to do that with the has lab dragon fly. But I was really thinking that the other unlock figure would be airborne instead. It's Glenda. And I think that is. I think that's a really clever idea. Right, because for classified collectors who want to get you know the the main characters the main line, the important characters the ones that are the most memorable. You don't want to make those so exclusive that that most people can't get them so if you're going to have an exclusive figure that most collectors are not going to get let's just be real most collectors are not going to get the the has lab figures. Then why not do it as something that's a little bit more obscure something's a little more specialized something that the long term fans the long term collectors would recognize. And would be interested in because really those are the ones who are more likely to jump on the has lab project anyway so I think that was a really clever idea. I think that makes a lot more sense than airborne. And I was actually talking with the guys on audible interlude last night about this. The since Glenda is the next unlock. It's, it seems like maybe airborne will not be part of this set. Because if that's the direction they're going then airborne may be to mainstream a character to just make a part of the has lab project airborne may be mainstream enough a character that they want to do a regular retail release on it. So now I'm thinking maybe it's not airborne. Now I'm thinking maybe the final unlock is the new character, but I suspect if we get the new character I suspect it will be. It will have at least the body of someone else someone that they may release in the future maybe they'll have the body. Excuse me of the body of airborne with a different head or something like that. So, so yeah, I'm guessing that that's the direction they're going now airborne to mainstream a character. They probably want to do a retail release with that figure. Bart says, give me an updraft an updraft that's a speaking of which, like, I still got, I still have my retaliator. By the way, okay, I don't want to review this right now because I want to review it when I review it but so this is the retaliator. Why, why, why couldn't this just be the dragonfly mark to why not just call it that I mean it looks even more like a dragonfly than the first dragonfly. You know, this and this looks like a dragonfly mark to quite frankly even he still has the orange rotor blade tips. Since you mentioned updraft though. I got this at Joe Fest did not have the figure of the file card. I have since I have since ordered the figure and the file card I got a good price on them got a good source for them. So now I will have the vehicle box figure file card for less than what you would pay for just the vehicle in some places so I feel like I got an excellent deal. I'm getting sidetracked updraft though updraft is another fairly obscure character I don't think most Joe fans would like right off the bat know who that is. Obviously I do because I had I had to just order one. But updraft the updraft figure looks really nice it's a really good looking figure. But I really think I really think it's going to be a new character I really think it's going to be a new character with a body that they will apply to a more mainstream retail character at some point in the future that's my guess. But I did have to give kudos to the Hasbro team for going with a figure like Glenda for a campaign like this. I think I really think that's the right move. I really think that's the right move. If it's if it's to mainstream a character. Then you then the collectors that want that mainstream character are not going to be able to get their hands on. So if it's if it's a mainstream character you want collectors to be able to get it even if they don't want to back the the has lab so I think that makes sense I really do. Also a side note a side note. Glenda has the same body as scarlet right and based on the digital renders that we've seen. The Glenda figure appears to have a classic scarlet body. Which means that mold in the future ought to be used for a excuse me for a retro style scarlet and that is something that I know that a lot of fans have been wanting. Now we we did get a scarlet in actually we've gotten two scarlets in the vintage. I'm sorry in the classified line we got the scarlet that was in the first wave. It was kind of updated had an updated uniform updated details. Then we got the scarlet from the snake eyes movie. Neither of those had the version one scarlet look that most people are familiar with. But with Glenda you should in the future get get a scarlet figure. Joe fence is I thought Glenda and scarlet were allies. I don't want to dive too deep into the Glenda lore but I know that there was like a post vintage or modern file card that had the Glenda uniform but the scarlet code name. In fact they really should be considered different characters. But yeah I think it's a fun idea I think it's a fun idea. See hello Christian bricks nice to see you thank you for being here. He says they also changed classified scarlet hair color yeah the class and I did like the classified scarlet the wave one classified scarlet I did like that figure I like the updated uniform. But I know that there is a clamor a grounds well a grassroots movement to get figures in their classic looks with Glenda we should get a scarlet. So that's that's an extra bonus that we we should look forward to but again my guess and I have no insider information whatsoever. My guess is that the final unlock will be a new character. It will be a new character that has a body of a more familiar character that they will use in the future. That's my guess that's my guess and you know hey you know what I think we learned we learned from the from the dragonfly has lab rumors that you should believe all rumors. They turn out to be true so I think that's the lesson learned believe all rumors. So any rumor that you've probably heard is probably true. So I don't want to spend the I don't want to spend too much time talking about modern stuff and classified stuff and has lab stuff but I want to make sure to cover that because it's it's news it's in the news. There was also a GI Joe shirt like a button up shirt by what's the company. I forget who is doing it I think it looks really nice. GI Joe print button up shirt I think it's nice that they're giving us some formal where it's nice and thank you for the super chat it's nice that they're giving us some formal where so I'll have something to wear to weddings and funerals and such. Comic tropes GI Joe comics news OK. Let's get to that. That's the yes. That's the company. Thank you. We talked a bit about the GI Joe comics news. Last time there's been some more developments. The Larry Hama series will continue with issue number 301 I think that's a big relief to all of us that's important. I think I honestly I think whether you read the series or not Larry Hama has been so associated with GI Joe that I think most of us would want him to be able to continue this series. If anybody has earned the right to continue as long as he wants to I would say that's Larry. So that's good news Larry is going to get to continue. Also, my understanding is that they're supposed to be a special edition of GI Joe number one. That's going to be based on the original script that I guess was altered for the original release so we will get to see GI Joe number one in the form. That it was originally written on I think that's very interesting for for historical purposes I think it's kind of cool to have those. To have to have those. Those other perspectives these things that you might not have known about and may not have seen the light of day if not for projects like this. Again with comic. See comic tropes is the actual expert like comic tropes is the comic book expert. I am the nothing expert I am an expert on nothing. But but thankfully we have comic tropes in here expert in comic books says how much book will have Chris. And art and covers by Andy Kubrick. And that's also really cool Andy Kubrick art. Andy Kubrick covers. I know that I believe he's done some in the past like in the Marvel series, some fairly well known covers. So it's nice to see him picking that up. And it's nice to. I mean I like Andy Kubrick art anyway so I'm glad they were able to get somebody like him to do the covers. GI Joe number one without the comics code influence yeah the comics code isn't what it used to be. You know the comics code is a. It had a lot of influence at the time it. Well a lot changed you know I'm not a comic book expert I don't want to dive too much into that. But the comics code was once was once very important. Matt noon says he just subscribed to comic tropes. You know what that's fantastic. Chris has been my friend for a long time. Chris the host of comic tropes excellent show had a great episode about a Marvel comic based on a pop star sort of it's a great episode and really funny and a lot of fun so make sure. Make sure you check out comic tropes and thank you for letting people know that that you're subscribing to comic tropes when you're on this stream because that I'll make sure to get my kickback Chris. There's another one make sure you send me my kickback checks in the mail I'm sure anyway. There will be again Chris there will be a four issue miniseries for GI Joe in the energon universe and a secret miniseries that might be a crossover Joshua Williams Williamson writing Tom Riley and Andrea Milana on art. They have announced I mean there's got we know that there's going to be a Duke miniseries there's going to be a Cobra commander miniseries and right now they have the void rivals series out. I honestly have no idea if this is going to. Yeah, yes I'm noir I'm noir tonight. I see I should have a fedora. I should have a fedora cigarette, you know, I don't know if I'm going to like I really don't in general I don't typically go for for GI Joe and transformer crossovers I just I don't think they cross over very well. I don't think they're a natural match for each other. Having said that, you know, good writing can overcome a lot right good writing can overcome even a bad premise, you know, you could have a mediocre premise with some excellent writing, and it can turn out great. So for that reason I really have to give it a shot and I will give it a shot. And again I was mentioning on audible interlude that I, regardless of whether I want it or not. Regardless of whether I like it or not I want it to succeed. I want GI Joe to have as many successes as possible. The more it succeeds, the more they will give us right the more they will more different kinds of GI Joe, they will give us people have been saying, Hey, we want. You know we want cartoons we want a TV show we want all this. Well, in order for any of that to be possible. We've got to succeed right we've got to have some hits. We've got to demonstrate that this brand in the media can be successful so I'm for it I wanted to be successful I wanted to make a splash I want it to get people talking again. So I really hope that it succeeds as for whether I will like it I really don't know. I really don't know it's definitely not in my wheelhouse, but I will give it a shot I will give it try and and hopefully it'll turn out better than I'm expecting. Let's see so. So what non transformers comic crossovers do you want to see. I would like to see GI Joe crossover with rainbow bright and the Smurfs and the snorks anybody remember the snorks little creatures with the little things on their head they lived under water. Oh, if you got the snorks you can do a crossover with SpongeBob SquarePants to you know Hasbro give me a call Hasbro give me a call. I'm not giving you this one for free. We got rainbow bright Smurfs the snorks SpongeBob SquarePants crossover with GI Joe. This one's not for free. You guys got to call me you got to pay for that one. Just send me a check for that one we'll we'll we'll we'll negotiate it this this is brilliant. Killed in I remember the snorks also stop okay fair fair. Oh wow. Who are you know what. Michael Bell did a voice in the snorks didn't he. Anyway I'm sorry we're getting we're getting a little far field. And we're the show is almost halfway over and we have not talked about about Cobra convergence which is the main reason we're doing the show today I want to do a Cobra convergence preview so I could not figure out a way to share this list on your screen so I'm going to go over it with you. The calendar is up on hcc788.com right now it's on the main page. So let's go over this let's see who's in. So on July 1 we have Sergeant slaughter slaughterhouse again starting the event like they did last year always excited to see that Zazel who runs that channel I got to meet him. In Augusta at Joe fest that was a blast. Great to meet Zazel. He he's from Australia. So he came here all the way from Australia. I believe he's on his way back now to you know Europe or wherever he's from I don't know geography. I assume Australia is near Europe or something like that. I'm sorry I'm a product of the Oklahoma education system. Then we have Woodman 29 and this weirdo here hcc788 and then sparkster sparkster who I believe is in here and always nice to see sparkster I'm sure you are familiar with sparkster from the this live chat. We've got it's Chad another guy that I met at Joe fest actually met him at Joe fest last year but I saw him again at Joe fest this year. What's on Joe mind the show that is going to follow this one the show that you should go and check out as soon as this show is over what's on Joe mind what's on Joe mind probably is the most important GI Joe show the longest running GI Joe fan podcast and really great guys. They've done immeasurable things for the community so do check out what's on Joe mind. Cobra Island another long time participant in Cobra convergence a toy kind of mood. Talking Joe go figure real American Brian real American Brian that's I like that name is a good name you know I that could apply to me. A snooves corner cafe the full force podcast there their old friends as well the skull reviews that dude does a lot of like 12 inch GI Joe really cool Joe motion videos 82 Byron our friend Byron also our friend Cujo from originally from GI Joe Berg Cujo also I have met a couple of times in person half the battle with Tim or somebody that I have not met in person. But is one of my oldest friends on this platform and a side note time out a side note about half the battle during the year that I took off right I was out of this for a year and I missed the Cobra convergence. So there there's a gap between Cobra convergence five and six. In that gap year. Half the battle did a Cobra month in that gap year. I really should have counted that as a Cobra convergence and started you know restarted the numbering with Cobra convergence seven instead of six so this year's ought to be Cobra convergence days it's too late to change it now but. What that means is Timmer is the only person who has been in every single one every single year without fail. So honestly this event is as much his as it is anyone. So thank you for being a part of it again Timmer and peg warmers. One of the things that I've met in person a couple of times Kevin from peg warmers just the one of the nicest people that you will ever meet. Also Jay Bartlett. He is Canadian. So will we forgive him for that I'm kidding. Jay I'm kidding. We love Canadians here. In fact we like Canadians probably more than a lot of our own neighbors. I've yet to meet a Canadian that I didn't like in fact. Jay Bartlett is great to have Jay Bartlett back. Chaplain's assistance motor pod a podcast a really clever name Chaplain's assistance motor pod their first timers or he's a first timer. Again someone that I met in Augusta at Joe Fest I believe he gave me a shirt for Chaplain's assistance motor pod and I believe I've misplaced it which I feel terrible about. If there's a way for me to order a replacement I will purchase for myself a replacement I feel bad. But I can't find the shirt anywhere toy connections. Another person that I met at Joe Fest. Ken from toy connections another Canadian. You know we are being invaded by the North but honestly that's probably a good thing. So toy connections it was great to see Ken JLS comics another comics expert. And that show is a lot of fun very informative action robot punch and audible interlude I was just I was just on audible interlude yesterday but I also. We went to the audible interlude panel at Joe Fest and they they allowed me to come up and talk about covert convergence for a while so thank you guys. Order of battle. Our good friend Jay LaTroll who is a guy that collects pocket patrol packs. You know we all have our things. We all have our things. But order of battle Yorktown Joe Joe on Joe podcast you remember when Joe on Joe podcast did. See they did a behind the music with about cold slither it's like the VH one documentary like a VH one behind the music documentary of cold slither. And then last year they did call it they did a Colombo GI Joe crossover it was very clever. My side of the laundry room long time Cobra convergence participant love having that guy back Rob Vegas Rob Vegas. Last year he did a Cobra convergence episode every day in July. That was amazing. And when we had somebody drop out Rob he came in he took over. He helped us out. You see what is happening here. You see what it's happened stop it. Just just stop it. Move I don't I don't I don't want the butt end in my face. I don't want to tail in in my face. Wow. My apologies Rob. I was just I was just extolling the virtues of Rob Vegas and the cat just comes right through here puts his tail in my face now he's just laying there like nothing happened. But anyway thank you thank you Rob. Oh there's Sergeant slaughter slaughterhouse I hope he's back home in Europe or wherever he's from I don't know geography. I'm kidding. I'm dumb. But anyway I hope Sergeant slaughterhouse made it home. Made it home safely the photo viper toy photography we've had toy photography a number of times and I think it's amazing what these guys can do with just with a camera and with toys and how they make it amazingly realistic and action packed. GI Joberg GI Joberg always goes over to the top GI Joberg does always does something incredible. From the so my fork for cover videos account this year of course they will count they will always count I everybody counts. Yes he's a root I agree. Johnny he's very rude. I'm not even going to tell you what he did yesterday he did something yesterday I'm not even going to tell you that it was rude though. I'll say that it was rude. So Joberg rat face 44 reviews that's a new one. Thank you for being in it rat face 44 reviews I believe we saw rat face 44 in the chat earlier I don't see him now but thank you. And you should be and that's another one you should be familiar with from the live chat we see him often I'm so glad to have him in. We've got island of misfit toy collectors didn't interview with that guy treasures for trigger he participated in the promotional videos last year so now he's somebody that we're bringing in to be in on the calendar this year. Anything Joe's another veteran thank you so much toy domination that's a new one. Did an interview with those guys codename new to very very to one of our oldest friends and a Cobra convergence veteran articulated points these guys are the true historians of GI Joe podcast from the pit. Who again I met at Joe fest I met them at Joe fest last year ran into them again this year. Great guys podcast from the pit make sure you check out their show and agent chuckles another new one and that agent chuckles that's perfect for the theme this year the theme this year being spies infiltrators and double agents spies infiltrators and double agents. That can be interpreted very broadly very broadly. But I wanted to take a minute to first of all remind everybody the calendar is at hcc788.com. It's right on the front page. It has everyone that it has every day of July and who and has the person who's going to be sometimes more than one person who's who are presenting on each day. And there are links to each of those people's channel podcast blog, whatever they do there's a link to it all I miss go for it. I don't look in here I don't know if I said go figure. I'm sorry go figure if I if I didn't say it but go for it. I don't want to miss anyone because every single one of these people are important and that's why I'm bringing this up and that's why I'm going through the calendar because I would like for you to look at the calendar. To click on each one of those links to subscribe or follow you know depending on what platform they're they are on. So that first of all so that you don't miss their cober convergence presentation but also so that you don't miss their other stuff. These are every single one of them is a fan that is doing something and creating something special something related to gi Joe. And they're doing it out of a passion and love. They're doing it because they love it so that's the kind of that's kind of people I like to follow, and I hope that you will like to follow them too. So, if you are wondering if they if there are any good gi Joe creators any good gi Joe content out there. That is a pretty darn good list of people who are out there doing the work, doing the work. And Rachel wait wait wait wait wait wait. Sorry. Wow. It's getting away from me. There we go. Um, Rachel, uh, Salinas says, Lord Hoodie, will you grace us with your presence at DFW Joe show this weekend? I am expected to. In fact, I'm pretty much committed to doing it. The only hitch, all right, the only hitch, um, is that I've got, I'm going, uh, my plan is to drive to Dallas. It's just a one day show. So I'll drive Dallas, drive back. Um, there's no gasoline in this town. My car, um, it's, it's a gasoline powered car. It requires gasoline to go. Um, so long as I can get gasoline by Saturday morning, the plan is to head out there because I would really like to see Ron. Ron Rudolph will be there. Pixel Dan will be there. Um, and those are both people I would like to see. So that's my expectation is to make it, uh, to, uh, to the DFW show on Saturday. Joshua said last year, I watched every CC six entry unless it required a social media account. Yeah, there's a thank you. Thank you, Joshua. Thank you for following and thank you for watching all of them. That's, um, I mean, that, that's what we're, that's what we're doing. We're trying. We want you to get to know these people. Now, of course, you may not latch on to every single creator, but there are so many of them. And there's such a wide variety of them that there will be somebody there that you latch on to, you think they're great and you want to follow them. Right. So, um, this is the opportunity to explore, to learn what's happening in the GI Joe community, to learn what's happening, you know, out there on the internet, what kind of creative stuff is going on. Um, and, um, and hey, Firefly says, Hey, CC, I'll be there this weekend. Look forward to seeing you. I look forward to seeing you too. That would be totally awesome. Again, the only caveat. There's no gasoline in this town because of the, the storm. We had a 20 minute storm and it's been the apocalypse since then. So as long as I can get gasoline in my vehicle. Um, I will, uh, I should be there. The plan is to be there in Dallas or the Dallas area on Saturday. Um, so, um, uh, Hebrew says, Where is the next Joe con? If you're referring to like the official GI Joe con, they don't really do the official Joe con anymore. Uh, what most of us are talking about is, um, Joe Fest, but there are regional shows. In fact, assembly required in Des Moines, Iowa announced their dates. They always do it in November and it looks like it'll be November 3rd and 4th. I'm going to do my best to make it to Des Moines, Iowa for assembly required. I love that show. I love that show. In fact, I had such a great time at Joe Fest that like I immediately start thinking what's the next show I can go to. I want to go to the next show. Uh, well, the next show I'm going to is actually this Saturday, uh, the DFW GI Joe show. Um, and I want to say grapevine. Anyway, it's this Saturday. It's a one day show. Uh, so I'm not super far from Dallas. So my plan is to just scoot down to Dallas, do the show, hang out, see what's what, and then, and then head back home. So, uh, but yeah, I, um, a lot of folks have already done their Joe Fest retrospective. I did one last week. I did one. It's Chad did one. Lots of people have done their retrospective. Uh, the folks that were at Joe Fest and, um, uh, you know, it, it really was special. That was a special show. I don't, I haven't found anyone who hasn't had a fantastic, didn't have a fantastic time. I had a great time. Uh, I saw Bart there. Speaking of having a great time, saw Bart had, uh, a cigar with Bart out on the, uh, by the, um, amphitheater. His was apparently better than mine. I couldn't even finish mine. It was nasty. Um, but it was nice to see Bart. Uh, but yeah, it was, it was a lot of fun. And when I got home, I was like, when can I go to the next one? I want to go to another one. In fact, if I could just not work and just go from one show to another, I think that would be fun. I could, I could live that lifestyle going from one show to another. I just, it's that much fun. Plus I love to travel. But you know, that's not how the adult world works. So, you know, so I go, I'll go to as many as I can. The expectation is, is I will make it to Dallas and I'm going to do my sincere best to make it to Des Moines. I've been to two assembly required shows in Des Moines. Really enjoy both of them. Lots of fun. Uh, Bart says, Hoodie Con 2024. Absolutely. Hoodie Con 2024. I have no idea, uh, when or what we will do. But Hoodie Con 20. Oh, thank you, Joshua for the super chat. Shout out to Mary Ann for her footage. Thank you. Thank you, Josiah. And thank you, Mary Ann. I did put up the, the Joe Fest video. Mary Ann got a lot of that video, a lot of it. And I absolutely could not have done it without her. So I have thanked her. I've thanked her more than once. I will thank her again because she is the main reason that that video exists. So, so absolutely. And thank you, Josiah. And thank you to Mary Ann. She had a blast. Is she? Hey, are you still in here? Yeah. Oh, she's still in there. Well, she's still in the studio audience. She has said on multiple occasions that she had a really good time. Now, assuming that she's telling the truth, then our hope is that she will be back next year. In fact, I think she has to be back next year because her and Jason have a contract, an agreement to participate in karaoke. In fact, there's a specific thing. I don't think I'm allowed to say what it is, but there's not yet, not yet, but there's. Yeah. She's listening to me IRL. She's listening to me the old fashioned way through like sound waves through the air, but her, her internet service isn't very good. So she can actually type in the, in the live chat. But yes, the expectation is that she should be back next year. And that she's supposed to do a duet, a duet, a duet with one of your other GI Joe fan creators one of your other GI Joe Cobra convergence participants, which I absolutely will record every second of it. And you better believe that's going up on the internet. Absolutely it will. That's, that's, hey, it's going to be, it's going to be great. It's going to be great. But yeah, her service is spotty, as she said there. And Hans Chow, the, yes, Hans Chow was great. Also, Ritz Murphy apparently did good. I missed that. I missed it. There was a lot going on. I missed it. But that's, that's what, that's what we were told is that Hans and Ritz absolutely killed karaoke. We're talking about two very talented people so talented it's basically unfair. And, oh, hey, yeah, it's Diana. Hello Diana Davis Diana Davis says sorry I'm late I was talking to my mom I was talking to your mom too. I don't know why I said that I'm I apologize that was that was uncalled for hi Diana nice to see you thank you for being here. I wanted to say, since we've got a few more minutes here we've gone over Cobra convergence. Okay, before I do this before I do this, I do want to say one more thing about Cobra convergence. You are not on the calendar, but you still want to participate. There is a link at hcc788.com, say it right hcc788.com with instructions of how you can participate, even if you're not on the calendar I want everyone to do something. Within the sound of my voice, I would like for you to do something for Cobra convergence seven. And I will be doing a promotional video every week just like I did last year, where I will get clips and images of your thing. And I will put it out there so that everyone can see it. Also, if you'll tag me, tag me, then I'll share it. So I want as many people as possible to participate and I want as many people as possible to see what you do when you participate. So I wanted to make sure that I covered that because we've got a full calendar. We've got a full calendar of folks doing Cobra stuff this year, but it needs to be everybody. I would like everyone who is a fan of G.I. Joe, anyone who's ever heard of Cobra, anyone who's ever had one of the toys in their hands, read a comic book, seen a TV show, anyone who has anything and any desire to do something for Cobra convergence. I would like for you to do it. This is supposed to be an event for all of us, or at least as many of us as want to participate. So please consider that. Please consider if you have any creative anything. I don't know if you write, if you make videos, if you draw, I don't know if you create something. Then please consider participating in Cobra convergence. Again, there's a list of instructions. Link is at hcc788.com. So please, please participate if you can. This is, it means a lot to me. It really does mean a lot to me when I see a lot of folks getting into Cobra convergence, doing their own thing, kind of spreading the word, but also being creative themselves. I love that. I will never get tired of that. I love that. That's one of the reasons I love doing it. So please, please consider jumping in and doing something for Cobra convergence and make sure you let me know about it so that I can share it and include it in the weekly promotional video. Now, now that I'm short on time, WWJD says, even if it's deep GI Joe, yeah, absolutely. Give us the deep, you know, I'm not going to deep block you. You know, you can, you can do deep if you want to. You can do big deep or a little deep as many deep as you want. You know what, as many deeps as you want, you go and do it, right. And Mr. S is not watching. So I can do those double entendres tonight. I can, I can do blue, Cobra blue. So, Comma Trope says hoodie the snow serpent and grunt leak on sale tomorrow we get drunk. I probably will get grunt. I really like that they are doing the 82 characters in classified. I started in 1982. I know a lot of those 1982 figure designs were rather plain by the standards that we later got, but I'm still very partial to them. So I'm really glad they're doing grunt. I'm glad they did breaker. I'm glad they did rock and roll. I mean, obviously they were going to do scarlet and snake eyes because they're so popular but also, you know, stalker. Yeah, anytime they do an 82 character, I will probably get it. I'm just I've got a lot of nostalgia for those 82 guys. So now I've got to wrap up. I can't go long right because what's on Joe mind is going to start right after this. I did see that grunt looks like he's going to come with a steel brigade not exactly steel brigade because somebody else has the steel brigade trademark now but generally speaking, the steel brigade look helmet to army build which is an intriguing idea. Bart Bart said he would do scarlet to I I won't tell anyone. In fact, I don't think you have to worry about that getting out because nobody's watching this anyway. I think I'm sure this this is basically a private forum so nobody else tell no one. I wanted to say, I want to spend the last few minutes talking about Mary Ann my significant other, my girlfriend, who I think is absolutely fantastic. She was great at a Joe Fest. She, you know, she participated she had lots of energy she you know, I mean she has a great personality anyway she has a great sense of humor. She got along with everyone. And, you know, just from, you know, my private experiences with her she's a delightful person. She is a very delightful person. I consider myself very lucky to be with such a delightful person. And we are coming up on eight months, eight months of dating and eight months relationship so far, which some of you folks have been like married for years or whatever that may not seem like eight months. But, but consider this like those eight months have both flown by and felt like they've taken a long time because we've done so much. Right. We have done a lot in those eight months, including this this huge trip to to Georgia that we did together. And, despite like spending every minute with each other for six days, you know, we still want to see each other is no fighting no bickering, we still really enjoy each other's company and so I to Mary Ann, who is is watching in real life. And listening through the sound waves going through the room. Thank you. And thanks for being awesome and thank thank you to everyone who met us at Joe Fest for also being really kind because I really wanted Mary Ann to see that side of the community. I knew that we have a lot of people in the community who are just really great folks, very positive, very friendly and you guys showed that you, you did it, you did it. So thank you so thank you. Thank you to everyone who helped make Mary Ann's experience, a good one. But thank you to Mary Ann for for making my experience a good one so with that. I have to sign off because I cannot go along. What's on Joe mind is right after this I'm all I will turn it over to the Watson Joe mine. They're they're live shows be starting in just a few minutes. Cobra Convergence seven starting in July running all through July we have a full calendar of presenters it is at hcc788.com also at that same website. There is a link with instructions if you want to participate even if you're not on the calendar, you can still participate and I strongly encourage you to do so. So please check that out. Thank you to everyone who is participating in Cobra Convergence. Thank you to everyone who watches and follows Cobra Convergence. You make this special. So thank you very much. And with that, I will say good night everyone see you all next week. See you on what's on Joe mind rolling over I'm not gonna be on there but I you should be watching it so I'll see you there watching it. But I'll but catch what's on Joe mind next and I will see you all later. I need to stop mumbling and just just say good night. Good night. Say good night Gracie. Bye. See you.