 All right, congratulations. We are live. All right, cool. So, um, wow, I am backlit, aren't I? I don't know. I don't know if I can fix that. Sorry, I didn't realize I was quite that, uh, that backlit. Hello everybody. So the, uh, the weather is, uh, has been more tolerable lately, so I thought, uh, I thought we'd take it outside. Mainly just didn't feel like being inside. So, uh, so hi everybody. Hello Andrew Andrew and comic tropes. Nice to see you. Hello, uh, I better put on my glasses. Hello Stone Gate Creations. Uh, and hello, hey, JLS Comics and Cyclonus. So, um, you may get some background noise. The cicadas are being annoying. Hello MCDJACDC. Hello, Rob Vegas. Um, I didn't, I also didn't account for the fact that it's getting dark earlier, so it may be dark before we finish. Uh, hey, it's Byron. Nice to see you Byron, Christian Brooks, and Ben, hello, and G.I. Joe Brough and Agent Chuckles. How do you do? It's nice to see you. Byron haven't seen you in here for a while. I'm really happy you were able to make it. I hope you're feeling well. Hope you're feeling better. Uh, hey there, Cobra Island. So, we are, um, enjoying a, a, uh, a cigar. It's, I, I almost poked the hot end with my, uh, with my finger. That would have been bad. Hello, Thane Woods and Lone Star Viper. Yes, Mackarot. Yeah, that is correct, Josiah. How do you, how do you do? Hello, Matt Rubin. It is a good day. It is a good day. Uh, hi, Sparkster. Um, yes, um, enjoying the time in the, in the sunshine. Uh, yes, a giant, yes. Um, uh, there's, there's actually stuff to talk about today. Uh, so we'll, we'll do that. But yeah, I just wanted to, um, uh, to, I wanted a change of settings. Um, I'm a little bit tired today. I did not feel like setting up my camera and microphone set that I usually do. Um, and this just seemed like a more pleasant way to spend the evening. So hopefully the audio comes through. That's the one thing I always worry about is that there's so much ambient noise out here that the audio may be a little more difficult. Um, ever lose any of your Joe's as a kid? Thank you, comic tropes for the super chat. Um, I lost a ton of them. Yes. Um, uh, oh, hello big gay Dave. Nice to see you. Hello Nyquist. Uh, hello Lester. I almost didn't see you there. Um, yeah, I lost a ton of them. Um, we would often take our, uh, our toys over to friends' houses and, um, we'd always play with them outside and inevitably something wouldn't make it back in. Um, like, like my original Duke figure, I still don't know what happened to it. It may have been broken or it may have just been lost. Uh, but all I know is, um, after a while, Duke was gone and I had to replace him with a Tiger Force Duke. Oh, uh, Cobra Island has a nano viper video. That's awesome. Hmm. Speaking of videos that are up, um, I have to say congratulations on the 10th anniversary of half the battle. Congratulations on, um, uh, to Timmer for 10 years of videos. That's fantastic. Um, Timmer's 10th anniversary review went up, uh, today. So if you haven't checked that out, make sure you check it out. Um, if you'd like to check it out now, I'll pause. I'll let you go do it. You can come back. Nothing will happen. Don't worry. Um, but congratulations Timmer. 10 years. Uh, that's great. I really like his show. Plus, I just, I like Timmer as a person. He's been a great friend to me. Uh, he's worked with me many times and, uh, and it's been a great working relationship, but he's also been a really good guy, a good guy behind the scenes. So, um, so check out Timmer's 10th anniversary review. It is a review. It's a special review. So, uh, check it out. Hello Jenna. Nice to see you Jenna. Um, so, yeah, I'm in the great outdoors. It's technically outdoors. Well, technically there is a roof over my head. There's like a little, uh, uh, a little, uh, little thing there. So, you know, but I can, I can see the sky. Greedo buried into sand. Now I did lose specifically, I did lose some Star Wars figures into sand. Um, it's a really boring story, um, about that. Oh, thank you. Thank you. I did get my, I got my ears lowered. Um, yeah, well, um, when I was, I guess had to be about seven or eight years old. Uh, the family took a trip, a summer trip to Canada. I can't remember exactly where, but I was really young. So I didn't know the geography that well, but we went to Canada. And, um, we went to what was a ski resort, but it was in the summer. So there wasn't snow and they were building like a, uh, a sandy, uh, beach for a, like a swimming area. So there's a sand out there. So of course we took Star Wars figures out there to, to play, you know, Tatooine. Uh, and that's where I lost my Boba Fett figure. Uh, my Boba Fett got, my Boba Fett figure got buried in the sand in Canada and lost forever. Uh, so that, that's my one story of a figure getting lost in the, um, in the, uh, in the sand. Um, and that's the main thing I remember from that trip. I was pretty young at the time though, but I hate, I can legitimately say that I've been to Canada. That's the true statement. But I also remember it was like, um, yeah, the Sarlacc got him. Um, the, uh, um, like, I believe that, um, GI Joe was out at the time. So I think we were getting into GI Joe, but Transformers was still really big at the time too. So we still got, occasionally got some, uh, Star Wars toys. Did I say Transformers? I meant Star Wars. Used to chuck figs in, uh, traffic for battle damage. That would indeed cause battle damage. That's awesome. Hello jump in general. How do you do? Hello Doruti. How do you do? Um, so, one downside of doing, um, the live stream this way is that I can't put the, um, the live chat on the screen. Uh, so you can see it, you know, on your screen as you go. But I can see it on my screen. Um, so, uh, yes, news. First and foremost, congratulations to Timmer for 10 years of half the battle. That dude has been doing GI Joe reviews longer than I have, and he will probably still be doing it after I'm done. After all, my project has a limit, right? It has a finite set of things to, uh, to, to review. Uh, but Timmer is, is, can be is, can go on as long as he wants. So Timmer will probably still be doing GI Joe reviews long after I'm done. Uh, so congratulations Timmer. Um, I really like the show. And like I said, I like Timmer as, uh, as a person. He's a good guy. Um, all of my interactions with him have been positive. Um, and if you like to support good guys on the internet, um, he's, he's a good one, uh, to, to check out. Uh, hello, Tony Jackson. Nice to see you there. Joe ziplines. Um, let's see. Tomax and Zemot came with that zipline, but there was also the rope walker. Anybody remember like the action pack rope walker? Um, I believe I have it now, but I didn't have it at the time it came out. And I've never actually tried to see if it works. I'm very curious though. It's not exactly a zipline, but it's, you know, it's, it's, it's sort of the same idea. Um, yes, the charity drive. That's a big thing that, uh, that Timmer does every year. And I will be, I will be participating in that as it comes around. Uh, Chris said he had the rope walker and Rob says the rope walker works. That is cool. That is cool. I gotta try mine. I gotta dig it out though. It's in a, it's in a, uh, a storage container in some, in one, in a closet somewhere. Um, that is a challenge having less storage space is that, uh, stuff gets put in places because it has to fit somewhere and it's not always convenient to find again when I need it. But also I have to dig it out and, uh, try out the rope walker, uh, myself. It's, it's, um, it's a unique idea for a vehicle. Um, uh, Chris says, do you like the new o-ring figures from Hasbro Post? Well, I only have a couple of them and I, I did like the ones that I had. Um, I would like to get my hands on the Duke and Cobra commander, but I have not been able to do that yet. Just lots of things going on right now. I haven't been able to do a lot of collecting lately, but, um, but I'd like to, I'd like to check them out. I'm very curious about, um, you know, about how they, excuse me, how they reconstructed those, uh, those figures. So I did like the, uh, the Cobra soldier and the Cobra officer that they, that they did and when I say I like them, um, the vintage figures are better. Let's, let's be clear about that. The vintage figure were better, uh, but they're nice reproductions, you know, a little bit modernized, but still using what appears to be the same mold. So yeah, they're right. They're all right. And I definitely like them better than the retro figures that were based on the 20th anniversary, uh, series or the 30th anniversary, the modern series. Um, um, yeah, Tony, um, oh, that's another point of news. Thank you. Not about, not about Kevin. First of all, let's take a moment to observe our lack of form BX 257. We haven't heard from form BX 257 in quite some time. Still haven't heard back from him. I hope he's well. Um, he also was a really good guy and I like him very much. And, um, I, I want, I hope for only the best for him, but I really don't know. I haven't heard anything from Kevin, but that brings up somebody else that nobody has heard anything from lately. Um, has anybody had any contact with Mark Belomo? You know, the guy who did the ultimate guides to G.I. Joe, the big, uh, reference books because, um, Larry Hama was asking if anybody had heard from him because he hasn't been answering emails and, um, he has Larry's toys. Larry gave him his G.I. Joe toys signed, uh, on like a consignment basis. And then nobody's heard from him in a long time. So, and I did have him as a friend on Facebook. Uh, so I checked and he's still there, but he hasn't posted anything in about a year. So, um, that's another person along with, uh, with our, our Kevin, uh, Mark Belomo, I hope you're all right. I hope you're doing well. Somebody would like to hear from you. Uh, uh, the figure six pack, yeah, he, I believe he does, at least did have, um, a job, a teaching job. I'm not sure exactly which university it was, but I believe that was his, his day gig, uh, his main job, but, um, as far as the toy stuff, uh, yeah, nobody's heard from him. And that's a little odd because he used to, he used to post updates. He had projects that he was working on, um, you know, that, uh, he had come out with the, the, the Star Wars reference books and, uh, and I think he was working on like, uh, a website that had a bunch of reference, uh, material on it. And that was going to be a big project, but, um, yeah, he, he had, kind of went AWOL and to my knowledge, nobody's heard from him in any, any format. Uh, hello draws. Who did I miss come in? I guess I get to start talking and I don't see who comes in. Uh, hello Jeff Jones. Nice to see you. Uh, and Tony, um, somebody's hoping that Tony Jackson feels better soon. I, I hope you feel better soon too. I'm sorry I didn't see, uh, that Tony Jackson needed, uh, uh, feel better soon, but also feel better soon for me as well. Hello David Sharp. Nice to see you. Um, uh, yeah, Byron, Byron had, uh, had a little bit of a tough time, but I'm glad things are going well for you. Um, um, yeah, yeah, good, good, uh, Tony. And I hope, I hope you are 100% very soon. Um, uh, hello Dave, Dave F 34. So we've got lots of Dave's here. Uh, we usually have lots of Chris's and Matt's. So, uh, we're going to have a few Dave's, Chris's and Matt's. So the, any of you that are not named Chris, uh, Matt or Dave, you gotta pick one. You know, pick whether your name is going to be Chris, Matt or Dave. We'd like to simplify things in here. So now everybody is Chris, Matt or Dave. Uh, hello Teddy. How do you do? Somebody check on Big Ben since the queen died. Uh, yeah, um, that is, first of all, since, since the royal family is obviously watching, uh, since they check in every week, my condolences to, uh, to, uh, to the family, um, of course, um, one, there we go. One ironic thing is that like most of the, most of my British friends are anti-monarchy. So I'm on my, uh, my British friends, uh, posts, I'm not seeing a whole lot of, a whole lot of mourning. Um, but, but nonetheless, a person has passed away and, you know, rest in peace or, or whatever sentiment that you have. Um, because no matter how silly the idea of having a queen might be to us, as Americans, we must always be gracious. Yeah, we got a, we got King Charles now. How about that? We have a, we have a King of Great Britain, Northern Ireland and Wales for the first time in our lifetime. Hello Renegade Biker. How do you do? King Chucks. Um, Big Gator says half my family is Irish and they've been vocal. I'll bet, I'll bet. Thank you, Timothy, for recognizing the naked gun reference. I, I appreciate it. Yeah, they're gonna have to change all the coins. That's gonna be a hard task because you got, like there are coins everywhere. They're gonna have to check everybody's sofas, collect all those coins and then stamp a new face on them. It seems like a waste to me, but it's not my tradition. So I, what are you gonna see about it? Um, uh, Jumbo General says, when will I be able to display my complete collection? That's a good question. I have no idea. Um, I would need a much bigger space. Um, it's been actually a long time since I've been able to display the entire collection. Even when I was in the bigger space, the collection had exceeded the amount of display space that I, that I could put together, even dedicating a whole room to it. So, um, I just, I've just accepted the fact that while I can display a few pieces, at least for the time being, a lot of stuff has just got to live in boxes. And at it, I don't like that. It's, it's not only is it inconvenient, I didn't purchase this stuff and collect this stuff just to put it in a box. I wanted to see it and interact with it and show it off and stuff. And I just don't have the space for that. So, um, yeah, but we'll, we'll, we'll see how things go in the future. Um, hopefully things are looking up. I've been working really hard to get things moving in a better direction. Uh, it's been a little bit exhausting, which is one of the reasons why I'm tired this evening. But, um, it's not a bad thing. It's not, I'm tired, but not in a bad way. Um, it's still, um, a challenge to do video stuff. That's, I mean, obviously that is, you had to have noticed that production has, has, has kind of ground to a halt. Um, and, and I will work on that, but it's just, at least for now, we're in a phase where we are doing a lot, a lot of work, um, a lot of necessary work. And when we are not working, we are pretty darn tired, but we'll get, again, we're in a transition phase and things will change over time. Um, and as, as an old person, I've learned to, you know, let these things evolve, things will change. You know, um, I sometimes just gotta let the process play out. And that's what I'm doing right now is letting the process play out so that we can hopefully get back to a more regular routine. Other thing, uh, another thing, comic books, the G.I. Joe comic book published by, uh, IDW, uh, Larry put out a statement and I apologize, but, uh, it would actually, I don't think I can breathe. I, uh, Chris sent it to me on my phone, but I'm using my phone to, to do this. But, uh, the gist of it was that, uh, it was, Larry was saying that, um, you know, the IDW run has gone on for almost as long as the Marvel run did. And that he's been writing these characters that have become his friends for, you know, uh, 40 years now. Um, and it feels like it's coming to an end, but he also said, you know, maybe it, you know, maybe it's not going to be forever. The pit may not be in Mach Ball for long. It's kind of hinted at the probability that another publisher will pick it up, um, or that, or that, well, we think that another publisher will pick it up. I think that's the rumor that's out there, but we think that maybe he will be, um, involved in it, uh, in some way that he will continue writing it. Um, so, um, well, we will see. I'm, I just like Larry, and so I want him to be able to do what he wants to do. So, however that ends up for, for G.I. Joe, I think at this point for me is less important than, you know, Larry doing what he wants to do because I feel like he's earned that. Um, but, um, and if, if, if Larry is ready to hang it up, if he's ready to, um, retire from, at least from that, uh, series, then that's great. But if he'd like to keep it going, I hope that he has a chance to keep it going. I'm sorry. There's a mosquito. It's warming in front of the lens there. Um, and okay. Um, anyway, um, yeah, it's, uh, it's only Tuesday, but it's been quite a week. Has there, is there any other G.I. Joe news that I missed? I should do the, I should do this. This should be a new feature, news commentary. You tell me what the news is and I'll comment on it, because I have not been able to keep up with the news very well. The main thing that I wanted to do is what I did at the top of the show is make sure that I mentioned Timmer, um, because, because I'm, I'm very happy for him for persevering, uh, with his show for this long. That's, that's an accomplishment. That's an achievement. That is an achievement that I have not reached yet. So I've got like, uh, I've got, uh, I've got my Tulsa punk rock flea market t-shirt. I've got my, uh, Eskimo Joe's still water cup. I'm rocking the, the local flavor here a little bit. Um, I took, uh, took my kid to the punk rock flea market a couple weekends ago. That was, uh, interesting. You know, it had, they had like t-shirts and, you know, uh, music stuff and arts and, uh, uh, oddities and things like that. Um, but I'm like, I was, and they had, they had some bands, they had some live music, but I was thinking like, if it's really a punk rock show, if you're not stealing this stuff, shouldn't, shouldn't you just be like shoplifting or something? Wouldn't that make it more punk rock? I mean, I, I wasn't directly in the punk scene in my younger days, but I, I knew some of them cause like, still hung around in some of the same circles. Um, and those dudes would, uh, they'd steal anything that wasn't nailed down or they'd smash it. I, I just find it funny that instead of stealing stuff, they, you know, walk up to a vendor and say, can you take my Discover card please? PUNK ROCK! I hope everything's going all right for everybody. I am actually not, uh, seeing any, uh, live chat and I don't know if that is a problem with my live feed or not. Uh, or if you're just not typing anything, which is also fine. Let's see if I can refresh this. No, I can't. I can't do that. I can't refresh it. What does this do? There we go. Oh, hey, I changed the setting and it worked. Hello, everybody. Who did I miss? Hello, Yojo. Um, hello, Texas from the United States. Hello, man of action. Um, um, pvc diorama. That's cool. Renegade biker. Uh, and, uh, primal savage. Hello, hello. Hey, they gone and Dale and JLS and chewing bubble gum. I'm sorry. I missed all these messages. I'm sorry, guys. Uh, it wasn't displaying on my screen. Come on technology. Hello, Mark Ryan. How do you do? Um, chewing bubble gum says, uh, can you email Emily and tell them to stop trying to make, uh, Joe fans, box formers to get essential o-ring figures? That's actually a really good point. That's actually a really good point. Um, because let's see the, um, the o-ring Baroness came with the, um, transformer his tank, uh, and the, um, o-ring stalker came with the transformer on awestriker. Um, they did come on cards though. So I think everybody's assuming that at some point they will be released separately. Um, if they are not released separately, then we kind of got a problem. Then that's not super cool. Um, I'd like to see that play out a little bit more to see if they do finally get those out because, and they carded them as if they will be either on pegs or released individually. They are, they are carded that way. Um, so like they literally have to do nothing else, no additional packaging to release them individually. So I'd like to see that. If we don't see that, then that kind of sucks. Then, then we do have a little bit of problem because I'm not like, I don't dislike the transformers, but I'm not a Transformers collector. Um, and I would like to be able to get the new o-ring figures, but I am not going to buy a Megatron his tank to get the, the, the o-ring Baroness. Some people will do that, certainly. I am not one of those people. Um, let's see, uh, uh, let's see, uh, Cobra Island has Viper Month. And, um, yes, Timmer had a great video. I was, uh, I was happy to be in uh, the, uh, Timmer's video. Uh, Teddy says, where's faceplate Cobra Commander? I actually did have a guest, the only guest host I've ever had on the show, uh, who actually took over the show for an episode, was a very good friend of mine from Canada, no less, uh, who was the faceplated Cobra Commander. That was the review of the, uh, Buzbor. Um, that's the only time I've ever done that. Um, and that's, that's like one of the rare people that I would trust to do that. Um, but, um, yeah, so, but, but that, that friend is, has still been around, you know, I still talk to him from time to time. I agree with Primal Savage. It's, it's like, whether you, I mean, Larry may go in a direct, uh, hello Kujo, nice to see you Kujo, thanks for being here. Hello Garcia. Um, whether the story goes in a direction you wanted to go or not, you know, everybody has their personal preferences, but, um, Larry has been writing the series for 40 years. It's hard to top that. Um, it would be hard to say that anybody knows the characters better than he does. I mean, he has, uh, been living with them for, for decades. So, um, I do think that other writers can do good stories, but it's always going to be compared to Larry. Oh, okay. Another piece of news that I just remembered. Um, Assembly required Des Moines, Iowa in November. Um, it's a, it's a, it's a convention. It's, it's a smaller show than, uh, Joe Fest, if you're used to Joe Fest, but, um, uh, Ron Wagner. Ron Wagner will be there. I met Ron Wagner last time I went to, um, Assembly required. I got a commission. He's a really cool guy. Thank you, Rob Vegas for the super chat says, Rob Vegas, uh, I'll see YouTube show, uh, looking at the knockoff brand, the core this month. Yes. Uh, and give a shout out to, uh, Sergeant Slaughterhouse. Thank you very much, Rob. Thank you very much. I appreciate that. And that's a very good, very good point. Sergeant Slaughter, Slaughter. See, this is why I depend on you guys. This is the news commentary. This, I should have, uh, titled this episode, the news commentary because I'm commentating on the news. Okay. Um, Sergeant Slaughter, Slaughterhouse, um, is a channel that, that covers G.I. Joe, but also covers wrestling and, uh, big, uh, he's a big, uh, Sergeant Slaughter fan. He's had Sergeant Slaughter on the show, along with Kelly Remus, uh, Sergeant Slaughter, Slaughter. Um, he is in Australia. Hello, Matthew. How do you do? He's in Australia and he has started a GoFundMe to take the trip to the United States for Joe Fest next year. I would love to meet the guy in person, so, uh, check out Sergeant Slaughter, Slaughterhouse, uh, for the link to that. And, um, yeah, I would, I would love it, uh, if he could make it. I have already donated to his, uh, his travel fund. Um, so, um, especially if you have any, uh, idea that you might be at Joe Fest next year, you can help, uh, help somebody come from Australia to make it. Um, remember the, the final Joe con? Um, the, the G.I. Joeberg guys came from South Africa. Um, and Kujo was there, too. Kujo, who we saw in the live chat a moment ago, hello again, Kujo. Uh, so that was really cool. Um, it, that's one of the great things about these conventions is you get to really meet some of the people in the community that you talk to, you know, on, um, on the internets here. Rob says, never know who else might pop up at Joe Fest. Well, maybe you know something. Maybe you know something that the rest of us don't know, huh? Um, but yeah, um, the, uh, so, assembly required, um, in Des Moines, Iowa, uh, it's a, it's a nice show. It is, uh, at least it was a little smaller, but it, but there was still a lot of the, um, a lot of our friends were still there last time I went. And so that's a lot of fun. It's a great interaction. It's a great way to meet and hang out with people. And my intention is to go again this year. I have not yet, um, booked my hotel, but I'm gonna work on that. Um, so, uh, yes, um, assembly required and Ron Wagner, who is a heck of a nice guy and still a really good artist and still my, uh, my favorite Joe artist. Uh, Man of Action says, where's the location for the show? It is in Des Moines, Iowa. Des Moines, Iowa. Um, and I wish I remember the dates right off the top of my head. It's in November. Um, and the venue, they, they got a new one. Um, but if you, if you look for assembly or acquired, uh, you should find it and get the details. I'll try to remember to jot down the details before doing the live show. See show prep is what I need to do. Show prep. Man of Action says, uh, my ma lives there. So ma of action lives near Des Moines. That's really cool. Hello, coffee and shame. Nice to see you. Uh, thank you for joining. Half an hour from there. See, that's convenient. She might go to the show. Uh, New England Joe show in October, uh, October 16th. Now I would love to go to the New England Joe show, especially one in October because it's during the football season. That would be an excellent excuse to do, uh, a two purpose trip to new, uh, to, uh, New England to go to the show and to go to a game at Foxboro would enjoy that very much. Um, but, uh, but my travel is going to be a little bit limited for the rest of the year. I actually did a lot of travel, a lot of travel, um, this summer. I did a, I did a lot of travel this year more than usual. Um, and it's been great. I actually really love to travel. I love it. Um, but, uh, but I, uh, I, I may be traveled out for the year. Other than, than, um, assembly required, I really will try to make it to Des Moines. Um, and uh, let's see, uh, Martin says he's going to make it to the so, so Cal Joe show. That also would be a really good one. Um, uh, combat those mosquitoes. I get a, I get a bat house. That way you don't have to get, uh, pesticides or a bug zapper. Uh, yes. All I need is bats. Also, uh, that might inspire me to put on a costume and fight crime. It is really loud on my end. I hope you can hear me, but the cicadas are being very annoying right now. Uh, Draug says I'd love to take, uh, get back to taking road trips or trips again, mis-traveling and seeing cool things. Yeah, exactly. And, um, that's, uh, why I did it. I mean, we, um, my, um, my kid and I took a partial Route 66, uh, trip, um, during the summer just to get out, you know, to go see things and do things. Um, and it was nice. It was nice. Um, coffee and shame says we're getting the vipers in O-rings. We may be, but I don't know, because I've been a little behind on the news. Uh, call an ace or an airstrike on the cicadas. Yeah, um, it's, you know, it's, it's not, it's, the weather is more comfortable this time of the year. That's why I'm out here right now, but I never account for all the other stuff that goes on. This is why, this is why I don't like doing, shooting videos outside. There's too much you can't control. Too many things, too much chaos. What was the, uh, the, the, the, um, somebody asking if, if the new O-rings have screws. Yes, they do. If, if that was a question, I missed it. Uh, but if that was the question, yeah, the new O-ring figures do have screws in the back. In fact, um, I opened the Cobra Officer, Cobra Viper on the 12 hour, uh, July 4th live stream. So, you know, Joe, just go back and watch those 12 hours, um, to see that. But I did, I did unscrew them. At least one of them. I unscrewed the screw in the back. So you could still do that. You can still do that. Al cicada, yeah. Uh, we were making cicada jokes. I, that, you know, they deserve that. That, you know, you can ridicule the cicadas all you want. Frankly, um, I, I support that. I, I think they, they deserve it. For all, for all the, the mean things they've done to me. Have you ever, you know, have you ever like seen them other than hearing them like up in the trees, but ever actually seen them around, flying around or seen it like one that has dive bombed a, uh, a window and collided with it and is dead on the floor? They're quite disgusting creatures. Hey, it's peg warmers. How do you two peg warmers? Uh, connection is really bad, dive warmers, pop in. Well, thank you for, for coming in. It's nice to see you peg warmers. Uh, that's another show. Uh, you should not forget to, um, check out, uh, peg warmers. Uh, has a really nice show and a show where a lot of our friends, uh, have been on it. A lot of our friends have been on the show. So, uh, check out peg warmers and, and thanks to peg warmers for, uh, doing things like being a part of Cobra Convergence. That's very nice. Very nice. And, uh, Kevin, um, another really nice guy. Yeah. Newcombe from orbit. It's the only way to be sure. Yeah. Um, when we were kids, like, so they, the cicadas will shed a, a shell, right? And the, the shells will be stuck on trees and we used to play with those as kids. Um, it's just like a little insect shell without the insect. Um, and, uh, so we'd play like they're aliens and stuff, like attacking the action figures. Um, yeah. Um, Cobra Island says Cobra la la la la. It's not Christmas yet. Um, that's right. You can count me out. Cicada da da da da da. See, Tony's got the idea. Um, yeah, um, they, they, um, I kind of hate them. I kind of hate them. Um, I should have put that, I should have put that as the title of this video. Um, game over, man. Um, hello, Dr. No Good. Uh, nice to see you there. Um, let's see. A peg warmer says, in high school, I was really proud of a photo I took of a cicada shell stuck in a tree branch. Yeah, that, see that, that would be, that would be pretty cool with it because like close up, they look like alien creatures. They're, they're, they're kind of freaky. But that's why, like, it would make, like the perfect, like, uh, evil alien monster attacking your action figures. Yeah, great giant bugs to fight against in the sandbox. Yeah, yeah, exactly, exactly. Um, need to introduce drop bears to the USA to eliminate the cicadas. Yeah, bring them on. But it can't be worse than this. Um, actually, like in, in my, um, old neighborhood, not, not the house that I lived in before I moved here, but the one before that, um, there was, um, we had possums and we had skunks. And I remember very clearly one, um, early evening, going around to the side of my house and, uh, coming face to face with a skunk, a skunk that was just, you know, trotting along. Um, I got out of there pretty fast. I don't know if you ever smelled a skunk. It's not pleasant. Um, that's worse than cicadas. Vampel, mobile, jump, flak and ram. That, um, wait, I think, uh, man of action is playing, um, jeopardy. Uh, and I'm going to say, what are vehicles from 1982? Vehicle, what are vehicles from 1982? That's my question to the answer that he provided. Uh, Byron says my uncle had a pet skunk. I hope that, like, they, like, took the, the, the stink out of it. Um, they're, uh, they're not pleasant and they're nocturnal, which means, you know, they, they try to cross roads at night and then they get run over and then they, like, they stink up an entire area of the interstate. They're, they're quite unpleasant. Yes, that's right. They, uh, he man had a skunk character. Uh, I believe that was stink or, and the action figure gimmick is that it really did stink. Clever idea, clever idea, really sparkster. That's, that's very interesting. I think, I think I would at least stay a few steps back from him. Stink or he really stank. Yeah, see, skunk vipers. Um, yeah, they, they, so, um, you tuned in for the GI show, but what you didn't know is that you would be getting a conversation about the local wildlife. Yo-jo. Um, what is, is there anything else that I forgot to mention? Um, the IDW series, everybody does know that that's coming to an end. Um, that they are doing a cover for issue number 300 that has like 300 characters on it, which is pretty amazing and would have taken a very long time to draw. Um, but, uh, what I was thinking was 300 characters, you could get more than that. All you have to do is include, for instance, regular grunt and tan grunt, include regular clutch and tan clutch include all of the snake eyes, uh, uniform. You know, just, oh, here's a, here's a great way to get more than 300 characters. You include Zartan and Zartan in all of his disguises. You have Zartan and you have Zartan disguised as all of the other characters. You automatically double the number of characters that you can have on your cover. You're welcome IDW. You, you can steal this idea. I don't mind. Um, anyway, I hope, uh, I didn't miss anybody coming in. Hello, Eric. Uh, hello. If I didn't say, uh, hello to you earlier. Hello, photo viper. Nice to see you there. Stink horse smells like patchouli. Yeah, that's, that's what they use to, uh, uh, to mix in the plastic to make the action figures stink. Who comes up with that? See, this is why, this is why I, I appreciate even though it's about as different from GI Joe as you can possibly yet. Uh, but it is wacky. It has just got some strange and bizarre ideas and I have an appreciation for the strange and bizarre. Um, I can appreciate the special kind of madness that it takes to come up with idea, ideas like making an action figure really stink. Cheers to that guy. So thanks to everyone for joining me for this, uh, relaxing, uh, evening under the, uh, the setting sun. Uh, and now the, uh, the light from the light from inside my place is brighter than the light from the outside. So I'm no longer battle it back late, but I'm like, I'm all lit up from this side. So this is some real professional work here, witnessing here. Make sure. Ba-da-ba-da-ba-ba-ba-ba. Yeah. Um, okay. See, all right. Uh, hello, um, AVL Traho. Nice to see you. Um, and hello, James, aka Rat Face. Uh, how do you do? And, uh, David Sharp, um, and, uh, recenter. So, okay, this thing is doing a thing. Okay. Every once in a while it is, uh, it will stop showing the live chat and I've got a, I have to refresh it. So I apologize if I miss out on some of the messages, but on my screen it just like, it's going, it's going perfectly fine and I don't touch anything and yet it just stops working. Um, yes, I, I am, I am in fact lit in, in a manner of speaking. Just this side though, just this side is lit. Um, um, actually Eric, um, I'm having some high quality H2O here. I haven't, I haven't had alcohol in, um, more than a year and a half. I can't remember exactly. This is why I can't, um, give a different time because I can't remember exactly. Yes, um, the, we've got a backer at Cory that we were smoking. Um, uh, but, um, yeah, I haven't had a drink for, it's got to be at least a year and a half. I, I think it was sometime two Januarys ago that, um, that I, that I stopped drinking. So it's just, it's just high quality H2O for me for right now. Um, Abiel says, what's your favorite G.I. Joe figure? Mine, uh, is Stalker. I usually go with version 1.5 because it has a swivel arm battle grip. Um, it may not be the most detailed figure, but it has a lot of sentimental value for me. Um, uh, go, uh, let's see. Uh, yes, I have tried a Churchill cigar. Let's see. Backrest go good with new, um, dream flavor coat. That's interesting. I've not tried that. Thank you for the recommendation. I'll have to give that a try. Um, it's a, and I'm, I'm trying to be healthier. You know, I don't drink alcohol anymore. This is not healthy. Uh, so I'm trying to not do this too much either. You know, the guy, you got to do things in moderation. But frankly, uh, I survived a Tuesday and I think that's a reason to celebrate. Um, so, um, I am, I am annoyed that I haven't been able to get to the regular reviews lately because I really do want to review the thing that I have queued up. I think it'll be a lot of fun. I don't think it'll get a ton of views, but it'll still be a lot of fun. I think quitting drinking helps do four more shows. See, that's, that's a very healthy attitude, very healthy attitude. Joe themed cigars. You know, Gio didn't have a cigar chomping character like Nick Fury. Did they? I mean, they had characters that, um, with tattoos and stuff like that, but, uh, but they didn't promote smoking. That's, that's interesting because a lot of comic books did. A lot of comic books did. Lots of cigar chomping. You got your J. Jonah Jamison. You got your Nick Fury. Um, but yeah, I can't, I can't think of a, a G. I. Joe character that was a cigar chomper. Who said that? Tony says, uh, Firefly or Destro are favorite characters. Those are good. Yeah. Sergeant Rock, Sergeant Rock. That's, yes, that's, that's another good one. Yeah, Sergeant Rock, Sergeant Rock, Joe Kubrick. Um, the Cobra Island, having drank alcohol in all the 60 years. Good job. Well done. Well done. Um, uh, hold on. Does beer count as alcohol? For me, it does. Uh, that is something that I've thought about because I used to really like beer, at least good beer. Um, but, uh, but I've got a good streak going here, you know, I've got a good streak of like having no alcohol at all for quite some time. Do I really want to break that streak? I don't know. I don't know. Um, I didn't, G. I. Joe is somewhat, uh, promote bars. Um, um, well, in a way, um, if you, well, uh, Shipwreck, in the animated series, the team picked up Shipwreck in a Cobra bar, you know, just the average place where, uh, you know, a kid would, would hang out. Thank you, Thane. Um, yeah, I am trying to be a little bit more health conscious, at least in some way. Um, uh, mcdj, ACDC says, I'll drink to you, keep that streak alive. Thank you very much. I appreciate it. I think, thank you very much. Thank you. Um, yeah, Tony says, uh, Cobra drink, yo-jo cola, and bad guys drink great soda. Yeah, uh, they had Cobra cola, they had yo-jo cola, and then they had the great soda and chocolate covered doughnuts. And that I'm pretty sure was always supposed to be like a euphemism for, uh, for adult beverages, but, uh, uh, but they didn't exactly include those in, uh, in the comic. But, but they did have drugs. They did have drugs in the comics because, um, they had, uh, Drug Elimination Force. Remember they had Drug Elimination Force, uh, for, I don't know, about three issues in the comic book in the nineties. Those were terrible issues. I'm sorry, Larry, I love you. I don't think Larry liked those issues. I think they, he was required to put them in. I don't think those were ever his favorite, but, um, yes, they had DEF. So, so the, I mean, they did, they didn't have beer in the, the comic book, but, but drugs. Yes, absolutely. Breaker's Bubble, Bubblegum was the euphemism for cigarettes. That would also make sense. Um, yeah, I, I can see that as well. Yeah. In the early 1900s, smoking menthol cigarettes was supposed to help asthma and bronchitis. Yeah. I mean, there are commercials about, you know, which cigarettes doctors preferred. Um, uh, I'm not, I'm sorry if I'm mispronouncing your name, but he, uh, says, uh, who do you think Cobra Commander actually is? Uh, Cobra Commander is your mom, didn't she tell you? Um, seriously though, um, I, I, I like the idea of, of Cobra Commander, um, the identity of Cobra Commander being completely absorbed by the, um, by the character or by the persona. I don't think Cobra Commander as an individual, uh, it really exists anymore. I don't think he is, uh, I don't think he really is a separate person. I think he is Cobra Commander. I think that's the only important thing that exists about his personality anymore. Uh, I'm only the hooded version. Hoody for short. Overlord. Overlord, I did a review on that. That's, it's a, it's at least a somewhat interesting character in that Overlord is an attempt to make yet another challenger to the command of Cobra, but it was one that went absolutely nowhere. The used car salesman version. Um, yeah. Um, well, consider this. Like, I've never been a fan of how they handled Cobra Commander in the, uh, in the movie, the 1987 movie, where he was a Cobra Law mutant. It's just not my thing, but, um, um, but I do kind of like the idea that Cobra Commander is Cobra Commander. He doesn't like have another identity. If he ever did, he, he's long abandoned that. He's just, he, he, he is now his ambition, his ambition to rule the world. That's all he really is anymore. Starscream in disguise. That would be, uh, hilarious. Like Starscream trying to like squeeze himself into this little human size uniform. Uh, the voice though, the voice is what gives it away. Yeah. Coffee and shame. The, the, the, the 87 animated movie had some different ideas, we'll say. Different ideas. Baron iron claw. That's a fairly obscure one. Yeah. Um, well, hey, listen guys, we've got about a minute and a half. Um, I am going to wrap this up at eight o'clock. Um, no, wait, no, we don't. Hold on. I jumped the gun. No, we got about seven minutes. Looking at the wrong thing. Uh, so we got about seven minutes. I will wrap this up at eight o'clock. Uh, my time. Uh, I, it's been a long day. Uh, I'm kind of tired, but it has been really nice. It's been really nice to, um, to hang out with you guys. Uh, this is my, uh, uh, my favorite time of the week. I always feel better after hanging out and having this, uh, this chat with you. Um, uh, let's see, uh, my fiance is from England and got a vintage Baron ironblood figure. Now, yeah, Baron ironblood, that is, now that is a good point. I, I, I should say, if you, uh, follow the action force continuity, then Baron ironblood becomes Cobra commander, which is actually a kind of a cool story. I actually do like that. I like that a lot better than the Cobra law origin. Um, but, uh, but yeah, that's, that's a good one. That's, uh, thank you for, for, for pointing that out. I, I had momentarily forgotten it, but, um, really the, the action force continuity is, um, um, it's really not bad. Um, I have read some of it. I, I do wish that it were more compatible with the, the US GI Joe continuity so that like they could coexist and like be like one big universe, but they actually do have totally different stories. Uh, Cobra commander has a totally different origin. Uh, Destro has a totally different origin. It's, it's just different, but it's still, it's still really good. It's still, um, really interesting. Um, and I think a lot of it is online now. If you want to go back and read, uh, the action force comics or the battle action force comics, um, it's, it's worth checking out if you haven't, it's, it's a different take on GI Joe. And if you're from the States or Canada, you may be less familiar with it. So, uh, if you have a minute and you want to check out something different, uh, check out action force and, um, and just see how they did that little, a little differently. Now, having said that, um, in the aforementioned IDW series, the, the Larry, comma IDW comic book series, he did include some, um, some action force elements. He did include some of the, um, uh, the red shadows and those characters in the main GI Joe storyline. So some of that has been folded into the, um, like the, the US, um, continuity. So that's another thing that Larry has done is that he's brought in some of the international variants into the main story. Yes, the Robo Skull. Um, and speaking of which, um, there was, uh, I mean, everybody here probably already knows that there was the, the Robo Skull, um, Kickstarter project. So at some point, we should be getting a giant frickin' Robo Skull, uh, which is awesome, but I really want to get a vintage Robo Skull, um, at Joe, at Joe Fest, uh, two, three years ago, holy crap, time fly, three years ago, um, uh, who was it? Roma Collectibles brought a bunch of vintage Robo Skulls to sell at the convention. I was there. I was there, but I had a table. I was at the table meeting and greeting people and I didn't have a chance to go onto the dealer floor and check it out until all of the Robo Skulls except for one incomplete one was already gone and I need a complete one in order to do a review of it. So I was kicking myself because I missed out on an opportunity to get a real complete vintage Robo Skull, even though I was there, I was in the building, but I was, I really was incredibly busy. That was a great weekend, by the way. That's a great weekend. I loved that weekend. It was a lot of fun, but it was incredibly busy and yeah, I just didn't have a chance. I didn't, I just didn't have time to check it out. Yeah, Black Major is an interesting character, a character that switched from the good guys to the bad guys. Yeah, that is interesting, but yeah, absolutely do check out the, the Action Force storyline, the comic book. If you have a chance, it's an interesting read. It really is. It is just a different take on the G.I. Joe story that a lot of us would be familiar with and you might like it. I like it and like I said, I kind of wish that it was more compatible with the American storyline because I'd like to see some of those stories merge and included with our version of G.I. Joe because I like them. I like them a lot. Robo Joe was half Robo Skull. That's true, Jeff. Okay, it is about time. This time I really mean it, so I'm gonna wrap it up here and say good night. Thanks for everyone for hanging out with me on this nice casual outdoor hangout and we will do it again next week. Thank you all for your patience as I figure out how my whole life is going to work with recent changes, but we will get there. In the meantime, let's keep hanging out. Thank you, Drawz. Thank you and thank you for being here, Byron. Thank you everyone for being here. It is a really great scene. It is a really great talking with you. I guess I'll see you guys next week. Until then, keep Yo-Joing. Yo-Jo and only Yo-Jo is Yo-Jo. May the Force be with you. See you, everybody. Good night. Night, everybody.