 We are live and welcome to the show Hopefully you have a great show today. I am back home from assembly required and we have much to talk about Who we got here? Hey, it's peg warmers. Hello peg warmers Had a really nice conversation with Kevin earlier today. So it's nice to see peg warmers here Hello, Joe fan 84. Hello Lester. Hello, Eric. Hello, Joe fan 84 again How do you do? And hello to mr. S if he's around. Hello low on bow to Hello Matt and Josiah and anything Joe's how's everybody doing it's um, it's been a Heck of a whirlwind week or weekend. I guess I should say Hello, Jeffrey and Daniel and John. I Just got back from assembly required Um, I I have I have stuff I have a toad full of stuff that I need to show you so I want to show you all the stuff I got at assembly required. Hello, Robert. Thanks for being here. Hello, Evan I want to show you all the stuff I got But the stuff from assembly required is mixed in with stuff That I had pulled for the next review that I'm doing Um, so Um, I don't want to spoil it. So I've got to pick out the the new stuff from the old stuff So I'll do that as I go. Hello. There's Marianne. Hello Marianne I everybody say hello to Marianne Um, had a nice day with Marianne. Uh, she came over today and we spent some time together. That was very nice Unfortunately, I had to work pretty much the whole time But, uh, occasionally I occasionally I do get time off of work a little bit Um, hello the 80s guy and mcluch here Hades the skull reviews and cyclonus Um, and nyquist. Well, we The gang's all here. This is fantastic. This is uh The entire rogues gallery is here including rat face and sparkster. Uh, yeah, we're we're off to a good start I have so much to show you I have so much to show you Shall I get started? Uh, first of all, um, I also before we get started Oh, uh tim says howdy from vancouver canada. How do you vancouver canada from the united states? Thank you very much for being here. Um, always Happy to welcome our neighbors to the north. Um I've said before I will say again I have never actually met a rotten canadian. Every canadian that I've met Has been delightful and has been a gem. Um, so, uh, so welcome canada And uh, and thank you for being here. Hey, it's rob irzera. It was it was there. Hello rob irzery. How do you do? um, uh, and, uh And marianne is uh is waving and Uh, who we got here uh lester and rob. Um, this is um Uh, what was it? I'm sorry. Um, how was iowa? Iowa was really good. Yes. We're we're gonna get into iowa um, I would like to say To iowa to the state of iowa Every time I have gone to iowa. I thought it had a really good time. Um, my daughter went to school in iowa for About a year. Um, and then she returned um I'm not sure if she has fond memories of iowa. I I can't say for sure I kind of think her experience of iowa might have been colored by her her personal experiences, um You know just being at the particular time in her life when she was there But uh, but I've always had a great time in iowa. I love it. Uh, it's uh, it's uh Been a very good state to me. Iowa has been very good to me. So thank you. Iowa. Uh, hello rape has and greg and dustin um, and um We okay, we're Where are we going? Um, let me let me get started on this because um, I don't know how long this will take And I want to make sure that I get through all of it. Um, so Let's uh, let me start with some stuff That I got at uh at assembly required for those who uh are not aware assembly required is the annual gi joe convention in Des Moines, Iowa And um, I've gone the last couple years. I've gone three Three years total but not on in a row, but I've gone the last two years And I'm gonna try to make that a regular annual thing um, so uh, yeah, this is uh Their theme this year Their theme this year was cold slither and this is this badge that I got which with my name printed on it This badge is high quality. This is nice. This is uh This is really solid and the it's got some great artwork You know on both sides and this is cool, but this is the kind of thing uh that you get from assembly required the kind of theming and branding so So, yeah, cold slither was their theme and we're gonna talk more about that. Um, yeah, the this is you know What's cool about this shirt too on the back It has It has it has the the tour dates on the back. So, um All of all of the artwork and graphics Um at assembly required is always on point. It's just really amazing Um Looks better than the badge you got from nycc 2023. It's nice This is better than most of the badges that I've gotten at shows. This is This is a keeper. This is a keeper. Um, oh, marion says you didn't show that. I I'm sorry. I'm that's true I didn't show this to you. I'll show this to you tomorrow. You can see you can see uh My cold slither gear. I don't know. I don't know that marion has seen the cold slither episode of um Of the animated series. Hey, it's christian bricks. Hello christian bricks Um, 1a 100 complete flag with box this week. Oh my goodness Uh owned it less than 24 hours before I sold it as I have no space for it That's well, first of all, thank you for the super chat. Thank you for being here. Uh, hello from the united states and You uh A complete uss flag with the box that is a sweet deal and you know Space is a challenge with that thing. That's why my flag is not Assembled it's it's it has some assembly required But if you if you don't have space for it and you need to sell it that is an item that can get you a pretty penny So congratulations, mr. Bricks On your flag and your uh, your profit On said flag. Uh, so uh, and thank you again for the super chat and thanks for always for being here I'm always happy to see you here. Um, so Uh, show the graphic on the other side of the all access Okay, where's it? Oh, yeah, um, let's see Well, here's here's this Very nice and then there all right this is the all access And this is the graphic on the other side so you can see it has The band So, yeah, this is um It's a lot of fun. It was a lot of fun. Um, I must add a caveat though. Um, because I still had to work the entire weekend Um, I got there I got into Des Moines on thursday as soon as I got in I had to work until I you know Until I fell asleep basically and then I had to get up early and work some more Um, basically until until it was time to go to the show And then when I got back from the show I had to work some more and then work some more the next day So it was a challenge. I um, I was pretty tired. I was pretty worn out and I wasn't able to participate in all the festivities, but I did go to the dinner that they had on friday night and that Was a blast and I got some stories to tell about that and I've got some stuff To show you I've got some stuff to show you. Um, but first Let me show you a few things that I got From the show. Let's let me burn through this stuff. Um now as I I said before I went that um I wasn't giving myself any toy budget. I wasn't going to be toy shopping. Well, uh after um Where'd it go? uh after I got there and I looked at The finances and the feasibility and um, you know, basically how much I had potentially to spend um, I decided, you know, I I could give myself a little toy budget A little toy budget and I did pick up a few things One of the things one of the things I picked up was this. Oh, hello from the hilt and I think I saw Yeah, tony jackson. Hello tony jackson. Um, hello tim. I think I already said hello tim, but hello and again um Hello, shawn. Marianne says, uh, sorry. I missed it. We'll be at joe fest joe fest is going to be big Um, I got we're working on stuff. All right We're we're already working on plans for joe fest to make it significant um, but anyway here we've got um the his Two from 1989. This is a vehicle. It's not a rare vehicle. It's pretty common And yet I never had one For some reason I always passed on it and I don't know why I don't know why I passed on it It's perfectly fine. But now I this time I didn't pass on it. Now, um, you you see only one missile here The other Missile is somewhere. It's it's it's probably in this thing. So it does have both missiles. It is almost complete It is well it has It has the railing in the back But it does not have the little seat belt clips The seat belt clips which I hate. I really don't like them, but I'll have to get a couple of them to make this complete um but Finally Cat's playing with it. Um, finally um For here it's a puppet finally I was able to get A his two the more refined Of the his tanks if I might say so if I may be so bold No, no, no. All right. That's ridiculous. Um, but what I so I got this and uh, let's see if This is what I'm talking about this thing is filled with pieces I need for the Current review that I'm working on. Oh, yeah, here we go and it did include the track viper Did not include The track viper's weapon and file card, but I'll pick those up. I may just It's it's usually cheaper to get the track viper and file card and weapon altogether rather than to get the individual pieces So I may just get another track viper, you know to maybe be a gunner or something But it does include that. So this is it's semi complete. It's nearly complete um And so now finally I have the his two this big honkin thing and Obviously I will complete obviously I will complete it Before I review it. I I think This fine piece this specimen May be reserved for Perhaps a cobra convergence event it it requires a special occasion to to really Be worthy of of this Of this fine machinery. Yeah so Hey Peg warmers nice to see you. Thanks for being here Peg warmers says. Uh, hey hoody. Uh, hey peggy. Wait. No, that's Okay, you know No, I don't want you to get the nick name peggy. I apologize for calling you peggy um Oh, what the heck if I start if I start it Then if it catches on then I can take the credit for it. Anyway, hey peggy Thanks for being here. Uh, let me show you more stuff. Um, another thing that I got Hello comic tropes, uh comic tropes says too late or Too early depending on how you look at it. Um, I apologize. Um, I have not been able. Um, I have not been keeping up with uh chris, um as well as I'd like to We've like started conversations and then I like drift away because well, I'm either tired or I'm working And I'm having the hardest time And it's not just chris. I'm having the hardest time keeping up with anything So, uh, my apologies and um, I'm gonna try to do better I'm gonna try to be a better friend because chris has been a very good friend to me Hello renegade biker. Hello john. Um, and anyway, um, yes, I'm you've been You've been uh staring at it. Yes. I finally got This silly thing predacon The the the where is it? The uh, where's the logo? Yeah, the lunar ticks empire alien. Yes the lunar ticks Uh, uh peg warmer says I had a one-legged his driver as a kid and I had to stick Uh had a stick that I would wedge into his t-bar. I called him peggy the peg leg, you know I like it. I like it, you know, and that is a his driver that is really dedicated Still, you know fighting the cobra fight on one leg Um, hey, it's firefly. It's nice to see firefly Um And he said my achievement of the day was a peroxide de yellowing of a hammerhead. It turned out great That is fantastic. The hammerhead is a substantial vehicle and the process of peroxide de yellowing it has got to be Um a chore. So congratulations on Doing that and and on it turning out. Well, that's that's great. Um Uh comic trope says which came first predicon and gi joe are transformers. I'm pretty sure it was transformers, um because um This is the phase. I think where gi joe was doing It's strange to say that they weren't doing any things original when this thing is like looks so unique, but they were trimming costs and they were Scaling back effort, especially by then because the writing was already on the wall by this point That the line was going to be cancelled and replaced with sergeant savage um, so when it came to like naming things I'm guessing as much as possible. They kind of used what they already had So that that's my theory anyway. So there's there's that Got the the the little file card there. So, uh, this means I have all three of these ridiculous things. That's right All three of these ridiculous things I have. So that is another gap in the collection Filled, uh, what else here can I show you? I've got a We I got a dig through here because like I said, I've got like a lot of this stuff I can't show you because it's for the upcoming review um There's an ash ash can for of command files by after action report and uh, the the, um Yeah, Greg, uh, Greg Augustine. That's that's the guy's name. Uh, the writer of command files They had the printer proof Of command files at the show. I did back that so I'm really happy to Uh, be able to see the pretty much the final product um, and so that'll be I mean, we'll be getting it soon And command files for those of you that don't know. Well, this is these are good examples here For each character it has like a thorough bio thorough bio including, you know, just their, um File card information their, um different iterations their appearances in comic book and Animated series. So this Is going to be a really helpful uh reference guide for Making videos print reference material is incredibly valuable Um to me An incredibly useful. So I love to get my hands on Some hey, that's you. Hey, it's Greg Uh, hey, Greg. I got Hey, Greg. I got your thing. So, um Command files as soon as that hits. I will I'll show that to you guys As soon as I get my copy print reference material Is extremely valuable to me. Um, it's uh, it um There but not every piece of information about gi joe is readily available on the internet. Um, I I have as you can see I have expanded my reference library quite a bit over the last few months Um, and I'll probably expand it more as we go um, but uh print reference material uh has been invaluable to Uh research over the, you know Especially the last few years as I've gotten more print reference material. Oh, uh, cheapest big spenders. Thank you for the soup chat free gung-ho from his, uh, p.o.w.k. Yeah, where's where you gung-ho? First of all Let's admire the the plushy that's adorable adorable So you're referring to is this the gung-ho you're referring to I think um, let's let's get through all the stuff that I got at Uh at assembly required and then we'll uh, we'll we'll see if we can get to this guy I certainly he has he has waited quite a while uh poor thing Let's uh, let's put this There we go. There we go. Um So let's let's continue interesting stuff. I got um this call sign longbow comic book at call sign longbows um Boo's well, you know what I don't want to take it out because I don't want to mess it up Um, I will take it out when I'm not on camera See this is the danger of trying to mess around with stuff while I'm also on camera Is that I'm paying attention to you and to the microphone and to this and that's how things get messed up and so I'm um See uh comic tropes, uh says who is the best kisser at no assembly required? I was of course Thanks for asking um So call a call sign longbows comic book I picked up um and oh more swag from after action report got a great big sticker here. Uh, they had the second edition of um Of volume one. So the updated and corrected edition of volume one. They also had there um Des Moines is for lovers. Yes. Uh, that's that's what they say, but you know what? I think it's true. I think it's true. Let me talk about um the The dinner, okay, because they did a a dinner a group dinner It was a ticketed event. Uh, it was at uh, what's that place called? Um It was at that place where they where they do the dinner. Um, I I can never remember the name of the place Anyway, they do the dinner And uh, the food was really good. It's fantastic. Um, and they they had some giveaway stuff One of the things that they gave away was this new Colt Slyther the lost demo So what they've done and I like the uh The diy handwritten cdr. Um, what they've done is they have um They've basically completed they've expanded these the Colt Slyther song that was in the animated series and made it a complete song um, and okay, well here's the the the sleeve Is that let's say, uh, yeah tickles I think that's my favorite. Um, but check this out That is awesome. This is really cool. And there are there are two tracks There's uh, Colt Slyther We're Colt Slyther demo and then over here. I can't read it that way uh Colt Slyther The rap viper remix. So there are two songs on here um I don't have anything with which to play ACD anymore, but there's also a qr code where you can download the uh You can download the tracks, um Digitally and so I haven't done that yet, but I will uh, they played Uh the first track at the dinner and it was really cool. I thought it was really well done So that was an important thing from the dinner. Um, the other thing they gave us let me find it It's really tiny. So I have to I have to search for it. It's in I know it's in here though I know it's in here. Um, oh, yeah they gave us a For the dread knocks a tiny grape soda four pack Um that should be in scale with the classified figures. So it's a class classified scale Uh grape soda four pack it's as you can see it's it's vacuum sealed But if I were to open it one of the bottles can be removed So you can have your dread knocks Uh knocking back a grape soda. I thought that was That was charming and delightful um, so uh, so so there you go that is um That's the swag from the dinner But there was also something else that very interesting that happened at the dinner. Um, I was at a table. Um With other people, you know as as you you do the guys Uh sitting across from me um Bill was his name Uh by pure coincidence. It turns out that he Wrote a book And it's a book that I already had Um, so he's like, hey, I wrote. Uh, yeah, I wrote this book the joy of joe con and I'm like wait a second I have it. I have that book So I got to just randomly sit across the table from Mr. Bill Nedrow The author of the joy of joe con and this book it's really fun. I mean first of all look at the cover that like there's um There's mary mercenary cosplay. There are the mcclouds There is mark weaver and joe colton There is james cavanaugh as crystal ball. So these are all This is about all, you know joe con joe con moments joe con, which is now a thing of the past So if I had known that by coincidence, I was going to be sitting across the table from the author I would have brought the book with me So he could sign it, but I did not Because that was just the complete surprise. Uh, so that was really cool. Um, and thanks. Thanks bill For uh for chatting. That was that was a lot of fun. Um, so, uh, oh Uh comic trope says what would your dreadnought name be? I think my dreadnought name would be dingleberry Thanks for asking. Thanks for the super chat. Uh, and um, um Chris reached out to me About something. Um, I I want to get back with you about the thing About the thing about which you reached out to me. Wow that English is hard English is a difficult language to speak even when you're a native speaker the thing that we reached out about Um, I'd like to to talk to you about that more. I think that sounds fun But and thank you for the super chat and thank you for being a really good guy and a good friend Uh for for so long. So so thank you. Um, hey, there's jls comics um, it's uh At 80s guy at from the hill, uh, and oh, he's having a conversation with other people. I'm sorry I intruded in your conversation. I just wanted to say Um, I just wanted to say hello jls comics. Uh, thank you for being here. Uh, hello, see more clarity Um, uh, there isn't an important thing that I need to get to once I'm done looking through these Uh things so this I'm obviously not going to show this right now But this is a story written by the according to card jason carrest Uh, who I have, uh, I've talked to before and he also gave me Um Where is it? This is This is a file card for That that's uh, okay. Here we go uh One second Uh, hello, iven. Hello in new tabby. Nice to see you. Uh File card for footloose Um, this is slaughters marauders footloose And uh and a fan fiction story which uh, he printed out for me And gave me because you know that like the kennel world's thing where we used to do the fan fiction. That's defunct now So apparently the only way you can do it is uh is to To type it out yourself and print it yourself. Um, but yes, I thank you for that. I will read that Um as I have time I got this from um from the um Not the after action report but the um the rising sun publications people who are working on a An adventure excuse me an adventure team inspired Uh comic book Excuse me I'm kicking up a lot of dust here as we go on my apologies. Um, so Uh, so I got this pen. It's a very nice pen. Um, and let's see More things more things Okay, this okay. I got some people's cards I don't know if people want necessarily want me to show their contact information on the screen. I didn't ask Oh, by the way, um In the parking lot as I was headed back in on saturday after lunch Um, I was stopped by a gentleman and his son. It was his son's birthday Um, I wanted to say thank you for stopping to talk with me um And um, I appreciate the time and happy birthday to your son. I did not ask you Uh, if I could give your name on uh on the air, I should have this are the things I don't think of like asking uh Uh, if if it's okay that I share your information when I'm standing there, uh, but you know who you are And uh, thank you for talking with me and happy birthday to your boy. Um Uh, we're almost done. We're almost done. We've got mark two design. This is really cool. And for this I got this out. I gotta I gotta pull I gotta pull cobra commander out Of the box. Pardon me Out of the box There we go. I am kicking up a lot of dust while i'm doing this So I gotta I had to pull out cobra commander Um, and I gotta pop cobra commander's head off I like so Okay, because um All right mark two design whom I've talked to several times now Um, did something really special and cool for me And it is let's see There we go This is tiny. I don't want to make sure that I don't drop it It's It's a tiny It's a tiny me So, um, when in in dallas when I was at the dallas gi joe show Um, he did a scan of my head Um, and then he printed said head and then he I think that's on uh, and then he Painted said head to look To look just like me look Look, it's me Check that out. This is the likeness is pretty amazing. Look at this. He even he even got like the dent in my hair He even got the hair dent um Yes, it's it's it's my even even tinier head So and this is of course scaled to fit on the Classified cobra commander Not all of these classified figures have the same Size ball on the neck. So they they don't not all interchangeable So there you go So thank you mark two designs. This is really cool. Really amazing. Thank you for the opportunity And thank you for the effort so um Yeah, in in honor of of mark who who's not Comparing this to hasbro's selfie series at all. It's it's not it's not the same thing This is not the same process that the selfie series has um This is I think What we would all hope That a selfie figure would look like this is I mean it's my head. He scanned my head and uh magically made it appear On this tiny thing. So so thank you mark two toys. Uh and um mark two design there's his uh His card and info um really cool guy. Um, and I love um seeing him and talking to him at these shows And uh, and this is a thing this is a thing that that he is able to do which is freaking amazing um It's what's on joe mine The uh stream can't go two minutes without talking about ball size. Well, it's we talked about head size too We got to talk about we talked about head size. We talked about ball size. So we I think we got everything covered um, so yeah, I'm I'm keeping this on the I'm keeping this head on this body And uh, I'll I'll put it somewhere here it can go here. Wait Legs are all wonky. Uh, it can go it can go here for now um No, no it's gonna don't fall I have stands for it. I might have to get a stand. But anyway, I got um, thanks to mark two designs. I have Uh an action figure of myself um Um jason Uh from half the battle was there jason's a really cool guy. Uh jason has been a friend now for several years. Um See you see it's not always uh, marianne making the uh The dirty jokes it's just most of the time um So, um, he I got some stickers I got this night force order of battle sticker and this classic gi joe sticker with um with his son alexander's face on it and um And um his son created a character for the upcoming line operation recall And this is a graphic of the character that he created. This is so um, I got some great stickers and Last I think last But not least by any stretch. Oh, yeah. Yeah, check this out Um, I I stole I stole a what's on joe mind pen Uh, they were just laying there what's on joe mind pens Just there and I'm like, you know what I'm I'm taking one and I did So that that is a pen that I will cherish forever um, so Okay, one of the guests At the convention was Um michael charles hill um And I got this signed By mr. Hill Um, michael charles hill was the writer of the cold slither episode Of the animated series. Uh, he he wrote it. That was his baby. He created it Wrote the song uh all of that Um, so, uh, he had a panel and jason um jason I had warmers, uh mark well will be right over to pick up his pen. I'd like to see him try. I'm cherishing this pen forever um so jason did a um Did a a panel with mr. Hill, um and um He you know asked some questions about his background about the the episode The the famous episode And how that all came about um michael charles hill He worked on the animated series. He worked on both animated series. He worked on The sunbow series and the deke series and he did some other things for gi joe as well um, he's not someone that we have Heard from extensively. Um, this was only his second convention Um, he went to a transformers convention before this because he did some stuff for transformers as well This was his first gi joe convention So in this panel, which is on the channel by the way, you can look at it on the channel right now um Every time he basically every time he answered a question He gave us new information that we didn't have before it He was just casually dropping the these uh information bombs about, um Things that we speculated about um, but we didn't know so Um, obviously he talked about the colt sliller episode I asked him a question about the deke series But one piece of information that I thought was really interesting is that he is the reason that Uh special mission brazil is called that you know the special mission brazil Set the the toys r s set Um, I I've speculated why brazil? Well, there's a reason Why it's special mission brazil and uh, mr. Michael charles hill is the reason for the reason He also wrote the uh audio story for the audio cassette he wrote the the The audio play the like the radio play that's on the audio cassette for special mission brazil and that's not all he also created The only original character in that set claymore and he wrote the file card for claymore He wrote the file. That's why this features claymore It was always I think it's it was safe to assume That larry hamma wrote the claymore file cards because he wrote all the other file cards or almost all the other file cards but not this one Uh, michael charles hill wrote and created the claymore file card that Uh, it was news to me so this is um Uh, this was fascinating. Um, I really enjoyed that and thank you jason for uh for mc'ing that panel But this was incredibly fascinating fascinating to me. Um I I knew that he would have some insight on Uh cold slither and on the animated series did not know that I would also get the origin of claymore A fairly obscure character Uh, but a figure that's kind of a grail. It's kind of a rare figure I think it's the most sought-after figure in that set because it's the only Um original character So, yeah, how about that? I didn't know that I would be learning that But uh, there you go. Um, anyway, so that's that was really Really cool. Um And I think that's I think that's it. I think all the other stuff in here is stuff that's supposed to stay in here Because uh, I'm using it for the next Video review Yes, okay. I think we're good. I think I think we have seen it all now. Um before I get to Um gung ho here, there's something that I should have talked about right at the top and I didn't because I got caught up I apologize. Um My friend timmer from the youtube show half the battle has started his um his charity campaign For this year. It runs through the month of November I have linked the video explaining the process and how to participate. Um, I think the charity event is important Um, I think it's one of the most important things we do every year Oh, thank you. Joe fan 84 for the super chat after watching your ice cream soldier review. Mr. S is getting me one for Christmas you know, um the uh the the people who uh Stopped me in the parking lot to talk with me also mentioned the ice cream soldier review I Uh, that review was a lot of fun. There's no denying it. I had a ton of fun making that review um, maybe I was A little harsh I mean I was Not I was honest. I wasn't lying. I didn't lie about my thoughts and feelings about Uh about ice cream soldier May have gone a little overboard perhaps, um I still I'm trying I still have fun with Videos and I still try to you know, have fun with everything that I do um But um, I'd like I try to have fun as well as maybe Bring some information like the stuff that happened in the 90s. That's some strange stuff It's some it's some weird stuff went down in the 1990s And for those of us who are children of the 80s, we uh didn't know Yay, okay. Well chris chris and uh and his son were there so Thank you. Uh, and and and thank you again for uh for reaching out and stopping and talking with me And I was just mentioning that you brought up the ice cream soldier review. Um, uh Yeah, I you know I My feelings my thoughts are what they are about any given thing, but um The uh My approach I my approach More recently has been uh to At the very least try to find some information try to bring something out that Um that maybe most of us didn't know before you know before the review There's a lot of stuff that happened in the 90s that um, we're really just now starting to Get into and understand and you know get information about so Uh ice cream soldier does need a new review. Oh, well, let's get um my um My ice cream soldier action figure is actually with Um with timor now I sent it to timor timor has it um But uh, yeah, that that's kind of my approach has evolved. Um I I I can't um I can't change my opinion about something if I if I like something or dislike something, you know, it is it just is what it is but um If I can't regardless of whether I like it or not if I can try to dig out some information that um Anyone else might find useful then then I I want to try to do that And this is something that That I've kind of learned the hard way um Comic tropes tropes needs a one hour road toad analysis. Don't think I couldn't do it Don't think I could not do that. I could I I could do that. I absolutely could um, but um This is something that I've learned the hard way and that is that if I'm going to rant about something If I'm gonna like, you know, uh run around like my hair is on fire and Smash tables and yell and scream. Um, then I am I'm kind of setting myself up for um Eventually being shown to be just ignorant um, I I have found that it's easier to rant and rave Um and hate things when you're ignorant um As I've gotten older and as I've gone on and as I've learned more um I I've found that like a lot of the things that I just thought were ridiculous and stupid and made no sense um You know before when I actually learned more about the process more about the people more about how these things came about I may not I may still not like them But I can at least understand them. Um, so um, I think That's my you know, this is my warning to my future self warning to future self future self come back and watch this Uh, you know in the future, uh to to be warned future self Uh, if I'm going to rant and rave about something About which I am ignorant I am setting myself up to look like a fool when the actual information comes out, um that Shows that all of this bluster was about stuff that I didn't really understand. So future self before you blow your top pause a second And it look a little deeper before you know, you start slamming your fist on the table future self learn more Scream less. I have been screaming less. I will say that You know, I'll give my credit for myself credit for that. I have been screaming less um, but um That that doesn't really change what I like or what I dislike I still prefer the more military oriented, uh toys. Um, the more realistic things. Um, there are Uh, certain characters that I never cared for and I still don't I haven't I have a greater appreciation now for something like um Like cobra law, but I don't like cobra law You know, I don't I don't I haven't changed my mind and suddenly decided that I like something that I don't um, and I think as As a reviewer, it's part of my job to to say that, you know, I'm doing all of this, um Research and digging into something it seems kind of A cop out to not take a position on it. Like I've done all this looking at it and I can't tell you what I think about it Um, Marianne is right. Uh, the military aspect is what I do to start. Yes. The especially sg1 I really liked the the military element of that show. Um, I've enjoyed that very much and uh, that's one of the reasons why I've enjoyed following the show with Marianne when we have a chance to watch it. Um, so that's that's still my preference. Um, but um I I am I guess I'm I'm stupidly Obsessed with this idea of you know, doing the right thing whatever that is as if I can figure out what the right thing is But I I've given a lot of thought to I mean, what is my purpose as a reviewer? um, is my purpose to um You know to tell you If you should like or dislike something um, I I don't think so um, is my purpose to um, I don't know change the course of a property so that it fits what I prefer more I don't I don't think that's true either. In fact, I'm not really sure if it's even ethical for a reviewer to uh, try to influence Whatever property is being reviewed to change it to fit the reviewer's preference more um Even if a reviewer succeeded in that um All that does is change something. Um That other people like you're taking away something that other people liked to make it more Uh, make it fit your preferences more and I don't I'm not sure that that's even ethical as a reviewer to try to do that um So What I finally settled on is that um As a reviewer what I what I really add hopefully is some um background and information and context um To what is being reviewed so that um So that you know regardless of whether I like it or you like it or either of us dislike it um You will go into the experience with Information with knowing more Knowing more about it so that regardless of how you feel about it your Uh thoughts your opinions will be more informed um I've thought about this in the context of movie critics because Movie critics if if all they're going to do is say this movie is good or this movie sucks Um, that can't that doesn't actually tell me whether I will like the movie or not. I like a lot of movies that suck I don't like a lot of movies that are supposedly good Um, so that doesn't help me to if a critic says that you know, hey, this sucks That doesn't tell me anything. Um, even if they try to tell me why it sucks. I'm not sure that Helps either because my criteria for what's good and what's bad Uh is my own and I'm not going to change that to match what the critic thinks so um What really would a movie critic add to the movie experience? um That's that's actually worth anything and what I think a movie critic could add Would be you know, uh an understanding of of film of its history of the process of the industry of the actors of the directors and um so that all these hidden layers within the subject are brought out so that the reader can um Not just and enjoy a movie or or dislike a movie Not just see a movie but understand Both that movie better and understand movies as a whole better um, so If I add anything of any value at all. I think that's that's closer to what it would be because if it just if it were just a matter of looking at the toys, you know, um Just showing you the parts and the The colors and you know all of the the pieces and how it works You know You don't necessarily even need me for that. I could just point a camera at it You know, I wouldn't even have to talk for that. I could just move it around I could just point a camera at it show it to you and And you decide you you should decide for yourself anyway, whether you like something or not, but um Um But that part of it doesn't really need me um so Uh to try to do things the right way as if I can really know what that is I'm I'm trying to um provide um More of that the information the history the knowledge the the background The things that you might not have known about just by looking at the toy um, and sometimes I do Better at that than other times, but at least that's what I'm trying to do. Um, I don't want to waste your time I don't want to sit here and Spout a bunch of stuff that is not actually valuable to you And I don't want to waste my time either spouting stuff. That's not valuable to anyone. So um So to to Make this venture worthwhile um, I I need to I need to work harder at it. I need to put more effort in and I need to add more The that's valuable. Um Now there there is some value in You know just looking at the toy. Um, and that's one of the reasons that I do the profiles I do these cut down versions of the reviews where it's just looking at the toy. That's all it is and for reference You know, that's I think there is some value in that But that's not really me adding the any value to it other than just pointing the camera at the toy. Um so uh, that's not to say there's not value in that but the I feel like I should be doing more than that. So anyway um, I apologize uh for the the tangent But it's something I've been thinking about a lot. Uh, something I've been thinking about. Um, um I want to You know, I want to I want to do it right, you know, I want to do good. I want to help. I want to make all of this better, um, not just better in the sense that I twist things to Fit my personal preferences, but I mean I want to make things better in the sense that there's more information out there. There is um, you know, there's more context. There's more history. There's more of Everything that you don't get just by looking at a toy and everything you don't get just by some internet guy Waving his arms around and yelling and screaming and telling you what uh, he thinks about the toy um, I just I just feel like there's more That I can do than that. Um Anyway, sorry a tangent over Before we wrap up, which we've only got a few more minutes before we wrap up. Um, I want to remind everybody of timbers Charity drive which is going on now. I will be donating a prize I've been thinking about what prize to donate and what I think I'll might do is Donate one of the figures from the haz lab sky striker. I haven't opened any of the figures from the haz lab sky striker They're still all on the card so um I I may uh offer one of those figures as a prize in timbers charity drive Please check out the video. It is in the description the link is in the description I will be uh, both donating a prize and I will be donating to charity um, although I will not be entering my name as Uh, a potential prize winner. I don't I don't do that. I'd rather give a prize. I don't want to get a prize Um, so I will be participating and I'll also be talking about it quite a bit more this month But thank you timmer for doing that. It's extremely important and I appreciate it um And following this show there is a half Half the better. There's what's on joe mind. What's on joe mind? Uh, who? Um, I hear that they make excellent, uh, clicky pins excellent clicky pins like listen to that click It's a very very satisfying click. It's a good click. That's a good. That's a high quality clicky pin right there um, and oh, you know what? I just noticed like, man, I I run us out of time again I've run us out of time again. I don't have time to open young hoe of it. Maybe next time Next time Well, I'll try to set aside some special Some special gung-ho time once I I just I feel bad for the guy He's just been over there looking over my shoulders saying when are you going to get me out of this plastic prison? um, but um uh but yes, that's uh Let's wrap it up. It's it's uh About a minute till the hour mark. So after this, please roll on over to uh, what's on joe mind? Check out their show. Um, and um Yeah, I'm working on a video which hopefully knock on wood Should go up this sunday. So thanks everyone and I guess for now. I will say good night. Good night all See you all later. See you next week Bye