 I am not in the Christmas spirit. I just, I got no Christmas spirit happening at all. You know what I do have happening? Come here, come here. Come here, come here. Come here, say hi to everybody for once. It's like he's right here. He's standing right behind the screen right out of you so you can't see him, but he's here. He's here. He hasn't been on the show as much, but he's here and now he's like, now he's gotta, okay, I don't necessarily want your butt in my face. So you can go, yeah, go on, have tons of fun. Hello, everyone. Who we got here? Hello, Joe Fan and Colonel Chrome and Matt. And hey, it's Chris from Comic Tropes. Really nice to see you. Also nice to see you, Payne's Toy Samples. Oh, I don't want to spoil anything. I don't want to give away anything for Toba Convergence. There's a lot coming up. Hello, Ray Paz and Computron and Jeffrey and Cobra Island and Matt and Lester and Keldon and Zemot and Andrew Andrew, the guy so nice they named him twice. Hello, Mary Ann. It's so nice to see you. I did not get to see Mary Ann today so it's nice to see her here at the very least. Hello, Victor and Peter and anyone else who snuck in here that I wasn't able to say hi to. Hello, the 80s guy. Yeah, so the truth is, I'm not feeling a whole lot of the Christmas spirit. That's just the mood I'm in. I don't have a Christmas tree up. I have gifts to give to people but I don't have them wrapped. They're not wrapped in colorful paper to look beautiful and eye pleasing, beautiful and eye pleasing, sort of redundant. But anyway, so I've got nothing Christmas here. If you looked around this place, you would not be able to tell that it's Christmas. But I understand that there may be one to you that are in the festive spirit. So I'm trying to get into the proper mood, the proper festive spirit, the best that I can. And I suppose if I can't have the Christmas spirit, I can look like Christmas. That's the least I can do. That's the least I can do. Let's see, Marianne says we can pull the tree out the next time I come over. That's probably a pretty good idea. We should probably lube it up first before we pull it out. That's otherwise that's gonna be an uncomfortable operation. But we should, I've had to sit funny. I've had to kind of lean as I sit. So it's probably a good time to pull it out. Good suggestion. Thank you, my dear. Always, always nice. Yes, I deserve coal. In fact, do I even deserve coal? Probably not. So yeah, it's really close to Christmas. We are deep in the holiday season and Comic Trope says, what do you want for Christmas? I would like a day off. But Santa doesn't deliver days off, it seems. So yeah, I guess the next livestream, really next Tuesday will be the 26th, the day after Christmas. I assume I will be doing a livestream next Tuesday. I don't really see any reason why not. However, I may have other plans on New Year's Eve. That's still a little bit up in the air, but I don't know if I'll be doing a livestream for New Year's Eve, but the day after Christmas, as far as I know, I will be live as usual. So hello everyone, welcome to the livestream. If this is your first time here, this is pretty much how it is all the time. You know, this is just how it goes. Oh no, Sparkster's mother is in the hospital. Well, get well soon to her and our sympathies to her and please, if you can, keep us posted and hopefully that she can recover and enjoy the holidays. But I completely sympathize Sparkster and I'm so sorry she's having a hard time. Hello AbsorbVids, hello White Vegeta, hello Agent Chuckles, hello to, I think I've said hello to everyone that I can see on the screen. Hello Cheapest Big Spender, hello, hello Joefan84, hello to Mr. S. If Mr. S is here. So, I don't have any notes, I don't have any notes. But at the top of the show, I do want to, I wanna mention that since it's Tuesday there is a new episode of Half the Battle. This time Timmer looked at the retro Duke. Also, after this show, there is what's on JoeMine live and I will be on what's on JoeMine. I'll be a guest on that show. So after this show is over, I will have to race over to the what's on JoeMine studios to be on what's on JoeMine directly after this episode. Hello Rachel, hello, Mr. S is out caroling. Hello Greg, hello from the Hilt. It's really great to see you guys. It's really great to be here. Hello Albert Glass. Thank you all for being here. We're gonna, I don't have, like I said, I don't have notes, but we're gonna soldier through anyway. Also, you can take bets in the chat about whether I'm gonna jab myself in the eye with a metal hook live on camera. It could happen. I'm just saying that there's a non-zero probability that it'll happen. So I've got metal hooks near my eyes. So if anybody would like to take bets, if anybody would like to take bets, if I will make it through this live stream with both eyeballs intact. So new Half the Battle, new what's on JoeMine tonight right after this. The links are in the description. So just pop down to the description and hit the links. So you can watch Timur's new show and see me again. If you haven't had enough of me after an hour, then see me again on what's on JoeMine. Hey, hello, Toy Connections. It's a hoody Christmas. That's right. It's some kind of Christmas after all. See, yeah, that's, Mary Ann raises a good point. We are, I'm close enough to a hospital. So if it happens, I'm actually really close to a hospital. So if I do injure myself live, I'll just take this with me, right? I'll just keep the live stream rolling. We'll run to the hospital. I'll get a glass eye or whatever they do. Oh, and then I'll race over to the what's on JoeMine's studio so that I can be live with what's on Joe. You wouldn't think that something as simple as gouging my eye out would keep me from appearing on what's on JoeMine. No, sir, no, sir, I will be there with bulbs on. With bulbs on. So hello, blue Libra. Who else snuck in here without me saying hi? Hello, Daruti and David Andrews. Thank you guys for being here. We are simulcasting on Facebook. For the first time, we are simulcasting on Facebook. Will it work? I have no idea. I've never done it before. So we will see. Well, you know, it's an experiment. If it works, then we might do it again. Thank you, Comic Tropes for the Super Chat. That's very nice. Merry Christmas and thanks for all the entertainment. I will thank you for all the entertainment, Chris. And it's always a privilege to have Chris from Comic Tropes here. One of my favorite shows and one of my favorite people and someone that, you know, if you do anything like this, if you do, you know, the YouTubes or the, you know, the other social medias, it's a good idea to have someone that you can, you know, bounce ideas off of, somebody that you can kind of talk, shop with, but also kind of talk about things that things that you have to deal with when doing this kind of thing that most other people don't have to deal with, it's nice to know that there's someone out there who understands. So that's, and Chris has been an excellent friend for a number of years now and has been in several videos. So thank you, Chris. And thank you for the Super Chat, but thank you for being here, most of all. So hello, John. Hello, Palpatine. I think I said hello to David Andrews, but hello again, David Andrews. And Rachel is checking on the Facebook. So the Facebook is working. So that's nice. Oh, and thank you, the 80s guy for watching after seeing me on Comic Trose. That's very nice. I very much appreciate that. And behind the scenes, you know, Chris is a really great guy. Chris is a great guy, a great friend. And you can't say that about everyone behind the scenes. You have, you run into sometimes some personalities that are bigger than their followings. And there are egos involved. And when you find someone who's genuinely nice, it's special. And I have to say that about the people that I work with. I can say that legitimately about Timmer. Timmer is one of the most genuinely good people that I know. So, you know what, I'm not sure I should keep talking because you know what's happening? It's getting me into fricking Christmas spirit. And I'm too grumpy, all right? I'm too humbuggery. Is humbuggery a word? It sounds really dirty. But you know what? We're gonna make it a word. I'm too deep in my humbuggery. I don't wanna be in a Christmas spirit. I'm too bitter, I'm too angry. So talking about all this people who are good and nice out in the world, it's just tearing me up too much. So you guys cut it out. Favorite Christmas songs. I like that one that just repeats oh Christmas tree over and over and over. That's my favorite. And let's see, I know I missed some comments. I'm sorry. I missed a ton of comments and I do this all the time. And I might as well apologize for it now because as soon as I start pontificating, my eyes shut off and I become incapable of reading the chat. And I feel terrible about that because I really want to say hello to everyone that's here. You guys, Marianne can attest to this. Sometimes I'm not necessarily in the mood to do a live stream but once I do it, I feel better. The energy that I get from talking with you guys really does lift my spirits. It might even lift my spirits into Christmas. The spirits may even be lifted all the way into the holiday season. Oh, thank you, cheapest big spender. Thank you for the super chat. So are you going to look like one of the ghosts from Scrooge on What's on Joe Mind? That's a fun idea. Maybe you and the honcho can have your cats have a stare down that's, where did he go? That would be fun. Free that gung ho. Oh yeah, show him the Christmas spirit. Let's see. I keep forgetting about the gung ho here. Now I want to cover a few things. I want to make sure I cover my topics but it would be really nice though to free gung ho for Christmas. He's been entombed there for too long. Let me try to thank you again for the super chat. Let me try to get to through my topics. I don't have notes. I don't have notes but I do have topics. And because I've been thinking, I've been thinking about stuff and whatnot. And that usually is the start of all the trouble is when I start thinking about stuff and whatnot. Yeah, that is the truth. Once I'm here and once I'm talking with you guys even if I'm not in the best of moods by the end of it I am in a much better mood. Really this kind of interaction that I have with you guys it really does a lot for me and I appreciate it. Thank you very much. I've been thinking and it's what have I been thinking about? I've been thinking about Hasbro. And that's why we have the title saying nice things about Hasbro sort of. So being that it's the holiday season and I should be generous and give gifts to people and everything. I was thinking about nice things to say about Hasbro but it's a little more complex an issue than it seems on the surface. One of my balls dropped. One of my ball, the one, hold on. I may be able to reach it. I'm not sure. Oh, I forgot I was gonna get eggnog for this show but I forgot. Hold on, give it. No, it was the bulb that looks like a plug. You know, that kind of plug. You know what I'm talking about? It looks like one of those plugs. That's the bulb that fell off. Merry Christmas everyone. I've been thinking, oh, that's the wrong side. I can't have two balls. Well, I don't know. Can I have two balls on one side? Let's see. That's, you know, I think that's art. I think that's art, you know. If you take something and, you know, and off balance it, you know, put it off balance just a bit, I think that's what makes it art. So, you know, I'm going with this at least for now because it's art. So, I've been thinking about Hasbro and thinking of nice things to say. That's the trick, right? And my apologies in advance that once I start soliloquizing, all right, once I start pontificating, I have a very hard time that's very distracting. I have a very hard time keeping up with the chat but I will do my best to catch up with the chat when I stop to take a breath. So, okay, Hasbro, what can I say nice about Hasbro? Well, for starters, I've got to acknowledge that Hasbro is a corporation. It's not a person, it's an entity. Some years ago, there was a bit of a kerfuffle about corporations being, you know, deemed as people. What corporations are, are legally fictitious persons. They are not real people, they are fictitious people but they are only people in a very narrow legal sense so that they can buy and sell property so they can sue and be sued in their own names and they can be held accountable for the actions of the entity. They are not people in the sense that they, they don't have a vast swath of the rights that natural real people have, they can't vote. They do have a limited form of free speech in that, well, commercial speech has a different standard than private speech, restrictions on commercial speech are, they face a lower level of scrutiny than other forms of speech. But this idea of a corporation as a monolithic entity is, it's an easy one to get wrapped up in and it's an easy one to start to make some errors in analysis and in thought. The idea of Hasbro as a person is a metaphor. So you have to, when you're using metaphors like that you have to acknowledge that they are metaphors not the actual thing. What Hasbro is as a company, it's made up of a lot of people. Some of them do a great job, some of them do a terrible job and it's not quite as easy to assign credit or blame for something that the company does. And to complicate things more, sometimes you can assign credit or blame to something the company does. So you can have one part of the company doing great stuff and other parts of the company doing terrible stuff. So my thoughts about Hasbro, my approach to Hasbro I try to keep it based on what it really is rather than any metaphor about what it is. So Hasbro is a company that produces one toy line that I like and I don't even like everything from the toy line. They have one toy line that I like and some of the things that I like and some of the things I don't like that's my relationship to Hasbro. So that being the case, I could say that Hasbro I could give credit to Hasbro for producing stuff that I like, that I've loved for years and years and are still producing stuff that I really, really enjoy but they also produce a bunch of stuff that I really don't like, that I greatly dislike, that I've always disliked. I could congratulate one part of Hasbro for designing really good toys and for promoting GI Joe and giving us some excellent GI Joe product over the last few years. I could also criticize another part of Hasbro for laying off people during the holidays and they're both different parts of the same entity of the same company, they're under the same umbrella. So it becomes really difficult to put it into context. I think it's a great way to praise a corporate entity and it's, I hate to say it, but it's easier to blame the corporate entity when something goes wrong. I'm trying to be fair. So my goal is always to be fair. So the nice thing I'm gonna say about Hasbro as a whole, but the people that have been in charge of GI Joe, not just this group, but past groups, we know of several former brand managers for GI Joe who have been a part of the community or have at least talked and communicated with the community and they all seem to really care. They all seem to really care about GI Joe, that they enjoy it, they love it and they do their best to produce a good product for the rest of us. So to all of them past and present, I say thanks, thank you for working hard and sometimes I'm sure having to swim upstream to get some of these things produced because the flip side, thank you for the Super Chat, Watson Joe Mine, where the hell singing cats doubled? Well, that's, thank you. Look, you got like, there were literal cats here. There were literal cats and now he's over there. I did get the cat on the screen. I'll see, as soon as the show's over, I will be racing over to the Watson Joe Mine Studio to appear on the Watson Joe Mine show. Thank you guys, thanks for being here. So thank you to them, thank you to them. Hasbro as a company though, it's a bit of a mixed bag because while marketers and toy designers and sculptors and all of those people who kind of work together to produce the product, they have to care about what you think of the product and whether you're gonna buy the product, otherwise it's not successful. But the goal of the company is to make money. That's the goal of the company is to make money. They don't necessarily, how they make money is probably less important than making money. So I mean, there's no telling what kind of GI Joe products we might have had if maybe a little bit more risk were taken here or there, if a little bit more budget were allocated here or there. But we will never know. What we do know is that for the 50th anniversary of the line, it got canceled. So that kind of sucks. GI Joe is back in various forms now, which I think is great, but there's also been a bunch of layoffs at the company at a really terrible time and more are coming. More layoffs are coming. So that's why I can't, first of all, I can't hate the entire entity of Hasbro because I know there are people in it that have done some great things that we still enjoy now. But I also like, I can't, I don't think I'm gonna be able to do that. I don't think I'm gonna be able to do that. But I also like, I can't love the entity of Hasbro because there's the flip side of it. There is the decision making that's placed the company in a position where they have to lay a bunch of people off. Those are choices that were made. Those are the results of choices that were made by the company. And the people that I would praise and the people that I would criticize are all in the same company. So you know what? That is as nice as I can be to Hasbro. First of all, Hasbro, if you're watching, which they're not, come on, let's be real, but if you're watching and if you are a Hasbro who is involved with actually making GI Joe, thank you, I think you've done a great job. I mean, we got a retro gung-ho here that I really hope will get to breathe for the first time after being trapped in the plastic. Thank you for that. And I sincerely hope that the company that you work for is able to turn it around because if they don't, ultimately what that means is we will get less of what we want. We will get less variety. We'll just gonna get less of everything. So honestly, I don't care if Hasbro makes money, except to the extent that the making money gets us more and better product. So there you go. I said something sort of nice about part of Hasbro. You know what I've always wondered? I've always wondered if the GI Joe brand team at Hasbro really despises what I do here. They've seen it and they just can't stand my face, my voice and don't like anything that I do. And that's possible. It's entirely possible. I think it's too bad. I've only tried to be fair. I've only tried to be fair. I don't think that I've been excessively harsh when I've liked something I've said so. So, you know, I hope that at least those people don't hate me. But I've got to continue to try to be fair regardless. I did last year get that promo box from Hasbro. Anybody remember that? The promo box that they sent out to some people, some YouTube people. And that was nice. It was nice to be included in that. But I mean, I don't think that's something that I could do again. Now, I would, you know, I, if there were an opportunity that I could interview Emily or Lenny or anyone else involved in a meaningful way and in a fair way, I think I would enjoy that. If I could do an interview where I could get a few questions answered that I've been very curious about. But I don't think I can take free stuff anymore. I don't have any problem remaining objective and frank and honest, even if I get free product. But I just, I'm still less than comfortable with the perceived conflict of interest if I do. So, yeah, just, I just don't think I can do that anymore. Now, I say that, but I was sent some free product by somebody else, somebody not Hasbro. I will still be, you know, fair and objective. But this is stuff that, well, I've already seen it. So I kind of already know that it's awesome. But we will, we will be looking at something really cool. But, but not a Hasbro thing. So, so there we go. Merry frickin Christmas. I was as nice to Hasbro as I possibly could be. So anyway, all right, good news. I'm done. I'm off of the soapbox. I can reengage my eyeballs and try to read, try to read the chat. Oh, hello, Jeff. Thank you for being here. Hello, the Lilith. Hello, Bader Ray Bob. Hello, Dr. No Good. We've got a good group in the chat. Thank you guys for being here. Oh, by the way, don't you hate it with live streamers just call everybody chat? Is it maybe it's just because I'm old. That maybe I'm just too old fashioned that like, it feels very, I don't know, dismissive to call all of the actual people. Oh, this side. This side. I'll call the actual people that are in the chat. Chat. So anyway, hi chat. How you doing? Thoughts on cobra claws are coming to town. So a cobra claws are coming to town. In that episode, cobra shrink. Shrank their vehicles to toy size, which, which was a bit of a meta joke. But I know that there's been people talk about that before who has have said, if cobra had the technology to shrink their vehicles, that technology would be so valuable. If they just marketed that and sold that, they wouldn't need to take over the world. They would have all the money. But see that this is like over commander. He doesn't care about the money. He cares about what I think is he cares about his schemes. He's so convinced that his schemes will work, right? Because he thinks he's a smart guy. So he's convinced his schemes will work. I think the prospect of his schemes working is more attractive to Cobra Commander than the money or maybe even the power, right? So, yeah. So he'll forego the potential fortune that he could make with shrinking technology. And, and instead use that technology to try to attack one military base in the United States and in his, his bid to take over the world. That's what I think about it. So hello, hello, Sean Beckett. Hello, everybody else who came in. So this Sean Beckett mentioned a Super 7 O-ring. I did have a discussion about the Super 7 O-ring with Peg Warmers. I don't have any special information or insight on that. Super 7 has been pretty good about giving, giving us some characters in the five point of articulation in the reaction line that, that are a little bit obscure. But I think you're right in that we can't be too obscure or else people just won't, there won't be enough people that know what it is to, to sell enough product to make it worth it. On the other hand, although I think it's totally understandable and maybe even wise to, to do, you know, to play the hits, right? To, to do a Snake Eyes, to do a Duke and a Cobra Commander. I think that's reasonable, but I sincerely hope they get a bit deeper in the roster than that. So knock on, knock on what I really hope Super 7 is thoughtful about which figures it does in the O-ring line. Not Super 7. I mean, well, everything's been hit and miss. I guess there's nobody bats a thousand, but you know, they've been remarkably creative in their offerings. The mothership, you know, it didn't fund the crowd funding did not succeed. But it's still a really unique idea. That's still something that I don't think anybody else has thought of doing. And that's the kind of creativity that I hope they bring to the O-ring line. Be creative, but you know, we want to be successful too. So, you know, another thing they were talking about is maybe keeping the price point for O-ring at about the $20 range, which is more than I would like to pay for O-ring, but it's close to what Hasbro was doing O-ring figures for. Because remember Hasbro is doing O-ring figures in two packs. And I feel like that was around $40, $44, something like that. So if Super 7 is able to keep GI Joe O-ring figures in the $20 range, to me, I think that means they they negotiate at a really sweet deal. A really sweet licensing agreement if they can do that. Oh, hello, Diane Davis. Thank you very much for the compliment. So the chat is welcome to take bets on whether or not I will be jabbed in the eye with a metal hook. There's a non-zero chance that it could happen. But nice to see you, Diane Davis. Diane and Davis are, I think, the world's foremost Duke expert and fan. I hope Super 7 gives you a good Duke. You know, if they're going to play the hits, of course they've got to do a Duke. I just would like it to be a good one. How about a reimagining of that version one Duke uniform, but not using the same parts that have always been used, when they revisit that O-ring Duke, it's like almost, not always, not always, but almost always the same parts. Well, okay, that's an iconic look for Duke. If you do a different Duke, then people may not recognize it as Duke. That looks like Duke. Well, okay, okay. But maybe with some new parts, you know, maybe some, you know, more detailed sculpting. That would be awesome. Hey, I might consider buying. I haven't been like 100% on board with buying the Super 7 O-rings. But if you actually to give us something new, like if you're going to play the hits, give us something new. If you're going to do a Snake Eyes, do a Snake Eyes, do like a version three Snake Eyes, or if you're going to do a version one or version two Snake Eyes, do one that has some detail that we haven't seen before, freshen it up, freshen it up. And I will add, I will add, Mary Ann is correct. It's chances low, but not zero. So you work out the probabilities. What was I saying? Oh yeah. So early in the classified line, first of all, I wasn't on board with classified right away anyway. I really bought the first wave of classified figures because, you know, I'm a G.I. Joe fan and I wanted to check them out. I ended up liking them a lot. But some fans were complaining. They didn't want the reimagined uniforms, the updated uniforms. They wanted the classic look. And ever since then, for the most part, they've given us just the classic look. They've translated, you know, one version or another of the three and three quarter inch figure into six inch, well here, well, this is supposed to be retro, right? So of course this is a retro, a retro gun hoe. So, but personally, I liked the update. I liked the refresh. All right. I really liked the refresh. I liked a little bit more color and do uniform. You know, I liked a little more detail in, you know, in snake eyes is uniform. Apparently I'm in the minority, but I really didn't mind scarlets in the uniform. I think it could have been updated a bit more and maybe in some different ways, but I liked the direction that it was going. As it is, the classified line is still giving us a lot of really high quality figures. Even though they are mostly just sizing up the three and three quarter inch figure, you have the almost universally the classic look on some of the 82 figures, like the 1982 characters, like Breaker and Grunt and Rock and Roll. Because those 1982 figures were so plain, they've had to freshen them up. And for the most part, I've really liked that. So Breaker is still green, right? But he has a tactical jacket, right? He has a flat jacket. He has an updated helmet and everything. So it's not just a six inch version of the 1982 figure with Rock and Roll. They gave them a lighter shirt. They gave them some tattoos. They gave them some different gear, but they still had the bullets and all of that. So you can still tell it was Rock and Roll. But I really liked the refresh on that. That may be one reason why I will try to consistently buy the classified version of 1982 characters because they are refreshed usually. So we're going to get a clutch with the vamp in the not too distant future. So I've already ordered that. So I'll get that whenever it ships. But yeah, the refresh of the 82 characters I've really liked. The classified is at the six inch scale. You can do a lot more with detail at the six inch scale. You can put a lot more than you ever could at three and three quarter inch or four inch. So I mean, you don't want to make the designs too busy, right? You don't want to clutter the design. But I would like to see them take advantage of that larger scale to give us the kind of detail that we never could have got before. So maybe in future waves, you know, maybe after we've gotten a lot of the top and second tier characters, maybe then we will get some refresh of the look on those other figures. Anyway, so, oh, hey, there's Kujo. Hello, Kujo. Hey, there's Bart. Well, look at this. Gains on. Hello, Bart. Hello, Kujo. This is what happens when I start, when I start pontificating, right? When I start, when I, when I start speechifying, when I start speechifying, I lose the ability to read. Look, my, my brain only has so much capacity, right? I only got so much going on up here. It's just, just one hamster on a wheel, right? So I can only do so much. I can only do so much. If I'm speechifying, I, I lose the ability to read and I may not remember my own name. But, but now, now, now I'm back, re-engaged the hamster to the chat. So hello, Raisiner. Nice to see you. Thank you very much for being here. Hello, Vitris. Sounds like a book title. Hello, Nicholas. Thanks, everyone. You know what? Damn it all. I, I am, I am more in the Christmas spirit. I wouldn't say I'm totally in the Christmas spirit, but I am definitely closer to the Christmas spirit than I was before I started. But don't forget, I'm going to be on what's on JoeMind right after this. The link's in the description. Maybe they can bring me down, right? Maybe they can bring me back to Earth. Usually they're, you know, they're pretty positive folks, but maybe, I don't know, maybe they can bring me back to Earth and make me stop believing in Santa Claus again. Well, we'll see. We'll try. You guys do your best. I'm almost in the Christmas spirit. Where is spirit? Oh, spirit's up there. I see if I had thought about it, I, if I'd thought about it, I would have gotten the spirit action figure and put, like, put all this stuff on spirit. Then I would have the Christmas spirit. I wouldn't be in the Christmas spirit. That action figure's too small, but I could still have the Christmas spirit, you know? Maybe that's what I've done wrong. That's what I'm done wrong. I've just adorned myself with the trappings of Christmas rather than actually have the Christmas spirit. Let's see. What's on your mind? Oh, hello, Dustin. I keep missing. What's on your mind says we're all drunk. That's, that's, you know what? It's Tuesday night. That's, that's late enough in the week. You know, that's late enough in the week. It's, it's fine. I don't perceive that as a problem. So, oh yeah, the gung-ho. Yeah, I was going to, I wanted to get through all my topics. Then we could try to open the gung-ho, you know, for, for, for Christmas to give this guy a break. So, yeah, it's, well, I'm, I'm, well, I've still got a little bit of time. I still have some hope for gung-ho. We'll, we'll see about it. Oh, is Rob Vegas here? Hello, Rob Vegas. How do you do? I didn't see you sneaking here. How, how do you do, sir? Nice to see you. I hope I've said hello. Hello, Papa Fett. Nice to see you as well. Oh, Papa Fett says it would be nice to see an o-ring cold slither. Okay. So this is why you got to make it to the GI Joe conventions, right? Because the writer of the cold slither episode was at assembly required in Des Moines this year. And now is engaged with the fan community and is actually on some of the, on some of the groups and stuff. So, so yeah, that would very much support an o-ring cold slither. That would be really cool. Oh, good night, Mr. Mad Super, Supernova. Thank you very much for being here. Anyway, you know, actually, not only did I not have notes, I don't have water for when my throat inevitably dies out as I'm talking so much. Also, like, who, who here thinks I look ridiculous? I'm, I'm, frankly, this seemed like a good idea at the time. Comic Trope says, will I cosplay for Joe Fess's year? I'm thinking about it. I'm thinking about it. If I do it, I got to put together something really special. I got to put together something really special. Marianne says I look festive. You know who looks festive? Marianne looks festive. At least last time I saw her. She looked festive. Marianne's very festive person. In fact, I can confirm, can confirm, Marianne does have a Christmas tree on display, which I do not. So, Merry Christmas. Thank you, White Vegeta, for the Super Chat. Did you see the Ramen Toy 112 Bridge Layer Wolverine Tank? How much? I did not. Thank you for alerting me to that. I've been, well, I work all the time. I work all the, all the time. So, I do sometimes miss some of the GI Joe news, but thank you for turning that on. To be on to that, I will check it out. Let's see. Matt Subonova says, Super 73 and 3, 3.75 has to be different from, then Vintage, Vintage will lose value. I don't, I haven't seen any evidence that doing like retro figures or whatever causes Vintage figures to lose value, they still, they're still going up. But my main concern is, I still do want them to be different from Vintage because I don't want there to be any confusion among collectors about what's Vintage and what is, is not. Diana Davis says, I hope, I'm hoping to get to Joe Fest yet. I'm a tad worried. I understand. I understand. You know what, Diana Davis, connect with me, you know, it sounds bad if I say connect with me in private, but you know how to work, you know, you know how to reach me. We'll see if like there's any way we can help. If there's any way to help, you know, I think that you would have a really good time. And I think like, I just think that you would fit in there. I mean, Diana Davis has been a member of this fan community for longer than I have. So it would be fantastic to see you. Anyway, what was I, oh yeah, the question before the panel was, do I look ridiculous in this? Cause I think, I think I should, frankly, I should, I think I should take it off. Although, you know, the lights are, the lights are warm. The lights are, the lights are kind of cozy. It's like, it's like a, it's like a heating blanket. You know, it's like a, I mean, I'm surrounded. It's like I got a great big electrical hug on. And that's making me feel festive as well. And Zaman says, would like to attend Joe Fest to meet the Sarge, both Joe fan and wrestling fan. The Sarge and Slaughter now makes it a regular thing to be at Joe Fest. That is always a highlight of the weekend because he is a really, really nice guy. He is so fun to meet and to talk to. If you have a chance to do it by all means, that's worth it. That is worth it. Meeting, sometimes meeting a celebrity, not worth it. Meeting Sarge and Slaughter, definitely worth it. I had a blast last year. Absolutely loved it. Hello, Rob. Hurry up. Mama's family is almost over. You're, I know, I know. I'll wrap it up. It looks like I got, what, 10 minutes? Looks like I got 10 minutes. And then somebody, I assume somebody will send me a, oh, the link has been sent and received. So I will, as soon as I'm done here, I will, I'll run. I'll run all the way to the Watson-Joe Mines studios. Oh, let's see. Kobo Cobb says, 100th viewer, thank you for being the 100th viewer. Thank you for setting us over the century mark. And you know what? You know what? I'm overcome. Because Kobo Cobb was the 100th viewer, I am overcome with Christmas joy, with cheer and goodwill toward men, right? And women and everything in between, really just goodwill toward people, even representations of people. I feel so overwhelmingly joyful and Christmassy that I have a very gung-ho Christmas. Gung-ho, what do you have to say about it? He doesn't speak English real good. He's kind of from the backwoods. But what he's saying is, Merry Christmas. And thank God I'm out of the thing. Thank you for letting me out of that box. So, like, this is what happens. This is what happens. 100 viewers, I get overcome with the Christmas joy and crap like that. Let me get his hat. I hear the pleas and the cries of the less fortunate action figure that has had to live in a plastic coffin for all of this time, waiting for me to have time to just open it, just open me for Christ's sake. But you know what? I give credit to you guys. You hit me with that Christmas spirit. You hit me with that warmth and junk. And look what it did. This is what the Christmas spirit gets you. Devalued action figures. Devalued. Taken out of the plastic. You know, this is why... Look at this. Look at the destruction that Christmas has caused. That's why I say humbug. Humbuggery, this is. Right, Gun Ho? See, he agrees with me. Now he realizes that once he's out of the box, he ages and grows old and eventually will die like the rest of us. So congratulations, chat, on ruining Christmas for Gun Ho. Now I'm overcome. Now I'm just overwhelmed. Christmas spirit is totally gone. I don't even need the guys at What's On Joe Mine to bring me down. Now the What's On Joe Mine guys are going to have to boost me up. You know what I need from the What's On Joe Mine guys? I need a Christmas goose. I need my Christmas spirit goose. So hopefully, hopefully What's On Joe Mine can do that. It looks like there's five minutes left, but I do want to leave... I do want to leave a few minutes early so that I can get some water to drink during the next show because I do want to be a good guest to the hosts and stuff. So I guess I'll start to wrap it up. It's getting close to an hour. It's getting close to an hour. Thank you everyone for being here. I really do feel better. That's not a joke. I do always feel better after these live shows. Just having this interaction with you and it just makes me feel better. It puts me in a better mood. So how many people can say that they go to the internet to be put in a better mood? So I think I'm pretty lucky. I think I'm very lucky to have this particular group here with me. So thank you everyone. Thank you for the wonton destruction and the Christmas cheer and all that. Thank you everyone. But I guess it's time to wrap it up so that I can race over to the Watson-Joe-Miner studio. I should be here the day after Christmas at least for the time being I can't think of any reason why I wouldn't be live next Tuesday if anything comes up. It's the holidays. If anything comes up I'll post and I'll let everybody know but at least for the time being I'm pretty sure I will be live next Tuesday. New Year's Eve however I know that I usually well not usually sometimes do a New Year's Eve show but I may have plans for New Year's Eve but in the meantime thanks everybody for watching check out the links in the description. I will see you on Watson-Joe-Miner in two minutes. Merry Christmas. Happy Holidays everyone and I will see you next time. See ya. Bye everybody. Bye.