 We're alive about a minute early. We're live about a minute early I like to go live a little bit early Just to make sure there are no technical details to That will prevent us from getting started on time. So hello everyone Welcome to Tuesday. Hello the hello Nyquist the 80s guy Joe van 84 Zay Matt Zay Matt Zay Mott Matt noon. How you guys doing? Um Matt says he got a laugh from the The end credit thing for topside. Hello. Hey, there's Marianne. There's there's there's my significant other right there Hello Marianne did not get to see Marianne today because she's very busy doing her homework. She's she's a student now She's doing her homework Hello treasures for trigger very nice to see you in here sir as well as zazel. Hello there cheapest big spender. Hello, robert and lester Hi, everyone. Welcome to Welcome to tuesday. Um, I hope you guys enjoyed the topside video. Thank you um, uh, thank you for the congratulations on 19 000 The uh subscriber count has been Climbing which is A good thing as far as the algorithm means that we are making the algorithm happy Uh, hey there firefly. Hello kiwi gi joe customs. Hello, ronnie. Hello, michael. Uh, hello, joe fan. Hey anything joe's nice to see you here Uh and beach 76 Uh, uh, awesome that you're here guys. So yes Uh, I did topside topside was supposed to be Next week, um, that was the one that was voted on by patrons. Honestly, I really thought They would go for uh blowtorch That was my guess You know, I have no control of these and I I enjoy being surprised. This is something that When people will tell you like when they, uh, get like christmas and birthday gifts I like being surprised. I love a surprise um Hey, hey there pig warmers and rat face. Nice to see both of you guys here um Um, and uh, I don't know that i'm data. You're a bit more amazing. You are the you're the uh, the studious student But thank you very much Thank you for the super chat. Uh, the 80s guy saw my favorite of all her views you've done today in 1991 tracker Uh laugh that long a long time. Thank you for great videos. Uh, thank you I'm really glad you like the tracker video and um, and thank you for being so thank you for the super chat And thank you very much for being here. Um Oddly enough, um, I had the Uh reference that tracker video for something else that that's coming up just a coinkie dink Just a coinkie dink. Uh Tracker just happened to come up In a different context But uh, but thank you very much. Um, yes, we had to improvise. We had to improvise the the um Retaliator review I'm sure that I will get to it, but I just can't I couldn't get to it in the Very short amount of time that I had to work on it. Uh, hey there christian bricks Greetings denmark from the united states. Thank you very much for being here. Um, Ivan says hcc 788 for president. Um Uh, if nominated I would accept So, you know, if nominated, you know, I'll I'll I will run. Hello, jonathan booth. Um, hello spore Hey, nice to see sparkster here. Um, thank you as well. Um, and hey jls comics. That is awesome. Um Uh You can be an you can be an m1 abram south. Thank you. I I actually you know what I didn't want to give away my secret, but you guys remember that That cartoon show, um, uh, I think it was teen turbo Where the Where the the kid transforms into a car Well, that actually does happen to me like If I get doused with water I turn into a tank Um, that's it makes showering very complicated But anyway, uh jump in general. Oh, hello cyclonus. Nice to see you there yes Turbo teen, that's the one. Um, nice to see you cyclonus. Uh jump in general. Um, still how that's a that's the turbo teen Yeah, that's the one. Um Who was asking about I just saw somebody asking about, um Of form bx 257. I'm sorry. I missed it. I was trying to highlight your comment. Um, uh As far as I know, nobody has heard from form bx 257. I think if Kevin were to reach out to anyone. I hope he would reach out to me Um, I've certainly tried to reach out to him uh, so Um, Kevin if by any chance you see this, please reach out to me. I'd be happy to Uh to talk to you in anyway um, so But yeah, form bx 257 actually is uh, uh, it still haven't heard from him and we hope that he's well. We really do um Yeah, oh really 19.1. That's that's cool. That's cool. Um uh I I do check the subscriber count occasionally, uh not every day not, uh not all the time so Like sometimes I'll pass a milestone and I won't notice until I'm a bit past it. Um So I'm not really going for any particular like subscriber count The main thing that the subscriber count means Is that there are more people here Who are hopefully, um, enjoying gi joe and sharing their enjoyment of it um and um and doing something that they love and something that's fun. So that's for me what um What the subscriber count means each of those? Numbers is a person and I hope each of those persons is Enjoying the show and enjoying the the time um Yes, um when I hit a hundred subscribers I gave away A vamp. Uh, that is correct Uh, that is correct. Um Speaking of milestones. I don't know if anybody remembers this But when comic tropes my friend chris when comic tropes hit 300 subscribers He gave away like, um Um some figures some action figures and a book and I won That giveaway. So actually one comic tropes is 300 subscriber Uh giveaway and now he's got over a hundred thousand. So Uh Much has happened. Uh a lot of water under the bridge Um, I think thank you ray pass. Thank you very much. I very much appreciate that. Um and uh and uh And thank you kiwi customs. Um, I I hope to I hope to at least be Uh, I don't know I I don't know anything about like inspiring anybody. I just I'm trying to Do videos the way just the way I think They ought to be done at least the way that I want to do them and I hope you know knock on wood That other people like them. I I can't control if other people like them Uh, but whatever I produce will be what I want to produce All right, it as long as like it's within the Limits of my technical knowledge Um, I will I'll just I will just keep producing the videos that I want Uh to produce and just hope I just hope that um Uh that it turns out Or that a few other people like it. That's that's all I can do I can control nothing else the youtube algorithm Is a voodoo I got no Clue how how it works. Well, that's a little bit of a clue how it works, but not much Um, hello, paul nap. Nice to see you Uh congrats on the subs right behind you just give me six more. Oh, you'll catch up. You will catch up Absolutely um, so yeah, uh When in thinking about the topic for this live stream Um, I couldn't really like that was the notable thing that happened, right? So I didn't want to um I didn't want to Pass by the moment. I wanted to uh mark that milestone. So Um, so yes, I I'm I'm happy that that we are where we are um Um, yeah kilometer stone. Thank you. Yeah, well, we'll try to convert to metric. So hey, um, for any of you math Wids whizzes or you folks in europe, um, what is the 19 000 subscriber mark in metric? How do you convert that to metric that let me give me the formula? Let me know um, uh But yeah Honestly, I thought this channel would Max out at 10 000 subscribers that was What I thought the top end would be um, just judging from You know back then how how fast the channel was growing? um Kind of the estimated size of the gi joe fan community um, and And and acknowledging that not everyone in the fan and the gi joe fandom will like my show Not everybody likes my show and that's fine. I don't I can't please everyone. So I don't try um so uh So if somebody doesn't like the shows and that it doesn't bother me and there's nothing actually wrong with that at all um, but estimating at How many we were likely to get on how many subscribers this channel is likely to get based on just kind of What what I was seeing In the fan community as a whole 10 000 subscribers is really where I thought I would top out and we've almost doubled that So that is really cool. That's very encouraging. Hello, rob vegas Uh, hello, rob vegas. Hey rob vegas. Um, can you help us with that conversion? Uh, what is um, what's 19 000 subscribers in metric? um, I don't I don't know the metric uh to imperial conversion on that um Uh Hey there, mike. Uh, rob. Here is very nice. Oh, I almost I well. Hello. Agassi as well Um, but hello rob. Here is very nice to see you Um, I do have I have a couple announcements Um more than a couple I have like four I have four now. Let me before we get too deep into this. Oh, thank you small town um, uh machine shop big town machine shop for the super chat Uh, let's all uh, it's due to your amazing charisma and rugged good looks It's the beard isn't that's it That's it. It's the beard I think you're on to something But thank you. Thank you very much for the super chat. That's very very kind of you. Um, um You know Charisma I got Hey, this is hey anybody want to uh really make it big On the internet. This is the key This is the key to success on the internet is to Flail your arms Flail your arms. It gives the impression of energy, right? You know, it's it gives it's it's uh gives the impression That uh that there's something going on All right, that's that's the key that's the key to uh To success on the internet. Hello at our chin chin guns. Oh nothing. Just hanging out just chill now. Just thank you for hello Hello, Diana Davis Charisma in spades um Bunny that you should mention that though is that I actually am a little short on charisma this evening I'm actually really tired. Um, I worked late last night and did not get very much sleep Um Which I've been doing a lot lately, but But um That this is what this means, but I don't know why this would mean but but but Um I have gotten some things done. I here's my plan before I go over my announcements here My my brief announcements Here, let me let you know what the plan is. Okay, because we had to change plans because The retaliator review went south Um, so I did next week's review this week. So what I'm gonna I'm what am I going to do next week? I'll tell you what I'm gonna do next week. Okay. Here's what I'm gonna do next week. Um This weekend Actually technically is this week sunday Anyway, well, no I'll tell you what I'm gonna do sunday this weekend I am going to kentucky for the Kentucky gi joe winterfest There is a link In the description of this live stream to the event. So you can check it out So I will be at winterfest this year and what I will do for This coming sunday is I'll do a winterfest video which is not a review video But um when looking at my calendar I think this is gonna work the best because the video I have after that Is a bigger one and this will give me some time to Work on it. Um The uh and when I say bigger one, I mean, I don't mean necessarily big as in the size of the object But big as in the scope Of the review and how much work that needs to go into it. Thank you robert Perry for the super chat. Thank you very much. Uh, and thank you very much for being here um the uh, and I think I'm getting like Two guests for that next Uh video so having that extra time to work on it. I think will help a lot So that's the plan. Okay. That's the plan. I did the video that was supposed to be For this coming sunday was last sunday and for this coming sunday. I'm gonna do a video um from Uh winter fest and then after that we will resume the schedule as planned um The retaliator turned the other cheek. Uh, the retaliator, uh, it's it turned something is it turned a cheek at me certainly, uh, the retaliator like The the thing is I know exactly how to fix it if I can get it. Um, if I can get access to the the cavity and the body That I need to get to and that's the problem. It's not like it's not that complex as far as You know, what peace note needs to go where the difficult thing about the retaliator is getting it open enough Uh to get access to where those parts need to go. That's the that's the only trick of it. Um, so In the meantime, um There is I I hope a pretty good review coming up next And uh, and I'm already working on that. Uh, one of the reasons that, um I'm I'm a little tired Is because in addition to working, you know, the work I have to work I've also been writing the next review video and that review does take um I mean it's got a lot of resources that I've got to gather lots lots of uh Uh source material to go through But I've made a lot of progress on that. So I it should Uh, it should be in pretty good shape now Given how much it's gonna have to go into it just as far as you know, um Source material goes I probably should jump on Recording that video as soon as possible To give myself the best chance of having it done on time and I would like to have Early access for patrons. Um, the top side video the top side video was barely done on time barely Um, which meant I was not able to give early access to uh Uh to patrons and I really want to so I'm gonna try I'm gonna try to do that. Oh somebody mentioned Uh, somebody mentioned gung ho. Let's well I I hope to uh Someday open this gung ho which which I've never had a chance to open. Maybe it will be tonight Maybe it will be tonight. Well, we shall see we shall see Um, but uh, but I I still haven't gotten to my announcements I still haven't gone. I'm I'm easily distractible in case you hadn't noticed but let me let me just put Put the the gung ho that's never been opened right there and I'll I'll do my best to get to it um I'll do my best to get to it But I can't guarantee that because I'm not sure I'm actually not sure that I will last the entire hour. I'm really tired guys. I'm really like exhausted Um, and I'm not done working. I got work to do I got still got more work to do. Hello, white Vegeta. Nice to see you Um, hello yo joe anybody else sneak in here that I um that I didn't say hi to hello gg 77. Um, hello everyone. Um Um, let's see Uh, were there ever any gi joe extreme re releases not that i'm aware of Uh, gi joe extreme. Hey there bart. Nice to see you Um Free gung ho. Yeah, it didn't know there was a giveaway. Uh, I Uh, and Diana says open him. We'll we'll we'll see I'll see what I can do. I'll see what I can do. Uh, hello craig. Hello, terrence um Wow, I'm easily distractible the, um Uh, I I totally lost my train of thought. I have a lame bart for this bart distracted me and I lost my train of thought um But uh, I think what I was saying was uh, I'm I'm like really really exhausted and I may not make it through the entire hour but I do want to go over My announcements, let me do this. All right. Let me do this just for a second guys Let me do it. Let me get through this. Let me get through this. I've very short notes very short notes It'll only take a minute Uh item number one um Item number one, um There's a new it's tuesday. That means there's a new episode of half the battle um The new video by temer is about the top 10 gijo innovations Uh, and after next item after this episode after this live stream Um, what's on joe mind will be live and it looks like they are going to have uh the guys from after action report um that brings us to The next item, which is there is a new kickstarter book from after action report Uh, the history of gi joe number 21 the silent interlude issue That book the kickstarter is live Um, the link for that is also in the description of this live stream Um, I've gotten several of the after action report books in fact Oh There's volume two I have volume one, but it's over there. Why is volume one over there because the books are very useful So I I I have them out for reference a lot So they don't always get put back on the shelf But the guys at after action report they do some really good Prince uh reference material and this one will be I mean it's a it's It's a it's a pretty important topic in You know gi joe Lore The the famous silent issue. Uh, they're going to do a history of that As a book. So that's very intriguing. Oh, hello agent chuggles. Nice to see you. Hello, uh, patrick straalko Nice to see you And hello to anybody anybody else. I don't know if I said hello to straka zulu, but hello to you as well and hello to tjc and david sharp So After action report new book kickstarter is live and then um, there are a couple announcements for joe fest Once again joe fest in august of georgia this year Um I will be there. In fact, there will be some special things planned for Um for joe fest. I've talked about it. I'm a little bit There will be some announcements coming in the near future But a couple announcements there will be an action figure exclusive For strike force alpha an exclusive figure sidewinder Will be available at joe fest. That's going to be a joe fest exclusive. It looks really good Uh, it looks really good. Uh, and the guys at um strike force alpha They have really good quality stuff. Oh, yes Uh, marianne will also be there. In fact, she kind of has a date with karaoke Um, in addition to that for joe fest, uh, they announced, uh, brian hickey and patty lennon Who did the book total action force? So we have some Classic palatoy action force representation and that is awesome. Um If you've been a gi joe fan for any length of time, I'm sure you're aware of Action force, which was gi joe in the uk and other parts of europe For a time eventually it just all became gi joe. But before Before it was gi joe in the uk and europe it was action force Um, so that is like a fascinating area Of gi joe history That if you have any interested at all, well now we're going to have a couple of experts That will be there to talk about it. That is freaking fantastic Um last item last item on my list um I mentioned my friend chris, uh comic tropes He has a live stream on his second channel pros and cons um in that live stream, he got a A gi joe related surprise um, he was, uh gifted the original art for gi joe issue number 302 by, uh, danie earls So the danie earls cover of gi joe issue number 302 the original artwork for that Is in the possession Of our friend comic tropes and that Is pretty cool. That is a piece of gi joe history That is Really cool Having a having a piece of gi joe history like that. I mean, I don't I don't collect a lot of original artwork and I don't collect like uh pre-production pieces. I kind of leave that to the experts, uh, who get those and curate them So that the rest of us can read about them and study them um But it does have to be a pretty special feeling To own a piece even a small piece Of gi joe history. That is that is super cool. Um Sparkster says I certainly i'm certainly interested in seeing the action force things. I may couple together a Lego red shadow vehicle that would be really cool. Um And somebody, uh, uh, yes kiwi mentions baron iron blood Uh The action force has its own history that I mean it does You know, it does eventually become gi joe and uh, you know the red shadows and baron iron blood They do eventually become cobra and cobra commander Um, but it's like a parallel universe It's a parallel universe gi joe Um, and it's it's really intriguing. Um, my my other friend chris, um uh, turned me on to some of the Uh publications for action force and I'd kind of I'd like to get more of them honestly that just really amazing um You know, I I love the history of gi joe and action force is this like this little niche of gi joe history that I don't know Well, I know something about but I don't know as much about it and I love to learn learn more I will say though. I will say though. Um, I was probably one of A few American kids Who was aware of action force? back in the 80s Um, because I had a friend Um, a school friend who was also a big fan of gi joe who moved to the uk Lived there for a year and then moved back And when I reconnected with them after he moved back um I just I asked him if they had gi joe there and he said yes, they do But they called it action force Um, that's let's literally all I knew about it That's all I knew about it is that there was a forum of gi joe that existed in the uk Called action force. Well, fortunately now thanks to um Thanks to the the the people who have done the research and put a lot of this online and published books about it um now we're able to Learn about those things and actually get into some depth about those things. Um, I think that's fantastic. Uh, I really think that's fantastic um and I mean that The action force fan community is a part of the gi joe fan community that they are they are It's not some other group. They are us Right, but it's a a forum Uh of the gi joe fandom that has its own unique origin And I just think that's interesting. I think that's pretty cool. I I sincerely do um, so those are all my Those are all my announcements Um, congratulations to chris chris chris can't be here by the way. I did talk to him earlier today. Um, he usually stops in Um to say hi in the in the chat, but he's he's busy. Um, so he kind of he sent his apologies Uh, but I but I also sent my congratulations for Uh, the piece of original artwork. That's really cool. Um in other news um Uh, I did get cobra commander, uh, number one Uh, not only did I get cobra commander number one I got I got two different covers of it But I haven't read it yet. First of all, I just I just got it. Hang on I have I just got it. That's one reason why I haven't read it yet, but I I made an oversight. I have to confess to an oversight I have I have made an error that I that I'm correcting. I'm correcting the error But I've made an error um I thought that I had ordered a copy of Uh, duke number one the image skybound duke issue number one um, because um, my local comic shop well gardeners, which is where I usually go because that's where I know people, uh, they didn't have it because they're dufuses. They don't they don't know from comics They don't know from comics Um, but anyway, they didn't have it. So, um, I thought I ordered one. Uh, well time had passed And I'm like, hey, wait a second Um, it should have arrived by now so What I did is I I checked and found out that in fact I hadn't ordered it. So I'd really like to read duke number one. Um, before diving into, uh, cobra commander here. Um, although I've heard good things about it. I you know, I it's a different take. It's a different take a different concept I I can live with that as long as it's good as long as it's compelling. Um What's on joe mine? Thank you for the super chat Says, uh, where the hell are the singing cats? They They're they're earlier. They're literally were singing cats before I before I uh started the uh The live stream there were there were cats Uh singing singing, uh, but but at any rate, um I I don't believe you can find cats singing cats on on broadway anymore. That's uh, that's a thing of the past But I did I did plug the damn show I plugged the damn show earlier I said that you got the thing you got a thing after this thing you got your thing Um, and after action report, I plugged that too. So I've done all my plug in I've done all my plug in I I've plugged until I can't plug no more. Um You know, I really think I might I might wrap up a little early as I am like I'm really exhausted. I'm I'm Uh, you know, I feel like I'm about to drop and I'm not done. I got more work to do You know, I I got more work to do Uh, so I may I may call it an early evening Um, but I hope you know, I hope first of all, I hope everyone enjoyed the top side video. I Um When I read the file card When I read top sides file card, my first thought is wow, he really loves pigs and my second thought Thought was Oh, no, what if he loves pigs a little too much? um and so given that it's my show and Um, nobody can stop me from doing any idea that comes to my head. Um, that's just kind of what I went with so Uh, anyway, enjoy enjoy top side um But like I said this weekend Uh, kentucky winterfest link is in the description of this live stream I'll do a video for that And then the following week we are back on track. We are back on track With the calendar with my schedule that I had already planned out And that video should be something I think more Uh, uh substantial Uh with a couple guests in fact um, and Yeah, I think I think you'll enjoy at least I I will enjoy it I hope you will enjoy it as well um, but uh Yeah, I think I think I think it's time. I think I think it's time to Uh, I think it's time to to wind down. I am uh, uh, I'm I'm I'm getting I'm reaching that phase where Uh, my brain is not processing English words correctly So that's probably a good time To to stop before I say something stupid or something stupider than what I usually say So it's probably a good time. So, um, I'll hold off on uh, on opening gung ho. I don't I'm not ready to open gung ho is it Will he ever get opened? We will see I'm gonna but I'm gonna hold off now. I'm gonna hold off now I'm going to uh, give What's on Joe mind a little bit more? a little bit more uh Runway to ramp up right we get a little extra runway. Uh, so I'm going to uh I'm going to uh, call it a quit call it quits for the night There's stuff coming up. I will be back next week and they're the the next review video is already in the works So I hope you like it. So on that note I will say good evening and uh, I I will now I will now quietly pass away in my sleep Um, rip rip me But I'll be alive again in the morning. I'll be all right. But anyway, uh, good night everyone and I will see you next time See ya