 Oh, we're dislodging action for a song. We should be going live. Let's make sure it's kicking in. Is it kicking in? There we are. There we are. Awesome. Awesome. Awesome. Hi, everyone. This is G-Show. Welcome to my channel and welcome to the live stream. Today, today is June 5th, 2021. And we're doing a one-off reading comic book reading. It's a comic book that we picked up on a previous comic book haul. I think it was an important read. I was very happy to get this in my collection. I didn't know this existed before I started bidding on this comic book a lot. And I believe it was comic book haul. Which comic book haul was it? I think it was comic book haul number 45. I mentioned it in our discord. Let me see if I can find it. Let's check it out. I think it was comic book haul number 45. But I'll just confirm that because it was an amazing comic book haul. We've got a whole bunch of comics. And yeah, comic book haul number 45. Okay. And in this lot, we ended up picking up lone wolf cub number one first print. We picked up the first series of the meta-barony single issues. We picked up a whole bunch of independent comic books. And we picked up real war stories number one and number two. And I was interested in this. I did when I usually bid on lots and stuff like this, I look up some of the comics that they have. That's how I do some of my research actually. Trying to find out what there is, right? And I was very pleasantly surprised as to see what was in this, who was doing the artwork in this, what stories were being told. And the main story that I want to read in this comic book is War is a Racket by General Smetley Butler. A book by General Smetley Butler. It's a book that we did a reading for. Halit, how are you doing? Hope you're doing well. And this is the, you'll find a link for that book reading that we did on our Patreon page. Because initially I did the reading for Wars a Racket by General Smetley Butler in 2017. I read the book years before, right? And it's available for free online. But we did a reading of General Smetley Butler's War is a Racket. And he wrote this book on General Smetley Butler. If you don't know, he was a most decorated Marine in US history for a number of decades. I'm doing great. Thank you. So it's a great weekend. Great weekend to do a nice comic book reading here anyway. Sort of cloudy, cold outside, rain a little, right? But that book by General Smetley Butler, he wrote a book. Basically he was a Marine and he served in the military for a lifetime really. And after serving in the military and during serving in the military, I'm not sure if he wrote the book while he was in the military or after he was retired. He basically wrote that the US military is used as the enforcer, the brute force for American corporations on behalf of the American corporations, the government sends them into different parts of the world to take over land and resources and and whatnot, which is basically what's been going on forever, right? Which is basically what's going on now, which is to me is amazing that people still support war, support these corporations, support centralized government, to wage war, to annihilate nations and kill hundreds of thousands, if not millions of peoples around the world and displace tens of millions because of some kind of illusion, programming sort of on the level of MK ultra where they actually believe that they're doing the right thing, which to me is mind boggling, right? And I didn't know war as a racket had been converted into comic book or adapted as a comic book format reading. So I really wanted to, I was very happy to pick this up, and I want to do the reading for this. Okay, profit though, false war through false wars. Yeah. Yeah, it's crazy. It's crazy, right? So there is, you know, one story that I want to read in this, which is an eight pager, and General Smetny Butler's book is very short and we linked it up, the reading that we did, we linked it up with ASMR mathematics and investing, you know, we did the numbers on it, right? So we linked it up with mathematics. So I had, you know, little equations there showing all the numbers and whatnot. Pretty important. And there's a whole bunch of other people that have worked on this, on this anthology, there is how many, one, two, three, four, five, six different stories in this anthology. There are veterans, war, Vietnam war veterans that have worked on this, activists that have worked on this, anti-war activists that have worked on this, peace activists that have worked on this, people that sort of are truth tellers that have worked on this. So I looked at some of the people that have, you know, either done the artwork or that wrote the script on this. Wow, wow, wow, I didn't know some of these people, right? Kebabs, how are you doing? Hope you're doing well. Like, for example, the first story is written by Jim Narek, I'm sorry, brutalizing the name, and the pencils and the inks, the artwork and the colors is done by Bill Sikkwams. I don't know how to pronounce them, but it's the same guy that worked on, produced the Dune mini-series, and he's, in the 1980s, he's considered to be one of the, you know, very unique artists and sort of broke the mold when he came to comic book, creating art for comic books and storytelling because of the painted covers and painted pages that he did, right? And he's worked on a lot of different things, and a lot of artists look to his pieces for inspiration. I really like the artwork and the color. Yeah, the artwork is, for the cover, is Paul Golasi, okay, and he's also worked on a number of comic books for a number of years, considered to be an amazing artist, considered to be an amazing artist. Some of the other people that have worked on this, Todd Ensign, Rebecca Huntington, Smetley Butler is War is a Rocket, adapted by Joyce, Joyce Bramber, okay, now who's Joyce Bramber? Joyce Bramber is an anti-war activist, and the widow of Harvey Pekkar, and Harvey Pekkar was a person that came up with American Splendor, like the links in this series go deep, like, wow, I was looking this stuff up, like crazy, right? And the artwork for War is a Rocket is done by Wayne Van Sant, and he did a lot of war comic books, and he's a Vietnam veteran, what worked with a certain veterans group that are pro-peace, anti-war, like I kept on reading, like I did, I don't know, couple of hours of reading of who some of the people were that have worked on this piece, right? Some of the other writers, the next story, Kim, the third story is written by Kim Yale, and the pencil's art is done by Dean Motter. There's one pager's in this, like crazy, there's another piece called, done by Greg Banson, Stefan, Stefano did the artwork for it, another piece done by Joyce Braber again, and the artwork by Dennis Francis, Mike W. Barr did the story for the last one, and Mark Badger did the artwork for it, like you keep on reading, this was amazing, Randall, thank you very much for the tier one sub, for 22 months in a row, thanks for the support brother, very much appreciated, very much appreciated, and one of the other things I found out about this, which has blew me away, blew me away, now this comic book is by Eclipse Comics, right? It's a comic book publishing company that came out in I guess late 1970s, 1980s, early 1990s, and then they went bankrupt, they closed shop doing the distributor wars in the early 1990s, right? So I think 1992 and 1993, a closed comic went defunct, they closed doors, right? In the mid 1990s, check this out, in the mid 1990s Todd McFarland bought their library, the rights to their published works, for how much? For $25,000, Todd McFarland in the mid 1990s bought all the rights for the whole library of Eclipse Comics, which is wow, what a deal, what a deal, Brando hits good morning, good morning, hope you're doing well, gain aside from that, that's my really quick intro to this, because it's holy cow, that is a steal, that is a steal, right? It's compatible to how much Marvel Comics was sold in the late 1990s to Toy Biz, I believe, bought them out for $5 million or something, but just imagine buying the rights to Marvel Comics, buying Marvel Comics for $5 million in the 1990s, wow, right? I'm doing great now, I got my Chico fix, haha, also, awesome Brando hits, awesome Brando hits, gang, aside from that, welcome to another live stream, if you want to follow this work, if you want to know what this work is about, I am on Patreon, Patreon.com forward slash Chico, C-H-Y-C-H-O, for those of you that are supporting this work gang, thank you very much for the support, I appreciate it very much, I know that by this time, those of you who have been supporting this work for a long time, you know what this is all about, and I hope you're enjoying the content, okay? Funny smile, I thought you were going to say 25 million, wow, five, I believe Marvel Comics was bought in the 1990s for $5 million, correct me if I'm wrong, I was following the events at the time that was happening, right? And yeah, it was interesting, it was interesting, Brando hits, your camera tripod set up, looks like an archaeological thing set up, Indiana teacher Jones, nice, it's this tripod is from the 1960s, okay, a German design, and it belonged to the family, I grabbed it off my mom and dad, I think they have Indiana Jones comics, they do have Indiana Jones comics, indeed, it was 25 million according to Google, still is still, okay, 25 million, still is still, a theft, Spider-Man right now, the rights just to Spider-Man right now, will probably sell for like 200 million, right? Like crazy, crazy, right? 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There's no doubt about it that if you understand what's taking place right now, we are on the right side of history, and those on the wrong side of a history can kiss my ass, okay? I'm going a little hardcore in this reading because we're doing real war stories, and this anthology is an anti-war anthology, it's a peace anthology, it's an activist anthology. Just reading for the last couple of days, following up on who some of these creators were for this comic book, wow, got my blood pumping, got my blood pumping, and on that note gang, do not forget Free Assange, Free Assange, Free Assange, Julian Assange is a publisher and journalist that has been crucified for trying to bring transparency and accountability of capitalist power to humanity. For more information see wikileaks.org, defend.wikileaks.org, or check out our Julian Assange and WikiLeaks playlist on SensorTube for as long as it's up. Free up my boy Assange, free up my boy Assange indeed, Free Assange, Free Assange, gang, let me take this stuff down. Should we get into the reading? Should we get into the reading? How long have been going on this? That's about 15 minutes in. Let's do our reading gang. I'm going to take out the notifications. There we are. I'm going to take out the chat. We'll be back after the live stream. We're not going to get a chance to read everything. There's five stories in this. The first one is body wash. I still need my beer all for tonight. The first story is body wash. Then there's a one pager called weekend warriors go to war, the national garden reserves. The second story with artwork is war is a racket. We're going to start off with that one. I want to read this one as well. Citizen soldier. Okay, the third story. Matt's excited for this. Yeah, me too. Me too. I haven't read it yet by the way. Okay, third story is citizen soldier. And then there's a one pager like the previous one pager. One pager text which is homophobia in uniform. Gays and lesbians in the military. By the way, 1991. When was this comic book published? 1991. The issue number one, which is this one, we bought in the same lot. This was published in 1987. So there's a four-year gap between real war stories number one and real war stories number two. I haven't read this one yet either. Maybe at some point we'll read this one, but I haven't looked into the stories in this one, the number one, who the artists or our creators are and stuff like this. Okay, so after that one text story, there's another story called pool of tears. And then there's another one text, one page text article, jar wars, military urine testing for drugs. 1991 in comic book format. And then there's another story called the home treatment. Sounds heavy. Okay, and it's written by the same person that adopted wars, Iraq, Joyce Bramber. Okay, and then there's a one page text which is called white man's army racism and sexism in the service. Wow. 1991. 30 years in the past. All this woke culture that you see happening. All of this centralized, propagated, you know, Mercedes Benz and all these corporations changing their logos and stuff like this. All these woke people. Comic books were doing it in the 1980s and 90s and before that with independent comic books, right? That is one of the reasons I love the comic book medium so much. It is on the forefront, sometimes by decades of what really matters. Okay, extremely important. The last story in this is my father and his son, Allah, God ex members of the military tell their stories in this full color comic from 1991. Let's read this. And still frighteningly relevant today. This issue was published in conjunction with Citizen Soldier, a non-profit GI and veterans organization dedicated to the principles of the U.S. military should respect the civil and human rights of its members. And that's the reason I wanted to read the third story in this, the one after the war is Iraq and I think we're going to read Citizen Soldier because I started reading upon Citizen Soldier. I didn't know about it until this. Okay. Elder God continues with this, with what this is about. The comic focuses on brutality and abuses within the U.S. military, hazing, reckless training, needless exposure to hazardous materials, abandonment of veterans, deceptive recruitment practices, the military's lack of accountability and more. Okay. Wow. And Elder God states, I joined the military in 1991. I really needed this comic then. Yeah. Yeah. Many, many people. This looks like a strawberry rhino. Wow. Wow. Wow. Really. I'm not kidding you, gang. For two days, I've been reading up on who these people are, right? Some of it. Like it's powerful, right? Aside from that gang, I'm taking down the, I took down the browser. I'm going to take down the chat. Okay. And I'm going to take down my camera and I'm going to start doing the reading. Okay. We'll come back after the reading. See you guys soon. Hi, everyone. This is Chicho. Welcome to another live stream and welcome to another comic book reading. And this is a one-off comic book reading. It's a comic book that we picked up in a recent comic book haul. And it's comic book haul number 45. And we picked this up, this comic book in a lot of about 40 comics or so that we ended up paying like 50 cents up off. Like 22, 22, we ended up paying the whole lot, which was an amazing deal. And this is Eclipse from Eclipse Comics. Okay. These guys right there, Eclipse Books. And it's real war stories, number two. And it's a beautiful cover and real war stories. Number one was also in that lot that we picked up. Okay. And there was only two issues in this series. This one came out, number one came out in 1987. And number two came out in 1991. And at the beginning of this live stream, I sort of gave a list of all the different types of stories on this. There's six stories, five, six stories in this anthology. And there's one page text stories. And what I'm going to do, I'm just going to read you the intro that Elder God sort of found online that he posted as a comment on our Discord page during the live stream. We sort of gives you an idea of what this comic book is about. Okay. And let me take this off and I'll read you the text that Elder God posted while we look at the cover. Okay. And this is quote, this is what this is in this comic book. And I think it's an important comic book to read during these times because unfortunately, in my opinion, we are headed towards more conflict in the world, right? Quote, X members of the military tell their stories in this full color, a comic from 1991, and still frighteningly relevant today. This issue was published in conjunction with Citizen Soldier, a nonprofit GI and veterans organization dedicated to the principles that the US military should respect the civil and human rights of its members. The comic focuses on brutality and abuses within the US military, hazing, reckless training, needless exposure to hazardous materials, abandonment of veterans, deceptive recruitment principles, the military's lack of accountability, and more. And Citizen Soldier is the third story in this comic that we're going to read. Okay. It's the third story in this comic, and it's the second story that we're going to read. Because what I want to do is I want to read, start off this anthology by reading War is a Racket, which is a book written by General Smetley Butler, and it was adapted into comic book format in this comic book. And as far as I know, it's the only adaptation of War is a Racket by General Smetley Butler in comic book format. And it's the second story in this, and it's written by General Smetley Butler and adapted by Joyce Bramber. Okay. And Joyce Bramber was an active war, anti-war activist, peace activist, and the widow of the creator of American Splendor. Okay. Harvey Peckhardt. Now, she has, that's one of the stories she's written in this. There's another story that she's written in this as well. And the artwork for that story is done by Wayne Van Sant, and he was a, and he is an American war veteran from the Vietnam era, right? So Vietnam war veteran, and he's done a lot of writing, historical writing, essays, books, as well as comic books, regarding war. Okay. And there is a ton of people that have worked on this comic book. One of them being Bill Sequalzi, which is one of the great artists from the 1980s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s in comic books. He did the Dune miniseries, and his artwork appears in the first story in this anthology. Okay. And this comic book is in, I would say, near mint minus to verifying near mint condition. I would say near mint minus. Okay. 9.2. It's in great shape. Fantastic shape. And the back cover for this is trippy. I looked up the back cover on this. Take a look at this. Take a look at this thing. What's wrong with this picture? The U.S. military is holding a training exercise. Operation Just Cause, it's there in beautiful Panaragua, our southern neighbor. What's wrong with this picture? It's like Waldo, right? Where's Waldo? What's wrong with this picture? And there's numbers on this. Look at the pyramid. All seeing eye. Illuminati. Helicopter crashing into a donkey and two headed donkey thing. Look at that thing. Soldier carrying banana. Oh, look at this. What's that? What's that? What's number 11? What is that a mad scientist trying to give soldiers something? What's going on? What's going on? What's number 11? And the text down here, it shows what these are. The military's jar wars drug testing program has led to personal being misdiagnosed to false positive readings from urine tests. That's their urine samples. This is, by the way gang, during the 1990s, it was sort of built up to the first invasion of Iraq. There weren't too many mainstream sources that were anti-war. Look at this. Look at this. The first story, let me give you the stories in this. And here's the artwork for the first story. Beautiful painted pages. Body wash. Editor's statement. We're going to read this. What is citizen soldier? And editor's statement. Check this out. Let's read the fine print on this, and then we'll read what's on the front page of this thing. We're back at the front page. Real war stories and copyright 1991 Eclipse Entertainment, number two, first printing January 1991. Published by Eclipse Comics, Post Office, Box 1099, Forestville, California 95436, Dean Mulaney, publisher, Kathleen Yorwood, editor, editor-in-chief, Joyce Bramber, editor, and Joyce Bramber is the writer that did the adaptation of War is Iraq, and she's written another story in this. It's the first story we're going to read for this thing. Front cover. Copyright 1991. Paul Galancy. Body wash. Copyright 1991. Jim Narcos and Bill Sequalsi. I'm brutalizing that name. My apologies. War is a racket. Copyright 1991. Joyce Bramber and John Van Sant. Citizen soldier. And these are all the stories in this. Citizen soldier. Copyright 1991. Kim Yale and Dean Motter. Pool of tears. Copyright 1991. Greg Brazden and Stefan de Stefano. The home treatment. Copyright 1991. Joyce Bramber and Dennis Francis. My father and his son. Copyright 1991. Mike W Barr and Mark Badger. Weekend warriors go to war. Jar wars. White man's army and homophobia in uniform. Copyright 1991. Todd Ensign and Rebecca Huntington. Back cover. Copyright 1991. Paul Mavrides. All rights reserved. And one of the things I found out about this comic when I was looking up all these writers and creators and stuff the last couple of days was Eclipse Books was active, I believe in the 1970s, late 1970s, 1980s really. A lot of 1980s and early 1990s. And they went bankrupt during the distributor wars, comic book distributor wars in the 1990s that occurred. And in mid-1990s Todd McFarland bought their entire library for $25,000. Okay. Wow, wow, wow. Wow, wow, wow. Let's read this. Front, back of the front cover. Gang. Must be done, must be done. Quote, if things like that went on, I would have to say something like that would be very difficult to hide in an open society. It's kind of like, you know, if somebody, if you had eight or nine soldiers do something really awful sooner or later, somebody's going to find out about it. You can't hide things in America. Lieutenant Colnell John Collin, U.S. Army. And knowing history, we know that the U.S. military does hide things in all militaries, really. But thanks to organizations like WikiLeaks and whistleblowers, we've come to discover some of the lies and atrocities that have been committed. Right. And here's a little write up about citizen soldier. Let's see if we can get this thing focused. There we go. What is citizen soldier? Citizen soldier is a nonprofit GI veterans organization founded in 1969 by both peace activists and Vietnam veterans. Citizen soldier is dedicated to the principle that the U.S. military should respect to the fullest possible extent the civil and human rights of its members. Our newspaper, On Guard, brings a message of peace and non-intervention, non-intervention to active duty personnel. It also provides a forum for GIs to discuss common problems and solutions. In keeping with the American tradition of the citizen soldier, we believe the military must always be subject to civilian control. Each citizen has a responsibility to assist in defending this country and to support the illegal military activities. We also defend the rights of persons who refuse military participation because of moral or religious beliefs. The military has a duty to be truthful, humane, and just to the fullest extent possible. We believe that service members should participate fully in civilian society and that any attempt to isolate GIs or treat them as second-class citizens should be opposed. Citizen soldier accepts no funds from any government agency and is not connected to any business, law firm, or political party. We are entirely supported by individual contributions and a few foundations. As we go to press, citizen soldier is representing two young servicemen who do not want to be sent to the Persian Gulf with the U.S. Army. With dramatic changes taking place within Eastern Europe and events unfolding in the Middle East, it's time for America to re-evaluate the mission and purpose of its military. Real War Stories Number Two offers a unique opportunity for the discussion of these as well as other issues facing service members today. Here is the editor's statement by Joyce Bramber. Eclipse published Real War Stories Number One on behalf of CCCO, the Central Committee for Conscious Objectors and Non-profit Military and Draft Counseling Organization. The book made waves in Atlanta, Georgia, federal court Lieutenant Colonel John Culler, a special witness dispatched by the Department of Defense in an attempt to stop CCCO's distribution of the comic. Wow, wow, wow. Testified that he did not find Real War Stories very real at all. Specifically, Cullen stated that quote, greasing end quote, a vicious form of hazing portrays in real portraying Real War Stories Number One did not exist. However, Lieutenant Colonel Cullen's arguments were defeated after the U.S. Navy's own records were introduced as evidence. The Department of Defense later notified the CCO that they were calling it quits, CCO One, a comic book threat to national security went back into public high schools, something to pick up with the recruitment pamphlets that get handed out on career day. Wow, wow, wow. I really don't think Lieutenant Colonel Cullen knew about the brutal hazing of new recruits that we reported in Real War Stories Number One. All the men who go to court and testify in their official capacity ever embarrassed or painted by such confrontations. When an outfit like Citizen Soldier stands beside someone in uniform, do these guys ever stop, look up, or even reconsider? In Real War Number One, we published a story that was hard to look at. Trouble is, these next weren't that hard to find. Trouble is, these next weren't that hard to find by Joyce Brabner. And the comic that they're talking about is this one. I had no idea they tried to censor this book. The military tried to take, get this book out of the hands of youth. Amazing, amazing. What a piece of history. What a piece of history. And if you were around during those days, the early days of the 19, or late 1980s when the Iron Curtain was falling in the early 1990s, when US military went into like super high gear and they, with the invasion, with the first Gulf War, those were crazy times because you could see the shift happening in the global geopolitics and it's phenomenal that people like these people were putting up a fight, putting up a fight. Fantastic. As you can tell, I'm crazy excited to have this comic. Really, I didn't know about this comic until I came across the lot that we ended up buying. And there were other comics in there that I was mainly interested in getting and just looking up all the different comic books. I think we might end up reading this too. We'll see how our time goes. But wow, wow, wow. Look at this. Look at this. Kennedy, Nixon, Reagan, Bush. Look at that. Look at that. He's got a band-aid between the eyes, right? Wow, wow, wow. Nixon with his peace symbol. Crazy. These need to be scanned in and put out his memes. Here's Reagan, right? Now, is that a flashlight shining through his head as if there's nothing there, right? Nicaragua, invasion of Nicaragua. This is, check this out, this is Kennedy, Cuban Missile Crisis, 1961. The world almost went into nuclear war, right? Nixon, Cambodia, 1970, right? The illegal bombing of Cambodia for the Vietnam War where they killed 2 million people, right? Reagan, invasion of Nicaragua, right? Panama came either right after or before, right? That is band-aid on Kennedy's forehead, right? Assassinated. There's a huge, huge story behind the Kennedy assassination, right? Reagan, Nicaragua, Panama came during the Bush time, I believe, right? And here's Bush, yeah, and Panama. Bush senior, Panama, 1989, right? CIA, wow. And this artwork is done by Bill Sokolski, the person that they're doing and one of the most highly regarded artists from the 1980s in comic book. Here's a one-pager, weekend war years, go to war, the National Garden Reserves, text is by Todd Ensign, right? And he's, Todd Ensign is the person that wrote the intro regarding Citizen Soldier, right? Art is by Rebecca Huntington. It's regarding the invasion of Honduras. Look at that. You should have seen, you should have seen during that period how proud many Americans were that they went and killed hundreds of peoples and invaded Nicaragua. Oh, sorry, Honduras and Nicaragua and all of them, South America and Latin America. Crazy. Again, let's read our first story. Let's read our first story from Real War Stories, number two published in 1991. And this story is War is a Racket, written as a book by General Smetley Butler until like a decade ago, the most decorated marine in U.S. history. And he wrote the book in the 1920s, I believe. We did a reading of it, and I'll have the link in the description of this video once it's been uploaded to CensorTube, Bichute and Rumble. So if you're watching this reading, if you want to have a read through the book, we did an audio reading of it. And it is available on SoundCloud as well as an audio book where I ended up reading the entire book. And you can find the book for free online. It is one of the most important books in history. It should be this book, War is a Racket by General Smetley Butler, should be mandatory reading in every high school in the United States and Canada and the Western world really. And it should be mandatory reading every year, in my opinion. Okay, grade eight, grade nine, grade 10, grade 11 and grade 12. And I think every year kids should have to read this book and write an essay about what its implications are. Okay, now this version, and as far as I know, this is the only version of this comic book of War is a Racket in comic book format, was adapted by Joyce Bradner. And Joyce Bradner is the widow of the author of American Splendor. She was an activist, anti-war activist, peace activist. The art is by Wayne Van Sent. And he was a Vietnam War veteran. And he wrote a lot of, he's done a few different comic books regarding war. And he was a peace activist as well, right? The letters is by Dianne Valentino and colors is by Sam Parsons. That's one of the longer intros regarding a comic book, because we're going to be snipping this out out of the live stream and uploading it as an individual story. Let's have a read through this. Let's have a read through this. And that's General Smetley Butler, I believe, right? It should be. Looks like him. Newton Square, Pennsylvania, 1934. General Butler, the taxi couldn't get through. Glad to see you. My wife's got donuts and hot coffee in the mess hall. For reporter John Spevac, it was a story of a lifetime, an interview with Major General Smetley Butler. USMC retired the first US commander in this century to have done 12 separate tours of duty in Central America. And the first man to have been twice awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, the highest military decoration his country could do bestow. There are things I've seen, things I've learned, that should not be left unsaid. General Smetley Butler states, I don't want to mislead you. Some people will tell you I write for a communist magazine, the reporter says. So who the hell cares? There wouldn't be a United States if it wasn't for a bunch of radicals, he says. I once heard of a radical named George Washington. As a matter of fact, for what I read, from what I've read, he was an extremist, a goddamn revolutionist. Smetley Butler says, I was 16 when they sunk the Maine. Back to join the Marines, he says. War is a racket. I spent 33 years and four months in active service as a member of our country's most agile military force, the Marine Corps. I served in all commission, commission ranks, from a second lieutenant to major general. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high class muscle man for big business, for Wall Street and for the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism. I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of it. Like all members of the military profession, I never had an original thought until I left the service. My mental faculties remained in suspension, suspended animation, while I obeyed the orders of the higher ups. This is typical of everyone in the military service. I helped make Mexico and especially Campico safe for American oil interest in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the national city bank boys to collect revenues in. We supervised elections in Haiti, and whenever we supervised them, our candidates always won. I helped in the raping of a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interest in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for American fruit companies in 1903. In China, in 1927, I helped see to it that standard oil went its way unmolested. Looking back, looking back, I feel I might have given Al Capone a few tips. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three city districts. We Marines operated on three continents. On guard, citizen soldier back in court for Agent Orange Vets. Our boys were sent off to die with beautiful ideals painted in front of them. No one told them that dollars and cents were the real reason they were marching off to kill and die. The Economy Act passed by Congress in 1933 demanded that Spanish American war veterans furnish legal proof that their disabilities were incurred while in the service. 35,000 AO vets died treatment. Denied treatment by VA hospital, not service connected. High-tech training and myth, steady confirms, 50% of all military jobs have no civilian counterparts. Men were taken off the pension rolls, ousted from hospitals and told to shift for themselves. Employment center. People have been led to believe that Congress is lavishing its paternal care upon every ex-serviceman, including the veteran who has acquired flat feet pounding the pavement in search of a job, free to. 90s cutbacks close VA doors to low-income vets. They will tell you that any veteran who breaks his leg in an automobile accident only suddenly needs his tonsils removed. Simply has to go to a government hospital to get the necessary treatment at the expense of the taxpayer. As a result of disclosures of World War I intrigues, men and women have been endeavoring to chart new paths towards peace. Our neutrality measures prohibit the export of the rifles, ammunition, and other products to nations at war, but there are ways and means of evading such embargoes. Machine guns can, as they have been in the past, shift as sewing machines. Cannons can be camouflaged as locomotive parts and with the necessary bribes placed aboard ships. Four veterans fast to protest Central American policy. Veterans for peace. In July of 1932, over 20,000 veterans and their families marched on Washington and camped on the edge of the Capitol to protest the failure of Congress to honor America's pledge to his fighting men. We let Hoover know prosperity was not just around the corner. In 1933, the mortality rate among world war vets was three times as great as among those who had stayed at home. Boys with a normal viewpoint had been taken out of the fields and offices and factories and put into the ranks. There they were remoulded, they were made made over, they were made to about face to regard murder as the order of the day. They were put shoulder to shoulder and through mass psychology, they were made into machines for slaughter. We trained them to kill other men with nonchalance and dispatch. We used them a couple of years. Then, suddenly, we discharged them and told them to make another about face. Only this time, they had to do their own readjusting without mass psychology, without officers, aid and advice, without nationwide propaganda. We turned them loose without three-minute speeches, without parades. Many, too many of these fine young boys were eventually destroyed mentally because they could not take that final about face alone. The war racker can be stopped. You know the death and misery I've seen in my lifetime need not be repeated over and over again from generation to generation. You veterans listening to me now, it's up to all of us to do the best we can to prevent yet another generation of war veterans from existing. We must put ourselves out of existence, my friends. Future generations will praise us if we do and damn us to hell if we fail. In 1985, General Smetley Butler was again honored by his country when a group of veterans working for peace organized themselves as the Smetley Butler Brigade. That's the next story, Citizen's Shoal Soldier. War is a racket by General Smetley Butler. 1991 published, his book I think was published in 1933, so much dialogue. A lot of this is taken straight from his book. I believe his book starts off with what he's written here on the first page, if I recall correctly. Beautiful artwork, very classic, very classic, very classic. A lot of the text in the background is in Spanish. I believe it's in Spanish. I don't know what language that is. Is that in Spanish? Duets at home? I think it's in Spanish. Latin. It's in Latin. It is in Latin, isn't it? I don't know what it says in Latin. Anybody know Latin? 100% non-libre tempore con soluca soluta nopes. I think I saw this same text somewhere else. It's called Lorem Epossum, background text I think. Is it? Lorem Epossum. Let's read the second story again. Just a visual on it, okay? Let's read the second story. In this second story, do they have the names or the artists and stuff? Oh, there it is. So this second story, the comic reading is going fantastic. Citizen soldier. Citizen soldier from real war stories number two by Eclipse Comics. Eclipse Book. Books published in 1991. Okay, and it's the main story of this issue, and it's only a two-issue series that Eclipse Comics put out. The first issue was put out in 1987, number one, and at the beginning of this last stream we found out that the U.S. military actually tried to stop them from having the book available to the youth to read because of the hazing stories, military hazing stories in the book, and Citizen Soldier is a veterans group, basically, where they tried to, they did a little write up here, and it's a non-profit GI veteran organization founded in 1969 where we read the story behind it, right, trying to sort of advocate for veterans, U.S. military veterans. So let's see what this story is about, and this is the third story in this anthology. Citizen soldier written by, let's see if we can see, get this in focus, written by Kim Yale, artist Dean Motter, letters M. Eisman, edits Joyce Brabner, and Joyce Brabner was the editor-in-chief for this series, and we just finished reading the second story in this anthology, which was War as a Racquet by General Smedley Butler. We've got a little cat thing going, going on with the machine kicking in. We'll wait a couple of minutes for the sound to go away. Let's have a flip through, and then we'll have a read through that. Apologies about that gang, I usually unplug that machine before starting the readings. This is the first story for this, body washing, I wonder what this is about, because I don't think we're gonna get a chance to read this one. Beautiful artwork, beautiful painted pages, absolutely beautiful. Get this in focus, look at that. Oh wow, this has got to be about waterboarding, is this about waterboarding, torture? This, oh my god, or hazing, this is about hazing, look at that. Let's go read the third story in this. This story, Citizen Soldier. It's a third story in this real war stories number two from Eclipse Comics, published in 1991. Citizen Soldier, the name of a veteran's organization that is geared towards advocating for U.S. veterans. Written by Kim Yeo, artist, dean, moderate, letters, M. Eisman, edits, Joyce Bradner, press, out face, a four year bummer, the airman's voice, on guard, and I believe on guard was a paper that Citizen Soldier was putting out. This is your personal property and cannot be taken away. Fort Knox had won, so did Fort Dix. Its name was Shakedown, Newport Naval Station, titled Dares, All Hands Abandoned Ship, while Waite, Wright Patterson, Air Force Base, called Dares the Star Spangled Bummer. The Marine said, said it all, with a single nasty word, rage. That's what that is. The GI underground newspapers were the most consistent, state-side protests during the veteran era. Some lasted for years, others folded when the men who put them out were discharged or transferred. As the war drew to its weary end, the newspapers shut down as well. Vietnam vets were systematically discharged from service to make way for less embedded, more pliable volunteer armed services. The reason for the fraggings, the search and avoid patrols, the radical unrest and sabotage and attack carriers, and unpopular war is long over, one rarely hears of any protest among soldiers or sailors. On guard, the paper published by Citizen Soldier, a non-profit GI and veteran's rights group, is proof that discontent and dissent still exist. Hi, I was told I could call this number and find out about AIDS testing. I'm in the army and I need to know what will happen to me if I refuse. I guess I'd better tell my story. I tried using the chain of command but no one's doing a damn thing about it. The equipment's unsafe and someone's going to get hurt, maimed, even killed. Hi, I'm in the eighth grade and I'm doing a term paper on Agent Orange and I was wondering if I could send me some information. Eight and a half years of hard work wiped out because I was honest about being gay, because I was true to the oath of my commission that I would not lie. I want to fight it, but I'll need help. Each issue of on guard reflects the paramount concern of Citizen Soldier, the democratization of the military system, making it accountable to society at large and responsive to the needs of its personnel and families. Every day, Citizen Soldier receives calls from men and women, enlisted and officer on active duty or in the reserves who believe their human and civil rights have been infringed upon by military policies and practices. Changes are, if you call Citizen Soldier, Trisha Pretchfield will answer. Trisha sought Citizen Soldier's assistance in obtaining a release from the air force as a Consciousness Objector in 1983. She's been in an integral part of Citizen Soldier now for eight years. Press releases, fundraising, screening and processing calls. You name it, Trisha does it. The answering machine goes off. Amazing. After all these years, we're still getting inquiries about Agent Orange. So this is, this was a call coming in to her, I believe, regarding Agent Orange. And Agent Orange was a chemical that the U.S. military used in Vietnam, in Cambodia and in that region, and they sprayed it everywhere and it appeared poison. And Monsanto had a role to play in it, I believe. It was amplified, pesticide, military grade pesticide that was used for killing off the vegetation so the soldiers could see through. They wouldn't be ambushed and stuff and poisoned everything, poisoned everything. Continuing with the comic, gay men and women love their country too. Every time I put on my Guard uniform, I feel a great sense of pride. That's another message. There's the paper on Guard Brink. By challenging the military's efforts to discharge me, I'm standing up for the right of Americans to enjoy sexual expression without click. Oh, so someone was leaving a message, she picks up the phone. Hello, Citizen Soldier. She answers. That's a beautiful piece. I see you're calling on behalf of your son. He signed with the Marine, reserves for the money for college, and the terms of enlistment were misrepresented to him. Recruiting. Join the Marine. They promised that field training would not disrupt his college studies, and that he would be excused from drills when he had exams or term papers. Now he's getting hassled. He's interfering with his grades, yes, and now he wants out. History of western civilization, C-minus, wow. That's not good grades. No, your son's not the only one. Unfortunately, we receive plenty of calls and complaints about recruitment practices. Look at this real picture in there. They'll tell you you're going to be a pilot and you don't have a high school education. False promises, bait and swish tactics, blatant lies, threats and intimidation of enlistees, all in the name of an established quota system which recruiters are under intense pressure to meet. So the ends justify the means, forge the signature of a 17 year old recruit, old recruits, estranged father on the enlistment papers. Don't mention that on a delayed entry enlistment contract, a person isn't legally obligated to report for active duty unless they swear a second oath which places them on active duty. Wow. Talk to golden career opportunities, portraying the commercials and films like Top Gun and then sign the guy up for whatever slot needs to be filled, over qualified, under qualified for the position. It doesn't matter, fill the quota. A third of the jobs in the army and marines are either with infantry, artillery or tanks. Almost half the navy jobs involve extended tours of sea duty. The number of qualified people who actually get the high tech training is very small. Enlistees find that written promises for a specific job assignment aren't binding. The army isn't obligated to train you as a radar technician. The navy isn't obligated to place you in navigation school. Hey buddy, your scores are good but all my school openings are closed right now. After you complete basic, you can reapply for computer tech or attrition or sonar or nuclear. Yes, tomorrow afternoon is fine. Back to the citizen office, right? Yes, tomorrow afternoon is fine. How about 1.15? Good. No. Please feel free to come along. We want you to find out more about citizen soldier by now. By now. Good morning. How many messages? He asks. Too many. The most important one is still on the machine. Another call came in before I could finish listening to it and this time you're helping an eighth grader with her paper on Agent Orange. On guard was delivered but I haven't looked through a copy yet. I just finished with another recruitment call. The guy will be in with his father tomorrow. Fine. Do the intake and I'll review exactly what kind of case we've got and how we can help. You answer it. I want to read my morning paper with my coffee she says and the phone was ringing. Hello, citizen soldier, Todd Ensign speaking. Haha, Todd Ensign. The end. And Todd Ensign. So it looks like it was a two-person operation so far but it must have been more people in there, right? And Todd Ensign is the person that wrote the little statement here regarding who citizen soldier is, right? Todd Ensign. Very cool. Very cool. Very cool. What a historical piece. Crazy. Crazy. Very cool. Very cool gang. Let's just flip through the rest of this book gang because Mark, metals, are you still here? Let me know if you're still here. Homophobia in uniform, gays and lesbians in the military. Yeah, David 1, 2, 7, 3. This is the comic. Real war stories number two published in 1991. Okay. And one of the reasons like I was extremely excited to read this book, to grab this book and have this book in my collection, aside from this crazy amazing, this needs to become a poster. Like look at this thing. I'm going to try to scan this in gang, like take a picture of it, really good picture of it and post it on our discord. Like phenomenal, right? Was because I wanted to read this. War is a racket by, it's a book by General Smedley Butler. And we've done a reading of this book. War is a racket by General Smedley Butler. And you can find the, here let me post it in our on, if you go to this Patreon post, I believe it's the third post, it'll provide a link to censor two, which I did the reading for is the first place I uploaded it in 2017. And I uploaded it to discord, not discord to Bichu, Rumble and Odyssey. And we have the audio on SoundCloud as well as a podcast. So it's a reading of war is a racket by General Smedley Butler, his book, which is available for free to read online. Agencies that provide military related counseling. Look at this. I don't know if citizen soldiers are still around or not. It'd be cool to find out. I should, I should, I didn't look it up. It's crazy. I should have looked it up. Youth against military, militarism project, St. Louis Friends for Peace Committee, military law panel. Wow, wow, wow. Ah, look at this. Looks like it's a book by Todd Ensign, the insiders guide to what you should know before you enlist, available at your local bookstore. Your grandad's still alive from World War II. Wow, wow, wow. Wow, look at this one. This story, this story is homophobia and uniform, gays and lesbians in the military. Crazy artwork. Super cool. Pool of tears. Oh, wait a second. This is, no, no, this is the text, military, sorry, homophobia and uniform, gays and lesbians in the military. This is Pool of Tears by Greg Basden and S Destafano. Very cool. Wow, look at this. Comic style. Pool of Tears. Ah, look at this. And the court neglected to note that VBA benefits are also discretionary, denied. This is like a spoof of Alice in Wonderland, right? There's a Char-Charl Cather. What's this called? Haha, there's the Tea Party. Look at that. What a trippy, trippy story. Look at that. Trippy artwork. The Tea Party with the Mad Hatter. Happy Friday month. Oh, with her head. The queen, the mad queen. Look at that. They want to chop off her head. Look at that. Very cool, very cool. Whoa, look at this. Crazy panel. This is beautiful. Please wake up. You're in a dream. Please, Alice, please wake up. Statue of Liberty. Looking down. There's Alice sleeping on her feet. Very cool, very cool. Jar Wars, military urine testing for drugs. The home treatments. You can only guess what this one is. Soldiers returning, how they're treated. Script. Script is by Joyce Bradner again. Art is by Dennis Francis. Very cool. Wow, look at this. Lynching soldiers dying in the river. This comic is crazy, crazy cool. Wow, look at this one. And then there's another one pager. White Man's Army. Racism and sexism in the service. My father and his son. Next story, the last story in this anthology. My father and his son by Mike W. Barr and Mark Badger. I never knew my father. He died before I was born. When I was a kid, it got pretty confusing. Pretty cool artwork. Little superhero action as well. I know it influenced the kinds, the kinds of stories I like to read and to watch. I'm very, very proud to be your son, Ellery. Yes, dad. Every month, Tommy Parker and his father visit the 25th Century Space Museum. Not to mention the kind I like to write, although not always positively. Gay. That's the only thing my father ever said I agreed with. Barr, he's the man who killed my father. But while researching his death, he became a person to me for the first time. Ends with a cool. My wife and I want to have children someday. What's this? Koudeta. Whoa. What? Koudeta. Oh my god, I gotta get my hands on this. The Kennedy assassination trading cards. And this is one thing I found out with Eclipse Comics. They were the first comic book publishers to produce. Let me get this on focus. Eclipse Comics, Eclipse Books. They were the first comic book publishers to put out comic book trading cards. So this looks like one of their first trading cards. Man, I wonder if you can get your hands on this. Koudeta. John Fitzgerald Kennedy assassinated. Look at the American flag assassination card. Whoa. What the Marilyn Monroe. Look at the art on this. Amazing. Amazing. Look at this. Lee Harvey Oswald. Look at that. Jack Ruby. Oh man. What does that say? Can we even read that? It's in light blue trading cards by Paul Bankato and Bill. That's what it is. Bill Sinkowalski, the guy who did the Blade Runner. For the first time ever. All the conspiracy theories in a box set of 36 colored cards. Oh my God. I wish I could get my hands on this. Koudeta. Look at that. Ten dollars. I pay 50 right now. Really. Iran Contra scandal. Look at this. Other trading cards. I would love to get my hands on all these. Must find these. So Iran Contra scandal. The Bush League. Whoa. Friendly dictators. Oh my God. Rotten to the core. Yes. To order, send your name and address. A check or money order to U.S. funds only. All prices postpaid. Along with this coupon. To Eclipse Entertainment. P.O. Box 1099. Forestville, California. 95436. Yeah. I pay a lot more than that. Neiman says. Wow. Wow. Wow. And we looked at the back cover for this. Gang. That's a fantastic read. That was a fantastic read. We only got to read two of the six stories in this. One, two, three, four, five, six stories. We only got to read two of the six stories in this. But well worth the read. Very happy to have this in my collection. Very happy to have this in my collection. And it's in really good shape. It's near mint minus. Minimal, right? Maybe very fine plus near, very fine near mint. The worst it would be. But no, this is near mint minus. No things. Focusing. Little bit of thing there. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. I'm going to go back to the live stream. Turn on the camera and the chat and bag this comic. Let me turn on video chat that was going and mark medals. Are you still here? Are you still here? Let me know. Let me know. Let me know. Let me know. Let me know. Let me know. Because if you are, we got problem number five. Show you. Gang. Fantastic read. Fantastic read. Elder God. What do you think? In terms of someone that has been a veteran. Agent Orange gang is insane. Let me, Agent Orange, Elder God posted info about Agent Orange. I'm going to read this to you guys. Quote, Agent Orange is a herbicide and defoliant chemical, one of the tactical use rainbow herbicides. It is widely known for its use by the US military as part of its herbicide warfare program, Operation Ranch Hand during the Vietnam War from 1961 to 1971. Okay. It is a mixture of equal parts of two herbicides, 245-T and 24-D. In addition to its damaging environmental effects, traces of toxin, mainly TCDD, the most toxic of its type found in the mixture have caused major health problems for many individuals who were exposed. And huge number of birth defects in that region, wherever Agent Orange was used. And the modern version of Agent Orange, the program that they used in Vietnam and Cambodia, and all that region was and is being used in Colombia with Plan Colombia. Okay. And they're using a sort of a same type of herbicide thing to kill cocoa harvest, cocoa plantations. Okay. And polluting water, killing people, creating a cancer race through the roof, contaminating the water supply. Insanity. Insanity. Right. Kyle M. Parker. Hello, hello. Welcome to the last stream. Street name Lehman. I've seen some photos of people that have been affected by Agent Orange and what their children look like too. It's horrible. It's horrible. And Agent Orange recently, the people from that region, they filed cases against the US government, US military, for what they did. And recently, I think in the last year or two years, they, in New York, a pilot court or something like this, they lost the case. The US court said, no, you can't sue the US military for contaminating a country for 10 years and all these birth defects. It's just the whole thing is just insane. Right. You just found them for 25 bucks. Out of God. Max Wilde. I wrote my master's thesis on the use of Agent Orange in Vietnam. Really? Wow, wow, wow. Sleepiness nice. You must have had, man. I looked into it a long time ago. It blew me away. It's on the same level as using depleted uranium in Iraq and Afghanistan. Right. But Agent Orange was crazy. My voice is so soothing. I came out to thank you. I'll thank my parents next time I see them. That's messed up. How long have they been doing that? US military has been dropping toxins around the globe and all military is really, but the US military is pretty heavy involved in it for decades, contaminating. The United States military is the single largest polluter of the world. Right. In terms of the environment goes. So all of those activists that really want to stop environmental damage, the first place they should be trying to prevent is US military. And as an environmentalist, not an environmentalist, but someone that worked as in the environmental field, right? Earth sciences is an environmental geophysicist in the 1990s. I've gone to military sites. There was one decommissioned military site in Yukon, US, the United States military sites, military site in Canada, in Yukon. Okay. That was decommissioned in the 1970s, I believe. Okay. And we were called in there because the backhoe driver at the time, he was having his conscious took over and he said, look, we did some stuff that I had to tell people. So he blew the whistle. He said when it was a backhoe driver, when they were decommissioning this American military base in Yukon, Canada, bordering Alaska, as a backhoe driver, they got him to dig a hole, okay, big gigantic hole and bury drums full of liquid that he didn't know what they were in the ground and cover it up. And as a geophysicist, we got called in there because we're level one and of doing a survey environmental survey to find out if there's possibility of any contamination or whatnot. We're non-intrusive. So we ran electromagnetic lines and specifically I did. I ran EM survey over an area and we found anomalies, metallic anomalies. The backhoe driver came, they brought new backhoe drivers. They dug very slowly, very slowly, right? Very slowly. And this was a pristine area. It was right beside a river, no buildings, no nothing. It was in the wild. Like the only thing close by was the highway that was like a kilometer away that you had to drive through a logging road to get there, decommissioned road to get there, or decommissioned road to get there, right? Pristine. I saw a grizzly there walking out with a salmon in his mouth. Grizzlies are huge. Okay, thank God we were in a car. This is how pristine this was. We found anomalous areas, mapped it out. They came in, investigated. They found a huge section of area. Well, we did, but they dug it up slowly, right? They found the uncovered big drums. Those whatever, I don't know what gallon drums there are, metal drums that were rusted, and it was liquid in them. It went from a pristine area where nature preserved and people would go fishing and stuff, to a level one contamination site, cordoned off were the only people that could go in were people that were dressed up in level one gear with covered up, right? That's what's been going on with the US military for decades. And that was just one site. There were others. Okay. Mark Medals, if you're still here, let me know. Maxwell, that's absolutely insane how the government essentially knew it was toxic from advocates like Rachel Carson, yet still continue to use it for 10 plus years in Vietnam. Yeah, they don't give a rat's ass. Street name Lehman. Isn't it a war crime to use weapons that do permanent damage with no expectation to kill or go gas attacks? Yeah. Tried to take him to court. I went to Kuwait in 1991. The propaganda we were exposed to was ridiculous, but I never fell for it. Yeah. Desert storm. Insane. Jingle bells. What's up, Chicho? Hope you're enjoying the ride, doing my best to remember that it's not about the writing on the page. It's about the spaces between the paragraphs. That gives us time to think about what was just said. In my opinion, that's even more important than the text itself, while said jingle bells. Lehman enlisted in 1990s would suck my respect for... No. You don't know. The propaganda that government uses on children is insane. It comes through Hollywood. It comes through government. It comes through just education, centralized education and indoctrination. It's insane. I almost joined the military. Cadets when I was young in the high school. Kyle M. Parker. War games. Board games. Video games. You're very present and aware, Chicho. I appreciate this. My pleasure, Kyle. Lehman. I've scared off black bears a few times, but that will not happen with me. No, you can't scare off a grizzly. You're food for grizzly. Black bears just more curious. As a geophysicist in nature, I've scared off black bears as well. They were curious to want to know what we're doing there. You just throw things at them and they go away and make noise and make yourself big. Grizzly? Grizzly, you back away slowly, slowly. If you got a car close by, run. You're in arms reach. You open the door, get in the car, drive away as fast as you can, honk the horn. The grizzly can take apart a car to get to you. It's just like opening up a can for them. Oh, hello, God. You were a medic. Awesome. I didn't know that or I forgot. Agent Orange was shocking, shocking, shocking, shocking. Controllers Zen. Many of you may not know this, but Chicho is the uncle of comic book reader Rom, he taught Rom how to draw feet. With my drawing technique? Yeah, sure. Basically, my recommendation to anyone that wants to draw feet, don't. A hilarious controller, son. I love it, love it, love it. Gang, we're into the end of the stream. Mark, you drop by, but you're not around. So, fortunately, we got, check this out. I'm going to show this just because I told Mark. He was interested in private comics number five. He asked me a while ago if I had private comics that I'd be willing to let go and I mentioned to him I had two copies and I have a graded copy. Check this out. Graded at 9.4 as well. 9.4 as well. So, I got a graded copy of private number five. First appearance of Max. So, very important, very important by Sam Keith. Right? So, first appearance of Max by Sam Keith. Cgc graded 9.4. I'm not letting go of this one at all. And we've done a reading of comic code primer number five, the first appearance of Max. We actually read this one, which is a lower grade. So, I don't want to get rid of this one, right? But this one would be up for it. Okay, but we'll have these handy. And the reason I agreed to do this with Mark is because Mark is when I was selling some comics on eBay last year, he ended up buying Amazing Spider-Man number 361. And I was selling this. It was graded at, I graded at 9.4. He ended up buying it. Okay, so I sold two of these comics Amazing Spider-Man 361 last year, right? The first one sold for $105 or $102.50 a steal for what's going for right now, right? I sold that one, let's say $100, graded at 9.4, right? And I sold this one, graded at 9.4, right? This one Mark ended up paying $160 for. And he sent it to Cgc, and he sent it back to me as a gift, right? And Cgc graded at 9.6. So, fantastic, fantastic, huge, lots of love right back to Mark. So, when he contacted me regarding primer number five, I said, indeed, I'd be willing to let one go for him. So, whatever he's willing to see, we're going to take a look at it, but we'll do it in another time. I just wanted to give the intro to this, okay? Many of you did the fact checking all the cards out, true. Kyle says, Chicho, I have been struggling with motivation lately. How do you stay motivated to achieve your goals? I get pissed off, man. And I've taught myself to have empathy, education. I've seen a lot of people fall through the cracks, okay? So, I do my best trying to help them, especially students, kids. But one of the motivations for me is I get pissed off, man. I get pissed off. Mark! Sorry, on cell phone, my connection is going in and out. Okay, do you want to do this in another time? We're into two hours. So, it's up to you, man. We can do this another time, or I could just show it to you and you tell me, okay? Cell phones, damn cell phones interrupting our comic book comic book dealings and wheelings, right? Comic book dealings and wheelings. So, motivation, Kyle, for me, I take breaks as well. I watch amazing content, right? Like, I just finished, by the way, I just finished Demon Slayer, the series, and I finished Demon Slayer, the movie. Another time is all right. Okay, Mark, we do it another time. And you know what I'll do? I'll just have this handy, just know that whenever I'm going to do comic book readings, I'll have the books here. So, whenever you want, I'm not going to, I'll stop messaging you because I don't want to bother you. I'd hate to see pixelated views of it. I know what to do. I could take pictures. I'll take pictures and send them to you, okay? And then you let me know. I had an offer for my private comic, should I sell? I don't know, Elder God. It depends on the offer, right? It depends on the offer. And gang, by the way, so good, right? Demon, so good. Motivation, motivation, Demon Slayer, motivation. I just finished the movie two nights ago, right? So good, so good, so good. I'm not going to give away any spoilers. Sensei Kira, mostly buttery animation I've seen in an anime. Sensei Kira. Buttery. I'm not sure if buttery is the right word. 13,000K. Is this primer number two or number five? Is it primer number two? And what's it graded at? It's a good price. For primer number two, it's a good price. For primer number three, five, it's an amazing price. Solid, solid, solid. No matter what grade it is, right? If it's a 10, it would be worth 13K, right? But primer number two is going for a lot more, right? Primer number two is first appearance of Grendel. Gang, let's call it a stream. Thank you for being here. For those of you who don't want to know what this is all about, I am on Patreon, Patreon.com, forward slash chicho, C-H-Y-C-H-O. If you want to follow this work, you want to support this work, if you want to know what we're doing, which is basically layered on mathematics. Patreon is a great place to follow the work, and I don't put anything behind paywall. Everything's great, it's common, share, share, like. And for those of you, as always, who are supporting this work on Patreon, gang, thank you very much for the support. It is in the large part because of your support that we're able to do this, and the support we're getting on Twitch. Hulk number one, 13K, I don't know, I wouldn't really sell Hulk number one for 13K, depending on the grade though. Really. We are live streaming on Twitch, twitch.tv forward slash chicho live, C-H-Y-C-H-O-L-A-V-E. For those of you who are on Twitch, watching these live streams live, participating in the discussion, subscribing, following, just being here in the month. Thank you for taking care of business. Kyle, thank you, Chicho. That was a very unique and practical answer. I need to find more things to be pissed off about. My life is too ordinary, avoiding conflict. Yeah, and pick the right conflicts, pick the right battles, right? Don't pick every battle to fight. Pick the right battles, gang. Okay, if you're picking a battle, pick the right ones and make sure you're not being used as cat and father, you're not being made of full love or too love, right? We do announce these live streams 30 minutes before we go live on Mines, VK, Gap, and Parler, and we do have a Discord page. You can come to our Discord on Twitch channel anytime you want, in the chat, type in exclamation mark social, and all those links will pop up, and at the bottom you'll see our Discord page as well. Okay, it's 9.2, I bought it in 1992. Halt number one, 9.2. From 1960s, the Six Issue miniseries, the Six Issue, I believe the Six Issues that came out in the 1960s. Halt number one, grade 9.2. I would have to look it up. It's not actually my most valuable comic, but my favorite. I wouldn't sell it. If you don't need the money out of God, why would you sell it, right? To buy more comics possibly, to buy more things possibly. And you have to see what the going rate is. I haven't checked to see how much Halt number one is going for, so I'm not sure. I'm not sure. If it's well above market value, you could buy it, but you could sell it and then buy it back, right? But if it's your most favorite comic, and it's the only one you got, you better use that money to buy another one, right? For live streams, when we don't have any visuals, we do upload the streams to soundcloud.com forward slash chico as a podcast, and those podcasts should be available on your favorite podcasting platform, including Spotify and iTunes. And we will be uploading this live stream and the segments, the readings, individually the two stories we read on Sensor 2, on BitShoot, on Rumble, and Odyssey. And for those of you who are supporting this work on those four platforms, thank you very much for the support gang. It is because of the collective support that we're getting on these platforms that we're able to do what it is that we're doing. KittyKat's calling me. I still am looking out for 20saha, Detective Comics 27. It's the Holy Grail. First appearance of Batman. That thing's only going to continue to go up in price, right? If you can get it, get it, right? Like the amount of money that's been put into circulation, collectibles, they're fetching a premium price, everything's gone up in price, and it will remain so until interest rates really kick up fast and liquidity drops, but I don't know when that's going to happen, tell the truth. I don't know when that's going to happen. Gang, aside from that, I might do a random comic book all live stream this week, if we end up getting the comic book haul, and I'll keep the setup here just in case we feel like doing another reading. I'm not sure what I'm going to announce the next set, maybe mid this week, okay? So we're going to have a, you know, I won't have any schedule, anything scheduled live streams back to back for the next few days. I just want to upload what we have, the videos that's little segments that I've still yet to upload, and I have to go through the current events live stream and stuff and take those out and upload those. So we've got a whole bunch of videos still yet to upload. I hope you have a fantastic weekend everyone, and I'll see you guys in the next live stream or on Discord. Bye everyone. Movies, I know Elder God, I know. Bye everyone.