 Hello everybody, it looks like we are alive. I think it's working Hello, how is everyone? Welcome to the post Christmas show Hello to hey Chris from comic tropes. How do you do? Hello the killer weasel. Hello? Hello one bow to hey sparkster always nice to see sparkster Help hello Peter Ang and Eric Gollinger. How do you do nice to see everybody? Hope everybody had a good Christmas Hope you were visited by Santa and not Krampus by the way There's one thing I don't understand Because like there's this European, you know myth around Christmas of Krampus, but I don't really get it because my wife used to get Krampus every month Oh, thank you comic tropes for the super chat Merry Christmas to Merry X-Men to comic tropes How do you do? Hello the figure six pack? Hello Matt Edwards? Hello Terence. How do you do? Thank you all for joining me We are going to do storytime We will do storytime at the bottom half of the hour Yeah, that's the only yeah, that's the only thing I don't understand. Hello Marianne nice to see you Marianne Thank you for oh well Thank you for the eggnog which I was going to get for the show, but then I forgot it's been a little bit of a hurry Hello die cast Nick. Hello Matt. Hello Lester. Hello Jamalyn parks. How do you do? How do you do? Um Yes, happy Festivus Gray Fox Roberto, how do you do? Hello from the United States? Thank you very much for being here So yes, yes, we are doing storytime. I have I Have Yes, Matt storytime. I have I have the find your fate books. We will pick one of these now We've done all of these before we've done all of them at different times before I'll just have to try to pick one I'll have to try to pick one that we haven't done too much right, but it's a find your fate book and Yeah, we will we will pick one and we will we will together We will find our fate. Hello spaced Cobra. Hello MC DJ ACDC. Yes I I did have the eggnog last week and I have a little bit left. I have a little bit left It's it's quite delicious. I'm an eggnog lover. I am and And I went and thank you for the pumpkin pie not pumpkin the pecan pie. Why don't I keep calling it pump? Thank you for the pecan pie as well this Lots of delicious things Exploree. So how do you do? Oh Yeah, it's hey, it's quite alright. I still have some I still have we're good. We're good on pecan pie And thank you. It's it's quite delicious Yes, see are there any GI Joe find your fate books that take place during the holidays? I haven't found one so far not not any of these anyway, but let's see Sorry, let me see if there isn't there like a Winter themed one somewhere. I don't know Well, hey, this one has snow job and snow job kind of looks like Santa So we could we could do this one. This will be the one we do Operation robot assassin. I know we've done that before but we've done all of them before But thanks. Thanks for helping pick the pick the book. This Will be the book in which we find our fate Hello, Josiah. Hello the killer weezer Yeah, go box Is it a full set? It's not a full set It's it's most of them. It's most of them, but I am still missing a few I'm missing like Which ones am I missing number five? Oh number four Oh No, this is and no, I'm not missing number four. That's this one. I'm missing number five And numbers 12 and 13 and 15 through 18. So yeah, it's it's not a full set, but you know, I got most of them I got most of them. I gotta I do need to get more. I do need to get more. I'll I gotta Replenish the story time material. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you very much Ranking from best to worst you're find your fate book. Yeah, that's a good question because like That's a good point. I should say How would we rate these it would be really hard to rate the find your fate books because The it depends on which path you take because I think probably all of them have Certain choices that lead to an early demise and that's not very fun So I think that would be very difficult to rate To find your fate books because every one of them has options and depending on what option you you take you might Like the story better or not as much Thank you Raymond. Oh YouTube turned off your notifications while I'll I'll have a word with them about that But I thank you very much. Glad you're here. Thank you so much for being here Do a tier list. Yeah, well I wasn't prepared to do a tier list, but in the future we can do a tier list of The find your fate books This one by H. William Stein and Meg Megan Stein So, yes We have to keep Cobra's lethal robot from killing world leaders at a summit conference So well, yeah, cool. Well, you know what? I have I Have full confidence in us that we will be successful in this mission Or we've done this enough times that we've memorized the right choices. So we'll we'll see we'll see We'll try to make it interesting Oh wait, hey, it's codename new to bear to hey, how do you do? Nice to see you. Thank you for being here I'm Recovered from illness or well, I'm glad that you have recovered Hope you feel better and welcome back. It's very nice to see you. We did miss you and we're glad that you're here Do a tier list for each year of the vintage line That's that's actually not a bad idea see the I think the whole point of tier lists is to Stoke controversy Because no matter what you do, you know, no matter how you rate it Somebody's going to be outraged outraged. You know, and that's uh, You know, that's good TV. That's good TV. Hello, McWoodler. They're in renegade biker. Thank you both for being here I thought about getting a python patrol officer aka banana man and sending it to him That's a good idea. That's a good idea. I did send him a bunch of orange stuff. I did do that Speaking of Timmer, I guess to start out we should we should We should start with the news and there is some news There is some news. Yes. Thank you. Josiah. What's on Joe mind does a Tier list for they've been doing tier lists for each year So they they've you know, they've they've got the the head start on that Today is Tuesday So that means there's a new half the battle video Timmer has a new video up this time. It is his stuff He the whole that he got for the holiday. So So make sure you check out half the battle always a big fan of Timmer we wrapped up the The charity drive At the beginning of December and that went really well. So well done Oh, thank you, Joe fan 84. I have a good Christmas. I did have a good Christmas. I actually did Yeah Spend it the time with families and spend it with significant other You know Is it Maybe it's not rude to call somebody a significant other is that it's like is that It's like it like a demotion to be an other You know my plus one. Oh, thank you, Josiah. Happy Kwanzaa. Thank you. I You know, I will be lighting the Kwanzaa fireworks later Thank you That's um, and thank you very much for the super chat I'm always tongue-tied. Yes. I I've It's it's my party trick But yes, but anyway, the point is I had a good Christmas. It was good Had a very nice time Got to spend the time with my kids both of my kids in the same house at the same time Oh, thank you, Marian. Thank you. That's that I appreciate that So that means I get to be somebody's other too, you know, I get to be somebody's plus one But Oh, wait, hey, hello big a Dave. Nice to see you Didn't you almost snuck in here without without me seeing you, but yes. Yes Other news Look, we got news today today I am your news source I Am your your Hard-hitting GI Joe journalist here Okay, I am your Hector Ramirez. I am on top of the The latest and the greatest I have the scoop and What I mean by that is that I read stuff that other people reported and I'm gonna tell you what it is two other things two other things Actually three, I guess three technically three technically three first of all Joe Fest 2023 the dates have been announced They are at Joe Fest USA comm And the dates are June 9th through the 11th 20 20 23 in Augusta, Georgia, so June 9th through the 11th in Augusta Joe Fest I will be there It should be a lot of fun It'll be great to see everybody. So so that's interesting that Joe Fest is usually a little bit. Well a little bit later in the month But it's it's earlier in June this time, which is fine. That's actually fine land or I Keep thinking last year this year in 2022 it conflicted with another big convention. So, you know that had an impact on it Yes, I'm I'm the I think well, I think my hair is closer to Ted Koppel codename at new two bearer two asks Ted Koppel or Peter Jennings. I I think I'm more of the Ted Koppel and Congratulations to anyone who knows who Ted Koppel is that guy hasn't been around for a while Anyway So that that's that's a piece of news So now you can start making your reservations. You can start making your plans for Joe Fest 2023 June 9th through the 11th. So that should be fun. That should be very interesting. I hope to see some folks there I went in 2022. I went this year had a great time Hey Cobra Island. Nice to see you. Thank you for being here So, yeah, that is Another item of news is Joe Fest. The dates have been announced for 2023 next item, I Should have a tear sheet next item That the full force posted a rumor that there may be a GI Joe transformer Mashup like the ones that they've done before that would be a thunder machine sound wave a Thunder machine sound wave a GI Joe transformer mashup now, of course, they've already done the Megatron his tank they have done the bumblebee all-striker so So that's that's kind of what you know what they're What they're what they've been doing so that they'll have some exclusive figures with that so That's not really my thing Will I table comic tropes? Asks if I will table at Joe Fest. I don't think so. I don't think I'm gonna do it this year Although it's nice to have a Central location where I can meet everybody I Just don't want to be tethered to the table. I want to be able to go out on the floor I want to go to all the panels. I did go to a lot of panels this year, but But it meant I had to be away from the table a lot Bart says sound waves on machine No, thanks. They don't got together. Yeah, I I agree But like I don't I don't really do GI Joe transformer mashups anyway. That's just not my thing I know they've been popular with With you know the crossover audience But it's just not my bag but but for those of you who are interested That's something that has leaked out there. Hey, it's peg warmers Uh, thank you for showing up peg warmers. It's nice to see you Since peg warmers is here. I was waiting for peg warmers to show up Because there is another news item sort of So peg warmers is a YouTube show Run by Kevin really cool guy. I try to catch the show as much as I possibly can and In the future, not sure exactly what date yet will work that out, but in the future. I will be a guest on peg warmers and When I am a guest on peg warmers, we are going to talk about These we're gonna talk about The GI Joe find your fate books. We will go more in depth on them And that will be I believe that will be our topic as far as I know unless you know Unless we decide to change it but Yes, I grizzled horn loves peg warmers me too. And by the way peg warmers. Isn't that a cool name for a show? Isn't that the perfect name for a toy related show peg warmers? That's genius. That's genius See who did Cobra commander 788 that's not genius. That's way too long. That's why that's why we shorten it That's why we shorten it but peg warmers. That's a good name. That's a good name Yeah Let's see. Oh wait, hold on Yeah, I'm really not big on the the transformers GI Joe matchups I think the biggest problem I have with them is that I want to get the figure separately and not have to go to the aftermarket and not have to Buy the whole thing to get you know the bareness or the stalker figure Joe science says peg warmers great NYC toy convention cover is absolutely. Yes, that is absolutely true. So yeah, I Know that I am you know the the Hard-hitting journalist for this evening, but really, you know peg warmers Kevin is you know more the You know the the man on the street. That's it. That's it. He's the man on the street He's he's the foreign correspondent That's it that Peg warmers is our he's our war correspondent. Hey, it's Robert. It's airy. How do you do? Yeah, yeah, Rob is not a big fan of the of the GI Joe transformers combos and Obviously, they're they're popular enough that they keep making them. So, I mean somebody likes them Oh But I'm just not I'm just not a fan. I don't I don't need that But what I would like to get though is the the GI Joe figures Separate Now I know that there'll be a lot of transformers collectors who will just sell off The the figure that comes with it and that's nice But but I don't want to have to pay aftermarket prices. I just want to I just I just want the figure That's that's all I want. Hello bubble bar after memories. Nice to see you here Going to watch Baltimore history shows but saw HCEC was live. You know what history? Yeah, you're right History is in the past, you know, it'll still be there They're not gonna change history that nobody's time traveling. It'll still be there. It'll still be there Rumors Zartan will the rumored Zartan have the color change feature. That's a good question Possibly they were able to replicate that At the classified scale so they could do it Kill thank you the killer weasel for the zipper chat. Did Cobra get holidays off or Holiday pay, you know that that's a good question. I feel that Cobra commanders probably pretty stingy and probably made them all work Probably gave them extra work on Christmas and you know why you know why It's to make them extra bitter to make them extra angry. So when they fight They'll just be like that more enraged That's correct a codename new to vero 2 has been a guest on peg warmers twice Chris from comic tropes has been a guest on peg warmers. I have not been because I am chopped liver I'm kidding. I'm kidding But Kevin has been a guest on this show and Kevin has done collaborations with me multiple times And I've had the pleasure of meeting Kevin in person a couple of times too. So So, yeah, Kevin's a pretty awesome dude and Be really thrilled to to hang out with him. That'll be awesome Right Johnny says he wants the stalker but not the bumblebee. Yeah, that that's that's where I am That's where I am and the thing is the figures are carded. They're carded separately. Why not just Pump out a few more of them and put them on the pegs, you know, let us just get the figure. Hey JLS comics Nice to see you. Thank you for being here. Did I see that you put up a video recently on general flag I Didn't have a chance to watch it, but I if I'm remembering correctly I thought you had a new GI Joe related video up that popped up in my feed What's number GI number one GI Joe peg warmer? Um comic tropes would guess a Kiko from the snake eyes movie My recollection Well, okay, let's go back. Let's go back back back back back. Let's go back to the olden days Let's go back to the 80s the ones that I saw peg warming were crystal ball and Xandar crystal ball and Xandar Those are the ones that I saw peg warming Okay, yeah Rob says I can't be chopliver they've been on our show. Yeah, we'll see that that's good. None of those guys like chopliver Yeah, okay JLS posted it today I will I will get back to watch it as soon as I can I'm all I'm a little busy at the moment But you know, I'll check it out later. Thank you bubble wrap memory for the super chat It's small amount, but it's the thought that counts. You are the one of the best. Oh, thank you very much I hope you get many more of these. Thank you very much bubble wrap in your memories and thank you very much for being here The olden days. Yes, the olden days of the 1980s back in in olden times During the horse and buggy era So I do have one of the thing I do have one of the thing Peg warmer says I would love to have hard data from Kirk bazillion on which figures sold the least Me too. There has been some like regional sales figures That have filtered out. I've seen a little bit, but they're only regional figures So it's hard to know if that extrapolates out to nationally but I would love to know I would love to know because I Yeah, yes, and our turn blue And I don't dislike the Xandar figure. I'm just all I'm saying is That he hung around on the pegs a lot. I had one. I had one You know, I did my part But you know, I guess he didn't he didn't resonate Oh It's it's almost 730. It's almost time for us to to read The find your fate book but before we do that, I have one other thing one other thing One thing I have a letter this came in the post office So I'm going to read the letter. This is from Yes, I can't thank you Kenneth And it's not very long and Okay, I I can read most of this this does have some address information. I won't read the address information I want to like read anybody's like personal information online, but Kenneth writes dear sir. Hello. I Want to issue a merry Christmas and happy new year if you get some Incomplete 80s G. I chose or if you know of someone who has them just send them to me and I will fix them stay safe Kenneth and he includes his address information there. I Do have some I do have some actually I have a whole bunch of them. So Since you've sent your address if I can Get around to it and get the time to do it. I Have some extra a Little bit extra. So yeah, so thank you very much for the letter Kenneth I do keep all of these letters every letter that is sent to me. I keep every single one of them I will keep them forever. Thank you to everyone who sends everything To me to the PO box, but thank you all even if you don't send something. It's awesome Hello jump in general. Yes, all is well. I think I think Xandar looked like he Studied fashion from Lisa Frank. That's good. That's a good description. That's a good description Had had more than one color theme happening didn't he So yeah, but yeah, yes, he's Xander though he had the special gimmick He had the special gimmick, you know, he his skin would turn blue in the sunlight just like Zartan and Zerana But like the file card that Larry wrote for him his special feature his special Ability was to be not noticed and forgotten And I think that somewhat came true So yes, Xandar the one that everybody forgets about. Oh, I didn't realize you're there Xandar you blend in so well with the background So, yes. All right. Are you ready? Are you ready to find your fate Alistair is here sniffing The letter that can't hit. Come here. Come here Come make an appearance. It'll help the algorithm. It's a little help the algorithm Hey, buddy. Hey, buddy. Look. Look. Do you see yourself? You see yourself? All right. Okay. Okay I can tell based on what I'm seeing on this screen versus what I'm seeing on this screen that there is some lag So I'll try to I'll try to account for that. Okay All right, so here's how this works Here's how this works So this is a find your fate book so we will read the book And by the way, thank you Leslie Sullivan for you know returning this book to the market so I could get it So we will read this book We will get to certain pages and at the bottom of those pages There will be options and it'll tell us To turn to a certain page depending on what option we want to choose So when we get to one of those pages, I will ask the live chat To make a selection you will put the page number that you want to turn to In the live chat, I would recommend not flooding the live chat just because the YouTube bots will think that you're spamming and they may kick you out. It's not my rule It's the YouTube thing, but I will take a very unscientific poll of the live chat and whichever Page number appears to win We will turn to that page and we will find our fate now. We are going to read Operation robot assassin. This is book number four By H. William stein and Megan stein We're reading it because it has snow on it and and snow job looks a little bit like Santa Claus So that's why we chose this one. I know we've done these because we've done all of them We've done all the ones I have anyway. In fact, we've done all the ones that I have Multiple times. Hello Andrew Andrew the guy's so nice. They named him twice. Nice to see you Let's let's Let's do this. Okay, so you you got the idea you got the rules, right? You got the rules. Yeah so There they're up in the mountains in the snowy cold, but but bazooka still doesn't mind going You know short sleeves Bazooka's in short sleeves and then snow job is in his winter gear and skiing Snow job wore a t-shirt for skiing So, all right, you get the idea. I think most of you have done this before Here we go. All right, we start with page one you ready here we go The door to the briefing. Wow. Okay the door to the briefing room in the pit closes with a Let's get down to business slam. You're sitting by yourself off to the side trying to blend in Like Xandar It's your first time in the gi joe command center the gi joe team files in and takes their seats Looking you over as if you had three arms. Maybe you do have three arms Settle down and listen up barks the officer at the front of the room. He's colonel Clayton Abernathy better known as hawk Better known. That's an odd sentence better known as the Joe's team Joe team's head honcho. Wow. I can't read tonight. I never learned to read Within an hour 10 or 12 of you guys will be on a plane headed for Switzerland hawk begins another round of peace talks is scheduled to begin there tomorrow, and it's not gonna go too well If you know what I mean Hawk begins another the president will be there and so will every world leader you can name The trouble is Cobra the international terrorist organization plans to crash the party by blowing it to smithereens Colonel should we be talking in front of the stranger someone asks pointing at you suddenly all eyes are on you so much for blending in When hawk notices you he calmly takes out a Hey, this one is is Chris's favorite He calmly takes out a hand grenade pulls the pen and tosses it right in your lap page two You've got to give the guys credit when they see the grenade they hit the floor and take cover just the way They're supposed to but a few of them watch carefully enough to see Your magic act you make a few quick movements with a special tool you designed yourself Routine stuff for you nothing to raise a sweat about in an instant You defuse the grenade before it blasts you into dust as fine as baby powder Save your applause to the end hawk says Taking command of the buzzing room again. So yes Here's the new guy Look if you ever get introduced by somebody throwing a hand grenade in your lap, I think that means they don't like you very much Code name biff the summer intern. Oh, I'm sorry. There is a there's a picture here Here's an illustration of hawk tossing you a hand grenade here. Take this Yeah, if your butterfingers it will just kill everybody in the room genius genius the best So I'm already rating this the best find your fate book Okay team this is hot shot that's our codename hot shot Hot shot specialty is making sure things don't explode in a minute You'll see why hot shot is going to be so important on this mission then hawk starts flashing slides On the screen aerial and land views of Geneva, Switzerland with snow and mountains everywhere Next come pictures of all the world leaders who are expected to attend the peace talks there Cobra's gotten into the robot business hawk says we have an early report that cobra has developed a completely life-like An undetectable robot programmed to kill It's a fembot It's walk it's a walking time bomb and the one thing on its electronic minds something during the Geneva peace talks is going to blow the world leaders away Page three We have it. Oh, thank you comic tropes. No joes jump on the grenade to save their comrades. Yeah No captain americas in this room. No, no steve rogers is And there's one other small detail hot continues. We have no idea what the robot looks like It may even be an exact duplicate of one of the world leaders All we know for sure is that it'll look talk and act like a real person We've got to find it and pull its wires before it blows the next hawk Next hawk starts putting together two gi joe teams duke You'll lead the first team with lady j gung ho snake eyes and bazooka hawk says Your target will Sorry, your target is a small factory in germany You know, the factory makes artificial legs arms stuff like that But we also suspect it's a cobra front and the place where the robot assassin was built Infiltrate the plant and destroy the robot if it's still there flint You'll take snow job air trite ripcord mutt and blow torch to geneva You've got to find out the robot's identity even if it means searching every Closet of every villa of every world leader Staying there and then you've got to neutralize it. See i'm picturing You remember in the movie naked gun Yeah, when frank's got to search all the baseball players. That's just what i'm picturing that joe's doing. They're like Very casually trying to search all of the world leaders. That's Anyway, uh page four. Hey, we have We have a choice It it walks it talks it eats it cries it's wet so lifelike. Yes It's it it does its business Um That's how they'll find out which one is the robot. It's not potty trained Page four hot shot hawk says turning to you Wherever the robot turns up you should be there, but we know you can't be in two places at once So you get to choose which team do you want to join the one that's going to germany Or the team that's covering the dip little bats in switzerland. It's up to you to decide. Okay ready All right, get ready to make your choices. Okay, get ready to make your choices If you would like to go to germany if you'd like to go to the factory in germany In the live chat type 24 24 if you would like to go to switzerland Type 80 80 So 24 If you want to go to germany 80 80 if you want to go to switzerland make your selection Let's see what you got When I do this, do I do I look like superman? Uh, okay, we've got a couple votes for 24 pop quiz hot shot 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 is starting to win and I think I know why I think I know why because I believe Um rob says better chocolate in switzerland. Yes, um, I think last time we did The the germany route. I think we did that last time. I think I think for those that remember I think we're getting a lot of votes for the other option Hey, wjg 84 as 24 The land of chocolate, you know, that sounds actually that's Do I have any chocolate here? Well, I mean it's got chocolate. So yeah 80 I think 80 is winning. I'll give you a few more seconds I give a few more seconds Um to see if there are any last minute votes, but it looks like 80 has won. I should not I should not eat this while I'm reading Let's turn to page 80 page 80 Your plane touches down on an airstrip wedge to smack the middle of switzerland snow capped mountains You the beautiful and bustling city of geneva is two hours away You flint and the others carefully watch the faces passing you on the geneva streets You wonder how the tourists would feel if they knew the cobra's that cobra's robotic time bomb was walking around geneva By my flowers a young woman calls. She has pigtails and is wearing traditional swiss peasant clothing Now what will we do with flowers pretty lady snow job answers? You can stick them in your ear joe The woman says for the first time flint smiles team He says meet ellie nudson our intelligence contact in Uh geneva, what's the latest ellie? He just told us to stick it in our rear Just stick stick the flower in your rear Well flint we've narrowed it down to three possible contenders for rat of the month argentina russia and france ellie says In a low voice each is this the world cup Each of these countries has had some contact with cobra recently We don't know how deep that the contact went it could have been accidental But my sources think the robot is hiding out among the diplomats from one of those three countries. So we're talking about Argentina russia and france could be one of those could be one of those Could be one of those page 16 page 16 Oh, hey, we have a choice at the end of page 16. We have a choice at the end of page 16 ready Thank you We'll check them all out flint says easier said than done ellie says the argentin argentine diplomats are staying in the Bueller palace Bueller count Bueller Built the monstrosity two centuries ago and promptly disappeared in it What the argentines are the first people to set foot in the place in more than a hundred years So why don't they just go to the to the hilton? you know but Go go to Go to the motel six. Why are you staying in the abandoned castle? the re okay, uh Meanwhile, the russians are staying in the rooster mansion rooster mansion Uh, sorry the french staying in the goose mansion. I know that place friend flint says It's got a wall 10 feet thick made of stone mixed with broken glass. You can't climb it and you Uh, and you couldn't bust it with the pittsburgh stealers front four In the mid 80s Uh behind that wall are guards and dogs ellie says and the house is full of booby traps You know, well, that's just a typical russian home though Um, maybe you'll want to try the french instead. They're staying at the chateau noir It's supposed to be a ski resort But that place is rigged with every high tech security device known to man and if you No one's heard about yet So So, how's this we're not gonna We're not gonna figure out which one is the most likely We're gonna just check out whichever one is the easiest Let's go. Let's go with the easiest. Yes, the pittsburgh stealers They mentioned the pittsburgh somebody's a stealers fan Um, are you trying to scare us or make this sound like fun airtight says picking up his gear flint looks at you carefully You're part of the team now. He says what do you think hot shot? So even though we are not We are not the the team leader. We get to make all the choices All right. Are you ready? Okay We got three options three options. Get ready. Get your fingers ready. Get ready to type. Okay in the live chat Uh, if you would like to go to the bueller palace That's 18 18 If you want to go to the rooster mansion That's 30 30 If you want to go to chateau noir That's 36 36. So it's yes. I know I know Bart. I know you're from this burger. I am I am aware Steelers doing a little bit better stealers doing a little bit better. So, okay Bueller palace that was for the which one the argentines page 18 rooster mansion that was for the russians page 30 Chateau noir That's the french page 36 Uh, let's see what we got. So we got 169 Uh, 12 is not a uh, 12 is not an option. We got 18 30 or 36 18 18 30 or 36. Hey, it's what's on joe mine. Hello, what's on joe mine? Thank you very much for joining You might want to be careful about about the Multiple because the the youtube might might boot you bueller Bueller, um, so we got uh, we got some 18s We got some 18s We got a couple 36s Uh, we got another 18. Why is my hold on? Why is my live chat doing that? Hold on 14 for bazooka Let me refresh this uh reload it Keep your finger on the page so you can go back real quick. Yeah, good good thinking Uh, we got 36 is I think 18 is winning Uh, 36 is starting to catch up What's on joe mine really really wants, uh, uh 78 How's al he's fine Alistair is just over here just itching to cause trouble. He's right. He's right here You want to come over? um Did we even get any uh any votes for 30? I think 18 is winning. Oh, hello. Well, there he is There he is um Break the rules and go with 12 that that would be Hey, one time we did like for each each time we chose Uh, an option we we would switch books. That was funny Uh, of course the wife can vote of course, but I think I think number 18 is one, but it's 36 is pretty close and 30 didn't get any. Well, hey, we got 130 Okay One person voted for three. I I think I I think 18 is one, but it's it's a it's pretty close. I'm going with I'm going with 18. Okay the cat really Really wants to destroy things and he's not he's very upset that he's not destroying something right now. Okay. Here we go No, no, please don't don't step on it Okay He's he's right here He's right here All right, cool. Cool. Just don't step on. Okay. All right. Uh, comic tropes voted for that. We got two for 30 But um, but I'm going with 18. I I I I feel like 18 Edged it out just a little bit Okay page 18 the Bueller palace looks like something out of an old Dracula movie It's surrounded by a spiked wrought iron fence with which blowtorch says will snap like a wishbone But you've decided to take the place at night The palace is a long way from the fence in daylight You you'd be spotted running from the fence to the palace after dark you and blowtorch trade your Clothes for black sweaters and pants and smear your faces and hands with black grease The two of you are going to search the palace for the robot assassin The rest of the team will sit this one out unless you're not back in 15 minutes Using his flamethrower, you're gonna search the entire castle in 15 minutes Using his low flame laser torch Blowtorch cuts through the bars of the iron fence in no time. That's not how that works, but whatever The two of you slip through and then it's a foot race for the palace No guards no search lights no sweat. You've reached the palace in 53 seconds the servants side door is locked But you've brought a pass key a small blob of plastic explosives a little smoke a little pop and the door swings open So you're we're using explosives now for our sneaky quiet entrance That was easy you say Too easy blowtorch says page 42 Okay, 42. Hey, we have another choice. We have another option at the bottom of this page That's one reason why I like this one. It gives us lots of choices Okay, blowtorch carries his flamethrower In combat position through the halls of the palace Up staircases down wood paneled halls one hall leads endlessly to another There are three floors of bedrooms each one decorated to please a king But every room in the palace is empty. I'm beginning to think we're doing the right thing in the wrong place Blowtorch says we should be tripping over guards soldiers alarms and diplomats I've been through car washes with more security than this You motion to blowtorch to freeze Uh, there's a light under a door. You open the door slowly and peek in There's an old man lying in bed. You whisper It's the Argentine president and he's fast asleep Anyone else blowtorch says two servants One of them is sleeping in a chair by the bed. The other one's nodding off by the door No one's armed and there's not a robot in sight Blowtorch looks at you and scratches his head. I don't get it So far this isn't this isn't a job for the gi joe team. It's a seam Uh, it's a scene from sleeping beauty The only problem is neither of us looks like prince charming And I don't think either of you are gonna kiss the ambassador. All right If you want to forget this place And come back later Turn to page 66. Okay 66 if you want to forget this place And leave come back later 51 if you want to try to Wake el presidente You want to wake up the president 51 if you want to leave 66 6 6 to leave 51 to wake him up Excuse me, mr. President. We just broke into your place. Everything. Okay. You all right By the way, uh, would you happen to be a robot? Would you be a are you are you a robot? Running a biker says uh 66 comma trope says 51 51 51 We got a couple 66's but we got a couple more 51. So we got a 66 got a 51 51 Okay, I'll give you guys give you a few a few more seconds Get your vote in 51 6 6 6 Uh lots of 51 see i'm suspicious I'm suspicious of this president who has no security in this dark and gloomy castle Um We'll see we'll see a little Hello, yo, joe. We're doing story time Um, and it looks like 50 highest 51 Looks like 51 is winning. I'll give it a couple more seconds just to see if 66 catches up Just to see Um Yeah checking his mouth. Yeah, exactly. See is he sleeping? Or is he just in low power mode is he recharge check to see if he's got a usb port In his side that's plugged in so he's recharging Just check that I don't think they had those in the 80s, but you know, whatever the 80s equivalent is like a I don't know one of those printer cables stuck in his side to recharge Uh, I think 51 1 I think I think i'm going with 51 Page 51 Well, we're not dead yet. We're not dead yet Just and you just as you and blowtorch are about to step into el presidente's room one of the servants steps out His face runs through every emotion in the book when he sees the two of you Who are you and what are you doing on argentine property? The servant demands angrily Since we've got the artillery we'll ask the questions blowtorps Blowtorch snaps back Where is everybody everyone has gone to the big party at the united states embassy these servants says So why didn't el presidente go el presidente has suffered an accident the servant says two days ago while he was skiing His his appendix burst He fell and rolled many times down the mountain man. That sucks Uh, he was rushed to the hospital where his appendix was removed He must not be disturbed. So they didn't leave him in the hospital. They put him in the castle um Because he is vowed to go to the peace talks tomorrow even his in his weak condition We're not going to disturb him. I just want to make sure his head isn't attached with nuts and bolts you say One I hear voices. What's uh, who is out there calls a horse voice from inside the bedroom page 82 We're not dead yet You walk past one into el presidente's room the gray haired man lying in bed is only half awake You uh, one look at his face tells you that he has been given many sedatives even though he's drugged He's alert enough to be alarmed by your black smeared faces. You can see the fear in his eyes else presidente It was very important for us to see you you say you trying to calm him You pick up the old man's hand and feel That it is thin and bony, but it's warm and definitely made of real flesh We are very sorry to hear about your accident and hope you recover quickly as you speak blow torch lifts el presidente's Sheets and bed clothes. Why is he gonna get right in there with them? That's a first class appendix scar blow torch says the two servants began to stir But blow torch's glare freezes them in their tracks I don't remember about it el presidente says I was skiing I felt a sharp pain in my head Then I fell el presidente. Don't you mean a pain in your side? You ask But the old man slips off to sleep head side. What's the difference blow torch says? He's not our robot Let's get out of here page 13 All right page 13 In another 90 seconds the joe team will be will assume you're in trouble and will begin a rescue mission so You and blow torch scramble out of the palace as quickly as you can when you get back to the truck someone New has been added to the group mutt is playing With a large black and white mongrel dog animals are always fun mutt Ripcord tells you the day he was born. I bet his mother said look what the cat dragged in that's not very funny Give it a rest ripcord flint says I want to hear hot shots report Negative on the robot you say the palace is empty tonight except for el presidente page 85 That's a long one. This is a long one They thank you all for for everybody who's uh Everybody who's stuck it out. Thank you. Thank you Thank you for staying 80 I did say 85 85 Oh, we have another choice. We have another choice at the bottom of this page Okay Yeah, and el presidente is no robot. He's just a tired old man who needs a little r and r after an emergency Operation blow torch adds he's not going anywhere for a while. That makes snow job laugh. Oh, yeah Well a minute ago two guys carried el presidente out of here in a wheelchair They bundled him into a limo and sped off toward town. What's going on you say? Feeling as if you just found a kick me sign on your back Maybe we're wrong about el presidente. Maybe he is the robot blow torch says to you If you want to search the limo turn to page 49 Okay, so 49 if you want to search for the limo if you want if you think you're too late Get some sleep and then go on to the next villa. That's page 30 If you want to search for the limo 49 49 If you don't want to just get some sleep for now page 30 49 or 30 49 or 30 he's a chud That's hilarious 49 or 30 Did they fix the doors on the way out? That's a good question. They did cause property damage I hope somebody's gonna pay for that 49 49 lots of 49s I too am suspicious About this limo. Yes, we are still alive. We are still alive The 49ers yeah, we had the Steelers now we're talking about the 49ers We have 130 yo, joe is tired. He's like, uh Now let's let's just get some rest for the night. Let's just have a have a nap. We'll pick it up, you know 7 a.m Then 9 a.m. You know when everybody's up and had their coffee um I'd I'd say 49 wins almost unanimous almost unanimous Uh 49 page 49 going 49 49 I've got a fine page 49. Look at that page 49 is right after page 48 I've got a pretty good idea where the limo's headed you tell flint. There's a party at the american embassy Let's get a chopper down here. We've got a party to crash flint barks on into his radio Five minutes later the team scrambles out of a helicopter and heads for the front door of the embassy Looks like an ordinary party. No sign of cobra flint says his eyes Checking all directions at once. I'm gonna stay outside and scout around mutt says He scratches the spotted mongrel's ears and then adds i hate parties Hey, you boys have invitations asked asks one of the spit and polish guards who stops you at the front door Airtide cocks his m16 and points the barrel right at the guards nose You can read my invitation corporal or do you need Can you read my invitation corporal or do you need more light? He asks that's rude. Look, you know I know this is an emergency situation, but you're not gonna win anybody's trust by pointing a gun at them Hey, yeah, I'm definitely not the threat. I'm Me the guy who's pointing a gun at your head. I'm I'm I'm the good guy Get to the chopper You rush to the ballroom where the party is in full swing the leaders of every important country in the world Are in the room el presidente has just been wheeled in Smiling the american president comes to greet him and then the lights go out We've got here just in time now the party's really starting rick cord calls to you page 28 We can have another choice man. We are we are like Surviving long time in this okay a voice calm and cruel comes over the ballroom PA system This is the recorded voice of cobra commander the last voice you will ever hear it says My agents have overpowered the american guards and have sealed off every possible escape route The lights flash back on the faces around the room are tense and sweaty except for the faces of your teammates They are ready to spit bullets We have gathered all of you tonight to partake in the culmination of cobra's struggle to take over the world Not in slow and costly battles, but in one brilliant explosion You are now trapped in a room with our robot assassin in a few moments You will be detonated and every one of your countries will come under my control. Goodbye That's how you take over the world right because You know if if the world leaders get blown up. I guess there's just nothing we can do, you know Cobra blew up the world leaders. I guess they win Okay And and by the way, why does he announce his plan? To everyone there. Why did they just just do it? Just do it Yeah, yeah, man, maybe behind that mask cobra commander is actually dr. Evil Your eyes scan the room as you mutter to yourself. Okay, hot shot. Let's see if you're as good as your name You look at the french the russians the germans and you can't tell a thing from their faces any one of them could be their robot But then as you remember the argentine president was the last to arrive just before the party got ugly Time is running out. What are you going to do? All right Yeah, this is it. I think this is the move That decides if we live or die. Okay If you think el presidente is the robot Isolate him on page 62 62 If you think el presidente is the robot If you're not sure who the robot is Move the us president to a safer location page 33 so 62 if we're going to go after the el presidente Um and 33 3 3 if we're just going to Cover our president and get him out and rush our president out of here. So we got 62 if If we think it's el presidente Peg warmers is spoken peg warmers thinks is 62. I'm quite suspicious. I'm quite suspicious. We got some 33s We got some 33s You know, um If he turns out to not be the robot if it turns out to be something else somebody else And we we chose to not get the president out You know out of danger, you know You know, I was gonna say we'd be in trouble. We wouldn't be in trouble We would not be in any trouble at all because we would also be blown up. We'd all be dead Um, I I think 62 is barely winning 62 is barely winning. There were some 33s came in some 33s came in Uh All right, I think I think we're gonna go with 62 Yeah, that was a closer one though. That was a closer one. There were there were some Some 33s that came in there and we're going 62 62 We're not dead yet. Hmm Get everybody to the other side of the room el presidentes the robot you tell flint el presidente move away from your aides You say approaching the old man in the wheelchair suddenly one of the aides pulls a revolver You cannot cannot treat el presidente de argentina this way. He says that's not el presidente. It's a robot It's a fam bot You yell, but snow jobs m16 barks louder. He fires a short burst at the pump at the punch bowl I gives the punch bowl a little punch Um Wait el presidente says standing up weekly If you want me that badly, I'll be your prisoner But one el presidente's trusted servant wraps his arms around el presidente's throat and points a 38 at his head El presidente looks at one with surprise and then fear fear How can a robot be afraid you mutter? Hey, I get it now blowtorch says he's not a robot. There is no robot, but there is a bomb I'll bet cobra planted one in his stomach When they opened him up for that phony appendix operation page 69 You are quick one says finally you discover there is no robot. There's no robot this whole time. There's been no robot We've been looking for a robot and there's no robot Yes 69 Finally all those that you wanted to go to the page 69. We made it Juan throws his 38 at your feet keep it as a souvenir He says uh with a laugh el presidente has enough explosives in his stomach to blow up half of geneva He was set to go off during the peace talks tomorrow, but I'll have to press the button now Why would you throw the the pistol? Why would you throw the gun on the floor? Even if you even if you think you've won right even if you think you have You're on top you cannot be beaten Still why would you throw The other guy your weapon that doesn't make any sense Um Juan grabs the wrist watch and el presidente's arm. Hey, this is You know this is a lot like the naked gun And suddenly you realize the watch must be the detonator If you push that button, you will kill yourself as well flint says el presidente Gasps as Juan tightens his grip. Don't be a fool Juan. Think of your family Cobra is my family. That's why that's why cobra commander makes everybody work on Christmas Push the button and you can forget about this year's family reunion airtight cracks Out of nowhere a snarling black and white streak flies through the air It's the dog mutt dragged in the dog goes right for Juan's hand And Juan drops the watch grabbing his hand in pain Your eyes go wide if the watch hits the floor too hard This party is going to end with a loud bang. I bet you didn't think that dog Was gonna play a pivotal role in here. Did you? did you Page 58 Everyone leaps to catch the watch before it falls But just before it hits the floor the dog comes up with it in his teeth Hope he doesn't bite it He carries it dutifully over to mutt who's standing in the doorway with his m16 trained on Juan mutt How did you get in no big deal mutt answers? There were only 20 cobra agents outside. Hey, good looking eats Mutt retires to the food table handing you the watch as he passes and you join the rest of your teammates Who are escorting the argentine president out? Cobra must have made up the rumor about the robot assassin it threw us off the track And covered up your phony skiing accident blowtorch explains to el presidente But when we breached the bueller palace tonight cobra knew we were close you say so they Brought you here and stepped up their timetable. Why not all the world leaders were present at this party while you talk While you talk you remove the detonator from the wrist watch Then you give the watch back to el presidente. You keep it el presidente says Uh handing it back to you through his limo window. Okay. I guess we're outside now. He smiles I can see that knowing when the time is going to run out is much more important to you the end. We did it We did it We are the champions my friends We can never be defeated. We are the Hey, that was we have not read that we've done this book before I think we've done this book a couple of times before but we have not read That scenario we won Absolutely, yes, we won and And I've gone 10 minutes over the time. I usually start I am going to wrap up the live stream now. My voice is actually going out That's a lot of talking El presidente is a supermarket So that's what that's what he did after, you know He he was el presidente for a while then that was his second career, you know after after he was deposed or whatever But anyway, thank you all for being here. It's been a lot of fun I hope you enjoyed story time. Make sure you check out peg warmers Well, check it out every week, but when I get on there and talk about these and then check it out then Thank you all and We'll we'll do it again next week. I hope everybody had a great Christmas. Oh almost forgot New years I have been doing a new year's live stream for the last couple years. I may May do that again I'll let you know. I'll let you know. But anyway, but until then Have a great evening. Bye everybody. See you next week